Morning!
Hello Steve & welcome here! I’m not far from you, near Woodbridge, so I can keep an eye on you 😂
It’s helpful to come on here on fast days, get some encouragement! I found it easier to just have one or 2 meals, rather than 3 small ones, that’s always made me hungrier…when you do 5:2, it’s just the one day at a time, tell yourself that & hopefully it’ll help.
Jean-enjoy your breakfast out!
Dave- you’ve done so well, just shows it can be done…
Hemmy- will you have any hot cross buns over Easter? We’ve bought one pack so might have one on Good Friday…
Nana- fingers crossed for good weather next week, are you staying in a caravan again this time?
Going to meet a friend for a coffee, will be strong and resist cakes…done our shopping already. Will tackle the rest of under the sofas, Jean I had to admit defeat yesterday & couldn’t finish, my neck was playing up wriggling about underneath! The sofa & both armchairs are all reclining, so many fiddly bits of frames that were dusty!
Have a good day everyone!

Afternoon All..
A lovely breakfast and catchup with Jacqui… seeing her again Friday, she is coming up to me after lunch…

Sorted my picture frames out and they are up and I am pleased the colours are so bright….

Steve..
Welcome to our corner you are so welcome.. take it steady and don’t over think to deeply about thing’s.. as Dave says keep to 800 calories on a fast day and split the 2 days it’s better. I eat breakfast at about 10.30 and again I eat about 4.30.. I have fallen into that pattern most days unless I catch up with friends.
We all come on here every day to keep you positive, Hemmy and I are running along goal weight but still come on here. I lost 2 1/2 stones. I am 3 lbs up at the moment.

Hedgehog..
Sorry your necks playing up, hard getting into tight corners. Jacqui has had a painful arm, doctor totally uninterested.. she has been to a sports physio, she said it feels really good, booked in again for next month. £20 for 30 mins, not a bad price.

Dave..
Hope the rain didn’t stop play.. some of ours carry a towel to dry the boules..

I have got my padded trousers out it’s like winter here and blowing a gale.. going to be a cold dog walk…

Jean x

Out was absolutely freezing playing bowls today, couldn’t feel my fingers. It’s back to winter after having all the good weather of late.Bowling again tomorrow then it’s speedway Friday and Monday. on Monday’s when the speedway is on I have started only having one meal and that’s around 10pm.Typhoo aye you lurking, time you came back on here.

Good Afternoon, everyone.
A big thank you, to all of you (Hemmy, Symba7, Brads27 and Hedgeshogs) for welcoming me and your kind words of encouragement. I will let you know when I actually start the 5 2 in May. I would just like to explain why I am starting in May and not immediately.
My youngest son (now 16 years old) celebrated his birthday early April, he still likes cake and we always go out for lunch and dinner. That was the easy birthday!
Next week my wife celebrates her birthday, the very next day my middle son celbrates his birthday and beleive it or not, my oldest son celebrates his birthday two days after my middle son. Of course they all want, to go out to dinner and celebrate. Financially crippling month and not a good month for dieting in general, let alone Fasting 🙁 – And on top of that Easter is thrown into the mix. Enough said.

@ Hedgehogs – I used to go to school in Woodbridge and lived in a little village a few miles outside of Woodbridge. Small world isn’t it ?

Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend 🙂

My son and daughter have birthdays in December plus Christmas then my wife and I have birthdays in January.I did the same as you and started the month after I came on here. Gives you time to plan things. Hemmy any luck with the butter beans or have you given up hope of ever finding them 🤣. Speedway tomorrow at 12 noon and the same on Monday.My son likes the watch I bought and his Fitbit as gone very dim so I told him he can have it. I have the Samsung watch 7 not only the smaller version which I think is too small for me, so I’ll look around and see what’s on offer.I like smart watches.

Good morning everyone it’s a cold day and rain expected.Typical when they’re is speedway. The Easter eggs are calling me, resistance is futile. I’ll start again on Monday. They have banned dogs from attending speedway meetings. I’ve seen quiet a few dogs at different tracks. At Leicester one dog had it’s own chair and blanket and all the officials used to come and stroke it.Another at Kings Lynn use to ware a baseball cap with a British bulldog on it.

Afternoon!
Steve- no wonder you can’t fast for a few weeks, that’s alot of birthdays!! Woodbridge school or Farlingaye? My boys were at Farlingaye, it’s gone downhill a bit now…Enjoy your Easter!
Jean- sounds like a very nice birthday weekend for you, enjoy the treats!
Dave- hope the speedway is good, shame about banning dogs. Not too many Easter eggs I hope!
Hemmy- well done not getting too many Easter treats! Not got any geraniums yet, hopefully in another week. Need to get more compost too, the place where we get Xena’s food from sells some nice stuff …
Nana- have a good Easter weekend!
Had a lovely time out with eldest son & his gf at the beach yesterday, the weather was beautiful, had a couple of walks before & after brunch…stuck to keto then but am having a couple of treats today- hot cross buns & I’ve made a sort of millionaires tart for pudding as Mum’s coming over for dinner. Seeing youngest son tomorrow.