Day 5, NFD, Aus

I had to do some online banking which was the perfect excuse to jump on here for accountability!

Cooking a roast tonight for a dear friend who just lost her mother after a long illness. It will be a sorrowful evening I fear.

Day 5 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 🌤

@stitchincarol – congrats on the number!🎯 I hope you enjoyed the restaurant; but – ‘Plank’? Seems like an odd name for a restaurant? 😅 Sending you RESOLVE for your Saturday FD 💪

@lilymartin – yes, I think I’ve got the FDs nailed down, though they will never be my favourite days of the week. It’s been a long time since I did B2B FDs though. I might do an occasional 3rd FD, maybe on a Tuesday. I’ve gotten used to the ton of food that appears at the mosaic class, but this week I was surprised when someone produced a large container of what looked like small Eccles Cakes at the line-dancing?! 😂 The line-dancing is only an hour long, but we usually have a brief 5 minute break midway, because most of the gang are in their 70’s & even early 80’s. But I never expected to see someone passing around snacks, & I hope it doesn’t become a regular thing.

@daffodil2010 – Yes, Boo Boo is still a furry little diva. Sadly her nemesis Popsie succumbed to kidney failure just 3 days before Christmas, so Boo Boo is happily ruling this end of the village. I also wonder how @flourbaby – & Bo-Bo – are doing. @flourbaby disappeared around mid-November after mentioning problems related to her job. Hopefully she’ll be back soon too! 🤞

It’s a lovely, sunny 22 C today, but the mornings & evenings are noticeably cooler. Winter is on the way…

Have a good weekend everyone 🌤 🌈

Pocket List – Day 5 🐟
@stitchincarol

Day 5 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 239 lbs. Looks like I’m trending 2 lbs down from my post-vacation weigh-ins last week, so that’s good. Unfortunately, I’m up 10 lbs from over last year. Except for Easter, going to really push for getting the weight down this month.

Day 6, NFD, Aus

A very lovely evening reminiscing with my friend last night.

Looking fwd to re-set FD tomorrow.

Day 6 UK NFD

Last day of my relaxed time , back on f800s tomorrow 💪

I had to check my steps as I usually have it set to miles , not quite there with you @iona72 but the last 4 days I’ve done in between 15- 20k steps a day, I somehow think won’t be enough to compensate for hotel breakfasts and fish and chips

Day 6 country West Australia NFD
Why oh why do I sometimes think my Fast day has an ‘e’ before the ‘a’??? 🙄🙄
Anyway, the weekend has been full of visiting/visitors; morning tea out; leftover quiche for lunch so just scrambled eggs on toast fro dinner.
@icystorm, A CD and a FD sounds like you are doing very well with living 5:2.
The thing that does me in is anything beginning with f, has ‘oo’ in the middle and ends with ‘d’.😲😲Seriously, can a person eat just one salted cashew or peanut? And cheese !! Yum!! and sandwiches and bread/toast; and ….yada yada yada. You get the drift.
Hence I need to be on this thread and do 5:2 sensibly as you are doing.
It is so easy to think one is doing 5:2 but unless I actually DO fast on a FD then I can’t really say I m doing 5:2 and that was the problem with me for some time!!
Despite visitors tomorrow and 2 lots of visitors Tuesday I plan to do a FD tomorrow and make a salad from Otto Lenghi’s yellow book. I love his recipes. 😍
@Excelsioor12309, good luck with the FD on your ‘vacation’. I am with you in the bread department.😬
Some bakers make the best bread. I do make bread in the bread maker quite often but have been very busy lately.
And the smell of freshly baked bread is not so good for my ‘won’t power’!
@brightonbelle, I am seriously impressed with the number of steps you are doing at present. It should go close to offsetting the fish and chips and hotel breakfasts !
@funshipfreddie, like you I have to not buy foods that tempt me because if they are in the house they don’t stay there for long!
But I am feeling extremely virtuous as I cleaned out my freezer today and didn’t find too many UFOs (unidentified freezer/fridge objects).😁
@penz, I am sure the evening reminiscing with your friend was very good for her. I am cooking a roast for visitors tomorrow but will serve it with a salad so it doesn’t get too much out of control.
I don’t think you can beat a roast.
@merryapple I loved the vision of your being like a salmon swimming upstream with all those youngsters!
I’m glad you enjoyed your evening with your art family – it sounded like fun.
How busy you are! How is the sewing up of the jumper going? I always loved knitting but sewing up garments – not my favourite pastime.
I tried to knit the most beautiful dress for a granddaughter aged 18 months. It looked gorgeous in the pattern and I am a reasonable knitter but with this particular pattern, no matter how carefully I followed it , the holes which were supposed to be there in columns always ended up on a slowly ascending diagonal. I pulled it out so many times the wool started to look very manky so I gave up in the end !
@northgeorgia we are here to hitch you to our wagon and assist you with Astro and Amazing and Accountable and Awesome April so you will get rid of a few of the pesky kilos.
I have been trying to lose the same 3 kgs for a year!!😱😱
@ccco, congratulations on yesterday’s FD. One has to live a little and a nice glass of wine can be a thing of great joy. 🍸
Happy Sunday everyone.

Day 6 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Had to race out the door yesterday morning for an early meeting at church, where I knew there’d be food. Then I had to leave early so I could get to a family baby shower, where I knew there’d be more food. I wasn’t thinking clearly when I announced Saturday would be a FD, LOL! I skipped the food at the meeting, and ate very reasonably at the baby shower, and then cooked a healthy supper, and didn’t nibble until we ate, so was proud of that. And on Friday, I managed to make it an OMAD to compensate for the calories of going out to eat, so I’m up only 2lbs from my Friday morning post-WFD weight. That amount is to be expected, I’ve learned, and I’m pleased with the good choices I made on Friday and Saturday.

Today will be the challenge, as we’ll be home all day, but I’m working on a strategy to keep me busy and out of the kitchen today, and I’m hopefull that I’ll find enough RESOLVE to follow through on my intentions.

My paperwork is nearly done, then I’ll start the process of filling out tax forms (TurboTax, for those of you who know this American stuff), and then I’ll be able to breathe better.

Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 6, second post

@funshipfreddie Yeah, I have also wondered at the name…”Plank” as in what pirates make you walk????

Here’s a fun detail from our dinner out. We each had 6 oysters on the half shell, and an appetizer of fried oysters in a lettuce wrap, and then my meal was the lobster and shrimp roll; I figured at $35 I would NEVER ordinarily order it, so at the half price special we were enjoying, it was the time to do so (and it was every bit as glorious as the reviews said it was). And, to be as noble as possible, even though I suspected Plank’s fries (chips) were excellent, I ordered the salad to go with my sandwich. “But,” I whimpered, “can I please have ONE fry??” Our waiter was truly taken aback by such a request and struggled to find something reasonable to say.

But he came through for me, because another order came up at the same time, and they’d ordered fries, so he took one rather small fry and put it on my plate! 😂😂😂❤️ So I had half and shared the other half with DH, and it was just as good as I’d figured it would be, but I got to be virtuous by having only the one small bite, LOL!

Day 6 – Wales – NFD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽‍♀️ 🌾

Late check in.

Fabulous times being had, quality catch ups with friends – lots of emotion and fun and good food and great hiking and the most amazing weather.

Swam today- it was cool, as in very cold 🥶🤗 but great.

Hope everyone is ok 💕

Slán!

Onward and downward ⬇️

We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 7 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 71.1 kg

Monday morning PFDS 😇 But my Chromebook is kapputt 😓 and I can’t even blame my cat this time. I don’t think it’s anything terminal, but I’ll still probably have to pay a small fortune to get it fixed. I’m off to find out. Typing on my phone is not my favourite pastime.

RESOLVE to today’s pocket List people 💪

Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
Merry🍎
Molij
Anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia

Day 7-No. VA USA-FD 800
I had a successful FD yesterday, so I will try for a repeat today. I find the 800 calorie reset for a week is not hard for me. Provided I dodge bread, sweets, etc !
@lilymartin, thank you for the support. I like the expression “won’t power”. It seems to be stronger than “will power” at times!
@merryapple, I am distressed for you regarding the ants. EWWWW. You are very brave, I would be in a hotel at this point, waiting for the exterminator!
@stitchincarol, loved the single fry moment!
@ccco, I wish we could all see your lovely renovation when it is completed.
@northgeorgia, hang in there; “baby steps” will carry us forward to the goal. Or carry us downwards, perhaps.
@funshipfreddie, good luck with your technology problem. Too frustrating.

2nd Post – Day 7

Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle FD800
@excelsior12309 FD800

USA. Day 7. FD

Wow, Merryapple! Ants in your ceiling! That definitely would have horrified me! Good luck with your ant removal. It sounds like you might need a professional pest removal service.

Jaifaim, I am glad you are having such a wonderful time! 👍🏻

FUNSHIPFREDDIE, I am sorry about your Chromebook. Last year, I had problems with my Mac. Among other things, it could no longer update, so had become vulnerable to hackers and scammers. I took it to Best Buy, where I belong to a special Geek Squad program, so they were able to force an update. That worked but I was told I really needed to buy a new computer. I had to change all my passwords to get the hackers and scammers out of my computer. Cleaning that mess up took months but I succeeded. I didn’t want to buy a new computer when I was about to do all those renovations. I was lucky I didn’t have to pay anything for the repair work thanks to the program I belong to. Maybe I wil get a new one after this tariff situation is resolved. 5 Million people marched yesterday, with my sister and her husband among them in D.C.

Excelsior12309, thank you. It’s all done and I wish I could share it, too. It really puts a smile on my face.

NorthGeorgia, I agree with you about controlled OMADs. I think they are helpful, too.

Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle FD800
@excelsior12309
@ccco

Yesterday went well, even though I had some white wine. I only do that on weekends but I am joining the pocket list for some encouragement. Since spring has sprung, I am very busy gardening, which keeps me very busy and my mind off food!

Hope everyone is having a lovely day. It’s raining here but we need that!🤗

Day 7 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Weighed 2oz less than yesterday morning, so am thrilled at the restraint that indicates for yesterday. Haven’t figured out today’s menu, but it should be easy enough to well-behaved.

Slowly, slowly, s.l.o.w.l.y. all my paperwork is getting completed, but DH just found some receipts this morning that we need to include…LOL, it just never ends! I keep assuring myself that, eventually, my days will be boring. Boring looks excellent at the moment! 😏😂

@merryapple EWWWW!!! Good luck that your spraying solved the problem!

@funshipfreddie UGH!!! I hope there’s a fast and cheap solution for you as well, both because you need it, and also because posting on my phone is abhorant to me as well!!!

Okay, back to all my paperwork. The garden is calling me, but both because I have taxes/paperwork, and because it’s only a bit above freezing, I’m ignoring the call, but that will be my reward soon, that I get to go play in the dirt for a bit!

Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 8 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

I am happily in the new lower decade of weight, saw it there Saturday, the usual weekend blip, but back down today. And it’s only Tuesday. Yay!

Have to catch up on everyone’s post and will do so at lunchtime. Stuck WFH as my car needs to be fixed and I cannot drive any of the motorbikes we have so I am without transport 😆

Fab sunny weather we have. Hoping you have a great holiday in the UK @jaifaim. Will catch up with ye all later today

Pocket list day 8 ☘

@daffodil2010

Day 8 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 238 lbs. Not so successful yesterday. By the time I was heading home, I had the beginning of a fasting headache. Within ten minutes of driving, it was pounding, I was feeling nauseous and a little dizzy. Too bad my emergency “kit” was back in the office. I tried some cucumber with salt and a bit of vinegar — nope. I gave in and broke fast with saltines. I drank water and took a Tylenol. I still ate very lightly, but probably went above 800, not sure, with the carrots, small turkey wrap and crackers I ate later that evening.

It was an odd reaction, but then I remembered I got the 2nd Shringix vaccine on Saturday afternoon, and I have heard that some people feel nauseous a few days later. I thought other than soreness, I had survived. But I guess the fasting strengthened the side effect that I hadn’t noticed. Still, I was down two pounds, and I’m feeling better this morning.

Day 8 – Rural Nebraska, USA – WFD

I went to bed only a little over a pound heavier than I’d started the day, so I was pleased to anticipate this morning’s weight. But, like @merryapple, I was astonished at my weight–only 2 ounces down from last night! I typically lose two or three POUNDS overnight. So, who knows, but today’s WF will certainly dispatch some of it.

@daffodil2010 Wow, you are not only back in fact, but you’re back in success; well done to be steadily losing from the get-go!!

@merryapple Tell more of that mohair sweater; did you knit it and not mention it until done and ready to sew up?

@northgeorgia Bummer on the reaction, and glad you’re improved today.

@anicecupoftea EXCELLENT progress!

@funshipfreddie How odd to encounter silence from you; where are you??

Yesterday, I finally got my “Christmas stocking stuffer” from DH, and my car got detailed; I’m looking forward to driving to lessons today in such a clean car! The sad news is that all my paperwork came to a screeching halt yesterday because DH’s W-2 (this is familiar to the Americans) has wrong numbers on it, so the church treasurer is taking it to be fixed to the bookkeeping business that always fills it out. I’m disappointed because I would have come VERY close to finishing last night, but now I’m at the same point I was at noon. Oh well, a break is good, too, right? Or so I keep assuring myself! 😏

Have a grand one, everyone!

Pocket list day 8 ☘
@daffodil2010
@brightonbelle
@stitchincarol WFD

2nd post, day 8

Hi @stitchincarol – thanks for the tip, I got through it by drinking hot blackcurrant juice. I’ll get some sparkling water for next time. 18hrs seems to be “the wall”…

Day 9, SE England. NFD (CD)… 🍵

@merryapple – I just drink hot/cold drinks on FDs, if I ate anything, that would be the end, can’t imagine being able to stick to 500 or 800.

@daffodil2010 – I’ve never been on a motorbike, maybe it should go on a bucket list or something….

Anyone else get absolutely freezing cold on a FD? – thought I had covid again

Here’s to a good day all – ☺️

Day 9 – USA/GA – FD

Weigh-in: 241 lbs. Going to try another FD today. I have my emergency “kit” of nuts and a few wheat crackers at work, but I think I may take a few saltine crackers, too, just in case I have to alter or abort mission.

Pocket list Day 9 🎢
@brightonbelle
@northgeorgia

Day 9 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD – 153.4

Lovely scale number; with control today, Friday morning’s post-WF weight should be even slightly lovelier, so that’s motivating me to be truly disciplined today with my choices.

@merryapple What lots of fussing you had in order to sort out what was causing the issues with your sweater! Looking forward to the photo!

@daffodil2010 I have a similar story with bicycles (broke my arm when I fell biking on gravel when I was 11, got hit in the front wheel by a motorcycle when I was 14), and now I’ll only bike on a solid and hard surface, and people have to STAY AWAY from me, LOL. Which is to say, I have given up biking, as the stress is not comfortable!

@anicecupoftea Yup, FREEZING cold. It’s a great side-effect on hot summer days, but more miserable on cold days, so in addition to my sparkling water, I drink lots of herbal teas for the warmth. But they don’t help with the hunger the way the sparkling water does, so…

@brightonbelle Impressive RESOLVE that you’re sticking to 800 calories, despite the tiny glitch in yesterday’s consumption. 😏🥰💪

@northgeorgia Let’s hope for no ugly side-effects today!

@ccco Enjoy your golfing, lunch, and cocktail party tonight; sounds like a lovely day!

Two days without David; wherefore art thou, our friend???

Still mostly stuck, waiting for things from other people. I have a list of things to do, however, so should feel like I’ve accomplished something by tonight.

Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 10, NFD, Aus

Good FD yesterday but no extra weight loss for a few weeks. It’s the NFDs that are to blame! Well I am to blame really.

Congrats on the new weight decade, @daffodil2010. I once dated a motorbike … (the bloke that came with it was no good) – great fun but never had the urge to learn to ride myself. Glad you survived the experience!

I had to laugh about your one chip/fry request @stitchincarol. So glad they were able to fulfil your wish!

Yes, @anicecupoftea – feeling cold on a FD is quite common! Terrible in winter time when I just feel like stodgy winter food to combat it!

Families (both sides) are visiting next week so will be tough to squeeze in a FD. Will have to be very disciplined!

Day 10 country west Australia NFD
Apologie for being AWOL but unexpected and rushed tip to the city where I am staying for a few days with intermittent wifi Internet so will se how I go whilst ‘herding cats’ for the group.
It sounds as though some people re doing quite well with weight loss- Weldon @northgeorgia and Daffodil2010.
@stchincarol, I am glad to hear you are slowly getting on top of your paperwork! Technology (I feel for you @funshipfreddie) and @cccco last beer! is so frustrating when it does not work . 😱
@northgeorgia, sorry to hear about your possible reaction to the injection. I hope yoo feel better soon.💐
@merryapple, as with the others, I feel for you having ants in your ceiling!!
@daffodil2010 the numbers are looking good – well done.👏
Will do a second post later, have to go and meet someone.
Happy day everyone.

Day 10 UK f800

Hope you get your tech sorted soon , missing you @funshipfreddie

I should have worded it better @merry🍎- I used to use the spreadsheet but it’s too small & too much hassle on my phone so I don’t have the app now and I’m happy with it remaining a mystery to me

Pocket List Day 10 🔭

@brightonbelle