jojo I never get fed up reading about it pal . Have a brilliant time . You have been looking forward to this so much . Remember too that this is not a diet it is AWOL and can be tweaked . Have a fabulous time pal xx

Well done Sarah!! Good to back on track isn’t it? I have just been on a peanut butter bender, but it was lunch on a non fast day, celebrating best ever weight this morning!

Morning/evening all,

Well done Nama,
I’m still not back to my lowest ever but am finally making progress which means reaching goal by the end of November is possible. I am going to work really hard on keeping below my goal weight TDEE for the next week and if it means counting every calorie then I’m prepared to do it.

Sarah, you can do it!

I’m up early watching tennis and trying to decide if I want to watch the rugby this evening ?

Have a good one everybody ?

Nama,

I hate counting calories but I gave myself a talking to as there is no point in doing ADF and overeating on alternate days. After three days of rest my back has settled down and I’m feeling much happier today which makes a huge difference.

Getting on the scales and seeing a sustained loss has also given me a boost. Fingers crossed that it continues.

Good Morning. Well a sleep in as last night had to pick up younger son and a friend at twelve thirty down the hill ( this is for the hills people!) approx ten kilometres down the south eastern highway to the entrance of Adelaide proper. I had had a huge day with My cousin in riverton so had been travelling all over the countryside. 15000 steps on my Fitbit which included a seventy five minute walk .
I joined the gym Nicky, and have loved it. I am doing the thirty day trial, will have to get going before they close this am . I am just doing a twenty minute bike or step ride and then twenty five mins using the weights. I had to pursue it as they were not going to contact me but the two other younger girls were great, not so much the older woman… I have to ignore that I look like a biggest loser contestant , a bit hard when you are with a small group of young men in their twenties but I know they are just doing their work as I am….. The reason I took so long to join such a convenient gym.. I was a member of Healty Inspirations for years but it was 25 km away and I just could not get there consistently.
Oh as I was trudging up a hill yesterday I thought my new mantra should be persistence, resistance and consistence as I exercise! Well up and out day light saving this weekend so here is to some gardening in the evenings
Fasting on Tuesday and trying to record calories as that is my downfall on non FD

Hello Fast Trackers
Nicky Emel comespring and Aussie O in South Australia Nama in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi in France & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA CakeyWakey Sarah103 HealthCoachB Tessy pen nib Iona72 and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Wow Jojo happy trials enjoy the adventure live life and have fun make only good memories
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless

Peace RT

Hi Weemam yes the MIL is doing well will be discharged tomorrow it’s a public holiday here so she would have been out today but is remaining calm and perhaps has a better understanding of some of the boundaries. I always seem to have a better appreciation of being alive after I have been to a funeral 💡
Thanks for your thoughts
RT

Safe travels and have a wonderful time Jojo!

I look forward to reading of your adventures!

Hello Fast Trackers
Nicky Emel comespring and Aussie O in South Australia Nama in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi in France & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA CakeyWakey Sarah103 HealthCoachB Tessy pen nib Iona72 and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
A nice blast of summer here yesterday topped out at 35 deg and Nama you should get that today. Day 2 of a 4 day reset and a 6k walk before work I find if I have a litre of water after it that sets the day up to be doable ok have great day everyone.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Peace RT

I’m really pleased I stuck to my guns at the weekend – on the train for 12 hours altogether sat/sun and joined in celebrations for 50 years (!!!) since commencing Physiotherapy training. It was great seeing so many ‘oldies’ like me who were immediately recognisable in spite of the passing of time!!
It was great too feeling more confident physically, knowing that I no longer looked so badly overweight and could ‘walk tall’!!
When I was travelling I just had a bottle of water with me and I kept myself occupied making notes on the 5:2 diet recipes. I could then enjoy the hotel meal feeling totally relaxed about what I had and had worked out that I could drink a glass of wine and a tomato juice. I tasted about a third of the dessert – enough to enjoy it – and finished off with a nice coffee
Buffet breakfast next morning was great! Lots of fresh melon,berries etc with yoghurt and I then ordered 3 poached eggs with a grilled tomato and brown toast
Then water, an ‘innocent’ raspberry and apple drink and 2 apples to eat while travelling
After being collected from station by hubby I found a lovely ‘blt’ sandwich pack which effectively filled all the empty corners!
FD yesterday went fine with stuff kept in the freezer ‘for rainy days’ (and it was one of those!) and found I’d achieved my usual FD weight loss of approx one pound – whoopee!!!

Evening all,

We have also had the heat in Melbourne RT & Purple, 2 days of 35, not nice but a cool change tonight and cardigan back on! Watering the garden yesterday as its been a dry month and no rain in sight..

Well done pen nib, you do have it licked by the sound of it. How lovely to meet up with old colleagues, especially when you feel so good about yourself. 5:2 is brilliant because we can still be ‘normal’ and enjoy socialising and can always compensate with fasting.

Sorry to read about your aunt Barata, she does sound wonderful. Lucky to have you too! Maybe we will all still be posting on here when we are 91, solving the worlds problems…..

Busy week with son’s wedding on Friday, so far so good. Only drama was this evening when we discovered the gear hired for the boys (all included!) did not include cuff links! My two sons looked at the cuffs of the shirts, with no idea what was required, never seen a cuff link in their lives – obviously not educated properly! Luckily dad saved the day and brought out his 40 yr old collection – thinks of himself as a bit of a 007!

I managed a fast today, being busy certainly helps. Kids all stayed for dinner so I planned to have some fresh salmon, everyones favourite and ‘fast friendly’ too. Haven’t managed a swim this week and really missing it, but booked in for a massage on Monday and plan to have a swim beforehand. Lovely thought…

Evening/morning all,

Another FD almost over. I went grocery shopping this morning before I got hungry and then watched tennis for a couple of hours before meeting a friend this afternoon. We had a coffee before going to the cinema. I managed to ignore the cakes, muffins and sandwiches on sale in the coffee shop. I was feeling hungry until I sat down in the cinema and my nostrils were assailed with the sickly sweet smell of popcorn which I’ve never liked :yuck:

The film was good, we saw A Walk In The Woods which is based on a Bill Bryson book and it was very entertaining.

Talking of 007 I am looking forward to the new Bond film ?

Have a good one everybody ?

Good morning all.

Amazon, glad to hear you enjoyed ‘A Walk in the Woods’ – OH and I are planning to see it.

Purple, Nama and RT – spring weather is supposed to be changeable but this is ridiculous! Monday shorts and t-shirt at home for the public holiday, with an ‘extreme’ fire danger rating, then summer weight trousers and light cotton shirt yesterday for work and today back with heavier trousers, singlet and woollen top, plus 9C at 7am so needed jacket for walk from car to office. Office was very stuffy but recent exterior painting meant the windows are stuck shut 🙁 set the aircon to fan only to at least change the air. Also completed job card to free up windows. 😉

Have abandoned fasting for now, just focussing on eating within my target TDEE day-by-day by making sensible choices and keeping up my usual activity levels. Encouraging to see the scales down 0.4kg since last week’s Wednesday morning weigh-in despite recent fasting attempt ‘epic fails’ (to quote Amazon).

Happy hump day everyone and take care. n xxx

Hi Jo, welcome to the southern hemisphere. Not sure about kiwis but we Aussies can be tall but some like me were average but getting shorter with age. 😉 Your apartment with kitchenette sounds ideal – I love Wellington, so picturesque.

Nama, thanks for encouraging words. I’ll certainly keep posting because it’s like joining a group of friends every time I log in. I definitely don’t intend to give up the IF WOL forever because of all the other benefits.

I’m still maintaining an eating window of 4.5 hours Monday-Wednesday so keeping up the practice, even if planned FDs unravel when I get home from work. I’ve just decided to stop beating myself up over it but for a time, can’t cope with the thought of the grinding hunger pangs between getting home from work and dinner time. I’m not falling off the wagon completely, just need a break.

G’day Jo. Welcome to Australasia ? Good luck with sorting your time clock. Just go with your body’s flow.

Nicky, I was thinking today there are 2 things I’ve learnt from this 5:2 journey…
We need hugely less food as older folk to maintain our bodies, no matter how active we think we are
and
I won’t starve if I don’t eat for 24 hours.

These two bits of knowledge would never have occurred to me without IF.

Might I suggest you throw away the meal rule book (breakfast, lunch, dinner/tea/supper -whatever label you use) and eat when your body wants/ really needs to. Delay every eating episode for at least an hour after you think you want to eat, then eat from a selection of healthy options. Happy Now convinced me to have breakfast (my favourite meal) any time of the day. I quickly took up eating breakfast in the middle of the day, effectively cutting out a meal. If, like me, you are hungry at 4 or 5pm, then eat dinner then. Stops the nibbles.

Meal times are a social construct, unrelated to our individual nutritional needs.

Keep healthy and happy mate. P ?

Morning/evening all,

Hi Nicky,
Sorry to hear you are struggling. A break is a good idea.
Sound advice from Purple regarding eating healthy food when your body tells you it needs it, and I was going to suggest eating dinner early on FDs if you can’t wait rather than the FD not working. If you don’t want to do that, maybe you could find something to do, have a hot drink then go for a walk, have a swim on the way home, or rethink FDs so you can have a small snack as soon as you get in the door accompanied by a hot drink. You’ll find a way and you are right in not beating yourself up over it.

My FDs are fine, it’s the other days that are the problem, but I’m working on it and I know I’ll get there eventually.

We all talk about getting into the habit, fasting being second nature, and how good we feel after a successful FD, but we rarely acknowledge that doing it week in week out is bloody hard work and requires a huge amount of determination and mental toughness that we don’t always have the energy for. We need a break from it now and then and accepting that is difficult because we look at it as a failure rather than our bodies and minds telling us we need a rest.

You’ll get there ?

Have a good one everybody ?

Have a good night’s sleep, Jojo, and then we can make contact tomorrow.

When we first moved here I didn’t know what had struck, with the wind. Never experienced anything like it – a lovely summer day and I couldn’t put the washing on the line!! When we moved back I insisted on a home that was sheltered from the north and west, so at least the worst of that wind goes over the top of us. We get the southerlies, but you expect winds in winter. At least it’s going to improve over the next few days 🙂

Hello Fast Trackers
Nicky Emel and Aussie O in South Australia Nama in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi in France & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA CakeyWakey Sarah103 HealthCoachB Tessy pen nib Iona72 and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Morning team let’s get our Thursday fast on this is my fourth and last fast day and I am very much feeling centred& full on Zen and tranquillity it has been a good process this time around everything is as it should be and a cuppa soup in the evening only and my current favourite is continental classic hearty beef 54cal with plenty of tea both black and green black coffee a shed load of water and a diet coke here and there have great day jojo in the shakey isles and I suspect as Mother of the groom Nama there would be some preening and detailing going on today hope all goes well for everyone concerned the weather will play its part it will be stunning with blue skies and sunshine may the force be with you all
keep on keeping on
“It is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT

Relax and enjoy the wedding Nama. You’ll make a stunning mother of the groom! ? P

Good plan Nicky!
I’m having a dinner party tomorrow night and I’ve just finished writing the “lesson plan” (once a teacher, always a teacher) right down to times for preparing everything. Sad, I know ? P

Morning/evening all

We have a lovely sunny but chilly morning here with a nip of frost in the air. Winter is on the way!

Nicky, I am always in awe of the women who use the free weights as I have trouble with the 2kg size although most of them are young enough to be my daughter. Having said that, when I use the resistance machines I can shift much heavier than that so I’m no wimp!
If you’ll pardon the pun, a new PB in the gym may be the lift you need to get you back into full fasting mode

Could OH not have his own shelf or preferably cupboard where he could stash all his snacks or would that not make any difference?

Purple, I always write a menu plan and a schedule for food prep if I’m having a dinner party and I’ve done it since my my first one resulted in rice that had turned to mush and undercooked veggies plus a very harassed hostess whose mascara melted and her eyelashes got stuck together as she rushed to get something out of the oven before it burned

Have a good one everybody ?