Afternoon all

It was an eventful weekend, My wife’s uncle in Fiji passed away. The family over there streamed the funeral live, so my wife and her family had a get-together to watch the service and burial. My younger son had Parkour and my older boy wanted to do some shopping, so I ended up running them round their various activities. Then I had a walkaround with some people from the frisbee golf club, scouting out a possible location for a new course.

Sunday I managed to get out for a decent 50km ride down on a river trail which was a nice place to ride. We also had a big family get-together to celebrate the birthdays that had taken place over October and November that we hadn’t managed to meet up for.

Back to work today, but I only have this week to go and then I’m done for the year.

Well I don’t have much time so I’ll catch up on the rest of the posts later, I hope everyone is ok, catch you all later.

Good morning from another lovely sunny day in Sydney

Just hanging in there without putting on weight but not really losing but given the stress I’m happy with that

I’m very sorry to hear about your wife’s uncle Neil. It is sad when you can’t be at the funeral but at least now we can attend via lifestream. I’ve been to two funerals that way

Thin, ha ha, not top secret about the new way that international payments will work but also not very exciting. The format of the underlying data that makes up a payment is completely changing to one that is higher quality, more consistent and more granular. I know the old format like the back of my hand but now I need to learn the new format. And the complexity is just the same so it will take a long time.
Lovely to hear how highly thought of your DD was at her old job. And yes, I am getting excited about the holiday thanks. Just the thought that work is completely finished, there is no dog hair in my food/clothes/furniture, someone else is cooking and cleaning and nothing to do but swim, play cards, read, play tennis and go for walks. Bliss

Your vege patch sounds great LJ and Mr Anzac’s garden is finally starting to yield now that the dratted constant rain has stopped. We had a nice cabbage salad with dinner last night and both the cabbage and shallots (green onions) came from the garden. We did throw in some crispy noodles and a nice sesame dressing. Yum. We also have a raft of herbs and the capsicums, chillies, passionfruit are all coming along nicely

I still haven’t heard about whether the other job here is going to come to fruition. They promised an answer last Thursday and the anxiety is driving me mad. I had an interview with another big bank yesterday and although they are paying very good money I decided I would rather chew off my own arm than take it (if offered). I’m happy to have a good break but Mr Anzac, as CFO, is getting worried – I can tell. Too bad

Thankyou Cinque, my gum has healed now but I’m having trouble coming to terms with the gap. Apparently I will eventually get used to it. I love your zen advice ‘the space between meals’. That is my biggest problem, I get bored or stressed at work and wander out to the kitchen looking for a snack

I hope your OH is feeling better Lindsay and those puppies aren’t causing too much chaos

Hi to everyone else, have a lovely day

Morning all

Wednesday weigh in, back down to my hovering weight that I was before the blip 2 weeks ago. I think if I can manage to avoid the weekend indulgence then I can start getting it to track back downwards, but it’s really hard not to crash on a Friday evening, sink a couple of rum and cokes and grab a bit of junk food watching movies with the family.

Cinque, those cucamelons look cool, I wonder if they would grow over here, and whether you can get the seeds, because they look like something my wife would like to try growing

Anzac, maintaining is definitely preferable to gaining. I hope your job situation sorts itself out soon.

Thin, I spotted the post from the spammer come through but I just ignored it.

Well, I have just 2 more days after today and then I’m finished with work for the year. I’m looking forward to having over 3 weeks off in a row for the first time in ages, although I’m guessing the first week I’m going to have to spend getting all the jobs done that need to be done (warrant for car, service for bike, hedges trimmed, garden weeded, Christmas shopping done, maintenance at frisbee golf course, etc) All the stuff I’ve been putting off because I don’t have enough spare time to do it while I’m working.

I hope everyone is getting on ok and I’ll catch up with you all later.

Good morning everyone,
I am having a coffee that is a bit too weak, yes, run out.
I have just about recovered from minding the granddaughters last Sunday, and preparing to mind one tomorrow.
It is all a I want to do, but how I wish I had a bit more energy.

On the upside, I had 6 hours straight sleep last night! I usually wake up every 90 minutes, so what a treat!

Neil the cucamelons are native to Mexico so you would need a very sunny part of the garden! I wish I could pop a punnet through my screen and then out through yours, so Mrs Neil could try. If these grow well I will see if I can send some seeds.

Goodluck with your food tonight. If only it was easy to eat a tiny portion of takeaway junk food! Chew as slowly as you can!
Woot! You are on holidays!

Thin, it is all go over there!
I know you won’t enjoy my socialist, anti-monarchical views on it all so I will just say I do really hope things start improving to make lives easier for everyone.

Enjoy that social week, and goodness me, cashless Sweden does sound easy.

I’m hoping to get organised with some shopping that must be done (coffee plus everything!) and ready for little Ms 6 tomorrow who has asked if we can make hand made pasta.

Christmas is coming too fast!

Sending good wishes to everyone
xxx

Our carvery dinner was a disaster from an over-eaters perspective. I can’t trust myself. I started feeling regret when I saw the size of the plates. Or should I say platters. I felt sick watching how high some people were piling food on theirs and resolved to take teeny amounts of only select items. Nevertheless, I ended up with enough food to feed a family of four. I didn’t eat it all thankfully, striking a balance between waste and salvage – extracting all the meat for OH’s lunches and leaving those vegetables that were overcooked. I can’t remember the last time we had a buffet style meal, pre-5:2 I’m guessing, and I found the entire experience quite repulsive to be honest.

On the positive side, it was good fun to catch up with our boater friend, first met in Wales during lockdown. We’d never been on each other’s boats before due to covid so it was nice to be able to invite him back for coffee. Sadly, he’d put his little dog Zip to sleep last week and was, of course, feeling bad and lonely on his boat.

Happy Birthday Anzac! Pleased you had a lovely lunch with your friends. Hilarious about Maxx hiding under the table hoping to escape the shampoo. Oh drat about the job and how annoying that someone says they’ll let you know and then doesn’t. Hold fast my friend, if this one doesn’t work out, I am sure you’ll get the right position in the new year what with so many jobs out there and your high level skills and experience.

FD for me. Still under 60kg this morning. The fridge is becoming increasingly empty and I’ve worked it out so as to have no food waste besides three onions to be given away. Following the trip to Sweden, we’re considering flying straight out to Botswana after spending the night in a Birmingham hotel. It will be a challenge even for us to pack a 7kg bag for both -6C and 32C but we can’t rely on the trains operating and we need to be able to book our flights. I know I won’t get any sympathy here!

Hello everyone,
I just started writing yesterday when I got sidetracked by our zoomsisters starting an hour early and the day headed off and it has taken until now to have time to catch up.

Sympathy for the buffet woes. I can relate to that ‘pile it up’ mentality. It is the same ‘don’t waste food’ and ‘get the most out of what we paid’ or just ‘get the most out of the opportunity’ inbuilt cleverness that sometimes works against us.
I have to say to myself: “a protein and the best looking salad, that’s it!”
I don’t go to many buffets but I did manage to make it work the last couple of times.
I was better at that than not wasting stuff in my fridge!

Happy Belated Birthday Anzac!
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Sorry to be so late, but hooray for your lovely day and may this year be a particularly lovely one.

I am so, so, sorry that job didn’t come through.
Best of luck in finding one that is all that plus they love someone who wants a contract. I hope you are in a position where you can just live happily for a bit until that right job comes along.

Hoping Maxx survived the dog shampoo too!

The pasta went so well. Little Miss 6 had it with butter! And I was pleased to notice it was just as much an egg product as a flour product and really enjoyed meals with a small amount of pasta with my veggies and meat. And with the pasta left (a couple of days later) I made an excellent lasagne that I still have portions frozen and ready to enjoy.

I thought of my daughter’s hack to have mashed cauliflower in a bechamel, she finds it tastes better than the classic. I didn’t have cauliflower but did have (3!) big zucchini from these food boxes we get, so I grated half one and added it, and that was a success too.

Thin, nice work eating out the fridge and wo! Sweden to Botswana! I hope you can adjust temperatures in the flight from one to the other. What adventures are in store.

Even though I complained about waking every 90 minutes (or so) that is actually the excellent result of 30 years of learning to deal with terrible insomnia (a CFS symptom) and I am so glad I can get to sleep easily and then go back to sleep quickly each time I wake up (mostly).
But still, that 6 hours straight was wonderful and didn’t I notice that I didn’t get as hungry!

Neil, happy holidays and fingers crossed no more bills turn up!
Hooray for wonderful holiday activities that are free! Happy cycling.

Best wishes to everyone xxx

Morning all just checking in.

My holiday is going well, just a week in and I’m already feeling more relaxed. I’ve been out for a few good rides, taken the boys out for a few walks, and got plenty done in the garden with my wife.

My weight continues to be stubborn.

Have a great one everyone.

Anzac, hooray you are still logged in easy!
Cheers to you and Neil for those relaxing non work days. C

Neil, cheers for just doing all the good things for your life and body, no matter what the scales say. Happy riding!

How nice it will be, Anzac, to let go of all the stress and just concentrate on you. I do hope you and Mr Anzac have the best time.

I’m going okay, but had a disappointing croissant and coffee at a cafe with my daughter yesterday. (The time with my daughter was lovely, the coffee and croissant weren’t).
So annoying. Still, I am nicely in the mood to skip breakfast today to balance it out, and I have a good meal coming up after midday.

Sending good wishes.

PS I have those cucamelons planted and surviving. So far so good.

Morning all

Weigh in this morning I was down 1.5 kilos. It’s good to see a bit of movement on the scales. The weather here has been pretty grey and cold (it’s only supposed to hit 14 degrees today, yay summer!). I’ve still managed to get out for a few bike rides, but other than that just general chilling out.

Anzac, enjoy your time in Vanuatu, I hope it’s a nice relaxing time. My sister is having the opposite work problem to you at the moment. She’s coming back to work after having kids and she wants to be part time permanent (she’s a teacher) but the school insists on making it a fixed term contract instead. Apparently the reasons they gave not to offer her a permanent position are bare faced lies.

Thin, well done on staying under 60 during your cruise. I haven’t experienced much Scandinavian food, but I assume the traditional stuff would involve a lot of smoked/salted fish?

Cinque as long as your croissant and coffee didn’t trigger a sugar/carb binge them having one treat every now and then isn’t too bad is it?

Well got to go now, I’ve got to get my lazy boys out of bed and see if we can go out somewhere for an hour or two. I hope everyone else keeping radio silence at the moment is well

Have a great day everyone.

Hi all from a very sunny and hot Bannockburn…… yes, back in Central Otago and loving every minute of it, been gorging on cherries since our arrival a couple of days ago!

Just thought I would check in, sorry to have been MIA for so long but I have been reading regularly and lurking quietly behind the scenes. I am currently fasting three days this week, Mon, Weds & Fri to get this weight gain back under control. I have been hovering and maintaining around the 66/67 mark but was suddenly spending more time in the 68’s with one or two shows of 69 something. Aaarggh, that’s too close to the 70 mark for me so I have to do something about it and soon and drastically. So far down 1.2kg since Mon morning and still have tomorrow to go!

Must dash, out to visit a friend for lunch so will return and write more to catch up with everyone. Wishing you all a very merry Christmas with family and friends, hope it’s everything you wish for?

Turn

Turn, so nice to read your post. I’m not clear if you’re pet-sitting. Well done for getting on top of things with the extra fasts. Best not to let those kgs run away with you.

Cinque, are you spending Christmas with your daughter, SIL and the girls? I hope it’s a relaxing time for you of doing not much of anything and being thoroughly pampered.

I woke yesterday and decided I’d better make it a FD since we traditionally have a few Christmas treats on Christmas Eve. We were out walking in central Stockholm when we were offered a tasting of a Danish Xmas sweet treat and, before I remembered that I’d been fasting all day, I’d swallowed five little liquorice balls in different flavoured coverings. Disgusted by my impulsiveness. I later googled the delicacy and found out that I’d consumed only 140 calories so still managed to salvage the day. What an idiot.

But today, my trusty travel scales tell me that I am 58.8kg and all ready for our Swedish Christmas Eve nibbling. My initial assessment of Swedes is upheld; overwhelmingly the people are tall, slim, upright and well-groomed. Absolutely everyone, old and young, speaks fluent English. Life expectancy is higher than in the US or the UK.

Have a wonderful Christmas all. Remember, it’s just a day of feasting. I hope we can pull our thread back together in the new year.

Part ii

Congratulations on the 1.5 loss Neil, made even more impressive that you are in holidays and it’s Christmas time. Yay!

So lovely to hear from you Turn, 3 FDs a week sounds incredibly difficult and I do admire your resolve

Thin, when we got to the airport and checked in the girl called the manager over and I heard ‘they are not booked’ and my heart dropped like a stone. But they sorted it and here we are. The airport manager actually got on the plane before we took off and personally apologised for the huge disruption and thanked everyone for the way everyone treated the staff. I thought that was a nice touch.

Hi to everyone else, i hope, like Thin, that we can get this thread alive again next year

Afternoon everyone, I hope you all had a great Christmas. I ate a little too much sugar (as always), so I made up for it today by going out for a three hour ride, racking up 75kms. Yesterday was great though, the weather couldn’t have been better. We had a bbq lunch at my wife’s sister’s house and went for a nice walk through the bush with the kids after, had a 1 hour break then bbq dinner at my parents house. Then we watched the new family movie on Disney “Strange World”. The only thing that let the day down was one of our neighbours decided to play their music incredibly loudly until after 1am

Well have a great one everyone.

Great to hear from you CalifD and LJ and get your latest news.

Neil, glad you had a great day but you took me back to some stressful times of living in suburbia with inconsiderate neighbours. Nowadays we can just float away from annoying people. Not that there are any on the canals.

Our Christmas dinner turned out great considering we were unfamiliar with most of the grocery products. No Christmas crackers, mince pies or dessert though. We started our day with a 90 minute video call to Sydney with family friends with whom we’d spent 26 Christmases prior to our moving to the UK. We ended it with a walk into the city centre where DD and OH went ice skating. After an hour, they’d both improved considerably. Thank goodness for hand warmers as I was just sitting there filming them.

Here’s an article about IF to get the new year started. It gets more interesting as it progresses.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220110-the-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting-the-right-way

Good morning everyone from beautiful cool Melbourne.

When I read your temperature complaint yesterday, Neil, I was still recovering from a night where the temperature didn’t drop below 27C! But luckily yesterday the cool came through, with some rain too. I hope that has got to you now too.

Hello Anzac in sunny Vanuatu, if you are still there. I am so glad you are having the relaxing lovely holiday you needed so much.

Hooray for no headaches! (How I do hope you can find yourself a job that doesn’t involve headaches. We only have this one life, so let’s have it without headaches, if it is at all possible!)

LJoyce, hello friend!
Yes, I was exhausted on Boxing Day, even though I had a very easy, gentle Christmas.
We went to the park a door up from my daughters place and sat in the shade while the children played. Rose’s friend who lives facing the park came and sat with us and she knows everyone, so as anyone went past they would stop and chat, maybe sit for a bit. They included the woman who makes friends with the magpies (they bring her gifts of worms they like her so much) and the elderly jazz singer who was going from one friends house to another.

Enjoy getting back to frugal eating after a time of feasts, and hooray for plenty of water. (My latest nasty symptom is post nasal drip, and if I am not completely hydrated it becomes post nasal clog-in-my-throat and I cough like I am going to die, so I am even more fluid diligent!)

I am also enjoying frugal days.

Cali, so many good wishes to you and your family. I do hope you are all fine after your social gathering. It is a plus having Christmas in summer here as we can be outside, or at least have all the windows open. My poor sister did catch covid (second time for her 🙁 ) and so missed our Christmas picnic.

Hooray for maintaining your weight, that is wonderful.

Thin lovely to hear of your ice skating expedition. My daughter sensibly took the little ones ice skating on our nasty hot boxing day.
Ooh I remember fine times, feeling like I was flying around the rink! Those were the days!

An interesting article, hooray for autophagy.

Bye now, best wishes to you all

I have a question how to do the right exercises to stay in shape

Hi everyone from a beautifully warm and sunny Lake Hawea morning. The birds are singing joyfully, a few cyclists are out on the track enjoying the morning sun with the keen jogger thrown in, and all feels well with the world. At least it does from this idyll!

My weight is just holding steady but only just, really not where I want it to be but I have all week to rectify that, not feeling great yesterday with headache, sore throat, swollen glands, heavy eyelids, achy body! Took a Lemsip and a couple of paracetamols, had an afternoon nap and felt a bit better by the evening to go out with OH. It was his birthday yesterday so we visited our favourite brewery in Wanaka. I only had one small glass beer as I was driving but we did both have a chicken burger and chips which was just OK. Have to say my first burger eating out for so many years I don’t remember the last one I had! Certainly won’t be hurrying back for another one any time soon, that’s for sure.

Planning a quiet day in the garden, particularly the vegie garden for me, now we are house sitting this lovely big house, dogs and cat, but might meet up with the couple in the cottage tonight for BBQ dinner, that’s easy and not too damaging.

Wishing everyone a healthy and happy New Years and hope 2023 is everything you are wishing it will be. Turn

Happy New Year everyone.

Cali, great to hear from you. That’s a silly idea of what boxing day is. Of course we all know it’s called boxing day because you fight with the rest of your family over the leftovers from Christmas dinner 😉😆

Turn, great to hear from you too. I want to head over to where you are soon, there’s a couple of new bike trails that have opened up recently. The one I really want to ride is the 50km Coronet loop track.

Cinque, I have a very different experience with magpies than the lady you mentioned, the only thing they’ve ever brought me has been fear and bike helmet damage.

Anzac, glad you had a good break in Vanuatu. I’ve had 3 weeks off and I still want more so I don’t think I can relate to being pleased about having a break cut short.

Wano. The trick I’ve found is to make sure you find an exercise you enjoy doing. There’s no point slogging on a treadmill if you don’t enjoy running, because you’ll never keep it up. So try a whole lot of different exercises (walking, cycling, swimming, tennis, kayaking, etc) and find one you like. For me it’s been cycling. I’m at the point now where if I don’t get out for more than a few days I start getting a bit stir crazy.

I’ve settled on my proposed fasting routine. I’m going to fast on Monday, control day Tuesday, non fast day Wednesday, fast Thursday, control day Friday and then non fast days in the weekend. Hopefully the structure is what I’ve been lacking.

Have a great new year everyone

Good evening everyone.
Until school holidays are over, I’m going to have a busy time, so I’m grabbing a quiet moment to post before I get too far behind. I’m always exhausted by the end of christmas, and so relieved when I get to boxing day. Then I remember what’s coming lots of child minding in January.

Cali, so lovely to see you posting, when it’s been so challenging for you to get a quiet moment to do so. I hope your OHs health continues to be stable this year.
Good luck with the weather, flooding is our issue here in South Australia too. Although for us it’s swollen rivers as the flood waters make their way down through the river system.
I’m with you on the masks. I don’t go into a public place without one either. I’m rarely the only person wearing one, but I’m definitely in the minority.

Neil, I don’t think you’re alone as a cyclist being attacked by magpies. It seems to be an issue in Oz too. Everyone that I know who cycles has had issues. As a walker I don’t have any trouble, the magpies are relatively friendly around here and offer of up plenty of amusement with their antics.
Your eating plan sounds sensible. I’m struggling with control days at present – so I’ve had to revert to 3 FDs a week.

Turn, it must be quite a treat to have a temporary veggie patch when you have been used to living out of a van. I’m sure some fresh veg will make up for the hamburger. Hope you enjoy the house sitting, your description of Lake Hawea sounds lovely.

Cinque, I hope your energy levels become stable now christmas is over.
I loved your magpie story. I’ve always had friendly magpies where I’ve lived, but they don’t feed me worms. Quite the reverse, they watch very closely when I’m gardening, ready to grab anything that I might unearth that looks like lunch.
I’ve been watching some vlogs on sewing/knitting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/RetroClaude/videos ), the lady who does them also has CFS and it’s been illuminating to see just how much and how often in impacts her life and her ability to make garments – especially as it’s her occupation and not just a hobby.
Anzac, welcome home from your tropical holiday. I hope the perfect job opportunity presents itself shortly.

Thin, are you still in Sweden? What happens next, are you going to Spain or Portugal for a stint of pet sitting as usual? I seem to remember there was some discussion of a trip to Rwanda, but I can’t remember what the final decision was on that one.

I did have a few more restful days after christmas, but it’s busy again now. The addition of lots of child minding to my usual schedule always feels a bit overwhelming, but I will manage. Luckily it’s usually the week days that are busy, I can usually count on a quiet weekend.

After the hot weather and plenty of garden watering, my veggie patch has exploded with produce. I pick about this much every 2-3 days: https://imgur.com/a/CkUAZsV
A couple of days after christmas the basket was overflowing as I hadn’t had time to pick for a few days. So I texted all the neighbours offering home delivered fresh veg. They all said yes. What should have been a quick drop off to all the houses around me turned into all day talking and tea drinking. Every neighbour insisted on a cuppa and a chat. I left home at 10am and got home at 4pm without going more than 50 metres from house! Although it was nice to catch up with the all the neighbours, I think next time I might just leave veggies on the front porches and send everyone a text!

Hello to anyone reading that I haven’t mentioned. Hope you are well.

I’ll pop in when I can this month and hopefully get back to normal in February.
Take care everyone.

Good morning dear ones, and Happy New Year!

Anzac, Nice to be back home!
Sympathy to your sister’s family, I hope they are recovering well and that you dad avoided getting covid.
(My sister is improving but her partner also got it, and he is having a hard time with it.)

And thankyou, I am keeping up with the water. Hooray!

Hello Turn,
It sounds like you are in another beautiful place.
Haha, I love your burger story. I find the same. My tastes have changed so much and it is rare for junk food not to taste like junk.

Hi Cali,
It is so scary that extremes of weather is now the norm. Thank goodness the younger generation seems bent on action.
Australia’s story at the moment is the incredible destruction as rivers rise and flood hundred of kilometers downstream from the torrential rains.
I am glad you are built on rock.

I am also with you, still wearing my mask in closed or crowded places, and now one of the minority.

Neil, I think it might be impossible to make friends with a hostile magpie while riding a bike. But what a pity idiots introduced our magpies there. Nearly as bad as the possums.

It sounds like a good routine you have planned for yourself, I hope it works well.

LJoyce, hello and yes, it is so wonderful and so tiring to be looking after children.
I seem to need three days to recover after having a grandchild visit. So annoying, I want to do so much more. Fingers crossed I get a bit of extra energy.
Hoping you are able to look after yourself while you also look after the kids.

I enjoyed watching a bit of Retro Claude!

I just loved your story of taking 6 hours to drop off some veggies to your neighbours, haha. What a precious day though, even if you were secretly wishing you could get to the other things you wanted to do.
Wonderful garden!
Mine isn’t doing much. Two out of 4 cucamelons have survived, but they are not growing fast. I haven’t managed to mulch so my poor garden has suffered on our nasty hot days.

Thin, what a bitter sweet last hug of DD as she heads off. Hooray for video chats, and hopefully you will be able to catch up here and there.

Best wishes to everyone, I am looking forward to this year with you all.

Neil,
Sympathy xxx

I hope you can just forget about the nasty scales for a bit and concentrate on doing what is good for your health. Do a couple of weeks on your new regimen, and concentrate on whether is is sustainable, feels good for your body, works so that you don’t overeat on the days that aren’t controlled, and then after a couple of weeks the scales can tell you if they agree with what your brain has been deciding.

Good luck.

Neil, I’m sorry to read about the 20kg gain from your spectacular loss when we first knew you. You’re starting a new regime of Monday/Thursday fasting. So it’s a clean start. I feel this will work. My advice (should you choose to accept it) is to stick to those fast days and make sure your extended family are on board and know the days. A lot of people equate feeding/cooking with love. They need to get re-educated on how depressed this makes you. Better that they’re slightly offended than you’re depressed, overweight and unhappy. Continue to enjoy your junk food/alcohol Friday nights for now. Later, you can work on that.

Most 5:2ers choose two weekday fast days so you’re in good company. When I decided to begin this WOL, it happened to be a Sunday and I’ve always kept it as a FD because it means I couldn’t have a weekend blow out. If we had an event or invitation on a Sunday, I would change my FD to Saturday. Further invitations meant I had to decline. Always keep a FD in the bank, never in arrears.

Give it some thought. We’re with you.

Thanks for the support everyone, I had my first fast day of the year today (I didn’t fast on Monday because I was going to wait until after my weigh-in to start the new routine). I did OMAD for my fast day because it’s always after work I struggle with eating. I had a coffee around 11am, some miso soup at lunch time, then I made a veggie bake for dinner. Total calories for the day: 620. I’m going to stop the weekend drinks for the first couple of months of this year to see if that helps. Control day tomorrow, I’m going to try to stick to around 1500-1600 on control days which I’m going to try to keep to two meals of 700-800 calories each and no snacks in between.

I hope everyone is doing well and I’ll check in in a couple of days.

Hi all, the rain has finally stopped….yesterday it was biblical and completely washed out day three of the pink test (pink for Breast Cancer) between Australia and South Africa

Thin, we did 5 legs in first class with Emirates during our 2019 trip and the first leg was Auckland to Dubai, 17 hours and yes we had a shower! It was awesome, you could jog around the bathroom it was so huge. We always targeted the A380 for that reason….talk about spoilt! yes Mr Anzac’s recovery is actually quite miraculous and for that we are truly thankful. He is a little anxious about his follow-up colonoscopy next month but that is understandable

Cali, wow 10 days is very ambitious by your friends! Perhaps they didn’t realise just how big the distances are but glad they had a lovely time

Good for you Neil, I haven’t attempted a FD yet. I’ve lost 800 grams already though by upping the exercise and downing the carbs. Yay

Time to help Mr Anzac with dinner. Greek lamb, lemon potatoes and I’ve already made a huge salad with cos, cucumber, red and green capsicum, red onion, tiny tomatoes and a nice red vinegar dressing. Yum

Take care all, hope everyone can post lots soon 🙂