Day 17 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 220 lbs. I’m not hungry yet, so I think I’ll either do a ZBC or eat a small protein-only breakfast before I drive out to my work lunch where pizza is on the docket *BLOAT* 🙂 That will extend my fasting window a little longer. Yesterday, I had a late work meeting, so I decided put all my calories on OMAD. It was the first FD that I only had lunch — no breakfast or supper. A sliced cucumber, about 12 grapes, a boiled egg, a pickle, and a baked chicken tender was all I ate. So technically, I’m still fasting!

Although I hit 224 this week (boo) compared to last Sunday’s – Friday’s average, this week’s Sunday – Friday weigh-in average is 1/3 lb lighter! The only other time I had hit 220 twice in a week was my lightest weigh-in week so far, which was back at the end of May. I’m not quite at that week’s average yet, but I’m within half a pound of its average. All of this to help convince me that although from a far view, it still looks like a plateau that has continued for months on end this year, it appears the Fung-based principles are starting to have a positive effect.

My father’s birthday is this weekend, and I have a wedding to attend next weekend, so mindfulness may be tougher than normal the next couple of weeks. Still, I’ll try to keep to the same mindful actions at non-celebration times.

Good luck to everyone!

Day 17, UK, FD

Well I have really annoyed myself this week.

Monday – felt amazing despite 2 X NFDs over the weekend, but was feeling slim and great after last week’s success in reaching my (old) goal weight.

However I did not fast on Monday due to a last-minute lunch with a friend.

Tuesday – Was feeling a little fatter by Tuesday, but didn’t fast because I wasn’t in the mood.

Wednesday – successful fast day thank goodness

Thursday – RIDICULOUSLY STUPID NFD.
I am so annoyed with myself! I absent-mindedly at a WHOLE bar of dark chocolate! I then looked at the calories on the packet and realised that I had absent-mindedly taken in 575 calories!!!!!!!!! WHY AM I SUCH AN IDIOT?

Then to make matters worse, after dinner I absent-mindedly ate 2/3 of a block of halloumi. What was wrong with me???? Normally I never eat anything after dinner. Why oh why was I eating cheese? (Or anything at all for that matter?!)

So I am very annoyed with myself this week!

Anyway, today’s FD is going fine… luckily.

I think like @dvw says, it is the non-fast days that I need to watch out for!

Hope everyone else’s weeks are going well. Looking forward to catching up with all the posts later …

Day 17 North canton OH FD

Checking in for accountability.

@high5 it happens, no need to kick yourself while you are down. Pick yourself up, dust off and keep plowing ahead. One day or even one week of mindless eating may delay your progress but in the long run, will not really affect anything. the fact that you are mindful of the lapse actually means a lot more.

take care everyone, gotta run!!!

Day 17 UK CD

Weigh in this morning showed minimal change but i’m already feeling so much thinner. My 9-month pregant-sized stomatch has gone down enormously this week and I’ll take that as a win.

A full day with some lovely admin help with what I thought would be really hard work. The tasks we thought were going to be hard weren’t which left space for baked potatoes with vegan dal. Supper of vegan meatballs and salad followed by poached pear with a little homemade granola and vegan yogurt.

I had a quick catch up with posts and see @daffodil2010 and @jaifaim are off on holiday for two weeks! Have a wonderful time xx

Day 18 – Lake District UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Here’s to being manic busy! Thursday was that busy only realised it was Thursday (usually a FD) at lunchtime, but having had coffee for breakfast and nothing else, turned into an easy FD.
Yesterday, another busy day, coffee breakfast, BBQ veggies for lunch, light evening meal so basically B2B FD’s. Result this morning, felt good, hopped on scales, back down to pre holiday weight and back in my happy zone where I can just maintain again!

I no longer have to control my Inner Warthog, he’s migrated elsewhere. It’s taken just over 2 years to drive him away, now find it’s quite easy. Yes, I have the occasional treat and even the odd feast, but an over indulgence of food is rare, unless it’s seafood, but that’s not as bad!

@babs_b – Funny you mention Mortimer and Whitehouse. A number of fellow anglers often remarked that they based that series on me and my old fishing buddy before he emigrated to be with family. Never a dull moment when we went fishing, loads of laughs. Have always tried to explain to non anglers, it’s not just about catching fish! In fact many a time we’ve actually just sat on the bank watching wildlife. An Osprey circling and after several attempts catching a meal. A family of kingfishers, one adult and four youngsters sat on a branch, listening to cuckoos and woodpeckers in the nearby woods, plus gallons of good free fresh air. As for some of the pranks and wind up’s… too many to recall!

Take care all

Day 18 UK NFD

Good to hear so many people being able to get out and about , I’m off to watch rugby today , which will need a change of trains in London so on the way home there will be a few beers and hopefully so nice to eat so aiming for a controlled day

I’ve also been thinking about @flourbaby Hope we get a guest appearance soon

Have a great Saturday all

Day 18 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 221 lbs. Yesterday was a ZBC and instead of pizza, they had sandwiches and chips at the lunch (yeah, still not great, but better than all that grease)! We made up for with with some fries, biscuits, and chicken strips with sweet tea in the evening (oops). Still, I think my calorie intake was a lot less than normal for a Friday.

Grocery store shopping looks good! Full disclosure: I did buy some gum and cookies, but the gum is mostly for co-workers (5 calorie chiclet style gum), and the cookies are for volunteers at an event I’ll staff in a couple of weeks. The rest of my food purchases: pistachios, onions, bell peppers, lettuce, bananas, Himalayan pink salt, uncooked chicken tender breasts, avocado, honey crisp apples, grapes, green onions, three types of cheeses, and pumpkin seeds.

My refrigerator looks healthy again, as it did back in May, as does my weight. The only other time I weighed in on a Saturday at 221 lbs was, yep, late May at my peak low weight. I’m moving away from the 224/225 level and into the 220/221 level, so this MAY be a sign that my 5-month plateau is ending (fingers crossed)! In fact, this week’s average was only 1/3 pound higher than my lowest recorded week in late May.

Day 18 Minnesota CD
Day 17 NFD

I spent yesterday picking up limbs and branches after a storm with high winds moved through early Friday morning. The sound was quite scary, but we were lucky compared to many in the area with trees on their roofs and cars. Very exhausted when evening came, and probably having donated a pint of blood the day before didn’t help with my energy level. I allowed myself plenty to eat, however. LOL. So today I need to make up for the overindulgence with a CD of less than 1200.

We are trying to get about a dozen purple coneflowers and Alliums planted today before rain is possible tomorrow night, so another busy day in the garden. Tomorrow afternoon plans are for grilling with DD and her family, so I have no plans to fast until Monday. I hope to catch up on posts again tonight or tomorrow.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Stay mindful of what it you need to do in order to feel good and take care of yourselves.

Day 19 U.K. NFD

I have a spare five minutes to sit down with my phone and a cup of tea to catch up on everyone’s posts 😊

@michelinme – well done, so nice when you start FEELING slimmer, such a wonderful feeling!

@missybear – I’m really interested in your approach. I think I personally need to get out into better habits on my NFDs and plan my meals more. Anyway congrats as it sounds like you’ve found something that’s really working for you in the long term, brilliant…

@northgeorgia – 🤞 for breaking your plateau!

@dvw – hahaha! Great minds eat alike! 😱 For me, swap in almond butter for your peanut butter and we’d be Sin Twins!!!

Fast Day for me tomo … see y’all then xx

Day 19 – Canada 🇨🇦 – CD

Trying for a fresh start with a CD. Beautiful day for an early morning walk. Take care all.

Almond butter @high5 sounds delicious, 😊 “Sin Twins” hahaha 🤣
Thanks for the video link @funshipfreddie – very interesting. I’d love to go to this clinic! https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/fasting-process-at-buchinger-wilhelmi-clinic-2936775/

Day 19 UK NFD

Lazy day for me , will be up early ready to exercise and fast tomorrow 💪

Day 19 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 223 lbs (a pound gain over last Sunday). Well, too much peer pressure yesterday unfortunately, and I completely caved in. Although I had a ZBC and then took in a satisfying lunch, two hours later I was invited to have sliders, brownies, rolls. etc. Then the evening meal turned into a meal out for fried ravioli and pizza. Lots of soft drink flowed to wash down the carbs. How many rules can I break in a day? It was disappointing to break so many rules so quickly: limit sugar, limit processed foods, don’t snack, don’t eat if not hungry, where’s the fiber and healthy foods? Today is my father’s birthday and they’re ordering french fries, biscuits, fried chicken — I’ll have to be mindful at supper and I can do ZBC for a few more hours. And next Saturday, I’m attending a wedding and reception. Eeek!

I’m OK with relaxing the rules a bit for special occasions — that’s the point of a WOL such as 5:2, but I just hate it when weekends turn into free-for-alls at every opportunity. I need to step up and take responsibility for myself and try to be polite and not hurt feelings when I can’t carb up to be socially acceptable every two hours. “How about I save this for my dinner tonight?” Hmmm. I’ll need to think of better strategies. What do you all do when the temptation comes from peers? Can you limit food and drink? Do you decline? Do you postpone? Do you shrug and surrender? Can you then balance out food intake the rest of your day/weekend or do you find it throws it off? The holiday season quickly approaches, so it would be nice to share some ideas ahead of time LOL!

Good luck today! I know I’ll need it 🙂

@northgeorgia

My goto social strategy is a ‘delay’ refusal.

Drink: “Right now I feel like a seltzer/ice water/coffee to quench my thirst/get in some caffeine etc., I’ll probably join you in a beer afterwards.”

Prepared food treats: “oh it looks and smells so good! Maybe in a bit, but not just yet.”

Processed food snacks: “oh thanks! Not just now.” + big smile

So I acknowledge the offer, and show appreciation but the ‘delay’ refusal allows them to easily back off.

Works pretty well for me, but I have to be ready with my responses beforehand so I feel I can politely decline without making it a deal.

day 19 UK
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@mariaelena That sound like a good strategy. I will definitely try that.

Day 20 FD FAST day ( at long last after far too many FDS aka FEAST days!!) country west Australia
I think my mojo ran off with yours @penz but here I am back again.
Joining the pocketless today.
The damage is not too bad, have been on the dreaded plateau, but now ready to zoom into the last part of the year.
Some dear soul has posted that it is now less than 100 days until Christmas 😳😳😲
so decided it is time to get myself in shape .
Hi to all. Have a good day.🙂

Day 20 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

@mariaelena – welcome!

Confession time. I scoffed an entire 100 g bag of giant salted peanuts last night! Don’t even remember buying them; I usually only get the small 40 g packets. And vodka; there was a lot of vodka. It was during a particularly harrowing episode of ‘The Good Doctor’ though, so that’s the best excuse I can come up with right now. So my sleep was blah & I’m tired & grumpy, but today WILL be a fast day.

@northgeorgia – that’s a tricky one! I guess different things work with different people too. If it’s a braai /barbecue I’d probably just avoid the bread & sweet stuff, & not stay too long. I’m not the most sociable person anyway, especially in large groups. Although, if there’s alcohol anything can happen 😅

We’ve got this, Monday fasters! 🤝

Pocket List – Day 20 🍏
@penz
@lilymartin
@i-hate-lettuce
@funshipfreddie

DAY 20 UK FD
Got off to a good start with the FD but had a really rough night. Was awake from 3.00 a.m. till about 5.30 a.m, so know that if I am tired I crave sweet things. We are trying to move at the moment and the chain is in danger of collapsing as we have a really awkward vendor who also has a ridiculously slow solicitor. Just kept churning it all over in my mind. Fatal. Oh well that’s my moan over. On with day!!
Good luck to fellow fasters.

Day 20 – Canada 🇨🇦 – FD

Good morning everybody. Quick post to add myself to the pocket list. Funny @funshipfreddie, ha ha ha.

Pocket List – Day 20 🍏
@penz
@lilymartin
@i-hate-lettuce
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@caoimhe
@dvw

Day 20, UK, FD

I had a really good NFD yesterday! I am soooo proud of myself. We went out for lunch but I did a ZBC and then for the rest of the day I only had 2 x SMALL pieces of 85% dark chocolate, plus a small salad and some seeds.

I know this doesn’t sound that amazing, but I need to accept that being on the other side of menopause means that I can no longer just eat anything I like on NFDs.

I need to learn to practice restraint. So I am really pleased with yesterday’s restraint. 🙂 🙂

@funshipfreddie – Isn’t the “That Sugar Film” great. My DH and I both learned new things actually plus it has given me a whole new injection of inspiration! Also I loved the song at the end – hilarious!

Also @funshipfreddie – thanks for the Science of Fasting link. I am half way though watching that – truly inspirational. Although I cannot imagine a 2-week water fast!!! Inspirational nonetheless.

@mariaelenea – great strategy! Love the delay tactics – really helpful idea, thank you.

@penz – Sorry to hear about the prolonged lockdown 🙁 🙁

@emmataylor – Well done on your holiday restraint! How wonderful re your mirror – the best type of holiday mirror for sure!

Pocket List – Day 20 🍏
@penz
@lilymartin
@i-hate-lettuce
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@caoimhe
@dvw
@northgeorgia
@high5

Day 20 North Canton OH FD

So I think my body needed a break from ADF, so after struggling to complete me usual routine last week (very unusual for me) I just went with it and did OMAD instead. I leave for a 4-day trip to Cancun with my sister on Wednesday. I am very excited to spend some time catching up, it is just what the doctor ordered LOL (She is a physician)

@mariaelena that is a brilliant strategy! Usually I rearrange my schedule so that I do not have to fast when I have a planned social engagement, but this would work for those unplanned ones. Welcome to the group.

@northgeorgia I feel your pain with the free for all weekends, and I agree with you completely.

@missybear and @michelinme great to see that you are doing so well

@high5 thanks for the link, love watching motivational videos and I am due to rewatch one or two

Pocket List – Day 20 🍏
@penz
@lilymartin
@i-hate-lettuce
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@caoimhe
@dvw
@northgeorgia
@high5
@basyjames

Have a great day everyone

Day 20 USA – OMAD

Good but tiring Silver Sneakers class this morning. Each teacher is different, it seems, and DH and I are trying to do our best to keep up. I am not one to eat breakfast before exercise (seldom eat early morning breakfast anyway) so do my best to just have some string cheese afterwards until my one meal at dinner time.

@mariaelena – glad you’re with us. This is one terrific supportive group.

@funshipfreddie – peanuts? Why, nuts to you! Ha ha. I was sorry to see that “Sugar” film is only available to the UK (maybe Australia too?) but not to us in “the colonies.” 😜

@stitchincarol – good to hear you’re driving home. Yes, that return to the scale can cause trepidations indeed.

@northgeorgia – hang in there. I have every confidence that you will get back to 220 and even lower.

Onward and downward.

Day 21, U.K. – NFD

Good fast day yesterday although it was a very hungry afternoon – funny how that sometimes happens

NFD today where I shall be exercising control and Constant Vigilance.

After listening to Dr Michael Mosley podcast “Just One Thing” I’m going to allow myself two small squares I’d 85-90% dark chocolate when I start feeling desperate. But beyond that little treat, i need to get a LOT stricter on my 2 x weekday NFDs.

Good luck to everyone fasting today

Day 22 – Lake district UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Steady FD yesterday, one of those that by lunchtime I had to make sure I had something to eat, I’ve found if I don’t eat anything at all ‘the system’ goes awry and suddenly I’ll find I’m very hungry indeed, so better to put a bit of fuel on the fire to keep it going!
Funny how that analogy crept up a while ago, DIL is a fitness instructor and very much into healthy eating. We were discussing 5:2 one day and I was thinking of going on to OMAD on FD’s. (I know it works for some, but after a brief trial, not for me!) When we were talking about it she mentioned keeping a fire going, the best way is to put a bit of coal on the fire regularly. If you put it all on at once, you get a roaring fire for a while, then nothing much and it may even go out! So a couple of smaller meals, lunch and early evening for me.

Take care all.

Day 21 – Canada 🇨🇦 – CD

Good morning everybody. Gorgeous morning for the last day of summer – in this part of the world.

@high5 – restraint and moderation – urgggg, awful words – ha ha ha 😂 I hope you’re successful with your two pieces of chocolate 👍