Day 8 – Tokyo, Japan – NFD 79.2kg

I’m enjoying my NFD!
@monkeydo – It is good that the definition for Pocketeers is evolving. It shows that this WOL is thriving and that people care about what they are doing. Thank you for digging up that history!

@fatrabbit – I personally think the biggest issue with 800 calories / day for eight weeks is nutrition. You have at least part of the problem licked since you seem to mostly eat vegetables. I guess you might have some issues with vitamins like B12, maybe you could wrap pickles in crispy seaweed for that. Since you are losing some weight though, your body is probably also pulling a lot of stuff out of your fats and extra body tissue. Anyway I’m impressed with your progress, you see to be losing the weight very quickly. You may not feel that way, but it took me over 4 years to lose about 60 pounds!

Today I don’t care about my weight being higher because when I looked in the mirror this morning I had more loose skin around my middle. In fact there is a skin fold going all the way across my belly that wasn’t there before. Loose skin means more fat is gone. This skin slowly tightens up and men don’t have to wear bikinis so I’m fine with it for now.

Pocketeers you are close to the finish line!!!
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Day 7 – SW WA USA – NFD

A visiting & traveling day. Basically keeping things to a 16:8.

A very windy day so some WiFi issues. Hopefully will catch up on posts this evening.

Day 7 – Croatia – FD
Weight: 78.2 Kg

2nd post

@orpheusx just read the news of the terrible attack in Stockholm, again so many died and got injured, I’m so sorry. Are you OK?

Day 8 Kent UK NFD

Dog Walk, dance class and then gardening. This is my ideal day especially as the weather is expected to be great. Keeping food controlled as weigh in tomorrow.

Have a great weekend all.

My sympathy to the peaceful people of Stockholm for their loses in this latest tragedy. The London bombing is still very fresh in my mind, evil forces are still loose in the world. Chemical Weapons and bombing just highlight that human beings are neither kind or intelligent. Answers are never found in violence, it is weakness.

Great, forum’s eaten my reply when I don’t c/p it for once.

Day 8 / UK / NFD

@okeydokey, day 7 turned out to be more of a NFD after all (in tight control though. I am not actually sure what the exact definition of CD is, but it wasn’t going overboard with indulgences but a conscious decision that was right in the context of the situation).

I was having a perfectly breezy FD going–until 8.30pm when I met with a friend at a late museum opening. I was just not going to be that friend who sits by fasting while my friend is having freshly-made pizza from a food van on her own. A) borderline anti-social behaviour and b) pizza! This is precisely what the flexibility of 5:2 is about and I am fully consoled and redeemed by the thought that I would have totally stuck to it had I been on my own.

The weekend will be full of more social activities and hanging out with various friends, so fasting will be difficult. But I will try to eat mindfully around it, cutting out my rich breakfast for starters (I may keep the calcium parts 😉 but it will be interesting to see whether I crave it when technically I could have it on a day designated as a NFD) and not constantly putting food into my mouth.

Next weekend will be equally difficult, massively looking forward to sister-time in London. So I will have as many FDs I can manage during the week, Mon/Tue definitely. I’ll see how I feel when Wed comes around and maybe even Thu (but I will of course update as I go along).

Day 8 – Cumbria UK – NFD
Today’s Weight: 54.3kg BMI: 20.2

My thoughts to the peaceful people of Stockholm for their loses in this latest tragedy – when will the world learn that we can live together in harmony…………..Hope no one on this forum has been directly affected – @orpheusx are you OK?

Woke up to another lovely sunny day in my beautiful Cumbria – feeling refreshed and good after yesterday’s FD (under 250cals) not feeling hungry so will wait to break my fast with brunch late morning?

Weather in the UK going to be great this weekend – whether doing a NFD/CD or FD have a fun day enjoying life!

Day 8, London, UK, NFD,

Yesterdays’ FD turned into a well below TDEE NFD – It’s always a learning curve, so now I need to figure out how an unexpected change of plans (leaving me with far too much free time!!!) shouldn’t lead to me hurling myself off the wagon!!!! Will I never learn to keep that dragon locked up tight until just before the kitchen goes into lockdown!!!!

So it’s been a 5:2 week, rather than the 4:3 that ADF gave this week, so next week, keeping to my ADF schedule should be a 3:4 week……….. we’ll see!!!

Good luck everyone……………… a bit off peace, love and acceptance wouldn’t go amiss right about now…………………..my word for today…………..perspective!!!!!

Day 8, Cumbria UK , fd
Just a quick check in, I’ll read all the posts later once the chaos here has calmed ☺

Day 8 – NZ – NFD

Day 8 -UK – FD

I am going to do another FD as the past two days FDs have gone really well and I am not hungry this morning so it doesn’t make sense to eat for the sake of it. I’ll see how the day develops.

I’ve noticed that some fellow fasters on here have trouble with sleeping. Maybe not on this thread though. Anyhow, I thought I might mention that my son does 5:2 to keep his weight in check. He told me that he finds he has trouble sleeping on a fast day because the fast creates too much energy to sleep !

Day 8……Florida….. NFD

Hey, could someone pull the car around? I fell off the wagon and I’m having trouble running for it. So, I figure if one of you could just pick me up and drive me to the wagon, I could possibly get my arse back into my seat.

I did weigh in this morning right on schedule, I stayed the same and didn’t gain anything but I am positive my big mistake will show up sooner or later.

Tahaga….. For the most part my co workers are very excepting people and very in tuned to my way of eating. However, the bosses are at a covering convention and the previous owner came in to help out, so we are not so short handed. She like her son, my boss is such a great person and always brings treats in for the employees. Cookies, donuts, etc. Since, she is only with us maybe 2 times a year, she doesn’t know my dietary changes. I won’t make her adjust what she likes to do, to help me along. For the most part, I do try and avoid it but sometimes, I am week. Like this morning, it is her last day, so we all are meeting before we open to havebreakfast together.
Oh, such is life!

Okay well, I must get ready!

Be classy, sassy and a bit bad assy today!

Not posted for a day or two as we have been very busy with our garden revamp.
2 1/2 days of hard graft digging, lifting & generally getting filthy.
Not had a fast day tho so had the energy to do the work.
Planning in Monday as a FD.
Anyone else?

Day 8 – USA – NFD but needs to be very very CONTROLLED!!!

Good morning everyone.

Yesterday’s NFD went well until 5pm and margaritas. I drank too much and as a result ate too much. Stress from the week on my shoulders and my 6-year-old being extremely challenging yet again did not help in this regard since I gave in to some emotional eating. The outcome was the three pounds I lost on my FD were all regained. So discouraging because this is a pattern – the weight I lose on FDs comes right back on the NFDs. Which tells me I am eating too much on NFDs. So this weekend’s goal is to not eat too much!!!

Day 8: Gloucestershire, UK: NFD

Another lovely cloudless day here. What a good week off I’ve had, weather-wise!
Food-wise? Still hoping for a fast-day sometime or other….it’s been well over a month now.
Maybe (better be) next week when I’m back at work on the Royal Mail deliveries, who knows?
I know for a fact I haven’t lost ANY of the 8 pounds+ I’ve gained since falling by the wayside at around Christmas/New Year.
We are going on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Holy Land in June….I’d like to be back at my goal weight by then……..

Day 8 – South Korea – NFD
Starting on thursday afternoon I did a 48 waterfast (only drank water) and I broke it this afternoon with vegetable broth, some vegetables and rice. And eventhough I was physically full my mind played a very dirty game and tricked me into eating a cup of very creamy, delicious dark chocolate icecream and eating a small bag of chips.
It’s so strange that I felt that I had to sacrifice so much over the two days (eventhough I did 48h waterfasts before) and would not have eaten the icecream and chips when I would have eaten regularly. I just couldn’t stop the cravings, does anyone relate and/or have tips?
So, I ate about my TDEE in calories today, so won’t count today as a FD. I’ll see what the scale says tomorrow morning…

This week:
Day 9 – NFD
Day 10 – FD
Day 11 – NFD

Day 8 – USA (Utah, visiting) – NFD

Checking out of our vacation condo shortly, but just HAD to eat one of the blueberry streusel Trader Joe’s muffins that daughter bought for our stay here. We need to try to eat up some of this food we brought up with us.

Must pack up – hang in there everyone. Onward and downward!

Day 8 – USA – NFD

Sorry, Saturday pocketeers! Today will have to be a NFD…I will do my FD tomorrow (Sunday).

@chumi – I took advantage of where I was living, Tokyo. Most of the Japanese foods don’t have sugar added to them. You can get sugary foods, but it is also easier to avoid. There are a few dishes Japanese use sugar in, but in general they are not used to much sugar in most dishes. If I was still in the states it would have been much more difficult to avoid as much sugar as I did.

When I first cut back, it was by accident. I was making my calorie restriction even larger and I gave up my ice cream I had once a day. It didn’t help that much with losing weight, but my hunger that drove me nuts went away. (Less hunger and I was eating less.) So I experimented and by making some changes I was able to get rid of most of the added sugar in my diet. I started losing weight quickly and at that time I was shocked that a lot of it came off my mid-section. At that point I was actually eating more while losing weight because some of the replacement foods were higher calorie. I started hitting the books and that is how I ended up fasting too.

Basically everything I was doing was wrong for me. I was messing up my metabolism by not eating enough, I also had to take vitamins and I was losing some lean body mass because I was doing too much cardio. I felt horrible and I was actually slowly gaining fat. I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t lose weight because I was eating less and moving like crazy. It just doesn’t work well for me.

We are all different. Some people don’t seem to have the same issues I did with sugar. However in my case there seems to be a threshold and when I consume too much sugar I can feel it. It also seems to vary with the type of food. I can have a little ice cream if I don’t go crazy. It seems that I can eat fruit all day, I’ve never managed to overconsume on fruit and I’ve tried to do it multiple times. However three teaspoons of brown sugar in my oatmeal gave me the jitters. So some forms of sugar I seem to absorb too quickly.

I’ve often had borderline high blood glucose so I suspect I was highly insulin insensitive. That is the main reason I started trying fasting. However after I got serious about fasting my body started changing too. I actually started building muscle again. The biggest change was my energy really improved. Now I find fasting for 36 hours pretty easy. I’ve probably done over 50 times and hunger is rarely an issue.

When I first cut sugar I was at 94kg and ~100cm around my waist. Calorie restriction had got me form 106kg to 92kg but then I couldn’t hold it. Four months after cutting sugar I was down to 86kg and 85cm around my waist. 5:2 has taken me to 79kg range and about 82cm around my waist. Twenty years ago I was able to stay around 90kg just by exercise. My body no longer responds the same way. I think younger people have better luck with calorie restriction and exercise. I’m at the age were it seems what I eat is really more important than how many calories I eat. However on a weekly basis I’m still consuming less than 15000 calories, so I’m not eating crazy amounts of food.

Day 8 USA-WA FD Weight 140
@erika45 I’m with you all on the fast train today!

Had a good NFD yesterday with the treat of a beautiful concert of Mozart’s Requiem performed by our area choral society. This morning starts with a lively Zumba class, taught by a lovely young woman who says “you remind me of my mother, only perkier” which kind of cracks me up! From Mozart to Zumba … what a great life!

Also, for anyone curious, I’m up a day as I started right before April with the other side of the globe. 🌏🌹

Day 9, Germany, NFD
Day 8, FD
Yesterday and the day before I had a back2back fasting. It’s much easier than fasting with one or two days gap. @marthalt same as u I feel some water loss. @happyslim I think as long as u keep under ur TDEE you don’t have to be worried. For me craving over sweets and deserts usually comes from daily stress.

Day 8, USA, Missouri Ozarks, NFD

Still maintaining below goal weight of 145. Staying in the 140-143 range which is great. 143 is really better than 140, it shows in my face below that weight,

Hello all,

Another gorgeous day, the woods are filled with blooming redbud and dogwood trees ! Have a busy day, lots of cooking and preparing. Celebrating two family birthdays tomorrow here at the farm, the kids want chili dogs so that is easy – also making homemade potato salad, cole slaw, deviled eggs, baked beans, will have potato chips as well. Making a fudge marble Bundt cake with chocolate glaze (my son’s favorite cake) and probably a banana cream pie. First real big get together with some of the extended family since Christmas so looking forward to it. Lots of food the week before Easter but we celebrate Easter with a dinner on the grounds after church (followed by gospel singing in the afternoon) so dinner won’t be here at the farm.

Wishing you all well and thanks for the kind comments, AT. I do think exercise is the key once maintenance weight is achieved. Exercise alone won’t really take weight off to much degree but I have found that it makes the difference between “skinny” and “fit” once the weight is lost.

Luckily, it is one of my life’s little pleasure to exercise. A saving grace, I suppose.

Day 8 NFD St. Louis USA
Had a dip cone last night but still stayed with in my TDEE. Not fasting till Monday but going to continue to eat sensibly and mindfully. I am planning on taking my sister-in-law to breakfast tomorrow for her birthday. We are going to a restaurant called The Egg and I. Will check out the menu before I go and the calories. I have found that helpful when I am going out to eat.

I also want to extend sympathy and prayers to the people in Stockholm, and Syria as well. So sad and terrifying to hear these reports of suffering.

Best of luck to all the fasters for this weekend. Such her age! I’m not ready for that yet.