USA, Texas, Day 21.
Yesterday ate healthy food, but too much and too late. Scale add up 0.4 lb to my morning weight. Such a disappointment. Fasting today.

ETJ,
I am enjoying your farm stories! I am a city girl, and the closest to the farm I was when I took horseback riding lesson (which I could afford only after 45 ). But I really enjoy cleaning the horses and riding them every Saturday for about 4 months (it was 5 years ago).
Sometimes a city girl could get very muddy. Some days ago we have a heavy rain, and since I live in a new area with a lot of house lots still empty. I did not noticed that some dirt covered the asphalt during my morning walk with my dog (at 5 am is still dark), and slipped on that dirt. Oh, my, I was covered with the thick dirt on all my right side. I have to go to my house from backyard and wash myself outside for a while, before entering the house. My dog laughed at me hard. My husband also looked concern when he saw me in the morning all dripping and dirty. 😀

Thank you for your stories!

Austin in Ohio – Day 21. 16:8

Hi all! Still really happy with my vacation week at the lake, my food choices and my modified 16 hour fasts.

This am I woke up and walked one of “america’s most beautiful mile”s…my son told me its listed as that somewhere in some book he has in his brain. I’ve got in my 10,000 steps for three days straight! Woohoo!

Day 21 Cotswolds, UK: Non-fast day. Another. I DO plan a fast day tomorrow when I need to travel to Wales for a few hours with my hubby to sort some things out. A few hours away from the fridge? I daren’t weigh myself. I’ve felt a bit stressed lately….which is my downfall. I’m a comfort eater, and once I start….well, you know I’m sure…

Day 21 USA (Illinois)

NFD today. Yesterday’s FD went well being gone a lot. Did a little shopping only to discover SHOE size is effected by my weight loss! Rings have been looser, and now shoes. I have been a 9 1/2 forever only to try on a couple and find a 9 fits me much better. Go figure…

A friend of mine says our body fat is like garbage bags, they are either full or empty (or somewhere in between). So, folks, we are taking out the trash!

I am glad (sort of) that I am not the only one who is tempted to snack on popcorn. We have a very local factory that makes potato chips, pretzels, cheese popcorn, and caramel corn. They won’t sell it in Walgreens any more due to it not having the nutrition label with calories, etc. Of course, that kind is my absolute favorite. Who knows how many calories I am eating? Mrs. Mike’s. Even their website doesn’t give nutrition info.

Day 21 – USA – NFD

Had a successful FD yesterday. I hope to be down another lb on Saturday! I’m doing ok today, though snacking more than I should. I can now see why I could never lose weight eating so many snacks. It really adds up! I need to try to stick to 3 meals on NFD.

I hope everyone has easy FDs and NFDs!

Dorset UK Day 21
FD

Managed to get to 7pm without eating anything and not feeling particularly hungry so have turned it into a fluid only day which will give me a 36hr fast, my first in a while.

Weigh in tomorrow and quite nervous as my weight was up this morning, so lets hope the fast will take me down to a number that means I haven’t gained from last Friday!

Kay

US SE Day 21.. NFD. All well here. FD tomorrow hopefully.

Italy Day 21 – NFD

Lovely Day and dinner out but made it within my TDEE.
Buona notte

Australia – Day 22 – 8 days to go of this challenge?

An eating day today. And a 1kg loss for this week! It’s raining again today.

Coldpizza – That is so funny. I love cleaning and feeding the horses too. I don’t think I could have ridden when I was at my heaviest. It would have been way too uncomfortable. And I have no idea how I would have gotten myself onto her.
Songbirdme – That’s a good way of looking at it. We can dispose of the waste/fat. And I have definitely lost weight on my feet. I have had to change my rings around on my fingers so that I keep them on. I only resized them at the end of last year, but have lost 23 kilos now.

HannahWatto – Wow, what a fantastic loss! It’s sometimes the non fast days that test us the most!

Starting weight of challenge: 77.8 Weekly Loss: 1kg Current weight: 74.6kg Total loss of challenge: 3.2kg Goal for challenge: 75kg

Croatia, Day 22, FD
Weight: 80.5 Kg

Sunshine Coast Aus Day 22. FD today. Have had some bits and pieces which is not how I usually manage an FD but will come in under the 500cals I think.
Ciren2: comfort eating is such a trap. One starts and then becomes a flavour chaser. Then insulin gets us by the throat and look out food. A chant I’ve been taught goes Not hungry, thirsty, drink more water, drink more water, drink more water. It can work. Good luck with your FD.

Coldpizza, love the picture you painted. My walk by the river this morning with my friend was beautiful. It’s a summer’s day here today in the middle of winter.

ETJ: The gravel works a treat. My 4 th daughter was being married at home. It had been raining for weeks. The marquee was out the front of the house and the ground was a quagmire. I ordered a truckload of gravel which we spread. Deadly for high heels. That was 4 years ago and it is still a godsend.
Slim: Biscotti beats chocolate candy. Who does that? A desperate person? lol.

All the best for another day and the challenge is going well.

Scotland Day 22 FD sorry forgot day 21! No weight loss this week. Had 3xFD and 3 x bad days! It’s been a stressful week so have to try and do better for the final week. Going to miss my target I fear but hey ho it’s only a couple of pounds and I tend to get stuck around this point trying to get the right side of 9st! Will likely be down tomorrow but as soon as I have even a semi normal day it’s back up.

The Netherlands – Day 22 (non-fast day)

Checking in.

Northern Spain day 22
Good morning everyone.
Today is a fast day.
Had a very good day yesterday. Didn’t go completely mad but just didn’t stress about what where and when I ate.
I have spent the month walking and doing pilates so I reckon everything caught up with me. I needed a break and I took it
Now Im grand again.
I have definitely lost weight and my shape seems more pronounced. The combination of diet and exercise has been very effective.
Congratulations ETJ on your loss – well done
Have a great day everyone
Cheers

Day 22– Colorado, USA

Wonderful reading everyone’s success! Keep it coming, ladies!
(I just started that TOM yesterday, so I won’t step on scales until after that’s done. Plenty of time for progress toward final weigh in.)

Plan to skip breakfast then going out for “late lunch” after work with friends. The restaurant has terrific chopped salad with grilled chicken, so already know my meals. Staying in control!

USA, Texas, Day 22. NFD.
Yesterday’s fast was absolute success. It is almost 8 am, and I still did not break the fast. it will be more than 36 hours. As a result – the scale was happy today, and it makes me happy.
So this is another happy day! And there is a cherry on top – my both girls are coming to visit! So instead of just two of us, there is my mom, my two girls and one girl’s boyfriend. Full house for a few days. I am so excited, but a little bit nervous: we have a tradition, that every time when my oldest daughter is visiting we are buying a cheesecake, and every time when my youngest daughter visiting – there is a pecan pie. When both are visiting – we are having both cakes. I simply cannot break that tradition but I have to figure out how to limit myself to two small slices of the both treats.

SlimnHealthy, I am positively jealous! Your vacation sounds so lovely and beautiful. Enjoy!

Micky42 – Don’t worry too much about plateau. I am on that diet from January, and for me somehow it works as a yo-yo diet. It yo-yo-ing around the same number for a while (sometimes up to 2-3 weeks), and then I have sudden good drop. Than another couple of week yo-yo-ing around lower number. At first I got frustrated, but now I know that my body works this way. We can do it! Just stick to the fasting pattern. 😀

Kay65 – welcome to the 36-hour-fasting world! For me it really works the best. The hardest part is to stay away at evening on the fast day. I try to remember that if I got into bed still without food, than the body is using all my fat for additional 8 hours. It helps. Good luck on your losing journey!

Surrey UK Day 22…….Since the last weigh in, I have dropped 1.2 kg. It is very motivating and almost every time I think there can’t possibly be a weight loss, because I don’t feel as if there are any restrictions. It is due to the choices made each time.
In the middle of this last week I had such a desire for condensed milk…my nemesis…so I never buy it. But my daughter had tins in the cupboard! I actually opened one, had two tablespoons, and asked myself what did I think I was doing? So I washed the rest of the tin down the drain…oh boy! What’s more, I am not undoing all the work gone in up to this point, so won’t go near the other two tins.

Day 21: Pacific NW USA, FD

FD with grandsons. Sunny, 2 mile HIT hill walk then coffee with cream. For dinner out I had roasted pear salad and steamed harissa spiced mussels. That put me at about 800 cal so I’m over allowance but it was delicious! Video with oldest g’son and so stayed up too late and just found this unposted on my iPad laying in the bed beside me. I guess I wanted to dream the rest of my message to finish!

Will try another FD today with hope that staying in will make it easier (but not necessarily easy) before next to last weights and measures of this challenge tomorrow.

Day 22: Gloucestershire UK: Fast Day. So far so good. Hanging on in there. Just been to Wales and back….no food, while dear husband bought and ate a giant chicken and salad roll whilst there.
Fuvvie: drinking water, water, water…thanks for that. Staying strong. No comfort eating, one thing leads to another…
Good luck all fasters today.

Dorset UK Day 22
NFD

Weigh in day – no loss this week! Now bearing in mind at one point I was 3 up I think that no loss is an achievement!

However 2.5lbs off my goal for the challenge and I have to weigh in on Thursday as I’m away on Friday without scales. I’m not sure if I will manage that as can only fit in 2 fast days before then…Sunday and Wednesday and tomorrow is festival day and no calorie counting.
Never mind I’ll do what I can and at least this way I’m happy as I’m losing weight but also doing the social stuff that I want to do 🙂

Well done everyone who has weighed in today and who is happy with the scales.

Last push everyone!!

Kay

Good Luck Ciren2. Yes, you can do it!

Another warning for 36-hour-or-more fasters – do not over eat after the fast.
I find out that cup or two of hot broth with sea weeds, or miso soup, or any kind of food with hot liquid in it helps to keep me full and satisfied. If I chose to have eggs in the morning, they are followed up with one or two cups of hot coffee or tea.
Oatmeal also works well – I am making it very liquidish and hot. Plain yogurt with cucumber also works wonders for me and great for digestion.

From my experience – if I eat normal cereal for breakfast, I don’t feel satisfied for long and tend overeat later.

But take my words only as “sharing experience”, not as a direction, since all of our bodies are so wonderfully different, what does not work for me, might work perfectly well for you. Good luck to find your perfect way of losing! 😀

Day 22, India, NFD

Went to mom’s so might have gone over my TDEE. Will be more mindful for next 2 days which will be NFD.

Day 22 Los Angeles.
K-Lo I’m sending my good thoughts to you and your people.
Coldpizza, thanks for the buck-up. I am generally patient but sometimes the yo-yoing gets annoying, doesn’t it? 😉
Today is a NFD but I’m gonna try to keep it very well under my goal TDEE – the scales moved a bit in the right direction this morning after yesterday’s FD and 10,000+ steps– gotta capitalize on that!