Day 18, Newcastle UK, FD

Day 18 UK FD

Yesterday’s fast was quite hard after a sugar and carb rich weekend. There was a particular low point when I realised I was not going to be able to complete a water fast. Reading your posts (esp @flourbaby) really helped to keep me on track and I came in well under 500.

After protein and salad only yesterday I feel stronger and will be fasting again today and then Thursday. It is very unusual for me to do more than the standard two fast days but needs must.

@fatrabbit, @okeydokey, @coda your children are lucky to have mothers who take their responsibilities so seriously and carefully. It is such a difficult job and there are so many pitfalls along the way. It is so hard not to feel guilt about our own real or imagined inadequacies. My children are both in their 30s and if things go wrong in their life I am always sure it is something I have done or not done.

Good wishes to all and especially those on their first fast day after that pesky Easter Rabbit!

Day 18 Portugal FD

Another FD for me. Yesterday’s was quite easy so thought I’d just continue. May be just a tad over the 500 cal as I am making baked sweet and sour chicken tonight – I will need to control my portion size! Anyway after such a terrible weekend I feel like I need to be super careful this week and so I am doing a day or two extra of fasting this week.
Have a good day!

Day 18 – UK – FD

So many of us getting back on the wagon yesterday and today. Like most of,us I had all kinds of treats over the weekend. Culminating for me in my favourite pudding – rhubarb crumble. I blame my father in law – it’s a weekly fixture on the shopping we do for him and I’d been obsessing about it since Friday!

So this week it’s FDs Tues and Thurs with under 1000 cals Weds and Fri. We’ll see what the scales say on Saturday. Still time to get close to April target.

Day 18 FD NZ
I realised at the end of the day I didn’t have a cauliflower to make the cauli rice I had planned to have for dinner.
Last minute change of plan led to Greek yoghurt with berries and seeds and an apple.
All up it was under my 500cals but not what I was looking forward to so it felt a little unsatisfying.
I’m looking forward to a marinated tempeh lunch tomorrow or maybe a halloumi and courgetti noodle pesto bowl…I think I’ll see what takes my fancy at lunchtime when I break the fast. This time I know I have all the necessary ingredients so I’m good either way.

Day 18 Australia FD – apologies for dropping off over Easter: we were away and I must admit 5:2 was the last thing on my mind! Having a good FD today – bing extra busy at work and home certainly helps me stop thinking about food 🙂 I hope everyone had a lovely Easter. I will try to catch up with all the posts.

Day 16 – CARDIFF UK – NFD
Day 17 – CARDIFF UK – NFD
Day 18 – CARDIFF UK – NFD

Starting Weight : 160.8lbs

Today’s Weight : 160.4lbs (0.4lbs)

Really not feeling a FD at the moment, too many Easter treats still around. Have managed to only gain 2lb over the weekend so hopefully will manage to maintain this even if I don’t manage to lose for the rest of this week.

I think I’ll try my first FD towards the weekend, but not too worried about it at the moment.

Hope everyone is content with the food choices they are making and good luck to all fasters.

Day 18, Germany, FD

Day 15 NFD Melbourne, Australia
Day 16 NFD
Day 17 NFD
Day 18 NFD

Struggling to get some exercise. Feel like I shouldn’t lose more weight until I get the exercise under way so I’m consciously avoiding FDs. Catch 22.

Day 18 UK. FD

Day 17 – Montreal – NFD
Day 18- FD

I had a bit of a binge last night, and am feeling it this morning. I’ll be fasting today and on Friday.

Day 18 FD Country West Australia

Wrote a second post yesterday/ very early post this morning ( 12.00 am) as had to get up early this morning to drive to Perth and back. However when I posted it , it disappeared into the ether!
As it was a holiday I spent a long time reading many of the posts I have missed. Phew! What a lot has been happening in people’s lives . Too much to even begin o comment individually as I had missed so many . Suffice it to say people on this forum are in my thoughts through their trials, tribulations and triumphs.

I could lie and say yesterday’s FD went OK – except for the chicken and tomato lunch , even the small serve added calories; a fig; a hot cross bun ( ‘ small half’ my DH left for me) ; curried lentil soup; veggie slice and I might have made it just over 500/600/700/800 calories.
But then along hopped a chocolate bunny needing somewhere safe to hide – so I hid him in my tummy !!! Alas even a magician couldn’t make that many calories simply vanish ! So NOT a FD.

But today travelled to Perth and back , 3 1/2 hour drive each way, for an appointment.
Had to wait 2 hours at the doc’s but even their beautiful coffee shop with all the goodies didn’t tempt me.
Well they DID tempt me but I didn’t give in and simply read the magazine I had taken with me.
March edition of ‘ Nature and Health’ and it contained an article on …. 5:2 and Fasting!!
Gave many of the benefits of fasting and the research is really stacking up for so many things – cardiovascular health, lowered BP, lowered BSL’s, weight loss, slowing the ageing process, anti-inflammatory effects etc. Even less MS symptoms in a study on mice.
It has certainly made me determined to be more consistent, even though I knew most of this already.

So even though some of us are a bit ‘hit and miss’ with this WOE, if we can gradually establish it as a WOL it can only be good.
DH just asked me if I wanted some of his Easter egg. Wrong question I answered.
Do I want some? Yes, indeed I DO!!
Will I have some ? – No I WON’T !!

Looking forward to breaking the fast at lunchtime.

So hang in, hang on , hang out ….just don’t hang up.

Day 18 USA NFD
Yesterday’s FD went well and I drank a lot of water, but could tell over night I was dehydrated and woke up with the headache. One thing I’ve learned about my body is that when I have a successful FD, exercise, but get a bit dehydrated, I will always go up on the scales. There is usually a loss later in the week, but I think my body goes into “hang on to everything” mode. So lots of water and probably a little more salt today. It surely is a learning process-I feel like my brain and body keep going on a “first date,” getting to one another again and again!🙂

Day 180-US-NFD 16:8 (weight 210.4)

Honestly, I don;t know what to believe with my scale. My home it a bit unlevel so depending on where I put the scale, it can vary 2-3 lbs!!

On my own log, I put the both the lower and higher numbers so I don’t delude myself. Just using a dress and a certain pair of pant as a measurement of any possible success/

Other than that I have my husband on board, and we are encouraging one another along.

Everyone is doing great. Just remember if you have a bad day, just pick up on the next.

Day 18 – USA (Illinois) – NFD

You all keep me strong. I read a bunch of posts last night so I would not indulge in a night-time snack. Brushed my teeth. Read posts. I think it was the little lemon square I had with nuts and strawberries at a noon PEO meeting. Maintaining my weight is just as hard as losing was all those months ago. Wonder why.

@bert1802 – It’s so fun reading about your “uggness” but we understand.
@umka6 – how conscientious of you to record both weights due to your scale!
@hhq – we have someone from Mongolia? Lost who that is!

Okay – making my omelette for a good breakfast. Onward and downward!

Day 18: Gloucestershire, UK: Yet another NFD….the wagon long left me behind, I’m afraid.

Day 18, USA, Missouri Ozarks, FD

Hello all, still in maintenance under goal weight. Posting that because I want to encourage others that once you are able to lose the weight down to a number range that you are comfortable with, it truly is easy to stay there with moderate exercise and not too crazy (but a little crazy at times ) eating on a few days a week. The other days can become more like 800 calories or something, in my case, without the number increasing much. So freeing yet still surprising to step on the scale and expect to have somehow left the maintenance zone – probably from all the years of losing ten pounds, gaining twelve. We’ve all been there.

Wide awake at 2 or 3 o’clock the last couple of nights, rare as I normally sleep so well. A little detective work and I think I figured it out. I ran out of my turmeric complex pills last week, figured I would get some somewhere but didn’t. While ordering some this morning, I read how beneficial they are to good sleeping patterns. I had no idea that was one of the side effects – I take them mainly for joint inflammation, they truly, truly do help me in that regard. Guess they were helping me sleep as well. I also take magnesium but have still been taking it.

Love learning new things about the health and fitness world.

To your health – and fitness – all. I love to exercise and consider it a treat not a chore so I am certain that plays a big part in my success. My saving grace, I suppose.

Day 18, Switzerland, FD
Easter was lovely but I’m really feeling the indulgence in sugar over the last few days. I’m 19 hours in my FD and I have been struggling with some pretty serious hunger pangs. I thought I had those well under control, but the sugar seems to have wreaked a bit of havoc with my system. Please let it be short lived havoc!!

Thanks whoever added me to the pocketeers. I do appreciate it and just can’t do it from my device.

@lindasue, thank you. It is nice to feel there is some hope for maintenance.

2nd post

Thanks @at for adding me to the pocketeers – I must admit I was a bit confused this morning. My FD today has ended up at 800 cals – completely misjudged dinner until after I had consumed it. Very tasty though.

Just checking in to check out for a while. Thanks @okeydokey for all the work you are doing but please count me out for a while. Life has become all too real for me lately (a former student died ten days ago at the age of 24 and then my father in law passed away suddenly of a heart attack just three hours before we were supposed to visit him for Easter dinner).

I will continue 5:2 on my own but I don’t have the desire to continue logging in every day. Not for now. I may come back in a month or two.

Continue to support each other in the wonderful way that you do. Take care of yourselves and enjoy every moment that you have.

Sending you my love, Orpheusx (Daniel B)

U.K. Evesham Day 17 227lb down 1lb

Day 10-17 2xFD a couple of mindful days,then…. birthday…brownies choc strawbs,couple of meals out lager wine and General rubbish and no bike all week, so, deffo can’t complain at losing a lb, mayhap things will “catch up” with me this week but fingers x’d back on a better track than last week

Thanks for all the work @okeydokey

Good luck with your week folks X

Day 18 – East Coast Canada – NFD
Day 17 – FD
Day 16 – NFD
Day 15 – NFD
Day 14 – NFD
Day 13 – NFD
Day 12 – NFD
Boy, I’ve missed a lot – the sun came out, the air warmed up and I donned my running shoes (I am not fooled by the weather though!). My running buddy has decided to join me in this WOE 🙂 she keeps remarking on how much sense this makes and how uncomplicated it seems. I am glad to be back on-line with this great group!