Just popped in for a quick look. Some great posts but no time to answer. Water only so far and feeling good. Think I’ll have my Hard Boiled egg soon though and as it is overcast here today and a little cooler will have one of SJ’s vegemite soups . Have not tried one year. Hope everyone is doing well what I their FD. We can do this.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Thanks for checking in. So far so good CG. Just half a tomato and a boiled egg. I am looking forward to dinner though. You are right I wasn’t really hungry until I had lunch at 1pm. Very strange, the first FD is was nearly climbing the walls hanging out for the time to go. Barb xx

CG. Going well not eating anything till 6.15. 👏👏👏My hunger pangs would not be satisfied with water around 5pm. Had one HB egg and some cucumber then a cup of vegemite soup. Pleased with that though. Now feeling the hunger and can’t wait till dinner . Feeling very pleased with myself. 😊😊😊😊

Barb. Well done you. 👏👏👏👏👏 As CG says they get easier the more you do them. Hope everyone else is also doing well.

That’s what I am hoping for CG it’s 7:50pm and I have chicken breast (77g) and steam veges. Followed by diet jelly. Thanks PH good luck to you too 😘😘😘 B

Finished the day at 440 so all good on that front. Just watched the Australian of the Year Awards. So many people do such great things. Young and old. Makes your heart happy that there is still so much care and concern happening all over the place. More of the stories of these wonderful people should make up the. Nightly news. There should be a rule that every news program should have a feel good story. That would make everyone have more hope. 💕💕😘😘😕

Well keen to try out my new bed so nite nite all 💤💤😴😴💤💤

Oops! Didn’t see that we had turned the page!
PH, great job on managing your hunger pangs so well, good job 👍 Yes, it is lovely to have our faith in humanity restored. 😇❤️✊👏
Jade, good damage limitation with the meringue! Yes, glad to be fasting myself today too……isn’t it funny how our systems have changed and we don’t enjoy feeling full or bloated from so-called ‘normal’ eating. I’m looking forward to feeling cleaned out again. How strange is that?
Barb, great job on your fast day too, you really are in the swing of things now! Keep up the good work 😀
So, I have my fd meal already cooked since yesterday…….half a baked salmon fillet, loads of veg but no potatoes and carrot sticks front and centre of the fridge (thanks for that tip, SJ!) Going to be a great day, I can feel it in my waters!😉

Thanks everyone for the welcome and advice. I’ve been using MyFitnessPal for a while now and also have been using a Fitbit since September. I’ve lost 15kg on my own just reducing my calories and have been averaging 11,500 steps a day. I’ve been doing well. I reckon I’ve been mentally channeling my constant craving thing into obsessive tracking so I get to think about food all the time but in a way that is geared to weight loss. However if constant craving is me then long term I figure just tracking will not solve my issues. My first fast will be Thursday and then Monday. With Australia Day and annual leave this week I did not want to set myself up to fail so I decided to wait till I go back to work. I found a nice recipe for a veg curry and that will work out at 372 calories which I will split between lunch and dinner. I’ll then have my poached egg and toast for brekkie as a good brekkie sustains me till lunchtime at work. I did the calcs on my normal calories and it’s 1850 a day. Currently I eat 1550 and am comfortable at that amount. My question is do I have to eat the full 1850 on non fast days? On fast days I understand I eat 1/3rd which is around 600. I can easily make it 500 but is that ok?
I would like this to be a long term lifestyle but have like 50+ kg to lose and I am currently on prenisone long term which is no help at all. The drugs make weight loss difficult but I struggle on. Hopefully I will only need to be on the steroids for a few more months. Fingers crossed.
Cheers
Anne

Hey Fit, sorry to send the storm your way – dodging raindrops is great cardio though 🙂

It is so great to wake up and find all this wonderful fasting chatter, like I’m the tail end of a comet. Good advice CG re the “odd FD when your heart’s not in it.” I need to find the odd weekend when my heart IS in it, but turning the page each Monday is a fresh start. Thank goodness for you all and 5:2 to pull me back to the healthy path when I jump in the weeds.
Good luck Annie!! As you can see already, great tips and help here, and lots lovely chats to boot.
Hey PH who was Australian of the Year? Agreed about the news, sometimes I almost forget there is much kindness in the world.

My veggies and I are ready for the workday, gotta run, my laptop says it’s about to reboot for an update.xxx

Well done, Fit – sounds like you threaded the needle expertly! One biscuit = fine. Package of biscuits, red alert! I obviously need to carry an emergency straitjacket.

I’m glad the bikkie improved your mood – no sense making FDs a total misery, right? I’m pretty happy so far with my coffee and splash of cream, but now I have an impromptu lunch that may interfere with my saintliness. I will at least try to avoid the sugar!
Sending good strength vibes to replace the rain – we have it still too. Ugh – winter blues. But smooth sailing till bed I hope! I’ll be right behind you. xxx

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!
OH and I are celebrating in the most wonderful of ways.
Our Dr and his family are becoming AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS.He has become a dear friend over the past years and we are very honoured to be invited to witness and celebrate this speacial day with him.
The ceremony will take place at the RSL Club which is a big venue in Forster.
How are all of you spending the day?….are the lamingtons and pavlova made….the barbie cleaned and ready to go, the lamb and sangers wanting to be smothered with tomatoe sauce,salad and bread rolls the wine ,beer in the ice.
Thongs and t shirts at the ready for the backyard cricket matches.
HAVE A FABULOUS DAY TEAM ………GO GAL XXXXX
HAVE A FABULOUS DAY TEAM

Happy Australia Day all you amazing ladies! Thanks for opening your generous hearts to all us honorary aussies too. I think that sums up your country’s character. 😃👏❤️
GG, what a terrific way to celebrate your national day and such a thrill for you to be invited. Enjoy all the celebrations 🍧🍰💃💐🍔🍾🍷🍸
CG, delighted to hear you’re back to sleeping better, it makes you feel like you can tackle anything. Yes, we get alot of rain and it can be depressing sometimes but it does make for our famous ‘forty shades of green’ in the countryside.
I’m happy with my fd today so I’ll try not to wreck my hard work on the non fds. Enjoy your special day, ADers…… I can’t toast you today because I’m fasting but I’m raising a glass of water instead!😃😘

Jade our Australian of the year is a man called David Morrison who has a passion for gender equality among other great attributes. He put himself out there in a number of UTube videos on gender equality in the forces. He basically told them to Shape up Or Get out.. He was high up in the Army at the time Very big stance as a gender problems were thought to be coming from those in charge. He will be great in this role and a good person to follow Rosie Batty as he has vowed to continue her work on Domestic Violence. And he will lead the charge to equal pay for women among other things. Wonderful man…

Happy Australia Day all. 🇦🇺 🇦🇺🎉🎉🍻🍻🍾🍾

We have this hill that’s oh so steep
It’s known to haunt me when I sleep
Why’d you climb I hear you say
Tis so on Fridays when I weigh
That numbers are not up but down
For that would be a cause to frown
So every morn that hill I climb
To help achieve a shape sublime!!

Happy Australia Day!!

Sounds wonderful.

Just finished Burn’s Night, Haggis, Neeps and Tatties – with a brandy sauce instead of a whiskey sause – terrible.

Exhausted from catching the Haggis, so good I could eat once a year! Actually the veggie version is lovely. Son had Haggis on Toast.

Love the idea of getting the Barbie out in January – some years ours isn’t out at all in the summer, though the weather is so warm at the moment, it feels like summer! Better than Summer actually,

Hi all. Wonderful to read all the great posts and actually have time to reply. Have had a lovely morning watching everyone planting Australian natives in daughters yard. There must be an overseer for every job!
Then swung by the shops on the way home and got a hot BBQ chook, some potato salad and a nice fresh bread roll for lunch. Yummy…have not had it for ages. And I bought a lovely small custard tart to share for supper tonight. it will be interesting to see the cals I have left for dinner, but did not have breakfast. Just coffee at daughters for morning tea. Think I’ll work it out and then get back to you..😋😋😋

That all comes to just 761 cals. Including the custard tart for later. Still have 900 odd remaining. Never going to be able to eat that much. Finding 1600 cals hard to consume and my TDEE is 2000. Oh well. Will give it a shot.

FIT. well done girl with your FD. We can do this!! 🤗🤗🤗🎉🎉

Aussie Annie. My hat goes off to you. You will find this way of life sustainable and hopefully you can continue to lose weight at. Reasonable rate. I too lost quite a bit of weight before starting this program (13Kgs) Have lost another 9kgs since starting in September and still have quite a way to go. The best part of this is that you don’t feel deprived of anything as you can have it on non fast days.🍾🍷🍫🧀 As long as you do it in moderation. I treat myself to Peters no added sugar ice cream as a treat with some fruit sometimes. 🍨🍨🍨My target calorie intake for MFP is 1690 so not far below yours. 500 cals is good to aim for on Fast Days and it has worked a treat for me. I understand about the medication as have been on that also. You have joined a great bunch of wonderful people on this forum and I have found them a great support group. Whenwe reach a plateau (and we all do that)everyone is there to give us a boost as most have them have lost a lot of weight and have been there..done that….I am planning to be on this journey for the rest of my life and feel that it is completely sustainable. No more losing weight and then putting it back on for this,little black duck. Stick with us and the sky’s the limit!!!🛩🔭🎉🎈💗💕💞💜💜

Jade. How did the improve lunch to..did you take the emergency straight jacket or just go with the flow? 😋😋😋
GG . I imagine you are having a wonderful day with your very special doctor. Enjoy🎉🎉🍾👏👏

Milena ..can’t bear the thought of eating haggis, we used to have a highland Ball in the little town I came from with regular old time dancing and Scottish whirls etc and they used to pipe in the haggis before supper. Could not bring myself to taste it though. Oh it was a wonderful night each year💃💃

SJ you must be a great cook. Always whipping up something. Love homemade Anzac biscuits and a nice hot cup of tea. I’m with CG can imagine the taste right now….

Doggy. 35 years wow.. I admire people like yourself so much. Uprooting yourself from family and moving to another country. It must be a daunting prospect but so glad it has turned out good for your family. …and Tassie is such a beautiful place to retire to..not too far from Melbourne really to catch up with family. Love the poem..💜💜

CG. So pleased your sleep has returned to normal. I had a little bit of trouble sleeping on a new mattress but love the firmness of it..makes so much difference to a dicky back..hope you are having a good day. Well better get off my butt and get something achieved. Got a couple of pairs of long baggy pants my daughter has borrowed from a friend for me to take a pattern from..so should get on with it..bye for now💜💜💜💜

Hi CG, it tells me my chicken breast is 195 calls for 77g . Have I got the wrong chicken?

I trust u r all having a great Australia Day. I think we have all done well from the posts I’ve seen. I did not have any pav to say no to but I did refuse a lamination. I did eat an Anzac bikkie as it is unaustralian not to and I had the calories to do it. Our little church had a picnic in the park at Glebe and I discovered that I’m a good bowler at backyard cricket. I’ve never joined in but feeling energetic with all the steps I’ve been doing, this time I stopped spectating and got physical. I took myself the makings of a lovely salmon and salad sandwich and just had water to drink. I had some treats which I made myself for the group but had steamed barramundi for dinner and still have a few hundred calories left. The barramundi fillets from Aldi are very good. I put it in the bamboo steamer with a tablespoon of kan ton Thai green curry meal base to tart it up and that with a sqeeze of lemon made the fish very tasty. Having made my FD veg curry I just did not feel like complicating dinner. FD is now tomorrow as I figured out we have our work Christmas lunch on Thursday (don’t ask – it’s stupid I know). I walked to our Aussie day lunch schlepping my backpack and chair and have hit my daily step target. So today has been good. I feel in control and I feel happy with how my body is changing with the exercise even though my weight has not moved for a week. I know it’s the steroids and I refuse to let that undercut my efforts. I will plug on regardless.
Hope your tomorrows are all good ones
Anne

hi all..finished up with 1450 cals so could not make the 1690 Even with 2 wines and 2 white peaches.

Well done on your cricketing prowess Annie. I have a trophy for the best catch at a social cricket day. Was sitting in the outfield in my chair with a drink in my hand and someone hit a six and I had time to put my drink down and take the catch. Did not even think I was playing. Those days were such fun.
Nite nite all 💤💤💤

I read somewhere that the supermarket rotisserie chickens have a lot of grease through the meat itself. The basting apparently goes right through making them moist. Interesting isn’t it. Barb xxx