Hi All,

Well done everyone, trying to catch up with messages that come in at a rate of knots!!

Weigh in done…another loss….6lbs last week so that 1.7stone in 4 weeks…i have to also thank myfitnesspal as combined with my FD’s im also trying to eat 500 calories under my TDEE as a minimum which is proving quite easy. This diet has really got me going and i have never seen such success without the thoughts of falling off the wagon….one massive achievement was getting a bag of crisps from the cupboard on a non fasting day and then putting them back in the cupboard!!!

Welcome to the newbies, im sort of one myself but now feel like an old timer with so many joiners…its really great and whilst i dont talk much on here your inspirational motivation is what is keeping me going!!!

Thank you x

Cookie

4 stone to go!!!

Morning All..

Our wedding anniversary today 13 years..❤..

DF… Happy Birthday have a lovely day..🎁

Well done on all the losers, page turned so can’t name you all..

Cookie.. you are doing really well..

Pasha.. well done on the sugar free month looks as it’s paying off… we are having sugar everyday ouch!!

Minols.. glad the doggies home and resting, he’s been away a long time..

Ginette.. hope all goes well for you today..

Audrey.. take it steady, I know the feeling!!

Hemmy..love your quote.. I must take it on board.. lol

Jessie ..well done on your first FD.

Staying local today… fed up on all the eating … white trousers haven’t been worn..now hoping for the summer .. lol.. I will get it all off no problem. 😀.. hay fever calmed down at moment..

Have a lovely day all

Jean x

Hey Jean and Df enjoy your celebrations..

I am having a duvet day feel dreadful… no more meals out for me….

Back tomorrow

Audrey x

Happy Birthday Df .. hope you enjoy your special day. Xx

Sym and Steve. Happy Anniversary and many more of them. Xx

Sorry all, been a bit pre-occupied as I think our dog is unwell again. Yet another sore which isnt healing. Found a local vet, although no idea what they are like. Appointment on Fri morning and Im going to ask them to check her thyroid….Ive been having a look on google!!! No in all seriousness, she does have similar symptoms.

Happy Birthday Dragonfly, happy anniversary Jean and Steve, well done Cookies, Pasha, Jessie 🙂

Hi all

Goodness a lot going on today.

Well done on the great losses Pasha and Cookie.

Cookie you look like you’ll be zipping through those other stones before you can say ‘hold the harpoon’. You have really got in your stride with this. I reckon it really starts to get noticeable once you’ve lost a stone and a half. Not long now and you’ll need to change that negative profile of yours for something that reflects success!

Tammy, actually you can do anything, that third stone off is looming!!

Jess, Well done on your first fastday. Honestly if you can do one you can do them all. It really does get easier.

Happy birthday DF, have a lovely evening.

Happy anniversary Jean and Steve, how romantic and sweet 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Don’t worry Jean, just enjoy your hol, you’ll be back before you know it and with a metabolism ready for action!

Audrey, poor you, we’ve all been there, sometimes you just want to break out!

Honestly what are our animals like?? No sooner does one start recovering, another has a problem. Minols hope dog 1 continues well and Kay hope you can get Ellie sorted out quickly. We have two cats and a dog and I can really relate to the anxiety they cause when things are not right.

Hope everyone else ok.

It just occured to me that, unlike anywhere else, being called a loser is the greatest compliment lol

So our beach means we are totally fantastic then. Lets keep it up guys! Xx

Morning all

I am a lot better today, thanks for all your get well wishes.

I managed a 600 kcal day yesterday and have popped on scales and I am up 2 lb. after our meal out…. so it’s a fast day for me today…anyone else fasting?

Keep in touch, together we are stronger

Audrey x

Good Morning all,

Wow I missed alot yesterday. I had another busy one so sorry for not posting.

Jess, well done on your 1st successful fast on Monday. They do get much easier. when I started I’d have 2 low cal ready meals a day, now I can go all day and wait for tea no issue.

Cookies, my goodness that’s alot of weight off in a month. Well done you.

Happy Birthday DF for yesterday and happy anniversary Jean and Steve also.

Jean, hope you’re having a fabulous holiday.

Kay, sorry to hear your dog isn’t well again. Glad you’ve found a vets and hope he’s better soon.

Sarah, Aud, Tammy, Lynne, Lynda and Clare, Minols, hope you’re having a good week.

Angela. xx

Morning all – busy on here last evening. Happy day after your anniversary, Jean and Steve!

Working from home again this morning with snoring dog to accompany me (the other one sleeps silently) Kay, you’ve reminded me I need to call the vet next to get a ‘stitch-removing’ apt for the weekend.

FD today – so I’m heeding everyone’s encouragement to Jessie – after the first one, they get easier, and it’s reasonably straightforward to only eat in the evening it seems. My head seems to be feeling it harder at the moment, so I need all the PMA I can get I’ve found some fish cakes in the freezer, so they are out ready for tonight…if I last that long. Tummy rumbling already – ridiculous! Can’t believe I’m back at the fish cake days of the summer…they were my FD go to food then!

Right…vet…

See you later
Mx

Minols and Audrey, sending you lots of positive vibes for the day .. YOU CAN DO IT!! Take it an hour at a time if things get rough 🙂

Good luck!

xx

Morning all

FD for me as well today.

Kay, hope you manage to get the vet to sort Ellie’s pyobl on Friday. Ours went to the vet yesterday to have her claws cut and came out with a bandaged paw as they caught the quick. She felt very sorry for herself all evening.

Cookie, well on the weight loss. It’s great when you see the results from your efforts.

Jean & Steve, congratulations for yesterday. Hope you had s great day.

Good luck to everyone on FD today and to those on NFD enjoy.

Lynne

Morning all

Just a quick one as crazy busy at work. NFD again today but not eating until lunchtime. Had half a bottle of wine last night which seems to be a regular Tuesday thing these days & it just seems so odd that I can have it and still lose weight as it’s all within my calories.

Will pop back later, have a great day. Clare x

Stay strong minols
You can do this… it’s only today then tomorrow we can eat… I have only had cup of coffee so far and 3 pebbles in jar tells me I have drank 3 glasses of water so far thanks to Hemmy for great idea…

I was thinking I may have an oxo later but they are now buried in the spare bedroom with half my kitchen.. lol 😆… so no oxo..!!

Back later stay strong everyone tomorrow we can dine like royalty.

Audrey x

Thanks all…made it to lunchtime and off into town now. Only coffee this afternoon, and I’ll be fine!
Mx

Hi all, how are my fellow fasters doing?

I am just about to have my soup…. then for the tricky part not eating again this evening…

Good luck all

Audrey xx

I have finished my fast day under 500 kcals so that is good.
Going to do my usual early bath then bed.

Good luck to my fellow fasters stay strong..

Back tomorrow

Audrey x

Evening everyone

Well done fasters, sounds as if you are all staying strong and the day is nearly over now. Tomorrow you can eat. Tammy only one more day for you. Full of admiration about your 3/4. Roll on Friday eh?

It was a non fast day for me today and have kept it controlled, unlike some other days this week. Didn’t eat til this evening and then had a 3 egg spinach and mushroom omelette with big salad. About to have blueberries and creme fraiche. Very filling. I haven’t made actual omelettes with that sort of filling for ages, having gone for tortillas instead, packed full of potatoes previously. How things change!

Have no confidence I will have lost this week amd will need to control myself this weekend. Grandson number 1 is 7 and son and girlfirend arriving to help celebrate – cue family meals and pokemon cake (which I am making somehow!).

Have a good evening everyone, the weekend is just over the horizon xx

Hi Sarah

Think they sell pokemon cakes at asda if you want to cheat! Lol… enjoy the grandchildren while they are young as we know they grow up far too quickly…

Caspdexy well done on another successful fast day…

Minols how are you doing?

Audrey xx

I think that is what Thomas had on his last year… but just looked on line for you and can’t find it anymore.. perhaps ask? Or if you have a bakery shop nearby can they help? Hope I haven’t given you wrong information!!

Audrey x

Thanks for trying to help. Much appreciated x

Evening all,

Well done faster for today. Nearly another successful one done for you all.

The last 2 days have been NFD’s for me. Yesterday I came in about on TDEE but so far today I’m only up to 1100 cals. Might try to leave it there but something is ingrained in me calling me to eat a few more calories because I can! 😂 I need to curb that.

FD for me tomorrow again and weigh in Friday. Fingers crossed.

Aud, I know you have a fitbit, I wanted to ask if you trust the calories it says you’ve burned? I calculated my TDEE at 1750 cals but my fitbit is telling me I’m burning 2200 on average. I am achieving my 10,000 steps a day but that feels too many?

Sarah, making a pokemon cake sounds stressful. Which pokemon are you making?

Hope everyone else is having a good day. xx

Hi Aud,

I didn’t realise you could link MFP to Fitbit. Surely if MFP says only 448 cals burned then it means in addition to your base metabolic rate as you’d use about 1400 cals approx if you slept all day? xx

Audrey, Sussex Prices! For many years when we lived in the midlands we used to talk at length about moving to an area with an easier cost of living. So what do we do? Move to the South East…..

Sarah, yes, many more than 1 pokemon. Exactly how many I’m not sure as I haven’t caught them all yet! 😂 I think I have about 70 though. 😂😂

You are braver than me even attempting the press out icing. I didn’t know such things exist.

Aud, then perhaps MFP and Fitbit aren’t too far away for you then? If you add your calories burned to your BMR you’d get about the same and fitbit does this. It should be about the same as your TDEE in total?
I’ve linked it now, well so it said, but I can’t see where to find calories burned on MFP… I will play for a bit. I’m not brilliant at technology either. xx

Sarah if it doesn’t have to be a particular Pokémon just do a poke ball- half circle white, half red & a white dot in the middle. Google it, should be fairly simple x