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We’ve had heaps of rain here too, Cinque, and is absolutely freezing today.. so cold my fingers can hardly type.
I hope you enjoyed your breakfast after yesterday’s FD – I know I certainly did. Mine went fine, ta, and the scales showed 73.4 today, so a drop the day after which has been a bit unusual for me, but I’ll certainly take it!
And you’re absolutely right, an odd indulgence here and there we can get away with, but when it starts to become the “norm” as it was pre 5:2, that’s when it creeps back on. Life would be pretty miserable and one perpetual “diet” (the sort of thing I’m doing 5:2 to get away from, that kind of lifestyle and mentality) without some of the fun stuff on non-fasting days, but as with all things it’s getting the balance just right, isn’t it. And yep, I’m watching it carefully, you can be sure!
I hope everyone else fasting yesterday went well, and today too!
Even colder this morning than it was yesterday! But not raining 🙂
My indulgence yesterday was peanuts! Luckily they do fill me up and are pretty good for me, and I ate very well around them.
Today I will make a no snack day, but I think I will have a small dessert this evening: Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
The fast day tomorrow!
VDU, one perpetual diet…. it would drive anyyone to creep nice bits in!
Merry! Woot!
Judy, I hope you had a lovely outing to Nellie Melba’s cottage. This one I presume? http://coombeyarravalley.com.au/our-story I used to drive past it a lot when my mum lived in Yarra Glen and I was in Gippsland. It wasn’t open to the public then.
Just heard this on the radio:
We bear no scars from happiness,
We learn so little from peace.
Isn’t it true. But, I must say, after conflict and pain, happiness and peace are greatly appreciated!
Hi everyone,
Oh Cinque, those peanuts sound good! Haven’t had any for awhile. LOL
It’s a nonFD today and I’m doing my usual 16:8 daily routine, but I seem a little hungrier today. It could be because it’s colder now and raining. I’m not very mobile atm.not able to stand for a long time, so prepping food is not high on my agenda, A bit of a pain in the proverbial, and I’m not enjoying my little ‘rest’. Sleeping lots though – 11 1/2hrs last night. OH is doing it a bit tougher with his father and at home.
FIL is back on hospital as a failed release, or whatever the term is. This time the family have said they will not support any move back home no matter how many services are put in place, as it is just too difficult and too exhausting. He has lost many basic skills, and his walking is reducing quickly. Thin, the bowel incontinence only happened once in 10 days in hospital, and so not a factor in his release. It was at home that it became frequent. The drop in the 2 weeks has been huge and a month ago he started having TIAs as well so we think he’s had more than what we know about. If he agrees to go into care OK, but if not it will go to the tribunal and a court order. The children have done the best they can. He’s going to have a full neuropsychological assessment. He’s clearly off his head, and doesn’t make much sense. Thinks he’s 30yrs younger also. Sad.
Must go,
Have a good fast day tomorrow Cinque, Thin and vego I think)
Onwards and downwards,
Merry
Good news VDU & Merry. And I think Judy from the previous page. Well done all of you.
VDU, so true about the occasional indulgence, well I hope so after attending the Share the Dignity fund-raiser (held all over Australia) with my neighbours yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve ever been to what they call high tea as eating meals between meals doesn’t appeal to me at all. But it was for charity, albeit a rather unusual one. Elegantly presented though not much on offer for the carb-conscious. Resultant pain on the scales this morning so thank goodness for FDs to pull me back into line.
It’s salmon & avocado fettucine with fresh dill from our garden for dinner. I need to use up the last packet of Slendier fettucine.
Sunny and 19C forecast here in Perth.
Good morning, sunny day today,
Back up a bit to 66.4 for me, but that’s not inconsistent with my usual up and downs through a week. Not on my feet much atm so no cals getting used there.Ce la vie. Tomorrow is my weekly graphing day, so we’ll see where I am then.
Vego and judy, I hope you’re going well. Hope you are feeling a lot better VDU.
Re slendier noodles: when we were in Melbourne we went to a Vietnamese restaurant about opposit where Ch 10 is on the main Rd. – Toorak Rd maybe – anyway, they had a couple of dishes made with 0cal noodles, so would be the same thing, I had a beef one and it was yummy. Wish they were in a few more restaurants.
Have a good day all,
Onwards and downwards,
Merry
Hi Merry, I wonder how many restaurants serve konyaku noodles which are virtually no cals. I’m only using Slendier as the exp. dates are approaching & I had a stick pile from last year. Since we discovered konyaku, I don’t buy them any more except the Angel Hair variety if I find them. Good luck tomorrow.
Oh dear, my lie down had to last the rest of the day. Never mind, at least I had a little bit of productivity. And now I have had my miso soup.
Wow, painting a garden wall! Do tell me you did a mural! Although I think that would have taken a lot longer! Ok, how about, is it mediterranean blue?
I have an early meeting tomorrow, so I hope I catch up after that!
Well Cinque, sorry to disappoint you – it’s a plain old white garden wall. I was taking advantage of having cut back so many trees & shrubs giving rare access to the wall. However, in the past, I did paint a tromp l’oeil where our neighbour built a parapet wall outside our office. It’s a Greek scene so there are a lot of white washed-walls, red bougainvillea and, how did you know, deep blue Mediterranean sea beyond. Yes, it did take a while.
Good morning everyone,
And a new week begins, week 80 on 5:2 my diary tells me. Weekly graphing day and 66.4kg today, which is a drop of 0.8kg for the week. I am very happy with that🙂 Didn’t quite do the naked happy dance because I was a bit cold, lol, but almost. Certainly a big yay! in there. My graph is finally looking very happy again as the red line continues to head south. So 80weeks, wow, that sums up a lot for me – lots of going down over months, then months of maintaining through travel and L “Life” stuff, and now for the last 3 weeks on the way down again.
So where to now? Going back to stones and lbs, 9st 2-3lb (58.6kgs)was my adult weight for decades. My present weight is 66.4kg or 10st 6lbs, still 1st 3lb higher or 7.7kgs. Seems a lot of difference, and when younger, even in my 40’s, I would have thought that was quite overweight for me. Mind you, I was very active, very fit, and strong before the virus that changed it all. So…….where do I stop now? I have set my final goal for 5:2 at 62kgs or 9st 10.5lbs.
Listing these:
58.6 kgs (9st 2-3lbs). Adult weight for decades
66.4 kgs. (10st 6lbs). Present weight
62.0 kgs. (9st 10.5lbs). Goal weight
60.0kgs. (9st 6lbs). Do I make this an even longer term final goal?
Vanity says I’d like to go to 60kgs, maybe even 59kgs so I can thumb my nose at that virus and somehow say, “see, you didn’t beat me”. Reality is – I’m 18 yrs older and not fit and strong, and it’s unlikely I will ever be fit and strong. I am improving my conditioning of musles, tendons, ligaments etc with professionsl assistance, but that’s a job years long or life long. I dislike when people say, well if you get thinner (they never say healthier or more normal weight or slimmer) then you’ll get more wrinkles. Who the hell cares, I don’t. I’m a senior citizen. I earned these wrinkles, every last one of them! The proverbial ‘they’ don’t seem to go around telling slim or normal weight people to put weight on so they don’t get less wrinkles. Just doesn’t make sense. Research on weight in older people is variable, as reasearch often is. Sort of musing out loud here today.
The absolutely great bit, is that I know I can maintain. Whatever the challenges of maintenance and L “Life”. I know I have the tools of 5:2, and the mindset, to face whatever with confidence.
Must go now,
Back later,
Merry
Merryme, I too, had my weigh-in this morning. I lost 0.6 this week. I’m pleased with that.
I was 51 kilos before I had my first 2 children and now I’d be happy to be 58. I Was that last year and maintained it for a few months but now realise I will be doing 5:2 forever. 6:1 didn’t work for me to maintain. We are travelling in Aug/sept with another couple so that’s probably not going to work but of course I’ll be back to 5:2 when we get back.
It’s a FD for me today and soon I will have some homemade veggie soup – no meat no carb. Dinner tonight is Basa fillet and steamed veg OH is on afternoon shift so that makes it easy 🙂 Good luck to other Monday fasters
Hi Judy , How did your Fd go so far? Well done on your weight loss this week.
Your experience with 6:1 is interesting, so thanks for passing it on. I had been thinking that I would be better to do maintainence continuing to do 5:2. Some how the rhythm of it works for me. I think I’d rather be more free on nonFDs as well, rather than 1 strict day and 6 less restricted. I think I’d spiral upwards, and get less rigorous with the 1 FD. My body seems to like doing the 2. Doing maintenace for 8 months I did find the need for 5:2. Because I was going through some high stress times I didn’t always manage to complete the FDs, maybe doing 800-1200 cals about half of them. So I did bounce around within a 2kg range, and a reasonable amount of dark chocolate was consumed. It took a little while for me to feel 5:2 click in properly once the stress reduced for a while., and it’s good to be going down again. I’m not expecting maintainence to be a dream run, but it will definitely be 5:2 🙂
I’ve become a convert to seafood soups of FDs. Tonights was basa and calamari again in Dashi miso soup with vegies. I bet we have more miso soup on the Southern Hemisphere list than the others! Nothing today till 7.30pm then myy eyes were bigger than my belly and I had too much soup. Hate overeating now.
See you tomorrow,
Merry
Good morning everyone! It is cold but beautiful here!
I hope your soup was delicious Judy and you have woken up with that lovely ‘morning after fast day’ feeling.
Merry I understand exactly that issue of wondering what is the right weight to stop losing, and start maintaining (and then exactly how to do that). With my ‘anti scales’ mentality 😉 and thinking how people lived before these crazy modern times, when their weight was just what it was, and not on a graph. I am hoping that I will know when I get there, and also that maybe my weight will even sort itself out naturally. ie what if it got to my ‘natural’ weight and stayed there, and I would be hungry enough on my non fast days to maintain it, and kept my fast days to keep stopping the old habits from creeping back?
And then I will get the opportunity to discover if that research is true that says, after a year at our healthy weight, our bodies adjust so as not to crave excess food etc?
It is great to read your experience Judy.
What an adventure we are on!
So much to do, and after a big meeting about my YamDaisy project yesterday morning, I ran away to shop. I went to the huge Op Shop about a half hour away, even though I would have been MUCH better staying home getting things done. I found a few good things and I am especially pleased with a pair of trousers made from linen and viscose (and what ever they are allowed to add to make them so warm and stretchy) that are so comfortable, and fit me perfectly. They still had their designer tag on showing they were reduced from $189 to $132, but I got them for $25 (which is a lot for me to spend). Just need to turn them up a few centimetres and I think I will wear them all winter. (Size 8 😉 )
So, I need to sew, and I must do some cooking today, I need to do filing and make sure everything is on my calendar, I need to catch up on emails and on my project work!
Hmm, time for a cup of coffee!
Best wishes everyone! Have a great day!
Post FD check in – 65.7kg woohoo! On a roll to get rid of the last rolls. Yesterday recalculated my BMI, TDEE and 1/4 of TDEE for FD calories. BMI 23.2, FD calories 375. Well, I did 360, thinking that wasn’t hard. I actually realised I’d eaten too much of that soup. Realised later that night that calculating portions of the soup I didn’t count what I’d eaten and the calories in the soup were 222 not 314, so my actual FD cals were about 270 – lowest I’ve ever done on a FD and I wasn’t hungry at all.
MyBMI at 23.2 is in the healthy zone now, but I’m still well over 1stone bigger than my decades long adult weight. There’s sort of a collective body mismorphia out there now where what people see as ‘normal is actually overweight and sometimes on the low sode of obese. The general public it seems to me anyway, not the health professionals. We used to notice if someone put on 1/2 a stone, that’s a fraction over 3 kg. Would anyone notice that these days?
Wow Cinque, good shopping! Hyes , I can see you in a size 8. Thin, Cinque’s not known for her height LOL, Maybe next time I’ll bring my travel scales to Melbourne if you want. Do you occasionally weigh yourself on your daughter’s scales or did it get chucked out before the move from Sydney?
Tried on some trackies today, and they looked weird. I’m one of those 2 sizes people ie my top and waist are 1 size and my hips, bottom and legs are the next size up. All my life I’ve been taking in waistbands on pants and skirts, and making sure the darts fitted properly downwards and didn’t look awkward. These days trackies seem to be reasonably tight around the bottom of the legs and bigger and with a lower rise on the top. I just looked like a one ended dumbell! I’ve rarely been able to buy pants, skirts, shorts at op shops. I recently got some winter tops though including a maybe never worn Country Rd one. O’ve given up looking for some jeans though, because that stretch thing and the cut don’t suit me at all. Bootcut for me.
OH is doing dinner tonight normal pasta for him, and spiral zucchini pasta for me, tomatoe based leam bolognese sauce with some vegies.
Happy fasting tomorrow, Wednesday FDers,
Merry
Onwards and
Hello everyone,
The sun is shining through the window and I have my morning pot of coffee!
I successfully turned up two pairs of trousers yesterday (yep, short legs!). It had become a priority as I had no winter trousers. (Not that I am complaining that last years ones got too big for me!).
And yes, it is a 5:2 success that I am mostly in size 8 bottoms now.
Don’t we come in so many variations! I’m the opposite to you Merry, my tops are a size bigger than my bottoms. So at the moment I am mainly fitting into 10 – 12 tops and 8 – 10 bottoms.
You inspired me to check my BMI and computer says 20. And tells me to remember to measure my waist. My waist is just under 29 inches. Not around the belly button! I have a waist now, so I will damn well measure it 😉
I’d like to get it under 28. Is that too much to ask of someone in their late 50’s?
Hi to all the Wednesday Fasters,
Day before Fast Day for me!
Who else is fasting today? Merry and Cinque, you’re right, let’s not forget to celebrate the BMI. Mine was 28 when I started 5:2 and is now 21. And we haven’t mentioned waist measurements for a long time – a good estimator of visceral fat & which should be less than 80cm for women. What’s that in real money Cinque?
Hi Thin
I’m fasting today. I’m doing ADF this week to control my appetite and to reset my system after a very carb indulgent week. I’m reading Jason Fung The Obesity Code and Gut by Guilia Enders. Both fascinating and supportive of what we’re all doing.
Salt and water required if you have cramps or dizziness, according to Jason Fung. Nice to have it proven.
Cold and overcast here, so am keeping busy. I will always need to fast 5:2 to maintain my healthy weight.
Cheers, Bay 🌺🌺🌺🌺
Hi Dan, I almost added the waist guidelines for men but thought, well there aren’t any with us right now so I’ll save the words. For men, health risk is increased at ≥ 94 cm according to the article I was reading. I’ve wondered how you’re getting on and so I’m pleased to see that, in fact, you are still with us. Even better, to learn that I have some fast buddies today. How’s it been going for you?
When you think that the ‘perfect’ measurements for women were 36″, 24″, 36″, it really does bring home what you were saying, Merry. Although, besides Barbie, I never knew any women like that. I’ll defer measuring until tomorrow as I’ve had a bit of a naughty week. I’ll do it the proper way around the belly button and, if I don’t like that reading, I’ll try it around the narrowest part….
Hi Bay, always lovely to see you here. I’ve been lurking on the MC thread and saw those books mentioned. I agree, I’ll also need to continue this WOL indefinitely. Right now I’m continuing 5:2 until we leave for our holiday when I’ll do 6:1 for 5 weeks.
Intesha, are you back? How was the trip? All good when you returned home I hope? Have a cruisey day Cinque and thanks for keeping us company.
My waist at the narrowest part is 29″; measurement around the belly button not so good. But at least I do have a waist now. And the scales are being kind to me at exactly 60kgs today. I love this WOL. Yesterday’s fast re-set me after the high-carb high tea; a home-cooked meal with too much pasta and a big restaurant breakfast on Monday (even though I shared it with DD, it still seemed a lot of food). I hit my trigger of 61kg. I sometimes question why I’m doing this – why can’t I just eat ‘normally’ every day? I suppose the honest answer is that I’m still the same food-loving, impulsive & greedy person I always was but fasting requires me to put the brakes on before it all spirals out of control. Hurray for 5:2.
Dan, I’d love to hear of your progress if you’re willing to share – how much weight have you lost after one month? Have you found it reasonably easy to stick to the 600 cals?
Have a good day Thursday fasters. And feasters.
Hi Everyone
Thin, I’m glad you shared about not being able to eat ‘normally’ everyday. I’m the same! I have quite a small frame ( v. thin wrists and legs but bigger boobs and tummy – after 4 kids! ) and can’t seem to eat much without putting on weight, but I find it so hard to not give into my cravings! Monday’s fast went out the window when I got KFC for dinner grr.
I’m still the same weight I was Monday morning and today is my fast day. I’m doing well so far and am more determined to do it today after Monday’s fail!! Dinner with friends tomorrow and Saturday night will have to be redeemed by a fast Sunday but don’t know if I can do b2b again on Monday
Hope you are all doing better than me lol
Good Morning, well just,
Hey Dan – well done! Good to hear your clothes are getting looser. Looking forward to hearing xabout your continued losses as we go on. There’s a great post on the forum from simcoeluv about his unco-operative trousers. Yours seem to be beginning to follow their lead🙂
Thanks for the info on the waist measurement. I’ll get it done at my rehab session tomorrow where I trust someone else’s judgement of where and how tight. I’m happy that mine is going down, down, down.
Starting my FD at 65.6kg this morning, so despite going up on my last post FD weight I’m now 100gms under it. Very happy with that! My seafood FD soup is waiting in the freezer. I’m now having to make different things on FDs for OH and me. He’s sort of vaguely on 5:2 or just being reasonable, as he’s still under quite a bit of stress. So I make a 500-600 cal meal for him and a <375val one for me. So took a leaf out your book, you good planners Cinque and Thin, and had extra FD portions in the freezer. The soup is 222 cals with basa fish (the lowest cal fish I can find) and calamari (also low cal) in it, with king oyster mushroom, zucchini, carrot, onion, broccoli, cauliflower in it as well. Then some rockmelon and maybe no sugar jelly and a small amount of plain yoghurt after.
Thin, love how you have a trigger weight, great idea!
Onwards and downwards,
Merry
Hi everyone. I’m back. Seems like I have been away forever. Loved reading all the posts while I was away but just too busy having fun to reply.
I went snorkelling, had a seaplane trip out to the Great Barrier Reef and soaked up the beautiful sunshine.
Bang crash back to earth. It’s freezing here and yesterday I woke up feeling really nauseous and having dizzy spells. Feeling slightly better today but still have the woozy head.
FD today, weight this morning 71.1. Had wine every night I was away and then on the hens night had cocktails called ‘Pash n Dash’ no Pash unfortunately and then the wedding so as Merry says we just get back on the horse and keep going. Nothing planned now until maybe the end of July when my daughter and grand children come from the UK.
The wedding was beautiful and my cousin just stunning and the bridesmaid looked a bit of alright in her size 12 dress.
I bought two lovely cauliflowers at woolies this morning $2 each so now I need to ask where was that cauliflower soup recipe that everyone has been raving about.
I need to have a weigh and measure before the gym closes just to see how the measurements are going. I’m going to miss that monthly weigh- in but as we all know the proof is in our clothe sizes.
Judyf I love my food as well and I am not denying myself anything if I really want it. I might regret it afterwards but this WOL is so doable and life is way too short not to have some guilty pleasures .
Welcome back Intesha. The cauliflower soup is on the first of our recipe pages here: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/southern-hemispherites-fd-recipes/
Let me preface today’s report by saying have to remember that I’m a very big guy; so there’s heaps to lose.
One month in fasting Mondays & Wednesdays & just eating reasonably (can’t say normally because before it was out of control) & I’ve lost a little over 12 kilos. The last three weeks have all been around the 2 kg mark.
I’ve found the fast days reasonably easy. I aim for 600 calories but once or twice I’ve gone a little over, or come in a little under.
Mondays (a busier day at work & at home) have been fairly easy; Wednesdays (when I get home earlier) have been harder, particularly in the afternoons. Now I just make myself a cup of rooibus tea mid afternoon & that seems to take my mind of it.
I’ll soon have to change my “goal” weight. I keep it high to make it reachable & to make the graph easier to read.
Cheers 🙂
That’s something to sing about Dan, well done. I’m so pleased for you. It’s exciting just calculating where you could be by the end of the year. I agree that it’s easier when you keep busy and smaller goals are more achievable & less daunting. Rooibus tea – you’re making me think of South Africa where we’re heading in a few weeks.
Glad you had a good trip Intesha. I bet you stole the show.
Judy, I think you’re just having way too much fun! (not jealous at all). The reason this seems to work so well for me is that I’m a black & white person. So it’s either a FD or it’s not, there’s nothing in between. Once declared, nothing will come between me and my FD – weirdly, I quite enjoy the discipline required. Coming up for two years and I’ve never blown a FD. The other side of the coin is that, on the other 5 days, I don’t count calories and eat whatever I want. These days, what I want has changed quite a bit, thanks to 5:2. Also, my family have come to accept that this is on-going so they’re much better at not suggesting the offending items on FDs. The slimmer, healthier me is a happier me and I think they appreciate that.
We all make food choices that we later regret at times because we’re still basically the same people we were when we became overweight in the first place. As Merry says, you just have to get back on the horse and do it again. I do believe though, that the longer we stick with this, the more we are shaped into making healthy choices. I hope you’ve had a champion FD today and will soon be channelling all your dodgier food choices into the correct five days!
I gave my self to 8am to write a few posts, and Oh dear it is 8 now. It is cold and cloudy.
I have been doing Board of Management work for The Neighbourhood House, project work for my community food project, and making the most of Rose’s MIL being down. And I am so slow at everything! Off to write a big report, then Ikea!
See you when I am recovered!
It is lovely to read your posts! I will chat properly next time!
PS Good fast day yesterday. Breakfast today! Woot!
Hi all, good evening,
Post FD 65.2, down 400gm. Another pair of trousers is getting ooose around the waist so more darts going in there to get a bit more wear out of them. Went looking for some warm trackies for the house, in new size to keep my sore leg warm while it gets better Nothing I had fitted. Feels so good to get a new size. Found some at Target: just your basic fleecy lined knit fabric but that’s what I wanted to look after this leg. Everything else is too cool for school! And the prices, Wow. The shops seem full of jeans this winter. Piles of them everywhere in various colours, in all price ranges. One of my rewards for my final, final goal is a pair of jeans and a good basic cotton t shirt, and maybe a leather belt in my new size. I’ll be happy camper then. (Have not worn jeans for a couple of decades.)
Oh Cinque a report to write and Ikea in the 1 day. Ikea is like a marathon!
Wow Thin, 2 yrs and never blown a FD! Is that a record? Amazing.
Dan, the smaller goals are a good idea. I don’t even put a date on mine. So far Ive comleted 7 minigoals and almost at my 8th. I have a goal book I work and record in;,I have a non-food reward for the next mini goal worked out each time. It’s worked well for me. We’ll celebrate with you when you reach your goal😀
Intesha, welcome home, and so glad you wowed them in your bridesmaid’s dress. How wonderful it is to see that dream come true!😀😀😀😀😀💐
Merry, I didn’t mean to sound smug about my strict adherence to FDs. Let me qualify that by adding that feast days are a work in progress! I’m musing that a quirk in my personality allows me to stick to FD rules so well yet not be able to ‘just eat normally’ every day of the week. Whatever works, eh? Well done with your new size. Was it a productive trip to IKEA Cinque?
Good Morning,
Rained all night, and still raining, enjoying it.
Up a kg overnight, I was a little naughty yesterday, but this is way out of proportion. Super careful today. Going to a meeting this morning where they bring out the timtams?
Thin, LOL, no worries about the FDs. Re your feast days. Try calling them nonFDs or something else. We react to the implied meanings in words even when we don’t realise we are. The word feast has an ‘unlimited’ implication tin it. They’re really normal days rather than feasting days. Maybe call them normal days or TD days or whatever you come up with. Words are powerful things, and powerful in our subconscious reactions to them as well.
Must go,
Onwards and downwards,
Merry
Good morning. Yesterday we had the deadline of getting back from Ikea in time for my little granddaughters nap. We did that, but the pressure of writing the report beforehand wrecked me more than walking around Ikea (lean on the trolley, know all the shortcuts, stop in the cafe for a rest).
It made me remember how life got so much better when I was able to stop that morning rush of getting Rose off to school.
So I went to bed for the rest of the day (I have a chronic illness Dan, ME/CFS, same as Merry has). And today I am having a wonderful slow morning, so life is good!
Anyway I have two new chopping boards (a small one, just perfect for cutting up the chicken for my Fast Day miso soup) and some candles.
I’m another one who has never blown a Fast Day (touch wood and whistle). The ‘I can eat it tomorrow’ mantra really works for me, so I can’t really imagine blowing it.
On the other hand, I know many people have more hectic lives than me, and that makes it so much harder, and I do remember I haven’t even done it a year yet.
Dan, what a wonderful difference 5:2 is making to your life! Congratulations! I do find those afternoons hardest, when there is nothing to keep my mind off the hunger pangs! Cuppas are my trick too, and I try to just accept that this is what it feels like to be losing that excess weight.
Merry there will be some arcane reason the scales are showing that extra kg! You’ll be right! So lovely to hear the stories about trousers not fitting! And I am glad you found some nice ones to comfort your leg.
Day before fast day for me. A wintery day, a good one for pottering around.
Best wishes to you all!
Merry, did that excess kg disappear as fast as it arrived? And did you have a pleasant surprise with your waist measurement the other day? What a lot of rain you’ve had in the east.
Morning Cinque! Here we are again. I’ve taken some food out of the freezer that totals 375 cals – including a microscopic portion of hearty root & barley soup – and the OFMs are having pizza so all is planned. Good for you for sticking to your FDs – and has it really been less than a year?
Dan are you with us today? Judy? All the best to everyone.
6 weeks away from my 5:2 anniversary Thin!
I’m having a second pot of coffee, and minding my little granddaughter. Just made her some popcorn and she is impressed! We will go for a walk in the cold and drizzle soon. She is the sort of hardy toddler who will love it.
With the second pot of coffee (with milk) I had better not have anything else with calories today, until I get to miso soup time.
Hello to anyone on the NSW coast! Keep your chin above water!
Hi Thin,
Down 400gm this morning, and I was updating the exercise physiologist on my injury, not having been for a couple of weeks, being at physiotherapist instead, and quite forgot about the waist measurement. I think I was a bit dazzled by how much my weight had gone down in 3 weeks on his records instead. Seeing it in 1 fell swoop was a bit awesome. Anyhoo tomorrow is my weigh in day and first FD for the week.
Hi to everyone else, hey Cinque , vego, Dan, Judy, Intesha… Some of us are metaphorically swimming on the east coast. Our plumbing’s not 100% happy with how fast the rain has fallen overnight and early morning. A good inside day, and a good day to make some FD soup for the freezer, and a version with more cals for OH.
Cinque so glad you survived your very full day! I’d love to wave a magic wand over the scales, but really, my body just doesn’t like grains at all and really lets me know. Saw something the other day, ” so you can’t eat grains, we’ve discovered the answer….buckwheat” . It makes great pancakes but it’s not good for me either.
Clotheswise – I tried on the 4 leather belts I still have languishing in the wardrobe. Still a way to to get my waist back to where I want it. On the good side I fitted into a good more formal jacket top I got, when my weight was going up and I never got to wear it. Just kept it over the years because I really liked it and hoped that some day over the rainbow……. Tried it out last night and it looks fantastic! Even if I do say so myself! I knew it was a keeper. Very happy. Not super expensive, just really suits me. Looking in the mirror was like looking at the old me. Well, the old 20yrs younger me.
Have a great FD today Cinque, Thin, and all you other Sunday fasters!
Onwards and Downwards!
Merry
Hi Dan, Passing the baton! I had a good fast day yesterday, and I hope yours is good today.
I do love the break it gives us, to get a bit of perspective on our normal day eating, so it doesn’t just roll over from day to day. Straight and narrow is just the description!
Good morning everyone!
At the moment I am trying to work out how much my normal eating (and maybe even my fast day eating) needs to change with the colder weather. I do note the cat is eating heaps more. I was on a nice roll with portion sizes for normal meals, but now I am confused again! Do I really need to eat more? How much? That natural barometer we should have isn’t giving me a clear reading. I’d prefer to make bigger meals, than snack. I have been a bit hungrier…. but how much? Ah life is fun!
I’ll hang out the clothes to dry on the line, the rain from the north should arrive this afternoon. Fingers crossed I get them in before it starts!
Best wishes Southern Hemispherites!
Hi everyone,
Hey Cinque, the weather is certainly something to take into account now. Soups are still the go I think. I was reading a bit in the 5:2 book the other day that soup is great for a feeling of satiety. Maybe it’s about tweeking the soups. I wonder whether we actually burn a bit more energy in winter with the cold, or whether that’s just a feeling of wanting heartier food because of it?
My weight graphing day today and I’m down 300gm for the week. A drop but it could have been more this week. That burger bun did it’s thing the other day, and yesterday wasn’t a great nonFD either. We have relatives currently living in a caravan awaiting the end of building of their new home. They went through the wild weather in a caravan park, making sure the van didn’t suffer from the winds, so invited them over for dinner last night. I ate a somewhat larger meal than usual (though no grain foods), they brought chocolates and the rest is history. Still it’s a loss for the week, and I’ve only myself to blame for it not being larger.
The worst of the weather is past and no damage here. I hope everyone else is OK.
How is the cooler weather affecting you foodwise?
Onwards and Downwards Monday fasters,
Merry
Hi Cinque
Have you read Jason Fung’s book The Obesity Code? Great read. Some of his messages are :
Don’t eat unless you’re hungry.
Don’t snack.
Intermittent fasting is good for the body.
Don’t eat processed food.
Don’t eat sugar.
Eat full fat food.
Sleep well.
Exercise each day.
Mindfulness is good.
Cheers, Bay 🌺🌺
I’m good with all of those messages except I like an occasional snack, Bay! 😉
But I do still sometimes have confusing messages re whether I am hungry or not, and how hungry I am! My poor mixed up brain!
Soup is the perfect solution Merry! If I have some in the fridge I can grab it for that bit extra.
We missed the nasty weather, how awful it has been in places!
Good Morning everyone,
How are you going this week where winter has not only raised it’s head but has come howling in with a vengeance.
Soups and winter warmers: What are your favourite soups and casseroles for a 5:2 winter?
For FD dinner last night I had a 100gm lean pork steak. And a bowl of FD soup. This one was on chicken stock with onion, carrot celery and celery leaves, broccoli stalks chopped finely, mushrooms, and a little red capsicum. Very uninspiring, added some mixed curry spice and a little plain yoghurt stired into it when I served it. OH had a bigger veal steak and left over baked vegies and broccoli and beans from Sunday night’s meal. Slow cooker might be the go for our nonFD today.
I know I got through last winter on 5:2 without any trouble , but maybe I should go back through the list and see what I wrote then.
Onwards and Downwards Tuesday fasters and nonfasters today,
Merry
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