Good morning FB Brits hope all is well with you and yours. Xx

Hopefully warmer this week so maybe easier on the Fast days.

Think it sounds in general its the non fast days creating the problems. Wine once again my trigger. What is yours? Xx

Lets all try and knuckle down this week on those days .. be Mindful. We have spring around the corner … wearing less clothes and all that goes with it.

Lets try and go for it. Just gently applying the rules. Back to Basics as such.

Kay .. hope today brings a happier day for you and Ellie. You have had a lot to contend with. Only so much we can be expected to cope with. Take care Kay. Xxxx

Hope all our loved ones … pets are feeling better today. Healing thoughts. Xx

Sym.. hope you get the flight sorted ok. Will be lovely to have you back. Xx

Aud hope the kitchen goes well. Xx

Have a good day all whatever you are doing. Brit Lovelies….

“Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach” Xx

BSB … Oh well done 1 1/2 lbs.. brilliant start to the week for you.

Hope you catch up on your timings this morning. Have a good day. Xx

Morning All…..

Doing this in the dark as Steve is asleep he he..

Going to the Atlantic coast today a different run out.. our last drive out and about..

Hemmy… hope you enjoyed your weekend and not too much merlot.. lol

DF.. staying the same is better than putting on… your body balancing out a bit then off it goes again ..

Clare.. well done on your loss.. hope your day calms down for you and you catch up with yourself…

Lynne…your weekend sounded good.😀. I am always up after a weekend… that’s my problem area.. OK in the week usually quite positive…I suppose we all know were we fall down..

Love the idea of longer days we always notice it on returning off a February holiday. ( our main holiday). It makes cutting the food back easier.. salads etc

Audrey.. good luck with the kitchen..getting excited 😊 ..

Kay.. hope you are feeling better and Ellie also 😀

Monday fast.. I am missing it.. ..All have a good mass fast I will be with you next Monday to clear the damage.. lol

Jean x

Wow Girls..

Have you noticed 10,000 posts…how much weight have we lost all together…

Kay pebbles please???

I could of stayed at home 😂

Jean x

Hi all

Nfd for me

Good luck all fasters

Audrey, it will soon be over and worth the hassle.

Clare well done on your loss and DF on maintaining

Jean, Steve enjoy the last day of your holiday

Kay hope Ellie and yourself are doing better.

Hi to everyone else I haven’t named getting to many to keep up.

Cookie was it your weigh in day today?

Well mum appears better, she has gone back to work today, she should of retired 13yrs ago, I guess it keeps her going.

Tammy xxx

Hi all and well done Claire.

Fingers crossed for all Monday fasters, including me! Hope everyone feeling good and strong, not long to go now.

Enjoy your last day Jean, will look forward to you back for next Monday’s group fast.

Audrey, good luck this week. It will all be worth it.

Tammy, glad your mum feels a bit better.

Kay, hope both you and Ellie are getting sorted out. I imagine that is all very stressful directly after a house move.

Hemmy, I hear you regarding wine as a trigger point. It isn’t my only trigger but probably the most powerful. I really like nice wine, am never not going to like it, and it always signals food to me…..I do mostly try to stay on the wagon Monday to the weekend.

Staying losers is our aim 😇. Have a good (short) evening everyone xx

Good evening all,

Well done Claire on 1.5lb loss and DF for maintaining.

I’ve joined MFM and I seem to have no problem now going all day without food and waiting until tea. My M&S meal is currently in the microwave.
Hope all the other fasters are doing well.

Aud, understandable you can’t do 5:2 this week with no kitchen. It will be worth it though. How long will it take them to fit the new one?

Jean, looking forward to having you back with us. You’ll drop the holiday excess in no time.

Lynda, glad to hear your foot’s is beginning to heal and you managed to sneak in a fast day.

Kay, how’s Ellie doing?

Hemmy, wine isn’t a trigger point for food for me. I can’t resist but when I do drink I’m not snacking. Calories from alcohol are considered to be the worst as I think I read somewhere that the body works on those before any calories from food. For me it’s the day after wine I have the issue with food as I’m always hungry then! 😂

Well, the scales have not been too unkind to me after my weekend. Only 1/2lb up and I’m fasting today. I think the tummy bug has helped as I still wasn’t great on Saturday. I could have done without the big day out in Nottingham drinking cocktails 😂 Still, I had fun.

xx

Update…..now I remember why I stopped eating bananas….it wasnt very big but weighed about 160g which meant 142 cals!!! Good grief!

Finished on 480 cals so slightly over my fasting allowance..

Kay, how many calories do you try to stick to on a FD? I was considering reducing mine but I think I had my TDEE wrong. I’d set my activity levels too low so I’m happy now that 500 is less than a quarter of a day’s calories.

Clare, some days are harder than others for fasting. Going to bed is a good plan. I should do that as I’m munching on raspberry laces at the moment. I have the calories left but still, I don’t need them! 😂

I’m curled up with my cat on the sofa. She’s become really disorientated lately and I think it the Metacam she’s on from the vets. Poor little love keeps bumping into everything to find her way round. I’m not going to get her the medsame tomorrow to prove if it’s that. She’s also got some narcotics for the pain I can give her if needed.

Kay, it doesn’t sound right if Ellie’s sore is still weeping after 4 days. A call to the vets is a good idea. They don’t half put us through it eh?!
xx

Angela, poor marmite 🙁

I have my TDEE as 1600 which is in between activity levels of sedentary and light. So I should only be eating 400 cals on a FD!!

Sarah, well done on fluids only and hope you manage to stay in control tomorrow.

Kay x

Morning all

Amazing how much more on track you feel after a single FD. Feeling more in control now after a poor weekend.

Kay, keeping reasonably controlled through the week is never really a problem. It’s the weekends which do for me every time.

I will have to take care not to think it is a permanent weekend when I finish work in the summer. I am sure there will need to be some adjustment, a bit scary even though I know I have to change my life. I am on a six month notice period and it’s in now!

Have a good Tuesday everyone. Stay strong if you are fasting and if you’re not! Xx

Morning all and Happy Valentine’s day. I’m just sharing a little love this morning. Hee hee.

Sarah, I’m with you. The working week isn’t so much my issue, but weekends I tend to overdo it. How lovely for you to be finishing work in the summer. You might find you’re more active after work as you can be more in control?

Well, it might be Valentine’s day but I have a dinner date with a customer tonight and hubby has football. How romantic we are!😂

Have a good day all. xx

Morning all

NFD today & got 2 days off work to spend with the boy as it’s half term. Just made him heart shaped pancakes for breakfast & didn’t eat a single one so I’m feeling quite smug lol.

It’s a lovely day here in Norfolk so I think we are going for a Pokemon walk later in the sunshine.

Hope you all have a lovely day. Clare x

Thank you so much Lynne and Jean .. I did feel good to discover the inches gone!

Lynne, I’ll keep everything crossed for a good weigh in on Thursday 🙂

Jean, I’m so glad you’ve had a lovely holiday 🙂 Me and my other half are trying to save up for a few weeks away this year. Its been a while since we had a break 🙂

Enjoy the rest of the day x

DF.. it’s always nice to be away.. but FD’s are calling now.. it’s sad really 😀

Hope you can find somewhere to go, when we were young it was beach and pool but now a couple of hours of sun is enough and we like to roam 😂😂

Tammy .. mine keeps ticking out ..I thought it is where I am..

Audrey .. hope you are stress free 😀😀

Hemmy.. have a nice walk with Mr Pips… I have got a fair bit of walking in this holiday hope it balances the pounds out..

All is quiet on here..

Jean x

Its nice to have FD’s to focus on Jean, I get that totally, its not sad haha! I do like beach and pool holidays, but also like to explore too 🙂 We’re probably hoping for somewhere at the end of June early July. I hope we can get a good deal somewhere warm 🙂

I have a day off work tomorrow, so may not get time to update. I’m spending a few hours with my dad, he had a stroke in September last year, and another small stroke at Christmas. He’s on the mend thankfully. Later on, I will see my son and perhaps go for a bite to eat (its a NFD lol).

My next post will probably be Thursday and it will be my second fast of the week!

So, see you all Thursday 🙂

Thanks for the support … STAY STRONG 🙂 X

DF… have a lovely day with Dad and son.. enjoy special times..
See you back Thursday…

Sarah … hoping for racing metabolism 😂I can still get in my white trousers snug as before holiday.. haven’t worn them but I am still in them snug!!! 😂

All very quiet on here..

Jean x

Angela.. I was surprised the trousers would fasten… looking at 3lbs up tops.. would be upset on more..I will give it a few days before weigh in let it level out…😬

Too many cookies and donuts eaten…

Steak sounds lovely.. maybe that’s what we will be having tonight ..told Steve make the most of it he is on rations from now on 😂😂

Hope hubby gets back soon and you can have some time together…

Jean x

Morning

Quick post whilst I can… the kitchen fitting is going OK, electricians came yesterday so we have no power in the kitchen at the moment the plasterer is coming later to board the ceiling and the units are arriving tomorrow…we are camping out in the living room lol 😁…

The diet is forgotten having take away again today…

Will be back when I can

Audrey x

Hi all, Im still here!

I think the anti-biotics are starting to work as Ellies skin doesnt seem to be getting any worse. I even think it could be fractionally better. Shes had 5 days of the meds now so 15 days to go, so hopefully things will improve more noticeably soon.

I feel much better now my tablets are sorted out, back to my usual self, so thats a relief!

Weight up but no surprise there as Ive been eating too much! I have 2 days to regain control before weigh in on Friday!

I have read all your posts, but too many to comment on but well done with inches lost, weight loss, white jeans still fitting, kitchen progress; Lynne I hope your hubby continues to get better and DF you enjoy your family time.

Properly catch up later x

Jean
Predictive text strikes again, it was suppose to be lovely, but I have been watching the woodpecker, that lives in the garden at my work.

Safe journey

Tammy x

Hi all

Not fasting today but not eaten yet so it feels a bit like it. Feel inclined get act together instead of piddling about which is what I’ve been doing for a week or two. A good day though and home super early.

We are having globe artichokes which I got at the weekend. We both love them with butter and lemon juice, then veg chili with brocolli and jacket potato for OH. Will be fasting tomorrow. Have made a pact with myself after overdoing the carbs at the weekend, so am going to try to do this – no rice, pasta or potatoes (easy) and no bread (very hard) except for a single thin slice of sourdough for breakfast after both fast days. The thought of toast and peanut butter the next morning is the only thing that keeps me going on fast day. That is the plan.

Jean, I reckon 3lbs over a holiday is very good going. I know only an estimate but those white trousers don’t lie.

Angela, hope your husband got back in time for you to salvage the evening.

Kay, pleased your tablets are sorted and Ellie hopefully on the mend. You deserve a period of calm stability after this.

Lynne, that is stress of a whole news magnitude, hope the shingles have been caught early and that things calm down for you.

Tammy, Angela you are getting to the end of FD, stay strong and the same to anyone else fasting today.

Cookie, is your weigh in a Tuesday? Or maybe it is your holiday. You might be continuing to do great and I hope you are but remember the slips along the way are part of adjusting the habits of a lifetime.

Hemmy, DF and anyone else who might be lurking not posting, hope you’re having a good day. Xx

Hi Angela

Your weekends don’t sound unusual for someone working. I guess it is understandable that your OH focusses on your stepson when he is with you, but maybe a gentle conversation about the need to do interesting things together on the other weekends or you end up not doing nice things together at all. Having a full on job doesn’t help either because you need to rest up at the weekends. But actually doing stuff is as good as a rest because it enables you to step down and away from work and can be healing psychologically. If you’ve moved for a job where you’re in a leadership position you don’t make friends at work, even though you can become close to people.

Is there a nice leisure place you could join, even if you don’t do gym stuff you can swim or sauna, do a low key exercise like Pilates or yoga or lounge about with other people. It sounds as if you should try to find something you like doing or contribute to that isn’t work and that you can join locally, so you have a group of friends independently. I need to do more on this myself. Otherwise it seems your life is largely work and recovery and family commitments. You can only get fed up with that in time. And not great for your relationship either. You sound very tolerant to me!

My life has really changed over the last few years at weekends. We used to be very social and lived in an area with a lot of friends. I am extrovert and like people and having a laugh. I have similar job issues to the ones above and my daughter is quite time consuming and needs quite a bit of support due to a variety of complicated reasons, plus I do like to see my small grandchildren. But I do feel life has become more family orientated than I really want all the time and I do think this has contributed to weight gain, cookie making with a three year old, cooking family meals (it is always me).

Really the trigger for eating too much is (childishly) feeling I deserve a treat. After all I have generally not been drinking midweek, I have been mostly careful with what I eat and I’ve been working quite hard too (somedays ha), so we go for a walk and then eat scones or cake out, or we go to the cinema or to a play, concert etc and eat out or have something ‘special’. Really these are excuses to indulge myself. Either having too long a lie in or eating things I know aren’t great but hey I can get back on track on Monday, so I eat that piece of cake, crackers with cheese, bacon sandwich etc.

It is tough getting used to a new area, put yourself out there a bit, I am sure you will meet some fun people xx

Hi Sarah,

I can only imagine how hard it is for you baking with your grandchildren. And as lovely as it is for you to spend time with them, I can imagine you need something for you also. If I lived in an area with lovely walks and brilliant bakeries I’d probably be indulging just the same.
It sounds similar in that when you have downtime, it’s centred around food. Even a trip to the cinema usually involves snacks? For me I want to find things to do that I don’t associate with eating. Even if we went for walks I know I’d want to find a pub at the end and enjoy a lovely meal and glass of wine! 😂

Yes I did move here with work, when it was just me and my cat. And then I met my hubby and his son and ended up staying. I don’t begrudge him his time with his son and I’ll confess to being such an awful person that sometimes I’m pleased when he takes him off to football as I find he can be a handful. Even if we play family games together, his son won’t allow me to win, I’m not allowed by him to come 1st in the family at all. That is a challenge for me even after 7 years. (My stepson is 9.) He does, however, let me in to help with homework or to mediate between them both. I’ve told my husband I need some more alone time with him to bond with him more as we get on great when my husband isn’t around. I guess it’s a case of 3’s a crowd?
I did join a gym last year but it was far too hard core for me, and too expensive to only use at the weekend. I was thinking of starting an MBA or learning a language but I need to rest my brain. I like your suggestion of a health club so I can swim, use the steam room and sauna etc. I need to look into that. I’d like to find something more active to do with hubby when we haven’t got my stepson, as he doesn’t really have a circle of friends either to socialise with. We did have a chat a couple of weeks ago and agreed that rather than ending up doing nothing all day we’d actually start telling each other if we fancied doing something different.

Like you I’m an extrovert and love nothing better than socialising with people. I’m an army child and I grew up in Germany, used to moving every couple of years, making new friends and forgetting old ones, so I don’t have a wide circle of friends, just a couple of very close ones and in fact my parents are included in that. I think having had such a fabulous weekend with them last weekend has highlighted the boredom to me of my usual weekends.

OK, so after that wonderful therapy, thank you, I’m setting myself a new challenge for this Sunday which is to find something for hubby and I to do that’s fun and doesn’t include food. I’ll let you know how I get on. 😉 xx

You’re very insightful thank you Sarah. And how did you guess I get to help with Maths?! Although hubby is also a bean counter… imagine the fun we have! 😂

I might book for us all to go to a trampoline park or something on Saturday (no footy this week.) Let me try to convince hubby 😆 xx