Day 27 – Cumbria UK – NFD

Had a good FD yesterday only drank water and tea with a dash of skimmed milk – broke my fast at 1130hrs today with a pot of tea and a small slice of blueberry and lemon cake after a 4 mile walk – my first walk of any significance since my knee injury!!!! Felt good to be out on this glorious cold but sunny winter’s day -2.5degrees when we set off but a balmy 3 degrees on our return!

Weight this morning was 800gms below my ideal weight – very happy to be maintaining since beginning of December with no blips!

@august2024 – love your idea of “developing new “small” habits in my life around movement and exercise.”
@coda – hope your dad continues to do well – outcome sounds good from what you said but it is always worrying – hugs
@elsacotton – hope whatever bug you got does not linger too long – take care of yourself
@jarbia – sounds like your sister has got her life sussed – make the most of everyday xx I’m with you regarding La La Land……
@bert1802 – stay strong and well done on the smaller trousers!
@dykask – amazing journey you have been on – 30% to 19% body fat in one year – well done
@fuvvie – I’m like you – don’t like being in the house on my own at night – always feels strange – I would have unplugged the TV too…….
@arvandee – saw about the plane crash in the papers here – sad event to be linked with the celebrations for that family
@back2thefuture – that quote from the dietician, Carrie Dennett you found in the Washington Post is so true – we should keep that with us!
@happymargo – thank you – looking forward to our night out – the food in that restaurant is brilliant! You stay strong – you will do it!
@lilymartin – lovely to have such a supportive husband – mine is very fit and slim – he is a fell runner but he totally gets what I’m doing as he has seen the changes in me, both mentally and physically and supports my lifestyle.
@cboz – brilliant match – I did not know who I wanted to win most but well done to Nadal – should be an epic final on Sunday – both men seem to have a new lease in tennis life!
@blueninjamum – well done – great motivator for you

Thinking of all the B2B people and anyone on their FDs – hope all is going well wherever you are in the world.

Cannot believe that we only have 4 more days until the end of this month……………Thank you for supporting us over this January @fuvvie

Day 27 Canada FD
Hi there. I start every morning reviewing this thread and it is great. I am coming to the end of my first month on this plan. I must say that it has not been without its ups and downs (on my part), but overall I have done really well. Thank you fellow January 2017 Challenge people. I also review one other thread on a daily basis. It is a thread that has a more specific focus and it too is great. Double whammy. Thank you all.

Day 27 Belfast NFD
definitely not a CD! Staying in a nice hotel so 50 lengths of the pool, had lovely breakfast of fruit, yoghurt … then couldn’t resist a croissant. Thought that it would do me till my evening meal, but had a latte and a bun. Ah well……
@coda I. Sorry to hear the news about your dad, but hopefully the operation will sort it all out. Keep positive and sending you hugs
@jarbia what a lovely story about your sister and how positive.
@Arvander that was a terribly tragedy. Thoughts and prayers to all the victims
@ Jarbia I saw La la Land too and felt the same. It certainly didn’t live up to the hype
@pamelav I identified totally with the creeping weight gain and found your loss inspirational
@ Blueninjamum Congratulations!
Reading ‘The Case Against Sugar in a spare moment, which will bring me down to earth with a bump.
Eating out tonight and tomorrow for lunch so will have to try and keep a lid on it all but am not counting calories at all. Will start afresh on Sunday.

Day 27. Québec. NFD

Bisous means kisses with a friendly touch to it.

Great news this morning, I broke my 130 pounds plateau. That’s a VERY good news because I am invited tonight and tomorrow night to celebrate my birthday ( January 31 ). Monday’s CD will just help a bit to get through my real Birthday on Thuesday. So I can foresee my week as ups and downs concerning for my weight. That’s OK with me since it’s for a good cause. LOL

Gros bisous à vous xoxoxo
Hugs and kisses to you xoxoxo

Day 27 : Cheshire, UK : NFD

Just herbal tea and water until I broke my fast at 5.30 pm today. I’m pleased that I started fasting from 10pm Tuesday evening until 5.30 pm today with one meal of less than 500 cals. I was fantasising about my meal last night and nearly caved in. God only knows, how I lasted on liquids until 5.30 pm but I suppose I wasn’t really hungry. I was last night. I thought I would devour everything in sight tonight but I didn’t. Ate under my TDEE. Must watch out for tomorrow cos I’m dreaming of breakfast 🙂

Thank you my fellow pocket fasters and well done.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Day 27 cornwall UK NFD

Just a quick checkin, carb heavy day and feeling it, not at all what I’d planned.

I’ll fast til evening meal tomorrow.

have a good weekend.

Day 27 / Sweden / NFD

Day 27 28 29 NFD NZ
Went out for morning tea with friends and dinner for Mothers birthday yesterday. I’m sure it must have been over TDEE but haven’t added it up.
Today’s a new day so moving forward with good intentions. I plan to do a 16:8 today, breaking my short fast after 2.30pm when I catch up with another friend for coffee and this time will be ONLY black coffee. Technically this doesn’t break my fast but I don’t want to risk a calorie blowout two days in a row so I’m going to have one meal today like a FD but not restricted to under 500cals.
Like others have mentioned I’m going to commit to 4:3 for the next two weeks before taking four days away with MOTH celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary in the third week. In 15years we have only been away from our kids one other time for more than a weekend so it will be lovely to have an extended time for ourselves.
I’d like to find a little ‘woosh’ before we go away just for a tiny body image boost for me, I have zero doubts about the fact he loves me just as I am but my own confidence could use a little whoosh.

Mamacat -I am anxious to hear how you did with your snowboarding? I’ve ever only skied, but I remember very well when boarders started showing up on the mountains about 30 years ago. It sure seemed to me that they spent a LOT of time sitting on snow. Maybe there are better teachers now?

I still love to ski, and feel ever so much better on skis after having lost this weight. Where did you go with your son?

Day 28 FD Country West Australia
Shouldn’t be too hard to stick to mainly fluids as forecast 37C here today following 32C yesterday and 39C the day before. It’s pretty hot.
Crunched yesterday’s numbers and very pleased to see only 50 calories over TDEE including 1 glass of wine and 1 Lindt ball .
I can now stop at one whereas I used to have 1…2..3…. well they ARE so little! ( but 80 calories each according to MFP)
Despite FDs and a b2b looks like I will end January exactly the same as I started due to scales bouncing up and down. Not a complaint just a fact.
Up for February’s challenge.

Day 27/Midwest USA/ NFD

ongrats to all. we are sticking to our plans(and sometimes not). Whether we are exploring this WOL or totally committed, we stayed with it for each other. That’s a win!

Fuvvie – you are truly wonderful – thank you for spreadsheet!

Day 28 – Tokyo Japan – NFD – 77.9 kg

Yesterday the fast day was a little edgy but I made it through. I had a hard time sleeping. Anyway I’ll have a 10 day break from full day fasting now as I have too many things going on. I have to catch a plane in a few hours.

@songbirdme we ended up just skiing because they didn’t have a snowboarding teacher there today to give him lessons. As a first timer, I would prefer him learn some tips before tackling the mountain, so he didn’t have to spend most his time sitting..haha! There’s a ski area here called Mt Lemon, its the southern most ski resort in the USA and about 50min drive from my house. It’s neat to watch the transition between saguaro cactuses to large forest trees while driving up there. We survived the day, I’m sore but alive. My son did great!! Proud mom moment. Aside from that, I ate like poop today. 2 fast food meals and I feel disgusting. All liquid fast day for me tomorrow as I’ll spend 12 hours at my work desk. Ugh!

Day 27. I think I have missed posting a couple of days. I have been running around with my kids’ activities. I have had several non fast days that were not perfect but pretty good. I am certainly feeling better and my clothes are looser.

Day 28 – Brisbane, Aus – NFD

Hope everyone is having a great day… wine, cheese and roast chicken is the theme of my NFD today, I suspect tomorrow’s theme may be fruit, vegetables (and probably chicken again).

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‘Mad dogs and Englishmen and West Aussies doing 5:2 go out in the midday sun’.
Trying to keep FD under control decided to burn a few calories whilst getting the garden under control.
It is HOT !!! 37C forecast and feels hotter.
Came in for lunch at 1.15 pm and still perspiring 2 hours later so must be doing something.
At least with all the hydration (just cold water) it keeps the kidneys functioning well.
Did eat a very small lunch as had an unexpected visitor and made zucchini slice with chickpea flour – yum.
Waiting until it cools down a bit before venturing out again.
Weeds are like calories – pesky things that crop up in the most unexpected places.

Day 28Cornwall UK CD

Weighted this morning 145.9, feeling really dispirited! So no loss this month! UGH!! GRRR!!!

I know today is another day and trying to be positive!
The positive me says at least you are maintaining around 146!
But thats NOT where I need to be!
I’m not making any excuses!
I do know what to do to reign in, get back to to basics and MFP to log calories and plan plan plan!!

Well done to all of you who have success and those who are struggling. Have a good weekend.

@goldensun very well done you! Great willpower!
@lany36 enjoy your weekend when it comes. My children were 14 and 12 when we had our first weekend together and we spent all weekend wondering about them!
@fuvvie thank you again for your hard work. I go to a book club once a month but we only have tea/coffee and bikkies. Yours sounds much more sophisticated!
@arvandee great inspiring words. Thank you
@mamacat how I wish we had snow! I would have loved to ski/snowboard but have resigned myself to having an unfulfilled goal due to my bad back. Lucky you!
@Biddie thank you for the link
Well done to all the losers and lots of support to all of you who are struggling.

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https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/28-day-february-2017-challenge/

Hi guys, I’ve set up the new challenge, sign up by the 1st of Feb and away we go. Will be good to see u all again.

Was wondering whether I should add aka Pocketeers group but wasn’t sure if that would make new people think they couldn’t join. Any views? Maybe the next person can add that if we want.

So our last few days of Jan after my disastrous day yesterday that I told you all about I’m gonna make it a good few final days.

Have a good day all x

Day 28. Sussex U.K
NFD

Day 28- Sydney – FD
Today was a very reluctant fast day and makes this week a 4:3. I started off by coaxing myself to wait til after the gym to eat breakfast, then pushed it til after work. Even made it til after an afternoon at the beach (where I got nice and burnt and dehydrated) before having a meal (delicious bun-less burger). Then spent the afternoon wishing I had a supply of chocolate and sugar at home. Used some cals from the run I did at the gym to satisfy that urge with a bon bon coffee (sweetened condense milk) and miso to keep me full til bed time.
Been a struggle, but I made it. Hurrah!

Day 28, Australia NFD

I have been thinking about what @bert (can’t remember the numbers and you’re not on this page now! ) said a few days ago now I think about your discussion with your OH about how this WOL is about the continued imperfect journey. (Not a good summary sorry.) But have been thinking today about that and about how true that is. I think part of me thinks one day I will have this down to an art form, eating exactly the right thing at the right times, but I will almost certainly have days when I go off the rails and regret it, and days when I go off the rails and just enjoy it! Hopefully these will be interspersed with many CD’s and fd’s and the exercise I am working so hard to make a regular part of my life rather than a 12 week goal being completed then slacking for however long then starting again. I feel that I have made so much progress, but from what you were saying Bert, or your OH was saying, it’s all part of the journey or WOL and it may always be and that’s okay. If I’m not doing this perfectly all the time I’m still getting there, I’m just not perfect, but I have realised that before!! Thank you for sharing your discussion, I really appreciate your point of view, I appreciate all the lovely support for everyone on here and the wonderful resource everyone is for everyone else on here as we are all trying to do the same thing, it is such a wonderful help for each of us.
Keep it up everyone and have faith in yourselves and the 5:2 WOL, we can all get to our goals, especially with all this fantastic support!

Lovely and sunny London | Day 28 | NFD

Feel good after the b2b fast. Though today is strictly an NFD, I haven’t eaten anything since bone broth and cashew nuts last night.
Felt hungry as I woke up this morning but decided to do some revision to get my mind off food – now it’s lunch time and I feel fine still 🙂

The scales were kind this morning – 63kg: exactly 1kg down since the beginning of the January challenge. Considering it’s been a tough month, I’m glad it’s gone the right way, i.e. DOWN! Not only that, I’m in the ‘healthy’ BMI range (<25 kg/m2) now with 24.6 kg/m2 – that made my day. Saying that, as a South Asian my healthy BMI cut off is lower (<23 kg/m2), so a little further to go.

I saw the Feb challenge thread has already started. I’m going to take a break from committing to a challenge until after my exam (April 19th), but will check in and post occasionally to keep in touch and also to keep my self motivated because I will still be continuing with this WOL for sure.