Athunsia we care. Be happy. You matter
Audrey have a lovely time with the grandkids
Cinque, glad the fast went well and you too enjoy your granddaughter
Some good news – I have achieved my goal and am just under 60kg – Yippy!
Havent been below 60 since like 10 years ago

Keep up the good work girls – It will happen for all of us

I was 91kg when I started the 5:2 My first weigh day last Monday was 89kg but today I was 89.5kg. I have been pigging out on yoghurt, ice cream and other sweets so I can’t complain. Will fast Tuesday and Friday this week.
Good luck to everyone. It’s a difficult road but a necessary one.

Morning from cheshire ladies,

Big drum roll for Prema. …..congratulations girl well done. …

Athunsia, glad you got things sorted out with hubby…

Cinque, glad you had good day with grandchildren.

Ian has finished his 4 in , but we are in for a busy week, ruby is ill so babysitting today, then got to decorate the tree, put outside lights up, travel to caravan and sort out the garden there and go christmas shopping…… with a bit of luck not much time to eat. ..

Will be back in touch later in week,

Keep in touch together we are stronger

Audrey

Cinque
I’m fasting today. I’m going to stay out in the garden for as long as I can today. It’s hot and humid so I can sweat off some of the fat!
It would be just lovely to have a granddaughter. My son and his first wife lost a little girl when they were only in there teens. Birth defects 🙁
My daughter only wants four legged, furry kids 🙂 My g’son is a treasure so I’m happy.
Audrey
I hope Ruby is feeling better. Your household is a very busy place. But quite happy too I’m guessing.
Good fasting ??

Morning all,

My mum is getting better slowly, but had a mishap in the shower and managed to re open the cut on her leg!

The nurse has been and bandaged it up again, it’s going to take some time for her to recover completely. I will tell her you have been asking about her cinque.

We decorated the tree yesterday and put the outside lights up, also went to shops to start the christmas food shopping.

Hope you have had a good day,

Audrey

Good evening,
Which it is here…. a lovely, long, evening with soft light and kind temperature.

So sorry to hear your mum’s wound reopened, Audrey. So frustrating for her. Hopefully it will be easy healing from now on.
Cheers for your tree. I have some lights to hang in the window, I wonder if I will get them up? #christmasinertia

The girls have just got home (daughter is on skype explaining to husband how to work the washing machine 😉 ) Tot will be asleep soon. She is such fun. I am a very lucky grandma.

Your birds and pets are very lucky Athunusia!

I am not a planner by nature. I am an impulsive, idealistic, act before I think, rush headlong into things type of person. But chronic illness is a hard teacher, and planning is my best skill now for so many things. I do recommend it! (Anything I don’t want to fail at, I plan, plan, plan!)

Mind you I haven’t made the soup for tomorrow!… but things have thawed and the beans are cooked. I might still make it before bedtime. If not, there is still tomorrow!

Best wishes to you all! See you on my Fast Day tomorrow!

Good morning Audrey, and everyone else.
I’m home alone, with Miso the cat. Missing the girls dreadfully, but really glad to take things slow.

Fast day yesterday, Sunday, that I managed ok.

Impressed by your back to backing Audrey!

Morning ladies,

I completed my 2nd fast yesterday, have to say it was pretty hard, I think it’s made much worse because I know we have lots of lovely Christmas food in the cupboards. …..

Cinque isn’t it awful when they go home after a visit the house seems so quiet for a while, although I must confess to sigh of relief too when both our granddaughters go they can be very demanding both wanting undivided attention! Our poor sonny (big dog) heaves a sigh too as he has had balls thrown for him more or less non stop and made to heel round and round the house hehe. ..

Have a great week, I have lost a lb!

Keep in touch as always we are stronger together

Audrey

Cheers for your fasting Audrey. I can imagine how hard it must be with Christmas treats in your house. How do you manage it? Do you promise yourself a treat each non fast day?

I am more exhausted than I thought after my busy week, so I am trying to rest…. And to get everything done.

Hi NEmum, sending good wishes and hoping that life is gentling down ( although it generally does the opposite for Christmas). I hope you can keep your head above water, and that soon you can 5:2 with us again.

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Morning ladies from cheshire,

Cinque you rest up I know how exhausting catering for visitors can be…..

NeMum let us know how you get on with your 1st fast.

Athunsia are you still with us? Keep in touch

Have a good day/evening wherever you may be,

Audrey

Cinque

Good morning to you/good evening from me…..

Hope you have a lovely day, it’s very wet and miserable here in Cheshire although not very cold for December.

Glad you are recovered now from your visitors and hope you have a lovely day today.

I am off to bed soon, will be back in touch in my morning, your late afternoon.

Audrey

Cinque
Sunshine and warmth this rime of year, how lovely. Every second year we spend Christmas in the Canary Islands, so lovely this time of year, but what with one thing and another, we’re here in chilly, wet NE england, you’re right audrey tho, its not that cold for December.

My fast yesterday went well until mid afternoon, I successfully had 100 calories for breakfast and 100 calories for lunch, but then there were some homemade ginger biscuits in the afternoon and it went down hill from there but rather than feel down, I feel really proud of myself for making a start back at 5:2. Onwards and upwards I’ll try again Thursday.

NEmum

Audrey
New Year, New Me!
I like it.
25lb to lose that’s great and so do-able.
I’m not beating myself up about not completing my fast yesterday, but I need to take back control especially over this festive period, that’s the way I work well in my head. I have Christmas parties on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, so I feel I need to fast tomorrow and then again on Monday to offset this, see how things go; NEdad is away on business from today until Friday, and I’m never quite at ease when he’s not here.

NEmum

Good morning, we’ve got a heatwave until Sunday, I think I would swap for cold dark UK!
Although right at the moment it is cool and lovely.
I’m sitting up in bed facing another hectic day. But the exciting thing is a new stove is being installed. My old one lost its ignition last week. It is over 20 years old so they said I’d get a new one, but maybe not til after Christmas. But it is today. My old stove was a crabby, worn down thing so I am very excited.

I like your plan Audrey, so sensible to adjust to the season, and the new year to look forward too. I am kind of with you! My life is fairly isolated and unchrismassy and sugar free, so it doesn’t have the same difficulties. I can fast and eat as normal. But that doesn’t have to stop me from being with you! Surely!

NE mum, another half fast nicely done! Good luck with the next days! It is a hard time of year to get back into it. Have you got some Christmas party strategies?

Sunshine and flowers folks! ???????

Fast day for me, and no ginger biscuits!

Thanks Audrey. I am going to celebrate with my three sisters a few days after Christmas Day, so we might be a bit feasty then. And on the day I am having lunch with one friend who hasn’t got family with her, and the evening meal with another. But, to tell the truth, I am not much into Christmas food (it is Australian summer after all). I miss my (mum’s recipe) mince tarts, but that is all. My friend and I are planning harira soup for the evening meal! And we want to watch Shirley Valentine. I’m rather hoping I can talk the other friend out of Christamssy stuff, but it might be important to her. She has a lot of food intolerances though, so it will be interesting.

Have fun with the wrapping!

The stove might arrive any time now!

Hi Audrey,
No stove yet 🙁 🙁 🙁
They were out of stock on Thursday. But they rang me up yesterday and said they would install it on Tuesday 🙂 🙂 🙂

Also my Christmas day plans have shrunk down, and I might only do the evening thing, or nothing at all. I’m such a hermit though, I will be glad to just rest all day.

I bet all the rest of you are busy, busy, busy so I will just say hi! and let you go rushing about. 😉

Hi everyone. I feeling worried and apprehensive. My hubby’s blood pressure went very high two nights ago plus his pulse started to race and was irregular. I was awake most of the night checking him. In the morning it was the same. I called the Dr but he was away. The receptionist said to go straight to the hospital. They observed him and decided to send him home to rest. Stress was the culprit! It’s going down to his usual measurements but its a warning that he needs to deal with stress in a better way.
They are trying to sort out his blood pressure tablets and I think that may have caused it too. For weeks he’s been grumpy and very tired.
I’m scared that its the beginning of a larger problem 😟

Thanks Audrey
His father died at 68 from a heart attack and his Mum died at 72 from a stoke. He feels that he’ll die around these times too. He’s 66.
Anyway fasting is impossible at the moment so I’ve dumped it until after the new year. Hopefully things will stabilize by then.

Hi everyone,
Athunusia, I do hope your hubby’s blood pressure stays settled down, and that your fears can abate. It is one on the scary things about being ‘ of a certain age’ isn’t it. Let’s hope he gets his bp sorted and gets another good run. Best wishes. 🌻🌻🌻🌻

It is really interesting to me, being so unchrismassy, how so much food dominates so many lives for so long before Christmas. The forum is full of people who are unable to do 5:2 for about three weeks around Christmas. What does that say about the world we are living in! Crazy! 😖 That’s my opinion!
It’s not food for one day, for a festival. Or even a few days, catching up with family. It isn’t even 5 days a week for the duration: nearly everyone is finding that impossible. It is 7 days of feasting for at least three weeks in a row.
Like I said, what does that say about the world we are living in? 🤔

Rant over. 🐓🐓🐓

I’ve just spent the night in 30 degree heat. Thank goodness for my little bedside fan. It is fast day today, going to have lots of hydration! 8 hours to the cool change. Hope it comes early.
Lots of fires, so my heart goes out to the firefighters.

Best wishes to you all.

Morning ladies

Fast day here today yippee….

I made lots of gingerbread cookies yesterday only are a couple bit I am ready for a fast day now.

Hope my friends down under manage to stay cool. We in Britain are having a mild but wet winter so far. …. no sign of a white xmas here!

Have a great sunday, stay focused, I am afraid cinque my xmas celebrations are going on for about 2 weeks, …….lots of family celebrations

Audrey

Oh dear,

Friends dropped in my fast day has comprised of 2 gingerbread xmas trees, home made xmas cake, very tasty full of brandy! , and a handful of cheese nibbles. … think it’s about 500 kcals?

Hope you have a better day than me cinque, although ian has gone off to work very happy as we have opened the cake he has taken a BIG slice hehe hohoho

Talk again soon

Audrey

Hi ladies,

This is my last post for a while, I am busy now with family parties, and then off to mums for boxing day until new years eve. Will be back in time for new years party here.

I am having a fasting break until January 5th. Will be back in touch then.

Will take this opportunity to wish you all Merry Christmas and see you next year. 🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄

Audrey ❤❤❤

Merry Christmas cinque. Cu next year…

🎄🎄🎄🎅🎅🎅🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁

Athunusia, What a worrying time for you! I am glad your husband has been diagnosed and treatment has started. Best wishes to both of you. Enjoy Christmas!

Morning Nemum

I am at my mums until new year. Unfortunately she lives in Lancashire and her town has been flooded. We just made it here on boxing day, her house is not affected but the town was flooded….

I am full of a cold and am not fasting until early in the new year. I haven’t tried a nutri master but believe they are really good..

Hope everyone is ok, will be back fasting again soon now.

Audrey