Day 6, WFD, Aus

I’m doing well, if I do say so myself, as I had such a big lunch yesterday that I had no dinner. That means this WFD will end up being almost 48 hours in length. Halo time!

Sorry about the lack of warning, @stitchincarol!

Day 6 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

@stitchincarol – you have Valentine’s Day decorations?! 🤔

@molij – I walk on the spot too, when I’ve had a particularly sedentary day. If my cat lets me. She usually thinks I want to play though, & goes for my feet. So annoying 😼 I managed 13,000 steps yesterday; the line-dancing certainly helps!

@penz – 48 hours?! Polish that halo 😇

@merryapple – never mind, a CD is still progress. I had something of a snack-attack too yesterday. I’ll be on my best behaviour today 💪

It’s a cool & cloudy 20 C here. According to my phone it’s been raining for several hours. We haven’t seen a drop! 😅

Pocket List – Day 6
@penz WFD
@merry🍎
@brightonbelle FD800
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@northgeorgia

Day 6 – USA/GA – FD

Weigh-in: 239 lbs. My mom got bad news yesterday… the pain management test did not have positive results, so she is not a candidate for the procedure. Hopefully, the older injection treatments can resume and will have a better effect than they did at the end of last year.

Pocket List – Day 6
@penz WFD
@merry🍎
@brightonbelle FD800
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@northgeorgia

USA. DAY 6 FD

Pocket List – Day 6
@penz WFD
@merry🍎
@brightonbelle FD800
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@northgeorgia
@excelsior12309
@ccco

At the end of the day yesterday, my FD turned into a CD. I got bored and ate some popcorn. This brand only has 37 calories per cup, so that wasn’t too bad but I wish I hadn’t done it. Today is my correction day. I thought I would be shoveling snow for exercise today but the rain already washed it all away. I am so tired anyway!

D.C. is filled with protesters. I don’t think I have seen anything quite like this since the Vietnam War. I am glad to see people speaking their mind. My sister lives there and she has been sharing.

Since I did all this work to my house, I seem to feel that I need to go kicking and screaming into the 21st Century! I hadn’t made it there, yet! LOL. My latest purchase is the iRobot Zoomba. This one is way different than my daughter’s and I thought I would have to rally the troops to put it together, combine it with my wifi on my phone and make it work. I am proud of myself. I did it myself!! Anyway, this thing talks!! LOL It got stuck under a table and told me “I need help”! It’s hysterical. There is another part I can buy that would enable me to talk to it, instead of pushing buttons. I got it from Amazon in an amazing deal that I didn’t think I could pass up! I am not lazy but at 74 years old, I thought I could use some help!! What I really want is a robot that can cook, clean, drive a car, and talk. I have watched episodes of “60 Minutes” where they were highlighting the worldwide developments os such robots. I can’t wait! 😊👍🏻

Have a great day, everyone!

Day 6 North Wales FD

Just checking in

Pocket List – Day 6
@penz WFD
@merry🍎
@brightonbelle FD800
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@northgeorgia
@excelsior12309
@ccco
@stitchincarol WFD

Day 7, PFDS, Aus

Feeling very good today and another half kilo down so my wayward vino excess this week had not lasting effect.

I had to laugh at your new Roomba @ccco. A friend of mine has called hers Voldemort because she loves having Voldemort ask her for help! We’ve got a robovac (different brand) and it is fabulous to keep the dog hair under control. Still doesn’t negate the need for a good vacuum but for day to day cleanliness I couldn’t live without it.

Happy Fri-yay everyone!

Day 7 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD – 153.8

Yesterday’s WF went fine, and it took a long time this morning to remember I’d not eaten since Wednesday–I love that my body isn’t interested in food first thing in the morning. Over the years, I’ve eaten lunch sometimes as early as 11 and sometimes not until noon, or even later, and I’m working at always waiting until noon these days. I think gaining strict control of when I break my fast will help with strict control of when I eat the rest of the day.

@funshipfreddie Yeah, that’s an astonishing article. I spend a lot of time on the sofa, sometimes because I’m being lazy, and sometimes because I’m busy on my laptop, and I never feel good about it. But the work I do on my laptop needs doing. So I guess I’ll simply do what I do, continue to work to lose more weight since I’m sure that will also be good for my body, and call it all good. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@ccco I fully understand your excitement about the renovations you’re doing to your home; they all sound lovely!

@brightonbelle Years ago, I read an article about people on WW who weren’t losing weight; the suggestion was that on one or two days a week, you ate a LOT. Now, they didn’t mean donuts and candybars, but healthy food stuff–a larger steak than usual, more mashed potatoes, a huge salad. You get the idea. Then on the other days of the week you limited your food according to the current WW protocols. I wonder if that would help you? And I also have a vague memory that perhaps Dr. Jason Fung said something to that effect in The Obesity Code. @funshipfreddie, do you remember anything of that sort?

@penz Well done on achieving PFDS!! Enjoy your pizza and red wine tonight. ❤️

@northgeorgia Sorry to hear the difficulties your mom is having with managing her pain. Have you told us the circumstances of her difficulties/pain?

I drive to Grand Island this afteroon for a wives of pastors retreat (two hours away, and that description always sounds as if bigamy is involved…) and I don’t get home until suppertime tomorrow, and then Sunday is the Super Bowl with a few friends coming over, so I won’t be back here until Monday, but on my list to do this morning is post some photos. 😇 Oh, and the sister who visited us over Christmas is having medical issues (she keeps falling, and her confusion is getting worse, and, and, and), so our sister zoom call today will be all about hearing what her doctor said. So it’s all a combination of cheerful and fun and worrisome. Deep breaths and faith…

Have a grand one, everyone!

USA. Day 7. FD
Second Post

Stitchincarol, I just checked out the 3 sites you posted above. Everything is lovely. You certainly make some very nice things. 👍🏻

My FD went well and my kitchen is closed. I was reading what stitchincarol wrote about the timing of her meals. I am trying to do something similar. I read an article in AARP today about someone who lost 100 lbs in a year eating one meal a day. I would like to aim for that. Lately,I have been experiencing hunger, even after I’ve eaten. I think it might be because of medicine I have to take. Knowing that, I think I will be able to conquer the hunger. It’s definitely worth a try!

Good night, everyone! I need my rest for the upcoming snow! 🙁

Day 8 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

@stitchincarol – I had the weirdest dream last night?! I was playing golf with you & your DH, + a couple of other people. I’ve never played golf in my life 🤷
I don’t remember Jason Fung saying anything about eating more on certain days, other than advocating fasting. He sums up the book with – 1. Reduce your consumption of added sugars. 2. Reduce your consumption of refined grains. 3. Moderate your protein intake. 4. Increase your consumption of natural fats. 5. Increase your consumption of fibre & vinegar. Then he says, “There is one more piece of the puzzle…” which leads to the final chapter about when to eat & fasting. Enjoy your retreat & the Super Bowl.

@ccco – I hope you don’t have to shift too much snow! ❄

@jaifaim – I don’t remember having scales at home either. Weight just wasn’t something that was discussed. No eating between meals either though, apart from an occasional biscuit. And I remember only one classmate who was overweight. Enjoy the time with your mum

I’d love to know who sponsored this study. 3500 cals per day?! Who would need that many, unless they were deliberately trying to gain weight? On a high-fat/low-carb diet there’s no way you’d need so many, and no-one needs 3 meals + two snacks..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14372729/Ross-Turner-Hugo-high-carb-fat-diet-comparsion.html

Have a good weekend everyone 🌤🌈

USA. Day 8. FD

Good day, everyone!

I finally found out why I am not losing the weight I should be with all this fasting and I am very disappointed. I think I really need to pay more attention to myself and stop passing off everything as getting old. I did that and found out I had a brain tumor. Now I am blaming myself for something new. I have quite a list of side effects from a medication I take, including increased hunger, swollen fact and limbs, fatigue (even though I have always been a high energy person), and numerous others. The hunger has been extreme and I have been trying so hard to control it. At least I know there is a reason for all of this beyond myself. I printed out all my side effects and will show them to my doctor in two weeks when I see him. The problem is they have had a hard time for drugs that work on me. There’s always something but I am doubling down on the weight problem but I can’t control the swelling. Hmmm!

NorthGeorgia, it sounds like your mother has something similar to what I have wrong with my knees. My right knee doesn’t bend anymore and the knee dislocates, even when I swing a golf club. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get those pain killing shots because of my brain tumor. Those doctors said that could cause my brain to bleed. At the time I found out I had the tumor, I also learned I had frozen shoulder. My mother had that. I couldn’t have medicine for that either, but physical therapy helped me greatly and I regained the full range of that joint. It’s permanent damage from aging (thickening cartilage and tendons), so it will be something I have to work out for the rest of my life to keep my range of motion, but I think it’s worth it. I do the PT exercises for both my shoulder and my knees at home most days and it helps. Maybe that’s a route your mother can take. It might help. I wish her well. As the saying goes, getting older takes courage

NorthGeorgia, it looks like you are coming up with a plan.

BrightonBelle, good luck to your rugby team today! Tomorrow we have our biggest football game. It looks like it is going to be quite something and the security for it is out of this world. I wish the world didn’t need such things as that.

Excelsior12309, I had trouble refusing bread at one time. I couldn’t get enough of it. Interestingly, some years ago when I decided to swear off white flour, that also meant bread to which I was highly addicted to, but I finally succeeded. I not only don’t eat white flour or white bread, I stopped liking it. I enjoy multigrain bread and no long crave the white bread. I don’t even like it anymore. I gave up sugar, salt, but white flour was really hard for me but I succeeded. Good luck with bread.

Thank you, everyone. I am not looking forward to all the snow but at least I claim the shoveling as exercise! LOL

Day 9, NFD, Aus

I’ll be watching the Superbowl tomorrow (Monday 10 am on the eastern side of Australia). It’s fun to be able to watch it – normally I’d be at work! 🙂

Day 9 – Ireland – NFD🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽‍♀️ 🌾

Hi all, just checking in. @ccco so sorry to hear you are suffering from side effects with the medication.

Happy FD @funshipfreddie 🌟

Have a lovely day everyone!

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 9 – USA/GA – FD

Weigh-in: 237 lbs. Hey, sorry if I burst any bubbles, but I would kind of be wary of anything in the “Daily Mail.” I mean in the article, they can’t even be bothered to print the name of the teacher in question, which is one of the basic tenets of professional journalism. Being a former teacher myself, I suspect the “shocking video” was nothing more than a fun fancy-dress or Halloween type event at the school that was just a bit of fun for a day, and has been taken out of context and given a life of its own in yellow journalism and on social media. The end of the article is a flag for me… who is giving out “lollies” (sweets) at that age level in class, unless it is for a special event day?

I wish I could have a lolly today, from a cat-woman or otherwise, but it is a FD, and I desperately need a good one to start off this week. I must be insane on the most widely-approved snack day of the year in the U.S., but I’m not a big American football fan, so I think I’ll be fine. Is it Super Bowl or SuperB owl? https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5285704/superb-owl-super-bowl-reddit-meme 🙂

2nd Post – Day 9

Pocket List – Day 9 🥚
@funshipfreddie
@ccco
@northgeorgia

Day 10 NZ FD 69kg⬇️ 🏃🏼‍♀️🌋

What a big walk y’day – 1/2 an hr down hill then 2 hrs mostly steep uphill to get over a ridge. Paisley the Scottie was a wee trouper!!
A big digger was dropped off on a site two houses away and I can hear the workmen getting organised… We’re on volcanic soil so the vibrations and noise really carry… They don’t have to notify neighbours now so we don’t know what they’re building but will probably fill up the site with multi-storey townhouses. There is so much crap being built now because of a housing shortage and developers don’t need sign-off the way they used to. Chances are no architects are involved and the site will be maxed out with no space for gardens… I might sound gloomy but that’s our reality in this city.
I’m off to join the doggie pack and walk up Mt Eden.
Have a good day!!

Pocket List
@brightonbelle
@molij
@merry🍎

Day 10 NE England NFD

Wet, cold and miserable here today. Not going to get as much walking as I would like, we are travelling to see the youngest Granddaughter today.
Scale is up and down the same one pound. I am determined to get the downward momentum going again.

@funshipfreddie I wouldn’t even waste my time looking at the Daily Fail!!

@northgeorgia No eating after 8pm is my rule too but I try for 6:30, I certainly feel better for it.
@ccco I hope you find a resolution to the side effects, sounds awful.
@molij A lot to deal with, we get rats in the garden too but never been troubled by moles.
@merryapple How I wish it were summer here now.

Day 10 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Our super bowl party yesterday was fun, thankfully, since the game was so heartbreaking for the Chiefs fans all eight of us who were here are. I had two beers, which is acceptable as far as total alcohol, but it sure shows up on the scale the next morning in a way that two glasses of wine don’t! Oh well; it’ll come off again, and I was so busy preparing food, tidying everything obsessively, and playing hostess, that I ended up eating very little, relatively speaking.

@funshipfreddie Too, too funny about your dream of playing golf with DH and me–we neither of us play, either, LOL!

@jaifaim The retreat wasn’t the least bit fancy (it was in a church fellowship hall), but it was lovely to see women I know and seldom see. My GF son says he’s heard that Guinness can be okay for those with sensitivities, but that’s not been his experience. Have you heard the same thing?

@northgeorgia What a shame about your mom’s knee problems. ☹️

@penz I thought of you multiple times during the game; I hope you’re an Eagles fan, because you will have thoroughly enjoyed it, LOL!

Thanks for all the compliments; I do like to sew/knit/stitch…

I’m off to the doctor in an hour; my post-nasal drip has turned into a whallop of a sore throat, and now I have the addition of very little voice, so we’ll see if there’s any magic medicine available.

Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 11 country west Australia 84.0 kgs !! CD
Time to get very serious – possible heart problems 😲😱
I find that I can only have FDs and CDs.
If I don’t keep my NFDs to CDs and stick to my TDEE ( Total Daily Energy Expenditure ) then it negates my FDs.
I have to lose 10 kgs fairly quickly ( yes the SAME 10 kgs that have been hanging around since forever), cut red meat and processed meat, less UPF ( which I hardly ever consume so that is easy ) but being a carnivore who adores carbs it will be a challenging 6 weeks.
Hi to everyone and happy days with wherever you are on the 5:2 journey.
Back to basics for me ….

Day 11, NFD, Aus

I did enjoy the Superbowl but it was disappointingly one-sided. The Chiefs who played in the 4th quarter (what about that TD pass!!) were definitely a different team who started the game. Oh well, there’s always next year!

I was going to do an OMAD today (given that I ate nachos and chicken wings yesterday and what would otherwise be a FD) but my tummy was growling so much I ended up having lunch at 10 am. So much for my usual ZBC state!

GL with your new eating plan @ccco. It sounds challenging, but you’ve got the right focus and motivation to succeed.

No meerkats in this part of the world but plenty of Skippys around on our morning walk to tempt the dogs today…

Day 11 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 238 lbs. Well, got invited to lunch instead of dinner, so I did end up having a heavier lunch and a light dinner. No eating after 8, still! Down about half a pound this morning. I have a lunch meeting today, so I’m doing a ZBC and plan to either skip dinner or have something very light. @iona72 I would love to stop at 6:30, but some days I don’t even arrive home until that time — however, I am trying to stop the main meal by 7, and if I keep it up, will try to move up my absolute cut-off time 🙂

Day 11 – Rural Nebraska, USA – don’t know

I have strep, am almost no longer contagious since it’s almost been 24 hours, and it was never awful the way strep can be since it was caught early, but I’m tired, so have cancelled piano lessons today. So can I do a WF at home? No idea. And I don’t plan to feel guilty about any eating choices I make today. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have snow on the ground. Not much, but it’s snow, and it’s the most we’ve had this winter. But actual snowfall is forecast, starting tonight, with anywhere from 3 to 7 inches forecast. Consider: Feb 11 and it’s the first measureable snow all winter. Amazing. And terrifying, too, since we need snowpack for healthy plants.

Have a grand one, everyone.

Day 12, FD, Aus

Such sad news about your mum @jaifaim. How lucky that you are there with her and I hope the care team are wrong about her ability to rally back.