Atlanta, GA- USA

3rd FD this month and I’m down 3 lbs. Probably water weight, but I’ll take it. It’s a great motivator. Thanks @flourbaby for your encouraging words. I’m back, and here to stay. I missed this WOL. Question… How do you make a name from the forum a link? I forgot…

Day 13 UK CD

It seems to be National Whoosh Week cos I had one too! My cursury morning weigh-in involved the full cartoon “get on.. do double take…get off..get on..shake head… get off, check scales are in regular place…get on …stand with open-mouthed amazement while wiggling around in case pointer settles elsewhere”.

After yesterday afternoon’s listen-to-my-body Rice Fest – hot red rice salad & chocolate rice pudding with poached apples – I’m down to 65kg/143.5lb today, the new low last glimpsed in mid-December 🙂 If that’s the effect of skipping my regular gf oat bread in favour of occasional carbs I’ll bank it…. Who knew?

Feeling a bit better after a second night of 12hr sleep – not healthy, but definitely improved. And taking my intercity trip out of the middle of the week has left it wonderfully spacious, looking forward to catching up with yoga & meditation, reading & writing as well as some gentle project work.

Consciously focusing on Balance this year is beginning to pay gentle dividends, making me more mindful of both my time and my needs, more likely to stop and look after myself or to consider before accepting either an invitation or a complaint. Slowly, with gentle goals seems to work so much better for me than quick changes or single focus – success is in the breadth and the breathing spaces

Here’s to wise choices and breathing spaces today 🙂

Day 13, UK, FD

Congrats everyone who had a Whoosh 👏 👏 , I’m still waiting for mine 🙏
I will weigh myself tomorrow so lets see …. 🙏

@daffodil2010 I don’t have space indoors, so they will have to be planted outdoors. I didn’t realise March would be too early 😮 , but you are right, it could still be cold at that time of the year. I better get organised and buy some seeds 😄 . Thank you for the advice xx , me and @snowflake56 are taking notes. If I saw my seeds, can I leave them outside?

@gretta have a wonderful honeymoon ❤

@missybear I make my own kefir and it made a huge difference to the health of mu gut. Plus, its so delicious 🙂 . I buy it from this site : https://bacillusbulgaricus.com/ , its the best I found and they give instructions how to make it and the guys who is running it is very helpful if he is asked for help (I’m not in any way affiliated with them, just a happy customer) . Its very easy to make it 🙂 . I think few people from here tried it.

@therealwil78 to make a name clickable (a link) just add “@” before the name (without quotes) , as you did it 🙂

I noticed that @anna6 hasn’t been here for almost 10 days, which is unusual, I hope she is ok 😕

Pocket list for Day 13:
@betsylee
@neilithicman (800)
@elektron (800)
@gretta
@jaifaim
@dingping
@basyjames (800)
@shinything

Day 13, Idaho USA 20/4 FD

Dug out from 10+ inches of snow in the last 24 hours. Or, more honestly my Husband dug us out 🙂 Kids stayed home from school yesterday, but are on the roads today. Oldest boy is driving this year, glad He’s had a little snow practice already, but I can’t help but feel a few nerves each morning that the roads are slick.
I fasted as scheduled last week, but ate so much on the weekend that it was basically a wash. Hopefully that was just a problem from the first week back at it! I need my clothing to fit again! I’m tired of juggling sweaters to find the least muffin-toppy option!

@michelinme your description of the weigh in was just what I needed this morning!

Pocket list for Day 13:
@betsylee
@neilithicman (800)
@elektron (800)
@gretta
@jaifaim
@dingping
@basyjames (800)
@shinything
@foodfreedomgirl

Day 13: Gloucestershire, UK: NFD but being quite good actually…

@gretta: have a great time.
@shinything: I think @anna6 said she was going to be away for awhile. Holiday?
@redrockgirl302: Is your dog ok?
@daffodil2010: Congratulations on your whoosh. Hope you dad continues to improve and will soon get home.
@therealwil78: Welcome back and three pounds down already!
I feel sorry for you people in America with all that snow. How does the post get through, I wonder?

Day 13. UK. Fast800

Hello All

Just a quick visit. It’s been a none stop day and now about to jump in a nice hot bubble bath 🛀.

Ended up being a OMAD today as I didn’t get chance to eat until 5:00pm. Kitchen now closed.

I’m going to enjoy reading thread and catching up later.

Peace & Love

Day 14, Wellington NZ, FD

Happy Valentine’s Day one and all – love yourselves!

Am riding out a Hot Cross Bun induced blip and have gone up 1kg in the past couple of days. Disappointed in myself, but as everyone says – being kind to myself and not dwelling on it – other than to plan how to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.

Away for a few days at two weddings so will report in again after the weekend.

Stay strong all, and have a great weekend (I know it’s only Thursday, but my first wedding is tomorrow)

Day 13 California NFD
Day 12 NFD
Day 11 NFD

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days – work is very demanding mentally right now.
Tomorrow will be my fast day – OMAD has been working for me the last couple of FD’s. Most of my non fast days have been 16:8.
Raining again here today and for the next three days.

2nd post

If your finger slips while hitting the submit button and you accidentally hit it twice you get a double post!

Day 13, Rocky Mountains, US, NFD

Having the munchies today. Kitchen is closed now.
Tai Chi in the morning, walked home from campus, got my 10.000 steps and more. Walking the dog. @ciren2: Thanks, my dog is feeling better. His diarrhea seems to be under control now (fingers crossed) after getting ‘imodium’ doggie pills from the vet. He is fasting as well, only very little food at the moment. His heart condition remains the same. No worse, will be kept on the same pills. Also @ciren2 the mail carriers are heros here with all the snow and ice. When it is really bad they have to put chains on their little cars to get around. But walking un-shoveled sidewalks and paths to houses with mail and packages is no picnic.

Hope everyone had a good Wednesday! ⚘⚘⚘

Day 13 Ohio, US FD(#53) ✔️
Day 12 — NFD ✔️

Yesterday was a really odd one: The whole day was a series of unexpected events, each one not all that stressful, but because they were non-stop from the time I got up, by mid-evening I was pretty fried. That could be why that then I got very strong hunger pangs. That led to eating over the TDEE, so I made today a FD. Fortunately I kept the added sugar levels low. Another reason for a FD is that I slept warm last night. It appears that if I eat too much on any day my body temperature goes way up when I sleep. That may be a good “tell” for when I need a FD. Yesterday didn’t get a chance to get any exercise in, but this morning was able to do my yoga practice before work and will come close to 10K steps by bedtime.

@redrockgirl302 Hope your pup keeps on feeling better!

@rafiki44 Hope your work situation eases up fast!

@emma1202 Ruptured tendons are no fun. I once messed up the tendons in my left hand and wrist in a toboganning accident and had to wear a splint for six months. So I hope that yours heal up very fast! Will you need to do some physical therapy afterwards?

Enjoy the day!

Day 14 NSW Australia FD
3.30pm Thursday

Hi everyone, just checking in.

Having a good FD – so far only 190 Cal’s and it’s 3.30pm Thursday here!

Pocket List Day 14:
@arelkade

Enjoy whatever you are getting up to and bye for now xx

Day 14, Cornwall UK, NFD

Did my second fast day of the week early yesterday so I can have a Valentine meal with my OH tonight who is cooking my favourite roast meal (cauliflower and chickpeas with tahinni and lemon sauce – OK – i have strange tastes!). And Prosecco. Have to weigh myself this morning and hope this is my Whoosh Week too. Will update later.

On the matter of growing tomatoes. I too like to start them early in Feb or March as I have somewhere to grow them frost free as you can’t put them outside until mid/end May. Its OK to sow later in April, especially further south, always indoors/greenhouse, as the seeds need heat to germinate. Or buy plug plants in May. Look for varieties that crop well outdoors, as opposed to a greenhouse. Eg for outdoors – Gardeners Delight for cherry toms or Ailsa Craig for salad toms, or ask your neighbours what grows well for them as local conditions affect the crop!

Happy Valentines to you all! ❤❤❤

Day 14 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Morning all. After the whoosh, I am back on the plateau….I checked and every Thursday I weigh the exact same. Been this way for nearly 3 months. Hey ho, there we go. Wearing size 10 skirts still so it’s only an added inch or two in the waist that needs to go.

Soldier on as always.

@flourbaby ha ha you made me giggle with the Frankie Howerd impression with talk of “self-love”….ohhh matron!!

@shinything I am one of the folks who bought kefir from that link you recommended, it was last year, and I love it! I also make yoghurt from this online store, the rose flavour is yum. Put it this way……a year or so ago DH had to be on antibiotics for a while and developed very bad stomach pain. Last Autumn, he had to take antibiotics for the foreign body in his ear(still don’t know what it was 😱), but drank a daily glass of homemade kefir and no gut issues whatsoever. It’s great!

@cornish-jane Glad you came in with your wise words re tomatoes. I guess the most important thing is to always sow seeds indoors in a seed tray, a warm windowsill is usually fine……my house is dotted with little seedlings on every windowsill come April…just waiting to be potted on and for the last frosts. Luckily DH is understanding of my horticulture love and does not mind peering out through green leafy seedlings! I dont have a greenhouse as such at hone so it’s needs must. Love this time of year, full of promise!

Right, got to go. Happy Valentines Day everyone, and practice Self Love always….@FlourBaby..now, now, I see you giggling there at back of class, take your mind out of the gutter there 😆

Have a great day!

Day 14 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 FD

Thank you for helpful comments about making kefir @emma-taylor I’m encouraged to hear that its easy to do and @shinything I have looked at the link to the company you and @daffodil2010 use and I think I would prefer the freeze dried kefir starter to grains. Looking forward to going into production.

Need to have a good healthy FD today as I have another celebration dinner tomorrow and I am already at the top of my maintenance range 😱

Pocket list for today:
@arelkade
@betsylee
@wacm
@missybear

Happy Valentines ❤️

Day 14 Canton OH Fast800

Day 10/21 day challenge
I was really tired yesterday; I kept to my feeding window but did not track my calories yesterday, I also only logged 11247 steps. I probably went over because I decided not to count my calories. I ate an apple, some cashew nuts and some bacon slices, and then settled in front of the TV with a nice slice of the honey bun cake (no frosting) that I baked last weekend. I am 2 pounds down this morning, so total of 8 pounds lost so far.

I am planning to make a nice Asian-themed Valentine’s day dinner this evening for my family, I don’t plan to over indulge- I will stick to my allotted 800 calories and drink tons of water – no nuts (finger’s crossed)

@therealwil78 I hope you don’t mind if I make a small correction, I know you joined us 4 days ago but we all post the day of the month as the first sentence in our post. Since we are an international forum in different time zones, it keeps us all on the same page. If you want to track how many days since you started the fast diet, you could post it as your second sentence, some of us do that to keep track.

is anyone here a fan of Kimchi? I haven’t had any in a while and I am craving some – I think my gut will thank me too 🙂

@michelinme thanks! Like flourbaby said I really needed the structure, I was doing well on my FD but out of control on NFD and this keeps the guradrails on a bit, my twin already said it (uncanny) I was aiming for some brain retraining and it takes 21 days to learn a new habit – so here we are 🙂

Happy Valentine’s day Everyone!!! Be good to yourself and those around you.

Pocket list for today:
@arelkade
@betsylee
@wacm
@missybear
@basyjames Fast800

Day 14: Gloucestershire, UK: NFD
Very foggy to start with this morning. Could hardly see where I was going on the way to work! Thank goodness for white lines in the centre of the roads….turned out to be a lovely spring-like day once the sun came out around midday.

@redrockgirl302: your posties are amazing…our mail would never get through in anything like those conditions. A bit of snow and this country grinds to a halt!
@ccco: you’re really getting into the water fasts, aren’t you? You’ll certainly get results.

Hello all day 14 fast day 800

Happy St Valentine’s day everyone and just to let you know I love you all – you wonderful supporting people x

Not caught up on all the posts and have not even been on for a while so some of you may have already noticed it if you have the book Clever guts recipe book. My copy arrived the other day and I was flicking through it and our own @fatrabbit gets a mention as one of her recipes is used in the book. I also purchased the 800 fast book but I haven’t really had a chance to get into it.
I am being more active again and while I can’t say that circuits at the gym are my favourite, they certainly make you work and I am trying to be more accountable regarding my water intake – I am just sorry the loo at work isn’t further away. The amount of times I need to go I could very well reach my step goal by just going to the loo.
The guy at the gym asked me to lower my step goal, surprisingly, from 10,000 to 8,000 and you know what I feel so much better in my head. It was only perhaps a few days a week I attained 10,000 and always felt a little downhearted but now I have reduced the steps and I am attaining 8,000 almost every day, I feel like a winner. So maybe perhaps there is a lesson for us all to think about. Maybe we should lighten up a little, set our goals to a more attainable target and we will still get to where we want to be. Instead of sticking to the previous 500 I am doing 800 finally getting my head around that it was somehow ‘cheating’ and finding it a little easier. I don’t need to beat myself up. On this special day love yourself enough to be kind to yourself.

Hope all is good with all and I will try to catch up soon before the month is up. Can’t believe we are half way through already.

Day 14 USA (Illinois) NFD

Really being careful as to eating today, mostly because at our 100 Women Who Care meeting tonight, there will be wine and hors d’oeuvres -maybe even some sweets. Every 3 months, we women meet (now there are about 135 in our county) and listen to the needs of 3 non-profit groups who are chosen at random. Voting is done, then everyone writes a $100 check to that organization. Our Children’s Museum won 2 years ago, but we are still needy. It is a great way to secure about $135,000 in one fell swoop.

Crazy, freakish weather continues in much of the U.S.A. — hopefully everyone is safe!

Onward and downward.

Day 15 – Japan – WFD (#12)

Still people finishing up day 14 fasts. I hearty wish that all goes well for them.
Last night we had chocolate fondue. Way too much sugar so the fast today is welcome.

Day 14 Ohio, US — NFD

At noon I went for some deep-tissue work on my neck and shoulders. I’m not exactly in pain, but it’s clear that the body is making some major re-adjustments. One consequence of that seems to have been a steady urge to snack since the treatment. With any luck a good night’s sleep will help to restore equilibrium.

@michelinme Hope you continue to recover and that you feel 100% by the time of your conference!

@rafiki44 That “pineapple express” can really dump a lot of water on an area. When I lived in Oregon, we’d occasionally get soaked by it. Sounds like it’s worse this year than it’s been for some time.

@coda Yeah, that 10K step goal isn’t really a “one-size fits all” matter. I keep a record of my steps every day, but I don’t really obsess over getting that 10K in. Rather I just pay attention to the trends in the step count over several days. It seems that if my count goes way down, it’s an early warning sign that something is perhaps amiss, such as a cold coming on. By using the trends, I can sometimes get a jump on a cold and keep it from getting too bad. Today, for example, my count is way down and I think that that’s a sign of the body recalibrating itself after the deep-tissue treatment.

Have a great end of the week everyone!

Day 15, Emden Germany, FD

@daffodil2010 thanks for the information on growing tomatoes and the change in white carbs. I bought seed trays and seed, our compost is very grainy, perhaps not good enough. We do have an old greenhouse but it doesn’t get much sunlight, so we use it as a shed now. We had the tomatoes in it, didn’t work, plants grew large but no tomatoes. @cornish-jane thanks to you too. We should just try it @shinything (how is your shoulder doing, did you start physiotherapy?).

@gretta happy honeymoon!

@therealwil78 welcome back, you had a good start!

@at friends and family (and my DH) think we run an orphanage for unwanted things. Most of the things are out of the house now, my DH went to the tip and to the charity shop twice, he knows he can’t expect I spend my days dusting and cleaning things we don’t need. I’m glad we both don’t like my DH’s parents teak furniture, we only took books (who wonders) and a lovely old sewing table.

Time to get out of bed and take a paintbrush, the weather looks promissing, Spring arrived in this part of the world.

Pocket list day 15

@snowflake56
@dykask
@betsylee

Have a nice day everyone!

Day 15 – Ireland – FD

@betsylee and @cornish-jane I’m sharing your frustration today… have been so so so good… except for yesterday … which in my naivety thought might bring about the elusive whoosh but no…… but I really enjoyed my day, it was a beautiful day here and the food I had was so good!
I am wearing a pair of trousers I rarely wear because of the shape and fit so that’s a good sign and I’m taking @emma1202 and @dykask’s advice and trying to ignore that number 🛑
I’m going to try another FD today though… out with friends again tomorrow so that will be an EFS and there may be some alcohol..I’ve managed to stay dry until now…

May you all feel the love again today 😀

Pocket list for today:
@snowflake56
@dykask
@betsylee
@jaifaim

Onward and downward ⬇️

Day 15 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NFD

Forced myself to step on the scales again this morning and 2 lbs down from Tuesday….phew…so comfortably within maintenance range but still a pound up on 1st February. I was hungry during yesterday’s FD and suspect the birthday treats are messing with my blood sugar.

@cornish-jane and @daffodil2010 I’m taking note of the tomato growing advice and I am going to have a go this year. I too can relate to the midlife stresses comments as my 82 year old dad’s health has been deteriorating recently. It seems whatever age we are there is always something to worry about, all the more reason to keep healthy so we can cope the best we can.

Out for dinner and to see a Gary Barlow tribute singer tonight…..there will be pudding and wine. Oh well, it will soon be March and I will be much better behaved.

Keep on keeping on everyone 🤗

Day 15. Naples NFD
This is what I ate yesterday. Fruit yoghurt, ice cream, crisps, those weird Italian savoury pastries that look like puppy dogs tails, peanuts, ham sandwiches, fried carbohydrates bought on the street ( not entirely sure what they were but they were white and fried). That is the worst days eating in my entire life, I think. Oh, and some beer. Just to top it off. How embarrassing.