Day 16, Cumbria UK , nfd
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Day 17/NFD/Melbourne Australia

@okeydokey @fatrabbit and @annette52 you are amazing and strong women.

Day 16 : Cheshire, UK : NFD

Day 16- Montreal- NFD

@okeydokey here is the info I posted on 28/3

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Hello!
I’ll also be joining the April challenge. I started the 5:2 on 31st January 2017 at 86kg, and today am 80.1kg. I’m eventually aiming for 70kg but will be happy to see 78kg at the end of April.
Thanks for hosting!

Day 16 – Tokyo Japan – NFD 79.6kg
Day 17 = Tokyo Japan – FD 80.7kg

I ate pretty freely over the weekend. I’m going to start cutting back on my nut consumption with will probably help with the weight loss. However the main reason for doing so is that it is getting too expensive and I just think it is time to find something else that also satisfies me.

I’m not sure if I’ll make it through the fast today as I’m not feeling well. I’ll see how it goes.

Day 16, USA, Missouri Ozarks, NFD

Happy Easter All. Had a great day, beautiful service and music, followed by a carry in Baptist church dinner (and you haven’t eaten until you eat some good old Baptist food !). I ate sparingly, no reason other than I wasn’t really hungry. Was able to sit back and observe a bit. The dessert table easily had a dozen homemade pies, several kinds of crumbles, brownies, cakes, etc., along with a tray of homemade heavily decorated cookies. I ate no dessert. Just watching all that sugar consumed made me hurt. Crazy, I know (and a first at this type of food feast). I literally saw people eat four desserts after eating a big meal. I can only imagine how they sleep tonight and how their joints feel tomorrow. I have found sugar to be so inflammatory.

My dear husband ate a piece of homemade apple pie, a piece of homemade gooseberry pie and a cakepop thingy that he couldn’t pass up because pretty little Stephanie made them and ask him to have one. I told him, pretty little Stephanie offered me one as well and I just said, Oh they are so pretty but I couldn’t eat another bite. (my husband will be hitting the exercise room a bit harder this week)
;o;l
Still comfortable below goal weigh, easily wore my pretty lilac printed tulip skirt that would have dug into my waist a few months ago, felt great and had a wonderful time.

To your health all.

Day 16, Sitting in the Sun, USA. NFD

Day 16 Chicago Illinois USA – NFD

Happy Resurrection Day!

day 17. NFD. Sydney Austalia.
Was planning a FD but having a controlled calorie day instead. Maintaining at 57KGs this month. This is 3 kgs down from my starting weight of 60kgs at beginning of March. (More accurate with my weights now that I have bought an electronic set of scales). Target is still to get to 56kgs by end of the month.

Day 17 much needed FD country West Australia
Day 16 – surprisingly mindful NFD

Had a lovely Easter break with family, including church, morning teas, lunches, 20 to afternoon tea, dinners etc etc.
Since becoming a 5:2er I have changed what I now put on the table for morning and afternoon tea – much more fruit and nuts, far fewer cakes, chips etc . It is a pity in a way as I adore cooking but we have to make adjustments for this WOL to be sustainable and effective.
Managed to confine myself to only 1/2 a hot cross bun yesterday ( MUCH willpower required), only 1 very small Easter egg, and mostly mindful of what I was eating.
The willpower muscle got quite the workout, the scales are up 700 gms and I had a thoroughly delightful time with family and friends and no regrets re food and wine consumed AT ALL.
( apologies for emphasising the ‘at all’ but I do think we sometimes worry so much about what we do and don’t drink and eat that it takes away some of the fun of life.
We only get one shot at life so I’m enjoying it to the max whilst trying to be much healthier .
Was just watching a morning TV programme ( something I almost never do but I AM doing the ironing so my DH doesn’t have to go to work in the wrinkled garments that are overwhelming my ironing basket.)

Anyway, saw Dr Norman Swan who said that predictors of living long and well include – not smoking, exercise, BP and cholesterol under control, maintaining a healthy weight . This is where 5:2 has benefitted me so much. The scales are still bouncing around in a 1 – 2 kg range but I weigh a lot less than 6 months ago and am SO much more aware of ‘ am I hungry or am I simply being greedy in wanting to eat …’ It stops me eating a lot of unnecessary food.
Also since my journey began in November 2016, I have several friends who have seen my weight loss, enquired about it and since I am very open about the 5:2, fasting, ease of this WOL ( mostly!) they have taken this WOL on and all have lost weight and become healthier. ( Losing weight has been the main driver for most of them but they are generally feeling healthier.)
Downwards and upwards!!🥂🍤🍎🍩🥑

Day 17 Hampshire NFD

Day 17-US-FD

Day 17 Newcastle UK FD.
Away up the allotment to work off some calories. Hopefully lesson learned not to go mad with all the temptations in the house next holiday period. After 16 days of sensible eating I can’t believe how unwell I feel after yesterday’s blowout. Straight back onto a fasting day.
Good luck everyone hope you stayed stronger than me.

Day 17 Oman NFD
Doing 18:6 today.

Day 17 UK FD
Day 16 UK NFD

Yesterday turned out not to be a fast day as although I had no inclination to eat anything sweet I ended up doing so in order to prevent ys from eating the whole cake by himself, so I had a big piece of cake with ice cream. I don’t think he ate anything else at all but my willpower thus compromised I also ate a bag of vegetable chips. I am paying for all that with a dreadful headache and a complaining stomach. I am going to try and do a 500 calorie fast day as compensation. Ys’s shakes should arrive today so hopefully he will get started. Somehow I doubt he read the book so I am going to have to supervise quite heavily. The contrast between fierce independence and total helplessness in different areas can make interacting with him tricky to say the least. @coda juicing is another idea I should probably try with him. I hate the idea, but then I couldn’t face a shake either. I have more trouble with slimy textures than solid ones. I am sorry to hear that your twins had trouble too. I have to say I am always worried about twins as when taking E to therapy there were always so many sets of twins there. They are at much higher risk. My ms always got neglected in school too as he was so well behaved, and they had low expectations of him because they knew about his older brother, I think he was a bit dyslexic too, like his Dad. I ended up home educating the two younger ones as he hated school so much and because ys was so far ahead of the other children. He learned to read when he was two! It gave them time with me without eldest around and was probably why I was able to keep eldest with us for so long as at least they got lots of quality time. It was only when he became stronger and faster than me (I was too fat to run after him:(()that I just couldn’t do it any more. Being a single parent didn’t help. They rarely saw their Dad after we got divorced. I should have taken better care of myself, but I was so miserable:( I am trying to start doing that now. I haven’t been of much use to anyone except the animals for years. They have been my therapy. Fasting has really really cleared my mind which is why all this is surfacing. I had been avoiding thinking about the past at all. Thanks for being so understanding and supportive.

Day 17 UK NFD Last day of Easter hols , will be back with a fast day tomorrow and aim to finish the month on a high will catch up on recent posts early in the morning .

Day 17 Surrey UK FD

DAY 16 – FD .. UK
DAY 17 – NFD

Well I’ve weighed in this morning and I’ve lost 2.5lbs !! Currently 10st 11lbs …back where I started at the beginning of the month. So now to concentrate on the next 2 weeks to aim for 10st 7lbs.

Day 17, USA, Missouri Ozarks, FD

Hello all, back to the first of my three fasting days. Still maintaining under goal weight. No Easter weight gain at all this year, didn’t eat a single bite of candy.

Wishing all of those facing struggles within their own life or the lives of those they love and care about a bit of serenity today. May you find a moment of peace among the chaos.

Day 17, London, UK, NFD,

Wow, thank goodness that’s over!!!! I shouldn’t be surprised there’s so many of us saying similar things…………..

@okeydokey – ‘Yesterday I ate pizza, gluten free, today I feel stuck inside‘;
@steve toon taxi driver – ‘I can’t believe how unwell I feel after yesterday’s blowout’;
@sarah57 – ‘Feeling worse in every way’;
@fatrabbit – ‘I am paying for all that with a dreadful headache and a complaining stomach’;
@lynzm – ‘Can’t say I feel that good about it in my body though, my back aches, could this be the alcohol?’

I feel like I’m an addict as I go into these unavoidable celebrations with such good intentions ………………… then a carbohydrate in some form enters my mouth and …………… Wham!!!!! I’ve lost all control, then copious amounts of bread, cake, wine, sweet treats later, I find myself saying EXACTLY what everyone above said ……………… I really have to get a grip and actually remember these feelings.

My new pocket list consists of the comments above……..I need to remember how it feels to lose control then ‘using’ a FD to make it all better!!! Not the ideal WOL we know 5:2 can be!!!

I hope everyone is keeping the faith; I’ll be spending some time aiming to ‘re-train my brain’…… again!!!!

Day 17 lancaster pa FD

Day 16 – Cumbria UK – NFD
Day 17 – Cumbria UK – FD

Sorry @okeydokey for not posting yesterday
My weekend ended up most definitely not a controlled one 😧 so much for me posting on Day 15 that “a controlled weekend is called for…………” as just exactly the opposite happened!!!! Since my last FD on Day 14 my hunger dragon has been wide awake…………Just too much of everything………so much so that I have not dared step on the scales today……..😢
Amazing how many of us have had such a regretful time over the long weekend…………..at least with this WOL we know we can press a reset button and move on and that we will have great support on this forum to do so!

So today I am firmly pressing that “reset button” with a water/tea with a dash of skimmed milk fast day and am planning on following on Tuesday and Wednesday with low calorie FDs – have not done a B2B2B (3 x FDs) since I reached my target weight at the beginning of December! but feel I need to do this for myself

@bert1802 – I fell off that wagon in a big way over the Easter Break 😧 so I’m aiming to pull myself straight back on so will be joining you with a FD today – That boy of yours has one heck of a mum and I’m sure he appreciates it too!
@hereigo – it might help if you think of the FDs as treating your body with respect and giving it a rest instead of thinking that you are starving yourself as mindset is so important when trying to lose weight – “Your Body Hears Everything Your Mind Says – Stay Positive” You have a global family supporting you! My OH and I have lost both our parents too and I miss them – Lost my Dad in 2005, then my darling mum passed away in September 2014 just after her 97th birthday and I think of her everyday, especially around the holidays “Death leaves a heartache no one an heal – Love leaves a memory no one can steal” We have no family living in the UK except for our DD who we are lucky to have back home with us for a bit – she is a lovely and caring girl 🤗
@fatrabbit @okeydokey and @annette52 – you are all amazingly strong women who have coped so well with everything that has been thrown at you – your children are so lucky to have such wonderful mums! Be kind to yourselves – “You are somebody’s reason to smile”
@ciren2 and @coda – so glad you are still posting daily and staying with us – stay strong – Remember you have got what it takes – HUGS
@schatziii – a dress size down calls for 💃
@lindasue – glad you got to wear and enjoy wearing your pretty lilac printed tulip skirt 💃 and stronger willpower than your OH………
@bigviking – are you joining us WELCOME – lots of support with this amazing group

Here are today’s pocketeers for the fasters (apologies if I missed anyone) – Copy and Paste and add your name if you would like to join us – Together We Are Stronger!!! 👊👊👊
@taraga
@kirstan
@lilymartin
@dykask
@umka6
@steve toon taxi driver
@sarah57
@fatrabbit
@suse13
@hhq
@scs
@lindasue
@bert1802
@fordprefect
@bigviking
@at (B2B2B – Mon/Tues/Wed)

“Sit back and focus on all that is positive, beautiful and wonderful in your life”