Hi Linda, Cinque is right, the body does strange things. Just make sure you take your measurements as that is where you will see the difference even if the scales lie. I lost weight quickly the first few weeks but then plateaued which is even more distressing. I was close to giving up but my clothes told a different story. I am now 35 weeks in and 15kgs lighter. My body has been reshaped and I’m loving it.

Hang in there, this WOL does work. Just keeping reading the posts everyone has a different story and lots of bad days.

Also sitting in bed with the balcony door open and my cuppa.

Thanks for the wise words Cinque, Intesha and Thinatlast you are very inspiring.

I’ve had a good FD today and reviewed my non-fast days last week. I think my calorie intake was way over my TDEE. So this week I’m going to cut out daily capaccino and say no to biscuit barrel at work!

Hi SH,
signing in,

2 consecutive FDs has counter-acted the fully catered conference 🙂
have let go the 2kg gained. Yayy…….
back to being .5kg off my first goal!!!!!!
I have my normal FD scheduled for Wednesday. So who know what will happen.

I know you are way past these posts but had noted these comments back then.

Cinque, thanks for the positive feedback – though I will be limiting my comments from now on as I am bit time poor at the moment. Yes, I am unwinding by having a relaxing NFD today. I had intended to do an FD but it didn’t happen so I just went with it. Hope the email came together 🙂

Exactly what Cinque and Intesha said!!! Linda, if you are keeping to under 500cals on your Fast Days (FD), your body will be doing what it needs to do. Keep up your spirits and give it more time. Just keep on posting and the wonderful people on the forum will keep you motivated.
As I see Thin did. And then I see you had a bit of a tweak of your NFDs. When something is not working then there is always something that can be changed. Well done.

Hope you are all travelling well.

signing off,

Coast.

Good morning. Ooh it is hot in Melbourne. Total Fire Ban. Windy.
At least a cool change is coming.

Congratulations on that excellent conference recovery Coast. I was trying to guess what APS stood for. Public Service?

I had a lovely Fast Day yesterday. I also got the difficult email written, and managed a whole lot of sorting out, which I hadn’t been able to do. A huge relief. Life is so much more peaceful when I am organised! But… I am still busier than I want to be. Only for another 10 days though and then it will all start slowing down.

Linda, the biscuit barrel at work. What is going on there? Are they the usual cheap biscuits that don’t even taste that nice?

This hot weather is doing weird things to my head, since I am seeing so much more of my flesh. I am equal parts excited by how much weight I have lost and disappointed by how much saggy baggy I still have. I have a bizarre brain split! Keeps my synapses busy!

Best wishes for a good day!

Cinque ( and others down south)

I feel for you guys – did this hot, dry, windy weather happen quickly or has there been a build-up over weeks?

must be hard for the gardens.

I am extremely lucky that my body is responding so well to the 5:2 (or 3 🙂 as sometimes is needed) – but I just love the being aware of what’s going on and being on top of the weight gain straight away so it doesn’t have time. I can now see that in the past I was very neglectful and lazy about managing my weight. It’s all about awareness and mindfulness- for me anyway :).

NikT, you know you can do it – you have done so well so far.

Cinque, APS stands for Aust Psychological Society. I hope knowing that change in how you view me :)) LOL!!! on this forum we are all just here to support and share with each other – some wiser and more experienced than others, but all happy to take part in this WOL.

very nice up here on the Gold Coast, actually has got a bit chillier today but still gorgeous, will go out for a walk soon,
enjoy your days,

cheers,

Coast

NikT, I know this isn’t most people’s idea of fun but I fast on Sundays. I’ve done this for 15 months. It has the effect of limiting the damage from excess at the weekend. Not that my weekends are ever that exciting these days but I have the flexibility to switch to Saturday if something comes up – still restricting any over-indulgence to just one weekend day. Something to ponder.

Good morning all SHs.
Another stinker building up today, but at least the pool is ready and calling me 😉
As regards using this thread….as I said last year, think of it as a local coffee shop. You pop in when you can, join the current conversations and leave. Trying to keep up with the amazing chatter when you aren’t here reduces your time for life.

I must just pop in to the travel conversation. Like you, Bay, we don’t do all day, proper fasts when travelling. We skip many meals, don’t snack (except maybe the scone, jam and cream the other morning in Gunning…but I had no breakfast and a 3pm lunch! 🙂 ) and try to choose wisely from menus. For example, eat the meat/fish and non white veg. Skip entrées and desserts or even share a couple of entrées as a meal. Life is for living. Travel is for savouring the flavours of other places, but regret on returning home takes the shine off. That’s why we weigh daily. No sudden surprises.
I never look forward to fasting, but I know I need it to reset the appetite. Enjoyed the long weekend away, penance today 😉
Have fun people. P

Good job LindaV. Morning Purple and all. One day last week when I was lurking, I read a lot of your posts PVE. You’d recommended not eating anything white. I’d been thinking about this and declared to my family last night that I’m going to avoid anything white. It made sense to me because I was thinking of bread, rice, flour, potatoes and pasta – or is that yellow? Should have thought it through before saying it out loud. So, clever teen has a good laugh and fires back that I can no longer have my kefir, yoghurt, almond & coconut milk, milk, leeks, spring onions, parsnips, turnips, suedes (or are they yellow). I’ll keep my 5:2 thoughts to the forum from now on. Purple, you’re blessed with a like-minded OH with the same health goals. Sadly, I just get the eye rolling.

What does Mr P do to keep himself focussed on a FD?

Mr P just doesn’t get hungry. I’ll be tearing the walls down as he arrives home from work, get really cranky preparing our fast meal, while he goes off and gets involved with something else. Mind you, no matter how small, he HAS to have dessert (4 blueberries, 2 tsp homemade yoghurt, a few almond flakes and cinnamon) or he WILL snack later. We are all different. ?
I’m fine thanks NikT. Just continuing on. You guys don’t need much help any more!!! P

Evening, all.
LindaV, I am a sucker for biscuits…and chips…and cheesecake… How are you going now? Have you had another FD? Or weigh in?

Not such a great FD yesterday. I did ok, but weigh this morning showed a loss of only 300g for FD – and with what I ate on the weekend, I have a long way to go to undo the damage.

I have done so well with my first couple of fasting weeks, but now am finding it difficult to avoid the sweet/junk things on my normal days. I am back to craving chocolate and chips… I had a complete blow out on the weekend. I am thinking of having another fast day tomorrow, just to try and recover a bit.

I don’t know if I can have ‘sometimes’ foods, because as soon as I have something, I crave it the next day, and the day after – but the thought of never having them is daunting.

How is everyone else going? Need some positive stories!

Naptime

*we got to the stage, sorry.

Good morning. It is lovely to have a fresh, cool day. Most of the fires are under control, and fingers crossed they all will be soon.

Linda I am psychic! Who else would have guessed that the biscuit barrel at work would have cheap boring biscuits 😉

Laughed about the white food! O dear there is always exceptions. When someone said don’t buy any food that is advertised, I thought: this week we are advertising our healthy food project as hard as we can!
And there are good things in all colours, even blue!

PVE I can really relate to your hubby needing that little dessert as a full stop to his meal. I am going to make something similar (yoghurt mixed with a few rolled oats and cinnamon, with strawberries) tonight and see if my friend who is visiting likes it. She says she never eats dessert, tends not to eat through the day much, but was complaining that once she eats in the evening she can’t stop. We will see what she thinks!

Nik I hope you are still in painfree bliss after walking!

Nap I had to completely give up all those sweet things, they make me feel poisoned (I should get my doctor to check out my liver) but even things like pasta or my yoghurt and strawberries, will set off that imperative hunger that is so self defeating.
I am playing around with having them only the day before a Fast, so that hopefully the Fast Day breaks the train of weird brain signals, or whatever it is.
However, at the same time, I am trying to figure out if the more refined carbs, eaten the day before, make Fast Day more difficult.
Tomorrow will be my scientific test! I will let you know how I go!

Good heavens, 9 am already. Must get doing! Cheers everyone!

Hi Naptime, Maybe you could give up sugar for a month? That is likely to work a lot better than giving yourself a life sentence. Then you can try all sorts of ways to see how you can look after your health, and also treat yourself.

For example, after the month of abstinence, you might give yourself one day a week when you can eat one fabulous sweet thing. That way you can get the pleasure of deciding which of all the wonderful sweet things you will eat this week. Which kind. Look for the absolute most best and wonderful example. Maybe a huge thing! And while you eat it you will enjoy every morsel. And for the rest of the day you will relive how delicious it was. And then you start planning for the next week!

That sort of structure will probably make it clear which things effect you badly, and how.

This is my way of saying, work out a way that isn’t punishment and loss.

Re the miso, if you can find buckwheat noodles, I bet they would be a good one in the soup! http://www.livestrong.com/article/361268-are-soba-noodles-healthy/

PS Sorry f this sounds rude and selfrighteous. Writing in a hurry! (Hope that doesn’t mean it is my true nature coming out :0 )

Naptime, thanks for the Almond Breeze tip – I can’t wait to find that as I do love my Rancillo coffee machine. In return, I offer you konnyaku noodles for your soups. Japanese noodles found at the Asian grocer, almost no cals and very filling. You can buy them tied up in cute little ribbons or in a block like tofu.

I’d love to try a sugar free challenge Cinque – seems daunting to me because just about everything seems to contain sugar in one form or another. I bought the book but haven’t done anything about it.

Intesha, you beat me to it and our posts crossed. So happy for you! I wish I could see what you look like now. Naptime, those Slendier noodles are the commercial version of the konnyaku noodles. They have good recipes on their website Slendier.com but you can find the same noodles for less money at your local Asian shop.

Good luck from me Nap! It is made and eaten? I do hope it was delicious.

You’ll have to go for the one sweet thing a week!
But it is so fine for me, because I have found there are so many delicious things still to eat. (I do miss things at times of course!)

It sure is true that there seems to be sugar in everything, and now I have cut out high sugar foods I can’t believe how sweet carrots and onions are!

I am looking forward to fasting tomorrow!

Fantastic effort Coast. Hope you are feeling better soon. This WOL must be making a huge impact in people’s lives and the forums are spreading the word. It’s like a whole new religion!!!!!?

Nap the sugar cravings just seem to disipate there is no magic formula or timeframe. If you continue to follow the guidelines it will happen and as you continue to lose you start feeling guilty (well I did) I remember saying way back when that I was almost too scared to eat as the weight was coming off do consistently LOL. It’s all mind games.

FD for me today 73.1 this morning.

Have a good day everyone.

How did everyone go today? How have the latest FD been for everyone?

I had an extra day of fasting this week (yesterday) and feeling pretty good about it. I am wondering about doing 4:3 for a while, as it seems to be doable. I might get sick of fasting so much, but am happy to try it for a while. Is this a silly thing to do?

My miso soup went really well- thanks for the input with it everybody. I need to find an Asian shop near here, so I can get the konnyaku noodles to put into it.

I haven’t weighed this week since my not so great weekend- so will weigh on Saturday and see how I went with three FD – but not being really good in between.

I am glad the desire for unhealthy food will eventually pass. I always feel terrible after eating it (usually emotionally, not physically) – but I still eat it. How do I say no when we (OH and I) go to the shops and see the yummy sweet things and/or the chips, and OH says something like ‘you have been so good, you can’t be too strict, one packet won’t hurt’? I am so spineless, I see it all and just cave. How do I strengthen my resolve, yet not feel like I am missing out?

Should be rhyme not rhythm!!!

Morning fellow fasters – I fasted well this week and lost 900g, so happily sitting at 77.4kg.

Nap – I’m doing more than 2 FDs a week, and started in Aug, thinking I’d ride the wave while I was still enthusiastic, and it’s still going strong… so I just keep thinking, worst case I can always drop back to 5:2 but I so want to get rid of the bulk… I know the big challenge is going to be keeping it off!! If you decide to add in an extra day, will be interested to hear how it goes.

Last night I found my favourite jeans brand won’t be stocked any more at my local Farmers shop…. 50% discount… unfortunately no styles that (I liked that) fit my new in-between shape, but I took a huge leap of faith in myself, and purchased one of only 2 pairs of the boot-leg jeans that was in a 12. I could get them on but not do up… and as I dream of being a 12, thought it would be a crying shame to finally get there and not be able to get a pair of my favourite jeans….. I don’t usually purchase ‘in anticipation’ but here goes! So hopefully in a few months time I can report a wise investment. (and as OH remarked … I still don’t have a pair that fit me now… so I will have to be creative for another month or two!!).

Well done Coast on your loss and although a little disappointing Intesha, everything will balance out, and perhaps its your measurements changing while your weight recalibrats etc etc, and the smiles that accompany your size 12 dress are hopefully enough to forget any disappointment 🙂

Tonight I will attempt a little jog to check if body is happy, then hopefully get myself back to 3 times a week slowly over a few weeks.

This weekend I aim to keep eating more in check!! (Hopefully don’t get tempted by OH’s Cheese Rolls)

How’s everyone else done this week?? Have a great weekend everyone!

Welcome Bonny … where in NZ? What are your goals and how long have you been fasting – what inspired you to do 5:2??

Hello everyone…….
Well I am still here but have been so busy with everything happening. Bathroom and toilet renos as well as office work and meetings for our business. OH going away again as of next week so it will be full on for me being left with all of it on my own.

With all the meetings at cafes etc I have not lost any weight but can say I have not put any more on still!! Today a meeting at the Swedish Cafe we love and had to have a wonderful swedish prawn dish for lunch that is my special treat.

I still need to loose 6kg but am finding it hard at the moment.

I have read through some of the posts and gee there are heaps!!!!

Glad to see that some of the new ones are finding konyaku as well.

As of Monday my Japanese daughter will arrive home from her world travels and she is a fitness freak so I will be under her guidance for a few weeks!!

There is not much else to report as nothing much has changed for me. Catch up again later…….JJxx

Hi Nic / Folks – I’m doing 1.30pm until 1.30pm – fits with our school break and as holidays are over tomorrow, this should work well. And as one sleeps for 6-8 hours, helps to get rid of ‘time’. Big walk this morning, but so windy, at this rate NZ will blow away.

I had the oats this morning, pleasantly surprised. Had cranberries on them…yummy!

Onwards ….and ‘downwards’

Naptime, you’re not spineless. See if you can get OH to read the book. Does he need to lose weight or could he benefit from fasting for health reasons? Even if he doesn’t want or need to fast, getting family support is really important and is something I’ve struggled with. My OH who’s very slim did agree to fast with me and kept it up for 11 months which was more than I ever hoped for. It took me a long time to get over him having something that I couldn’t have without the feeling of ‘missing out’. I’ve completely turned that thinking around now to ‘it’s your insulin’ if you want to put that in your mouth. The thing is that, yes, one packet WILL hurt because sugar is addictive. There’s nothing wrong with the occasional planned treat but you do need the support of OFMs and everyone’s health will benefit from reduced intake of processed foods. Stick to your resolve, you’ll feel so much better for it. And in time, you just won’t want the same foods.

NikT, that’s what happened with my OH, he quickly lost too much weight so went to 6:1 almost immediately. Then he would have to eat extra cals on nonFDs; he’d head straight to the kitchen for a big fry up after a FD.

Welcome Bonny, hi everyone else.