Day 18 second post (late evening)

@debster251, Yes, I’ve wondered about carbs. I’ve decreased them a lot, but…. that ice-cream!!!

Anyway, kind-of a successful “semi” fast day – my FD800 became about 920cals, but better than higher!

@betsylee I initially lost 6” from my waist, which was great. HOWEVER, now I’ve lost most of the weight I’m still left with a larger than desirable middle I.e. 33” waist with a BMI of under 24, I do indulge in too many sugary/carbs, which I’m trying to cut out. @michelinme’s words are so true. Not all carbs are equal. Isn’t it finding that fine line between abstinence and having a treat.? There’s nothing else for it…. keep on keeping on!

Day 18 USA (Illinois) NFD

Did pretty well over the weekend – maintenance going fine. Our combined church choirs number at yesterday afternoon’s Hymn Sing was a great success and oh so fun.

Busy day again today, but getting to Silver Sneakers this morning to exercise, P.E.O. afternoon meeting, then Choral Society first rehearsal and social with “finger food” grazing at the end. I always allow calories of my TDEE for that.

Onward and downward.

Day 18 – USA – NFD

Hello, all! Still reading posts daily and catching up, usually in the evenings because of my wonky work schedule. Hope those under the weather are faring better; I also miss @anna6, @rainbowsmile, @bert1802…

@debster251, I read a post from someone asking you about Bulgarian kefir as being preferable to others…it’s something I’d like to start…can you give me a clue as to how to start and what sources you use, if you don’t mind? @northerndawn, I understand completely the way you feel when crazy-making Cruella jacks you around with 2-3 pound ups and downs. I was 144 yesterday and only ate 2x, the bulk of which was salad and today I’m 147! You will get to your goals with this WOL. It took me 2 years to reach my goal and I highly doubt if I could have done it without the encouragement of this forum, for which I am so grateful!

Day 18 second post

need that Pocket list solidarity!

Today’s pocket list:

@dykask. WFD
@chipmunk13 F800
@betsylee.
@elektron
@judyjudes F800
@daffodil2010
@diggly
@missybear
@debster251 F800
@michelinme
@at
@flourbaby
@redrockgirl302 F800

Day 18 California NFD
Day 17 NFD

@ michelinme thanks for that info on where you lost your fat and in what order. I’ve been wondering about that as my stomach doesn’t seem to be shrinking as much as the rest of me and I’ve been wondering how much more I have to lose to get rid of it!

It’s really cold again here right now and DD’s dog refused to leave the bed this morning when DD needed to leave for work! Smart dog.

It’s a holiday for me so off to meet so,e coworkers and ex. coworkers for lunch and maybe a margarita. At least it’s bright sunlight today after many gloomy days.

@metauta and @judyjudes

Water kefir is fermented from clear crystal-like grains with sugar (although this ferments off) and makes a slightly fizzy pleasant drink. You can do a second ferment with fruit. Milk kefir can be fermented using a different sort of grains and milk and produces a very ‘tangy’ drink which is an acquired taste. If you’re on Facebook, you can get grains free, as they increase and the community will always pass on excess.

I have experimented with both water and milk kefir before settling on the source recommended by @shinything. https://bacillusbulgaricus.com/. This is more like yoghurt and is absolutely delicious. You buy a dehydrated starter pack. Using full fat milk you heat to just below boiling, let it cool till you can hold your finger in it for a count of five, mix in the starter, then wrap up and leave for 12-14 hours. I use a cool bag and some towels. Hey presto! Then you can use a couple of tablespoons of your current batch to make the next batch. Gorgeous with fruit. I also use it for dressings, curries etc. Good luck with your fermenting!

Day 18 – USA – NFD

@debster251, thank you! I made a small $1.99 order and $5.99 shipping, but for a little over $7 it’s worth a try.

Day 18 3rd post

OMAD FD with steamed cauliflower in a quark, garlic, pepper & cheese sauce; spicy veggie chilli and a hard boiled egg – total 380 calories. Feeling absolutely stuffed, going to have a clementine then close the kitchen, bathe & bed.

I’m tired & grumpy & feeling v open to temptation – Posting here for accountability!

Day 18 – second post

@judyjudes and @metatauta you will love the yoghurt and kefir from bacillusbulgaricus.com! You won’t regret it.

I now make the Rose flavoured yoghurt and it is so mild and creamy and delicious with blueberries and walnuts. Just had a bowl now. Even my cat like it. Thanks to @shinything for putting us onto it. In a year I have only reordered kefir grains once, I make many batches.

And @judyjudes I hope you managed to get all those pesky vine weevil grubs 😱 They are the worst thing and total annihilation is the only way. 😨 I suggest a product called Nemaforce……or is it called Nemasys….🤔 It’s a biological solution using nematodes, these guys feed on the vine weevil eggs and hopefully you won’t have the grub problem the following season. I learnt about it when in horticulture college and I douse my plants a couple of times with it when the weather is warmer.

Day 18 Ireland FD

Back from visiting family, it was lovely, really relaxing and I didn’t really think about fasting if I’m honest. So I am reading all your posts from the past week and thinking about how good you have all been carrying out your FDs while I have been eating lots of bread, biscuits, cheese, crisps and wine among other things! No plans to go near the scales for a while.

@flourbaby I am interested in your thoughts on the 30 day shred – does this work? I had done 5\6 days at the end of January but then got out of the habit of it, might restart if it is good!

Day 18 Ohio, US — NFD ✔️

A good NFD, although I felt slightly nauseous at work this morning. Fortunately it passed quickly and the rest of the day was good. I did part of my yoga practice in the morning before work and later the other part just before supper.

@shinything A good way to think about the day is that it is a practice for the real FD on Wednesday. And warm-ups are always good!

@ciren2 When you say porridge, can I ask what grain your porridge is made from?

@rafiki44 With the cold weather here my dog is the same way. Usually when I ask him if he wants to go for a ride he’s right at the door. With the cold now he just lifts his head up off his blanket, looks at me, and then burrows his head back under the blanket. I suppose that the warm blanket beats sub-freezing temperatures and wind chills any day!

Have a great Tuesday all!

Day 19, Cornwall UK, NFD

Hanging in. Fasted yesterday. Bad weekend. Feeling guilty. 🙄

Day 19, Emden Germany, NFD
Day 18 NFD

@shinything if my seeds don’t come up well, I’ll buy plants from a lady that sells vegetables at the market. Perhaps something you could do?

@judyjudes I had to look up the black vine weevil, they can do much harm, I read. I hope you can get rid of them.

@debster251 yes, everything in the house has a story to it, but I have the stories in my head, I don’t think we should keep everything people want us to have. A lot of the vases we had (only 22 left of 46 now) come from the time we had a practice, patients gave us flowers with a vase. I always told them, we had vases to put the flowers in, they brought the vases in anyway. We had our failures with colours, sometimes they turn out differently than expected. We had a pig’s pink, coffee brown, a weird blue, a purplely red, all gone. I’m not sure about the grapefruit yellow, it’s a cold yellow, too much white, too little red in it perhaps. Elephant’s breath combined with orange sounds great, orange is such a bright, spirit lifting colour and of course it’s THE Dutch colour. Peacock blue is a good one, we love the combinations of blue with green and blue with a darker red.

Time to get up, have to make an almond pudding for tonight’s dinner.

Have a nice day veryone!

Day 19 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

B2b FD today. Plan nothing but liquids until 13.30 and break fast with small hombaked oatbran bread sand which with a tiny slice of ham and strong mustard. Love mustard. It’s also supposed to be excellent for ladies of a certain age like myself…supposed to help stave off some hormonal difficulties …so they say!!

Dinner tonight will be a chickpea and pepper chilli which I prepared over the weekend. If I can keep it at that and not have a sneaky muesli bedtime snack (like last night ☹️), then I will be happy.

@betsylee and @ciren2…funny, if I eat 85% choc I can only manage one to two squares. Which is GREAT. But give me milk chocolate….oh goodness me, the chocolate dragon is released. That’s why it’s high cocoa content chocolate for me.

Another fun fact, High cocoa content chocolate is eaten in Peru to help stave off altitude sickness. We were advised to feast on dark chocolate and coca tea, coca leaves boiled in water, on our trip last year. It worked for me ☺️ DH not so much.

Thanks @shinything…it’s called Nemasys….great stuff. I am planning to use the Nemaslug this year too. And BTW, remember, we never fail here on this WOL…it’s just a blip, climb back on. I feel like I am in maintenance too, carrying same weight on and off a few pounds for months……it will happen. Patience and persistence

My garden is awash with crocuses and daffodils and some beautiful irises….Spring is here, yay.

Have a great day fellow fasters.

Day 19, London, UK, FD800

Still hanging in here, I guess because I have a target – B’day celebrations this weekend, then a 4 day skiing trip at the beginning of March – means I’m staying focussed to avoid any guilt associated with cake or Après ski carry-ons!!!!!!

@yellowandblue, I have a real love/ hate relationship with the 30DS when I do it continuously, I see the changes to my body within days, and I love it. Then inevitably I stop doing it & the restart is sooooo difficult, then I love it again and the cycle continues, this time around I’ve set myself a target of having a maximum 2day break if I need it, so I’ll have to do it whilst away skiing!!!!……………………. Oooh, Fun …………………. Not!!!! My advice would be to take pictures, my waist is noticeably smaller, with a hint of rib!!!!

I’m not feeling the usual ‘Phew’ feeling at being back to work where fasting is a breeze, I suppose the 800 cals limit means better control for me because every day is the same, rather than bounding from B2B2B to B2B2B as was my routine, & the weekend did NOT involve any hint of an EFS!!!

Keep the faith people!!! We’ve GOT this!!!

Day 19, UK, NFD

Off to work in a minute so thought to post for accountability before I leave 🙂

@matpi wise words, I like that 😁 , that’s how I’m gonna think about my FD, just a blip and practice for Wednesday 😉

@daffodil2010 I didn’t know that about mustard, is that what they say? Interesting 😀

@judyjudes I hope that Nemasys works for you, I hate grubs, they are disgusting and so harmful 😡 . If it doesn’t work, try attracting starlings in your garden, they loooove grubs, they’d get rid of them in one day 😉, guaranteed grub free garden, ask me 😂

Have a good day everyone and stay strong, we can do this 💪

Day 19 Herefordshire UK NFD

Had two lovely days with our kids celebrating our DS birthday, much feasting and G&T (favourite tipple) drinking. Home tired but content.

Been out in the garden this morning doing some spring cleaning. Previous owners don’t seem to have tried to keep the moss at bay. Front lawns are 75% moss it would seem and the flower borders aren’t much better – it’s going to be a long job getting it under control. Feeling daunted by the work especially as OH not a big gardening kind of guy. Not sure if I’ll have time and energy to get a veg bed sorted as well as keep on top with the rest of the garden which now seems HUGE and unruly!

On the fasting front I have a family gathering on OH’s side in four weeks time, it would be nice to inch myself down into a new size, I’m in-between at the moment. Going to have to resort to belts for the moment, as the trouser falling down stage is annoying but worth it!

Feel poor at reading posts and responding appropriately but enjoy catching up when I can. Thank you to those that commented on my woes with my mum and her neighbour, my fingers are still crossed where that’s concerned.

@snowflake56 – how lovely to be surrounded by things that tell a story of your life/lives. One of my most precious but valueless thing is a plaster cast of my DS’s upper body made by my DD and then painted in 60’s psychedelic patterns for an art project for school. It represents them both in that brief moment in time. My kids are embarrassed by it, but secretly I think they like that I have it proudly on display. It’s a good art piece!

Have a good day everyone.
Ta x

Day 19 ?CD ?FD

Fabulous reset FD yesterday – yay – I’d forgotten quite how many vegetables you get for your calories! OMAD came in under 600 calories despite the yummy pudding of ff Greek yogurt, raw cacao & nuked banana 🙂

Not yet eaten today so I’m now aiming for a OMAD with early evening supper. I need to drink tons more than I have so far but pleased with the unexpected fasting that busyness brings. So glad I had an early night and got 9hrs sleep – self-care is the most wonderful thing!

I’m feeling pretty prepared for the all-consuming conference – various outfits that just-about fit and look reasonably smart hanging up in the wardrobe, and chuffed as bunnies to have my lovely packed lunch food laid out on a shelf in the fridge. That’s about as much preparation as i can do to avoid the myriad temptations which will be on display all day. Now I need to tidy up odds & ends of project work then look after the inner me – yoga, meditation, good supper and an early night.

Here’s to looking after our future selves! x

Day 19, Rocky Mountains, US, CD

Off meeting a friend at a coffee shop nearby. Walking there even though it is ice cold and windy. Have to bundle up. My doggie (a beautiful mix) loves the cold weather and snow. We had his DNA analyzed and he has some arctic dog (malamute or husky) as well as terrier and labrador. ❤🐕❤
Later Qigong practice.

Have a good Tuesday everyone! ⚘⚘⚘

Day 19 – second post

Just popping in for accountability. Was quite hungry at home time so had my dinner almost as soon as I got in the door. Now I am curled up on the sofa with the cat listening to the rain splashing against the windows, glad I am not out there this evening.

I have a full day tomorrow, going straight from work to meet a friend then visit Dad in hospital so won’t be home until late. So it’s relax time tonight.

@judyjudes and others…Re the Vine weevil debate……the adults are nocturnal so you won’t see them unless you go out looking after dark……but, you will know they have got your plants by the notch shaped bite out of the leaves. Once you see this then you know they like your lovely plant and you need to act fast to stop them laying their eggs. It’s those eggs turning into grubs that cause the root damage. So a few doses of Nemasys during the warmer weather should do the trick.

This happened to me a couple of years ago with my lovely Daphne Bohlua….I saw the notches on the leaves, but a few doses of the nematodes killed off the eggs. Plant doing ok now. Sorry about your Heuchera @judyjudes 😔

Day 19 Ireland FD

I was so busy with kids, appointments, swimming lessons etc that i never got a chance to eat properly so id say total calories for the day around 300

Day 20, New Zealand, FD
Hello all, sorry haven’t posted over the last few days. Thanks @at for the support for the Papotowai Challenge, I’m walking it, I have done it twice before, so would like to better my previous time this year. My daughter is running it (for the first time) with a friend. It is a beautiful part of the country. Hoping that the FD’s will mean I have less to carry around the course! I’m walking with a fiend who is fiercely competitive and I know who will push me to do my best all the way. I am now looking for another walking event in a month or so to keep me motivated to train. Like these monthly challenges knowing there is a end date (and a subsequent start date) to work towards keeps me on track.

Day 20 – Japan – NFD