Good morning all.

Neil, I think that is the biggest sign of how much your body has changed – not being recognised.

Anzac, well done for maintaining over the weekend. Hope all went well with the presentation.

Quacka, I like the nori idea – a bit like making veggie crisps from kale leaves etc, but the nori sheets would be less work I think. I’ve never actually bought nori sheets as I dislike sushi, but I might look for them. Maybe I can satisfy my attraction to potato chips with a healthy alternative.

Cinque, I could have used Miso’s wisdom yesterday when I decided to go out walking before the rain came down. I agree about the fires, some seem to still be out of control. As if those in drought areas don’t have enough to contend with.

Thin, I hope we get a travelogue from you while overseas. Some of us need to live vicariously while we plan our own trips!

FD for me. I need to get the pumpkin soup made. I’ll also do a big pot of veg to go with the meals I’m pulling out of the freezer for dinners this week.
Have a good day all.

Man what a day! Turned up at work to find a file for a shopping mall to scan, then the LIM requests kept piling in, then I found out I’d left my gym gear at home, then I had to organise inspections for our building work, then we had an admission interview with the principal of my boy’s high school for next year, then had to drop my boy to parkour, then cook dinner, then pick my boy up from parkour. I’ve been on the go since 6:45 am, It’s almost 8 pm and I’ve only just been able to sit down and rest. I really hope I don’t have another day like that for a long time. I’m getting a headache now 🤕

I did get out for a walk at lunchtime instead of my gym session, that and running around work all day meant I still got 12,000 steps, but I did stress eat when I got home and had a few pieces of marshmallow chocolate rice bubble slice and a bowl of ice cream with dinner. So much for my fast day 😞

Good morning. Back from the island and getting ready for work – but not before I catch up with my oldest brother and his wife for coffee and a big catchup after their trip to the States and Canada.

The fires here are just dreadful. We just can’t imagine the Sunshine Coast being under threat. And losing BinnaBurra. Tragic. And just a week into Spring.

Betsy my bee mentor came and replaced the Queen. He wasn’t at all concerned about my stings, or even being followed up the garden by one to get me on the nose, but when I mentioned children swimming in the pool, he became much more responsive. So he came with a little Queen cage (like a hairclip really). Because the Queen is bigger than the workers, he gently snapped it around her, and the workers who also got caught were shaken out. He was so taken with her that he will split a hive and use her in the new one. I am glad, because I was feeling very guilty that she’d be killed … which is the usual fate for aggressive bees.

I’ve had an awful..well expensive …week. First the fridge fan went. Then the pool chaps found a leak in the pool that requires it to be drained, ground out, etc. Oops, there goes nearly $4000 on the repair and refill. Then a few weeks ago we had a letter from the Straddie council saying they’d noticed we were using a lot of water. Our neighbours over there turned off the supply to the house, and had a plumber come on Friday. Yes, one of the pipes had blown and it was gushing water. We are feeling a bit dispirited, because we paid the builder to replace all the plumbing when we had the reno done in 2017, and apparently it didn’t happen (although we paid for it). I am also very concerned about the water waste both here and at home, particularly in the face of this dreadful drought. I wouldn’t put a pool in now, but it’s been there for 30 years and we use it a lot …and the kids and grandkids. I don’t have air con, and in summer we swim before bed most nights.

Now if I try to go back I’ll lost my post for sure, so I’ll finish here and if I get a minute at work will post again.

Wherever you are, hope the weather is being kind.

Good morning from another cold windy day in Sydney

Lindsay, what a horrific week you have had. It makes my blood boil when you pay for something to be done and the lazy, miserable tradie doesn’t do it. How do they live with themselves? Pools are expensive and a lot of work, we know as we put ours in just a few years ago – but I wouldn’t be without it. The joy we get outweighs the effort and expense….says she who doesn’t actually do any of the maintenance!… Hubby does agree though.

The fires are truly awful and I feel for those caught up in it. As you said, we are only one week into spring so what is the rest of the year going to be like?

And your day was equally horrible Neil. I hope your headache didn’t develop into a serious one

I had a bad day yesterday too. The demonstration was gruelling and I had a serious headache afterwards but I couldn’t go home to take my strong pain killers. We had to all work together in a meeting room in the afternoon and I infuriatingly succumbed to some rubbish food that was again scattered around the table. About 6 jelly snakes, 3-4 handfuls of chips and a small pack of pretzels. Then I went home and steak and chips for dinner but I cut my steak in half and put it in the fridge for a steak sandwich for hubby today and only had 7 fat chips (yes I counted them!). I ate a big salad before dinner to curb my appetite.

FD today and I am well prepared mentally and physically.

Betsy it really is harder to eat well in the cold, I completely agree. I hope it warms up soon down there and here as well as I am tired of this arctic wind.

Work calls so here’s a thumbs up to a NNNNFD 

Anzac, just saw your post. You did well to only eat a small amount of the junk food and then eat moderately for dinner and all on a NFD. Good luck with your FD today. You are already half way there with a positive attitude and some preparation. 🙂

Good morning all,

just dropping in before we leave tonight for our walking trip to Portugal and Spain. We came back from our cruise late last week full of head-cold and feeling quite miserable. Japan trip was hot (~28-30), humid (65-83%) and underwhelming. As an antidote we have booked a trip to Norway in February 2020 that should be cold, crisp and scenic – hopefully with some Northern Lights.

Thin, please continue to post to Southern Hemisphere – it was your posts that encouraged me when I first started 5:2 WOL in early 2017. And, our forum has quite a different ‘feel’ to that of the Fat Busting Brits. Have a wonderful overseas experience, let us know when/where you ‘settle’ – although I suspect that you may be quite mobile 🙂 And, when the weather (or Brexit) finally gets to you, come back to WA.

Sorry I can’t reply to you all individually, but apart from some heavy workloads and a few ‘hiccups’ you all appear to be doing really well. I look forward to having some NNNNFDs when we return – to remind my body what ‘normal’ is. For those of you doing the on-line nutrition course, just remember the old saying “To a man with a hammer in his hand, everything looks like a nail”.

Take care, be strong and trend downwards (or flat if you are maintaining).

PG

PerthGirl, bon voyage! I hope you have a wonderful walking trip and see lots of new things. Stay safe and warm.

LJ, I’m doing both of the classes. I’m spending more time on the FutureLearn class because there’s more material so far. They’ve also posted links to a couple other YouTube videos outside of the course that have been really interesting, even though a lot of it is way over my head. The more you learn, the more questions you have.
DS has a Corolla too. They’re popular cars.

Cinque, I’m sending some beautiful weather your way. Our heat has calmed down and we’ve had beautiful sunny weather this past week. Our weather should be similar soon, at least for a while.
The bush fires that I see on your news look terrible. So many beautiful areas burned. A lot of the problem seems to be the wind. And the drought of course. I hope there is rain soon and that they get them under control. There have been so many fires around the world lately and still those that deny climate change. I wonder how many trees the Earth lost in the last month?

Thin, you must be getting excited about heading to the U.K. how long has it been since you’ve been back there? I can’t wait to hear about all of your adventures. And you’ll be in a closer time zone to me.

Lindsay, glad to hear the nasty queen escaped with her life and that you have a calmer new one. I’m sorry to hear about your problem with the pool and the fridge. Sometimes homes seem like bottomless pits where we continue to throw our money to keep them going. It always seems to be something. Hope this is the end of it for a while.

Anzac, you didn’t do that bad with your eating. It’s heard to be around people who are always eating junk food. The salt and sugar always appeals.

Quacka, thank you for the idea about the toasted and flavored nori rolls. I have a few packets of nori that are getting old and probably too dry for making sushi rolls without having them crack. This would be the perfect use for them. I will definitely try putting some together. We went to a new Japanese resto last night and they had some lemon sake rolls. That was raw salmon and some lemon zest, just enough to have the essence of lemon intertwined with the fish. It was so good!

Where’s Klondi? We haven’t heard from her in several days. I hope she is ok. Maybe just catching up after her trip.

I’m at the end of my Monday FD which went uneventfully. I finished up with a small bowl of my home fermented sauerkraut from the fridge. Very good and not too many calories.

Everyone that I’ve missed, have a good day,

Welcome back, I don’t think we’ve met but hopefully we can catch up.

I had a sneaky pre-weigh-in weigh-in at the gym this morning, and judging from the usual difference between their scales and ours, it looks like I may be down, but I’ll find out tomorrow morning.

Successful fast day today, just a handful of almonds and a couple of cups of tea/coffee during the day and then a 2-egg ham and cheese omelette for dinner with some vegetables. I managed 17,000+ steps and am about to do my sit-ups.

I hope everyone had a great day and I’ll check in tomorrow morning for my weigh-in.

Good morning all.

Sorry to hear you’re not feeling well Gday, hopefully it will clear up in time for your trip.

Extra dance in my dance/walk this morning. I weighed myself this morning and I managed to miss the 93s altogether. I dropped a whopping 1.6 kilos last week to sit at just 92.7 kilos!!!! I’ now only 200 grams from my September goal and 700 grams from my next milestone goal of 40 kilos total lost.

I saw an old workmate of mine at the pool last night at my kids’ swimming lessons and he tracked me down to ask the secret of my weight loss so I happily spread the word of 5:2. You know you’re doing something right when someone tells you you look amazing in your swimming togs.

Julie how lovely to see you back. It’s a funny thing, an online forum like this. People really do become friends, so when they disappear it’s hard to see them go, and worrying too that something in their life isn’t great. So good to know you’re around.
Congratulations Neil….looking good in your togs, not recognised by an old acquaintance. You’re the NZ poster boy for 5:2.

G’day oh no. Hope you shake this before you fly. It isn’t the dreaded ‘flu, is it? Hope you can spend two days in bed with a lot of fluids and sleep. Your gut will recover…beans and yoghurt!

You are right Calif – sometimes homes are bottomless pits. But we are lucky to have them, so I won’t complain too much.

Anzac the think that made me feel really disappointed was that we had a builder that we trusted (until a falling out at the end) l, and it seems he pocketed the money we thought we’d paid to have the plumber. We’d insisted on a licensed gas fitter for the hot water system, but it seems our builder paid another plumber (not licensed for gas we suspect) a cash job. We aren’t sure but that’s what we think has happened.

OK work calls (again).

Hope Melbourne’s weather is kinder to you Cinque and Betsy. It’s calmer here today – some respite for the fire fighters and those whose homes are in the fire path.

Good morning everyone, it is an absolutely gorgeous Melbourne day here today. (Thanks Cali!)
Still sending lots of worried good wishes to Qld and devastated at the thought of rainforests burning.

Lindsay what an awful run of things, and you must be absolutely furious about the plumbing, I would be. Fingers crossed there is nothing further for at least a decade.
Awful too to hear of the bees chasing you around your own garden. I hope the new queen puts a stop to that quick smart!

Hoping all your appointments went well LJoyce, and that you have another lovely day.

Anzac, I am so glad you are through that gruelling day, and I hope you are not in pain now. Enjoy a wonderful day after fast day.

Quacka I hope yesterday went as planned, it sounded delicious, and that today is a good fast day and that the dentist appt goes well too.

PerthGirl, lovely to hear from you and best wishes for a wonderful time in Spain and Portugal. Such a pity Japan disappointed (it is my daughter’s favourite place to go). Humidity makes everything hard though. Norway will be a fresh change!

Aeroplanes are notorious for giving everyone headcolds. Gday, might you take comfort that at least you will be four days through yours, rather than getting it on the trip over?

JUSTJULIE HELLO! What a treat to see a post from you. I agree with everything Lindsay said (and thanks Cali for pushing JJ to post).
I heard you say you were busy, but if you do have the chance for a catch up I would love to hear about everything you are busy with and especially hoping your health has been okay.

Gday, I am so glad you are on those antibiotics, you don’t want pneumonia on your trip away. Rest up, and rest more in Bali. It will be a beautiful place to relax and recover and eat beautiful tropical food.

Neil, big congratulations AGAIN. What a whopper of a week. Hooray to looking amazing in swimming togs. Enjoy.

Second week of the Science of Weight Loss course materials will come through today.

Day before fast day for me. I am going to cook a big tray of roast veggies briam style. Best wishes to everyone.

Good Morning all

Well, it’s D day today (dentist) so I have my rescue remedy with me and I think I am mentally prepared. The way I am stressing you would think I am having major work done but it’s only just a filling! I WILL be all right.

Oh no G’day, how horrible to get an infection just before your holiday! I hope those antibiotics get on top of it quickly and you are feeling much better before you go. I made some of the fermented turmeric cauliflower that you mentioned a while ago and just wanted to say thanks for the idea. It is a nice FD snack to have when I come home ‘starving’ and am waiting for dinner. It’s nice any time actually but I usually have it then.

Neil, another wow! Congratulations. You are so committed and it’s lovely that you are seeing such great results. You are an inspiration and great motivator for us all!

Welcome back JJ. I hope you can stick around 🙂

Cali, the lemon sake rolls sound yummy! I love raw fish when it’s done right. I went to a Japanese restaurant a couple of years ago and had two different kinds, one was Kingfish and I can’t remember the other one but it was most probably salmon. Just so yummy. When we were in Cairns the restaurant made us some sashimi with the fish I caught and that was also amazing. The dressings that they put with it were out of this world! OH loved them and he is not a raw fish man lol.

Anzac, great to hear your FD was going well and I hope it continued through the rest of the day. Enjoy you NFD today and I hope it is kinder to your with those darn food temptations!

OK, better go do some work as I am off to the dentist just after 12. I’ve taken the rest of the day off so at least I get to go home after and dribble alone! lolol

Take care all xx

Good morning all. Welcome back just Julie. The doc gave me a repeat prescription and asked the chemist to provide me with both lots at once so I have enough for this week and for the first week in Bali. hopefully by end of them I should be much better. The nights have been terrible but not feeling too bad during the daytime. Definitely no scooter riding for me in Bali. When we were there last time it was scary enough being a pedestrian but we were staying right in the heart of Legs so super busy with non stop traffic. We’re in a quieter spot this time by the beach.

Neil congrats on your weight loss to date you should be extremely proud of your determination.

Quacka the fermented cauliflower is great isnt it…so glad I have you inspiration…Lol.

Well I must go finish our packing and then put in some study time this arvo before MissD and OH arrive home. This week’s menu consists of using up the veggies in the fridge and soups from the freezer. Have a good day everyone

Julie, it’s good to see you back here. We missed you. Glad to hear that the heart scare turned out to be not serious. Good on you for getting into an exercise program. It sounds fun. Regular exercise is the hardest thing for me to commit to, even though I always feel better afterwards. I’m glad you’re not affected by the fires. There seem to be so many right now. I hope you get some rain.

Gday, I hope you can get lots of rest in the few days before your Bali trip. The right antibiotics can often make you feel better within a couple of days. Please try to get lots of sleep even if you feel better. I know that probably seems hard when you’re preparing for a trip. When you get there it should be nice and relaxing. I hope you have a wonderful time. Julie’s suggestion of wearing a mask on the plane is a good one. Planes are like incubators for germs. They have a captive audience!

Neil, congrats yet again on that big drop this week. That should motivate you even more in the weeks to come. It’s great that you’re still losing quickly as you get closer to your goal. Being as active and busy as you’ve been lately must be helping. Having friends you haven’t seen in a while not recognize you must make you feel great.

Quacka, hope your filling went well. OH had to have a tooth filled today too.
I’m going to have to try making those lemon sushi rolls at home. They were so good!

Cinque, glad you’re having lovely weather again. Spring is such a nice time of year.

Good morning everyone

Hi Julie, nice to ‘meet’ you. Welcome back to this wonderful forum

Quacka, hope the dentist was ok and Neil….root canal is not fun. Good luck with that

G’day, so sorry that you are unwell heading for your lovely holiday. I hope the AB’s kick in asap

Work is awful again. I was on a four-way skype chat late yesterday afternoon; I was supposed to leave on time to pick up Dad at the doctors but the boss NEEDED something done yesterday (honestly it could have been done today) so I had to despatch hubby at great inconvenience to get him. So we were trying to get something done and our carefully tested macro was falling apart and the deadline was looming. My normally unflappable developer typed ‘this is hell’. So that gives you an idea. Anyway we got it done but I was so stressed my stomach and chest hurt. That’s so bad I know. Oh and of course I ate badly – not much – but I haven’t done an iota of exercise this week and of course the scales punished me this morning. Anyway am going to speak to the big boss today and tell her this is not achievable going forward. If I have to leave I will and too bad about the budget. Hubby and Maxx can go busking (LOL)

Anyway enough doom and gloom, it is a new day and the sun is shining and I have my lovely 5:2 forums to vent to. I will try to back further and catch up on more posts.

FD today and I need it.

Take care everyone

Good Morning everyone

Thank you all for your well wishes regarding the dentist. I had two fillings done and one was on a tooth that has been sensitive for a few years now. There was one of the old black fillings right next to where the new filling was going, so he took that one out as well. Luckily because there was deep decay underneath, almost down to the nerve (I could still feel him working on it even though I had lots of numbing needles). He said he will check it in a couple of weeks and if the sensitivity is gone then all is good. If not, root canal treatment for me. Yay! Not.

I was thinking it would be an easy FD yesterday as I wouldn’t be able to eat until the numbness wore off and that wouldn’t be until about 3pm at least. The funniest thing was trying to drink water with numb lips. Ha ha ha, let’s just say it wasn’t easily achievable! Anyway, so back to FD. SO I am calling it a MFD (modified FD, I got that off another thread on this site). It was probably about 800 calories but I refuse to call it a failure as that is not good for me psychologically. I could have gone all out and just ate everything in site but I kept it reasonably under control.

So I was told that the race day we were supposed to go to last year is coming up again soon. I’m not sure if I will look for another dress or ask my MIL to take in the one I was going to wear last year. Aahhh, the (fun) dilemmas of losing weight 😉

Cinque, I hope you manage to recover easily from the lack of sleep. I slept badly again last night too, although that is usual for me. It sure does make the day more difficult sometimes.

Anzac, I’m so glad you are going to address the unreasonable work expectations with your boss. I really like the saying – “work to live not live to work”. We need to find a balance as difficult as it can be at times otherwise other things in our lives begin to suffer. You are doing well with the circumstances in keeping your eating under control. I can only imagine how much better it would be for you without excessive work demands. I hope it all works out well 🙂

Betsy, I am also looking forward to the warmer weather. Last year I was saying that I find it easier to do FDs in winter as I can have soups and stews and they are so much more filling than salads. Now I am looking forward to summer. There are so many different salads you can make and it’s also easier to drink a lot more. It’s great feeling cold (cooler) on FDs too in summer. The one thing I will have to do is exercise self control in the beer drinking department as I really love an ice cold beer on a hot summer’s day. Well, I will just remind myself that I can have one just not on FD’s!

G’day, Hope your packing is all done and that you are feeling much better with the antibiotics. I’m thinking I better make some more fermented cauli before the summer prices hit as they are still quite reasonable at the moment.

Neil, I’m just going to wish you good luck for your root canal treatment now as I may forget as it gets closer. Is this the third appointment for the same tooth? I didn’t realise that you are following a keto diet. I have often thought about trying it but I just can’t seem to get started on it and I worry that I will miss veggies too much. How many grams of carbs do you stick to a day?

Cali, if you make the lemon rolls please post up a photo. I am going to make some more Nori snacks tomorrow as I still have some sheets left that need to be used. I’m so glad I found this idea because I like to use a freshly opened packet of Nori when making sushi. I have a couple of weeks off work after today so I am hoping to try some new recipes. I’ll let you all know if I find anything yummy, especially of they fit into a FD 🙂

LJ, how are you? Also, Klondi? Hi PG, Penguin and thin.

Intesha, Arel, Merry,Minka are you still reading and just not posting?

OK I better go and do some work (last day for two weeks, woot woot!!)

Have a lovely day everyone and catch up soon x

Hi everyone.

Sorry I’ve been absent for a couple of days. I’ve spent a few hours each day digging the back garden and felt so shattered afterwards I barely moved from the couch. I did the final 3 hours this morning and my back is very unhappy with me. But at least the hard digging is finished now, I just have to fork through some manure, but that’s a much easier task than digging up clay and removing rocks. I’m hoping to get everything planted within the 1-2 weeks. I’ve bought the veggie seeds but still need to get the seedlings. I’m planting beans (bush & climbing), podded peas, snow peas, spring onions, chard, tomatoes(cherry & roma), cucumber, lettuce, spinach & beetroot (for the baby leaves), zucchini, squash, rhubarb and rockmelon. I also have 3 huge terracotta pots that will become a 2 pot herb garden and one of strawberries.

FD for me and I don’t really feel like it today, but I will persevere. I have babysitting for about 6 hours this evening. I don’t have the energy for it, so I hope the kids are well behaved tonight.

I saw the dietitian Tuesday afternoon and she commented on how different my language is these days when I talk about food. She reminded me of how much my thinking used to revolve around all my food fears/obsessions. She is very happy that I’m still trying to use mindfulness and that my focus is predominantly on choosing healthy low-processed foods most of the time. On reflection I can also see how much things have changed. I also realised that I no longer doubt that I will maintain this weight long term. I’m no longer fearful about becoming obese again. That’s a really nice place to get to.

Have a good day all.

OhAnzac, what a tough job. Chest and stomach pains are a real warning that things are too too stressful in your work. Good decision, to try to resolve it whatever way you can.

JJ good to know you had a good outcome from your cardiologist and you are now addressing the health issues too. You used to walk around Cairns with another 5:2er, if my memory serves me?

Hope the babysitting went well LJ. That was quite a marathon.

And Quacka, happy for you that your dental work is done (hopefully). You’ve made me think about a sensitive tooth I have (a crown that came out eating …a lettuce leaf). I had it reinserted it’s not right, so off I go. Thank you for the nudge.

Beautiful day here in Brisbane, but after a cool start it will get to 30 degrees apparently. My pool men have done what they have to do and we are now staring at a very big, very deep shell. It will be cured and ready to refill by Monday week – which is good because that’s probably the start of the swimming season anyway. It may be hot outside, but that water remains chilly.

We have Miss 3 this morning while DD catches up on work for her Master’s. Then we are all off to lunch. I’ll be mindful. My week hasn’t really been that flash. I’m maintaining, but not dropping the kilos I wanted to before Vietnam in 3 weeks tomorrow.

I find when work is as busy as it’s been, I’m not as organised and my resolve wanes. I also seem to need more sweet (ie dark chocolate) and carb foods. I’m eating well – no junk – but I can’t seem to get back into that 16:8, 5:2, low carb that was so successful for me last year. Sigh.

OK I’m off to puppy proof the courtyard …DD brought their new pup (a 2 month old Springer spaniel) over yesterday, but it ended up inside because he can wriggle under the courtyard gate. I think I’ll have enough trouble with house-training dogs when my new pup comes … and yes, she is coming. Rosy Red Dog will arrive on a plane on 27th October. The breeder, bless her, has agreed to keep her until we are back. I am so excited to be getting a dog and now I’m contemplating retirement, or scaling right back, the timing is perfect.

Cinque and Betsy, hoping for another perfect Melbourne day for you.

Enjoy your day all.

Good morning,
Well, none of you helped me with that Yes/No question I have to answer. Sigh.

But it is lovely morning-after-fast-day and I enjoyed my breakfast (veggie frittata) and making my coffee in between sentences 🙂

Dr Mosley is in Melbourne at the moment and was on The Project last night (he tweeted this)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=625994374592669
Things I found interesting:
1. he doesn’t recommend the 500 or 600 cal limit on fast days any more because we can’t get our daily nutrients with that amount, biggest worry being protein which we need daily. (Makes me realise LCHP is the way to go on Fast Days as I prefer to keep well under 800 if I can).
2. Recommends no more than 12 weeks on the 800 calorie daily just to be on the safe side, successful trials had people doing it for 20 weeks + but he feels 12 is long enough to get the fast weightloss boost.
3. Talks about 800 cal daily, then 5:2, then a life long sustainable way of eating. .. But 5:2 is my life long sustainable way of eating!

Quacka I do hope you got a good day in yesterday. Hooray for a filling, dentists are wonderful, really. Hope you got a good sleep, I got a better one.

LJoyce, lovely to have you back, with a well dug garden, and hopefully not as shattered today. What a wonderful summer garden you will have. And I do hope babysitting was relatively easy!
Your experience with your dietician brought tears to my eyes. How wonderfully you have transformed yourself, body and mind. I hope you are proud to be at such a good place in this life journey.

Betsy, I am envious of your long tooth roots, I have front tooth crowns and they have very tiny roots to go into and that makes them so much more precarious. But still, best avoided if possible!

I also think of 800 as the fast day limit now. My fasty fast days are the ones where I just have milk in the cuppas and my big bowl of miso soup (about 350 cals for the day) and the rest are somewhere in between that and 800.

Lindsay, hooray for getting that sensitive tooth done! A stitch in time saves nine.
Have fun puppy proofing your yard. Excellent to have a tester pup! So glad you are getting the puppy you want. Rosy is a lovely name 🙂

Neil, happy consolidating! Good point about dehydration.

Anzac, hope things have gone well.

Cheers all.

Good morning all.

I had a little sleep in (until 8am), a pot of tea and a bowl of porridge and I feel vaguely human and alert again! Babysitting was fine,just long, as I didn’t get home until 10:30. I have to concentrate really hard on the drive home as I feel too tired to be driving.

Neil, I also lost the bulk of my weight on 800cal per day. I was on a VLCD that recommended 12 weeks on 800 cal, then a break of at least a month on 1000cals before deciding whether to do another block of 800cal or staying at a higher calorie level. I just did 12 weeks on 800 like you. It certainly does get quicker weight loss than anything else I’ve ever done. I hadn’t realised you were doing 4:3, no wonder you are still losing weight at such a good rate, when combined with all that exercise.
What is a griffen? I thought they were mythical dragons – or is that a griffin rather than a griffen?

Cinque, I agree with Neil on the carb question. I don’t thing they are the problem in a general sense, but like everything, it depends on which foods you choose and how much.

Anzac, I hope that discussion with your boss yields results. No job is worth damaging your health.

Quacka, I hope you have recovered from the dental work and I also hope that the sensitivity settles down so you can avoid the root canal. I had something similar happen and it took 3 months for the sensitivity to calm down. So do be patient. Once it calmed down, it has been fine since then – root canal avoided.
I agree about the numb lips – I remember trying to drink a cup of tea and trying not to dribble – I think I needed a toddlers sippy cup!

Betsy, I hope the grilled fish was as yummy as you anticipated.

Lindsay, something to look forward to – a holiday and a new puppy. It’s probably a good thing you are pup-proofing your yard as it will be ready when Rosy arrives.

Hello to everyone else I haven’t responded to. I’ve run out of time.
Must go for a walk now before I head off to an afternoon of playing bridge.

Looks like my suspicions about being dehydrated at weigh-in were right. I jumped on the scales at the gym and I was half a kilo heavier than I was on my weigh in day a couple of days ago. Oh well, that still makes a 1.1 kilo loss, hopefully over the next 4 days I can get close to my last weigh-in weight to minimise the bounce back.

LJoyce, there’s numerous spellings griffin, griffen, griffon, gryphon, etc, they were a mythical creature half lion-half eagle, but the dog that’s named after them is like a pug but not quite as roly-poly. My sister’s one is a short hair that looks pretty much like the one in the picture in the history section of the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_Bruxellois

What a night, just spent 6 hours at A and E with my son after he broke his arm falling off a balance beam at his parkour class. They had to dope him up with Ketamine and re-set it. I guess he won’t be having any parkour lessons, swimming lessons or guitar lessons for a while.🤕😞

Oh no Neil, what an absolute nightmare. I hope your son is ok and you managed to get some sleep

It was actually pretty funny to see him tripping on Ketamine, even the trainee doctors were giggling away at the faces he was making.

He certainly did a good job of it https://www.flickr.com/photos/43493775@N06/48730946517/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/43493775@N06/48730436558/in/dateposted-public/

But he’s resigned himself to his fate of a few weeks on the couch playing games on the new laptop that he bought last week, oh he’s SO disappointed about it 😉 😀

The down side of it is we’ve had to postpone our trip to Fiji until the end of the year because the airlines make you cut open the cast before you go on the plane and put a new one on when you get to your destination and the same on the way home. I don’t really want to spend a day at the doctors on the way there and another one on the way home so he can get a new cast. Also all the things he wanted to do in Fiji require getting wet so that is out with the cast not being allowed to get wet.

I tried to tire myself out tonight, I went out for an evening walk at 5:00pm and I only came home at 9:00pm because I thought my wife would be worrying about me, I did 30,000 steps and still felt like I could have gone another couple of hours. We also had a birthday party today and I managed to restrain myself to one small plate of party food so I was pleased with that. One more birthday party to get through tomorrow and then back to the regular scheduled programme of fasting on Monday.

Oh Lindsay – those puppies!soooo adorable

Your trip sounds amazing

Here is a quick pic of the outdoor bathroom….hubby built it all himself, including the bath
http://imgur.com/gallery/AaqQ90R

Back later for a longer post……