Hello

Finished work and looking forward to tea. A few hungry moments but got through with coffee and water.

Well done jean and Dave getting through the fast day too.

Sad that your friend isn’t happy about the move, hopefully with FaceTime etc she will be able to keep in touch easily Hedgehogs?

How has your day been Typhoo?

I think I’ll take Woofy out before eating and then whatever I have will keep me going until bed time.

Stay strong this evening and if you feel like nibbling then find something else to take your mind off it. That’s probably true for NFD and FD too

CW

Hedgehog…
Snap I do that too….😀

Cakey Wakey..well done keep strong this evening…

X

Evening everyone

Busy day sorting out bits and bobs, so kept my mind off food, but really hungry now.

Typh00 hope the snow clears soon and you can get to the shops.

Everyone seems to be doing really well today, the temperature has warmed up here and just the lanes a bit tough going, think it probably caused a few problems in rush hour.

Managed so far with just coffee, may have to have some soup, Bec’s eating pizza so that’s not really helping.

Lynne x

Sounds like you’re all staying strong… I’m fasting tomorrow, so guessing I might be on my own? Hoping I’ll be able to get some of my favourite soup, It’s been out of stock recently…
Hubby enjoyed his jury service- he says he’s got a case that will last about 2 weeks.
Cakey- will you be able to get back to yoga now the snow’s gone?

I cleaned my teeth too,it does work 😁,may need to do them again in a minute,It reminds me I have to make an appointment for a checkup, got an email last week telling me to book an appointment, but left it until I know what’s happening with Denise and the hospital.

Morning All..
A drizzle start but better than the last week….

Enjoyed my breakfast ..a change cheese on a slice of wholemeal toast..and white pepper ummm.

Going out looking for navy shoes and need coloured A4 paper…

Hedgehog, that’s an early start, hope you are not getting a cold and you feel better soon…Steve was up at 5.30 you are very early birds both of you…

Kay, getting close to moving hope you are all organised..

Have a good day anyone fasting..

Jean x

Afternoon everyone

DF, lovely to hear from you. Well done on the 4lb, not far to go now. Keep popping by, we miss you.

Hedgehogs, early start for you, hope the cold is not too bad. Good luck with the FD today.

Typh00, with any luck you ventured to the shops and not replenished the biscuits.

Jean, any luck with the shoes?

Dave, hope you manage to get the check-up booked, there’s a waiting time for nearly a month here for an appointment.

Minols, hope you’re alright.

Kay, not long to go now, when do you move?

CW, the home yoga sounds like a plan.

Nipped to the shops and bought a few bits, but in one of those indecisive moods. Been snacking on a few nuts, not really like me. Blood tests booked for next week for liver function and thyroid. Feeling a bit tired, skin dry and starting to get harder to drop a lb. Hopefully just thyroid playing up, if it doesn’t normalise will have to see if meds need changing and prepare for my battle with the GP. Thankfully I usually win or at least get a draw.

Lynne x

Afternoon All..
I have found my navy shoes not a lot to choose from…quite OK maybe need to bed them in a bit ..a low heel 2” court shoe and also found A4 buff paper for the printer…

DF…
Lovely to hear from you and glad things are moving along..4 lbs is good in the month, I would be pleased with that…we are getting ready to look forward to the caravan season, we did get away for a three nights inbetween the bad weather so we were lucky…keep popping by…as we miss you…

Lynne..
Hope everything goes well on the blood test, Audrey had the same problem it’s balancing the tablets to get them right…her doctor didn’t help her a lot..

Dave..
Ice hockey till 3.30 what are you men like….lol

Jean x

Dave..
Hoping you can get it sorted…our printer was playing up then started working??

Hedgehog..
How are you doing?…is the cold and sinus’s any better….

X

aaargh- it is so hard fasting in this house! As well as the cakes I’ve made, (which were eaten by family at 3pm, 4pm & 5.50pm when they came home) I’ve cooked: fajitas at 4.30pm for youngest son before he went to work, fajitas for husband at 6pm & my soup, then fajitas for eldest when he came back from kickboxing at 8.30pm, & finally beans on toast for youngest when he came home from work at 9.15pm… Don’t mind cooking for the boys as they do both work hard, but it is constant temptation for me on FDs… roll on breakfast tomorrow!

Laptop sorted,did a speedtest and got 210Mbps download speed,I had to wipe everything and start from scratch.Could be another late night, watching cricket on TV and got hockey on laptop.

Morning All…
The weathers improving it makes you feel so much better…wow 10 degrees for us..😀

Going through a few more clothes today, trying to work at a few areas at a time…see what fits and what’s going to charity..need to check handbags, I have a box full some need to go…

We are walking around the village..apparently later …so I have been told….lol

Hedgehog…
What a busy baking and all your staggered meals sort of day, that sounds like me when my family were about…very hard going when trying to cut back and be good….I lift my hat to everyone who are fasting on their own and with family about, it’s much harder than when we are doing it together.

I am going to daughters for Mother’s Day..I am not sure what’s planned..a meal or one year she did high afternoon tea with all the dinky sandwiches and lots of dinky cakes, that was a different surprise..whatever it is Calories are shouting…NFD .

Cakey Wakey..
I bought some navy trousers with no shoes to match…I have sandals which would go well, too cold yet. I hate buying shoes as I have painful feet and they have to be just right and the right size heel ( much better now the weights gone down and more thoughtful buying of shoes) only time will tell on my new shoes…

Glad the whoosh effect moved the water weight for both of you..

Dave..
Glad the computer is working….I am not going down the sport route….lol

Measuring Steve’s stomach this morning looks like another inch gone, although the end of month is official measure…that’s 4 1/2 from the start of the year.. his belly is his problem area, slim everywhere else. I am very pleased as I am noticing it myself. It’s giving him a boost..😀

Have a good day everyone..a low day for us and fasting tomorrow..

Jean x

Lynne- your rash sounds nasty, hope you can get an appt. today! It’s no wonder people go to A&E with things at times if you can’t get in to see a GP!
Jean- well done to Steve & his stomach!
My H-S family cancelled today, so I’ve been here to nag son! I shouldn’t have watched GBBO last night- at a loose end so thought I’d try making some red velvet cupcakes! (I broke my hand mixer yesterday, so have dragged out & cleaned up the Kenwood Chef & wanted to try that out too! Sadly it’s died on me as well so I’ll have to have a look around for something new…)

Hi all – still here, somewhere in the background, but haven’t managed any fasts. Some started, none completed. The snow flummoxed any attempt at normality, and with an absence of bread in the shops I made cake – very Marie Antoinette!

Need to give some thought as to what I’m doing with 5:2 as I’m really only paying lip service to it just now. Need to empty some stuff out of the house, get back to planning the weekly food and get serious…or – well, I don’t know what my ‘or’ is because walking away always involves even more weight gain. Hmmm. Feeling thoughtful.

In the meantime, I’d better go and set up for tonight’s meeting.

Mx

Lovely soup with croutons for dinner…definitely a low day…now started fasting through tomorrow…

Minols..
I think Kay is feeling like you, me too sometimes…I think after doing 5.2 for a good few years, getting close to goal then holidays it puts you back up a bit…I am about 6 lbs up to what I should be and I am finding it really hard to get it off…

As Steve says ‘ what size and weight would we be if not fasting’…I do think he has a point …it’s keeping going and maintaining if that’s the best we can do until making a big effort to move the weight again….

Summer and better weather coming..salads and different eating will help…

Audrey has put 5 lbs on and trying to get it off again…so what ever the way you do it…it still needs focus..

Keep strong and try and get your head around and in the mode…get the support on here, you know someone is always about..get your pantry sorted and planned out….

Jean x

Evening everyone

Managed a few more glasses of water than usual, but annoyed that I have to really focus to remember to drink.

Dave, I always order repeat prescriptions on line, but there are never any appointments available, they get booked up within minutes of being released. Too many patients/too few doctors?

Hedgehogs, had to wait in for bathroom flooring to be delivered so no GP today. Maybe tomorrow or next weeks after blood tests and kill 2 birds.

Jean, you’re right. There is no way to lose weight which doesn’t require focus, but with 5:2 you can have the odd indulgence without feeling you’ve wrecked your ‘diet’.

Minols, you’ve had a busy time with holiday and now the snow. You’ll get back into it soon.

Usually try to do liquid fasts, but had a salad today instead. 240 cals and took me longer to eat it than it took Bec to eat her pizza. Think I’ll try to keep tomorrow controlled.

Last cuppa just finished, maybe one more glass of water… I’ll be up all night.

Lynne x

Think I will be in bed before the witching hour,fast day tomorrow not sure what I will be having though,good luck to those fasting tomorrow.

Morning All..

A raining start to the day…

We are fasting today…going out for salad bits later some ham left..I think not a good choice as salt and water retention but we have to eat it up…it will balance out, maybe up the water, I will try….

The sewing machine out not me this time…for Steve altering 3 or 4 pairs of his trousers seeing how we go…first pair looking good and he’s happy with them, just a press, do the hem and a proper try on..

Lynne..
I am with you on 5.2 it is the best for us, I have tried them all…it’s the longest I have kept the weight off even if maintaining swings in from time to time..I am trying no calorie counting at the moment as I want it to be a normal way of life as possible…I have counted calories all my life, as most of us have…I should be a dietitian..lol

How is your rash is it any better? Have you a doctors appointment?

Cakey Wakey..
A ginger cake..I have a new recipe but no black treacle …still when can I do it when there’s only the two of us..

Just a bad day yesterday..a new start today it happens…😀

Hedgehog..
The AFDs is slipping this month, first the power cut and Mother’s day…might try and get Steve to change to Saturday..but is encroaching into the weekend..😬..see how we go.

On another thread someone was saying…it was a couple, long term three years plus on 5.2 if I remember, they never move their two FD’s, friends understand now and have been on maintenance for a while. Even on holidays they continue because it’s as it is…

Typhoo..
How’s it going?

Minols..
Keep with us and get back on track…always hard after holidays…

Dave…
Did you get to sleep or was watching TV…

Kay..
Hoping you are already for the move…is it this weekend?…keep with us when you get sorted …don’t put on what you have lost…

Just making a note we are loosing a few people, a bit quiet…..anyone else coming to join us and get the support to move the weight?

Jean x

Thanks all – you’re just brilliant!

I’m going to use the rest of the week to get back to being sensible and then I’ll sit down and write a plan like I used to, in consultation with my diary, and shop accordingly. In the meantime, I’ve bought the kindle edition of the second FD cookbook so I can have recipes on my phone and if I get stuck, pick up ingredients on the way home for something for everyone. When I sit down and plan, I’ll also designate my FDs for the week.

Good luck, you brave fasting types.

Mx

We have been out and topped up shopping trying to cut back on spending so eating out of freezer so just essentials, fruit and veg…no cafe today so now sat having a coffee at home…

The trousers were a success he’s been out in first pair…and they feel fine….what have I done now there’s more to do….😂…

Keep going everyone who’s fasting not sure who’s with us…Dave I think…

Minols..
A plan of action….you like your plans and diary….time to fit something in….just for you….

Lynne…
A bit of decorating on the go again…hoping the bathroom goes well…I think Bec is the one who likes and wanted a bath…will she be first in…😂

Typhoo..
Just caught you…glad you are back with us…and I like the ditti…line drawn after this awful weather..

Jean x

Well done Typhoo- liked the rap! Anyone had snow- from the reports on the radio it seemed quite bad ‘up North’?
Jean- sewing on a FD would not be allowed here- I hate it! Too many stressful things on a FD would mess me up! I am fasting with you today, not too bad so far, despite having to food shop (lots of family round on Sunday).
Minols- having the kindle book recipes sounds like a brilliant idea!
Lynne- good for you getting started on salads- too cold for me- I’m having soup again tonight!
Dave/ Cakey & Kay hope you’re all having a good day too.

Hedgehog..
Sewing now done and put away…I got away lightly just two pairs…his third pair he decided are fine…I suppose it’s better than baking 😂

We are fine here…Steve has not commented yet so I suppose he’s ok too….I never ask…

Dave…
I am not sure on ghosts but I am sure we see or feel Symba our old cat sometimes…Steve saw her last week, walking past us when having our breakfast going out to the garden..he sees her a lot….I catch her out of side eye line sometimes..strange but we don’t mind…

Jean x

Getting hungry now- don’t want to eat too early or I’ll want to keep eating…
Dave- a house we lived in when I was younger was haunted- very scary! Things would fly about, my Dad had some quite hairy moments when he first started doing the house up- nearly got hit on the head by a flying plank of wood, the servants bell would ring even though it was disconnected (it wasn’t that posh a house, but hadn’t been decorated or anything for years.)… went on for a couple of years then stopped.
Did you watch the football later?

Evening

What a busy little thread today. NFD today and was reasonably constrained although not healthy eating. I won’t shsre what I ate as lots of good fasters today.

I don’t have a single paranormal story to share, I’m neither a sceptic not a believer really, open minded maybe.

No snow here today, maybe I’m too far east for today’s little weather front.

I love to bake and decorate cakes but I couldn’t sew a button on, in awe of your sewing machine and trouser adjustments jean. I’m always filled with dread whenever I have to buy curtains. I’ve never figured out what widths to buy and the lengths are never ever right. I bought lovely Laura Ashley curtains and it took me a year to get them shortened and hung in the dining room and another year to do the lounge.

I had a lovely email today off a friend that I thought I’d lost touch with. We haven’t spoken in about 4 years, nothing untoward just one of those things you think I must get in touch and don’t get round to. Anyway I went and looked up her email yesterday and sent her a little note, not even sure it would get to her or if she still used the same email address or if it would go into spam. Anyway she emailed back almost straight away. She’d lost her phone with my contact details in so hadn’t been able to get in touch. It makes me so happy. I suspect another few months and I might never have found her again (she lives in Hong Kong). Not sure why I’m sharing other than to say if you have friends or family you’ve lost touch with then give it a go, it’s really cheered me up.

Also made an appointment for haircut and colour. Long long overdue. I’ve been trying to ring the hairdresser for a couple of weeks and never got through, wondering if they’ve closed down but I didn’t think so (usually go to saks). Anyway on the spur of the moment, tried a more local one instead and booked in for next Friday. Wish me luck.

Off to Edinburgh tomorrow, having to leave at 5 am. Might not get a chance to message for a few days as youngest and her boyfriend home for the weekend.

CW

Cakey- I’m always happy to hear what others have been eating even if I’m on a FD, so feel free to share! (I can always mop the dribble off the laptop…) Have a lovely weekend! Hope you get spoilt on Mother’s Day!