Hi Lynda,
We were ready for a good break too after Kates wedding last year…. it’s good to kick back and relax am sure you will manage healthy choices…
Audrey
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Hi everyone, did you miss me?! Had a crazy busy couple of days! Eating is going well, nibbled a bit yesterday but my fast day has gone really well today! Hope you are all ok, welcome newbies hope you are all doing well on the first steps on your journeys? I’m only on my third week myself!
Enjoy what’s left of today and all the best for tomorrow everyone x
Morning all
Whilst I was out last night my aunt proclaimed that I was obsessed with food and needed to take a break from 52 and just eat and drink what I wanted too and my body would sort it ourself out…..
The table went very quiet, I said to her I tried that at xmas and put 10 lbs on…… my mum thought it was very funny but I like queen victoria am not amused… what gives people the right to think they can comment on my life choices. ….
Anyhow now I have vented, I am doing a fast day today, nothing all say then a light meal for later, I am hoping to come home tomorrow evening if the snow stays away..
That’s all for now my battery is low so I will be back in touch later
Audrey
Good morning all hope all is well with you and yours.
Very cold but sunny, for shopping day.
Hi Aud .. How very unkind of your Aunt.
As you say its your choices .. its your life… uncalled for opinion. Don’t for get that’s all it is her opinion. You are much to be admired .. one gutsy lady Xx
To be honest I cant say it surprises me though as I have found in all walks of life .. there are people that it would kill them to give a compliment or praise.. Lol
I do hope it never spoilt your evening. Xx
Hi Ginette .. hope all is well with you and that Pam is feeling better. Xx
Hope everyone is doing ok … pop in and share ups and downs… we all understand.
Brit lovelies … Lets embrace today … it will never come again. Xx
oh Audrey, how hurtful
I do also think the older generation think that it is all about ‘just eat sensibly’ and that anything else is our own weak will, or unhealthy obsession
my mother is ‘worried’ that I am skipping meals, even though I am 5 stone overweight!!
her mantra is always the above ‘just eat sensibly’ – if only the word ‘just’ was as simple as it implies!!!!
I am already getting stressed about weighing – which is not until sunday – because I know how intolerable it is for me if this way of eating seems to stop working
I have been very controlled here at mums, and apart from the odd light richtea, have only had a thumb size piece of bakewell – the most unhealthy thing I have had
‘holding breath’
Morning All,
A lovely bright sunny morning here…Spring is on its way….
Toes feeling sore today, walked in flat boots but it was snowing, I really have been better with my shoes with small heel! Off later to the dentist for my check up, polish and clean today.
I feel for you Audrey someone always has something to say. My sister is the one for us. We call but have said before we are not eating lunch/ biscuits because we are fasting..she greets us with do you want a sandwich..No…chocolate digestive ..No..go on have a ham sandwich..No..Steve, have a couple of biscuits, he now hovers..I say NO he doesn’t ..me what part of NO don’t you understand! Oh ok then. The other thing she buys a cake in special she’s a nightmare!….he says she’s lonely..I say no bloody wonder! She really does try my patience….my groan over…lol
There are very few people we tell….we try and don’t arrange to see them Monday and Thursday FD’s, it’s easier.
Safe travelling on Friday Audrey I think there will be snow about.
Have good FD’s everybody or NFD’s as the case maybe
Jean x
Aud take absolutely no notice, some people just don’t get it! They have no idea what a burden excess is around our necks, it can be food, alcohol, anything really, I have struggled with my weight since I was 16 I’m now 39 (next week), there have been times when yes I have lost it all and felt great but every time it has gone back on!
We have all searched for what works for us, and yes what works for x won’t necessarily work for y, we are all different. We are all searching for what makes our lives the easiest on a day to day, month to month year to year basis! It’s easy to say it’s calories in vs calories out and that is 100% correct it is! I for example can eat 1500 kcal in 10 minutes in chocolate easily! Is that good for me? No it’s bloody killing me! Have I always done it yes! That why my bmi is 34!
We all have issues with our eating! The 5:2 is medically proven to have massive health benefits, do I do it for that? no of course I don’t, I do it to lose weight and look better!
I’m only in week 3 but for me it seems to be working, you can have a little of what you fancy and you have not undone a weeks work! Some on here have done amazing and I doth my cap to you all! It’s a struggle but for me it’s a battle against my inner demons, and if 5:2 proves to be the long term answer I will be happy beyond my wildest dreams!
In short Aud balls to the haters! It’s about you, you and only you! We are all different and some people just don’t get that!
Rant over x
Hi again,
Thanks for your support friends,
I said to my mum later I am a foodaholic would she say to an alcoholic drink what you want you will stop when you have had had enough! No. Why can’t people understand I have a food problem. …
When I was younger I had an overactive thyroid which went undetected for years so I was one of the lucky people who could eat everything and not gain an ounce. It was only when I suddenly after just marrying my 1st husband, got very ill, miscarried a baby, lost my hair and dropped to just over 6 stone that they diagnosed it and now of course after radioactive iodine therapy I am under active…
That was over 30 years ago but my body still wants to eat like it always could. i can’t eat a little of anything and feel full, I want it all…. I have found if I log all my food down so I can see calories in v calories out I can control it JUST!
Thanks for all your support she didn’t spoil the evening but came dam close she is just one of those people who are never wrong and know everything…..
I have logged my calories down for today and they come to exactly 500 so a good fast day today for me…
KT I know how difficult it is at mums house! Just keep on going girl, we can do this together. ….
Audrey
Hi Audrey and Hemmy
Thanks. I always use the had wash on the way out as well. We are in a side room which is nice and I have just been told that they have out a bed in. I dare not use it though or I would go to sleep. Just going to get ready to leave now. See you when I can. I am trying to get wifi there as I could watch TV. I gphave downloaded some programs with tge I player for now. That should keep me awake.
See you when I can.
I hope everyone is doing well. I am getting far more walking in than normal. Hospital corridors etc. xx
Morning all,
We are snowed in…..not able to go home today, it’s completely white outside mums house…..
Fingers crossed I get home tomorrow mum is doing the happy dance because I am here an extra day…..Ian is not a happy husband. … at least there is no fish n chips now….
Keep safe and warm everyone
Audrey
Hi cc
Mum lives in a small town on the edge of the pennines. …I live in Cheshire, it’s not too bad on the motorways although the m62 is a bit slushy but the main roads are bad and the side road’s are in passable we must have 6 inch of snow so far and it’s still coming…..
I haven’t seen snow like this since I left here 20 years ago, makes me want to run out and make a snow man….
The local schools are closed too….. so I may not be alone in my snow man quest. …😉😉
Audrey
Celtic,
Sorry posts crossed I wasn’t ignoring your 2nd one. …
I was exactly the same as you, I have gone back to day 1…. like you say weigh, measure and log everything, my fitness pal is great…. we can do this we did it before I have even started a new weight chart….
Shout out if you need more support
Aud
Good morning friends hope all is well with you and yours.
Oh my goodness Aud 6ins of snow… wow. Bet that looks so pretty this morning.
Hopefully another lovely day with Mum then you will make the journey home tomoz… Minus the fish n chips. lol Xx
Hi CC think its been hard to get back on track since xmas.
I know I seemed to be chasing a pound for a while. Trouble is like this week-end .. lost that 2lb last week .. Kristy here tonight till Sunday bet that goes back on Its life I suppose.
Are you still doing the smoothies/shakes. Like Aud says best sometimes to go back to the beginning.
Hope Stu is doing ok. Xx
Gine hope you had some good sleep. Xx
Sym .. good luck today both with weigh in. Xx
I am reading up and interested in the sugar free 8oo cals daily . May give it a go next week.
Hope everyone else is ok.Xx
Brit lovelies ..The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine.
Or the slowest form of poison. … How true. Xx
Hello all !
Glad everyone is still striving !! It’s not easy . I wanted to eat the carpet at work yesterday on my FD but held on in there. My tum made noises like a bath emptying 😂 Still today’s weigh in said down 1.5 lbs – again – SO pleased.
I too have struggled with weight issues since junior school. I got it under control when I married . I now want to stop battling with the excess stone or two I carry.
If anyone has any ideas on how I Deal with my eldest daughter who is obese ! Size 20 /22 I would love your ideas. I would love her still with two heads but it’s not good for her health.
Good luck other weighed in ers and those on FD’s
Good morning all,
I’ve been missing for a while but I’ve caught up with most of your posts now! A lot of stresses and issues going on at home and with family but it’s only so long you can think and worry before your brain accepts issues and you carry on! Eating has therefore been all over the place. I either don’t eat at all or eat for Wales, eating non stop but not really tasting or enjoying it! Same old obviously, that’s why I was fat!Trying to get back in the groove this week though and hopefully not go too mad this weekend.
Audrey, glad your back is better again. How lovely to have some snow. It’s been a few years since we’ve had a good fall of snow here and even though it’s inconvenient it’s so pretty! I’m sure your mum is pleased to have you to herself for a little while longer. I know my mum is always so pleased to have company now that she is unable to go far on her own. Luckily we live close by so see her often.
I agree with your rant at how your aunt had an opinion on your eating. Why do people think it’s ok to comment? I have found that while losing weight I am constantly being considered! While it’s lovely to be complimented, I do think it’s rude to be told ” oh don’t go losing any more now” and ” you don’t want to be too thin”. Well I do actually, I’m only just bordering on a normal bmi! Pity these same people weren’t telling me a few years ago to stop eating so much and getting too fat!! That would have been considered rude though! But much more truthful.Lol! Sorry, my rant over!
I hope you all have a good day today and a lovely weekend. Too many to mention by name but I love to read all of your posts. I,m going to try to keep in touch regularly now.
Anne x
Morning Anne aka dag
You have been missed, I hope you are getting your family issues sorted out, I like you tend to go off piste when problems arise then revert to type I. E. Eating…..
My mum is beaming all over her face at the thought of another days company, it is a shame I live away, although she gets lots of visitors she does enjoy having someone on the house at night….
The snow is still falling hard, I am going to have a fight on my hands to stop my hubby setting off to try and get me, apparently there is no snow at all at home, but I hope he doesn’t try. Although the main roads are open the side roads are snowed up and mum lives in the pennines so it is all hills….
Keep in touch, enjoy your fast, have a great weekend
Audrey
Hi Audrey
Your Mum should be thrilled you are still there, at least you don’t have to worry about her being cut off. The snow sounds lovely but I know in reality it isn’t so good. And…….here I am basking in the sunshine coming through the window.
I know that it won’t last though but I haven’t had a chance to see a weather report. I’m not needed at the hospital at the moment as he is a bit better!! His daughter and even some of the nurses are amazed. Is this the lull before the storm?
So I was told to make the most of it and get a nights sleep, which I did. I’m at home again on standby. So you have my company today. I do have a some housework to do but that can wait until this afternoon. I managed fast day on Wednesday. I did have a peanut cookie and hot chocolate at 5 the following morning when I would have normally been asleep though. Fast day again today. Enjoy your snowman building. I’d like a picture xx
Hi Celtic
Sorry to hear you are struggling. I manage fine on fast days but NFDs are definetly more of a problem for me, I know I need to do what you suggest, but I would struggle to do this.
I hope you manage to get back on track soon though.
Hi Hemmy
Have a lovely weekend with Kristy (I think I sometimes call her Kirsty sorry it is my cousins daughters name). If it does back on you will soon take it off again. That is the beauty of this way of life.
I too looked at the 800 calorie one, interested but not enough to do it 🙂 if you do I shall be interested to see your results.
Hi Dee
Glad to hear that the carpet got away unscathed. Well done for the 1.5lbs as well. How old is your daughter? Would she commit to this?
KT, Plainy, Jean and Victoria and all others how are you doing?
Ginette
Hi Dag
Posts crossed. Well done for coming back. To all these people who comment just tell them you need to get into the healthy BMI range. This will keep them quiet (hopefully).
Dag I wish you luck as you will get there if you stick with us. Nicer weather isn’t far away although it may not seem like that now.
It is what is important to you that counts as long as you don’t go mad and get dangerously thin. I can’t see that happening to many of us here though!! It is strange to think that people who don’t eat have as many problems us us.
Sometimes more I think as if we are here, we have at least faced up to them and are showing we are willing to tackle them. Remember that all who are only looking in buy coming on the forum you have made a concious decision to tackle these issues. By staying with us this decision although hard is that you are trying to tackle it. Join in or join back in with us.
Hi Audrey
I’m glad your Mum is pkeased so some good has come out of it. Whether Ian will listen to you who knows you may both be snowed in at your Mums later. Enjoy your day.
Ginette
Ooh Aud how romantic … Ian fighting his way in the snow to rescue you. Bless him.
Hope the snow clears soon for you… especially needing your tablets.Xx
Gine Just joined the Blood Sugar forum .. very good reports and results. Also lots of support….
I had originally thought Dr Mosley had just devised it for diabetics but lots of people just wanting to lose weight. Will keep you posted. xx
Dee.. very well done again this week. 1.5lb that’s brilliant. Xx
Dag.. Its hard to concentrate when family problems arise. Just keep going forward best you can.. till things improve. xx
Hi Everybody,
Running late today, we have been building some wardrobes in our spare bedroom for 6 hours!! and yesterday!
Weigh in today both the same weight, a bit disappointing after a good food week and lots of stepping out for me. Strangely I do feel a lot slimmer my trousers are getting quite loose, hubbys are falling down! So somethings happening. Maybe next week??
Audrey…..enjoy your extended holiday, Mum will be pleased about that…..our friend was coming over from Bolton for the weekend but cancelled because of the weather.
Celtic……hope you can get back onboard, after being on the 5.2 awhile and taking a break it’s hard to get back on track. We know from the past, we were on it for 18 months, then the break because of hospital. We put a lot back on ..try and get focused quickly …you can do it.
Hemmy……Kirsty weekends come around quickly, have a lovely weekend like usual. Mr Pips will be excited.
Dee….. Well done on your 1 1/2 pounds off …lot better than us this week!
Ginette…..you seem really busy take care of your self as well.
Dag……hope your stresses and issues at home soon get sorted. We all have them from time to time…if you can’t change them don’t worry let someone else do that….we have had to walk away and let them get on with it!
Plainy…..hope you doing OK
Sat here shattered…my second large red wine in hand…looking forward to a restful weekend. A surprise visit from daughter as she was passing from her course…all is good.
Have a lovely weekend all
Jean x
Ginette
Sarah is 26 – 27 in June. Newly married and knows how to eat well ! I think she is an emotional over eater I mentioned the 5:2 and she shrugged her shoulders. For someone who ‘needs’ food this might be harsh ?? I’ve paid for hypnosis but this failed
Thanks for the pat on the X back ! Glass of red to treat myself x
KT,
Where to begin, you poor poor lass, don’t even think of your diet at the min, just be brave for your mum she is going to need you,
When you need someone come here, we will support you. …honestly I know exactly what you are going through, it’s very hard, my heart goes out to you and your family.
God bless shout when you need me and 52 will still be here when you are ready to try again.
Aud
Aud
So glad you got home safely. Good luck tomoz. Xx
Sym At least you stayed the same. This week will be good for you both. Xx
Kristy says she will be coming home week-ends for a while. Its very noisy and having to sleep with earplugs in. Awful cough and looks pasty.
We sent her off to London with rosy cheeks and a country radiance. Not that I am a dotting Mum of course. Lol
Home to Mr Pips … homemade fish pie and a couple of bottles of Merlot. Lol A restful day tomorrow and Sunday. xx
KT you are so brave .. its so hard at times like this you feel so alone. Everyone is here for you but its still so hard.
We will always be here at 5-2 when you need us. Take care thinking of you. Xx
Dee .. to be honest years ago I tried hypnosis but it never worked. Mainly visualisation.
The trouble is it needs to be the person that wants to lose weight. Kristy needed to lose a bit but denied it. Then not sure why she decided to join a gym .. then paid for a trainer an hour a week and never looked back size 14 down to a 10. After saying that has now lost her bloom. You cant win can you.
Hope Karen is having a lovely holiday miss her posts. Xx
KT
So very sorry to hear what is going on with your dad. Just relax with the diet and get through the next few days and weeks as best you can. Best wishes to you and your mum x
Audrey
Glad you made it home safely, just in time if there is more snow forecast. Still raining here unfortunately! And very cold. Good luck for your weigh in tomorrow.
Ginette
Hope you have a little break from your hospital visiting. There’s not much else to do when sitting around but snack and always sweet things available. Hopefully the fast days will compensate though.
Hemmy
Have a lovely weekend with your daughter. At least she can come home to recover on the weekends. It’s very hard to function in a new place and job if you can’t sleep. Everything gets unreasonable in your mind and makes sleeping even harder.
I’ve made it through the day with low calories, not quite 500 but not too many more. It’s better than the last few weeks though and no wine tonight [unfortunately}!
Have a good weekend all.
Anne
Good morning friends hope all is well with you and yours.
YAY YAY Aud …3.5lb .. that is absolutely bloody brilliant. ( I am doing your Mums Dance) Lol
So thrilled for you… you have worked so hard the last weeks and in pain too.. you are so much to be admired Aud.
Enjoy your week-end with Ian. Xx
Dag .. thank you. Yes, so lucky London-Home can be done in a couple of hours.
You have a lovely week-end too. Xx
Thinking of you KT Xx
All friends have a wonderful week-end whatever you are doing. Xx
Brit Lovelies…We must be thankful for the bad things in life.. for they open our eyes to the good things we weren’t paying attention to before. Xx
Morning All,
A bright sunny morning here.
Having a relaxing weekend feel like we have been working hard this week with one thing or another. A bit of reading day and no stepping out today! Still aching from yesterday can’t do what we did when younger nice getting old!
Audrey…. 3 1/2 pounds off really really well done and away at Mums as well…that’s one to your Aunt! 😃 X
I must get the food scales out again maybe I am being slap happy. We was down on weight but not a full pound! So it is going the right way. Hubby says is’s moving down so why worry and he’s right.
Hemmy …have a good weekend with Kirsty and hope she’s feeling better soon. X
All for now have a good weekend all
Jean x
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Hi Sym
Like you having a relaxing day. Kristy’s cough slightly better .. penicillin kicking in.
Just had thickly buttered crumpets for lunch.. chicken soup on the stove. ALSO Lolol Chocolate éclairs for tea time.
I figured I better eat well with all these germs around me. Only just got back on my feet from the last cold.
Fasting Monday.
Enjoy your day Sym. Xx
Hi Jean
My hospital visiting is at an end for now. The person concerned was on end of life treatment now they say they never said this although that is what a morphine driver is and we were told this by the nurse. Now he is looking better and they will start antibiotics on Monday is all is the same. He has lots of family here this weekend so I have taken a back seat and had a night at home and a really lazy indulgent (in every way) day.
I did lose nearly half a pound but I’m pretty sure that it has gone back on today. I was quite good with food at the hospital as I took my own and didn’t go too mad. Sorry to see that you haven’t lost any weight. I don’t really count half a pound. I only count a pound or over. So let’s see if I can make it a whole pound next week. Good luck to you as well Jean, we will get there.
Hi Audrey
I am so pleased that you are home and thrilled that at last the weight is moving for you. Three and a half pounds is fantastic.
Hi Dee
Yes it is a sad fact of life that people who need to change their eating habits take a long time to decide to. I was one of those people and I know I should be better now as well. It must come from within us. I have someone close to me who needed to do this, I didn’t tell him so but as he saw the weight coming off of me he has started doing it and is now losing. Strange as it seems it is the person who told me about 5:2 in the beginning!!
You can only encourage her where possible as frustrating as that is……
Hi KT
I am so sad to hear that news. It is always a shock and you will go through an emotional upheaval. I had someone very close to me die and this led me to do 5:2. For me it gave me something to concentrate on a routine to follow and lots of new friends. It took me three months to think like that though. Please keep up with the forum, don’t worry about fasting as you have other things to think of but as least you can talk to us and start again when you are ready.
My thoughts are with you all xxx
Hi Hemmy
Lovely to have Kristy with you even though she isn’t too well. Nothing like being at home to feel better. Sleeping well always helps as well.
Hi Anne
I never worry if I am just over or under 500 as I know it is about right. Just doing a fast day is what counts.
See you all tomorrow.
Ginette
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