Evening All..

All snuggly now and beds aired.. 24 degrees 😀

A bit of a laugh earlier.. started to do my salad, got some hard boiled eggs done, chicken out.. it was 3,30 not 4.30..I forgot the clock hadn’t gone back.. 😂

Pseu..
Tomato soup sounds good must have a go at making it..

Lynne..
No worries now.. will be sweating buckets soon.. we left home at 5 degrees this morning.
Must think on new recipes for the winter.. soup maybe is the answer Steve wouldn’t have that!!

Minols…
You are worse than me.. eating dinner at lunch.. lol.. enjoy your Bovril..

DF..
The weather hits you when the cold arrives.. I was always cold in our office.

Hedgehog..
Hope you find a good car deal.. they never seem to offer much.. private maybe the answer..

We have all finished here now… we can eat tomorrow….very very dark here..Keep strong No picking…

Jean x

Putting off eating as long as possible!! We’re all doing great by the sounds of it 🙂

Minols .. how’s it going??

Pseu .. soup will warm you up 🙂 filling too 🙂

Jean .. glad your warm and cosy now .. enjoy your evening!

Back tomorrow. Hugs to all xxx

Morning everyone 🙂

FD was great yesterday, managed to stay under 500 cals, so happy with that 🙂

Can eat a bit more today 😛

Having a day off work tomorrow, starting on the Xmas shopping before everywhere gets too busy!!

Back later x

Morning everyone

Good FD yesterday and not planning to break my fast until around 1 as a few visitors due today.

Jean/DF, doing Christmas shopping before the beginning of December at the earliest is a concept I just can’t grasp. My start to Christmas shopping is usually buying too much for Bec’s birthday on 22nd and deciding to keep a few bits back. Very few to buy for now and the girls have very specific requests so it doesn’t take too long once I get down to it.

Hedgehogs, Han went to SE Asia in the summer. You’re right though, I didn’t sleep much but that was generally down to the fact she forgot she was in a different time zone and would text between 3-5am. Couldn’t ignore the ping of the phone after messages that friends had had money stolen and she had fallen off a motorbike.

Minols, hope you managed to hold out with just the Bovril yesterday afternoon.

Pseudo, definitely soup weather yesterday. Sometimes I manage on just coffee on a FD but yesterday needed to eat something hot.

Speak later, coffee calls

Lynne x

Afternoon everyone!

I typed out a post but it seems to have disappeared. Will try again, apologies if it somehow posts twice.

I did well yesterday, had a coffee in the morning, and then when I got home I just drank an oxo cube instead of having soup. I’m planning to have a low week all around but I just got invited for pizza on Friday. :S

Haven’t eaten today yet, too stressed! Since I got into work I’ve been besieged with computer problems, nothing seems to be working properly. A big part of my job is dealing with online orders, so you can imagine how infuriating it is when the internet won’t work properly, when the printers refuse to print, and one of our big laser cutters decides it’s not going to load designs any more. WHY?!

Hi everybody, fast day for me again today. I’ve been doing 3 a week as a kind of preventative measure as I have to go away to Italy for family matters for over a week again on Friday and it will be hard to count calories and fast there. My sister and I have to start emptying our late parents’ home and as it’s quite a depressing job, we’ll need wine and some nice food at least for dinner!

So anyway, the 3 fasts seem to be working well because last week I lost 1.2 kg (that’s about 2lbs I think), and that’s after a weekend of nice food and drinks.

On a sidenote, both yesterday and today I thought I’d try not having any breakfast at all on FD and save all my 500 calories for dinner. I am almost thinking that not having breakfast (usually a 100 cals vanilla flavoured vegan protein shake) makes me less hungry. I know other people reported that too, what do you guys think?

I’m often more hungry if I have breakfast. It’s like it wakes my stomach up to go ‘food? I’ll have more of that. Now.’ Best to leave the beast slumbering as long as possible. 😉

I’m quite partial to Silent Night. And probably others but I’m having trouble remembering any carols now.

I’m the opposite, there is no way I could fast if I wasn’t working. I need to be as distracted as possible!

Morning all!
Gommine- I like the idea of the sleeping diet- gets my vote! I have taken myself off for an afternoon nap on a Sunday sometimes to avoid food! (A walk’s good too, but if the weather’s not nice, might as well sleep!)
Anyone else fasting today?

Jean- that Channel 4 programme’s on tonight- it’s called ‘The truth about slim people’, might watch it & get depressed…! Have a nice day!

HI all – NFD today and out on my bike while it’s dry and bright.

Gommine – I think you’re right about being fine until you start eating…I definitely have a problem with that. But it’s hard when it’s cold. I’ll be fasting tomorrow, and probably also digging (need to help OH with the garage drive arrangement, I think), and it will be interesting to see how I manage physical labour (!) and fasting.
BTW think you’re doing really well getting a good amount of fasting in ahead of a difficult/stressful time. Clearing a house is an awful ‘rite of passage’ – good luck with knowing which are the wee mementos you need to keep, and which things you must just harden your heart to.

Hedgehog – I have 3 schools that I’m attached to…one I simply sit through some seasonal assemblies, one I drop in and out of the lunch hall everything few weeks, and took my first assembly in last week when a speaker didn’t turn up (thank goodness I’d just put together some of my Peru pictures and had my memory stick with me!) and the other one I’m in and out of regularly, and they use our building for their termly assemblies/shows cos their hall is too small to fit parents and children in…it helps, too, that most of the kids see me walking the dog in the park. I’m really lucky, therefore, because it means that even though my son’s class doesn’t do the nativity (it’s always the wee ones), I have 3 schools where I get to sit through wee ones singing out of tune, get the lump in my throat…and I get paid to do it!!

Thank you all for your carol suggestions – they will all make an appearance now in our plans throughout December…and Jean, Lord of the dance was sung for you at Easter – I can’t remember if I told you at the time, but you’d mentioned it in a post and I chose it for our early morning garden service!

Mx

PS Also, Jean, thanks for the plait idea…I’m going to try that and I’m sure it will look splendid!

Afternoon All..

Just got back from Chesterfield really pleasant morning.. just having half a hour sit and then going for a walk to a near by lake..

We could sit out it’s so warm in the sun.. it will be gone in a couple of hours..shame..

Pseu..
Sorry you ended up having breakfast.. we have just sat in a cafe at lunch time..Steve decided he would have a full breakfast.. I am cooking dinner tonight, no way he was having that!!.. a scone and coffee each, and that was naughty.

Minols..
Still thinking… a toilet roll dressed in fabric, stapled onto fabric backing.. buy those tea lights with battery they would possibly fit in your roll..look rather nice on wall down the side of the church wall… even if not this time..

Think I might like to help you 😀.. love faffing..

Jean x

It’s tough, Pseu – I can only take so much diet coke…and while I hardly ever drink, a glass of wine or a beer just seems to fit better in a pub! Even the glass of water I have on a Sunday morning at church is a pint glass!

And thanks for your creative ideas…all duly noted for this or future Christmasses.

Time to head out into the cold…brrrr!

Mx

I was planning an FD on Friday, then got asked to go for pizza so decided to change it for Thursday then got asked to the pub for a meal. I could try to do an FD on a weekend, but I don’t think I’d make it. Ah well.

Red Cat…
Welcome to our corner.. we are here to give help and support if you need it…
It would help to buy Michael Mosley’s 5.2 book as it gives the back ground why we should all fast for health as well as reduction in weight if that’s wanted..
Usually two days a week on 500 or 600 calories for a man.. we do Mondays and Thursday but you can change to suit yourself.
Weigh the morning after your second fast day weekly .. also measure yourself and do that once a month.. bust, waist, hips and I do tops of legs.. my hubby does waist and around his neck..

Good luck ..come and join us for support..

Jean x

Hi Redcat! I wish I’d measured myself before I started to see where it’s going from… so I would say do that to encourage yourself. Now it’s getting colder, I love soups on FDs, they’re very filling! It’s up to you whether you eat 3x on FDs, or skip a meal- I just have an evening meal usually, save the calories for that! And keep an eye on calories on non-FDs, as sometimes you can eat more than you realise, and undo any good you’ve done! (I write everything down and work out the calories as I’m terrible for picking & it all adds up!). On the home page here, there’s a Total Daily Energy Expenditure calculator, so you can work out how many calories you need and not go over that! Hope you get on okay!
Jean- done my FD today, so non-FD for me tomorrow, but I’m keeping a bit low…

Jean, I’m fasting with you today 🙂 I haven’t anything planned food-wise either yet! x

I’m not completely fasting since I’m off out tonight, but I’ll be fasting until I go out and I hope that’ll stave off at least some of the damage. Ditto for tomorrow.

Hi Redcat, I agree with the others, definitely measure. I wish I had measured at my biggest so I’d know how far I’ve come.

Hello all from Shropshire, started fast diet last week, diet day today so far so good. Does anyone drink diet coke? more important should i be drinking diet coke? I find it helps with thirst and hunger.

Just had a Tesco Healthy Living cup-a-soup. Surprisingly okay, only 44 calories a cup. Definitely should have stirred half way through though, all my noodles were in the last two mouthfuls.

Will do – I don’t drink pop, just never liked it much. I find any liquid helps stave off the hunger.

Hi and welcome Will do it! I need hot drinks on a FD as I get so cold (well, any day really!) so have fruit tea- can’t drink diet drinks as they upset my bladder!! & lots of sparkly water too.
Jean- glad you’re back safely and hope Steve wasn’t too cross about the chocolate biscuits! Didn’t get to watch the programme last night in the end, will catch up with it.
Pseudo- have a good evening out!
DF- hope you’re surviving today!
I’ve been doing some Christmas/ birthday shopping today, quite successful! Did drag hubby round M&S to look for the control pants, but didn’t get any in the end as I think they weren’t any more ‘controlling’ than the thick tights I want to wear with the dress… might have to leave it in the wardrobe a few more weeks and hope that the tummy shrinks some more!! It’s a lovely memory though- me & hubby pulling all the knickers about to see how stretchy they were!!! (Luckily quiet in the shop!)

Evening All..

We decided on egg, bacon and tomatoes in the end…couldn’t face a salad…..all finished for us now…

Hedgehog…
Did laugh at the undies…I am sure hubby would of liked the flimsy sort…still we all have the big knickers or bodies for the right time…lol

Pseu..
Hope you are managing…you should be on your way home now….

DF…
You seem to be struggling at work with the slowness…hope it picks up..is just this time of year?

Jean x

DF..
Keep strong you have done really well…

As for redundancy I was with one company 6 years waiting for it, you could see it going under..then it closed.

Our last company we had redundancies every year for twenty years, taking deep breaths each year then both Steve and I went together at 60, redundancy and decided then to retire….hard but we managed…I think about 250 people went.😬..best thing what happened really.

Hope it picks up at least get busier..

Jean x

Morning all.
Well, having taken a break from fasting, now I’m back at it, I’m also back at waking through the night at the end of a FD. Happened on Tuesday night and I succumbed to toast and honey even though I wasn’t really hungry at 2am. This morning I gave up and got up at 4am and did some work. Fotunately, no bread in the house, so no toast! Amazing how empty cupboards strengthens my willpower!

NFD today, but need to keep things simple and low as I’ve invited my trekking guru to join us for dinner tomorrow and I’m planning a re-run of the korma I did the other week that was so good, followed by Eton mess again…Sunday will have to be kept under control as well after that, if I’m to have any hope of even the tiniest loss on at Monday’s weigh in.

BTW – to the newbies, I always weigh in on the morning of my first FD of the week, unlike some folks on this page. But it really doesn’t matter when you do it as long as it’s consistent so that you can get an accurate reading.

It’s Friday everybody – the weekend is so very nearly here, you can almost taste it (is that all the korma spices I’ve already looked out?!)

Mx