Hi friends

Still hot hot hot here in Sydney. Mid thirties every day according to the Foxtel weather channel.

Gday, I’m so sorry about your hens, how awful. Especially as you were trying your best to keep them alive. 48 degrees is certainly deadly for all living things.

Quacka, your sister sounds like a massive challenge for you and I don’t envy what you have been through. Like This said, don’t get me started on children’s behaviour these days. I grew up with getting smacked and my Mum would have the cane out without any hesitation. I was taught to respect everyone and everything and especially my elders. If I spoke back to anyone in her hearing I would cop it. I hope you can now enjoy the rest of your lovely break. And yes, please vent here anytime; we all have lots in common and can commiserate and/or offer advice

Thin, you continue to motivate me with your success! We ended up having friends around yesterday as they were desperate for a swim. They bought nibbles and we had a big dinner and yes it ended up being an EFS event. So no surprise when the scales jumped up 600g this morning – but I don’t regret it, we had lots of fun. So today I skipped brekky, walked around Westfields for 2 hours and had a light lunch and will have a light dinner. I bought lots of clothes for OH and a new cozzie for myself as my other one was too big (yay) and also falling apart.

BetsyLee – to get any Christmas weight off AND lose another 400g is awesome. Congratulations!

Cinque, glad it is cooler and yay for your impending fridge delivery! So cute for you to play doctor with your granddaughters

LJ, our parents sound very similar except the other way round. My Dad was, and still is, very quiet and gentle. My Mum was a hot head and was definitely the disciplinarian.

Cali, I joined you in an out of control controlled NFD yesterday. I am not fasting during my break but having a very controlled NFD today to help combat it. Hope your FD is going/goes well

My list of 20 tasks of productive things to do on my break is still sitting at 20! It’s just too hot and quite frankly I am prioritising training and playing with Maxx, spending time with OH and cooling off in the pool and doing lots of laps as my exercise. I do feel guilty about the junk room that needs sorting out desperately, the cupboards and wardrobes that need a good clear out but too bad!

Intesha – at least you are making a half-hearted attempt at drawer clearing! Well done you for still going to the gym in this awful heat.

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

Quacka, do you have to deal with your sister much? Or is that a Christmas family get together tradition? I didn’t mean imply that yours and LJ’s families were a bunch of boozers – I just meant in general when that distant great uncle has one too many sherries and says the wrong thing!

Quacka, can we send audio to imgur? I’ll see your whipper snippering neighbour and raise you a whiney couple of over-indulged boys who need a three ring circus to keep them entertained 24/7 and cry every time they can’t get their own way. OH is threatening to turn on his air compressor when we go out.

GDSA, your sad story of the chickens did remind me of how we lost a rabbit years ago in exactly the same way. But we had followed LJ’s advice, checking on him every hour to exchange frozen bottles of water. It wasn’t enough. Thumper just couldn’t cope. Had we known that he was in immediate danger, we could have brought him inside but we didn’t know that he was in distress until he died. It was awful to think that we essentially killed him through ignorance. Tough for DD who was about 5 at the time.

Rosy Posy, well done on your loss to date. I’m the only other person posting from Perth on this thread atm. (Is there a word for an acronym having two meanings?) RU NoR or SoR? He he.

Rosy, you will get there. Just keep at the 5:2. That’s all I have done and believe me I dont have very controlled NFDs. It has taken about 15 months to lose around 15kgs but I am happy with that. I’m 41 years old but my body has shrunk proportionately. I’m beginning to like how I look ( she writes sitting on the beach in her bikini!)

thin, I only see my sister once or twice a year. I know you didn’t imply that we were boozers lol. You are right though, alcohol can play a huge part in family arguments and differences. I’m just a big stress head and things like this eat at me until I learn to let them go. Sometimes (usually) it takes another stress to replace that one and then I let it go! Maybe when I grow up a bit I will be ok ha ha ha

I’ve forgotten to post “something that made me smile” for a few days so here’s one from today. It must be bird breeding season as I noticed a pair of them sitting up on the electricity wires when I walking earlier. Well one was sitting the other was fluffing up his tail feathers and doing a little dance. The other was looking suitably hard to impress. If a bird could say “really, that’s your best moves”.

Wow thinatlast, what an achievement getting to a bmi of 21! Fantastic! Gosh OA at 27! Have you ever had surgery? I had an arthroscopy in my late 40s which was a disaster ! I’Ve just turned 61 and I grew up in Mt Pleasant. So far today I have done 1 hour on my reclining ex bike , 2 coffees, a cup of bouillon and lots of water. I’m hoping to be at preXmas weight tomorrow. Thanks so much for your support, inspiration and encouragement. I’m on holidays at the moment so in between spring cleaning or should I say Summer cleaning, I am enjoying reading this forum. I started fasting at the same weight as you.

Rosy, yes I’ve had bilat. arthroscopic chondroplasties and other odds and ends to clean up the joints. TKR is not indicated for me because it’s only my patellofemoral joints that are affected and it would be a waste of otherwise good joint surfaces to perform TKRs. With the weight gone, it’s not even a factor for me – other than the fact that I can’t run or do high impact things. Once in a while, I dance and sometimes suffer the consequences the next day, much less so than before.

As for the unhelpful comments about our weight loss, we’ve had that discussion here several times before. The motivation of those people is not always clear. My local GP, who’s very supportive of 5:2 says it’s because we’ve challenged their sense of what’s normal and people have difficulty with change.

I love the Mt. Pleasant area. Enjoy your holiday.

Quacka, I missed your earlier post but went back as Rosy mentioned it. It’s good that your sister isn’t in your life too often. I was that way with my mother – we have been estranged for 20 years. We rub each other up the wrong way and I found it was just best not to have the disruption in my life. Fortunately, she lives in Florida.

Morning all, from Dublin. It’s 7.20 am and we’ve been awake since midnight… The dreaded jetlag. The little ones are feeling it too. The 5 year old was so tired last night that she went to sleep half way through telling her mum that she loved her.

Finishing my post, much later in the day…. We have had a great morning at Phoenix Park where we came across a herd of deer which gathered around while the children (and adults) fed them carrots. Perfect. Also squirrels, swans and robins, which ticked every box on the children’s wish list.

I’ve been reading about how families and Christmas intersect, and not always positively. And also generational behaviours. I emphathise. I love my family but it was the behaviour of some of the young adults last year that drove me to say, finally, no more big Christmas/Boxing Day events at our house. We are away this year to break the cycle, and now in future we’ll keep Christmas as a celebration for the little ones, and a time for us to enjoy the company of their parents (our son and daughter and partners). Simple food, simple gifts for the children, and most of all, peace. And the joy of waking up after Christmas feeling content, and not put upon, as I have for a few yearsnow.
I am struggling a bit to maintain a reasonable diet. Far too much carbohydrate, but once we get to our next Air BnB in the Northern Ireland countryside we’ll have better cooking facilities and therefore more options. I packed my bigger jeans and a belt, and will deposit all 4 pairs in the charity bin before we leave, ready to start the new year with a very strong focus.
Quacka and Thin I’ll raise you six potty- mouthed tradies who have essentially destroyed their brains with booze and drugs, and their hearing with loud music so they have to yell not converse.
The thing that made me smile…actually the little girls’ reaction to the wildlife….and Cinque’s grandchildren who are perfectly beautiful.
Happy day all.

Fasting Sunday, 59.8kg. 28C. Cinque, what a strange paradox, bewitched by your new fridge on a FD!

Lindsay, so good to read your post, and so perfectly written – no surprise there. What a great decision to break the Christmas cycle. It sounds like you’re having a wonderful time with the little ones.

I have only one brother and, despite the miles between us, we have a very good close relationship. Our parents, bizarrely, over the years often tried to play one against the other but we have never allowed them to succeed. At various times, we have both been “cut out of the Wills” but always agreed we’d share anything coming our way. Nothing did. We skype frequently, chatting for hours, and barely a day goes by when I don’t get a snippet of an email from him (one popped up while I was writing this!). We had a brother that died age 7 and we have a step brother that I haven’t seen for 30 years. At the moment, his mother isn’t speaking to him so my brother and I are flavour of the month. Good to be far away from all that nonsense. My brother has been worth his weight in gold whenever any family members were sick or in need, always there at the end for them, very caring. I’m very grateful to him. (The other night, we watched him in Harry Potter IV in which he was a death eater!). My brother frequently makes me smile.

I think I stopped trying to lose weight when I reached a plateau that didn’t seem to budge. I decided to change its name from plateau to maintenance. It’s very hard to have an accurate body image which is why those well-meaning comments from friends only add to the confusion. It has taken me three years to accept that I am a slim person, not a fat person who lost some weight.

Rosy, congratulations on your new BMI. Wow, three FDs in a row. You will be the Dancing Queen.

I’ve changed my mind. I’m making a single bowl of chicken noodle soup for dinner. Thin’s mention of konjac noodles and my worry about refreezing chicken stock gave me the idea. I’ve just taken the smallest tub of stock out of the freezer and I will still get to add some veggies to it. I figured that later in the week when it’s hotter I won’t want soup and the salad will be more appealing for my next FD.

Hi Thin and LJoyce, thanks for your congrats . I’m posting this while riding my reclining ex bike.

I too would have no qualms about re freezing the stock as I always cook with meat that has been frozen, then refreeze the left overs and have never had any problems. The only caution I would add is when you reheat the cooked frozen food, reheat it as high as possible and never keep it at room temp as that is asking for trouble.

Perth is wrapped around th Swan river and its tributary , the Canning River which is south of the city. Mt Pleasant borders the Canning River. My family’s home was 3 houses away from the Cannong River which we could see from most windows. Mt Pleasant is quite hilly, hence its name. I learnt to swim in the Canning River.

Hi Cinque, I would love to have the situation of deciding whether I have lost enough weight. I think I will let the bmi guide me as I feel Mine should be 21. My gp put me on to the Fast Diet but I’d heard about it and seen the book in shops. I also take calcium and vit d tablets daily and do weight bearing exercise in an attempt to avoid osteoporosis if or when I manage to lose another 9kg. That would take me to a total weight loss of 23 kg.

Hi SH friends

I’ve read all your posts as far back as we can and have so many thoughts and congratulations and commiserations but have my Dad here today so this is just a quick post to say hi. I cant wait to go back to work so I have more time!

After a successful avoidance of weight gain over Christmas, I’ve just had my two worst eating days since starting the 5:2 at the end of November. Aagh!! Just haven’t felt well, too much heavy gardening, and probably affected by the antibiotics – for ear infection, but finished them tonight. I’m looking on tomorrow as a re-boot FD.

LJoyce, yes, walking is so much nicer when it’s cooler. Also, now the craziness of the post-Christmas shopping is settling, the shopping malls aren’t quite so crowded. You mentioned re-freezing thawed chicken broth – I agree with RosyPosy and Cinque – ONLY if you cook it very thoroughly before re-freezing. Otherwise any bacteria can start growing, and for some reason, thawing then re-freezing can accelerate their growth unless you’ve killed them off with high and long enough heat.

GDayfromSA – have you tried shade cloth to protect some of your plants? It’s the only way I keep my azalea & gardenia through the really hot days. Although, it’s warmer where you are than Melbourne, so may not work(?).

Quacka, my sympathy re your noisy neighbour. Has anyone thought of offering to help him do his whipper-snipping? If he’s elderly, it really may be hard for him to do more than short spurts at a time. I’m finding I rest more as I do tasks now in a way I wouldn’t have needed to when I was younger (sigh!).

LindsayL, what a lovely experience feeding the deer in the Dublin park! May you have many more such moments of enjoyment during your holiday.

Cinque – glad your nee fridge is up and running!

Rosy Posy, Can anyone know what is the “right” weight? I think comments from others on this thread are so sensible; your body will tell you when you’ve reached the “right” weight. On the other hand, just try to ignore the well-wishing busybodies who try to tell you you’ve lost enough.

thinatlast, how inspiring your story is to me. Having lost and regained weight a few times over the years, it’s good to know that this is something I can also do and it will last. My highest weight ever was about 88 kg, and that’s where I always say – no higher! I can usually get down easily to 85kg (where I started at the end of November), then work my way down from there. I’m 82.2kg now, but I’m really short (154cms now, was 156 when younger) so my BMI is only just under 35. I need to be at least below 59kgs for my BMI to be 25. Usually, people start noticing and commenting (and giving me food to eat – sabotage!!! And I also self-sabotage then) when I get to around 70 kgs, so I need to get past that hurdle. That will start to happen around May-June so I need to develop strategies to keep on keeping on from now, and through that time. Any helpful insights, suggestions, support from you or anyone else on this forum will be gratefully received.

Hi Rosy Posy, I’m also a pear, though have gathered a spare tyre with age, as well. I think you should just take advantage of your best features, and swish those hips in style!!! 🙂

Ok, pupster is happily eating a frozen Kong which is the best dog invention ever. It is made from heavy duty rubber and is cone shaped and hollow with a large opening at one end and a tiny one at the other. You plug the small hole with a smear of peanut butter then fill the Kong with something – we blend up cooked carrot or cooked frozen peas, or mashed banana – and freeze it. It gives you a good 20 minutes of peace as he licks away at it

Sorry to hear you haven’t been well BetsyLee and I’m sure you will have a good FD today to get rid of any excess

Hi Lindsay, so great to hear from you! Sorry about the jet lag and I hope it is better now. The area you are staying in sounds amazing

Cinque, have a great FD and enjoy pottering and your new fridge/freezer. I hate to think what mess is behind mine so I just won’t think about it!

Your Sunday sounded perfect Gday and glad you are now able to enjoy your precious time off without the awful heat. Sorry to hear about that you have family woes too. I have one sister and we are very different. We catch up at obligatory family events a couple of time a year but that’s it and it is enough. I love her three kids and my 5 month old great-niece, but again we only catch up at these events. My Dad is 93 and still lives independently. My sister and I cook his meals but otherwise he is perfectly ok to look after himself. He comes over to our place every week for a meal and a chat. My darling Mum passed away just over 7 years ago. I was very close to her and my sister is very close to my Dad

Your tomatoes sound amazing Thin! Our little cherry tomatoes are just starting to turn red so we will have some soon. I make a nice dish with them – I make spiced chicken meatballs the cook them in the fry pan whilst cooking the tomatoes in the oven for 8 minutes until they are just starting to burst. They go into the pan with the meatballs and some stock and then add some cooked penne pasta. It is a nice light Italian dish without cream, cheese or butter or other heavy ingredients that often go into that cuisine.

Thin I loved your comment ‘it took me three years to accept that I was a slim person, not a fat person who had lost weight’. I am really looking forward to experiencing that myself.

Just to prove how good this WOL is, I had two back-to-back very controlled NFD’s and this morning the scales tell me that I have lost the 600g I put on due to the dinner party plus another 200g! So I am now 200g lighter than I was on the 3rd of December and my silly season challenge was to be lighter on the 3rd January than 3rd December. HOWEVER….tonight we are having friends over and there will be all the usual temptations so whilst I will try to be controlled I know I will overeat. So then I need another two controlled NFD’s to make sure I reach my silly season goal.

Hope you had a nice FD LJ and glad it’s a bit cooler for you now.

Quacka, you do NOT sound like a b. Not even remotely. You have tried to hard and you still love your sister but she is not doing her share in the relationship. Please please put it all behind you and concentrate on your life, your OH and your friends and enjoy yourself.

Hi to everyone I haven’t mentioned, have a great day all!!

Good morning lovely ones.
New Year’s Eve! Where did 2018 go?

Dr Mosley is tweeting like anything. He is a brilliant publicist. Publishing his book just in time for everyone’s New Year Resolutions. He says the new website will be up within a week, so maybe we won’t see the flood of new people here that we usually see in the New Year.

He mentioned (as an interesting thing he had read) ‘intermittent dieting’ where you diet for two weeks and then don’t diet for the next two weeks, and repeat.

And he linked this article about BREAKFAST: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6538619/Dr-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-skipping-breakfast-not-bad-all.html

My fast day was a lovely one yesterday. And yes, I am enjoying the wonderful morning after.

Gday I am SO glad you got a cooler day and could spend it as Sundays should always be spent! Next Sunday you might be lying back reading Dr M’s new book!

Betsy, you are right about cooking that soup (from thawed stock) thoroughly.
Commiserations on those two bad-eating days. As you say, a fast day will reboot you. Hopefully those bingey days will get further apart and less calorie laden as you go.
I know the fear of undermining yourself, but I think it helps that the trajectory of weight loss tends to get slower as we get closer to our healthy weight. This means we have more time to get used to our new shapes, and noticing how it effects our relationships or anything it brings up for us, or what our new clothes sense feels like. We have all the time in the world to get used to it. That really helped me.

You pear shaped people can rejoice that your smaller waists indicate that you are carrying less of the dangerous visceral fat! Swish those hips!
But isn’t it true, Rosy, first on, last off. Fascinating how those places can differ widely.

Anzac, ooh it is hard when 32 feels lovely and cool. But I am glad it does! Enjoy your day! Hooray for frozen kong!

Have a good day everyone!

MissD and I have just come back from a 30 min walk with the pooch. Although the new shed is not quite finished the treadmill is in there so I’m off now for some HI running then I will put the new weight bench together. It’s been collecting dust, unopened in its box in the car shed for probably 6 months now and I’ve decided today is the day to fully set up the gym and get back into daily exercise

GDSA, sounds like you are getting ready for a few new year resolutions. Enjoy the new gym, you’ve certainly had to wait long enough for it to be ready.

Cali, I agree about the weight loss being fairly slow on 500 cal FDs and can only imagine what it would have been on 800cal. I’ve been reading some of the online info provided by the publisher though, and it looks like MM isn’t recommending that people do just 2 days on 800 cal. This is their bio of the book:

“Six years ago, Dr Michael Mosley started a health revolution with The 5.2 Fast Diet, telling the world about the incredible power of intermittent fasting.
In this book he brings together all the latest science (including a new approach: Time Restricted Eating) to create an easy-to-follow programme.
Recent studies have shown that 800 calories is the magic number when it comes to successful dieting – it’s an amount high enough to be manageable but low enough to speed weight loss and trigger a range of desirable metabolic changes.
Depending on your goals, you can choose how intensively you want to do the programme: how many 800-calorie days to include each week, and how to adjust these as you progress.
Along with delicious, low-carb recipes and menu plans by Dr Clare Bailey, The Fast 800 offers a flexible way to help you lose weight, improve mood and reduce blood pressure, inflammation and blood sugars.”
https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Fast-800/Michael-Mosley/9781760850180

It sounds like he’s introducing eating windows and a flexible number of FDs to go along with the 800cal. From reading the bio from a few book sellers it also looks like he’s sticking with a Mediterranean-style approach to eating that he started with the BSD.

I also found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oannxp_dMSQ
Which indicates that MM did an experiment on himself for the book, by deliberately regaining some weight and then losing it on the new Fast800 program – I feel nervous even thinking about deliberately gaining weight.

The new website for the new book looks like it’s online now: https://thefast800.com

Minka, given that you didn’t even have travel scales you did amazingly well. That’s a great loss over Christmas.
I continue to hope for better year for you and a very successful outcome to Mr M.’s treatment.

Rosy,
I’m all admiration for anyone who can do 3 FDs in a row, let alone fluids only. If you haven’t eaten and the scales haven’t changed then it’s because your body is hanging onto some of that fluid you drank yesterday – it’s imposible for it to be anything else (unless you eat in your sleep and don’t remember it). I think one of the many reason that scales and I don’t along is the lack of logic.

I usually resort to either using tight fitting jeans or a tape measure to track progress.

Actually my tape measure is a really good indicator of changes in body fat, muscle tone and inflammation, because I also measure areas that will pick that up. After tracking this for few years I’ve figured out which changes seem to relate to what’s actually causing the weight increase or decrease.
What my body measurements tell me are:
Waist is the best indicator of body fat changes for me and usually also shows changes in muscle tone on my torso,
Hips/abdomen will pick up fluid retention that relates to hormone fluctuations (I suspect if you are prone to it, it would show a change due to constipation too),
Knee measurements pick up inflammation (extra fluid around the joints) – this one is probably unique to me as I have rheumatoid arthritis,
Upper abdomen (halfway between the bust and waist) will pick up the glycogen and extra fluid that has been recently stored due to a sugar/starch binge. If I’ve really overdone it then this will show up on my bust measurement too.
I suspect that this guide won’t work on other body shapes but it’s been a much more reliable guide for me than the scales because it gives me more specific data not just a single number.
When it comes to my weight, the measurement I really don’t want to see increasing is my waist – that usually means I have body fat to shift – a much harder task than shifting water or glycogen.
The other guide I like is the pinch test – I do them along the side and front of my torso and they also help me judge both weight and muscle tone. I love it when there are areas that I cannot manage to pinch any skin together at all – unfortunately there are always a few that I can.

Hi everyone

Just caught up on the posts.

Yesterday we had a really busy day. Went fishing in the morning and then spent several hours making tomato sauce and pickled jalapeños. OH helped me so it made the job much easier than usual which was nice. We had two huge baskets of Roma tomatoes to make into sauce (when I say sauce I mean a sauce for cooking with, like in casseroles or bolognaise). That’s a lot of grating and cooking down and then cleaning up! Then we had lots of jalapeños to pickle, which involves slicing them all up and of course sterilising the jars. I took some photos so I can post for you all to see.

Today we went for a drive down the coast again. It’s been a nice day but just still feeling tired from all the hoo hah of the last couple weeks.

We will be having a quiet NYE and most probably will be asleep to see the New year in. Someone always lets off fireworks or something so maybe we will be awake lol

Still weighing around the same weight as start of December. The day after my last FD I was in the 66s. I’m in the 67s now but still hovering between 67.4 and 67.6kg and I’m happy with that. I haven’t had a real FD for a while but have been very careful what I am eating. I still have that big wheel of Camembert in the fridge that I bought to replace the small one I ate before it was even close to Christmas so we will see if I can say that again next post!
thin, the lower alcohol, lower calorie beer is not too bad at all.

Thank you again everyone for your support regarding my family.

More importantly, thank you so much for your support, knowledge and encouragement and being there for me in my weight loss journey. Looking forward to another successful year ahead and I hope it is the same for all of you too.
I hope everyone enjoys their new year celebrations and all the best for 2019.

Happy New Year friends xx

I got behind having read a lot of posts but not replying during the day yesterday. I will just jump in here and there – apologies to anyone I’ve missed, I’m not ignoring you, it’s just not worth belabouring some of the points again when you’ve already moved on.

Rosy, I wasn’t going to comment about your 3 FDs in a row because you have already coped very well without us for the first 14 kgs and you weren’t asking for advice anyway. In light of your more recent post, I will just say that I would tend to abandon the 3 FDs before I’d abandon the scales. I know you wanted a kickstart but this has to be sustainable and I can’t help but feel this is likely to dampen your enthusiasm in the long-term scheme of things. Honestly, being at maintenance is boring so don’t be in a hurry to get here – all you need is a nice steady downward trend. It matters not how long it takes (unless your weight is threatening your life, which it isn’t). The other thing is that, if you do continue with the scales, you will very likely see a drop the day after the day after the fast day. So, don’t lose heart. And have fun at your party tonight!

I saw the suddenly prolific ‘tweets’ from Dr M. on the right column of this page and wondered what was going on. I started following them but he lost me when he bizarrely started tweeting about Trump. I have always found it very strange that people could in any way be influenced in politics by the opinions of, say, American celebrities such as actors. Dr M. is my health hero, has changed my life but his politics are totally irrelevant to me. Apart from all that, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ so I will be sticking with my trusty 5:2 using one quarter/TDEE.

Merry, massive congratulations to you for losing weight at this very difficult time. It sounds like your family has been a delight to you during the health issues faced my Mr M. I wish you both the best for 2019.

Quacka, I hope you soon feel relaxed and can put the pesky behaviour of the family members behind you. Glad that low cal beer worked out well for you!

GDSA, did we already know that you had a pooch? That’s the sort of fact I would normally remember. What is he/she?

LJ, Minka, Cinque, I replied to you on the SSC this morning so I’m just saying hi to you.

Betsy, I redeemed myself at bridge this morning. It is as you said, ups and downs. And lots of fun. This morning’s session signals a return to normality in a way. And our club has a new carpet, new bidding cards and new playing cards so it all smelled and looked clean and fresh.

Hi Anzac, Arel, CalifD, Penguin and Lindsay.

Happy New Year to everyone on this delightful thread. Thank you for being here. Checking out of 2018 at 59.7kg which is exactly 1kg lighter than this time last year. Cue fireworks!

Hello all.

Merry it is good to hear from you again. It sounds as though you have been very busy. To someone in as small a country as this, the distances you drive sound enormous. An unplanned weight loss is always welcome! Good luck with the project.

The dog chat on this site reminds me of some of the mutts I have lived or worked with. I have been without one for a few years, but there are three around the family and they all greet me with enthusiasm in the firm belief that the purpose of my visit is to take them for a walk.

The last day of the year is just starting here. This morning I will go to the gym for the last quiet session. The first few weeks of the year it will be full of people working off their New Year resolutions. The regular users make them welcome, but we know it won’t last. Thats fine – they pay their membership fee for a year which subsidises ours, then they go away. Not that mine is high – I get the geriatric rate.

Today is also day one of a two day b2b fast. It being the New Year it won’t be a total water only fast. Some of the traditions of my youth have to be observed but I did sign up for the Silly Season Challenge and even if I stretch that to 3 Jan as has been suggested we are close to that final weigh in.

Last day of 2018, NSW, Australia
~ 10pm Monday

🎉🎶🎆Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful New Year’s Eve celebration and hope 2019 will be everything you wish for. Enjoy your tomorrow, then every day after. Love to all you special people & thank you for all your support and understanding in 2018.💖🎶 xx