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Day 4 country west Australia 86.1 kgs 189.42 lbs!!!
yesterday’s decidedly disastrous dodgy dopey decisions determining dietary downfall !!!!
Party food – sausage rolls, little pies, red snags/savs/frankfurters whatever they are called; lunch on the road – hamburger and chips; dinner on the road – fried fish and chips followed by lemon cake layered with fresh cream . 🙄😲😱😱😱
My arteries are about to collapse with so much saturated fat and carbs. Even I haven’t had such an awful day food-wise for a very LONNNGGGGGG time.
Such is life when travelling between 2 properties with serious miles to travel and things to do.
Attempting a FD today though church morning tea might test that resolve as we have seriously good cooks who do test one’s ‘will’ or ‘won’t ‘ power.🤔
@malee57 I too am focussing on health benefits but weight loss now an imperative as difficult to move well. And for a health professional …….
@Exxcelsior12309, good to have you back.
@maui, I don’t add the extra calories of exercise to TDEE. It seems to lull some people into a false sense of thinking they can eat ‘ a bit more’ because of the calories burned – and therein lies the problem . 😲
@michelinme, thinking you’ll get to 75kg with your good motivation. I hope you get over your tiredness soon.
@funshipfreddie, Oh to have some ‘wriggle room’. Sadly I think I take up ALL the room atm !!!
@gardenlily, yes those Advent calendars made of chocolate !!!! 😲😲 Definitely sticking with a paper one this year.
@lind_b fingers crossed for a negative test for you today 🤞
As someone already mentioned there are still some people from previous months who haven’t posted.
When I started in November 2016 we had about 130 members. I am always intrigued to know where they are, what happened to them, are they still practising 5:2, their successes and not-such-successes!
I am definitely NOT a poster child for 5:2 at present but it works amazingly well when we follow it as a WOL doesn’t it ! 🙄😊
So to all those 5:2ers from previous months/ years – a big ‘ HELLO’ and do drop by to let us know how you are going. Would really love to know.
Australia went down to Argentina 2/1. But well done to the ‘ Socceroos’.👏👏
Not a soccer fan but hey, it IS the World Cup. And also the test match between Australia and the Windies poised for an interesting last day.
Have a good day wherever you are in the world today.😃
Day 4 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
@songbirdme – great commercial! 😅
@excelsior12309 – welcome back! And well done on the 5 lb⬇
@maui – re MFP no. I just track the calories I’m actually consuming in the diary.
lilymartin – 😱 Nooo?! 5:2 DOES work – if you do it 🤣. I know you’ve had great success with fasting in the past. What are you doing differently this time around? Your resolve/motivation isn’t as strong, for some reason? Have you got a diet/fasting buddy who you could team up with? Maybe you should just cut out the refined carbs completely for a few months. Try low carb/high fat https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb I know it’s easier for men to lose weight, & I’m not really a foodie anyway. Maybe the brain triggers a bigger sense of reward/pleasure in some people when they eat? It must be the same with gambling; put me anywhere near a roulette wheel & I’m finished 🤦 Sending you RESOLVE for your FD! You too shall have wriggle room! ✨
Pocket List – Day 4 🥕
@lilymartin
@malee57
Day 4 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 219 lbs. Yeah, my body is stubbornly putting on weight after NFDs. It just hates me eating in the evenings. So if I have two huge “going out for suppers” in a row, the effect is bad.
Anyway, today’s a WFD. The weight will drop. Eating a lot of carbs is like stacking a bunch of sponges waiting for water, and then acting all surprised when they’re heavy when soaking wet.
Pocket List – Day 4 🥕
@lilymartin
@malee57
@northgeorgia
Day 4 – UK – TDEE
Quick check in for accountability – Another busy but controlled day food wise – so happy with that!
Football afternoon/evening – great game by France who are looking very good – now watching England v Senegal – Very physical game out there… Senegal don’t take no prisoners……
Will try to have a proper catch up tomorrow
Day 5 Melbourne, Australia definitely NFD 7.30am
Yesterday was up 34c so no exercise got done. My FD turned into a NFD after a friend came around for lunch. Though as I did not count calories it was possibly still under 800.
Today I have a group of ladies coming round to my place for our Christmas lunch, so it is definitely not a FD. But it will be lots of talking and enjoyment and a glass or two of wine. I live by myself so have had to ask for people to bring some chairs and champagne glasses. I think I have enough crockery, though it’s very mix and not match. But that sort of stuff doesn’t matter to me. It’s the friendship that is important and we have been swimming together as a friendship group for about 25 years.
gardenlily that winter vegie bake sounds delicious. You didn’t want to fly any leftovers to Melbourne, did you? I’m happy to take any temptation off your hands.
Day 5, CD, Aus
I had such a shocking night’s sleep I know that a FD will be beyond me.
Good of you to remember my Friday night tradition, @stitchincarol. If I went out for pizza I probably would have a beer, but curled up at home, red wine seems like a better match.
Day 5 country west Australia NFD 85.5 kg
Wrote a post which has gone into cyber space so just checking in .
@funshipfreddie thanks for the resolve. This time I am not really adhering to 5:2 principles consistently.
Eating too much esp. carbs and not exercising. Nuff said.
You can’t outrun a bad diet.
Scales just showing the sad truth.
Very cold here. No spring and no summer yet. Cold and hunched over the heater trying to get warm.
Salads usually the ‘go to’ in spring /summer but it has been tooo cold this year.
Why am I choosing to be fat ?? Laziness and slackness re food choices.
Resolving to do better this week.
second post.
@funshipfreddie, what am I doing differently…???
Well this shows how out of whack I am .
Thought I would do a FD yesterday. That didn’t happen but thought it might be CD.
Plugged the figures in today and…. it came out at a whopping 2350 calories !!!!
Almost 2 times my TDEE !!
TDEE is 1200 calories. Trying for 500 calorie FDs as 800 encourages too much latitude for me.
Wow!! I had NO idea I was SO far out of the ball park.
There it is in a nutshell.
Day 5 – Ireland – FD 🚫🚶🏼♀️ ✅
Hi everyone! I have had a busy weekend with friends and am now back into the zone. Weigh in this morning slightly up but two good FDs hopefully will help. @lilymartin I also often wonder about all those past posters and what they are doing now… many names have stuck with me from those days … hope they are all well 🙏
I am doing ok with 5:2 at the moment but it’s not working quite as well as it did before… but… i am a little older and my body has changed a little too… i am
I’m in a bit of a glum mood at moment which I’m trying to shift but it’s not always easy and there are many pressures on our time/thoughts and life generally. Body is aching which I’m trying to sort with physio and accupuncture but need to apply myself to my exercises more… 👍
We can do this ⭐️ Poca a poca …
Oh a friend who never comments on my weight/shape this weekend did say I looked really slim so that was lovely to hear! It’s the small things sometimes ⭐️
Wishing you all a happy week.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 5 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
@lilymartin – 🤦♂️ I think that’s where the planning bit is essential. Plug the figures in BEFORE the FD/CD, not after. And as I’ve learned from @stitchincarol – there’s no ‘try’ in RESOLVE. No ‘hoping’ for a FD. No luck necessary. I really don’t want to do a FD today, or any day; but I’ve already resolved to do it. I know exactly what I’m going to eat in about 8 hours. There’s no decision to make. It’s as good as in the bag. And I will wake up tomorrow with PFDS. If anyone tries to tempt me with a cream cake, cookie or ice cream they will regret it, & maybe even wear it 😅 The choice is mine 💪 You just need to get your mojo back – and you will! 🤗
The weather’s a bit grim here this morning, cool & raining. Very welcome rain though, because we really need to end this drought.
Have a decidedly delightful week everyone.
Pocket List – Day 5 🍏
@penz CD
@gardenlily
@jaifaim
@funshipfreddie
third post!
@Funhipfreddie, yes I agree about the resolve. 😅
Today was not a FD due to lunch engagement BUT I did choose the salad and not all the other delicious dishes available – and no dessert.
The hunger dragons are well and truly on the prowl and keeping them under control is…. challenging.🥵
@gardenlily I was loving your Christmas traditions. I learned a lot already.
Animals present : sheep, oxen.
It doesn’t mention Mary rode to Bethlehem on a donkey so guessing probably no donkeys; the wise men didn’t appear until Jesus was about 2 so not sure about camels either. Can’t wait to hear.😊
Day 5 UK FD
Need to get a few good days in as have family visits at the end of the week
Pocket List – Day 5 🍏
@penz CD
@gardenlily
@jaifaim
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
Day 5 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD 156.2
First off, a report on Day 2: I got all the way to noon with nary a nibble of all that cookie dough and was much pleased with myself. Did not succeed as completely in the afternoon, but wasn’t out of control, so opted for grace instead of mental scolding. Saturday’s sale was possibly the best in ten years or more, so we were all pleased. Went to a Christmas concert at my alma mater–an hour away–that evening and was moved to tears by the whole thing. WONDERFUL. Sunday was very busy with normal church stuff, plus some new organ arrangements that required extra focus from me, and choir sang, and then practice with the kids for their service on the 18th…by the time I got home just before noon I was wiped out. I’m sure it was simply a cumulative thing, but my solution was a bit of EFS and sitting on the sofa all day…hence the ugly weigh-in this morning. I’m not proud of yesterday’s choices, but I truly felt awful so I’m again choosing grace rather than mental castigation, and celebrating that today’s a new day with new choices.
@gardenlily I chuckled at your “swearing at sewing” words, and thought “GardenLily was FROGGING!” I’m sure you know, but for the rest of the forum: FROGGING is when a sewer has to rip-it, rip-it, rip-it… And do tell more about your “traditional winter vegetable bake” as it sounds glorious! Do you have a link for a recipe?
Oh, @songbirdme, that commercial was delightful!!! I alternated between grinning and laughing out loud; thanks for sharing!
@malee57 Two months ago I would have asked “Slices of WHAT in your freezer?” but I then came across a recipe for “Slice” and now I know what you’re talking about. Makes me smile.
@funshipfreddie What a great observation; I’ll bet you’re spot on: “Maybe the brain triggers a bigger sense of reward/pleasure in some people when they eat? It must be the same with gambling; put me anywhere near a roulette wheel & I’m finished 🤦” Because food? Yes. Gambling? Eh, it’s kinda fun, but I only know that because I do it every ten years or so. 😂
@lilymartin Great words: You can’t outrun a bad diet.
@gardenlily NO!! No, no, no! Your Christmas posts are WONDERFUL, and I’m very much enjoying them.
Okay, what animals were there? LOL, no actual idea. My nativity set has cows and sheep…and I’m rather certain sheep could have been there. Cows? Doesn’t actually seem likely. Perhaps chickens (after all, a cock crowed when Peter denied Jesus, and that’s a chicken). Perhaps a donkey. Anything else? GREAT question!
Okay, I was about half done with this post when I got a text from my dentist’s office that I could switch out Thursday’s 7:30am appointment for 10 this morning, 30 minutes from then. So I leapt up, got dressed and raced out the door and am only now back. Turns out the pain I’ve had was caused by a slightly too low corner of my crown (the new one I got in October, which is when the pain started) and the offending part of the crown has been ground down, and I should be good to go now. Amazing what can cause such pain and how easily it can be resolved! No numbing even required.
We have a funeral to go to, of a pastor friend who fought off cancer for more than five years, but finally lost the battle when it moved to his lungs. Great man. I’ll miss him, but saw him seldom, so it’s not a huge hole in my life, but I hurt for his wife, who’s about the same age as I am. With great love comes great loss, right?
Have a grand one, everyone.
Day 5 USA/HI NFD
Holding at 169 lb and hoping I never see 170 or higher on weigh in again! lol. But if it happens I know what to do.
I need to start having some FD500 days. It doesn’t have to be too difficult with some planning. I did 5:2 years ago with FD500’s so I know I can do it again. But I will go for it on a day I’m at home, not running around with errands or at workplace.
Ok, off to pick up art and get to the framer and then to work at the gallery this afternoon. Thankfully DS is here all week and home with his dad. We have a wonderful Adult Day Care and I can take him to as needed ….but rather limit it with covid and flu going around now.
Day 6 Melbourne, Australia FD 7.40am
I had a fantastic lunch with friends yesterday and worked hard to resist the bingeing brain lizard which wanted me to just keep eating. I did have to go to bed at 8pm to keep out of temptations way.
I think there were sheep (with the shepherds who watched their flock by night) and cow (Jesus was born in a manger).
Today will be a FD as I could not do one yesterday.
Day 5 – UK – FD500
Another busy day and managed to complete a FD500 ✅ Overseas Christmas cards posted ✅ Coffee with friends and no cake/biscuits ✅ Evening Yoga class ✅
Early bed tonight as was up way too early this morning for some reason but tagging myself on today’s pocket list to make sure that I don’t have a late snack 🤣
Pocket List – Day 5 🍏
@penz CD
@gardenlily
@jaifaim
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@at
Day 6, NFD, Aus
Not boring at all @gardenlily! I’m enjoying your Christmas facts very much and find myself thinking ‘huh, I didn’t know that!’ Please keep them up.
Re your Christmas question, I’m reminded of that scene from the movie Love Actually, when Emma Thompson’s character’s daughter tells her she’s going to be in the school nativity play, and has the role of the first lobster. There was a lobster at the nativity?? Emma asks incredulously. Well duh, replies her daughter. Classic.
Hey @lilymartin. Despite clutching your hand across the Nullarbor, I fear I’m pulling you in the wrong direction. My planned CD yesterday didn’t and I dread to think how many calories I imbibed. I think I’m giving myself permission to blow off the rest of the year, but come January I choose not to be fat any longer! Are you in?
Second post…
@gardenlily I’m loving the Christmas facts – I’ve been lazy with my posting though….There was a donkey surely? Isn’t that how they got there? 🐴
Night all! Horrible wet night here….
Day 6 country west Australia NFD 85.1 kg
Baby steps… making better choices and trying to drown the hunger dragon with water.
I slosh when I walk now. Just need to add a bit of exercise…
@matpi , sorry to hear about the stomach bug. Hope you recover soon.
@penz, I think we might be a ‘ mutual admiration society ‘ as I too am not exactly heading in the right direction in a hurry.
Correction- I wasn’t!
I do hope you continue to hold my hand as having a partner is a plus. 💐
But I am RESOLVED to lose some weight before the end of the year.
I just saw some photos of me earlier in the year and last year and I am FAT!!!
NO sugar coating it ( why do so many sayings have food associations??)
I am a FAT lady – the one everyone waits for to sing???
Anyway, RESOLVING to be less by Christmas!!
@at you sound very organised for Christmas . I am not in the least yet and it is less than 3 weeks away so better get my skates on..
Day 6 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
PFDS! Awarding myself 1st place🥇
@matpi – Feel better soon! 🤗
@penz – “I think I’m giving myself permission to blow off the rest of the year..” Nooo?! 😱 It’s only day 6!! 😅 C’mon now; at least go for 6:1 if you can? I really think fasting & exercise are similar, in that the more you do it, the easier it gets. I’m sure you’ll be glad you carried on once Jan 1st rolls around. Maybe read/watch something about the benefits of fasting to motivate yourself?
@lilymartin – Loving your RESOLVE! 🎯
@linda.b – you need to share some of your fasting mojo with the rest of Australia!
How inspirational is this?! 94 & still doing a couple of 2 hour workouts per week!
https://www.news24.com/you/news/international/he-started-going-to-gym-in-his-60s-and-at-94-hes-still-going-strong-20221202
Today I’m reminding myself:-
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” ~ Jim Rohn
Pocket List – Day 6 🍋
@malee57
Day 6 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 219 lbs. And yes, I saw the scale jump to 220 a few times. So discouraging. I can’t seem to recover after a major feast day this year. I have watched videos saying not to jump off the deep end and do something desperate like excessive fast days, super caloric restriction, or going totally no carb. But after a year of plateaus, I need to find the magic push downwards. Until Thanksgiving hit, I had begun a new trend downwards, then it vanished. Well, got to run.
Pocket List – Day 6 🍋
@malee57
@jaifaim
@northgeorgia
Day 6 – Rural Nebraska, USA – WFD
Didn’t weigh this morning–a very rare thing–because I was certain I didn’t want to know. Tomorrow’s weight will be better. 🤪
I’ve been Christmas shopping online and am about a third done; not bad for an hour from the sofa. I’ll pick them up rather than having them delivered, and then have some things to wrap!
@gardenlily Thanks for describing the dish; I’ve got it on my list to make soon!
@brightonbelle Have a good time visiting family!
I have very little chatter in me this morning…my mind is racing with all the things I have yet to accomplish in 18 days and I’m a bit overwhelmed. So perhaps I should set aside my laptop and get at it, right?
Have a grand one, everyone!
Pocket List – Day 6 🍋
@malee57
@jaifaim
@northgeorgia
@stitchincarol WF
Day 6 UK FD
Coming in after two NFDs which included chocolate and seedy crackers, weight back up to 171lb. Completely wiped out and in a lot of pain so the last couple of days have been rest. No brain capacity to think or plod on with project work and lots of barriers making things difficult. Some days you just have to go with what is.
On the bright side my old sofa was collected, I’ve made a grain-free Christmas cake and found a plumber to fix my mother’s sink next week. We also did some online Christmas grocery shopping at our weekly tea visit this afternoon and she’s very happy with all that!
I’m about to have a OMAD heap of steamed cauliflower, mushrooms, spinach and quorn chicken followed by apple and pear compote. Hoping this plus more water/ginger tea and more sleep will help a reset all round – I need to be back at my desk tomorrow before the backlog gets any bigger!
Pocket List – Day 6 🍋
@malee57
@jaifaim
@northgeorgia
@stitchincarol WF
@michelinme
Day6 USA/HI. NFD
Nothing interesting to report . Today will try to keep calories 1000 and it might even turn into a FD800. Need to double down and get some serious FD500’s or WFD’s going. Seem to have a mental road block with taking this to the next level.
Encouraging reading everyone’s posts. Thanks to all for sharing this journey.
Day 7 AUS FD800/OMAD
I have FINALLY finished my last round of major professional responsibilities for the year! (A bunch of talks/conference presentations, so plenty of travel, meals out and catered boozy events.) Woo hoo.
The scales are . . . not good, but we have a reasonably quiet and relaxing festive season coming up, and both OH and I want to get a bit healthier and lose our heavier-then-usual tums so turning things around weight-wise is my top priority.
My December goal is to get back on track with fasting and exercise, so as to feel a lot better by Xmas, as the best gift I can give myself, and then to get back to goal weight by end of January.
Summer holidays here are so close I can smell them! (And they have no calories, ha ha!)
Day 7 Melbourne, Australia NFD
Yesterday’s FD was okay, though the scales don’t agree with that. Today I am going out for lunch with some retired work colleagues. There will be lots of talking and some sensible eating. I feel like the idea of sensible eating sounds a bit wowserish. But that is generally my preferred way of eating at the moment.
I have a brag moment from a week ago. My sister came back to my place with some leftover chocolate ripple cake. I told her I did not want it, but she insisted I keep it and that I could put it in the freezer for another day. I replied that if she left it at my place it would go in the compost bin. It did not stay at my place. She knows I am trying to lose weight and reduce the amount of sugar I am eating so I was rather annoyed when she was trying to get me to eat this very sweet dessert.
Day 6 USA (Illinois) NFD
Did a good FD yesterday and the scale was 1.5 pounds less today. That’s how I roll in maintenance. Eating quite “normally” today mostly cuz I didn’t sleep very well (typical after a FD) and so had a fairly substantial breakfast. Chicken, roasted potatoes for supper.
Hope you’re all doing well — hope to read up posts tomorrow.
Onward and downward.
Day 7 country west Australia NFD 85.8 kg
Interesting to see some of us struggling with our mojo /plateaus /FDs. Join the club !! 😅
@northgeorgia, I hear you!! Can only advise you to keep on keeping on. We WILL get there eventually.🤝
@malee57, well done you on your resolve!!💐Why do some of our nearest and dearest try to derail us – even with the ‘ best’ of intention?? 🤔
@funshipfreddie, going for the ounce of discipline – it just feesl like a TONNE of discipline atm….😔
Day 7, NFD, Aus
Thank you for the metaphorical kick up the rear, @funshipfreddie. And you’re right, @lilymartin, it IS possible to lose some weight by the end of the year. To paraphrase @flourbaby, time to put on my Big Girl pants and tough it out!
so…
Day 7, FD, Aus
Day 6 Ohio, US — NFD
Things are getting back to normal, but I still get tired quite easily.
A little bit about me: I’m a retired teacher who used the 5:2 diet to get my weight down to 172 lb (78 kg). I was a regular participant on this site, but in 2020 with the pandemic I dropped away for a while. This last May I returned and my weight at that time was 183 lb (83 kg). Right now it is at 178 lb (80.7 kg) and my goal for December is to get the weight down to something stable below 177 lb (80.3 kg). In the last 6 months I’ve lost 5 lbs, so about .8 lb per month. Of course there were lots of ups and downs and plateaus in between. I’m hopeful that I’ve found a NFD strategy that is sustainable for me at my target weight.
@penz My goal is also to lose weight by year’s end: just 1 lb. But that will be better than gaining 5!
@songbirdme Today’s Washington Post had an article about weighted blankets increasing a person’s melatonin and helping them to sleep better.
@malee57 Congrats on your fortitude! You are a star!
@litprof Warmer weather and summer, in particular, seems to decrease my appetite. Do you find the same?
@michelinme I can empathise with your slow days! Hope that everything returns to full energy quickly!
@stitchincarol You are wise to pick up the items. Today it rained all day and a package got delivered to my front sidewalk, not the porch. The delivery service didn’t notify me when the package was dropped off, so by the time I discovered it, the outside had turned to papier maché. Fortunately the item itself came through unscathed. Fortunately there wasn’t a deep snow drift in front — I might not have discovered it until spring!
Day 6 – USA – FD
Barely starting to come up for air…..got a super bad case of the flu over the past 4 days, in addition to moving, starting a new job, whew. I did some research on the rapid flu test, which is a swab similar to the Covid test, and they really need to shout it from the mountaintops: in a high flu season, the false negative results are high! Mine was just that, even though the dr. said I have all the hallmarks of the flu. This was worse that the Covid that I had twice! A little more self-care and rest, and I should be back in the saddle. One benefit is that I haven’t eaten much and think my weight came down, but I forgot to pack my scale…it’s still at the old house, lol!
Day 7 – Ireland – FD 🚫🚶🏼♀️ ✅
Hi all, yesterday was not a FD! 😂 but I go again today…
Well done @malee57!!! Sounds to me like someone was trying to sabotage you 😂
No I know that scenario all too well. People don’t understand that we simply can’t have that cake and not eat it…
Bravo to you! 👏👏
Blood tests this morning so up and out…
Have a great day everyone.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Pocket List – Day 7 ⭐️
@jaifaim
Day 7 – South Africa – NFD
@malee57 – oh good for you! Why do people try to sabotage our efforts? It’s the same with alcohol; ‘oh go on, just one drink won’t hurt’. It’s infuriating.
@penz – you’re welcome. Anytime 😅
@metatauta – wow? sounds like you’ve really been through the wringer? I got the flu jab before winter arrived here, but still came down with a bad cold the week I was moving. You can get the flu & covid shots here at the same time now – they just put one in each arm! I still think I’d rather space it out though.
I bought a new Chromebook last week online. It was delivered exactly a week ago, & I think Boo Boo’s killed it already?! I left it open on the table yesterday, & she decided to take a snooze on the keyboard. Today I can’t even get it to switch on! I mean, she did that all the time with my old one, & it never seemed to cause any damage. So I’m taking the Chromebook back to the store today. Fingers crossed. I don’t think I’ll mention the cat though 😬
@gardenlily – I hope you’re DH is a better soon. That cafe sounds wonderful. Re sleep – I found this on the forum, under ‘Benefits & Side-effects. There are other threads on sleep issues there too though, so it’s obviously a common problem. https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/sleeping-issues/
A 5 minute video clip from YouTube on how to stay motivated to lose weight:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ouhTy2QBU
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
Day 7 – UK – ?FD800/CD
Day 6 – NFD
Good morning from a very cold and frosty Lake District 🥶
Yesterday’s planned CD/TDEE did not go according to plan……due to unexpected visitors it became a very indulgent one but today is a new day so pressing the RESET button!
@gardenlily – I too am loving the Christmas facts…..keep them coming please and love the sound of that veggie bake recipe – will try that soon!
@matpi – sorry to hear about the stomach bug – quick recovery!
@penz – please don’t give up with the idea of restarting next year, hold on to @lilymartin ‘s hand and be like her ” RESOLVED to lose some weight before the end of the year.” Also some great advice from @funshipfreddie – I’m sure you’ll be glad you carried on once Jan 1st rolls around!!
@northgeorgia – the only advice I can think of is to tell you not to go mad and perhaps do a review of how much you are actually consuming??? Also perhaps RESET your TDEE for a goal weight below that elusive 200 e.g. try 190
@brightonbelle – safe travels across the UK and hopefully the cold weather does not impact too much
@michelinme – I can sympathise with you – yesterday’s indulgence included a lot of yummy food, wine, port and cheese and even chocolates – not surprisingly I am still feeling very full this morning and am certainly not braving the scales today……….
@litprof – nice to see your post – sounds like you have been busy……loving your positive December goal!
@metatauta – nasty bugs going round so take care and hoping that you feel better soon
My OH has a hospital appointment this afternoon to have a surgical excision of a suspicious mole on his back – we are a bit worried as the changes are indicative of something serious but we are hoping that it has been caught early, however we will have to wait for the lab findings to confirm 🤞 I think I am worrying about it more than he is……trying to stay positive and calm about it all.
I’m adding myself to today’s pocket list hoping to be motivated to stick to a FD800 and not fall into my usual trap of overeating when I’m worried about something
Day 7 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 216 lbs. I think weight loss this past week or so might have been a bit out of my control. You see, today is a very stressful day that I’ve been dreading for nearly two months. I have to drive in the fog through rush hour traffic this morning to Atlanta for a meeting where I expect to get a lot of criticism and difficult tasks, then drive back in rush hour traffic in the rain. Tomorrow morning, I have very early morning meetings back to back. I bet my cortisol is through the roof. So I need to be a little forgiving of my body doing what it’s doing. I’ll take a sensible approach today though.
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