Oh Cinque, hope you and OFMs are OK today and over the weekend in the rain. So good your appt was yesterday, not today. Stay safe.

Everyone else in Victoria – stay safe too, no taking chances. If in doubt don’t. During flood rain and flood events nothing is as important as staying safe.

Hi Everyone

Cinque, so glad your case was reviewed and now everything has worked out so well. Take it easy over the next couple of days.
MerryMe , thanks for that list of how you manage holidays. We have travelled the last 7 years in our Winter and gone to warmer climates from between 4-9 weeks and I usually come home 4-5 kg heavier and lose about 3 quite easily, the next couple take me ages!!
CaliF, I with you as in this month my weight has gone up and down in the 58-59.6 range. Its a very social time of year.
Julie, I did love your amazing photos!
well the rain has started and hasn’t stopped! We are supposed to have our DDs wedding celebrant, with his wife, come tonight for dinner tonight to see the birth certificates etc and send off the vital information so our DD can get married on January 20th 🙂 I hope the rain doesn’t stop him. I think the forecasted storms have been revised-just warnings of flooding. Im supposed to meet up for Christmas celebrations with 4/5 of my old school friends tomorrow. I dont know if ill go as I will have to drive over the Dandenongs-windy, very treed, road.
The celebrations started last night as I met up with ex work colleagues. we had a great night out with Nasty Kris Kringle.
I did have a good fast day on Tuesday but that was the only day i could do one. My next one will be Monday.
Have a great day/evening all!! xx

Good morning all,

I am not too happy with myself this morning as I seem to have put on a bit. Yesterday was probably my undoing. We went to an event for the Birthday of the Emperor of Japan and I had a couple of glasses of bubbly, then they had fingerfood which I dont usually have, but tried a couple of things.
Then after I decided that I did not want to cook when we got home so we went to one of the restaurants by the Marina. OH wanted souvlaki which is what I wanted as it came with salad, then he also wanted to try the slow cooked lamb with mediteranean vegetables, so he suggested that I order one and he order the other and we could share. BIG MISTAKE !!!! He got the souvlaki with the salad and then did not want to share. He does not like a lot of salad so most of it went to waste. I was not so happy with my meal in the end.

So today I was up at 4am to take him to the airport. Good bye!!!! at least until Sunday, so now I can have 2 full days of fasting and not have to worry about any other food that other people in the house might want!!!!

I am going to start with a coffee, black no sugar!!!
Miso soup for lunch.
I will make cauliflower and broccoli soup to have for dinner.

Thin, I am going to the supermarket today so i will look for the steel cut oats again. We have both Coles and Woolworths at this little shopping centre so can try them both.

Cinque I have not read the article yet but I am going to today. But I read LJoyce’s comments which were very interesting. Daughter isso much better, the trip to Japan really perked her up. She has even applied for a new job on her return.Christmas shopping will be easy this year. Just one present for each daughter!! OH will be difficult but I am sure he will let me know what he wants.

LinsayL, Yes good to be home as this trip was tiring and we were unable to wash clothes along the way for most of it. (could wash the first couple of days at hostel in Kyoto but then not anywhere until the last night in Osaka) I threw out two pairs of socks that had developed holes in them and am unsure if it was because they were old or just because they had not been washed. But bought 3 pairs of new ones at 100 yen shop. I have already planned the next one for April next year and all accommodation is booked but will check to see if we can wash clothes at these places. (The accommodation in USJ did say they had coin operated machines, that is why I booked it, but when we got there they did not. We checked the website and was convinced it said there were machines on the 4th floor, so questioned staff again to be told that they were in the other hotel of that belonged to them which was the tower next door!! Very misleading information on their website!!!) Hence tick that hotel off the list of visiting again!!!

So yes today is December 1st and for some of us the beginning of summer and others the beginning of winter. Personally I love winter these days and just dont seem to enjoy the tropical summers at all. My vegie garden is dying off with the heat, even though I am watering it each morning.

Better get to and do some work before the morning is over!!

Bye for now…

MerryMe, great list for the newbies on this thread. Thank you for posting it. If I could add just one more: Don’t be afraid to jump in any place on or off topic. You can see that we get off on a variety of subjects at the drop of a hat and you are welcome to do that too. We’ll be happy to join in with our ideas, possibly more opinions than there are people. 😁

Cinque, I’m breathing such a sigh of relief that your results were so good. I wondered if they still did the keyhole surgery. No wonder you’re sore, having to get half a lung through a keyhole! But then any woman who can climb through a kitty door…They must have had to do some serious pushing and shoving to accomplish that! But can I lodge a complaint? Making you and your sister wait for 2 hours when waiting for that kind of information is just inexcusable. I know very well how agonizing it can be. If the surgeon wasn’t available it seems like they could have had an assistant at least tell you that the news was good, they got it all, but you’d have to wait for the surgeon to give you the details. It would have saved some anxiety and worrying. But maybe you aren’t a professional worrier like I am and managed to stay calm. But my complaint still stands! 🤨

Hi everyone, welcome to December and all that usually entails. I’m glad to be here and with 5:2 and mindful eating in my toolbag to deal with December’s challenges this year.

Cinque, I am so very glad that you had good news on the lung cancer – eventually (what a way to get the stress levels up).
And yes, I did have a good experience with my treatment this week, thank’s for asking. Apart from a bit of fatigue, no other side effects this time.

Merry, that’s a good idea to let others know they can jump onto this thread. When a group are in full chat mode it can be a bit intimidating to intrude. I also sometimes wonder what our discussions must look like to the observer – talk about going off on tangents all the time. But then I never have been very good at staying on topic.

Stay, I hope the wet weather doesn’t do any damage where you are. We had rain and thunder all night here but I can’t see any damage in mine or surrounding gardens this morning which is good. (The storms last December were not so kind.)

JJulie, I think the lesson is to order what you want for you dinner. I know it’s easy to get railroaded into pleasing other people, but there is nothing selfish about ordering the meal you want to eat for yourself from a menu.

Thin, thankyou for setting up the December pledge thread. I’ll go over there shortly – one I decide on my list of pledges. In preparation I actually weighed myself this morning. I was 78.3kg, which is about a kilo less than when I started maintaining in May. Some will remember that my original goal was 78kg but I got stuck in the 79s for months and in the end I accepted that 79 was fine. In the subsequent months whenever I weighed I was always 79-80.5, so this is a recent change. Given all that shortbread I ate earlier in the week, I’m a bit surprised. It explains why my favourite size 12 summer skirt felt so comfortable to wear yesterday – the waist had been a tight fit for quite a while now.

I have food challenges next week, with lunches and afternoon teas scattered across the week. So I’m thinking I’ll start early and squeeze in a FD tomorrow, which will technically be a third for this week. But that’s OK as I’ve had 2 NFDs in a row. Also, this evening I’m going to a local twilight craft fair with my cousin to do some christmas shopping. Dinner will probably be food from one of more stalls so I expect a FD will probably feel appropriate tomorrow.

Thin, is a day at the beach the way most Australians celebrate Christmas? Because it’s usually cold here, even in Northern California, Christmas is usually more like Penguin’s, with a warm fire, lots of food and friends and family. Bulky sweaters are the mode of dress rather than swimsuits. The low temperature here tonight is predicted to be 6 C. Christmas drinks are things like Irish coffee, hot buttered rum or hot eggnog with brandy & rum. Hot mulled wine is another. I guess the weather has a lot to do with the way a holiday is celebrated. Christmas dinner could be outdoors there.

How does everyone here celebrate the holidays?

Penguin & Cali I have to admit I’m a bit jealous. I have a dream of experiencing a white christmas – I’ll get to it one day.

Cali, I think christmas traditions in Australia have varied with the generations and with migration. There’s also a lot of variation between families.
Despite the heat my mother always did a traditional European style christmas – roast turkey, pork & ham, roast veg. Christmas pudding and custard… All in a Riverland summer where it was usually 35-45C and in a house without air-conditioning. My dad’s side of the family however, still adhere absolutely to this with hot roast turkey and flaming cloth-boiled brandy soused pudding. The only concession is that the turkey gets roasted in the Webber BBQ rather than the oven.

Over the last 30 years my immediate family has moved away from that to include more seafood and salads. The “special” savoury food that we have only on christmas day is now Moreton Bay bugs (a crustacean native to the bay near Brisbane). Most cooking is either done the day before or on the outdoor BBQ – we do lots of meats & seafood on skewers that are easy to grill. There is usually still roast turkey and ham but it’s served cold with salads.
The other big change is the abolition of the christmas pudding because most of my generation and younger didn’t like it. Our dessert tradition for the last 2 decades has been pavlova and a special fruit salad that includes all our favourite summer fruits (raspberries, strawberries, cherries, peaches, nectarines). Making the pavlova was always my job, but 2 years ago I handed the recipe and responsibility over to my niece’s youngest son as he discovered a love of baking. The only person who initially complained about the lack of christmas pudding was my brother in law – until he realised he was getting pavlova instead. To say pavlova is his absolute favourite dessert is no understatement. He agreed to stop moaning as long as he got to keep all the leftover pavlova – not that there is much – and he keeps an eye on anyone going back for seconds.

I’ve never had christmas at the beach, but then I’ve never lived near the ocean. Until the late 1990s, my mother’s extended family (3-4 generations) always got together for a christmas evening BBQ. It was a big family, even when I was young there were well over 100 of us. My father used to dress up as santa claus and hand out small presents to the youngest kids. He’d always find some novel way to show up (on the roof, or riding on the back of a tractor, to name a few).

Christmas day for me this year will be in the Riverland at my sister’s house. I’m planning to do a day trip (about 4 hours of driving in total). Her house will be full of kids and grandkids and I don’t relish sleeping on the couch or trying to find other accommodation.

I hope everyone has nice plans for christmas that involves spending some time with people they like.

That’s correct JJulie. Definitely eat no more on a FD than one quarter of your current TDEE. Preferably, and something to work towards, we should be eating for the TDEE of the weight you want to be. Many of us have achieved substantial weight loss on ‘diets’ in the past only to resume eating ‘normally’ once the weight came off. But ‘eating normally’ was for the weight we started out at. That’s why we gained all the weight back. We must ultimately learn to eat for the weight we want to sustain.

Another little cruel irony besides requiring less food at our new healthy weight is that we require less food as we age. Yesterday, I took some of LJ’s statistics and played around with them in the calculator on this page. Over the time that LJ recorded her substantial weight loss from 2012, she also aged 5 years. OK, it wasn’t a huge percentage but amounted to about a small handful of almonds per day for each year gained. Something to think about.

LJoyce, I haven’t had a white Christmas for many, many years. We rarely get snow here in the winter and when we do it usually melts within hours. But where I grew up, in the Midwestern US, we often had snow. It was pretty to look at but so cold! It’s still cold here in the winter but not usually freezing.

Thin, I had been listening to Christmas music this weekend. And we got down a few boxes of decorations, but mostly I’ve been a total slug. My OH didn’t feel like getting the trees down which are up on a high shelf in the garage and it usually takes me going out there and starting to get them down myself before he gets involved. (He’s afraid I’ll drop them on his car. 😁). We have 2 tall ones for the entryway and family room and a smaller one for a table in the living room. But lately it seems like a lot of work getting everything up. I’m feeling lazy this year. I need to get motivated. Maybe someone can post their pictures and motivate both of us! I do like seeing the house decorated.

Do you put up Christmas trees? I love all the colored lights, especially with the days getting so much shorter this time of year.

Thin, your story about the crocodile books is hilarious. After watching Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee for so many years it’s funny that isn’t the first thing I think of about Australia.🐊 A BBQ for Turkey does make a lot more sense in the hot weather, LJoyce. I don’t even like turning the oven on to make pizza when it’s summer here. I have to look up Moreton Bay Bugs. I’ve never heard of those. What do they taste like?
Some people have a tradition of whole Dungeness crab on Christmas Eve. They cover a table with newspapers and put out big bowls with crabs and shell crackers and forks and everyone makes a big mess at the table, opening them and eating. We were invited to someone’s house who did that one year. It was really fun but what a mess afterward, especially with young kids involved.

We usually go to our niece’s house with the rest of OH’s family the day before Christmas to eat and celebrate, kind of an open house. My OH, sister and I used to go out to dinner on Christmas Eve, but in recent years we started going out the night before instead. I usually cook dinner on Christmas Day, either turkey or ham and all the trimmings. So it’s usually a big eating holiday. This year I will certainly do a FD the following day. And try to be more mindful during all the meals.

What is Christmas pudding? It seems there are different recipes.

Cali – this is pretty close to what my family call christmas pudding.
http://www.delicious.com.au/recipes/christmas-pudding-vanilla-bean-custard/590d6e05-a731-4a2b-95b7-cc074248b7fd
It’s a traditional British pudding – really dense, cakey and full of fruit and alcohol. You put it into a sheet of calico cloth, tie it up tightly, then boil for about 5 hours. To serve You pour brandy over the top and set it alight then serve it with lots of vanilla custard and cream. I’m not a fan, but then I don’t like dark fruit cake (christmas cake) either.

Julie, I stated with 500cals as my FD limit, because 1/4 of my TDEE was 350 and it was too restrictive. Over time I’ve found I eat less on FDs and I’m mostly in the 350-400 range these days. If you can manage 1/4 of your TDEE that’s great, but what is most important is that you can stick with it, so if you need to be closer to 500 that’s ok. Better to do the FD on 500 than fail by trying to stick to a lower calorie limit.

Thin, I think a slowing TDEE with age is the main reason people who’ve never had a weight problem suddenly wonder where the spare type came from in their 40s-50s. When I lost weight I was on such a restrictive diet that my TDEE was irrelevant (mostly 600-800cals, although I did a few months on 1000cals too). The calculations I gave on TDEE and percentages were based on the weight and age I was at the time – so I had adjusted for age.

CalifD, My mum used to make Christmas Pudding for Christmas lunch. You start about three weeks before Christmas and soak the dried fruit in alcohol, usually brandy from memory. Then you make like a fruit cake but put the mixture into an unbleach piece of calico and tie it tightly at the top. You then boil it and when ready hang it up for about 2 weeks. On Christmas day you heat it by boiling again, take it out of the calico wrapping onto a large plate pour brandy over the top then set it alight. You serve with custard. It is something I have never liked as I dont like fruit cake/dried fruit at all.

😆

Thin, I was trying to figure out why I had so much trouble loosing that bit more weight before I left for Japan.

I was pleased that I only put on about .8 of a Kg the whole time. I did eat well, tried to make healthy choices when I could, kept away from fried foods that are comfort foods in Japan as the weather gets colder, although I had a drink or two I tried not to overdo it and I climbed mountains and walked miles and miles each day.

So now I am back I really wanted to get into the weight loss arena again.

I have only had the black coffee for breakfast this morning,
I had the miso soup for lunch which ended up at 19 calories. So that is all I have had so far today.

I am thinking of making an all egg white omlette with spinach and mushrooms for dinner. What do you think?

Thin,I worked out the calories to be 132 in total for the day in the Myfitnesspal program.

I dont mind just the egg white in fact when I was young I would only eat the white of the eggs. I did not and still dont like the yolk.

I cooked in a fry pan….I sprayed a little olive oil in the pan before I cooked the mushrooms then added 1/2 cup of the egg white to the pan and put the mushrooms on top. Of course it stuck a little so I made it into white scrambled egg with mushrooms spinach and a little sliced spring onion.

I am feeling quite full now and I know I have some spare calories in case I get a bit picky later. I am going to try to keep below the 450 today. I still have to work out my TDEE for my goal weight yet.

Jj and Lj, getting late and I can’t remember totally why in detail, but congratulations to both of you doing so well today👏🏼

I remember Lj – getting under the weight you decided was Ok to stop at and a squeak above your original goal weight.

Jj – great FD!

I started 5:2 doing 500cals/FD and my TDEE on nonFDs. I gradually dropped my FD calories sticking to 1/4 of TDEE as my weight dropped over 2 yes to my goal weight. At goal weight 1/4 TDEE is 358cals. I have many days of FD and nonFD records where I counted every calorie through my lips. Not all the time but reasonably often. That helped me stop cals slowly creeping up over time. I particularly like to record cals on FDs.

I’m an emotional eater, and I found that not eating till 6pm on a FD worked best for me.

During this yukky year when I’ve been struggling with stress eating and trying to complete 2 FDs a week, I’ve upped my FD calories to 500 again. If that helps me get through this year, that’s fine with me. Next year I’m planning on going back to 360(358) cals/FD.

CalifD, you asked about christmas trees. Yes we put up a christmas tree. I refuse to put the tree up before December though. Our tree is a lovely imitation fir tree with fairy lights and decorations. My family in Finland usually buys a real tree around the 22/23rd December and puts it up at the last minute with the decorations. Where we usually wrap our presents and put under the tree in readiness for the 25th, in Finland they usually have some outside activities on the 24th, like sparklers and making snowmen with the children while some of the adults sneek inside to put out the presents under the tree. When everyone goes back inside the children are surprised that Santa has been while they were playing. The 24th is the day it is celebrated in Finland. Australia celebrates on the 25th. We usually get up quite early and now with no small children we hand out gives in the morning. I then start getting the meats ready to roast, peeling vegies etc, while OH cleans up the lounge room of the wrapping paper then starts to set the table. We have a lot of friends up here that dont have family so they are invited to join us for lunch. We will greet them and have a drink before settling in to the meal which could go for quite some time. I usually do a traditional christmas lunch with roast lamb, roast pork, turkey breast (now only a small amount of turkey) and sliced ham off the bone. Vegies include potato, sweet potato, carrot, pumpkin, cauliflower/broccoli and peas and beans. Gravey for the meat, apple sauce for the pork, mint sauce for the lamb and cranberry sauce for the turkey. The cauliflower/broccoli usually has cheese sauce to put over it too.
Dessert used to be christmas pudding but I too have now changed it to pavlova with fruits and OH likes apple pie with custard. After a good relax in the afternoon, and maybe a swim, we will put out the meats again as cold cuts and add some prawns with a coleslaw for salad. Hopefully we dont have too much left or we are eating it for days to come!!!

Oh Lindsay, I thought you were stuck in Bali, not stuck here! I do hope you can get your holiday.
And good luck working out how you can eat with your husband, without overeating.

I was going to write another post yesterday about the (non) diet book article I posted, but unfortunately I made myself chicken and salad on toast for breakfast again, without realising the chicken had become dodgy, so I spent the rest of the day feeling very ill.

And in the meantime, what a run of posts!

I grew up with a very English Christmas: Roast meat, christmas pudding (with sixpences in it) mince pies, Father Christmases battling heat stroke in their outfits, pictures of snow and holly.
When my daughter was little and I was very ill, Christmas was the worst day of the year for me as she was expecting it to be the best day of the year and I tried hard to make that happen, which always made me much sicker. Nightmare. But now she has her family it is a lovely day for me as I can just join in.

Lindsay, my brain! You are in Bali. Enjoy!

Our Christmas is a little different as in we don’t have dinner with our whole family on the 25th.
When my brother and sister got married they had to have Christmas lunch with their inlaws every year. It was not negotiable. My parents then went away for Christmas on holiday.
We get together with my extended family on the weekend before Christmas and it is always at my house or my sisters. My sister has a lovely in-ground pool and it’s never a hot day when it’s her turn to host 😄 It usually is when it’s at my house 😩
We do a roast lamb or a deep fried turkey (or both) cold chicken, ham and prawns and nice salads. Dessert is pavlova, cheesecake and fruit salad. There are 25 of us
In my immediate family my DH is a policeman, my older DD a paramedic and my DDiL is a ED nurse. The chances of them all having Christmas Day off is slim so we get together a day or 2 b4 Christmas or Boxing Day. We have prawns for starters, deep fried turkey (if we didn’t have it with the extended family) and roast pork with roast potatoes, pumpkin, parsnip and beans and carrots, apple sauce, gravy and salads. My DD will make an amazing dessert and we’ll have a fruit salad. My DDinL has a lot of food intolerances so a we’ll have less desserts.
DH makes Christmas cake but my own kids hate it, the inlaws love it.
In the past DH and I have cooked on Christmas Day for a community, free lunch at our church. I’ve had a few prawns, champagne, strawberry and chocolate movie marathons with my DD and a good friend. Last year we had lunch on Christmas Day with my DD and her little family. Her DH will do a pork belly. But usually the actual day is a quiet one. 😀

Good morning everyone,

I will just let you know my little bit of news first. Weight today was 78.6 so my FD yesterday worked as planned. I am going to do it all again today exactly the same!!

Cinque, So sorry you weren’t feeling the best. After your op you dont need to have any food poisoning as well. Hope you are feeling better today and take care.
You also mentioned sixpences in the Christmas pudding. I forgot about mentioning that in my last post. My mother would always put sixpences in her puddings. When decimal currency came in and we could not use the 5c pieces she had a stash of sixpences she kept for the christmas pudding. Then when people got a sixpence in their serve she would exchange it for a 5c piece so as to retain the sixpences. I still have them but dont use them anymore as I dont make the christmas pudding anymore.

Pengiun, yes we have both Woolworths and Coles as our major supermarket chains. We also have IGA and some states still have Fooland. There are others around like Aldi and BiLo but we dont have them where I live. Cairns is very limited due to population so a trip to Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne/Adelaide or Perth can be a big eyeopener and shopping spree for us. Although we would not bring back much in the way of food from the big cities, we do like the variety of clothing stores there.
Having said that, I have on many occasions brought home Metwurst and Bung Fritz from my Adelaide trips along with some of the locally made chocolates.

Stay, christmas 2015 we were in Japan, so we had Christmas lunch the weekend before. It worked out so good. There were still reasonably priced fruits and vegies and hams out for sale and prawns were still easy to get.

I hear there could be a shortage of prawns this year so get in early. I will be getting ours next week and will put into the freezer in readiness.

Catch again later in the day

OK so you really got me thinking about it….

The spray oil I used was ProChef Australian Canola spray. The back of the can says 2.5g is a serve and there are 120 serves in a can. 92 kj in a serve. Which google calculation says is 21.9885 calories or 22! I then had to find out how much 2.5g was in reality and it seems to be 1/2 a teaspoon. So I am pretty sure the amount I sprayed would not have been more than that.
I also sprayed while the pan was cold as I thought that would give me a better indication on how much I had sprayed in case it was more difficult to determine if spraying onto a hot pan. Does that make sense?

Thanks LJoyce, I am going to have the same for dinner tonight and happen to have some parmesan in the fridge. That sounds like a great flavour addition without too many calories.

I bought the carton of all egg whites from the supermarket yesterday. It is so much easier and less wasteful than separating an egg like I used to do.

Lindsay, I love a home made margarita made the proper way. Can’t deal with those syrupy things.

JJulie, I wasn’t trying to do your head in! If using oil, I think you’d be better off using the spray – and of course LJ would know exactly how long to depress the nozzle to get a specific calorie count! I was really just making the point that I couldn’t trust myself with a spray of oil here and a splash of milk there because I know I would under-estimate it. Plus I’d likely lose count of how many bits and pieces I’d added during the fast day which is exactly what happens on a NFD. Unbridled eating.

I’ve never made an omelette on a FD for that reason but I have a single egg cooked in a variety of ways – poached in water on the stove, poached in the microwave, soft boiled or scrambled omelette style in a tiny, non-stick pan with no oil. I find one egg or one banana the two most satiating foods around. As our bananas seem to ripen so quickly, I often freeze them and this makes a fabulous FD evening treat. Eaten at a snail’s pace, savouring every icy bite!

Perhaps I’m too pedantic? On the other hand, you had a good result with yesterday’s careful effort. I initially collected a good range of FD ‘meal’ recipes but I tend to stick to the same things with very few ingredients and I haven’t needed to count the calories for a couple of years. Calorie counting is a real chore for me. Fortunately, we have LJ here.

Thin – just because I don’t count my own calories anymore doesn’t mean I can erase all that knowledge from my brain – it’s all still there. As I’m reminded every time someone asks a calorie related question.

LindsayL, I usually wash out the underwear at night cause it is dry in the morning, but this time I was also washing my heat tech clothing by hand. Thank goodness they too dry quickly. My daughter however did have some problems as she is a clean clothes freak. Just will not wear something twice even if it has only been worn for an hour before. But she is old enough to do her own washing these days and she made good use of one afternoon in our hotel just doing her washing. OH on the other hand is not too interested in washing his but I refuse to do his as well now so he has to do his own!!

Thin,no problem, you did not really do my head in, but it did remind me that I had not counted that oil spray in the end and while spraying I was asking myself “how am I going to work out the calories in this?” It was a good exercise for me to find out. And really I am a person who likes to keep a record of everything I put into my mouth. I am a planner as you have probably realised with my overseas trips. I have everyday planned before I leave. I think I would have done well in the army or something similar as I love rules and direction and adhere to them with passion. I was never a person to “step out of line” or “push the buttons”.

Thank you LJoyce for your wealth of information about calories that you constantly share with us all.
Thank you Thin for your wealth of information on how to make 5:2 work and your own successful experience that you willingly hand on to others.
Thank you to everyone who helps on this forum in which ever way you do, we each have something worthwhile to share.

And I am glad Thin is always reminding me that feasting is just as important as fasting. It helps me keep on track too.