Good morning everyone from rain, rain, rainy Melbourne,

Oh dear Neil, hello to that 1 kilo again.
Keep on keeping on. Those evening indulgences may well be the problem, so all power to you avoiding them.

I might just set up a new forum to rival 5:2 on my completely unresearched light bulb of an idea based on personal experience (what could go wrong?). It is because after nearly a year of eating small meals that don’t stretch my stomach, and trying to be philosophical about the fact that I might never feel satisfied after a meal, something readjusted in my stomach – brain messaging and now my small ‘no bigger than my fisted hand’ sized meals satisfy me and if I eat more I feel so uncomfortably full.

So what if that is the thing that would stop people from putting back the weight they have lost? What if the stomach has to spend a year without being stretched and then it reprograms the brain? I could make millions (seeing how people just love a solution that takes a year to work 😉 ).

Ofcourse, still struggling with my predilection to comfort eat and just want more. And evening are the trickiest.

Gday, what a wonderful trip to Adelaide! I hope that fast is going well… gone well? and you are feeling fantastic.

Thin, I am also glad you survived Storm Bert easily, some places got such terrible damage. And yay for getting back to your favourite 5:2… 6:1 routine.

Anzac woohoo! Thanks for popping in. Oh what wonderful sights! You can try my ‘one year of never feeling satisfied’ diet when you get home! I need some guinea pigs 😀 😀 😀

Oh well, I have had my coffee. I will enjoy the feeling of being satisfied and go and get things done.

Best wishes to everyone.

6 days after arriving back home from Adelaide last week and I’ve dropped 0.9kg so very happy indeed. My fast on Tuesday wasn’t as long as planned, only 38 hours but still a good amount of time.

Hello old friends. Yes, here I am back again. Life’s been a bit hard but I thought it was time to shake myself off and get back into the things that are both enjoyable and important. OH is still doing okay after some life-threatening incidents. But he has come through again (Lazarus with a triple bypass, is the expression I think we credit to Paul Keating). I have had some reactions to it all, but am okay.
I am not going to go back and read all your posts for now – I just wanted to reconnect.
Hope you are all well and happy.
xx
Lindsay

Morning all, and good to see you again Lindsay

Well that last kilo is being bloody stubborn, still hanging around where it’s not wanted. I have been able to get out riding a bit more this week than I have been over November, so that is a positive.

Congrats on the losses Thin and Gday.

Well, back to the grind, I hope everyone is well.

Morning Neil. Our messages crossed. “the last kilo??”. Does that mean you are back to your fighting self? Last time I was on the site…a long time, admittedly…. you were still struggling to shift some weight you’d put on. Congratulations.

Writing quickly before I head over to my daughter’s to babysit.

Hello everyone!

Hello Lindsay! All power to you getting back into 5:2 and feeling good on it.
Big congratulations to you getting through rough times, and big cheers to Mr Lindsay too!
Lovely to have lots of veggies and wonderful organic meat.

Thin, woot for the 59’s!

Gday, woot on nearly a kilo gone.

Neil, I hope your kilo goes this week!

So interesting to hear about that documentary Thin. I have been thinking so much about your issue re personal responsibility. It is true that is part of it, but we are such social creatures.
I’ve been thinking how, in my suburban childhood, half the population grew up with no responsibility for feeding anyone (men) and the others (women) had a daunting task that they tried to make as easy, quick and inexpensive as they could. And since then we have had big business flooding us with what they have called easy, healthy, inexpensive and what the family would love to eat.
It takes a lot of hard work and research, and skill and experience to swim against that tide!

I’m doing the best I can though! I have my freezer packed with lovely home made ready meals at the moment. I do need to finish up the remaining veg in the fridge, so hopefully I can organise that well.

It has been so hot here, I have already worn more summer dresses than I did over the last couple of summers combined. (I can only wear sandals on very hot days as I suffer from cold feet).

Sending out lots of best wishes
Ciao

Hello all. Sunday morning here, started fasting from 7pm last night and hoping to go through until Tuesday morning. The heatwave is over thank goodness and now we have wind which by the forecast will persist for the entire week.

Ive been feeling very unmotivated in the last week and seem to have lost my mojo both mentally and physically, I just don’t have the energy for anything. I hate not getting things done. Tomorrow, regardless of how I feel I will push myself to get out in the yard and do some chores. Tuesday we go into town for an appointment for Miss Gday, do food shopping etc and for the rest of the week I plan to continue with outside chores given the temps will be in the low 30s so I need to make the most of the cooler weather, despite the wind.

Time to hang out the washing and make another cuppa

FD for me. I so enjoyed watching my weight drop during November that I’ve continued 5:2 into December. Happily nudging 60kg instead of 61kg by the time the FD arrives.

We’ve had 56mph winds all weekend. We tied our boat to our neighbours’ with whom we share a stub pontoon. The basin here is relatively sheltered. Some parts of the country endured 93mph wind yesterday. Many of the boats now have their Christmas lights up and there are trees and lights in the windows of the canal warehouse converted apartments surrounding the basin. There are Christmas markets in the town. It never quite seemed like Christmas when it was 42C although DDDD (dinky-di DD) has a different view.

Cinque, GDSA, I respect your views on the obesity pandemic. I understand the complex underlying issues. And I’ve been a fat person. We don’t glorify other addictions. Unfortunately, we are now at a point where society has normalised obesity. Here, we have ads for deodorants and sanitary products where morbidly obese women are proudly portrayed as beautiful. It’s not beautiful; it’s unhealthy, life-threatening and comes at a huge personal and societal cost. Placing blame solely on governments/food manufacturers disincentivises personal change and ensures the status quo. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7025495/

I think it will be interesting to learn whether Trump’s appointment of Kennedy to rattle the FDA has any effect in America. Trump is the only President in US history to leave office with less money than he arrived with. He is not for sale. Bad luck for the mighty food manufacturing lobbyists.

As you know, I don’t do political correctness or woke. Adult issues require adult conversations and some people may get offended. So what?

Welcome to England Anzac, I hope you’re having a fabulous time in Bath. It sounds like you just missed the brunt of the storm and high winds in the SW – although it would have been wet and windy in London too.

So sorry you have been sick Neil, I hope you feel better soon

Thin the weather in London was quite ok when we arrived but when the storm hit it was diabolical. So cold and wet and blowing a gale. Bath is beautiful but we are off to Edinburgh tomorrow

Morning all. Neil that’s tough your weight is up. But fluid disappears, so hoping for a good loss when you’re recovered. Our weather has been crackers. 36 on Sunday, which was hideous. Then rain yesterday, which started just after we took the dogs to the beach…we were so chilly when we got back that OH put on a track suit. DD says there was 85 mm in Brisbane overnight.

Your trip sounds wonderful Anzac – hope you find Edinburgh sunny. I love those crisp winter days when the sun is shining. And such lovely architecture. Quite different from Bath’s, but lovely.

Thin I wonder if Elon Musk was told Trump’s not for sale? 🙂 Kennedy’s appointment, if it goes through, will be interesting to watch. He seems to have such a mixed bag of beliefs. His policies on ultraprocessed food could make a huge difference – but then there’s the other stuff…vaccines, fluoride. Wait and see, I guess.

Gday I think you are so right about how fast easy food has crept into society. Personal responsibility must take a part …but how can you take responsibility if all you have ever known is packaged convenience foods, served up as healthy?

I bought baby cereal to wean Rosy’s puppies, and was horrified at the ingredients in this ‘healthy’ product. Bellamy’s organic cereal – oats and corn as the main ingredient, and pear juice as the second. Training babies for a sweet tooth from the get go. Nestles rice cereal…rice first, and maltodextrin second. And many mother would read it is organic, and therefore healthy, and think they were doing the best they possibly could. (and no, I didn’t give it to the puppies when I read the ingredients list at home).

Cinque how are you going? As always, lovely to read your posts. I wonder if things have changed much in the generations? I suspect most of the shopping/cooking is till done by women.

OK, dogs still sleeping, OH in bed with tea and toast and ABC news radio, rain is still falling, and I have a book to read.

Have a good day all.