Hi everyone, hope you’re all doing well.

Quacka, so sorry to read that your Dad’s health situation is terminal. I didn’t understand from your previous post that it was so bad. It must be so hard wanting to be there, yet you’re 4 hours away.

Looking at the yoghurt debate, I think I’m now leaning towards Quacka’s side. I’d add the fruit at the time you’re planning to eat it. It’s not too hard to defrost smaller amounts of fruit. Although it may be more tedious, it may also be safer for health, even if to this date, LJoyce, you’ve not had a problem.

Intesha, I appreciate your comments about Lipitor. My major concern is its side-effects, particularly joint pain. I manage with the pain I have in various joints, mainly due to some osteo-arthritis, but I remember when I was being treated for breast cancer and my doctor after 5 years of Tamoxifen, wanted to change me over to a different drug. Well, the joint pain built up over several days to the point where it was acute, and I just said I couldn’t tolerate it, so I was put back on Tamoxifen. Too many friends have commented to me about their joint pain problems with cholesterol medication. 6.0 isn’t hugely elevated, and my HDL cholesterol is also at a quite healthy level, so … I don’t know. Maybe I could try it and see what happens, but once I start it, I doubt if he would allow me to go off it again, even if my cholesterol goes really low. I want the genuine low cholesterol that comes from weight loss.

My goodness, enough whining about cholesterol. As I see my doctor tomorrow, I’ll post tomorrow night with the outcome.

Hi neilithicman, you have the joys of a teenager now! My sympathies. 🙂

Cinque, if you could dig up the research, I’d really like to know more about it. Jason Fung in at least 2 or 3 places so far has been writing that the slowing in metabolism is almost immediate, with slowed heart rate,lowered blood pressure, etc. As my resting heart rate has dropped again to the mid 60s now I’m eating less (which I had felt pleased about, actually), I have been feeling some concern that I’m doing the wrong thing.

Oh, and accountability – 1779 cals today, which is around my TDEE. FD coming up tomorrow.

CalifDreamer, so glad the fires are well away from you, but how frustrating to have the electricity off unnecessarily. Stay safe.

Hi Anzac65, hope the day goes well for eating, even if frantically busy.

Klondi, PerthGirl, MerryMe and others hovering, hello and enjoy your coming day.

Good morning all, a very smoky day in Sydney due to bushfires and burn offs. Quite thick and horrible actually

Yesterday was manic and stressful so I undid all the good from my FD on Tuesday. Sheesh – I have to get these NFD’s under control. FD today

Cali I’m so sorry to hear you are having a rough time with the electricity (or lack of) and having to stay up all night to tend to the birds. I hear you loudly about stress eating, it is my biggest downfall. I’m still in the 83’s – but only just after yesterday and I’m so mad with myself. Good luck with the 2 X bathroom reno’s – that is bound to be a bit stressful too.

I hope your doctors appointment goes well today Betsy and you get a nice surprise with a lower cholesterol reading.

Good luck with your FD today Neil – not that you need it

Will try and check in later. Have a great Thursday

Good Morning everyone

Thank you for your sympathies, my friends. I spent most of yesterday in a brain fog but am feeling a lot better today. I had already accepted it but I think just hearing the short time the doctor’s have given him, it really hit home. The doctor’s have said Christmas or a bit after, of course they don’t know for sure but given that he has lost 43kg in 3 months I think they are probably right.

So today is a NFD. I have a big salad for lunch which I will add a can of tuna to. This morning I also bought some Biltong (Neil, your post reminded me), just a small pack because I really can’t stop when I start. I felt like some fruit so I bought a punnet of blueberries too. Mmmmmm

Yesterday’s FD was good with food but again a couple of naughty beers sent me up to about 700 calories. It’s all good, the scales are going down every day so I am happy with that. The beers didn’t help me sleep at all though! I am running on three hours sleep today and surprisingly I feel pretty good. I think I am like an over revved car that is eventually going to blow up and I think I will probably hit the wall after lunch…..

My walk this morning was beautiful. We had the thickest fog/sea mist over our little village and it was so damp it felt like it was very lightly sprinkling. It was still warm though. By the time I got around to the water a light breeze had picked up and started to clear it away so I got to see the water and the sun coming up.

Betsy, I hope everything goes ok at the docs today.

Cali, great to hear from you and that you are ok. Take care.

Wishing you all are a really happy day. Look after yourselves xx

Morning losers, hope everyone is staying on the straight and narrow. Now, wouldn’t that be a great name for a narrow boat!

Quacka, I’m so sorry to hear about your Dad. I scrolled up and down to try to find your original post on this but was unsuccessful so I’m only going on what others have replied. A terrible time for you and your family especially as you say he may only have until Christmas. Enjoy those precious moments.

Cinque, you’re still funny. Yes, Mr Thin is realising that if he doesn’t put things away in their proper place, he can’t get through to the other end of the boat. I don’t even have to nag. I don’t think of you as a wobbler. So grateful that you have kept this thread going without wavering at all.

Klond, don’t worry – two signatures are required before either of us is allowed to commit to any Amazon purchases! It sounds like you’ve been enjoying lovely celebrations. Ha ha, yes a new version of fasting, 5-1-1. I fear it might be closer to 4-1-2 though.

Neil, that is some achievement. Do you plan to lose more weight or do you have a good maintenance strategy? It can be challenging time trying to maintain the loss but I bet you have it all under control.

Penguin, DD is now living in Notts. She couldn’t get to work d/t flooding yesterday.

CalifD, what a nightmare for you and the birds.

Anzac, something important that I wanted to say to you has left my brain again. Will you continue with this job after your holiday? I bet you’re excited. Maxx less so?

It’s dangerous making individual replies when you can’t read everything. Bound to leave someone out. Hello Betsy, LJ, Intesha and everyone else.

Morning rituals calling. Water tank to be filled. Waste tank to be emptied. Portholes to be sparkled.

Morning all,

I weighed in this morning for the end of October challenge and I was up 300 grams but I was kind of expecting that because I think I was a bit dehydrated from my cycle trip when I weighed in.

I was pleased to read in those articles on maintenance that if you get to one year of keeping off the weight your body will stop fighting to put it back on again, and that strength training helps keep the weight off because I’ve been doing plenty of that.

I’ll be back to my regular Wednesday weigh in from now and regular fasting pattern, but I’ll probably drop my Tuesday fast and just fast on Monday and Thursday.

The weather here has been crazy. We had 27 degrees a couple of days ago but mixed in with the sun we’ve had howling wind, pouring rain, thunder, then last night there was a big hail storm when I was down doing the shopping.

Have a great day everyone.

Quacka, I am so sorry to hear about your dad. I’m glad you were able to get up to see him and spend that precious time together. It’s nice that the family had a chance to get together. It’s no wonder you are having trouble sleeping. Please take care of yourself.

Thin, it’s so good to see you back here. The boat sounds like a wonderful adventure. You deserve some slow, leisure time after all the work of packing, getting rid of unneeded things and getting your house ready to sell. And you’re still at your low weight!

Neil, you look amazing! I especially liked the photo of you and your son fitting into your pre-5/2 pants. What a great accomplishment!

Here are some pictures of our Halloween decorations this year: https://imgur.com/a/33LHg1b

I’ll be back to post more later. Today is a FD and I’ve only had a small plain yogurt all day and it’s after 6:30pm. Time to eat.

It will be our secret Neil.

She is currently terrorising our elderly cat, but he gives as good as he gets, although I think his growling now is more for show than any real attempt at dissuasion. She is a devil though – grabs his bed in her mouth and runs around the house with it.
And although she is right off her food, she’s not at all shy about stealing his.

https://imgur.com/a/QaJQzvB

Love the decorations Cali.

Good afternoon all, Friday and the weekend is nigh!

We have a social event free weekend and I’m very glad about that. The holiday is looming and we have so much to do. Plus the family are coming en-masse in two weeks so I want to do some ‘visitor’ cleaning which means doing things I don’t normally to in the week-to-week lick, spit and polish.

I managed to do 10,000 steps yesterday for the first time since I got my new watch. This involved a good walk in the smoky city at lunch time and a good run and play with Maxx when I got home. My goal for weekends is 15,000

LJ, yikes, very challenging events coming up. It makes it so much harder doesn’t it? Good luck but I’m sure you will be proud of yourself (and we will be equally proud) by how restrained you were. Ha ha, I’ve put the pressure on now haven’t I?

Lindsay, so lovely to hear from you. Oh my goodness your puppy is just adorable! I am puppy broody now. Have you named her yet or is her name ‘Red’? Why is she off her food? That seems so odd to a Labrador owner. Don’t be shy about posting lots of pics!! So glad you enjoyed Vietnam and I hope you are already planning the next trip. That’s what we do in order to keep the post-holiday-blues away. Congratulations on dropping so much of your holiday gain already – you just have to love this WOL right?

Neil, I finally got to look at your pics – awesome! I too love the one of you and your son in the ‘old Neil’ pants.

Are those 60’s still looming or are you already there Intesha? I hope you enjoyed Pilates. My physio is always urging me to go for my back but I’m just a bit too shy to get involved in groups like that. I am being very good with my exercises and stretches lately (mostly due to nagging from OH) and my back and neck and shoulder are quite good at the moment. I haven’t been able to get to the physio for a couple of weeks but I have an appointment on Monday late arvo and I intend to keep it.

Speaking of stretching, even if he is sound asleep as soon as I get on the mat to do my exercises Maxx leaps up in joy and jumps on me. It makes it a bit difficult when 40+ kilos of furry chunk is leaping on your head so OH has to distract him. I do the same when OH does his. He’s lucky he’s cute – well they both are sometimes!

Cali, I just love your decorations, wow. It was a lovely sunny, warm evening here last night and our street was flooded with kids doing trick or treating. We didn’t have Halloween at all when we were growing up and it feels a bit strange to be honest. Maxx was funny, he stood out on our balcony that looks over the street and kept barking at people walking by. Not a fierce bark, more of a ‘I want to come and play with you’ bark. The kids kept waving to him

I had a good FD yesterday and so far having a moderate NFD. Not sure what we are having for dinner but I hope it’s light as it is quite warm. The weekend is going to be in the high 20’s until a change hits on Sunday night.

I have a new coat dilemma, sigh. I put the old one back on yesterday and it is still snug but definitely a teeny bit better than before. It just looks so much better than the other one but I have to tell myself that comfort is more important than looks. The other element is the looser one probably won’t be as warm. Gagghhh! I’m pretty sure I will still go with the bigger one, mostly so I can get plenty of layers underneath if necessary. It is also longer

Betsy, that is awesome news about the doctor’s visit. Yay! Gosh it sounds like hard work with all the work you have to do for your PHD – good luck with the next lot of interviews. I didn’t even finish high school – I went to a selective school and it was too competitive for me – but later on I did a diploma in Financial Markets and did quite well. But I was happy to turn my back on studying after that as I don’t enjoy it. I really admire you for doing this.

I hope you had a nice day with your friend in the country Cinque but, like LJ, I suspect it has tired you out terribly.

Thin, thanks for your post and your new life sounds so adventurous and interesting. Are you close to your DD? I am pretty sure I will change jobs next year. Some things have happened this week that have really upset all of the members of our team. We are the hardest working of all the teams and we actually care about results and making sure the business are ok. But instead we were told to go away as we were ‘distracting’ and ‘confusing’ the business in our support role so we are back to our own floor bewildered and hurt. Long long story and I won’t bore you. My boss also confided that the budget is being cut (now there’s a surprise…not) so I can see the writing on the wall. I just hope they keep me until at least I get back from the holiday to give me time to find something else. If not then there’s nothing I can do except enjoy an extra several weeks off (unpaid!) Anyway, I need less stress so maybe the lovely Canadian bank will have something. They have approached me twice since I came here asking me to go back so fingers crossed.

Quacka I hope you are ok. I’m worried the tragic news will suddenly sink in and be traumatic. I hope you can get up to see your family as often as possible. You are in my thoughts…..

Hi PG, Merry, Crazy, Penguin and everyone else lurking…have a super weekend

Goodness, longest post in the world. Hope I haven’t sent you all to sleep!

45 minutes until home time – happy dance!!

Quick check-in (really! 🙂 ) Hi everyone. The scales were kind for the start of November, so I only have 1.4 kg now to lose, to get rid of the pesky weight I gained over the winter. All the “holiday” and “indulgence” weight has already gone. Quite hot today, and I slept badly last night, so I need a better night’s sleep. Today’s CD: 1077 cals, and 74.8 kg for the start of the warmer weather.

Will comment of others’ posts next time, except, love the pics of your new family member, LindsayL, and welcome back from holidays.

Next time!!

Good morning from lovely cool rainy Melbourne after a couple of hot days and nights.

Thanks so much for the good thoughts everyone. Babysitting my darlings on Wednesday evening and then driving to Wallan on a hot Thursday, really did me in. I was cactus for a while… still am a bit.

Quacka, what a beautiful place you live in. I love how you describe your walk to the sea.

Thin, lovely to hear from you on the Straight and Narrow.

Betsy, what great news from your doctor’s visit, and a real reward for all the things you are doing for your good health. No mention of Lipitor, and if all goes well, it may never be mentioned again.

I have remembered that the concept that was pretty well debunked was the idea that out body ‘remembers’ the weight we had got to, and keeps trying to get back to it: a ‘set weight point’. However, what we do have are a whole suite of lifestyle habits, eating patterns, gut microbes, hormone levels etc that all make it very easy for us to put the weight back on. And more weight on, on top of that.

If you do find some good research, do share it. I’m interested and I like sharing on the https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/related-science-articles-people-might-be-interested-to-read/ for others who are interested too.

LJoyce, your theory makes a lot of sense.

Neil you sound all set for your next stage. Hope the weather settles down to a friendly summer.

Lindsay, welcome to ROSY! She is gorgeous. Ooh it would be a pleasure to see her run. Your cat may continue to be annoyed by her, but his life will be a lot more interesting, and that is usually a good thing.
And welcome home! You have some nice non work time now, don’t you? To see if you like the idea of retirement.
I did feel a new woman when I did my hair (almost time to do it again), and I did have a lovely time with my friend.

Cali we heard more terrible fire news from your part of the world, I so hope it settles down now and the electricity goes back on.
Your Halloween decorations are gorgeous.

Quacka, your workplace just keeps being mad. It must be a stress to have all that uncertainty ahead AGAIN, so I hope they can be a good workplace for once and put you on an even better contract for next year. (If that is what you would like, of course!)

Klondi, I bet you are flat out being taxi and helper to your DIL. I hope things are not too crazy.
I keep meaning to mention to you the most wonderful podcast, in case you haven’t heard of it already. I thought DIL might like to listen to it, and you too. It is by two mums who each have twins with multiple disabilities, and it is the most wonderful truth telling about how hard life can be when you don’t fit into ‘normal’. But they are such wonderful characters it is also so funny and warm and enriching that I just want everyone in the world to listen to it. It is one of the pleasures of my week when a new episode comes out.
https://play.acast.com/s/too-peas-in-a-podcast

Well I am off to try and have another rest and recovery day, and also try to catch up on house work, go shopping (out of coffee and a book waiting for me at the library), and writing a list of everything else I have to do!

Cheers all, it is day before fast day for me, and aren’t I eating delicious healthy things today, and not too much!

Good afternoon everyone (Saturday arvo)

I’m sitting here listening to the jack hammer (it’s called a Kanga, so OH informs me) as OH pulls apart our en-suite, my bathroom lol. We are going to do up both our bathrooms but mine is tiny so it gets done first. He started on it at around 9am and by 10am it had already turned into a much bigger job than we planned. He was planning to take the tiles off and re do but now the tiles are pulling off the villa board as well so the whole bathroom will need relining. The floor is rotten under the shower so that will also need to be fixed. Joy! I was curious how long it would take for him to say “ now you know why I hate renovations?”. Yep, it took only half an hour lol

Thank you all for your good wishes regarding my Dad. It’s not your fault that you didn’t realise that Dad’s health situation was much worse than I let on. I think I was trying to just be a rock and not really talk about it, but you are all so supportive and I consider you all my friends, so I had to tell you.
My Dad is almost 88 years old. My Mum is a lot younger. Dad has been telling me for a long time (20-25 years) to look after my mother when he is gone. When I was younger I thought that meant he was going to die like in his 60’s and thankfully he didn’t. It has been a terrible shock to find out about the cancer and worse so to find out that he hasn’t got very long to live, but I just keep focussed on the life he has already had. He has been lucky enough to live a long, full life and Mum and him have had almost a full lifetime together, something that I don’t think either of them expected. Lindsay, you asked how Mum is doing. She is ok. She really is the strongest woman I have ever known but even she doubts how she will cope when it comes to the end. How can we know? I have said to her that it is ok for her to express her grief however she needs to. My sister and I will be there for her as will our respective OH’s.
Intesha and Betsy, thank you for your personal messages and relating your own experience. I know I’m not the only one going through this and just hearing how you coped, really helps. Xx
I’ve been a bit worried about my own reaction, probably because I am not falling apart like I may have expected. I know it will be so hard when the time comes, and it will be extremely hard to see my family grieving, especially my Mum. Every funeral that I have ever been to, it is always the family’s grief that undoes me. When it is going to be my own mother, that is really going to hurt. All I can do is take it one day at a time until that day comes.

Anyway, I’m a very practical person. Life goes on.

Lindsay, your beautiful Rosy. She is so gorgeous and it is interesting to read about how they need the freedom to run to develop a proper gait. Glad you took those thongs away! The things they learn as a pup are what sticks with them as they get older. Enjoy her 🙂

Cali, your house looks amazing, as it did last year, for Halloween. Hope you are ok now with no more power outages. We have a gas outage at our house at the moment. We only use it for cooking (stove top) but unfortunately when OH switched over to the full one a couple of weeks ago, the connection must not have been great and I suppose it has all leaked out. Yes a full big gas bottle slowly emptied. Oh well. Whatever. Lol

Thin, great to hear from you 🙂 and actually, great to hear from all of you 🙂

You really are an amazing bunch of people and I feel really lucky to be a part of this awesome group. Even better… we have all found a way that works for us, to keep our weigh in check, to keep our health in check and most of all, to keep our heads in check!

Ps. Betsy, yay! You didn’t have to go on the Lipitor. I know how much that was worrying you. Well done

Ok the jackhammer is hammering in my head right now….. or Kanga, or whatever you want to call it. I could tell you what I am calling it right now but it may just need censoring….. lol

Take care everyone and have a nice weekend xx

Quacka our posts crossed.

We all cope in different ways. I don’t really think I have grieved for my Mum yet because I have Dad with me and I have to be strong or so I think. Yes I cried in the beginning and at the funeral, yes I have a little cry when I look at her photo and realise she is no longer here but there are times I wish I could just go on a bender and let it all out.

You are fortunate to have your OH and family around and you will support each other through this.

We are all here for you.

I couldn’t head off to bed without a publicly accounting for all the food I ate tonight – it was not good!

I had 1 mini quiche, 4 mini sausage rolls, 4 chunks of bread with spinach dip, 1 piece of cheesecake, 1 piece of raspberry cake, 3 mini muffins, 1 blondie, a slice of mango and a slice of pear.

I am so going to pay for all that sugar tomorrow. Once I started on the sweet things that I’ve been avoiding for weeks I just couldn’t stop.

FD Sunday!

Morning friends. More rain overnight, which has been wonderful. We got a whole night’s sleep last night (ie no wailing and whining and banging at the door) so feel Rosy is accepting that she is sleeping on the covered verandah and not with us! We gave her a couple of good outings yesterday and a couple of good runs…..I left my fitbit in my GD’s swimming bag so no idea of the steps we did, but it was quite a lot by the time we’d crossed football grounds, walked her around on a lead for a little bit, then more walking as she ran.

Oh LJ one day of treats won’t derail your amazing commitment. Back on the horse today, as Merry would say. I agree the sugar can be a problem for the day after….but a FD should fix that. The thing is, did you enjoy it? As well as being slim, you have to enjoy life too, which is what makes this WOL so manageable.

And wow Intesha in the 60s. That is a very fine number.

Cinque I found those articles about maintaining weight loss very interesting. Thank for for the links. Interesting, how sitting contributes. A salutary reminder to get up and get moving (I tend to sit for far too long at the computer).

Betsy, that HDL ratio is excellent so good news that the Lipidor has gone on the back burner for a while. Will you do anything different to lower the cholesterol, or are you happy with the ratio as it stands? (and I forgot to say, thank you for my welcome back).

OK off for a quick shower while red dog sleeps (did I mention that DD says having a pup is almost like having a baby …. you are sleep deprived, the house is a mess, and everyone comes to ooh and aah….the difference, according to DD, is that no one brings a little lasagne to pop in the oven when you don’t have time to cook). Funny girl, my DD.

bye all

Thankyou Neil and Lindsay. I know I will amend my ways, but I sometimes despair at my total lack of self control on some occasions.
As expected, I have a raging thirst and a headache this morning. My best friend is arriving shortly to get me out of the house for a long walk – which is much needed as I feel very sluggish.

Wow it’s hot! 🥵

I biked out to frisbee golf this afternoon and the dairy out there has a thermometer on it. It was reading 33 degrees. It was so hot the tar seal was melting and the stones were sticking to my tyres! Biking home up the hills was NOT fun. I’m going to enjoy a cold beer at the family dinner tonight, that’s for sure.

Good morning, a lovely cool bright morning here. Melbourne, Monday 8:45, the crows are here for the summer, I can hear them calling.

Still recovering from losing that post yesterday. But then I went and did a lot of gardening, including setting up a new garden bed, so that was also exhausting, but at least I had something wonderful at the end of it.

Just about to enjoy my day-after-fast-day breakfast.

Neil, I hope you got a grand view up the top of Mount Grand.

Quacka those renovations sound full on!
Thankyou so much for telling us about your dad and mum. I am so glad your dad has had such a great life with you all, and that he is be surrounded by loved ones.
I keep sending good wishes to you all through this hard time.

Intesha, sending good wishes to you too. Lovely to hear about your Christmas cookies and the decisions about how you will decorate them. Looking forward to the photos. Hooray for cooler mornings.

LJoyce, what a spectacular fail. I hope you were able to enjoy the food, even while you were crying ‘stop! stop!’ to yourself.
I do hope yesterday was better.

Lindsay, good news that Rosy is settling down at night. Your trial retirement sounds delightful.
Nice work at the cafe!
Keen to hear if there is honey!

Oh dear Betsy, glad that weekend is done and dusted and hoping you have some good days now.
I agree with you about the artificially sweetened drinks. Not that I drink them, but I bet it is a personal thing and some people might find that they don’t help because they are associated with eating fast food, for example, but for others they make no difference at all.

I need to get my house ready for a) my granddaughters who will be here while their mum gets some more fillings done and b) the nbn technician coming to set me up for nbn.

It is a day for good food, not too much, mostly plants.

And happy fasting those of you who are fasting. I nearly said Thin, but she is still in Sunday! Read this when you wake up Thin, and have a lovely fast day.

Cheers all.

Good morning everyone.

I got through the FD without too much difficulty, although I had a very poor night’s sleep last night for some unknown reason. I kept waking every 1-2 hours.

Quacka, glad you hear you are getting to spend time with your parents. You will cherish time times that you have together, and those memories will be important later.

Neil, I think we’ve swapped weather, it’s cold here this week. Talk about erratic weather, my veggie plants can’t decide whether to flourish or hibernate!

Cinque, I hope your post FD brekkie was nice. I even ate some this morning – a small bowl of bircher muesli.

Betsy, it looks like it was the weekend for excess. I’m hoping my Sunday FD broke the pattern and I can get back to moderation this week. Hopefully your FD today will do the same. I thought about your B2B idea, but decided I couldn’t face it during a cold weather week. I think I’m better just sticking to TDEE on my NFDs. Good luck with your strict week.
Betsy, I remember on one of the many medical doccos they tested sugar, stevia and artificial sweeteners on a group of people to see what it did to their insulin levels. Some people had an insulin spike after consuming artificial sweeteners – but not everyone. So it looks like it is a phenomenon that occurs, but it is not universal.

Lindsay, you had a much more restrained weekend than I did. It’s looking like the acquisition of Ruby will be very good for your exercise levels.

Cali, is your power back on and stable yet?

I’ve just redone my meal plans this week as the weather is just too cold for my original choices. It looks like it will be cool all week – 19-23C which is very mild for November. I’ve gotten rid of the salad plans and I’m back to stews, soups and hot veg. At least I can use the last remaining containers of those things from the freezer.

Have a nice day.

Hi guys im in a pickle, Sunday was fd i was feeling off but i did 481 cals today nfd oooo diarrhea bad felt sick but didnt vomit couldn’t face food protein shake to take meds 1/2 ciabatta bun wkth manuka honey 279cals sl far still dosen’t feel tight, supposed to be fd tomorrow cant see me eating much either my question will i do damage not eating

Crazy, don’t eat if you don’t feel like it (apart from whatever you need to make your meds taken safely). Do make sure you keep your fluids up. If you think you really need to eat go for a meaty broth, or miso soup, if you can.

Hopefully by the day after tomorrow you will feel like eating something (chicken soup, vegemite on toast). Good luck.

LJoyce yum, I was famous for making muesli and added no sugar or honey etc, but probably added more dried fruit than you do. So delicious. I just toasted the oats and sometimes the almonds. Yours must be the deluxe version.

Hi to everyone, I’ll catch up properly tomorrow.

Sorry to hear you’re poorly Crazy. You should definitely not eat if you’ve got an upset stomach (I think the advice about not fasting when sick is more around cold and flu rather than stomach issues). You’ll definitely need to keep your fluids up. The advice usually given is water, electrolyte drinks and clear soups/broth. The advice I was told with starting on food again when you’re feeling up to food was “BRAT” (Bananas, Rice, Apples and Toast)

The muesli sounds good LJoyce. I’ve just discovered a company that makes nice grain free mueslis that are high in protein, good fats and low in sugar. The one I’m eating at the moment is nuts, seeds, coconut, freeze dried raspberries, and then they bind it together with chia seeds and quinoa and bake it all together. It tastes pretty good.

https://www.puredelish.co.nz/

The weather has really changed this afternoon, it was hot and sunny all day so I put on my shorts and t-shirt for tennis, then the mist rolled in, the temperature dropped and it was freezing. You just can’t win with the weather in spring.

Crazy, hope you’re feeling better by the time you read this. I agree with the others that said to drink lots of fluids and don’t eat if your body is telling you not to.

LJ, that muesli looks really good. I bought some rolled oats and some rye a few weeks ago but haven’t gotten around to making muesli yet. I’ve been cooking the two together to make a porridge and adding some walnuts because that seemed good on cold mornings. It also keeps me feeling full for a long time.

Quacka, glad to hear you’re visiting your parents again. I’m thinking of you and hoping that you’re managing ok. These are times to live in the moment and make the most of precious times together.

The firemen are slowly large fires under control. I heard this morning that they are all at least 50% contained. We haven’t had any more power outages around here, thank goodness. We’ve been busy choosing faucets and shower accessories for the bathrooms. They should be starting on DS’s bathroom next week and then ours around the beginning of Dec. Hers should take about 5 days and ours a couple weeks. It’s a busy time of the year to have it done but just want to get it over with.

Today was a FD and was pretty easy. I’m looking forward to good numbers on the scales in the morning.

Have a great day everyone!

Good evening everyone.

Neil, if you always weigh after a FD, there may be a difference tomorrow. It doesn’t mean you haven’t lost weight, just that there is more food “in transit”. I notice this by comparing the hip measurements after FDs and NFDs.
I hadn’t realised you were still doing 4:3 rather than 5:2, no wonder your weight loss is still moving so strongly.

Cali, glad you are finally getting to the end of the design decisions and that the work will be starting soon. It’s good that you are doing one after the other so there is still a functioning bathroom at all times. I’m looking forward to pics of the final result.
Good news on the fires.

Quacka, it sounds like you rescued you FD really well last night.

Crazy, I hope your digestive system has calmed down now.

Good night all.

Hi all, it’s been a poor start to November. After my CD on Friday, it’s been all “downhill” (or maybe I should write “uphill”?) from there. Planning on B2B2B the next 3 days to kickstart change, but I’ve had persistent laryngitis and what I think is post-viral exhaustion for the past several days. I don’t know what else to call it. I struggled today to even walk from one end of the shopping centre to the other. Managed, but was sorely tempted to grab a shopping trolley to lean on. That is so not me. I did complain to my doctor last Thursday that my sore throat was persisting, and he gave me a blood test request to get it checked out if I felt necessary, so I think I’ll do that tomorrow. Not really expecting it to show anything, but it may show that I have a viral infection, which would encourage me because then I’d know for sure what’s going on. It’s very wearing to feel like this just now, when I have so many interviews scheduled over the next 2 weeks.

Okay, sorry about the above; everyone has their own problems, and on the scale of things, a virus really doesn’t rate very highly. 🙂

Good to hear from so many. CalifDreamer, great that the fires are coming under control, and there’ve been no more electricity outages. Hope the process of choosing bathroom accessories continues to flow, and the work is done in your hoped for timeframe.

crazyartist, if you have a gastric upset, as others have written, you don’t need to eat. Make sure you keep up your fluid intake as much as possible. There are very few people harmed by going without food for a couple of days. Then don’t try to start by eating normally. Your intestine needs recovery time, so very light to start – we used to drink diluted flat lemonade while ill and dry toast with a scraping of vegemite as the first “meal” to see what the stomach would tolerate. Gently, gently does it.

Good to hear from Anzac65, and hope the longed for 82s start appearing on the scales.

Closing off for now. Neilithicman, sounds like your weather over there has been as crazy as Melbourne’s, but at least the weather behaved for Cup day.

Good morning all. Where does the time go.

Sorry to hear about people being unwell and hope you are all looking after yourselves and will soon be on the mend.

Day after FD and 69.3. Don’t know if changing my scales to reflect my new age had anything to do with it but I’ll take the win.

Made gingerbread cookies on Sunday so now have nearly 300 to decorate. Had a minor distraction which upset my day. Dad had been out to get his weekly lottos, he was coming up the back steps of which there are only two, overbalanced and went crashing backwards to the pavement hitting his head on his walker on the way down. Luckily he only had a few grazes on his head and elbow. I had to call my ex who only lives 15 mins away to come over and he then got one of my neighbours to help lift Dad up. Dad is about 117kgs and has no strength in his legs so I am not able to lift him. He really is deteriorating in his mobility.

Anyway life goes on. Off to Pilates this morning.

Have a good day all.