DAY 21 – UK Cam 2nd post
Just found this on YouTube – Lucy Worsley and her Tudor Christmas programme!
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Day 21 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
@maui – awesome news re the new low!! 🎯 🏆 I use Samsung notes all the time; it’s great for composing lists & short notes. But I usually write my posts in Yahoo; then if anything goes wrong it’s still automatically saved as a draft.
@stitchincarol, @malee57 & @gardenlily – thanks re the house. It’s almost exactly what I need. The bathrooms & kitchen need a revamp, so I’m hoping I can negotiate the asking price. The house isn’t officially on the market yet, so I still need info on the levy & rates. It’s already vacant, so the viewing wasn’t a hassle.
@michelinme – thanks for offering to host January 👏
@jaifaim – I hope the scales are kind to you this morning. Well done on staying AF!
Apparently swans were protected in the UK & it was illegal to eat them for many years. Unless you were the monarch –
“It took until 1998 for the law to change so it was no longer treasonous to eat a swan in the U.K. But as a native species, mute swans are now protected as wild birds under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and under this law it is still illegal to keep or kill them.” – from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fascinating-history-british-thrones-swans-180964249/
Boo Boo’s going back to the cattery today. I always dread getting her in the carrier. Gotta be done 😳
Happy Hump Day! 🐫
2nd Post – Day 21
Just remembered – I’m fasting today! 🤦♂️
Pocket List – Day 21 🍏
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Day 21 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD 154.4
“Getting so much done; have way more yet to do!” That’s what we’re all saying this time of year, right? My cleaning lady is coming in three hours and I don’t even begin to be ready for her, but am so thankful she’s coming and giving me a deadline to accomplish the tidying I want done. That means, however, that I must keep working. Hopefully I can chatter tomorrow!
Have a grand one, my dear friends, of whom I think so many times each day!
Day21 USA/HI FD
Just reset MFP app for 800 calories today. Will try to get the 800 calorie menu logged in this morning and then stick to it. I’m optimistic. Hoping to see 166 again soon and 165 by Jan 1,2023
Pocket List – Day 21
@maui
@funshipfreddie
Strength to all trying to resist those sugary treats. There’s always little individual wrapped chocolate candy at work and I’ll be there Thursday and Friday this week. Must remember to bring my own low carb/sugar treats. Just discovered a scoop of Chocolate protein powder mixed with nut butter makes a quick candy substitute and keto friendly provides energy and seems to zap the cravings for sugar.
Day 22 – South Africa – NFD
Best FD ever, 540 cals & I’ve hit a new low for the year – 70.8 kgs. Who said December is dangerous?! 😅 I’ll try for Wed/Fri FDs next week; that way I won’t have skipped any.
@jaifaim – I thought you might find this interesting. A woman who’s remained sober since doing Dry January this year, & is now facing her first Christmas without booze 😧 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-11563053/Its-year-gave-alcohol-REALLY-merry-Christmas-without-it.html
Poor Boo – I felt so guilty leaving her at the cattery yesterday. And next door to her is a very whiny Siamese. There’ll be no love lost there 🙄
Anyway, I’ve got a 4 hour drive later, & still need to pack…
Day 22 UK NFD
95 % of shopping done yesterday, on train now for an annual treat – Pantomime at the London Palladium , an overnight stay then a trip to the shops in the morning for some Christmas treats
Oh mince pies @gardenlily – Guess what I find them irresistible 🥧
Have a good day all x
Day 22 – Rural Nebraska, USA – WF until 4pm, then all bets off
What?? What kind of a plan is that, you ask?? Well, the current temperature is -15F/-26C, there was snow yesterday, and there will be lots of heavy wind today taking the “feels like” temperature far lower…not a day anyone should be driving about unnecessarily, and a piano lesson on the 22nd strikes me and the moms involved as unnecessary. 😉 So I’m working at church this morning, then practicing organ this afternoon, but by the time I get home at 4pm I’ll be challenged to stick to a WF for the day. That’s the time I usually run errands in Omaha so I don’t get home too early, because my RESOLVE when I’m out and about is rather easy; not at all easy when I’m home. But if I end up eating, I’ll still manage to make it 500 calories, so it’ll be a win no matter what I end up doing.
Yesterday was so busy but so wonderfully productive. DH and I went down to our finished basement that ends up functioning as messy storage and confronted the clutter. We’d already done a fair amount of tidying and tossing, and on Sunday, DS26 finally boxed up and took about half of the stuff he still has here from when he lived here (the stuff he doesn’t really want, but doesn’t want thrown, which is why he was leaving it at Mom and Dad’s, LOL!) and that empty space gave us places to put away OUR stuff that we don’t really want but can’t really throw, LOL. (Someday we’ll have to deal with it, but three days before Christmas is not the time.) By the time we were done, that cluttered basement was nearly perfect, a necessary improvement since DD and her family will be sleeping down there. Also on Sunday, I’d taken all my winter sweaters from their two bins in the basement (and put the summer capris in the emptied bins and put them away), and finally got those sweaters put away on the shelves in my closet yesterday. That’s the kind of tidying that had to happen at some point, and especially for the cleaner to be able to clean. And now the entire house is not only tidy but also clean, and my to-do list is now much more manageable. Whew!
DS31’s Fair Isle hat is a full half done, and I still have hope I’ll finish it before he gets here on Saturday. As to food? I haven’t thrown in the towel, but nearly. After today, my next FD/WF will be next Thursday. Somehow I will find the necessary mojo to resume a serious effort and then will head back down the 14lbs I’ve gained, and the 5-10 more I wanted to lose back when I was that weight.
@gardenlily I think you were the one who said you asked yourself “Why do you choose to be fat?” when you were making unhealthy food choices. I’ve been remembering that question often, and am working on making such good food choices that the question is rendered irrelevant. I’m not there yet, but sometimes I make pretty decent choices, so I’m making progress; thanks for that question!
Okay, time to pick up my knitting before I have to head out in the frigid temperatures. Have a grand one, everyone!
Day 22 USA/HI NFD
Weigh-in today 166 lbs after a successful FD800. It feels good to be safely down into the 160’s and confident I will not return to the 170’s ever again! I’m starting to dream of seeing 159 making its debut in January or February of 2023.
@funshipfreddie Good on you for hitting another all time low!
Enjoyed reading everyone’s posts. The overnight excursion to London brought to mind happy memories of several visits with DH, the cauliflower rice with chicken sounds like a good choice I must try, organizing the basement reminds me that closet organizing will start a mini makeover for our bedroom. And what does ZBC mean? Thanks everyone and have a great rest of your day or evening!
Day 23 Melbourne, Australia NFD
Day 22 FD
Yesterday was a not bad FD. I don’t usually count Kj, but I have only salad, with a tin of sardines for protein, and fruit. I did not have anything planned yesterday but did not want to stay in the house all day. So, I went out and did some banking and then rode around on a tram and walked in suburbs I don’t know. And I am happy to say that I did not give into temptation and buy any yummies. I did buy lots of fruit which I can demolish over the next few days.
Today I am going to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with my sisters. It will be fun.
I’m going to consider thinking about trying (how determined is that) MFP to help me keep on track on my NFDs. Maybe it will at least keep me mindful of how much I am eating.
Have a good day everyone with whatever you are doing.
Day 22 Ohio, US — FD800
Hi all! Just to check in — still battling fatigue. Spent most of the day horizontally, although I did manage to go out early and get my grocery shopping done. Even early in the morning, all the parking lots in the outdoor mall where I usually shop were completely full. I guess people are doing both their last minute Christmas shopping and stocking up for the storm which is supposed to hit tonight. Amazingly I’ve stayed on track with the fasting, so I should be all set for the holiday. Ho, ho, ho!
Peace to all!
Day 23 – South Africa – NFD
@gardenlily – the drive up here to Gonubie was uneventful. The highway was surprisingly quiet. I passed a couple of very nasty accidents though. I saw one car upside down, & another bad accident coming through the city centre involving four vehicles 😱
Last night was quite a challenge. We went for a meal out. Everyone knocking back the booze except for me & my friends’ 18 year old son. But I survived on my Heineken 0.0
4 days to go… 🚫🍷
@malee57 – hope you enjoyed ‘Joseph’. I love anything Andrew Lloyd Webber. Was such a shame about Cats – the Movie though 😅
@matpi – hope you regain some energy & are able to enjoy the holidays. Shopping is so unpleasant at this time of year, especially if you’re not feeling 100%.
Day 23 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
One year ago today, I was frustrated that I wasn’t going to be 137 for Christmas because I was well and truly stuck at 140. sigh For now I’m not thinking about it, but at the new year–and possibly well before!–I’m going to start again on being serious. Right now, I’m just busy finishing up all the prep work and looking forward to my daughter and her family arriving in the evening of Christmas Day.
I’ve begun the shaping–the decreases–on the Fair Isle hat, so every row will take less time now, and I am down to 22 rows to finish. It will be a bit challenging to accomplish that today, but I’ll do my best. I also have the major grocery shopping to do today, and a choir rehearsal this evening. We were supposed to meet Wednesday, but the weather was so hideous, and snow and ice were coming down, that I cancelled it. GOOD THING, because one of the singers, who was feeling mostly fine at the time, tested positive for Covid on Thursday!!! Whew! Talk about dodging a bullet, right?
We never did get more snow than a heavy dusting, but the cold? BRRR!!! It’s supposed to “get up to negative one” today. You know it’s cold when the talk is about getting up to a negative number, LOL! I was practicing still an hour after DH had gone home yesterday, so in an abundance of caution, I texted him when I was on my way home (it’s a walk of a block, entirely visible from our front window), just in case I slipped on ice or something. 😂 It’s supposed to get up to 25 on Christmas Day–that’s -4C–and that will feel so much warmer that I am certain there will be lots of people not bothering with coats when they walk from their house to their cars! LOL, it’s all relative, right? 😂😂😂
Okay, time to make some coffee and then pick up my knitting.
Oh! Tomorrow at 9am I’ll be listening to the Service of Carols and Lessons; I always weep when I hear that boy soprano start off with “Once in Royal David’s City.” Can you just IMAGINE how his mama is busting her buttons to hear her boy on the air??????
Have a grand one, everyone!
Day 23 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 218 lbs. Did ZBC yesterday, and although I tasted a potato and about an ounce of gingerbread scraps around noon, I didn’t have a meal until 3:30 p.m. So I did OK, considering!
The deep freeze has also hit the South this morning. Although not as frigid as our neighbors to the north and west, it’s currently 15F/-9C with 30 Kph winds. Will be cold and windy like this for most of us in the U.S. until the middle of next week. I did hear the wind may die down a bit tomorrow, although it will still be breezy.
We’re going to have our Christmas dinner today, we think… then chill out a bit on Christmas Eve before the big day.
Day 23 USA (Illinois, the Frozen North!) NFD
Just checking in to say we are alive and not frozen!! Well, weather here is about the same as @stitchincarol with -40′ (F) wind chill and -15F actual. Sun in shining so really deceiving unless you look at the snow blowing straight lines from the northwest.
Saying Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!
Onward and downward.
Day 23 USA/HI FD800
Working just to 3pm then late lunch with a friend before I pick up DH from day care. Will try to water fast till the late lunch and make that my only meal. Sounds like a good plan…just have to focus and commit. Yesterday’s NFD ending up being a bit higher calorie than I wanted……important to stick to today’s FD800.
Must run now to get both of us out out the door within the next hour.
Onward and downward.
Day 24 Melbourne, Australia FD800
Seeing Joseph yesterday was excellent. I know the music from childhood but had never seen it live. We all really enjoyed it.
I was feeling a bit flat when I got up and weighed this morning. I am slightly heavier than I was at the beginning of the month. But I am 4kg less than I was at the start of October. So I need to keep that in mind. I was going to try for a FD today but am not in the right frame of mind. I will go for a FD800 and see how that pans out.
What a difference in weather. I would feel really odd being in freezing cold temperatures at Christmas. The weather bureau talking about a heat wave for the east coast during the week after Christmas. And most people on here are all rugged up against the cold.
Have a great Christmas eve everyone.
Day 23 CD UK
Just checking in after another couple of frantic days. I feel as tho i’ve eaten my bodyweight in sugar but astonishingly weighed in at 171lb today. More sensible eating is just around the corner – beginning with a solid OMAD early supper of parsnip & carrot soup with kale crisps, lentil cakes, quiche and salad
Flat finally came together today, DD & my 85 yo mother arrived to stay- both were feeling frantic but are now relaxing into being here. DD has gone for supper with uni friend down the road, I’m in the bath, mother reading in the sitting room – all have our own rooms and what we need, and all is right with the world.
Tomorrow I’ll be up early to wash hair and get on with wrapping presents, finishing cake, decorating tree (lights are on), baking mince pies and endless cups of tea and meals. DD’s schoolfriend and her DD are coming to visit and will get roped into doing some baking or decorating, as is our tradition when DD here. Later on we’re heading into town so DD can sing & I’ll steward for midnight mass, then home and sleep and a gentle-as-possible 24 hours.
Lovely to read of our various traditions, travels and temperatures – tho brrrr US friends, that sounds CHILLY!
Happy Hannukah and Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! May peace and joy and light be yours x
Day 23 – Ireland – NFD 🚫🚶🏼♀️ ✅
Hello everybody! The days are just flying away from me…. I’ve been so busy and travelling away last weekend probably didn’t help. So much to do so little time 🙄
Travelling home tomorrow for the Christmas break and very much looking forward to it.
Thank you for the link to the article @funshipfreddie
I will look forward to reading it… I feel I’ll manage it… but am saying to myself that there’s no pressure to commit… 😉👍
I did manage to weigh yesterday and back up to 160.1 – not too bad really and I can’t help but feel it willl get worse before it gets better but… I expected the number would be higher yesterday so that’s a bonus…
I’m so tired and I’ve got to go pack more bags..so no time to post any more but I’ll be back tomorrow…
I hope you are all ok. This can be a stressful and sad time for many…. I always say I’m not a fan of the week leading Into Christmas even though I love the day itself.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 23 Ohio, US — NFD
The scales this morning read 179 lb (81.2 kg) so another pound gained over what I was two weeks ago. Again, this is probably not too surprising since the fatigue I experienced this week really reduced how much exercise as is my wont. I’ve had an acupuncture treatment, so am hopeful that will help to turn things around. This evening I ate a little more than I usually do — mostly because it’s fairly cool in my townhouse. I suspect that something is not quite right with my furnace, but because with the wind chill it’s -36 F (-38 C) outside, it may be instead that the furnace, which is very small, just can’t keep up with this level of cold. Fortunately it’s supposed to warm up to 0 F (-18 C) by Monday, so I should be able to sort things out then.
@jaifaim Safe travelling home!
@michelinme Glad your visitors are settling in and relaxing! Have fun with your Christmas preparations!
@malee57 Joseph is one of my favorite musicals! A good live performance can make all the difference in the world — I feel the same about many of Shakespeare’s plays.
@maui I like your phrase, “focus and commit”! I think that I’ll use that as my mantra for January!
@songbirdme and @stitchincarol The cold front hit here today and the cold is expected to be more intense tomorrow. Definitely not strolling outside weather! (at least for me!)
Day 24 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
I weighed 156.6 this morning. Ugly number, but not as ugly as I was afraid it would be. I’m just going to live my life and eat the meals put in front of me…well, that I put in front of all of us, LOL! over the next few days and then confront the changes that need to happen after that.
I have on the Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge…I feel so sorry for you Brits that you have to wait until afternoon to hear it; for our family, it’s a 25+ year tradition to start Christmas Eve off with that boy soprano. For that, I sit with my cup of coffee and simply listen, with tears streaming down my face. Don’t know exactly why it affects me so, but I truly love it. Now I’m just listening with half an ear while I bake all that cookie dough that has been in the freezer since our church’s Cookie Boutique on the first Saturday in December. We’re having beef sliders for lunch (is this something the rest of you ever make? https://www.taketwotapas.com/celebration-sliders-roast-beef-horseradish/ We’re doing a ham and swiss version tomorrow evening when DD and her family arrive), then church at 6:30 and a huge charcuterie board afterward.
I haven’t yet finished the Fair Isle hat; the instructions aren’t written out but are in chart form and I was fairly stumped for awhile on how to proceed. I think I understand now, but ran out of time last night, so I’ll have to find quiet moments when I’m certain DS31 won’t interrupt/see me.
And that’s my chatter for all of you. I’ve skimmed through all you’ve written, and will find time later–hopefully!–to read it more carefully. However you celebrate the days ahead, I pray it’s a lovely and happy time for you.
Blessings, my friends.
Day 24 – USA/GA – NFD/ZBC
Weigh-in: 219 lbs. Yeah, also a horrible number here, but I knew it would be ugly and may get uglier still until after the holiday. Dec. 27 is my next planned FD. As in the rest of the U.S., the deep freeze continues here with even colder temperatures this morning. It was around 5F/-15C at daybreak. We’re hoping by late afternoon tomorrow it may warm up to just around the freezing mark. Lots of reports of frozen/busted pipes in the neighborhood, but we’ve taken preventative measures and (knock on wood), all seems well so far.
A merry Christmas to all that celebrate!
Day 24 USA/HI NFD
Weigh-in still at 166. After a successful FD800 yesterday, I thought maybe a lower number might appear. But I’m ok with seeing 166 this weekend. I have set a goal of 165 for January 1 and it’s feeling attainable.
I’m copying this very important word from @funshipfreddie this morning …..it’s a game changer!
Accountability 😳
Day 25 Melbourne, Australia NFD
Yesterday’s FD800 wasn’t. There were too many yummies at work. And tonight will be worse. I will just have to stick to the nicest things and not try to eat everything. I wish there was lots of summer fruit there, not just chocolates and sweet biscuits.
Have a great day and enjoy everything that is happening.
Day 25 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 221 lbs or something and another couple of days of feasting. Tuesday is the planned FD, and I have never been so anxious for fasting to resume! On a good note, we are planning to make homemade soup this evening, so that’ll be something in the works.
Have a great Christmas!
Day 25 UK NFD 🎄
Happy Christmas all , love the interesting facts @gardenlily
Day25 USA/HI NFD
Up 1 lb after a 1100 calorie NFD yesterday but not to worry. I know weight will go and down a bit and it doesn’t always seem to make sense. Thanks to all of you ….I will not get discouraged and stop trying as in the past. In it to win it this time around! If not now, then when? At age 76 I feel it’s now or never LOL
Hoping healthy weight will give me more energy and endurance to care for 88 year old DH with dementia at home.
Thanks for being here! Best to all as we approach the end of another calendar year and a fresh new year begins.
Day 26🌲 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
Checking in for accountability. Still managed to stay AF. Fortunately the friends I’m staying with aren’t really dessert/pudding eaters. But I think I’ve still managed to eat my bodyweight in sugar 😳
Heading home tomorrow.
My worst Christmas Cracker joke contribution:
Who delivers presents to cats?
Santa Paws!
Day 26 USA (Illinois) NFD
Worst of the cold with dangerous wind chills have passed, but a little new snow this morning in NW Illinois. I am happy to say the scale has kept at maintenance through all the good food we have been eating! Lots of leftovers still in fridge, so I will be thrifty and eat them up over the next few days. Real treat was cherries jubilee last evening, but really — almost $6 for one can of cherries?? Talk about inflation!
Off to see the 3+ hour long new Avatar film matinee today, so popcorn for lunch. Regular blood donation will be Tuesday – it was postponed from Friday when it was too perilous to go out (for humans and cars both!) so I will eat normally today and tomorrow.
We will hopefully be done with Dangerous December without it being fatal for anyone!!
Onward and downward.
Day 26 USA/HI NFD
Weigh-in 166 lb
Good to to see 166 again as yesterday was 167. I plan to do 2 FD800’s this week but not sure which days.
Must run to get both of us in the car within about an hour. Full day at the gallery today so DH will go to adult day care nearby. I should pack his lunch and snack as he does so much better if he stays gluten free and sugar free.
Onward and downward 🌺
Day 26 Ohio, US — FD800
Days 24 and 25 — NFD
There is still a snow emergency on the roads here, so it was a stay-inside type of day. I received an Amazfit as a present and it doesn’t seem practical for me to ever reach the PAI goals the watch has. So let me ask — does anyone here have experience with working with PAI?
Yesterday I didn’t fight the holiday food, but I did eat much less of sweets than I did last year. So that’s a definite plus. Now just to make it to January 2 in good shape!
@maui Your comment about some foods your DH does better with is interesting. Does he have other food sensitivities?
@northgeorgia Losing a pound over Christmas Day is really impressive!
@songbirdme Did you wear the 3-D glasses for Avatar? I will probably donate platelets in the near future, but I get incredibly cold when I do so, so I will probably wait for the weather to warm up a little first.
@gardenlily The profiteroles sound delicious. I didn’t make those, but I had a homemade shortbread topped with strawberry shortcake ice cream. Same theme — different presentation!
@funshipfreddie Great joke — definitely paws for thought!
@matpi — yes, we opted for the 3-D performance. It was far too long, involved, too much fighting, but guess I can say I am glad we went. Some amazing graphics.
Day 27 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
Heading home today 🚙. Came down with what I’m guessing is strep throat on Xmas Day, but it’s feeling a bit better today. It certainly hasn’t stopped me from eating 😅
@songbirdme – +3 hours?! Glad you enjoyed it. I read somewhere the producers need to rake in $2 billion just to break even!
@northgeorgia – I’ll be joining you on the list tomorrow. Then maybe one more FD before the end of the year 🏋♂️
Day 27 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD
It’s been 20 days since my last post. I think of you guys a lot and am coming back for sure, might even try an OMAD today as the heartburn and fullness from the past few days of feeding has me very uncomfortable.
Covid took a number on me and mt family. Negative more than three weeks now but still suffering occasional sinus headaches, pure bitter chill from inside my body where I have to layer up even though heating and the fire are on, coughs, stopping to take a breath, sore throats…not all the time, but enough to know its Covid lingering.
But the worst is that my 86 year old Dad caught Covid three weeks ago, worryingly bad and deteriorating quickly, we were just minutes from calling an ambulance. Then he started on Paxlovid and it was a wonder drug,within a couple of hours feeling better, but within a few days of finishing the 5 day treatment he got Covid rebound and is still unwell and testing positive.
And my brother who lives with him, and who has multiple underlying issues but refused the vaccine, also has it. He is 40 years younger though and is slowly pulling through.
It’s been a hectic and worrying time, but hopefully recovery is soon. In the mantime, at least me having had recent Covid means I can go and help Dad bi have an older brother who has health issues who won’t go near the house due to Covid.
Gah, after three years, Covid has cut a swathe through my family. Hoping all of you are doing ok. I will catch up on posts later but I am still here.
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