Hi All,

Rosy, I don’t envision myself ever practicing a regimented keto diet. Though I steer away from grains, I do enjoy carbohydrates from vegetables. I even eat cold cooked white potatoes in moderation which I know some regard as ‘non-vegetables’. I find they have enough resistant starch not to spike my blood sugar.

My main reason for posting about the two cookie options and related info is that I’ve been one who once regarded fat consumption as a very unhealthy choice. Especially back I was vegan I would eat virtually no fat, not even using olive oil or any dressing on salads. Even more recently I steered away from it and generally have never liked fatty foods. For example when a child I didn’t like ‘butter’, well we never had real butter in our home. My mother only bought margarine. …Maybe that’s why I didn’t like spreading the stuff on toast, at times it grossed me out, for some reason to see the stick of margarine in the butter dish! I would only spread my toast with peanut butter and at least my mother did buy a brand that only contained peanuts and salt and nothing else! I now look back and think maybe my aversion was an aversion to margarine than butter!?! The first butter I remember tasting was as a young adult, probably aged 19 or 20 years old. Maybe the margarine experience was enough to put me off dietary fats altogether!?!?

My aim at the moment is to simply increase my consumption of unrefined saturated and unsaturated fats and lower my carbohydrate intake. I’m not being strict with this. Just moving in that direction has resulted in being able to eat more calories without gaining weight, and I’m pleased about that. As I mentioned above since experimenting with this I find I’m far more satiated and not inclined to snack after a fatty meal or fat laden snack (like the paleo cookie) and that I have more energy (which surprised me). This has enabled me to carry out my physical work duties with less strain and fatigue and more of a spring in my step. In turn, perhaps I’m building more muscle mass and my fat percentage is going down?

Rosy, you asked why I have been getting body scans? …I began getting them for the same reason Thin mentioned, which is because I wanted to find out my visceral fat percentage. Visceral fat is actually the only type of fat that contributes to ill health in the body. Subcutaneous or ‘white’ fat is pretty much benign, so levels subcutaneous fat are pretty innocuous, whether or not they look good underneath our clothing is another matter altogether! In any case, it definitely is visceral fat that is the one to consider and as Thin pointed out, there is no reliable way of measuring this than one of two types of body scans: Inbody (advanced bioimpedence) or through a DEXA scan. Home bioimpedence scales such as Tanita are very unreliable. Only the two above truly give accurate readings.

I first became interested in visceral fat after watching the series ‘How to Stay Young’ hosted by Angela Rippon where visceral fat was discussed at length. Angela, a very healthy 76 or so year old at the time was fit, healthy, played tennis regularly was slim and active and looked to harbor little or no fat around her body found that she had disturbingly high amounts of visceral fat. As I mentioned visceral fat is related to health decline and though Angela wasn’t aware of any ill health, higher than healthy levels of visceral are related to heart disease, strokes, liver impairment and a host of other stresses on the body. Visceral fat wraps itself around organs and puts stress on them. In the series, Angela introduced a method of helping the body to reduce visceral fat, which is to consume high amounts of inulin fiber daily in the diet. So, I began a self-experiment with that. I searched out the original double blind type trial in the medical journals and found that it was necessary to consume 30 grams inulin powder daily to effect a visceral fat reduction. Those in the trial also were put on a calorie controlled diet. Those who added in the inulin shed far more visceral fat than those who simply reduced calories. Those who reduced calories shed more muscle than the dieters who added in the inulin. So I embarked on my own inulin trial and had an Inbody scan at the beginning of the taking of 30 grams and then 6 months down the track. The results were stellar. The 30 grams inulin made a huge difference (though I needed to work up to taking that amount over months, since it is the food which grows a microbiome garden!). Once on the 30 grams I shed visceral and other fat while gaining muscle, all while practicing 5:2.

Anyway, that’s enough from me for today! These are just sideline things I’m experimenting with. I completely agree with Merry who says, 5:2 can work with any type of diet including low fat, high fat, vegan, carnivore, paleo, Zone diet, raw food, etc. I’m just a bit quirky and have fun tweaking! …A bit like a hobby!

Checking in: Today’s weight 57.9 kg and tomorrow is my Friday Fast Day.

Cheers!

Ditto, I hate cockroaches too.

GDSA, well done on giving up alcohol, that’s a big step.
Be careful moving furniture out of those bedrooms. If I remember correctly you’ve already had one back injury this year you don’t need another.

Thin, I also lost and regained lots of weight through my teenage years, but the above only records my adult yo-yoing weight. I also had many other attempts to lose weight as an adult but that involved smaller weight losses around 10-20kg. I probably tried a new diet most years.
Weight watchers do have a free maintenance program, but they decide what your goal weight is and I just couldn’t get to it. I followed the diet and exercised most days and couldn’t get to 64kgs – which is what they’d set as my goal weight. I got stuck around 68kg – I now know it’s because my TDEE is abnormally low and their diet was actually my maintenance TDEE for the high 60kgs. You can’t access their free maintenance program unless you get to the specified goal weight and stay there for 6 weeks (at least those were the rules in the 1980s). Not that it would have worked for me anyway, as it was more food than I was already eating to maintain at 68kg. In the end I got fed up with paying a fee each week to not lose those last 4kg so I left. I maintained for about a year and was quite fit as I was doing both aerobics and weights but as my marriage got rocky my weight followed suit.
The only other thing that worked well at losing weight and keeping it off was the “French Women Don’t Get Fat” book. It’s not a diet book it’s an approach to food that works for those of us that love food. It’s not a diet it’s an approach to food that doesn’t make food the enemy. You don’t diet, you eat lovely flavourful fresh foods, in season, in modest portions and lots of variety, mindfully so you enjoy every mouthful. For me it started that process of getting most of my food choices healthy and balanced and over about 10 years my weight gradually fell from 147 to somewhere in the 90s without tracking it (as I wasn’t weighing this is a guess based on the sizes I was wearing). As I wasn’t weighing myself at all, I was just trying to be a healthier large person without actually “dieting”. Despite my weight I was quite active and did lots of walking at this time (including long bush walks) and I also did weights and gym classes so I felt quite healthy. Then I got RA and found it impossible to keep exercising as the disease took a few years to be controlled. So I found myself gaining weight again. I’d gotten back up to 127kg before I decided I was ready to finally deal it once and for all. I think my decision to start with counseling was crucial as it allowed me to address all the baggage that came with my weight and gave me some tools to deal with the ingrained thinking and behavioural patterns.
In a way I’ve come full circle because that mindful good seasonal food approach is what I aim for now in conjunction with 5:2.

Yes, that was my experience too. I lost lots of weight, once I got down to a reasonable weight I would ease off on the diet and then the weight would pile back on.

I guess it was just laziness on my behalf, but this diet really looks like something I can stick to. It has foods I like, and I really don’t feel hungry on the 800 calories a day, I think it will be a real struggle to actually hit the amount of calories that I’m supposed to hit on non fasting days when I actually move off the fast 800 and onto the 5:2 plan

Gloucester NSW
8.50pm Thursday

Hi everyone,

Lovely and cool here today – 25’C, a nice change.

Just spent 2 hours reading all your enlightening posts from 8 Feb, on my mobile. You have all been so busy with lots going on. I couldn’t begin to answer each post as I’d surely lose whatever I write here, just by trying to backtrack!

I feel very happy for all those on a downward trend – good on you, well deserved 😊 Commiserations to all those, including myself, who may be struggling a little. Today was my FD – kitchen closed at 6pm & every morsel accounted for in MFP, even counted one green grape! 628 calories! Best FD this year, but know it has to get better. The scales don’t lie!

Neil – you started this! Thank you
•Lightest adult weight: 63kg in 1981 (not counting 55kg when seriously ill in 1991 – that was too thin for me)
•Heaviest 2013: 91.8kg (promised myself would not be 92kg, and started being ‘sort-of’ sensible, there and then)
•Started 5:2 in Oct 2017: 81.5kg
•Was down to 71.9kg before July 2018
•Today: 75.6kg
•Goal: 63kg

To all those, or loved ones, with health issues, I sincerely wish you all the best for a speedy recovery – it can be challenging at times, so we are all here for you xx

To all those who may be changing, or adjusting, your work vocation, may each of you find just what it is you are after – good things may be just around the corner!

I know I may have missed something or someone, but not intentionally – you are all a great bunch of very kind, supportive, encouraging and informative people and I appreciate each and every one of you – thank you for just being here!

My weekend away was just amazing – lots of happy memories!

Must go. Enjoy whatever you are getting up to and bye for now xx

@minka is inulin similar to Metamucil and from where do you get it ?

@ Thin , I know you’re In maintainance but sometimes I get the impression you fast more than one day a week. Do you vary the amount of fast days ?

Good morning all 6.44 Sydney.

Quick check in, weight after FD 66.5. 5.4 down from 4/2. All the cruise weight gone plus another 300gms.

Yum Cha today but will have an FD on Sunday.

Have a good day everyone.

Hi guys, me checking in at 5.00 am, the alarm is set for 6.00 am ! @cinque I don’t have a sweet tooth more of a fat and alcohol tooth. Just love sparkling white wine, Brie, salami and olives. I know they are not good for me and if I have them, only on my 2 nf days. My gp did tell me to ear calcium rich food for my bones.
Gosh Cinque you have a tiny weight, well done !

What is everyone’s bmi ,recent height measurement and small, medium or large frame ( frame is nothing to do with height). Should you be an ectomorph, mesomorph or endomorph?

BMI is 22.1 if I figure I’m sedentary. I think my frame is small to medium.

Rosy, I have a sweet tooth, a sour tooth and I think a salty tooth too. At least sometimes. I really need to cut down on sweets, especially late in the day.

Hi everyone, quick drop-in while I’m on the computer. Had a few indulgent, but not excessively so, days at the weekend and early in the week – added 1.4 kg on the scales. Followed that with a FD & a CD almost exactly 1200 cals, and only dropped 0.2 kg. I blame the hot cross buns :). Anyway, another FD today, and here’s hoping the scales will show a difference tomorrow morning. Also walking a lot more intentionally.
Lowest weight as an adult: 57 kg (for about 3 years early twenties)
Heaviest weight 88 kg, but that’s when I always put on the brakes, so I don’t stay there long.
Most of the past 20-30 years have been in the low 80s, with occasionally drops to around 70 kg, but haven’t stayed there more than 12 months at a time
Started 5:2 late November 2018 at 86.4 kg, another putting on of the brakes, and joined the forums from December 2018
Current weight (because of blip) 81.4 kg
Goal weight: 54 kg. It needs to be lower than my lowest adult weight to be a healthy BMI, as I am shorter now by 2 cms.

Have a mindful weekend everyone!

Cinque, I was just watching Gardening Australia and they mentioned a plant called murnong – otherwise known as yam daisy. I hadn’t realised that the name for your food project actually came from a native food plant.
https://www.anbg.gov.au/apu/plants/micrlanc.html

Finally got to read the posts since my last one yesterday. I’ve spent three days getting ready for our garage sale. These are mostly items that aren’t suitable for gumtree i.e. plenty of stuff that nobody needs but might just buy on impulse. Just waiting for my gf to arrive with her ‘junk’. I both dread it and look forward to it at the same time. We always have loads of fun joking with our ‘customers’ – but it’s so much work.

Rosy, glad you like “The Killing”. Which episode are you up to? It was incredibly good acting in the first few episodes and they addressed that very sensitive issue so well I thought. Quite confronting. Now we’re well into season 2 and OH won’t watch it any more because he says it’s turned into a soap opera. I sort of agree but now I’m hooked! Keen to hear where you’re up to.

Enjoyed all the data revealing that Neil started. It’s interesting that most of us have been in a similar weight range during our adult life and that, for many of us, that range has spanned 30kg.

Cinque, I know I got to this thread a little before you but I don’t remember how long before. I was interested to read that we started 5:2 at exactly the same time, that I hadn’t known before.

I’m sorry that I’ve forgotten all the things I wanted to reply to. I always do. Oh yes, Rosy, I fast two days a week, Sunday and Wednesday. Except on overseas trips, I switch to 6:1 because I want my family to enjoy their holiday too and we always do lots of walking and not much eating. On this short little trip to Thailand, I plan to do a 24 hour fast on both the travel days. That’s nothing to so many of you who seem to be practicing a kind of ‘reverse 5:2’ but quite a big deal for me to go without food altogether. I will eat my last meal the evening before travel and then not eat anything again until 24 hours later on arrival. Skipping airline meals is not really skipping meals at all. At least not in my class of travel!

Penguin – I played wither hooker or number 3 so that will tell you my size 😉. I gave it up in my 20s when I was at university because I had to work full time to support myself. Not surprisingly that was when I started piling on weight

Neil, the military approves of physical activity, so I played until I was 48. I stopped when I realised that I couldn’t catch the opposition any more because they were younger than my son.

Anzac, You are going to have to teach your OH to multi-task. I have been married forever, but I seem to remember that before then girls and Rugby were not incompatible. I played a Kiwi side once who wore all black. Not the real All Blacks but still a handful.

We just got back from a meal at our favourite pub. The temperature outside is 8 C! Last night it froze.

Cinque, that gives me an unhealthy waist measurement at 38″. In my defence I can only offer something a heart doctor once said to me “Your aorta is much bigger than is normal, but then so is the rest of you”.

Penguin, I think Minka works Saturdays so she’s probably not able to get back to you today. I use the brand of inulin that Minka recommended to me a year or so ago. I’ve taken photos of the packet and nutrition panel for you. https://imgur.com/a/DkwA7D8 I only use a heaped tablespoon most days (that would be 5-8grams) – much less than the 30g that Minka takes.
Because inulin is a soluble fibre it doesn’t thicken the liquids you add it to the same way insoluble fibres like psyllium and brans do. That means it can be added to more things – smoothies, hot drinks, soups or cereal. Sometimes I just add it to 1/2 glass of kefir.

I did a silly thing this morning. I was rendering a celeriac into matchsticks with a mandolin and chatting to OH as I did so. Not concentrating on the task, I took some matchstick sized slices out of my middle finger tip. It wasn’t very painful but it bled so profusely that it took four dressings to stop it. The result is not as inconvenient as a splint to the elbow, but can I please be added to the select sub group who are learning to use their left hand?

This afternoon’s walk was to look at the large compound into which the conservationists have released a family of Eurasian Beavers. The fence is very smart but the wild boar are already digging around it so it is only a matter of time before they break in or the beavers drop a tree on the fence and break out. Then we will have the first wild beavers in England since the early 1500s. The next phase is to re-introduce the Pine Marten. Both groups are looking for volunteers to help oversee the project. I may give it the Pine Marten project a go. I have seen one before, but not in this country. I don’t keep chickens so they won’t be doing me any harm.

Cinque. The scales are not kind either. To add insult to injury I am now 4 kg heavier than I was last summer and the BMI is up to 26.4. Some of that is increased muscle mass but the target was to buy the muscle with reduced fat! I’ll try painting tomorrow, Sunday for me. It may not be too difficult, I have thumb and first finger, but with the guitar I am a finger picker, classical style, which isn’t going to work for a while. Fortunately I have an electric I can play with a pick.

Hi all

Sunny Sunday in Melbourne. Day before FD.

Anzac. Hope your employment situation settles soon. I am wondering if you and OH were a bit naughty in a past life and Maxx is your karma. Don’t know how to share this but I just saw a video on FB about a lab named Stella and Autumn leaves and I bet Maxx would be the same. Worth a look if you can find it.

Neil. Happy to add my stats
Lightest adult weight . 60kg
Heaviest adult weight . 93kg
Starting 5-2 90kg. (20/12/18)
Current weight. 81kg. (First goal 10% off)
Goal weight. 65kg (pie in the sky wishful thinking)
Height. 162cm. Medium build per my wrist measurements

So far this has been the easiest I have found to manage my eating. Biggest revelation is portion control, I can’t believe how little I can eat of any food and be satisfied until the next meal.

Quakka. Thanks for going to all that trouble. I have found the symbol now and used it successfully. Interesting to note though it gave me a higher calorie count on Helgas bread to the one on the packet. Have to watch that. Enjoy bikini shopping.

Gday. Congrats on the alcohol ban, you are certainly making good decisions and OH must be grateful for the care you are taking of his health. When the redecorations are complete you will be able to relax in beautiful surroundings.

Arel. You are still on the horse and it’s a nice dobbin who gets there slowly and surely. Horses don’t like me so I’m going to use one of my favourite animals, a Galapagos tortoise. A nice gentle ride.

Penguin. Sounds like you live in an idyllic rural community. I’m thinking Midsommer Murders or Miss Marple. Aren’t Pine Martens quite ferocious animals like ferrets. If you weren’t joking about your bionic ear then you are definitely part Ozzie. It was invented by an Australian doctor (who did study in UK for a while)

I was recently listening to a podcast and heard Professor Claire Collins talking about an online course which is free called the Science of Weight Loss -Dispelling the Myths. It is not available now but she said it would start again soon. This is the link: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/online-learning/the-science-of-weight-loss. It runs for 6 weeks and I thought many of the enquiring minds on this forum might find it interesting. I have registered so that I should be advised when it is available and can let you know.

Happy FD or NFD to all.

Penguin, were you trying to add a little protein to that match stick celeriac dish? Ouch!! It makes me wince just to read about it. I hope it heals quickly. Chopped fingertips are painful because it’s hard not to keep hitting them against things.

Thin (and was it Rosy?) we watched the pilot for “The Killing” and it looks good. As soon as the pizzas are out of the oven we’ll watch the next episode. I stayed up last night and watched Bohemian Rhapsody again last night. And afterwards, I watched the original Live Aid concert with the real Freddy Mercury on YouTube. Rami Malek really nailed it. DS asked me to ask you if “Salvation” is available on Netflix there. We really liked it, although the 2nd season got a little strange. It was on one of our regular TV stations but not on our Netflix. The premise and characters are good.

Cinque, that flower looks like the Dandelion that grows here. The leaves have good diuretic properties and also make good tea. In Wisconsin, in the middle of the country where I grew up, they are very prolific and considered a weed they will easily take over a lawn if not controlled. It must be the humidity there in the summer. They grow here but aren’t a problem.

Have a great Sunday everyone!

I will really need my 5:2 FD after this weekend!

Cinque. The scales are becoming untrustworthy. Of the extra 4kg they awarded me yesterday, 1 kg has gone and yesterday was not a FD, quite the reverse.

Klondyke. Nothing as stylish as Midsummer Murder territory. The Forest was one of our earliest mining areas but the geology was difficult and the mines started going out of business decades ago. Apart from a few one man operators they are all gone and the woods have recovered. Now it is a commercial forest with small villages in the middle and some open farmed areas. The forest crop is conifer but there are still areas of beech and oak which are left intact. The Pine Marten is indeed like a big ferret, but prettier. The plan is to put up feeding stations so people can see them, which is going to be a challenge because they are very secretive and most of our tourists don’t stray far from the car parks. Yep, I have a bionic ear. I spent too many years working with firearms. I don’t use it a lot and certainly not when playing an instrument – I became an amateur musician after my hearing went dodgy and before I got it, so if I put in the ear it all sounds wrong.

LJ. Fibre is a much more complex subject than we had realised. Clearly I need to study it more.

Cali. I gave the mandolin a thorough cleaning.

It’s good news week ! Hubs ct scan came back with hidden stones deep in his kidney which couldn’t be seen on ultrasound or X-ray. Contacting his specialist Monday re op.
Can’t believe that on Sat morning after a decadent previous weekend of cocktails and canapes on 2 nights and 5 days of btb fasting, I lost 1.1 kg which is over 18 kg loss if you take off est cast weight or just under 18 kg loss if you don’t . Bmi now 22.8 , 5 kg to go.
@ Thin, we watched all of the skilling that was available on Netflix. All tv series become formulaic , soap operish, repetitive, the longer they continue. I don’t understand why you are fasting 2 days a week if you are on maintenance. Are you still wanting to lose more and if you are not how do you prevent the weight loss.
@ LJ and Minka from where do you buy inulin power?
@ penguin the bmi calculator sitenI go on is a heart one and they have a separate button for males and females.

Rosy, so happy to hear OH scans showed kidney stones and not some big cyst or something. Not that kidney stones are a good thing, but at least they are common. Wish there was some kind of medication that would just dissolve them. Great work on the weight loss!
We ended up watching 5 episodes of The Killing last night. Great show! Can’t wait to watch the rest. I love that the actors are unknown, at least to me. Thin, thank you for the recommendation, and to Rosy for your thumbs up as well. Thin always comes up with the best things to watch.

We had snow this morning that actually stuck to the ground for a while. It’s pretty much all melted now, a few hours later. But our temps aren’t expected to go above 4C today. Too cold for me! Thank goodness the furnace got fixed and the propane tank filled. Cold weather is a lot easier to deal with in a nice warm house. Here are some pics from the front and back garden: https://imgur.com/a/hb9LzOw

LJ, I am going to have to read up on all that fiber info you posted. Like penguin said, fiber is a lot more complex than we realized. I’m particularly interested in the fermentable fiber and wondering about natural sources of it. Amazon.com.au has several different brands and sizes, including the Morlife one. But it keeps changing to U.S. prices, so I can’t see if the Aussie prices are competitive.

Gday, it sounds like your home renovations are all coming together now. I think the decorating part is the most fun. It’s been a long haul for you and your family getting all the construction stuff done. I always enjoy the chaos of that when it’s first starting, but it does get really old after a while if there are the almost inevitable delays.

Good morning, nice post-fast day breakfast for me, and now some coffee.

Penguin, scales AND tape measure letting you down, as well as the mandoline slicer! I hope you get a good run now. Good luck with painting and guitar playing.
Not sure about where you live, I saw a story about a Forest of Dean near naked pensioner brandishing a base ball bat. 😉

Neil, excellent to be feeling the benefits of 8kg less you are carrying around the tennis court. The BBQ was a learning experience.

Klondi, so glad you are finding 5:2 (comparatively) easy. I guess that’s the key factor for whether it will work for someone or not. The course you have signed up for looks really interesting.

LJoyce, fascinating graph on the three classes of fibre. At first I thought it was too simplistic, given that some food are in all three categories. And I went off to check my assumptions and came to the conclusion that she really did it as well as possible.
And I independently got to the ‘bulking, viscous and fermentable’ categories I’m fascinated that some insoluble fibre is fermentable, although it is mostly the soluble fibre.

But hooray for our wonderful plant kingdom that feeds us so well with everything we need in the way of fibre. Especially legumes 😉

Gday, how nice to be getting the big things done. What a transformation of your home. Hooray for soda water and lemon!

Cali, so glad you are in a warm home on a cold day. Re yam daisies, one name for them is ‘native dandelion’. We have dandelions (introduced) as a weed, and a big (elderly) Greek population around here who gather the young leaves for cooking. I use them a bit too. I also used to buy dandelion coffee made from their roots.

Rose, so glad Mr Rosy has something relatively straight forward. Fingers crossed for very successful surgery.

I am like Thin and still do 5:2 for maintenance.
In my case it is because I would start putting weight back on if I didn’t. I can give myself more leeway, but if I have a 6:1 week and then a lax fast day or two, I need a fasty fast day to get me back on track.
I think it is because my brain and stomach don’t communicate very well, I often feel hungry even when I have had a sensible meal. I do a lot of emotional eating if I am not careful and I easily feel hungry when I am thirsty and am still learning how to tell the difference. And I tend to snack too much at the end of the day.
I am getting into better and better habits but I don’t mind if I am 5:2ing for the rest of my life because I think it is a healthy way of eating.
When I was first doing 5:2 I didn’t feel so hungry, but now I am at the lower end of my healthy weight range I am much hungrier.

I’m intending today to be a nice mindful NFD with a good space between my breakfast and upcoming lunch. And another one between lunch and dinner!

Cheers all. Best wishes for today.

Anzac said, “It’s a bit of a coincidence but when I have a job interview the temperature rises.”
Perhaps we could find you a nice job interview in Northern California. We could use a rise in temperature here! 5C right now. 🥶 😁

Good Morning everyone

Such interesting and varied posts to catch up on!

Rosy, glad to hear your OH is going to be ok and it was not something more serious. Penguin, ouch! I often use a mandoline and I admit I use it without the guard. The guard is quite useless at holding the vegetable but is very useful for protecting your fingers. I am extremely careful when using it though.

Rosy, you asked about the trend of the shoes coming in. We are getting some beautiful soft ankle length leather boots. There is a gorgeous style with a pointy heel (like a stiletto, not quite as sharp) in black and nude. I can just imagine the stylish lady who would wear them. Definitely not me.

Who knew fibre was so interesting! I would like to know more about the fermentable fibre too.

Cali, beautiful pics of the snow. Particularly love the snow in the lattice table.

Anzac, good luck with the interview. You will be fine and probably quite relaxed as this is just a back up.

I am at about the same weight as I started last week at but I am confident of the trend continuing downwards now, even if it is slowly.

Well my Friday bikini shopping was fun and funny. It is late in the season to be buying swimmers but I had to do it now as by June there will definitely be none in the shops. I had seen a bikini in Target online that I liked but when I got to the store there was only a very small/big size left (10DD). So that ruled that one out. We had a look in Myer but there was only really expensive brands in there. Then we found a shop that only sells swimwear and so I chose a couple of pairs to just try on. One was awful but the other one was stunning. Unfortunately they were also $200! for a bikini!! I really wanted them but I just can’t justify that much on a couple of small pieces of material. So I walked away. Strangely even though we are two weeks away from the end of summer they weren’t even on sale.
We had planned to stop on the way home at a big surf shop that my friend had been to a couple of weeks ago and found their swimwear was already on sale at 30% off. Losing weight is awesome but also frustrating because now I am a popular size and there was a very limited amount of swimmers left in that size. I luckily found a gorgeous light blue bikini with a flower pattern on it that I really love and it wasn’t $200! It was still a bit pricey but it is adjustable so I should be able to wear it for a few summers to come and I think I’m worth it!

Well I have to go do some more work. I am expecting a big influx of stock this week so I am making sure I am ready.

Oh it’s FD for me and I am mentally prepared. So happy FD to us fasters and happy NFD to the non fasters x