That’s me done fasting for the day…
Hope everyone is doing ok, shout if you are struggling
Aud x
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Hi. Very quick one as I am so tired. Had headache for 36 hours now. Back to work today. 10 hour day and the kids weren’t even in. Just so much to do. Should be doing exam analysis now but can’t face it. Will go in very early tomorrow to get stuff done that i need for tomorrow then try to do some analysis tomorrow night.
Fasting tomorrow if headache gone.
Morning all.
We’ll done yesterday’s faster…I’ll pick up the baton today (not that it seems to be doing any good at the moment…grrrr). Anyone joining me?
Jean…have a fabulous time with you daughter and thanks for the tip re shampoo.
Rowen. .how horrible about your bike. When something like that happens I find myself unable to believe it….I keep going to check (I even wonder if i’ve put it somewhere else and forgotten!)… it feels so horrible to think someone would do that. And the consequences are always more than anyone would think.
OH away this week so it’s just simple cooking for the boy and me…perfect for a couple of FDS. ..ha ha!
And hello to our newbies.
Catch up later…
Mx
Morning all
How did everyone get on yesterday? Hedgehogs how did you manage? Tell us more about yourself, what’s your name and where do you live? We are from all over the country I myself am in crewe, registered disabled, 60 years old married with 2 daughters both grown up..
Pseudonym welcome to our group lots of advice on here. Well done on a successful fast yesterday
Minols hope your day goes well, the weight will drop eventually.
I have popped on scales this morning and jumped back off again! Will weigh again next week I think and hope it goes back down.
Off now back later, have a good day everybody fast or non fast and remember that together we are stronger
Audrey x
Morning all,
Welcome Pseudonym 🙂 We’re a friendly bunch, lots of support here 🙂
Hope everyone got through the FD yesterday okay, Minols, handing over to you today 🙂 I’m not actually going to be eating till later myself today, so am attempting to make it a b2b, we’ll see …
Audrey, hope your backs a bit easier today, take care and rest!
Rowena, hope your feeling better, headaches can really slow you down. My sisters a teacher, and I know for a fact she never stops, even at half term. Hope your day with the kids goes okay. Fast only if you feel up to it *hug*
Jean, hope your ok, thinking about you!! x
Its pouring with rain here, like winter. The schools are back, the weather is bad .. traffic chaos!
Have a great day everyone, stay strong Minols and anyone else fasting!
xx
Morning All..
Raining here at Manchester airport going to find some sunny weather 😀
Everyone’s day seemed to go well yesterday.. well done some nice special tasty food today for everyone…. lol
How ever did I manage my haddock and chips last night on a FD.. and at a new restaurant it was delicious..a good send off..
Minols..
Fasting alone again ☹️Keep strong.. enjoy time with your little one and with easy food.
Keep going newbies it takes a couple of weeks to settle in..
Looks like we are on time.. so speak from the other end.. my 9am is your 3pm, so catch you all later in the day..
All be good.. I will try to be.. I lie… lol
Jean x
Morning everyone
Yesterday’s FD seems to have gone well for everyone, hope I have the same success today. Minols, I’m with you. Only my second FD in about 3 months, so it’s going to be interesting. Trying to hit the water today as it’s something I always struggle with so making a concerted effort.
Jean & Steve, I’m sure you’ll have a fabulous holiday and manage to find the sun which has disappeared here of late.
Great to see new people joining. After having a bit of a break I’m hoping to repeat the losses I had when I first joined in January.
Going to try and keep busy today preparing daughter’s bedroom for decorating. She was meant to be helping, but has run out of steam after the initial enthusiasm.
Catch you all later.
Lynne x
Lynne
I have 2 small pots on my windowsill. I put 10 pebbles in one and each time I have a glass of water I transfer a pebble from one to the other so at the end of the day I know how many glasses I have drunk… it helps me visualise..
Have a great fast day Lynne and Minols you can do this. I am aiming for a low day then another fast day tomorrow aiming to do 3 fasts this week ( I need them)… lol
Aud x
Audrey, you must be feeling better jumping off the scales :). Good trick with the water, I do a similar thing with going up the stairs. I work at my laptop all day, so every hour or so I try to move a bit. I go up the stairs and I have 10 coins on the windowsill to keep track of how many times I went up. I started with 3 and now I can get to 7 without huffing and puffing.
Jean – have a lovely holiday and don’t worry about fasting, you’ll have plenty of time for it when you come back.
Minols and Lynne – good luck today!
Geo
Lynne, have a great fast day, you can do it! Cheering you on 🙂 Water is so good, I don’t think I’d get through my day without it. Audrey’s idea is good, so you know how much you are drinking 🙂
Geo, I do that at work with the stairs. I sit for the majority of the day, but make an effort to go upstairs (even if I don’t need to) several times in the morning/afternoon lol 🙂 It all helps 🙂
Jean, have a wonderful time!! 🙂
xx
Geo
You made me laugh about my back… it was a very shocked jump honest.. . I am back to my highest weight for ages.. 😠…
Once I am better I need to start trying to exercise again at the moment the treadmill is like a clothes horse!..
Have a good day everyone fast or non fast keep an eye on those calories!
Aud x
Morning everyone, thank you for the welcome.
Very jealous about the holiday Symba7, can I come along smuggled in a suitcase? 😉
I have a terrible headache this morning, I suspect I didn’t drink anywhere near enough on yesterdays fast day. I’m waiting for my painkillers to kick in whilst I go through my emails and then I’ll go get breakfast – hoorah!
Since it’s so early in the game for me I’m guessing 5:2 must work since you’re all on here but are there any success stories, hints and tips etc that anyone can give to a newbie?
Best of luck to everyone on a FD today. 😀
Audreyg- I’m in Suffolk, 48 (how did that happen?!), do part time voluntary work. I’ve had health problems for the last 3 years so not been able to exercise, and put on 2 stone because of that. I had a go at 5:2 18 months ago, but didn’t lose anything except for 1st week, so am trying ADF this time, or at least 4:3 if the weekends get to hard! And hopefully now some health things are sorted I can do a bit more exercise!
@Pseudonym- there’s loads of low-cal recipes you can trawl through online (on a non fast day!).
Has anyone read Jacqueline Whitehart’s 5:2 recipe book? I’ve found quite a few recipes in there I like (sweet potato chilli, watercress falafel…)
I feel just as hungry today and it’s not a FD ?!!
Pseudonym 52 does work but you have to stick with it.
I initially lost 25 lbs 2 years ago for my daughter’s wedding but sadly have now regained it all..
I haven’t been sticking to the rules I have been overeating on my non fast days. I try to stick to 1200 to 1400 on non fast days but haven’t been logging all my food so it has slowly crept back on..
I am hoping that once my back is better I will jump back in and start losing again. When I lost my weight I lost about 1.5 lb a week. It’s not fast but it works.. you just have to realise it’s a change of life not a diet! Something I forgot.. .
Hope I haven’t put you off…
Aud x
Nope, I’ve done my research and saw it was more a way of life. Do you think it’s possible to get away with going out to eat/socialise once a week, on a non fast day, and still lose weight if you’re doing it properly the rest of the time?
Hedgehogs – The recipe book definitely sounds worth a look – thanks for suggesting it. I suspect I’ll start running out of ideas very quickly even though I have been hunting about online. 🙂
Pseudonym
Of course you can go out once in a while and enjoy yourself you have to enjoy life too. Just try to stay low for a couple of days the rest of the week.
A lot of use my fitness pal to log food and tend to use the TDEE on there as our non fast day calorie amount as It’s more realistic.
Aud x
Pseudonym- there’s no pics, just the recipes I’m afraid.
I’ve just worked out the calorie content of my usual lunch (as I’m non-fast day) to make sure I don’t go over the TDEE- peanut butter on toast with sliced banana- nearly 500 calories! I knew that peanut butter was fattening, obviously, but had never weighed the amount I have before now…oops!
Hi all
Im back from my hectic weekend away and now that the routine is back to normal Im doing a reset and starting afresh. I did well before but then let myself go and didnt incorporate it into my way of life. No matter, I know it works when you do it properly so here we go. 🙂
And today is a FD, which today means a pure fast and zero calories.
So I think thats 3 of us fasting today.
Lynne, Im with you for a restart too. Hope sorting out the bedroom keeps you busy.
Minols, make the most of this weeks simple eating for you and the boy!
Audrey, hows your back at the moment? I too chuckled at Geos comment about you jumping off the scales!
Jean, catch up with you when you can. Im sure you will have a fab time over there.
DF, well done with your FD yesterday and even if today doesnt turn out to be another one, you could still make it a low one.
Rowena, hope you feel better today. Sounds like you have tension already and schools only just restarted 🙁
Geopri, Pseudonym and Hedgehogs, welcome to our corner. Stick with it and keep in touch. Plenty of advice, tips and support if you need it. We used to have lots more on here but people have dropped off over the summer. Hopefully they will return.
Sorry if Ive not mentioned you, I can only go to the top of this page! Lol
Keep strong, today is over 65% done and if you are heading to bed about 10pm, as I am, that means just 25% of the day left to be mindful of what goes into your mouth!!
And tomorrow, especially if you are fasting today, is a day where we can eat a bit more 🙂
Remember this is entirely doable as long as we remain in control. Which we will, because we want this to work dont we???
Just finished my 10th glass of water, probably more than I’ve drink cumulatively in months. I don’t really like the taste, but manage if I use a straw.
Audrey, I’ve just put 2 mason jars on the kitchen unit and dug in my purse for some coins. I am a very visual person so hopefully this will be the incentive I need. Currently drinking a glass an hour and aiming to stop when I eat supper this evening so I’m not back and forth the smallest room all night.
Dusted the cobwebs off MFP as well, so no excuses. Tomorrow may go a bit over though as we always took the children out for food after their first day back at school. Started 16 years ago when Hannah started nursery with a Happy Meal, and escalated from there. We can’t go out any longer, but may have a takeaway as an incentive to get Rebecca through her first day in Year 11. She’ll need something, she’s not a morning person so tomorrow morning is going to be a challenge.
Minols, hope you’ve managed to keep strong.
Kay, lovely to have you back and great someone else is looking to reset alongside me.
May have gone a little over – pinched a couple of Phil’s chips, but really pleased with how well today has gone, especially managing to drink over 2L of water.
Just a couple of hours to go now.
Lynne x
Hi All – not done too badly today. I was a bit disappointed when I got the boy to the pool for his lesson only to discover that there was no other swimming due to maintenance. I considered relaxing in the café…but we know where that would end up! So instead I went to the Tesco across the road and stocked up on detergents and fruit (?!)
Can’t say I’ve been perfect, though, but not bad, and a reasonable amount of exercise built in to the day.
Not sure I’ll get another FD in this week, but I should be able to keep reasonably low.
one thought for the newbies – yes, 5:2 does work, but I reckon that part of why it works is because of the ‘feasting’ – I think our bodies need to think there is plenty of food out there, otherwise they go into starvation mode! Also, I try to steer clear of ‘diet’ foods or low-cal foods, trying to go for whole foods and fat over sugar. Having said that, I am the world’s biggest junk food foodie…so what do I know!!!
Mx
Pure fast complete! And I have to say it wasnt too bad to be fair.
Tomorrow is a NFD which will be 16:8 and calorie counted to keep within TDEE.
Well done Lynne, sounds like you’ve had a successful day too 🙂
Minols, hope you have done ok too 😉
Audrey, good luck for tomorrow….anyone else joining Aud with a fast?
So there are 3 of us doing Restart September 😀😀😀😀
Hi. Still got headache. Went to bed at 9 last night. Was awake by 1 and didn’t go back to sleep. Goodness knows how I went to work.
Didn’t fast as felt so ill. Healthy choices though.
Off to bed now after watching Dr foster. Praying for a better night.
Need to lose some inches as my school clothes don’t fit! !!
Minols well done for today 🙂
And I agree, steer clear of food labelled diet and fat free, as they are normally higher in sugar, which is the thing we need to be avoiding.
Audrey, hedgehogs is joining you in a FD tomorrow.
Hedgehogs, I dont always do zero calories but I often find it easier to not eat at all rather than limit myself to 300/400 cals. I also like the feeling of giving my body a complete rest.
Im aiming to do one of each per week at the moment.
Can someone remind me of what we should be aiming for on non fast days…is it our TDEE or TDEE minus a certain %?
Kay x
Morning all
Hedgehogs thanks for joining me it’s better when you are not alone.
Kay I use the TDEE on my fitness pal. Mine is 1300 on MFP but 1700 on here! I think Jean does the same..i may try for liquid only today Its a while since I did one!
Rowena hope the headache has gone now. I know about snuggly clothes not a good feeling… luckily my winter clothes still fit me.
Minols I too ignore slimming labels if I am having bread I want butter on it! I do have sweetener though. Although I am seriously thinking of changing back to sugar, I only have one brew a day on most days!
Have a good day everybody fast or non fast and remember that together we are stronger
Aud x
Hi Audrey- hope you have a good day! Weather’s good here in Suffolk so hopefully can get a nice walk in- how’s your back, is it a long term thing?
I’m aiming to not eat until dinner… will see how that goes!
I managed to give up sugar in tea a couple of months ago- I can’t have sweeteners as they upset my bladder- weird- but don’t really like tea without sugar still! Have found that PG Tips red berries tea is sweet enough though, so will be having lots of that today and sparkling water.
Morning everyone
Kay, I tend to use the TDEE for my target weight rather than current weight when I actually take note of these things!
I weigh daily, and after yesterday’s FD I’m down 1.1lb. I know a lot will go back today with a Chinese, but hopefully drinking plenty of water and not breaking my fast until after 12 will help.
Hedgehogs, I gave up sugar in tea for Lent about 40 years ago. It was tough at first, but I kept drinking my usual volume. At the end of Lent I was really looking forward to a cuppa with my usual 2/3 spoons, but after the first sip realised I preferred the unsweetened taste.
I’ve just checked my weight tracker and I’m down now to the same weight as I was this time last month. The next 2lb will take me back a further month and this is going to be my approach until I hit my lowest weight for a few years which was in early June, before Phil went into hospital. Once I’m there I’ll feel like I’m back on track.
So glad I’m in good company for the September reset.
Back later.
Lynne x
Pseudonym
Just stick with 5.2 for now, when your weight loss starts to slow down then you can swap to 4 3.
I do 5 3 because it fits in with Ian’s work pattern he works 4 on 4 off…
Hedgehogs I have arthritis and spondylosis in my spine plus fused vertebrae’s in my neck. Also arthritis in hands! Have injections in spine every 3 -6 months for pain relief…
Hope everybody is ok, I have a friend popping by today so should keep me busy and away from food, hopefully.
Have a good day
Aud x
Ive just been playing around with the TDEE calculators on here and on MPF and they are quite close, just 60 cals difference. I need to check what my FitBit says too as a comparison.
You have to remember that MFP factors in a deduction on calories, so to see your actual TDEE, you need to set your goal to maintain weight. At least that seems the logical thing to do to me.
MFP has me down as needing to stick to 1200 per day, which is 8400 x 7 days.
Here, my TDEE is 1520, so if you add up 5 days at that, plus 2 days of 380 (one quarter of TDEE), it comes to 8360 over the 7 days, which is practically the same.
Im going to keep my exercise level at sedentary as that kind of sums up my usual day with any exercise on top of that being a bonus!
Morning All…
Safe but long journey about 18 hours..different flight to usual as more plans later..
It’s beautiful weather here, warm and fluffy clouds, sat outside reading as coming around from the jet lag..
Really pleased with Steve dropped his sugar and sweeteners from his drinks yesterday so hope he continues.. I carried my family bag of peanut treats in my bag, still unopened!! Well done to us both at the moment.. lol
Someone else has eaten half his bag but better than normal.
I opened up my e mails I had 30 this morning! Goodness me the threads very busy..
Glad the newbies are still with us and doing well.. a few fasting today it will be nearly over for you well done… yesterday’s did great too..I have just told my daughter we are eating a lot less and we like smaller portions generally, hope it works.. but I will start doing some cooking when I get to the supermarket, we sort of share it out..
P I think was asking about having a day off .. we always have Friday off after our weigh in, a meal out, bottle of wine to last over two days, a cake or treat..it’s creeping into a Saturday now but that has to stop… over a year I have lost 32 lbs and maintained that over nearly another year, a couple of pounds up and down… when back I really would like a push just for a few more pounds.. Steve has done 15 lbs and maintaining like me but he needs another stone off really..I must help him to move it.
Audrey and Rowena hope you are both improving and feeling better.. Kay glad to see you back on track.. Lynne too..
Sorry too many to answer thanks for all your kind wishes …
Jean x
Morning All…
Safe but long journey about 18 hours..different flight to usual as more plans later..
It’s beautiful weather here, warm and fluffy clouds, sat outside reading as coming around from the jet lag..
Really pleased with Steve dropped his sugar and sweeteners from his drinks yesterday so hope he continues.. I carried my family bag of peanut treats in my bag, still unopened!! Well done to us both at the moment.. lol
Someone else has eaten half his bag but better than normal.
I opened up my e mails I had 30 this morning! Goodness me the threads very busy..
Glad the newbies are still with us and doing well.. a few fasting today it will be nearly over for you well done… yesterday’s did great too..I have just told my daughter we are eating a lot less and we like smaller portions generally, hope it works.. but I will start doing some cooking when I get to the supermarket, we sort of share it out..
P I think was asking about having a day off .. we always have Friday off after our weigh in, a meal out, bottle of wine to last over two days, a cake or treat..it’s creeping into a Saturday now but that has to stop… over a year I have lost 32 lbs and maintained that over nearly another year, a couple of pounds up and down… when back I really would like a push just for a few more pounds.. Steve has done 15 lbs and maintaining like me but he needs another stone off really..I must help him to move it.
Audrey and Rowena hope you are both improving and feeling better.. Kay glad to see you back on track.. Lynne too..
Sorry too many to answer thanks for all your kind wishes …
Jean x
Morning all
It’s a non fast day for me hooray! I have prepared a chicken and bacon casserole and it’s now in the slow cooker for the day.. made enough to eat one freeze one as a ready meal..
I had a very good fast day yesterday and am happy to say I am now almost at my pre birthday weight. My back is doing ok, it’s really funny but the other side is aching now! I don’t know how to limp that way so am presently walking very strangely!
DF have a good fast day and anyone else who is fasting.
Hedgehogs thanks for your company yesterday, was much appreciated
Back later
Audrey x
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