Thinking of you, Jojo! And you too, Weemam!
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Hello everyone. I’ve been AWOL for a while but have not thankfully fallen off the wagon! I’ve had a couple of bad days my aunt not only baked some lovely cakes for my recent visit but presented me with a box to take home. I’m afraid there was no way on this good earth that I could resist them. No weight loss that week but thankfully no gain either. My fast days are now routine- I find them surprisingly straight forward. I stick to 200 cals at lunch and 300 in the evening. I enjoy soup and have found some lovely lazy inducing fresh supermarket varieties. I like the whole portion control no brainer aspect although my husband risked his life by eating the second half of my soup last week! You can only imagine my rage…..and then my dilemma – how to use up my remaining calories.
I’m so glad I found this group on the forum- you are all so interesting and entertaining I don’t think I’m bringing much to the table so to speak but I will definitely be logging in for inspiration and entertainment.
Fast x2 of the week tomorrow,Monday was easy due to a very unpleasant visit to the dentist- tactical dieting!
Feeling a little battle weary with our scottish referendum – it has been a very painful process.
Wee mam I hope your wee face heals quickly – as Bruce Forsyth says— you’re my favourite!! (TOT l laughed when I read that first)
Best wishes to all
Morning all.
weemam, I hope you are feeling OK this morning and you nose and knees aren’t too sore;
jojo, good luck today, I hope all goes smoothly.
PVE, I’ve not lost any posts but noticed that they sometimes take ages to come up. The post before mine last night was not there until I looked this morning :weird:
What a nasty experience, wee. Hope the pain will ease soon. If it helps take a day off 5:2ing and give yourself a little treat.
jojo, hope today goes well for you. Like wee, you deserve a day off from FD-ing and even some comforting little treat if it will help.
I looked at the video of Big Sing and looked out specially for you flobbalobbing. There were three ladies in the shot. Which one was you?
Now I must do some more dissertating.
Good morning all .
Thinking of you today Jojo and I hope all goes well . I am sure it will pal .
Good luck to all those that are fasting today and keep busy .
When I got up this morning Jim joked that I looked like I had been 10 rounds in the boxing ring . Nose is really bruised and slight black eyes BUT I am lucky really . Lots of aches and pains but again I could have been so much worse .
Not going off diet but will have a couple of Highlight hot chocolates included this morning . They are sure to make me relax a wee bit and although I am not a pill popper I will have some pain killers today too .
I am so glad I am not a frail wee wiman ( as they say here ) lol
Have a great day everyone
Jojo please let us know how you are whenever you get the chance and NO jogging home 🙂 xx
Wee xx
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If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
I’m vegetating and eating 😆
Sitting on the sofa with a cup of coffee and a home made muffin, listening to music which is just loud enough to mute the banging noise being made by the roofers hammering the new wooden struts into place.
Peanut chicken soup sounds like a perfect treat after being jabbed. Take it easy jojo, and I hope the injection does its job. I’ve had a steroid injection in my back to get rid of pain and it was very sore the following day but once that wore off everything was fine and I was completely pain free.
Hi jojo,
So glad your treatment today wasn’t as bad as feared. Hopefully the painkillers will work well enough to let you do all your things tomorrow.
Now I know which one is you, I’ll have another look. No, I’m not in a choir but it is something that has occurred to me. Unfortunateky, our most local one is the Crouch End Festival Chorus, a prestigious bunch you may have heard of.I wouldn’t stand a snowball in hell’s chance of getting in as I’d never pass an audition. Sadly my singing is inconsistent to say the least – sometimes I can, sometimes I can’t.
We do have a chorister in the family, a young woman of many talents – among other things she regularly runs half-marathons and 10Ks and has a high-powred scientific job. She’s also the mum of two lovely boys (my great-nephews), a teenager who is turning out to be a pretty good musician and a five-year-old who loves to sing. Could this be the result of her rocking them to sleep to the accompaniment of classical music, some of it choral, when they were babes in arms?
I have a wonderful video in the little one, at the age of two, hurtling around the room and singing along to Vivaldi’s Gloria, surprisingly in tune and somehow managing to copy the In excelsis Deo to the letter.
Me, too, jojo. I can’t imagine a life without music. I love classical and early music, classic rock – e.g.Pink Floyd, Queen, Dire Straits, JJ Cale -, folk, blue grass and jazz – mostly traditional but also quite a bit of the less cacophonous modern stuff, like MJQ, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck. And of course some of the great female singers, including Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Annie Lennox, the list goes on.
Imagine my frustration at being totally incapable of playing any instrument. Knowing how things SHOULD sound and not being able to get anywhere near is maddening. I’ve tried piano, guitar, flute and the ubiquitous recorder. Rbbish at all of them.
At one point in my training as a teacher, we were given a series of exercises to test our musicality. My score was very high. Totally bewildered I asked the tutor how come. Almost certainly poor coordination, she said, and I’m sure she was right. She asked if I had tried singing, which I have, but it’s very hit and miss. It can range from just about OK to downright embarassing. Pity, ‘cos I can act and I can project very effectively.
Sadly, Jojo, teaching is no different here in Aust (in state, Catholic and private sectors). The pollies love teacher bashing, so when other things are not working for them they pick on teachers. We have adopted the ridiculous overtesting of kids and pitting colleagues against each other in open competition here too, despite massive protestations that it had proven disastrous in the UK and US.
Any good teachers are completely worn out trying to jump through hoops to teach in inspiring, innovative ways and still please the masters that employ them. I worked closely with a fellow progressive teacher and we did some fabulous things in a state school. So well, they ended up separating us!!! No wonder I retired. I miss the classroom, but not all the c**p that goes on in the background. I wish your lovely daughter every success in her career. P
Hi Jojo and Hermaj
Great discussion on music. I have lots of aspirations and not much talent. Can sing intermittently. Love listening to music both classical and rock. Highlight of the year was going to Bruce Springsteen concert.
Am off to continue my one woman war on the Capeweed daisy. I am possibly down to my last day on this crusade. Will write more once it’s done.
Have a happy fast day. Bay 🙂
One-Liners
Willpower is the ability to resist temptation until you can be sure that no-one’s looking…
Desperation: eating the dog’s choc drops.
Who says I’ve got no will power – I’ll get that pecan pie if it’s the last thing I do.
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
Unhealthy: what thin people call you when you are fat and fat people call you when you are thin.
Stay out of bed, and stay active, and eat rice and fish – and eventually you die.
I’d have no objection to people who eat like sparrows if they’d only stop that everlasting chirping about it.
Acceptable weight: what you weigh now if you were six inches taller.
Adult: one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally.
The doctor said apples were non-fattening so I ate 68 of the little devils.
You came down because you thought you heard burglars? Got them trapped in the refrigerator have you?
My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn’t lost any weight, but can she climb a tree.
There’s a new Chinese diet. Order all the food you want but use only one chopstick.
He’s on a weekly course of special diet crackers. They’re usually all gone by Tuesday breakfast.
Gosh – I could eat a horse – a high protein, low cholesterol, sugar free horse, of course.
Dieter’s Law: food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories.
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along…
Eve: only woman ever really tempted by an apple.
Warning – You have been detected making unauthorized entry to the refrigerator – please replace purloined items immediately!
About the only time losing is more fun than winning…is when you’re fighting temptation.
If it wasn’t for wrestling with my conscience…I’d get no exercise at all.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Diets are no good without exercise so his dinner’s on the garage roof and I’ve hidden the ladder.
Eat that last pea and you’re over your calorie count.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.
Diet, n: the all-consuming obsession with the food you shouldn’t have eaten yesterday but did, the food you have eaten today but shouldn’t have, and the food you shouldn’t eat tomorrow but probably will.
MMM! Poached carrot!!!
When you begin to think all plate glass windows distort, it’s time to think about a diet.
Why am I bothering to eat this chocolate? I might as well apply it directly to my thighs.
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.
Little and often doesn’t mean a trip to the refrigerator every half hour.
The best reducing exercise is to shake the head violently from side to side when offered a second helping.
It’s here in the Health Farm rules: Eating the furniture is thought of as cheating.
Why’s Daddy eating a T.V. dinner in the back of the car, in the garage?
I was doing quite well till I got hooked on diet crackers…
There was only one occasion in my life when I put myself on a strict diet…and it was the most miserable afternoon I’ve ever spent.
Hello? Fat-Busters? Mrs. E. Fenwick, 32 Horton Boulevard, member no. 4734 has just made and is about to consume a triple-decker ham sandwich.
Liquid diets – the powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
There’s something in it for you if you can get a couple of steaks under my door.
Letter to a friend from a man at a health farm: Help! Send me a file with a cake in it.
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Just raw okra and dandelion tea for dinner today. Skipping big calorie dinner. To be 800 calories below TDEE . Unplanned but doable.
I look for Those rubber extention cord things you can walk on .
Here’s a link to quick read on fat and exercise . Why combining diet and exercise is better than diet or exercise alone.
Just a reminder of alesson learned from when I was sedentary . I had the will . Found a way.
Think of exercise and maybe a treadmill or a spin class come to mind. But what if .
What if your hurt and the common exercises is out. What I discovered was instead of a time crunch intense exercise packed into 1/2 hour . I could find something like dumbbells or resistance bands that I could use all day long. So sixteen hours of lifting dumbbells . Not continuously . But in sets. I used to try to two sets of 25 every hour. When I added it all up I had burned 500 calories without getting out of bed. Not in quick thirty minutes, but over the whole day. Even had one the smallest stability balls in the bed with me to help strengthen rather than fall more more sedentary.
Now that I’m up and strong as ever. I keep the kettle bell weights all over the house. If I see one I go and do some sets. I found that I actually used the the kettle ball of 20lbs the most in the bathroom.
Doing theses intermittent sets all day long also helps me on fasting days . Buy burning more calories, but not triggering my appetites.
Hi Jojo
Sorry to hear you are awake and suffering. I hope you are asleep by now 🙁
I measure my long term success as a teacher by a couple of incidents in the last few days.
I ran into several ex students, now happy achieving secondary students who glowed with joy when they recognised me…Actually I’ve changed so much I had to tell them!! One parent was there too and all I get is thanks for the time they spent in my class. Stuff the Dept of Ed, I have REAL evidence.
Don’t know about NZ’s system. Sorry.
Hope you feel better soon. P 🙂
Morning all.
SAAM, thanks for the one liners, some of them really made me 😆
jojo, I hope you got some sleep, and feel better this morning.
Fast day today. I took a day off from exercise yesterday and am raring to go. I’ve bought a pedometer that will also tell me how many calories I’ve burned on my walks.
Hi jojo,
Sorry you’ve had such a bad night’s sleep. I agree about helping kids with bad coordination, which I believe was happening in the 80s when I was teaching. At my own school, back when dionosaurs walked the earth, the only kids eligible for remedial help were those with flat feet. My all-girls grammar school based al its policies on boys’ schools – one of our school was ’40 years on’ pinched from Harrow School – as flat feet were an issue for young men who, for example, could not join the military if they had flat feet. Poor coordination was seen as naughtiness, leading to tellings-off at school and a lot of slaps at home.
I feel so sad – and angry – on behalf of your daughter. The probationary year is tough enough without all the stuff she is having to endure. Would I be right in thinking that teaching – like much of medical practice – has become a matter of box-ticking and arse-covering rather than actually getting on with the job of helping kids to learn? Hopefully she will have a much happier time and be able to do the job she has trained for at the Montessori school in NZ. Meanwhile, I’m sure it helps to have a mum with first-hand experience of the problems.
Bay, I love the idea of singing ‘intermittently’. that just about sums it up.
SAMM, whatever other talents you may have, you come up with some killer one-liners. 🙂
Right, that’s it for the moment. Back to the socio-political situation in 1930s France. 🙁 Yes, my dissertation is about cinema which is of course strongly affected by its soc-pol context. I’ll be doing 60s Britain next.
jojo and PVE,
I just remembered. One of the best things that happened to me at the dubious comprehensive where I taught first was the moment when, during a conversation with my class of 13-year-olds for whom I was class teacher, one of the girls who could be a ‘little madam’ said: ‘You really care about us, don’t you Miss’. It’s stuff like that that makes the job worthwhile. The nasty headmaster who thought I was the spawn of the devil should have heard.
Thanks everyone . A really exciting day . I can’t wait to see the result..
Mt scales are telling lies today .
I have had BTB the last 2 days both under 400 calories but up 2 pounds . NOOO way can that be right .
I bought a new top today and I noticed I am a different shape ( more defined) if that makes sense . I still have a lot too loose but noticed my fat round my bra has gone and ,the overhang over the trouser waist has gone too . having an eating day again today but always within my allowed quata.
Jim said I looked lovely in my new top he said I look smaller and shapelier so that will do me lol . I am loving this WOL ( have I said that before lol ) I also love reading all the posts on here . It is a lovely thread .
Wee xx
It is nice when the body starts to regain its shape, and is a real boost, especially if you’ve still got a fair amount to lose as quite a lot of us have.
Today is my 3rd fast day this week and if I can cope I’m going to do another one tomorrow. The scales didn’t budge last week after 3 fast days and I only went over my TDEE on one day, so I’m trying my hardest to get things moving again. It has happened before so I know it’ll shift but I forgot to measure myself before starting this time. Once I’ve lost a stone I’ll measure and then I’ll have something to compare with if the scales go on strike again.
I eat once on fast days and I’ve just had black bean and veggie chilli with some ricotta, salad and a few raspberries and I’m absolutely stuffed!
Isn’t it amazing how quickly we adapt to eating less 🙂
I have to say I feel really well and as I love cooking and eating 😉 I’m enjoying the challenge of making tasty, healthy and interesting meals.
I agree Amazon about the cooking . I cook in bulk and freeze in portions 🙂 .
Normally if the scales were showing UP I would get upset ,but I know I have lost inches so I will be happy with that .I am usually well below my recommended “myfitnesspal”but today I am just on it .
Has been quite an anxious time with Scotland voting though and I wish it were tomorrow night so we will know the outcome .
Wee xx
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