Hi All

Welcome to all of the newcomers. Hi Topsy, nice to see you here.

Remember to measure at the beginning and then every couple of months at least. Those of us with a lot to lose need to also measure our necks….yes I know how strange that seems but we have visceral fat around our necks and this is the unhealthy kind that is the same as tummy fat. It is an indicator of diabetes etc. remember we also have fat around our organs which is dangerous, it isn’t about just looking good. Even slim people can have a lot of internal fat, fat floating in our blood streams causes high cholesterol.

So many new names, sorry I was not posting. Thanks for the link Nemum 🙂 my weight really fluctuates, I will often weigh two days later and see 4lbs difference up or down. Don’t be disheartened by this.

Well done Milena for your loss, it was a long time coming, like me you have been doing this a long time and maybe have reached a plateau. You will get though this.

I have been busy cleaning cupboards and I have also joined a gym, I am trying to go twice a week for half an hour, this is tge time that was recommended for the first two or three weeks. I have an old knee injury so I have to start gradually.

My health trainer had joined another company and I shall be put on his waiting list in a couple of weeks time. I had been doing this without a break for 10 months and so I decided that I would do 4:3 but eat what I want within reason on NFDs. This seems to work by maintaining and hopefully when I am back with my trainer I will go back into weight loss mode again. I am happy to just maintain for a few weeks as I have about another four and a half stone to go and loose skin needs to tone up a bit.

It is lovely to eat what I want on NFDs but I am sure I will find it tough to get back to being good again. Just as well I want weight lose to slow doan, my target for next year is two to two and half stone, this should be really achievable.

I shall look in on here every few days until I get back to trying to lose again.

Have a nice week all. I am fasting today well Monday and Tuesday as I have a funeral on Wednesday. I really dislike having to change my day. I shall also be fasting on Friday. This keeps me on an even keel.

See you all soon.

Ginette

Ginette!
So good to see you back on here, the place isn’t the same without you. I’m glad you are up to posting. Your 4:3 will be an interesting test for your body, you might find that after a period of stability you could start losing weight again as you get used to the slightly higher calories on NFD it should raise your metabolism over time. Well done on the exercise too, I too have a dodgy knee so know how hard that is to get active. I was doing really well with my Wii fit regime but the balance board has broken again and I’ve lost the routine now. We have no money to replace it but I may buy a rechargable battery pack as I think its a loose connection there. Power to you sweetie, hope to see you post soon, even if you’re are not losing come chat, the forum is my best medicine and you always give such good advice and enxourage ment to others, including me when I need a kick up the rear end. Remember don’t run faster than your guardian angel can fly.
NEmum

Hi Cinque

I may snore, probably do. I am looking forward to starting with the health trainer again, I like Milena had almost plateaued and I was find it it really hard to lose weight, at the same time I really needed to t tone up.

Nemum, thanks and as Audrey says there is a battery pack you can buy for the Wii board, tge batteries seem t o go really quickly and so I got one as well. Audrey and I were doing one called Exerbeat and that although initially expensive was packed full of exercises from 5 minutes up. That tends to be a winter thing for me as I really feel the heat, you don’t need to use the balance board for this.

I do really like some of the exercises on Wii fit but I get fed up with them easily after a while as I have done them so many times. The bird and pinball are particularly good for the tummy area which is where I need it……apart from all over of course! 🙂 I will see if I can find you the link.

As you say maybe real on NFDs will kick start weight loss, I am not going too mad though on NFDs at the moment, I dare not say what I have in tge house as I don’t want to trigger cravings for you.

Hi Audrey

I am sure at some point when you are feeling better the Wii will come back out. It probably will for me as well. I know when your back is better again you may start thinking of it.

See you soon

Ginette

Yeah ginette is back…..thank goodness you have been really missed. No one gives good advice like you.

Hope to hear a lot more from you.

I know we three milena,you and me seem to have been on here for ever, and it is nice to get some time off for good behaviour but just remember we all have to finish this together and all 3 of us reach our own targets….

Audrey

Drum roll please. …..

I have done a B2B and succeeded. …..finished today under 500 kcals.

Going bed now am exhausted but elated.

Audrey

Back again. Granddaughter has vegemite on toast, so all is well in the world.

Re what I am eating on Fast Days: I started in midwinter, so I had a small bowl of porridge in the mornings, and a bowl of soup in the evenings, with a slice of toast ( from my home made bread).
Plus I let myself have all my usual cuppas, which do all have milk in them.

I have tried to have less cuppas, then I stopped wanting porridge as soon as the season turned, and now my aim is to have miso soup in the morning, veggie soup in the evening, and still have as few cuppas as I can get away with.

I am lucky that 5:2 worked easily, and straightway, for me, and I am steadily losing weight so far, but I think I put the hard ground work in a few years ago when I stopped eating sugar, even fruit ( except the occasional berries).

I am planning to Fast again on Friday, I think! One day back home to organise myself, buy miso sachets and get the soup out of the freezer.

PS Audrey, I was encouraging her to THROW those chocolates AWAY!

Did you Milena???????

Hi Audrey

Well done on your two days……didn’t it seem long, I am glad that I am now not fasting for two days. I prefer to speared it out a bit with a day inbetween each.

I think that I posted on the forum every day for over 9 months, I was always quite strict but I would still have a treat or two in the week.

I am hoping that I will build muscle however slowly as muscle boosts metabolism. This means that I won’t have to work so hard to lose weight. I don’t want visible muscle so take any ideas of muscle women out ir your mind.

Cinque

I love porridge, I have a fancy for that now. I don’t eat porridge as a regular thing as I get hungry after eating it. I shall have it on Thursday though. I wouldn’t eat it on fast days unless I had it as my main meal in the evening, the trouble is I have added sultanas and nuts to it so I wouldn’t be able to do a proper count.

I could never throw chocolates away!!

Hi Nemum

I have cravings for all different things, sometimes wholemeal bread or cheese and sometimes for sweet treats. I only keep a limited amount of things in the house. That way I can’t go mad.

Hi Milena

I am sure you will get into that coat soon, it does get difficult to lose after a while, maybe the less strict NFDs and tge gym will start things moving without anything else. Three fast days are plenty. I hope to get back into soupmaking soon as the weather is now cooler.

I’ve never cooked herring.

Ginette

Have weighed in and am proud to announce I have lost the 2.5lb I put on over the weekend. ….

Sorry milena I have not cooked herring either. Isn’t it annoying to be between sizes, I need a size 11 at the moment……

Ginette glad you are back, good luck for today never a nice thing to go to a funeral hope it’s ok.

Cinque glad you are doing so well,

Keelee, I have just completed a B2B fast. Went 48 hrs on liquid only. Went from 1 evening meal, to evening meal 48 hrs later…. I have been doing 5 2for a while now, and I find it easier to not eat at all rather than trying to stop eating, I am unfortunately a binger once I start eating I don’t stop!

Sorry have to dash off my friend is coming today for a much needed catch up…. will be back later…..

Audrey

Hi ladies

Something really good has happened. I had my lunch one of those pkt of pasta n sauce, and wasn’t hungry after! Not only that I am still not hungry! So now what do I do. ….Do I go for a 3rd fast day in a row or eat something now when I am not hungry?

Audrey

Milena

Thanks very much sound advice as usual. I will leave food for now, if I get hungry later I have some rhubarb in fridge which is low calorie and filling!

Audrey

Hi Audrey

so good I seem to have posted it twice – it must have posted halfway through – my second go was sooo much better than my first, which I thought sounded a bit bossy!! Sorry!

Good morning,
Hi Blaise, what a wonderful set of changes you are making. All power to you.

I am home after a lovely week in Sydney with my daughters little family. So no more access to scales. Very glad. I just love checking my progress in a non scale way. I lose weight in jumps, and I have just done one of those jumps where I can really see and feel that I have lost weight.

Milena I do understand how hard it is to get rid of ‘perfectly good’ food. We were brought up that it was wasteful to leave food on the plate, and never to throw ANYTHING out! I do try to avoid waste, but it is better for my health to chuck out things. Luckily I have compost bins, and Mother Earth makes better use of that stuff than my body does.

Ginette isn’t it funny that porridge can leave you hungry soon after, I notice that even with the good rolled oats I use. But other times it keeps me going for hours. I always had it with a few sultanas in and a sprinkle of sugar. After I stopped eating high sugar foods, I just couldn’t bring myself to eat it plain! But finally, after two or three years, I found I could, and I love it through the winter months, with salt and pepper on it! True!

Audrey I hope you have had a lovely tasty non fast day. Isn’t it interesting, listening to our bodies and trying to work out which are healthy messages, and which are not.

Cheers everyone, here is a bunch of flowers for you! ?

Hi Cinque

don’t worry, the chocolates don’t bother me – OH in a paddy, though a rare sight and always rather funny – does though, he gets upset about throwing out perfectly awful food, he is still using eggs with an October use by date.

I just use the fresh stuff and leave the rest to him, knowing I’m doing my bit for both the planet and for marital relations, and I think the Presbyterian is happy that he wastes nothing. Even if it tastes awful, and I think it sometimes does, though he is not likely to admit it, he actually revels in the sacrifice.

He has been known to take mouldy stuff out of the recycle food bin and use it. Me? If we have freshly bought milk I discard the old and I refuse to use eggs which are more than three days old. We all have our wee foibles.

When his parents moved, I think they removed 6 skipfuls of stuff out of the garage and the attic, and yet the attic in the next house, full to the gunnels. OH’s brother set fire to the Garage the other day – i swear they found stuff from the 19th century – their father would never ever through anything away. The first time I cleared out OHs wardrobe – stuff which had been in the wardrobe unused for at least 10 years – he threw a major wobbly! And every clearout is just like groundhog day – I chuck it out and he puts it back!

I do love that man!!!!

I know what you mean though, Cinque. I’m not very good at keeping wine in the house, I have a nose like a divining rod when it comes to looking for wine OH has hidden.

But I’m being teetotal for six weeks so there won’t be any. Strange, there is all sorts of spirits and beers, and noilly prat, to make a martini about once every five years. It all hangs around for months and years.

Hi all,

Cinque hope the fast day is going well, I am looking forward to my day today, Ian is home soon and is off for the next 4 nights so we are on slow cooked sausage casserole for tea yummy!

Milena, well done on going alcohol free for a while, it said on the news the other day, if you go a month without alcohol it has great heakth benefits, so you go for it, although I don’t think you consume vast amounts do you?

Have a great day everybody

Audrey

Second fast day of the week for me, so I’ve had just a cup of tea thus far (I’m in England and it’s 10am). Dinner will be a vegetable curry (cooked and frozen a couple of weeks ago) at just 150 calories. Next time I make it I will use far less curry paste though – it is extremely hot!

I’m finding that having new dishes to cook (all under 200 calories) is helping to motivate me, as it means that I feel as though I am still have ‘proper’ food on fast days.

The stevia I ordered has arrived, so will be trying that, instead of my usual teaspoon of sugar, in my black coffee shortly. I find all these so-called ‘natural’ sugar substitutes a bit of a challenge, as there are so many different reviews of them, with an equal amount of positive and negative comments. Anyway, the stevia I’ve chosen is 100% natural and organic, direct from the plant, and is recommended by various health gurus, so I hope that it will be okay!

How’s everyone else doing today?

Howdy y’all from the wilds of Oklahoma. 54 and bigger than I have ever been. Love reading the posts, now I think I’m ready to act! 40 pounds to lose at least, it didn’t come on overnight so I know it won’t come off overnight either. Wish me luck ladies! I’ll keep you posted.

Welcome mitziday

I am sure you will soon feel at home we are a friendly group of ladies here.

Cinque hope you had a good day.

Blair let me know where you got the stevie from please

Have a good weekend ladies, keep in touch together we are stronger

Audrey

Well im from New Zealand and id like to say KIAROA,it means hello.Its nice to hear from you.

Yer me too. I cant seem to lose much at all.I was ok then hit menopause and the weight piled on along with a low thyroid.I take whole thyroid from my DR but even though I do a lot of excersize my weight seems to stick.I seem to lose a couple of grms only to find it keeps coming back.But the other day I looked in the mirror and found were it was hiding….oh yer on my bum mmmmmm.

Hi KeeLee, It is the milk in drinks that kept me going over 500cals on Fast Days. A cup of milk is 150 calories, and I go through at least that with all my cuppas!

Blaise

3lb loss well done. ……

I am entertaining granddaughters today and off to mums tomorrow till Friday, so will only be posting occasionally from now.

Stay strong ladies and remember that together we are stronger

Audrey

Hi Blaise,
I planned to avoid those milky cuppas on Fast Days, and there are a lot of non milky ones I drink (mint, bergamot herb, thyme in the garden, rose water, licorice tea and ginseng in my cupboard). I also tried weak black tea, that I quite like. And I love drinking the beautiful green tea my neighbour brought me from China.
But I found I just had to have the run of drinks I always start my day with.

So I cut down on food rather than my cuppas with milk!

Once the morning cuppas are over, I generally don’t need another milk one. The last couple of Fast Days I have done without the spiced drink, with milk, that I generally finish the day with.

I did plan on making Fast Days caffeine free too, but I haven’t managed that yet either!

Lovely loss Blaise!
Have fun with those granddaughters Audrey! And with your mum!
Have a great time on the Isle of Wight, NE!
Best wishes everyone.
I’m having the day before the Fast day!

Hi Elf,
Hope life makes some nice space for fasting soon!

My wife and I have been on the fast Diet for over 8 months now. I have now moved on to 6:1 but my wife still wants to shed an extra kilo or so and fears that for her 6:1 will just add the weight back on. She has got stuck in a weekly cycle of weight loss/gain that is showing no progress for the past 3 months. Except that any trend seems to be upwards! Her weight can fluctuate up to 2kg over 3 days, and yet she has changed her eating habits so that she eats very little for breakfast and lunch and most dinners are low calorie ones. She doesn’t snack, and yet the great progress she was making has stopped and is threatening to reverse. She’s 50 and is concerned that she will be on 5:2 for life just to maintain her weight. Does anyone have any suggestions for what’s going on, or ways to break the cycle?