Evening BooBoo and everyone,
Hi Jeff5 well done I want another couple of pounds to come off and then I am going to try 6-1 but I am going to be very careful. I find the 500-5 550 calories easy to do and I think I could do this for life with the odd holiday off from 5-2 when I go on my holidays. if you know what I mean.
coffee54 the 500 adds up very quickly. Buy a calorie book to keep on you at all times but you will find that the food you eat most will stick in our mind.
Ali I think it’s Boo who types her message in Word and copy and paste into here.
At least we would not lose them, it’s when I go up the page to read a few messages that I wanted to comment on and all my typing use to disappear. JIP

Hi LUVTCOOK, I think you are all stuck with me, I will be watching what I eat until I die. On my grave stone it wil read something like (She died dieting) LOL
Iouabook, hope your Mum is on the mend, our bones do not mend when we get older.
Smiffy, still having trouble getting on 5-2 with safari or AOL. but ok with Google Chrome.
BooBoo are you still reading the new diet book? let us in on it.
Sally if it goes on quick it’s mostly water not all fat.
ALiH61 if you have time read back better than a good book.
Hermajtomomi my problem is I like chocolate no matter what colour it is. LOL.
I am watching a TV program bikini diet so far it’s no good, just another way of eating.
Good night or good morning all JIP

Hi all LOACAs

Precious, thank you for the award – I’ll treasure it! (Not joking).

Today is the first of my B2B fast days and was delighted to see this morning that the scales were at my best reading for this year so have hopes of maybe seeing a new kg number on Wednesday morning. (Shouldn’t weigh often I know but am always curious as to whether the 5 non-FDs have done any damage.)

Lovely to hear stories from new ladies, Precious and JIP have welcomed you all already.

Ow & Dw Ladies!

I’m really thrilled!! X

Hi. I am 56 and have had 2 weeks of this regime. So far I lost 6lbs and I’m stoked! I had a brush with Breast Cancer 12 years back, and doing chemo, which hurtled me into early menopause. I gained weight, then lost it doing what I realize now was intermittent fasting. The weight stayed off for 8 years when my life circumstances changed and I was fitting in with another person’s less than healthy eating pattern more often than not. I’m relieved to have something that may be able to reign in my body’s tendency to put on weight now. As a younger woman I held at between 8 1/2 to 8 3/4 stone with no problems at all. I’ve felt my body shift into fat burning mode again in the same way I felt it last time around. I’d love to live eating this way, so I’m in this for the long term. Both weeks I’ve had high energy meals as well as lower ones eg fish and chips. I havn;t really changed anything apart from fasting. Apparently intermittent fasting helps with my high risk for further BC as well! Good luck to everybody 🙂

Hi Booboo,
When I went for my brisk walk on Sunday my step count for an hour was 7081 (about 6km). This is on the flat and really extending the stride. My pedometer is a fitbit zip, that lets me enter height as well as weight and age so I think it works out stride length from that! More fancy (expensive) fitbits also let you enter stride length. What distance did you cover in your 50 mins? When you know your stride length you could perhaps work out an approximate number of steps you would expect to do 🙂
Walking in front of the computer looks inviting especially on cold, wet winter days.
Best foot forwards… VM

Hi there everyone!!! A big thumbs up to you all out there…..you have all sooo encouraged me. Got home from work today….my long day….3pm (usually finish at 12.30pm….work in a school office) to check my emails and found some more poste. What an encouragement. Its my second fast day and i have been able to be successful….even though my sister came over and offered me a gin and tonic and hubby offering me choc. Feeling quite proud of myself….early days I know. Have started reading this thread from the start….very interesting.

Hermajtomomi
Love that quote!

Thanks for the sympathy re techie problems, Cheeseplease.

I don’t find it sad at all that you should feel bereft if your broadband goes down.

There are so many other ways in which it’s made our lives easier. Apart from using it for work and study – without it studying certainly at uni level would be impossible, and I would guess that the same applies to younger students when GCSEs and the A-levels start to loom. How did we use to manage before things like like online banking and credit card management, travel bookings, online newspapers, watching TV or listening to radio programmes that you would otherwise have missed, not to mention keeping up with old friends and making new ones,like on this very forum? You can also search for all sorts of information such as I just did and found the answer to our question: How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? Charles De Gaulle, in “Les Mots du General”, 1962,French general & politician (1890 – 1970). The list goes on and on.

Certainly it has transformed my job as a translator. Time was when I had to hang around in libraries, sometimes the other side of London, for hours on end looking, not always successfully, for information. Now 95% of the time practically everything you need can be found online, but of course you have to check the sources – Wikipedia is far from infallible. Now and then I still have to go to a library, e.g. I had to go to the British Library to look at a late 19th-century Baedeker travel guide that featured in a piece I was working on – but even then I was able to reserve it online.

Fortunately nothing urgent was at stake when we had our little hiccup at the weekend. I’m not quite sure how we would have coped if there had been.

Hi, It’s my first fast day today. I’m post menopausal and I really struggle to lose weight whatever diet I try, but at least I don’t seem to gain anything extra from my start weight. So it will be really good to keep in touch with other ladies of a certain age, it must be possible to lose weight.

Hello All – from La Paz, Baja California, Mexico (where we live now – drove down from the land of freeze and Moose, Canada!). Well – I decided to fast every second day until I go on holiday and wouldn’t you know it ……. I haven’t lost an ounce!! Oh Well – it is hard here in Mexico to not want to go out and eat the local food but the tortillas harina are made with lard – so delicious!! Love the refried beans too – oh poop – have to stay off those babies for another 20 pounds!! I detest fish so don’t anyone suggest I could enjoy all the delicious fish one can find down here!
Just had my BBQd chicken breast – all 4 ozs. of it – of course I had to share with the cat too!

Here here boo boo

Congratulations Precious on a whole year of perseverance. Your loss of 9.071 kg is certainly significant. You deserve the “Starting This Thread and Sticking To It Through Thick and Thin” Award. Wear it with pride. It changes colour to match whatever you are wearing at the time, so always looks good!
Well done!!!
Cheers PVE 🙂

Precious, We were on Skye for the Summer Solstice a couple of years ago. It was amazing having the sun only sink just below the horizon.
We don’t get Scottish winters here (although it is actually snowing in the southern alps as I write) but relatively it is cold. We have trouble admitting it ever gets cold in this part of the world, so houses are not prepared for the icy winds we get if it does happen to snow in the south. At least we get sunny winter days, so, stay out of the wind in the sun, behind a window, and the weather is gorgeous.
Spring will be here before we know it and we did have an incredibly warm autumn right up until a few weeks ago. Can’t complain.
Enjoy your second year in this WOE zone.
PVE

Hi Booboo, I have to own up, I think I know what caused my pedometer to go walkies in the night. A week or so after the first incident I woke up enough to register that I still had my pedometer in my nightshirt pocket. So tossed it out on the floor – maybe causing it to take a few steps! I’m s sad case, in the thrall of my pedometer, if I take steps not wearing it and they are not counted have I taken those steps? … sort of thing. I’ll be in trouble when the battery goes flat. This pedometer doesn’t register steps when shaken like one I was given recently as a freebie in a bag of diabetes awareness goodies.

Hi BooBoo

Composed my messages in iPad notes so I didn’t lose it today. I have only just reached my realistic target weight, would love to be 7 lbs lighter but I’m not a teenager any more! So I will let you know about maintaining later on, I’m going to try 6:1 at first. As I have said previously I follow a low GI way of eating, it helps to keep the rumbling tummy at bay. Like many others I snack in the evening, so I may eat crudités or about 10 whole almonds. I had trouble shifting my last few pounds and that’s where 5:2 really helped, often a change in your eating regime can help any plateau.

Alas today I’ve had to say goodbye to Zumba, my worn left hip can’t take it anymore. Instead I’m going to try Pilates with my sister in law and do more walking around the Sussex countryside. I have a pedometer and must wear it at school to see how many steps I do a day. I remember talking to class 5 last year about hobbies/interests; I did walking and during the half term I walked 35 miles in one week. But I did make a point of going out every day.

Hi to all the newbies and remember where ever you are on your journey there are plenty of us on this thread to offer encouragement and advice.

Finally LOACA any advice on remedies for hot flushes? My internal stat is running off the scale at present! Ali x

good evening all: BooBoo must write down names because there are too many to count at this point. That is wonderul.

Boo: congrats on the 20lbs. I know how hard won each an every one of those has been for you.

JIP: glad we have you for the duration. Can’t lose a LOACA just because you got skinny for heaven sakes.

Hermaj: enjoying your reminiscences of France….I am very jealous.

PVE we have not crossed paths so much, but it is nice to meet you.

Everyone sounds so upbeat today. It must be the turn in the weather after such a harsh winter. My condolences to those in the southern hemisphere….been there, done that. Ugh.

Welcome to all the new ladies from one of the few LOACA from across the pond. Thintoart pops up now and then and so does ply24mp.

I am firmly “back on the wagon” with just a few more lbs to hit a milestone for me. Slow but sure. I check in occassionally with JoJo and her bunch but those ladies leave me in the dust. Wow are they a hard working lot. I think I will cheer them on from the sidelines.

Cheeseplease: you made me laugh with your rebellion about having “experts” telling you what to eat. I have a streak of that in me as well. Always used to feel a bit angry with meal plans desinged with silly portion sizes that seemed somehow so “unfair”. We each have to find our own “best fit”…what you find you can give up and what you need to make it worth it to you. For me I can give up the carbs and have them as a treat now and them, but draw the line at forgoing fresh fruit and the occassional glass of wine or beer. The fast or lean days allow the flexibility of eating what everybody else is having now and then. Like you said, you feel you are in control and not some sort of failure for not fitting into a narrow box someone else designed.

I also think Boo is right on with calling it a way of life…because you are establishing something you know you can live with for the long haul and not a diet you go off of when you hit a number on the scale (and then gain it all back because short term diets never work in the long run).

Cheers to y’all.

Hello everyone,

I’m still around, but I’m on a computer 40 hrs a week and sometimes am just too pooped to pop. If I get behind, it can take three days to catch up!

Congratulations Boo! on the twenty lbs.! I haven’t hit that milestone yet but I’m close. I’ve been back on the wagon since April and am doing okay. I just had a 10 day vacation, if you can call it that. I took a week off work to keep my ten year old granddaughter while her older brother was away at camp and also had the other grand kids in, so it was a lot of cooking, sweets, bread in the house, things I don’t usually keep around. So up almost three lbs., but it’s only two days in and I’ve lost almost two lbs of it. Like Sassy said, it probably wasn’t real fat (yet!) Anyway, I’m glad it’s gone.

I’m also still going strong on the home front. I’ve cleaned cabinets, donated baby toys, done the freezer (not fun in the summertime!) and other various projects. My goal is to chuck everything that I should have already gotten rid of over the years and lighten up. This is my form of neat, pun intended.

I get about 2400 steps in a mile. I have a treadmill that has little dots, so many per quarter mile and I measured how many steps on a certain length of space and verified my stride by that also. When I used to watch my grandchildren, they were stair step babies, breakfast could take 600 steps. I counted once. No wonder it’s easy to put on weight as our lives go on, not as much to do.

My next goal is to get to 135 lbs., then to catch up with PVE, but, darn it, she’ll still be eight inches taller! :S

Speedy, where are you?

Everybody, have a good day or evening, where ever you are! xxP

Hi BooBoo, JIP, et al

BooBoo – what a fantastic achievement over the past 12 months. You have stuck at it, that is what is important, despite the health issues, and this way of eating enables you to eat what you love and still lose the weight. 20lbs is fantastic!

It was my weigh-day today and I was a bit disappointed to find I have only lost half a pound despite a particularly ‘good’ week. As you know, I have been doing the Fast Beach Diet, and this was week 5. It is a stricter version of the standard 5.2 and with the help of myfitnesspal I have meticulously logged every calorie. But that said, the clothes are still getting looser, so it could be the hot weather causing some water retention, as you say. Also, my scales need new batteries and Sainsburys are out of stock at the moment, so I am also using that excuse. My other half, who being a man, finds it easy to lose weight by eating almost twice as much as me, has also stayed the same, (so it could be the scales) but his blood pressure has dropped to its lowest for years, which says it all. Even if the weight isn’t coming off as quickly as we would like, the health benefits make it worthwhile persevering. I am hopeful of a decent loss next (my final) week, and I will then follow the standard 5.2 in the hope of losing a couple more stone, albeit more slowly.

The holiday home purchase is at last completing tomorrow, so the next few weeks are likely to be so busy moving things in and sorting out, that we won’t have time to think about food, let alone eat it! There will also be long walks on the beach with the dogs, so we’re staying positive!

Keep that Milestone Award handy BooBoo – I’m determined it shall be mine very soon!

Hi to everyone else on this bandwagon. It’s a brilliant place to be and let off steam, and I am sure it is helping us all on our way to our respective goals.

O & D ladies

Smiffy x

Bonjour tout le monde – I’ve just completed my first two fast days – and was delighted to see that the scales had dropped by 4 lbs; I know diets usually start with the first week seeing a loss (usually water we are told) but this has given me a real boost.
I’ve found the FDs quite difficult but knowing I can eat up to my TDEE the next day is a real incentive. I did note that when I woke the day after the second FD I felt a bit nauseous (reminded me of those long ago days of ‘morning sickness’) but after a breakfast of weetabix and strawberries I felt much better and enjoyed the rest of the day.
I did try the FD at the end of last year but then the plan said that on days that you weren’t fasting ‘to eat normally’ – I wasn’t sure then if that meant normally as in up to 2000 calories (the amount the ‘average’ woman needs) or what? Now we can work out our TDEE I feel more in control and can enjoy my ‘off’ days up to 1620 calories which sounds wonderful.
Reading your posts and seeing that there are lots of LOACA who have been following the diet for quite some time, and obviously sticking to it, is a real boost – you all sound LOVELY LOACA!