Busy day again and I missed alot sorry!

Carol, well done on 4lbs lost. Wooohoo. Great going.

Sarah, my coaching was not self help but with a neuro linguistic professional. It was really enlightening. Of course, it doesn’t stop me being me under pressure, but it does mean I can choose to change in conscious thought. Usually though that’s retrospective where I realise I could have / should have done X Y or Z! 😂

Some busy days for everyone again. Mine was spent in full on spreadsheety budgety mode (Minols, Clare and DF you may have loved it!) I’m doing 12 hour days in the office at the moment with another hour’s travelling time, so apologies if I don’t keep up for the next couple of weeks. Abridged with 2 hen weekends I’m not expecting any kind of weight losses during this time. Life just happens sometimes. I’ll try and behave as often as possible.

Angela. xx

Hi Sarah,

With you taking magnesium you might be surprised about the lack of aching. My magnesium bath was only a recommendation from a PT last year.

I’m confused with you saying about fasting tomorrow instead of Wednesday? I thought tomorrow is Wednesday? 😂

I’m not on magnesium with regularity and I’m not sure it helped me last night in the bath. I think to get a good dose transdermally then you need way more than I used. Still took me a while and a few pee’s to get off to sleep. Maybe I should give the supplements a go? I used it in the bath as my shoulders ached from being hunched over a laptop all day.

I’m going Google Kon Mari…. xx

Ooo….spreadsheets….I do like a good spreadsheet. Hopefully I will get taken in the accountancy team and have lots of spreadsheety fun 🙂

Oh how I wish I had matching underwear to be able to sort! (sorry to any fellas around)

Im with you Sarah on the 800cals….Im struggling on what Im doing already!

Well over today. Hadnt bargained for the cider tonight, but Neil fancied a beer and treated me to a cider and he’s not had any money for ages, and of course I have no will power!
So cider and cauliflower cheese…..at least I use skimmed milk!!

Wed and Thurs will need to be FDs now….grrr….

Oh yes, I forgot about the carrot cake mix that I put in the bread maker. Bought it from Aldi for £1.30 something and thought it was cheap enough to give it a try. When I say I forgot about it….I dont mean its still in the bread maker…..I forgot to mention I’d had some!!! First cake in a while though. Unless you count a hot cross bun the other day 😉

Can I suggest we put a little tag line at the bottom of our next posts, or just post a one liner, with our forum name, real name if we want to be known as that, otherwise just the forum name, and a few words which will help others remember who we are….it might help 😉

I have a question, which goes back to last year, so maybe only Jean will remember, but I need a new steam mop and dont know what to go for!!

Ooo…forgotten my magnesium, will take it now….lol

Angela, that’s a lot of time in the office! I work 8-4 with a couple of hours travelling to and from, and its draining!

Its the second FD of my three .. I can do this right?

I’m not sure about the revised 5.2 thing? I think it was Kay who said, doesn’t that just make it a low cal diet? 700 is definitely more do-able, and it may work, I’m just not sure myself really.

To everyone fasting today, stay strong! To everyone else, have a wonderful day 🙂

I’ll be back later, as I’m anticipating today might be slightly tougher than yesterday!

DF (Kay) x

Hi Angela

Yes I am overdoing it on the NFDs. I am going to stop now! As I was going into the third set of squats with weights and push up yesterday I was thinking this is going to play havoc with the scales but decided the number on the scales has to take second place to the bigger (or hopefully smaller and more toned) picture. Measurements exactly the same.

Re your hours in the office. Take care! I am not doing it now but I have gone through long periods of 12-16 hour days without a break ever even for lunch and I am living proof it is not good for you at all. I was very target driven and high energy, enjoying the adrenaline hit achievement brings, never thought I was the sort of person would burn out, but I did. I have. Years of that sort of work is very bad for you and it completely wrecks your adrenal balances etc. I now realise ‘achievement’ can be pointless. You probably enjoy at the moment but take care to preserve yourself for a healthy future. Xx

Hi Sarah,

I am just like that, bouncing around all day trying to manage multiple priorities, not stopping for lunch and barely even for toilet breaks until last minute.
There’s a few things compounding the issue: the guy I had to let go in January I don’t have a replacement for. I’ve appointed someone but they won’t start until June. Then we have some group wide safety initiatives owing to accidents in other sites, and my OHSE manager is a lazy sod (something else I’ve made an appointment for and I’m waiting for someone to start.) Finally, we have to deliver next year’s annual budget next week and the Finance Controller has not had to do this before We only get 1 month to pull it all together, the finance team is a team of 2, the controller has fallen way behind and (being an associated fixer upper) I’ve had to step in and pull it together and get it back on track as we have to pre-deliver a presentation this Friday. That’s meant some long days and weekend work. 😥

After next week things should calm down again and I can reign my hours in. And then in June I can sit at my desk and file my nails 😉😂

xx

Morning all – feeling grumpy!
Had a run-in with a shouty man in the park. Hate meeting him because he always shouts at me because our dogs didn’t get on when we first moved here. His dogs are fine – and actually, so are mine…just don’t let the blonde one met him because he starts barking, and if he’s off the lead he is not the sort of dog to back down. This time, but blonde was on the lead, the old dog off, and I had momentarily lost which direction he had gone in so technically he was out of control…but out of control sniffing sniffs and not causing anyone any bother. I had just done my good citizen thing and picked up someone else’s dog poo that was on the path (I hate people going too and from the shops discovering they’ve walked in poo someone hasn’t picked up – I feel so sorry for them). Anyway, there I am being shouted out, and telling myself again that I must not shout back, it serves absolutely no purpose, better to put my energies into keeping blonde dog quiet and getting old dog on the lead…I know the circumstances of what was going on, but you can’t explain that or be heard in any meaningful way shouting over a field with dogs around, so I decide the least worst of all options is to walk away…even though that feels rude too!

So I’ve been at my desk an hour and I still want to go Grrrrrr!

Right, back to the point of this thread – FD alright yesterday – I’m fairly routinely over, but I walked 12 miles, so not too worried. On the new ideas front – by accident, that’s probably pretty much what I did yesterday – 3 food breaks, three portions of Heck and bacon (plus a few other things that we won’t mention). It was just one of those days that had started too early and needed to be broken up. I find doing the full on fast really difficult at the moment – back in the early days, I would wait until evening meal and eat everything then, and sometimes just do fluid. Maybe that’s easier in the summer? Don’t know. Anyway, the thing that has me most a fan of this WOL is the idea of having days of very little…and feasting (you know I love that!) It feels like a good restorative to the over-balance of modern life towards having whatever we want whenever we want it.

Quite possibly my problem is with the ‘good’ food bit…I really do love bad food!

Mx

I’m an expat in Cape Town and saw the Fast Diet documentary a few months ago

Started my first 5:2 fast day today so far had some All Bran/skimmed milk, plenty water, a small Apple and packet soup later if it goes well today may do my 2nd day tomorrow does anyone else do consecutive days or do you split your days up in the week?

Afternoon All…

Oh my dental hygienist hurt today…she said three times would I like an injection as some teeth were sore I declined but god she hurt…(Sorry Minols)

All going good on the boiler front just fed them so happy bunnies…Steve brought 2 vanilla slices and 2 choc eclaires in…he got a big frown..men don’t want them so now we have two each….!

Yozzi..
Welcome come and join in list of advice if you need it…I would split your days up when starting it will make it easier….you get longer fasts separate days…

Minols…
Couldn’t imagine a grumpy vicar, he really has rattled you….big breaths, calm down he won’t be worth it…lol

Hemmy..
Hope you get in the garden it’s really lovely..

Clare..
Poor you..a good game of golf….we felt like that going to dentist , a good caravan day…lol…pizza should be a no no but only half each, with some chips…lol..again half a portion…lol

Angela…
Have a good day, hope it soon calms down for you…

DF…
Enjoy your lovely walk , I used to like to get out the office at lunchtimes

Jean x

Hi all and welcome Yozzi

Minols, I hate shouty bullies – you did well just to walk away, probably the least rude thing you could do in the circumstances.v restrained.

Jean, don’t feel guilty about matching underwear, revel in it! Oooh I do love a vanilla slice

Angela, I had to laugh about your OHSE, you described every single one I have ever come across. Good luck with nail filing in June then…..

Welcome Yozzi. One of the great things about this way of life is the flexibility it provides. There’s always the possibility of tweaking things if you get bored or if one approach doesn’t work for you.

Minols, well done not being goaded into an argument. I can hear your frustration in your post.

Matching underwear does not exist in my life, I’m just trading big knickers for not quite so big knickers.

Kon Mari, interesting, but don’t clothes get creased with all the folding? I’m not sure I’ll ever find joy in my drawers!

Jean, my teeth always feel so sensitive after visiting the hygienist. Cream cakes, I could eat these until I was physically sick so trying to avoid.

DF, keep going, you can do it.

I used to work crazy hours. 12 hour days, then finish off at home in the evening or weekend. Always on my laptop. Hannah when she was 8 used to ask if it was month end, a new project, or annual appraisal time – always something essential I felt I had to keep on top of, and once you achieve more than is expected of you, then this becomes the new norm. The wheels came off when I worked on a project from 5pm – 1am and got an insight into Phil’s life whilst I was at work. I’d just been blinkered and the guilt was horrendous. Nearly 2 years later still off work (sick/career break) and now don’t suffer with the demons so much. I’ve seen more of the family than ever before, even when the girls were babies. I will go back to work one day, but not in the foreseeable future, and hope then to achieve the work/life balance everyone talks about but which I never managed to acquire.

Just checked online and discovered that planning has been approved for our extension. Being completed under Disabled Facilities Grant (though we have to pay quite a big chunk) and will give Phil a bathroom and downstairs bedroom (currently he has a hospital bed in the lounge). Once the bathroom is completed I’ve promised Rebecca (youngest) that I’ll look at getting the disabled wetroom we have put back as a proper bathroom – with a bath!

The sun is shining, the washing is drying on the line and all, for once, is good in our little corner of Cardiff.

Hope everyone else is having a good day.

Lynne (Pasha) – currently caring for Phil (OH) with 2 girls, 2 cats (Pasha & Evie) and a lazy lurcher (Amber)

Jean, only a few miles and 2 motorway junctions away from us, as we live in Cardiff East. Won’t be long before we join with Newport the number of houses being built in our area at the moment.

I’ve passed the Tradegar House site and looks really nice, and so easy from M4.

The BBC weather forecast next week is better than Met Office, so we’ll go with that one, but it’s Wales so bring your wellies!

Lynne x

Crib sheet so far:

Symba7….Jean and Steve..retired..lives near Selby NE….been with this thread 17 months…the caravanners

Lynne (Pasha) – currently caring for Phil (OH) with 2 girls, 2 cats (Pasha & Evie) and a lazy lurcher (Amber)

Kay65 – Kay – the one with the poorly dog, recent house move and struggling to lose final half stone.

Lynne..
Tredegar is a lovely site…lots for dog walkers and a lovely playground for the children…we don’t have either now….Louise will keep us on our toes won’t be restful, either, dogs, cats, vets, shopping…back wards and forward visiting…families…lol

Kay…
You sound your bouncy self…glad alls ok at the moment…looked back at the forum couldn’t find the makes of the steam cleaner…Audrey’s away in the caravan, I will ring her when I am back from Wales, I need a chat and I will ask her..

You can add on my piece…fighting to loose my last half stone…..I think Minols and Hemmy are on their last 7 lbs the same.

We have eaten the vanilla’s our favourites…just the choc eclairs to go…very very naughty.

FD for us tomorrow…

Jean x

Hi there!

I am conducting a research on the effect of intermittent fasting on mood as part of my final year dissertation.

The participation for this study involves the completion of 3 short questionnaires while fasting for a period of 12 hours.
You are free to choose the date and time you will be fasting, I would recommend choosing a rest day.
(I need 50 of them)
You could for instance start fasting at 7am and break your fast at 7pm and have your breakfast and dinner and need to only skip lunch.

If any of you are interested in participating and contributing to the results of this study please click on the link below! If the results are interesting I intend on publishing my study.

I will truly appreciate your participation 🙂

https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3dwO574aCRDccL3

Thanks a lot!

I would love to hear your thoughts after you have completed the study! So please let me know by contacting me at the following email address: u1245810@uel.ac.uk

Oh, and yes, on the last half stone and the slowest loser ever because too chilled and border-line lazy…but hoping to walk it off before I trek to Peru in October

The grim truth of my ‘plateau’ is that I am just eating too much on NFDs!

Thanks all for the welcome!

Is there a quick way of finding out how many calories are in each meal or portion or serving? I’m sure there must be but first time on the site

Yozzi..

If you download ‘Myfitnesspal’ App it counts your calories for you, your meals you eat regularly…after about two weeks it gets your regular food in its memory and it is easier to use..

It helps I do it every day, it links to Fitbit …have a look…

Jean x

Hi Girls Xx

What a glorious day. Feeling blessed hopefully more to come.

FD went well 600 including a cup of hot milk later. Day 3 No Wine. Lol

Haven’t had chance to see this tidy draw thing yet will watch later. I am a basket lover cant resist them … shoes… dog toys.. makeup. .. you name it they all have a basket. .Lol

Welcome..Yozzi Think to start with probably better to split days for Fasts.

Lots of help here and you will soon find what suits you best. Good luck. Xx

Hope everyone is having a good day.. Xx

Hemmy… Been here forever so it seems. Lol Mum of Kristy and Doggie Mr Pips. Loves walking and gardening is my passion. I get lost there. Xx

Kay, I”m with you. Today has made me realise why I do liquid only though. Quite hungry. That is probably due to the nuts I haven’t had. Convinced though it isn’t just about low carb it is also about calories. Those nuts are just so tempting. First NFD I haven’t eaten any for a while.

Sym.. A busy day for you tomorrow. Good job you have had that pizza chips and 2 cream cakes.. Lolol

Will be nice to get the boiler done and dusted… no more worries with that.

Just having my hot milk. .. Didn’t sleep too well last night taking the tabs now. Felt I was doing better when I took them in the mornings. Feeling better more energetic with the Iron. Xx

Kay… homemade fish cakes how nice. Haven’t made them for ages. I used to make a Delia recipe where she recommend tinned salmon. They were good.

Have a good FD tomoz Xx

Sarah .. well done on resisting the nuts. I do wish I could do a Liquid day.. but no chance. 2pm I need food . Lol

Have a good FD tomoz … Kay .. Sarah… Go Girls. Xx

Kay.. Lolol

Sym only had very few chips. That’s how she did it. Lolol Xx

Hemmy…
We didn’t sleep well, having the tablets late but FD I never sleep well….had them back at 5.30 tonight..I feel shattered so hope I sleep.. I think will be finished by lunch time, then we will pop to b & q for the wood.

Well done on the fasting small meals working…

Kay..
Only very thin 12″ pizza I had three pieces, I left number 4 of my half…frozen chips not fussed with them, had a few but left some, shared a portion. Only had fruit for breakfast comes in 88 cals….

All counted in…lol..fasting now..

Watching Marigold in my lovely India…next year maybe!!

Jean x

Evening all,

Just home and about to have everything my tea and fall into bed. I’ve not been so good the last couple of days and it showed on the scales tonight…. Oooops. Will get back in control. 😆

To add to the crib sheet:

Gottotrysomething (Angela) – 37 lives in Notts with hubby Shaun, stepson 9 and my little old lady cat Marmite. Works hard, plays harder. 😂 xx