Hi team. Wellcome DRB. New members are always encouraged. I’m sure you will succeed if you stick with us.
CG I may have missed you but all the best for Tegan and her operation. It is going to be an anxious time for you all.
Well I’ve finally taken my head out of the sand and have a doctors appointment for this arvo re my crook knee. He will not doubt send me for an X-ray and then back to him. He will probably refer me to the orthopaedic surgeon depending on what the x-ray shows. All very truncated but that’s how our health system works.
FD here for me. I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Rooibos tea. It’s grown in South Africa and has zero calories. I enjoy it as it is refreshing, full of antioxidants and I’d doesn’t need milk. I’m having it now instead of my morning coffee on FD. We are in for a power outage as some maintance work needs to be done. Such a pest as we are on tank water and once the power is off we can’t use the pump to get water. I’ve a large water filter for drinking water so that’s OK. Have a full bucket next to the loo and also water in the sink and hand basin. We take all these things for granted don’t we. We do have an emergency generator but hubby is away and its downstairs in the garage and too heavy for me to move. It’s going to be hot here too so I’ve already made a salad with smoked salmon for lunch. Will have Miso soup for supper. Hopefully the power will be back on by then so I can zap it.
Enjoy your day team and remember – it’s just for today. Tomorrow is Friday.

Ahoy the mob! CG, Thinking of you as they operate on your granddaughter today. Think going shopping with your daughter is a good idea, get your Teagan a pretty bedjacket. Hope she’s actually out of surgery by now. {{{Hugs}}}.
Sorry I was MIA yesterday Everyone. The kids had only just left when my fav SIL turned up for a surprise overnite visit and I didn’t even get to turn the computer on until she left just now. Can’t complain, It was lovely to see them. So my Wednesday family history was another memory in the making.

Am still not up on all I missed (such a lot of activity!)but did see you accepted the 5kg challenge SJ. Hope it helps me knuckle down and finally get closer to the 70kg’s. I am seeing the scales still returning to the 86’s. After a whole week recently, of seeing 84’s. Drat! It has to be the lemonade shandies at the pub yesterday,(…..or the roast spuds)… One thing to be grateful for is the ability (now) to repair the gain with a couple of fasts, but will have to do better on PC days if I mam to get off this zig zag. (Baaad Zelda! Get back on that wagon!)

Most go read some missed posts and pray for enlightenment…XXgyps

Ah, GG, glad you got a post in, hope they fix your internet soon. Have received a notification re some interruption pending revamping they are planning in my district soon as well.

Sunshine, Maratus, well lost! that’s how it’s done, every centimetre counts, because they all add up to success in the end, and the object of this thread is to enjoy the process, not go at it all grim and deprived. Think ‘tortoise and hare’. Just plod on!

Welcome DR. Good decision. I can relate to giving up on wt loss programs, but this support thread makes all the difference. I have lost 10kg’s over 12 months. That was easy. am finding the next 10 more of a challenge, but many on here have proven it will happen if I stick with the basics. Just need to re-evaluate how far I have strayed from those on occasions. And butter cooked lamb and spuds for lunch, followed by rich pasta for tea and half a dozen lemonade/beer shandies in between, plus a bottle of red during, not forgetting forest cake for desert, is not ezzakly Portion Control!

Fortunately, it’s not moorish, either. I felt bloated and yucky by this a.m. Am grateful it’s receding as I fast . So one does get to see 5:2 as the ‘normal’ comfort zone and the splurges (we all have them) as sickly excesses. We pay for them, but at least they are no longer our NORMAL way of eating. That’s progress. This journey started for me as a New Year’s day resolution. I Can do it, Am doin’ it and will keep doin’ it. Thankyou UP!

PH, will definitely try your chicken thingy. 5 kgs by Xmas! Then RELEASE THE CRAIKEN! Haw!FIT, learn by my errors and DON’T do a Gypsy at the wedding or you’ll be in the same boat next weigh day! Best stick to a fluids only diet, mate. I’ll look forward to that sing along ,from a listener’s point of view. Unless I can come up with lyrics for you musicians to put to melody. (or someone gives me a melody to put words to). A reunion ditty? 5;2 Anthem? One line contributions, please ladies. Make your own rhyme. For eggsample: (to the tune of “the hills are alive with the sound of music…”)

I go to the scales when my seams are bursting
When my looking glass… prays it can’t be true(oooo)
My flab over flows with each pound of choooclet
Now I neeeed… five twoooo….

Carry on, ladies….(PH, you get to add the cymbals… ) culture time…

Oh, and speaking of cultcha, I’m cut to the quick by youse literary snobs….

Gawd, Dawg, Barb Cartland was my preferred role model! After Georgette Heyer, of course. She was the queen of how one plays ladies and gentlemen. But Barb’s pink feathers were pure Dollywood! I take great umbridge at yore lack of respect!!

FFFit! For shame! Would ya kill Santa? Those classics were my tutors when I lived in a tent in the woods, before barbie dolls and PiNK were invented (red riding hood even!). I used to steal my older cousin’s love books (because I grew out of my brother’s Donald Duck and Dick Tracy comics around age seven)and they set the standard for all males to enter my world, from that point on. Needless to say I was often disappointed. However, a gentleman is a gentleman, I would accept no less and since their heroes were cloned on my dad, I still hold the authors of my bible in high esteem! Historical romance is my passion….. sigh…. would that I had the wordage… but, sadly, it comes out more in ‘hysterical fashion’….. oh well…. sob….there’s just no romantic purists left in this Sod ’em and Gomorragh. Oh dear, I feel quite faint… “Zelda! Quit smirking! You evil wretch! I will not abide your leanings t’ward murder and mayhem! Put that broom down and fetch my salts!”

Agree, UP, they were innocent romance then (though quite smut rags now) they are indeed a dreadful price now, too! I do wish I could write one! And of course they are escapism from the reality of ‘bills and doom’, but isn’t that true of all fiction? That’s why I personally love fiction! One can have too much of reality. I’m quite done with it, myself. I have closed the text books. My brain is a dream catcher now. It’s called bloody useless old age by some, but my dad always said:

“There will be a time to dream when your work is done, lass. And the world you invent then may be of some practical use to someone, because it will be judged on whatever credibility you’ve earned in this world, not airy fairy daydreams.”

He was probably right, as usual. There are doers and dreamers and it is only when dreams meet practical application that they tend to come true. I can’t but wish I had studied literature instead of blood and gore, but at least I have loyalty to my mentors, namely Donald Duck, Dick Tracy and Heyer. And of course my greatest hero. A little late for family history day, but this is for all you Daddy’s girls:

CROSS-EYED-JILL
FROM
NANNY GOAT HILL
For Dad

The ragged child sits on the seat
Her tiny head bent in defeat
Her body shakes with silent sobs
As another blow a cruel hand lobs

Their sticks and stones didn’t break her bones
But their words will ever haunt me
“Cross-eyed Jill from Nanny Goat Hill
She’s a dummy! She’s a dill!”
Their verbal taunts they screamed with glee
Til, in the end, the child must flee

Today was just like yesterday
And all she’d wanted was to play!
She runs to arms so big and strong
The only place she can belong

And a heart is broken when it hears this plea:
“Oh, Daddy, Daddy! Set me free!
Make me blind so I can’t see
The way the world looks back at me…”

A father holds his baby tight
And curses them. “They have no right!
“My only daughter! Please, God!” he cried
“She is my Sun, my joy! My pride!

Her sweet and gentle natured face
Could never cause a man disgrace.
How can her worth to them be lost
Just because her eyes are crossed?

No school can teach her what I know
I’ll take her bush and let her grow
Among the creatures in the wild
And there no one will hurt my child!

Baby, baby, I’ll set you free
Then we’ll see what we shall see
I’ll teach you things like love and kindness
And we’ll forgive the world its blindness…”

The father’s words they came to pass
And now a woman stands, at last!
She learned things from her father’s knee
That made her strong – not one to flee!

He gave her strength to face her life
To kneel before the surgeon’s knife
Her eyes are now in their right place
To you she’s just another face

But she won’t forget when she was ‘Jill’
The cross-eyed kid from Nanny Goat Hill
She’s viewed the world and seen her fill
She’s no ‘dummy’ and she’s no ’dill’!

Yes! Daddy, Daddy, you set me free!
You taught me how things ought to be
And I’ll tell them, Daddy, just you wait and see
This cross-eyed world’s gunna’ hear from me!”

MCB

CG, hope all is well. Thinking of you. Time for my boiled egg. Where did everyone go? xxgyps

Hi All!
Not fair, Gypsy, to write so beautifully and movingly and have me ‘crossed eyed’ with tears so that I can’t see the computer screen any more! <3 Children can be so cruel, but also need alot of guidance about how they view others and what they say. Parents who don’t challenge such attitudes and behaviours have alot to answer for. My heart aches for the young ‘Jill’ who was so wounded, but also thrilled that a hero came to the rescue and helped shape the wonderfully wise and eloquent bard we’re reading today. I hate most of the reality and so-called talent shows on tv now that seem to cash in on this idea of holding others up to ridicule, setting them at each other’s throats, exploiting them and being entertained by watching them fail – it’s setting us up for a future generation of cruelty, heartlessness and lack of empathy, very worrying. Ok, better get off my soapbox now!! I’m going to enjoy every bit of this wedding; music, dance, food and drink and general craic with all the family. Who said “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet!”…that’s my mantra for the weekend!! 😉
Doggy – hope you get some answers and relief for your knee problem and that you’ll be in the best of form to do 5:2 and get out walking with Pepper very soon. Hope the water problem is sorted soon too; yes – we never appreciate the basics in life until they are taken from us! Xxx
PH – sorry to hear about your broken toe and other problems but delighted to hear the doctor was so impressed with your weight loss – woohoo!! 🙂
CG – been keeping you and yours in my thoughts and prayers…hope all went as well as possible and let the recovery begin with great improvements in store for your precious GD. Xxxxxxx
Hi to SJ, UP, GG, Sunny, Maratus, Change and all the regulars and newbies…..hope you are all having success and inspiration from this wol and this thread.
I’m doing another FD today (already did Sunday and Tuesday) – so my aussie determination is kicking a** this week for sure!! Thanks, guys, for keeping me on the right track and putting up with my ramblings!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hey gyps,

Loved your lyrics and of course love the song…I too, like GG started singing it and could not get the tune out of my head..

What about this for a another verse?
Not up to your standard of course???
Couldn’t help myself…?????

I look in the fridge ,when my tummy’s empty,
Hoping to see, yummy things in there. ????????
Alas just to see, not one thing temp…ting ⭕️⭕️⭕️
And I fast… once …more..‼️‼️

And talking of fasting. Had another successful fast day so polishing halo again. ??? Now to see what the scales say tomorrow. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE WITH THE FRIDAY WEIGH-IN.. Let the 5kg challenge begin for anyone wanting to join……

CG. So pleased the op is over and was successful. Lots of love required now . Thinking of you (((?)))

Nite nite all!

My contribution verse:

This way of life,
Will change my shape.
And I’ll be,
Thin once more.
…..GO GALxxx

Well done poets and lyricists!

I am singing Fit’s last verse right now because after so long of so so, I have finally dropped 700grams this week which means I have officially lost over 12 kilos!
Just goes to show what a week of actual normal eating can do!!

Gyps, so interesting. I went to a family funeral once years ago and there was a good collection of strabismus there along with all the corrected ones! One of my boys had the op at 8 months followed by years of patching etc as you mention. Fortunately, no teasing. We got him a black patch for pre school and made some skull and crossbones stickers. The first day he wore it, we arrived to pick him up to find many children wearing “eye patches” and the preschool had put sheets over the slippery dips etc to create a pirate ship. Such a wonderful thing!

But so great to hear that it is now just a laser. How amazing. Trying to get stuck on eye patches off a baby is no fun! Especially when it was so hard to get him to keep it on in the first place! I think mine was 3 months when we first started patching.

So stats. SW 76kgs, last week 64.4, this week 63.7. Have a good weekend all!

Hello fellow ADs. CG if you are able to access this I do hope that Tegan is more comfortable now. I guess they don’t use ” Patient Controlled Analgesia “‘in one so young. I haven’t worked in the wards for years.
Gypsy I do apologise for getting you to take umbrage at my disparaging remarks re Barbs C. Whatever floats your boat as they say. I used to enjoy Georgette Heyer when I was younger. Love your poems. I used to work in a paediatric hospital. We used to do stacks of Strabismus surgery. Very successful they were too.
Too many long posts to answer individually. My doctors visit yesterday went pear shaped as due to the power outage I wasn’t able to open our roller door to the garage. It’s supposed to be able to operate manually but I could not manage it. Anyhow I have an appointment with a GP I like op on Tuesday. I was able to take the pooch out for a abbreviated walk this morning. Met up with a friend who’s also on the 5:2. I’ve also managed to potter round the garden and give my poor plants a drink after a horrible hot day here yesterday.
I didn’t do my stats today as I forgot. Will do them tomorrow.
Take care all and be kind to yourselves.

Hi all. Lost another Kg. Wahoooooooo.. That is over two weeks this time as I did not have scales last Friday. I am stoked as I only had one FD the first week and was very naughty. So imagine it was no loss last week and the KG this week when I have been back on Track…sooooooo gooooood. I jut love this WOL. ?????????..you can eat it all and don’t feel deprived… Only 4 kgs to go….???

Where are you newby’s? Hopefully celebrating a successful week. Hope everyone else was happy with their loses. Or maintenance. UP & CG have already had success . We are all at different stages of the process and I still have a long way to go to catch up with most of you…but look out….I’m coming…???

Doggy. Sorry I missed you last time. I know just what it is like with the water preparation. Used to be like that on our little farm. Always had one tap in the tanks that did not rely on power to operate in case of sudden unexpected blackouts. Getting to find out what is happening with the knee is the way to go. Then you can at least decide what to do about..good luck..

I’m with you Fit.. Gyps does write beautifully and I get a lump in my throat sometimes. Gyps you and your parents have certainly had your challenges but the way these have been addressed and resolved is little short of amazing…hats off to your whole family. No wonder you are such an interesting, loveable character..???

Great result UP. You are certainly sticking to things now.. Well done????
Loved the story about the pirate eye patch and the preschool sheet episode. Great preschool.

I feel so good because the lady who cleans my house for me came today and all beds changes and everything sparkling. Getting visitors Monday and so has the studio behind the house cleaned also. ..now for the breezeway and celebrating at happy hour.
??I think scotch and cheese and blueberrys today! Yummm.

Hi All!
Yes, very quiet thread today…..hope all well with everyone. If you’re a newbie, try to log on here more often, we love to hear from you all – it keeps us fresh and will help you to stay on track. Even if, or maybe, especially, if you’ve messed up! We’ve all done it and found the going hard at times, for one reason or another – so please check in and let us know how you’re getting on. My FD wasn’t quite as successful as I thought it would be when I took a sneaky look at the scales this morning – even though I fasted for a long time, my main meal was too large! Oh well, still better than a normal day or over-eating day (I’ve had too many of those in recent times).
Doggy – sorry to hear about the power outage causing you to miss the doc but well done for getting out and about as best you could. Hope you get some answers soon for your health issues, it really has been going on too long now ((( )))
SJ – poor you with tummy troubles. Never mind, your body decided it wanted some comfort and we all know 5:2 will have you back on track in no time – and at least, the scales said the same, not an increase! So glad to hear you have the music at the ready for the WTF anthem!!!! 😉 Hope you’re feeling better soon and that is was just a 24 hour tummy upset. Best of luck with the 5kg challenge – I’m too close to goal to lose that much but would love to lose about 2kg and keep it off, which seems to be the real struggle now, alot of yo-yoing going on all the time lately and it can get disheartening. But I’m going to take a leaf out of your book so….BRING IT ON! Take care xxx
PH – another kg, woohoo!! 🙂 You are powering through the losses, well done! How wonderful to have the house all clean and sparkling for your guests – it feels lovely too to have fresh bedding to slip into at night. Hope your poor toe is better soon. Enjoy the scotch etc; well-earned!! 🙂
CG – hope all is continuing to go in the right direction for your GD, D and family and that you are managing to relax yourself a little too after being a rock for everyone else xxxxxx
I have a busy day ahead to get chores done at home and for my sister before the wedding tomorrow. Also bringing her to get her hair done, the local hairdresser is so good to her and very understanding about her dementia. Then, I have to collect my hat which was accidentally sent to another lady…so hope I get it back in time!!! My daughter will be arriving from England on Sunday morning, unfortunately she will miss the wedding due to college drama assessment, but she’ll be there for the party the next day – which is often more fun for everyone because it’s more relaxed and less stressful! Have a terrific weekend y’all!!!

Hi all, Congrats on all your awesome losses.
Have heard from CG …..Her GD has had a very good recovery. She was up for a short time today. CG and her family are doing well and looking after themselves.
Fit – have a wonderful time at the wedding and enjoy the fun and merriment with your daughter at the after party.
SJ- do hope that you are recovering….Stomach bugs are horrible… keep up the fluids to flush the system. Take carexxxx
UP – loved your story.
PH- you go gal… you are doing sooooo well. You will have this challenge knocked over very soon.
Only slight movement on the scales today so 73.9kgs…. BRING IT ON. I have not been exercising …so will get back into that in the next 24hrs . I have a school reunion on the 31st October so need to be stunning for that.
Have a relaxing weekend…….GO GAL XXXXX

Evening all. Another late post. I have been busy getting my van ready for a biker rally next week (Hooray! I don’t have to cart a tent and battery device for my breathing machine, in the sidecar!). It’s been some time since the leprechaun has been well enough to participate. But he is towing the van while I ride to the venue, a few hundred k’s North West, over the Tableland ranges. My big brother (a deep sea boatie) has been here helping to sort the conversion of the van to solar so we don’t have to run a genny overnite – and get lynched by a hundred or so bikers, for the noise factor.

It gets more complex to ‘go bush’ as one’s body faces metal fatigue, but where there’s a will there’s a way! And I have to admit that my family did corner the market on ingenuity. It’s always been ‘one for all and all for one’. Not one of them would think to tell me I’m perhaps too old to be going to a biker bash in the badlands, sans power. We are fundraising to provide motorised W’chairs for kids who can’t walk, so who cares how far out we have to go for the best result? It’s a great weekend. Hundreds of bikers with limited dunny’s, and creek ablutions. Lots of noise as tyre companies pay us to conduct burnout competitions. Local police even feel obliged to compete! ( I will send you pictures)

So my Gypsy van is now converted to silent nite mode. Now all I have to do is worry about corrupting my grandkids. I am riding escort/mentor to one with a bike learner’s licence. My intentions are to make sure he has such a bloody good time he won’t give up his Harley til his eyesight fails at ninety!…. pray for my morals, AD’ers. It’s certain no on else will get it!

I weighed in at 85.4 kgs. Not too bad. Hope it deteriorates.

GG, thanks for the glimpse of what’s on in Sydney. Am really keen to see (and taste)Chinatown,(what is yam cha?) Paddy’s market, and the Imax theatre sounds interesting. Would love to see a live show.

Dawg, all is forgiven. I write such suspect material it hardly qualifies me as a critical exspurt ( An ex spurt being: ‘an old drip under pressure’). I hope you get better support from the doc you like. Stick up for yourself!

PH, Hold that thought! I am looking forward to meeting a ‘shrinking’ sorta’ violet at the reunion! (ha,ha, ‘NOT’). May our second childhood be a trifle thinner! If there’s a cure to negative aging, I’m on it!

Finally…..

AD’s ANTHEM – (so far) To the tune of “the hills are alive with the sound of music)

(gypsy’s verse)
I go to the scales when my seams are bursting
When my looking glass… prays it can’t be true(oooo)
My flab over flows with each pound of choooclet
Now I neeeed… five twoooo….

(PH’s verse) …
I look in the fridge ,when my tummy’s empty,
Hoping to see, yummy things in there.
Alas just to see, not one thing temp…ting ️ ️ ️
And I fast… once …more.. ️ ️

(GO GAL xxx)

This way of life,
Will change my shape.
And I’ll be,
Thin once more.
…..
(Verse 4 (ish)!! FIT)

‘To laugh like a brook as I trip and fall,
Over kilos that I’ve dropped,
To sing through the night,
Like the Gyps,
When her moonshine has popped….

(Haw! Haw! Luv it!)

…. at this point we need to fill in the blanks, adjust lyric to rhythm and conduct the finale. Since Madam Secretary is the conductor, I await some link to the score so we can collaborate on the lyrics. All input from the choir is welcome. We will be videoing this Anthem at the reunion. GG, you need to find a piano bar (or church with pipe organ)) where we can practice! SJ, you had better get yore ass booked for the show (since you are the pianist!). Does anyone yodel by any chance?

CG, how’s it going? STOP absorbing everybody’s pain and BREATHE. Pat your boys and look for the stars in between the city lights. Believe, and your guardians will deliver. The cards say your GD has mountains to conquer – and medals to collect. She’ll be right. Chip off the old block . xxx hugs to you. and nite to all, xx gyps

UP, Interesting that we not only have the Bach connection, but cross-eyes in the mix. And it wouldn’t surprise me if your son had a unique view of the world. Is he the violinist?

Fit have a wonderful wedding bash. Luv your contributions to AD!
EmT great measurement loss…very encouraging isn’t it. And as to your headache that’s why I started the vegemite drink 1 tsp in hot water. I always used to get nasty headaches on FD and this cured it. It’s a lack of salt I gather. Try it it’s very nice. I have it now even though I don’t get the headaches any more…we;; rarely.
Maratus your fasting during exam plan sounds doable, though I’d prefer to see you having 1200 plus to keep up your energy & concentration levels. I know you’re keen to keep losing but maintaining during exams would be pretty spectacular too.
Gyps more exploits and in a VAN this time – going glamping are we!!! Yes please don’t forget the pics – we all luv’em! I’ll look out that score over the weekend & work on our song. May need to tweak it a little & as to the reunion, I’m just pinning my hopes on a darn good deal coming up on flights before then. Usually have them at the end of the year. Expensive from the west but so want to come. I’ll let you know as soon as it happens.
Thanks GG for the news. Great that CG’s GD is doing so well & up & about already – cannot believe it after such a huge op! How wonderful. Hugs CG for you and yours {{{{{ }}}}} and make sure you give yourself one too! suejen XXXX

Hi all. Maratus & Em T. I don’t get tired on fast days, but used to get cold. Even in the summer. That has changed the longer I’ve been doing th FD. I think you will find that your body will adjust to the change. Don’t feel bad if you feel you need to go to bed early. Sleep is good for us , especially if we are trying to lose weight.
CG , glad that Tegan is recovering well. I hope you get to see her soon. You are certainly keeping your self busy.
I did my fist weigh in today since the B flu. I’ve gained 2 1/2 kilos. It could be worse so I’m not concerned.
Well my cute little pup is in huge disgrace. This morning he caught and killed a bird. I am quite horrified. I’ve never known a dog to do this before. That’s the reason I don’t have a cat here. We have so many lovely birds. I do hope it doesn’t become a habit.
Happy weekend all and congratulations to those of you who have lost weight. And to the rest of us- congratulations that we are still sticking to our Aussie Determination. I’ve got to be honest. I don’t like FDs at all but still do them religiously. It’s the only religious thing about me!
XX – might have to change my name from Doggy after this morning’s episode.

Morning ADER’S….So good to hear from you CG…..And thanking the stars that Teagan is gaining her strength each day.
GYPS- YAM CHA is a chinese tradition mainly late breakfast to lunch. It is a selection of glutenous rice damplings filled with prawns,pork beek squid and vegies in sauces. Trolleys of many different foods (not only damplings )are wheeled around to the customers and they choose from an array of chilli squid, goe gee, custard egg tarts (which are just delictable,) dim sim, and other tasty dishes there is so much to choose. they are small 5 to a plate BUT be warned are very filling and also healthy washed down with chamomile tea and other beaverages…SAV .The EMPOROR’S Bar-b-que is renowed for its PEKING DUCK and side dishes to accompany the duck >>>>A must have!
We are also a 10 min walk to the Sydney fish markets. The OAKS is close to many threatres that have live shows eg THE LYRIC at the casino and THE CAPITAL.As we have fully equipped kitchens in our apartments there maybe a night were we just buy FRESH produce that day and have dinner and a knees up in our apartment. YOU will all be surprised what is really outside our door. You will not be bored BUT exhusted each day!
AND of course we need to have an AGM at some stage of WTF TOUR!
I still am tried on FD’S If not working I run around like a chook keepinhg myself busy have a sleep in the arvo and then cannot sleep at night.
WELL DONE GL- what a wonderful compliment from your son . How is that smile on your face?
Enjoy your Saturday team….GO GAL XXXXXX

Thanks, Gypsy. Yes, it is that son!

Not much to report today. Congrats to GL.

Maratus, I don’t but my daughter gets tired on Fast Days.

Glad the news is good CG.

Hi all – so many posts & so entertaining! I can’t keep up but enjoying them. 😉 Well done to everyone with losses – too many to name individually. My thoughts are with you CG – hope all continues to go well.

Maratus – just a quick note to say that I agree with others to be kind to yourself re fasting when doing exams. Focus on one challenge at a time!

Oh, and I am pretty sure I have read everything Georgette Heyer ever wrote …

PH it was probably me I can be a bit dense at times….misinterpret things! So now I get where you’re coming from. You’ve still done very well so far & I reckon you might just reach your mini goal. I not Christmas it won’t be too long after. You should be stoked my dear especially after your dr’s comments too!!
EmT I read lots of Georgette Heyer in my day & plenty of Mills & Boon too. Escapism at its best. Don’t bother with them these days…..moved on I guess.
Gyps I’m reading a book at the moment that you’d love. It’s called “My grandmother sends her regards and apologises” & she reminds me of you. The girl’s grandma is a real hoot & gets brought home by the police etc. Great story so far.
Had a lovely lunch out with friends & a few glasses of sav but only had a coffee for brekky, & 2 HB eggs for dinner so maybe will balance out all that wine?!

Well think I’m ready for bed. By the way where is everyone today? Oh of course Fit is dancing her feet off at the wedding, CG is looking after family in her special way & who else is MIA. Never mind have a great weekend all & talk tomorrow. Of course when I post this it’s the middle of the night for most of you these days! suejen XXXX

CG wonderful that you got to see your GD and cover her with fairy kisses through the tears. I bet she’ll be holding on to that teddy bear for quite a while yet!! Wishing her all the best for her recovery & life with a straight back, plus a gradual easing of the pain for her. They get them up & about so quickly these days I find it amazing. She will work through the pain if she’s such a little trooper & won’t let it stop her doing exercise & whatever else to get her 100% fit.
And you’re home already so enjoy the day in your lovely place with your boys. Hope it’s a sunny day for you too? Kick back after all that work & worry & have a ME day CG. I bet you need it! sj XX
Takes one darn photo to bring us back to earth doesn’t it? Mine was a couple of photos from Vietnam where I thought I was looking pretty good at 12 kilos less. But the photos said to me Keep going girl…..you’re not there yet! So onward & downward eh?!

Hi everyone. CG I’m so pleased that Tegan is getting on so well. As you would know, once catheter and other tubes, drains etc are out its a good sign. I’m with you as far as sleeping in ones own bed.
PH I think your idea of mini goals is very good philosophy. 5 kilos at a time is very achievable. I’d like to lose 3 kilos by Christams and then another two by February. Now that I’m into my summer clothes I still don’t like looking in the mirror. All those midsection bulges – eek. !
Well more pandemonium here this morning. My little horror exhumed the corpse of the poor dead bird and brought it into the house. He ran through every room with the B thing all covered in dirt. After I eventually chased him outside I spent the next hour vacuuming up all the mess. Guess the only positive thing is that I burned up a good few calories in the process. Yes SJ you are provably right. The bird was possible old or I’ll but still I felt so bad about it. We also,have a flock of large black cockatoos in the area. I’d like to see him have a go at one of them. They have beaks that could open a tin can.
Enjoy the day team. FD again tomorrow. They do seem to come around quickly.

Hi Em T,
I also am a Georgette Heyer fan! I was introduced to her work many years ago when I saw that my piano teacher had a collection. I was 11 at the time and it took a few more years before I started buying my own copies. My favourite would be These Old Shades but I must admit I love most of them. Also, they are easy to read and re-read and very relaxing.