YIPPEE INDEED!!!! 3000 POSTS!!!!!!
Congratulations to All Ladies Of A Certain Age! who post on here!
WEIGH TO GO US!
ONwards and Downwards – is the way Forwards!!
(To quote LindyW……)
BooBooxx
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Hi, it has been some time since I last posted..and I’ve been learning alot about how my body is able to take off the kilos….I’m 64 and am finally fitting into clothes from years ago. I’ve had to find out what works for me, regardless of what works for someone else, meaning, what they eat on a non-fast day or fast day often times simply didn’t work for me.
Now I know what works. I couldn’t do my fasting days without the help of the fiber supplement, glucomannan; 3 tablets, taken with 16 ounces of water flavored with a bit of lemon juice, keeps me feeling full and not ready to chew my wrist off. It has changed my life. When I first started 5:2, I had terrible constipation, no more. Along with the extra fiber of glucomannan, I use a powdered form of magnesium, dissolved in water, every night, and I’m now I’m completley comfortable & regular.
I bought an exercise bike and do HIIT just about every morning, but not for long. I’m still out of shape and working up to it bit by bit. I do yoga numerous times a week and use my breath to connect to the ‘still’ large roll of fat that sits at my waist line; using breath work to connect to me and dissolve my stuck energy. I’ve started weight/strength training because as I lose the fat I don’t want to lose my muscle like I’ve done with the million other diets I’ve done before.
I know now that given the quide-lines of fasting and eating I have to listen to my body and what works for it, not what works for anyone else. I realize for most women this is a ‘duh’ moment but for me it took ages to have that realization. I also know now that I will always have to fast in-order to have the figure I want. Okay, good to know. Now, on with it!
Hello Boo and LOACA, I am coming on here later everyday. It’s called life, shopping, bowling etc etc.
congratulations and jubilations on 3000 posts. Everyone has been a joy to read, it’s keeping me on the straight and narrow, as well as onward and downwards, as BooBoo says. LOL
I am going out all day with hubby tomorrow or he will think he is a bowls widower. LOL
I have had a large rum and diet coke for a change this evening when I got back from my evening bowls game arriving home about 9.30pm Food tonight was much later than usual, I like to stop eating earlier than later even on a non-fast day. I will be fasting Sunday and Monday again hoping to get the 1.1/2 lb off the balance of my long W/E away. I am going to call it a day before I turn into a pumpkin. Lol
Then I shall start all over again. That’s a song isn’t?
Good night or G-Day all as the case may be.
JIP
BooBoo: thanks for the kind post. Your encouragement (along with many others as well) really keeps so many of us engaged in this site, and upbeat about the long road to the kind of weight loss so many of us need to get back to where we can be more active and have a better self image as we are moving along in years. Thanks all and congratulations on your 3000 posts. You, Purple, JIP and Smiffy are the glue that keeps this thread together. WELL DONE LADIES !!! There also seems to be some new gals that are very devoted to the site and take the time to welcome new memebers by name. AliH61 seems to be picking up the rear quite niceely.
And yes Boo, had a lovely naughty day of pizza Margherita (authentic Neapolitan style….yummmm) for lunch and a soft serve ice cream cone for good measure on the drive home. Gorgeous lovely day on the east coast of the US today….we are having a week of SEPT weather, a break from the normal heat and humidity of Washington. Great day all around.
And no I do not only weight myself once a week. If I haven’t seen my expected 1 lb loss on my weigh day, I keep weighing every day after that until it shows up. Then I am ok to wait one more week and then the foolishness starts all over again. Would love to weight every 2 weeks if I could make myself do it….then some weeks it would be 2 lbs and some weeks only 1, but hoping it would be a rare weigh day with nothing. I track my weight on my computer on a grid I made up on an Excel file. A good start would be making official weigh days 2 weeks apart. That way it would seem “less official” even if I did jump on the scales in between. No loss would not OFFICIALLY be zippo . Crazy, yes? But those are the mind games I play with myself to not be dejected when I see no dip on the scale after a solid “clean” week playing by the rules.
Last but far from least: huge congrats to Smiffy: that is fabulous! Also to Femme Anglais, Wilbersnanna and Cheeseplease. The globe is getting lighter again this week.
LTC
Hi Piper, hi everyone…. I’m working in the garden after I get back from my local farmer’s market this morning…did my fast day yesterday, went over the 500 calories a bit, but I’m not going to beat myself up about it because I’ve been super fabulous about my calories during the week….and I’m feeling really good…some fast days are much harder for me than others, but I’m doing it! I don’t weigh myself anymore as I no longer care what the scale says, I let my clothes tell me what I want to know, which is: ‘keep on going!’ Have a lovely weekend….!!
Hello everyone! I am a lady of a certain age – 61 – and started the 5-2 last August. I did well up until Christmas, losing almost 2 stone in weight, was feeling better, bought new clothes in a smaller size.
I decided to have a break over Christmas and for one reason or another struggled to keep up the discipline of the 5-2. I’ve just come back from 3 weeks holiday visiting family and eating for Scotland and needles to say the weight is creeping back on and clothes are getting tight again!
Today, I glad to say I’m back on track! Just come back from the supermarket stocked up with food for meals for the next week. I work full time so don’t have time for shopping mid-week. I’ve planned all my meals using the Fast Cook Book and will add lunches on my non fast days.
I’ve signed up for the Fast Diet Tracker and can’t wait to lose weight and inches again! Ideally would liked to lose another 3 stones so onwards and downwards on the scales 🙂
Welcome LouB, it’s nice to have you on board the LOACA thread. You have done 5-2 once and you know it works. We can do this together. If you have the time to read back on some of the threads, I would say all but now it’s over 3000 in just over a year you will need to have some spare time and with working you will find it hard but enjoyable. There are so many LOACA from all walks of life you can get a wealth of tips etc on here. I think I am known as JIP the practising Alcoholic. LOL. I keep my bottle of rum down the garage which is 180 ft at the bottom of the garden because it’s too handy in the bungalow, I tell hubby to hide it but usually end up coaxing him to get it back for me once or twice a week. LOL
I have just come back from a long weekend away which I put on 2 lbs, I lost just 1/2 a pound last week so I am fighting to get the other 1.1/2 lb off soon. I will be doing a B2B Sunday and Monday this suits me.
BooBoo and all LOACA I hope you are all having a lovely weekend, we have been to the beach today and walked for almost 6 miles, I did indulge in an ice cream and then turned the clock back 60 years and had a candy-floss all sugar and very sweet I think I have my sugar fix for a month of Sundays as we say here in South Wales.
I came on 5-2 earlier today entered my message to you all pressed submit it twirled and then disappeared, first time that has happened to me. Cannot remember what I said altogether so could not have been that interesting. You got away lightly. LOL
Going now before I get blown up again, but this time I am going to copy post before pressing submit. Hahahahaa. Happy Fasting and Feasting. JIP OW’s and D/W’s.
Good morning to our lovely international group of LOACAs!
Precious, many congrats on 3000 posts. You and your deputy JIP and deputy deputy Purple do a fantastic job of cheering, encouraging and welcoming, as well as providing wise words of experience.
A cold but dry day here so have put 3 loads of washing on the line. We’re heading off for a few days of cross-country skiing at the end of the week and then ending up in Albury for a family christening. A round trip of about 2500km, so no peeps from me for a few days.
Fasting tomorrow and Wednesday this week before heading off. Usually do B2B M/Tu but had to rearrange weight training for Tuesday and unlike others, I am really tired on fast days. The upside is that I don’t have any insomnia issues 🙂
Hi LouB and Blue Ocean, welcome (back). You know the routine so onwards and downwards!
Hi LUVT, what’s a little pizza margharita between friends?
Happy Sunday all, Nicky
Hi Nicky
I’d better answer….the others are asleep! Sorry, I didn’t say hi on SH thread ;(
A pizza Margarita is just tomato cheese and basil. Mmmm Yum.
Your cross country ski trip sounds great. Plenty of snow this year. Possibly the best season in years. Have fun! You won’t gain weight using that much energy.
Purple
Hi Ladies
I had a day in London yesterday with my lovely daughter to collect her passport, after a fantastic lunch of pulled pork in bbq sauce I am being good and fitting in an extra fasting today. It’s been one of those weeks as I also had small fish and chips and BBQ at school on Friday! Yesterday I did only eat 1/3rd of the bread roll the pork was served in but all my veggies, the apple coleslaw in a light dressing was fab. I’ll eat at Maxwell’s in Covent Garden again. We mentioned earlier how fickle dress sizes are wel…..I bought a fab red, more like orange, linen shift dress in Monson size 12 and a tea dress in H&m size 16! I don’t worry about size labels as long as looks good, you can always cut the size label out if it bothers you that much. I will start posting some recipes later, had or ridge with berries for breakfast and looking forward to a veggie curry for dinner. Off to do some sewing Ali x
Hello BooBoo and all LOACA
I know the best thing for the mutton dressed as lamb problem! Boo. Take your sister with you shopping, she doesn’t have to be older but it helps has in my case. she will tell it as it is, LOL I will have to think where I am going to wear those pink jeans I bought the other day. Sis was not with me when I bought them, size 12 I could not resist, I may have to wear them in the dark. Nice legs/bum shame about the face thing again. LOL.
I hope all you lovely ladies have had a good weekend, I did and fasted today too.
I am off now, so keep up the good work, O/W’s and D/W’s JIP
I have a (post menopausal) friend who has experienced the same lack of progress. She has lost a stone on 5:2 but it took well over a year and she often despaired. She hit a complete stop a month or so ago but is now trying 4:3 to see if it gives her a kick start. It’s interesting that she is quite short (less than 5ft tall) and now she’s wondering if the 500 recommended calorie limit is too high for someone so much smaller than the average woman.
Hi JIP, BooBoo and LOACA
I’m 52 and I have pastel pink jeans which I wear to school but not on a messy painting day!
Well nearly finished my fast today and the Veggie Balti was fab, it’s from the 5:2 app by Woamn. Here’s the recipe:
Serves 4, just 215 cal per portion
Prep time 10 mins and coking time 25 mins
1 cal spray
2 onions, chopped
1 tbspn curry paste
350g butternut squash and sweet potato, diced
400g tin chopped tomatoes
400g tin chickpeas, drained
1/2 cauliflower OR 200g green beans
250ml water
Fry onions in 1 cal spray for 5 minutes, then add the curry paste and cook for another minute. Add the water, tomatoes, butternut squash, sweet potato and cauliflower or runner beans then cook for 15 minutes. Finally add the chickpeas and warm through for 5 more minutes. Enjoy.
Ali x
Hi BooBoo
Glad you got your walk in.
I think that wearing simple clothes with clean lines can look very attractive without being dating – we keep being told how French women can look classy at any age – do they have better clothes for LOACAs – maybe Femme Anglaise can tell us? I try and stear clear of clothing that is high fashion” (scared of that mutton dressed as lamb look) and try and look modern without trying too hard – I think Boden are good for that, and some Dotty P stuff is also good – but I avoid New Look most of the time apart from vouchers for the young things in the family!
Hi LOACAS
Thanks for your kind words Precious.
As to mutton dressed as lamb, it was certainly an expression my mum often used.
I had the ghastly experience recently of wearing a gorgeous new fuscia coloured jacket to a ‘do’ only to have a grossly obese older woman arrive in the same (but about 10 sizes bigger). I took mine off and hid it. 🙁
Thanks for the yum recipe Ali. I’ll give it a go.
Purple
Most definitely.There is a workout chart on this site you put in your height and weight and how active you are and it tells you how many calories you need on your “eat ” days for weight maintenance and you should eat only a quarter of this on your low days. I am 5ft 2 inches and only eat 350 on low days, 500 too high for my calculation. It is based on the average woman well if under 5ft you are below average. Hope this helps Liz x
Yes Liz absolutely. None of us are average and the less we eat on fast days (or any day really) the more we lose.
I have always aimed at less than 400 cals on a fast day and usually about 1200 to 1300 normally. I’m 5’5.
My husband only has 350 on fast days. He splurges a bit on other days but usually still well under 2000 . We have both lost many kilos (58 together …that’s a whole person!) and have been maintaining for months, but we still keep to as low as possible on fds.
The average is a maximum not a goal to eat up to 🙂
Keep up the good work, PVE
Hey Boo, hi girls, ladies…..
Good advice Purple Vegie…I try to stay under 500 cal., when I can, but if I go over by a teeny bit on a FD I don’t fret about it anymore, I try to learn what happened, why I did that….I also try to make up for it the next day by staying a bit under normal or sometimes for the entire week….it’s just trying to find what works for me….but I know the calories count so I’m aware of that….
I’m not sure how much weight I’ve lost because I’m not ready to look at a scale….had too much trauma around numbers on a scale to have it ever be good for me, but I am thrilled to report I’m fitting into a lovely white skirt I haven’t been able to wear for 8 years….I’m buttoning up pants I haven’t worn for sometime either….so I know I’m taking off inches…..
Have a super week girls, I’ll be reading your posts….
Good morning and good evening to all down under.
Ali, your recipe is made for me, I will try this week thanks.
First day of B2B went well and today should be good, it’s a wonderful day in South Wales and I will be off Nordic walking later, getting my hair cut, that should take me up to 2pm then by the time I get home it will be 3 at least, playing bowls this evening at 5.15pm. I will have to find time to eat. LOL
Purple, just think how the other lady felt, I think it would be her that takes her jacket off after seeing you.
Blue ocean, I sent all my nice smaller clothes to the charity shop or my sister’s daughter-in-law, so I have had to buy all new, it was a shame but very enjoyable replacing it all.
Boo, now I will have to buy a black T-Shirt, such hard work spending all this money, LOL, must admit I did not think of black
One pint of boiled silver/tea e.i, water. Melon for breakfast more boiled water and black tea. I do live it up ladies. Got to go. Happy day everyone fasting or feasting.
JIP
Hi BlueOcean weigh to go, sorry for the pun! You must feel fab in that skirt and I know the feeling. I can now wear the dress I wore when going away for my honeymoon, and that was 19 years ago. It needs a little updating with new buttons, but what a great feeling. I’m glad I’m slimmer now as we are having a mini heat wave and I have bought 5 new dresses this summer. Was never able to get ones I felt comfortable in before.
JIP, I used a Tikka paste and added 5 slightly rounded teaspoons as I like a good bit of heat! Keep on going everyone. I’ll try for another new recipe later this week and let you all know. Ali x
Hi LOACA. Happy Monday fasting. Starting week 6 today. OH on week 5. Out dog walking soon then off to see our daughter and family. She’s also doing 5:2 with success so won’t try to tempt us to have anything we don’t want. Unlike others who seem to delight in offering temptation even after you’ve told them what you are doing!!!! WN.
Since we have been discussing clothing sizes, I’m going to have a tiny moan. 🙂
I have been looking for new swimwear. In this country every state has a different name for swimwear: swimmers, bathers, costumes, togs. Since I am now officially size 14 in bathing tops and size 12 in bottoms, I cannot find anything to wear. All one piece swimwear that fits my top has a pouch below the bum that could carry a baby roo 🙂
I can’t wear bikinis because of some flab around the middle. So the lovely girl suggested I buy a tankini, where you have two pieces of swimwear that nicely overlap to hide my sins. However, the available tankinis made me look like mutton dressed as brassy moll 🙂 too much cleavage 🙂
In reality I am ecstatic to have this problem, as I finally have my figure mostly back. It is Winter here, so I shall hope to buy one when in Maui. 🙂
Hi Boo
I have to think when you say the High Street shops. Most of our clothing shops have abandoned the high street and gathered into the Westfield Shopping towns all over the country. There are a few boutiques left in the various pricey suburbs. They are usually quite stylish and cater for 30 to 70 yo.
The department stores in the shopping malls now rent space to all the various fashion labels. Some of them cater well for those of us growing old disgracefully. I think that the age and style bracket that has the money to shop has influenced who they design for, to a certain extent.
Maybe others have different experiences to me. I am enjoying all my new clothes bought over the past six weeks. 🙂
Hi Precious
Just off to bed after an excellent fast day. ..24 hours between food.
I agree with Bayleaf. Our demographic has the money and the numbers. Plenty of choice. Used to wear some gorgeous ‘larger ladies’ gear from TS. Now that I can just grab normal sizes straight from the racks, I might have to go back to work the way I buy new clothes. Thanks Fast Diet!
Cheers to all LOACAS ending or beginning Monday Fast Day. Good night, Purple
Hi bayleafoz, Land’s End – a US mail order company – have a huge range of tankinis that you can buy the tops and bottoms for separately; that might solve your problem.
Belated congratulations to PBB for the 3,000 posts. It would be a brave person now who would start at the beginning and read every post as I did when I first came across it.
And how many inspirational new posters! Wow – I am totally in awe of what you have achieved – not to mention entirely jealous of Femme Anglaise heading off to Lake Como – we had a week at Bellagio a few years back and it was stunningly beautiful. If only Australia wasn’t so far away from the rest of the world.
I’m in recess at the moment – looking after 6 year old grandson while my daughter is in Jerusalem (more than a little worrying at present) and puppy (who is now 3 and a half months old and a gorgeous bundle of energy) while holding down a full time job that is at its busiest just after the end of the financial year is enough to cope with at the moment. I tried a fast day a couple weeks ago snd promptly came down with a virus that I still haven’t entirely thrown off. Probably entirely unrelated, but has created a bit of a disinclination to do it again until life is a little calmer. In any case I’m quite confident that when life returns to normal I will be able to get back on the program in time to achieve my goal weight for summer.
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