Good morning everyone! Great news, @ceebee59! You must feel great! It’s so rewarding to see progress. Enjoy the beach…so jealous! I am on the prairies, which have their own beauty, but who wouldn’t rather be on a beach?! Bracing for another Manitoba winter, but we have highs around 15C for the next few days, which is unheard of for MB in November, so yay! Firing up the BBQ this weekend for sure.

I have lost a whopping 0.5 lb this week, but I will take it – it is something of a plateau, but I didn’t gain. And even a small loss is still a loss. Chalking it up in the win column! Today is a NFD for me, but I am behaving. I don’t want to hinder my progress this weekend.

@whyamisoshy, I hope your migraine will subside soon! Especially if you have dinner guests tomorrow. I agree – we can definitely go too far into the reading and get lost in the information overload. I think we all have the basics, and can find a way to make it work to suit our own lifestyles. I would love to try ADF for a while, but I just can’t bring myself to give up my weekend freedom. My husband and I are total weekend people. I will be having a large glass of red this evening, and I will not feel guilty about it!

I have been doing that math too…if I can lose 2 lbs per week until xmas, etc. I do like to look at it that way, and I try to account for plateaus, vacations, etc., but it’s not always a good way to look at it…setting myself up for disappointment sometimes. I have to lose anther 45 lbs to hit my goal, and I figure if I am there by this time next year, I am happy. that is definitely attainable. It seems the days of losing more than 2 lbs in any given week are over for me. Now that I have less to lose and my body is adjusting, it is slowing down, as expected, but I am fine with that. Did a decent workout after work yesterday, and planning on doing at least 1 good one this weekend. Determined to have a 2lb loss next week.

Believe it or not, we are putting up our tree and decorating for xmas this weekend. Far too early, even for me, but looking at our calendars, the next weekend we have time to do it is December 10th, and by then we are just too busy. We go all out, so I need a full weekend to get it done without going mad. So, there will be egg nog this weekend too. I had better do that workout!

What is everyone else up to this weekend?

Keep on keeping on! We’re doing great! xoxo

Hi,
I am Bulgarian, living in Beijing, 67yo, on some kind of diet since teenager (what an international community!) Greatest success with Ducan 7 years ago when I lost 17kg, weight came back with some more. Can’t walk much because of a hip problem, so not much movement at present. I was a gym goer/weight lifter a few years ago and miss exercise a lot. Got inspired by the documentary in October and decided to try the fast diet and keep the lifestyle for life. I am doing ADF with about 350 cal at supper on FD. During the first two weeks I lost two kg, but this morning was surprised to see 300g up from last week. Disappointing…My problem is my husband and I are wine lovers and I find it very hard to keep my hands off the glass. Loosing weight in general has been an extremely slow process (fat genes, I suppose, combined with a frozen metabolism) but I am determined to keep it up. Hope I can join you in the marathon, have to lose about 15-18kg, so I am looking at an year at least ahead of me, fighting for a healthier and greater looking me.

Thank you all for the welcome words. Even though the scale disappointed me yesterday, today I put on trousers that seemed a bit loose, which warmed my soul. Maybe the cause is not lost, just my plump body refusing to let go so easily. Well, I am a fighter and a tough one. Luckily, my better half is supporting me in everything I start, even joining me, though he is slim (yet the last few years sporting a not so elegant belly, which he wants gone). My spare tyre around the middle appeared two years ago, totally out of the blue, and no exercise would budge it. I am planning to kiss it “good bye” before Easter and get into some lovely clothes I ordered from the states, which, unfortunately, are a size or two smaller. A friend asked me to buy them (five pieces), but I loved them and prayed to God to give me a guidance how to fit in them and here it is – the fast diet. Unknown are God’s ways, lol…I am in it to win it!!!

Me too! Id like to loose 40lbs!! Let’s do it! Any recipe ideas please share!!!

Glad to have you here @mwaah and @livfloyd74! You will find this to be a great and supportive group. Thanks, as always, to @whyamisoshy for starting it!

@whyamisoshy, to an extent, we do leave our tree up! I laughed so hard when I read that comment. We take everything off, and take the bare tree to the basement and leave it standing, covered in plastic to keep the dust off, ready for the next year. I still can’t believe it’s up already. Normally there is snow on the ground by the time it happens, and we are still basking in unseasonably warm double digit temps here, so it is strange!! On another note, thank you for sharing more about yourself – this is certainly proving to be a safe place to share 🙂 So proud of you for getting through 10 minutes on the treadmill yesterday! It is all relative – what is easy for some is a challenge for others. Your best is the best for you! Cheering for you!

FD for me again today. So far, so good. I will be doing a workout this evening (my current fave is the Turbo Jam series from Beach Body…Chalene Johnson is so fun, and it is low impact which I need). I do my best, but I have bad knees and issues with my feet and hips, so it’s hard for me sometimes too, even to just go on the treadmill. Good days and bad days. My Fitbit keeps me accountable, so that helps sometimes too.

This is one of my fave recipes for a FD meal:
http://minimalistbaker.com/easy-chana-masala/

Enjoy! Have a great day everyone! xoxo

Hi, Why, I thought that was the meaning (no way am I throwing the gorgeous stuff, they are the reason I started the fast diet). I am sick and tired of these baggy clothes I’ve been wearing for like five years now. In Beijing the only place I can buy clothes is the men’s department, as the women’s sizes are too small for me (even XL). I hate it when I go shopping and the sales people are telling me “come in, we have big sizes”.
My son is 45, also overweight, and I had a hard time trying to convince him to give the diet a try, but, thanks god, he’s finally jumped on the wagon and I hope he sticks with it (and keeps me company).
Fast days are no problem for me, I have a cup of coffee in the morning, then on water until dinner. I lost my appetite after 50 and very rarely would feel hunger pangs. Last night it was a salad with feta (a Bulgarian staple) and two small meatballs (which I made for my grandson’s ketogenic diet). I did have a glass of white wine, though. Will weigh on Monday morning and will let you know of I am moving in the right direction.

Does any of you have a problem with hair loss? With me it started two years ago and lately seems to increase.

Good Morning ladies. Hope everyone is happy and healthy and looking forward to their weekend. I’m hoping to get out for a bike ride tomorrow, if it doesn’t rain, and then dinner at an Italian restaurant on Saturday night for a friends birthday. Weighed in this morning after FD yesterday but don’t seem to have lost any weight this week. I’m not too stressed because I’m feeling better in myself and I know my weight fluctuates hugely from day to day. I’ll try again tomorrow but won’t stress too much as it doesn’t help at all.
So, what’s everyone up to this weekend? Who has some good news to share about their weight loss journey?

HI everyone,
This morning the scales showed a weight loss of 0.3kg, which sends me back to the number of two weeks ago, but I am glad the movement is downward. We have to be positive, as button boots says, it’s a packet of butter out of my system, good riddance! This week I’ll start 4:3 instead of ADF, as it’s easier to keep with constant FDs. I have to be careful with the wine as well. Hope to get better results next week.
Beautiful autumn in Beijing and surprisingly, not much pollution. Sunshine and blue skies, time to go for a walk.

Hi everybody, I live in Washington DC and am one of the many people in the world who are coping with shock and dismay about what just happened and who is moving into the White House. That said, I did my first HIT work-out(s) yesterday and my first fast today. I am about to turn 53 and my Type 2 diabetes just keeps getting steadily worse….fasting makes sense to me, so I am going to try the 5:2 with the goal of getting back to the weight I was most of my life before having babies. I need to lose another 14 pounds, having lost 6 on another diet that is just too hard to do for me. My BMI is ok, but my waist is 35-36 inches! You wouldn’t know it looking at me, but my blood meter tells it like it is! I am a TOFI, which has been very confusing since I got Type 2 after having had gestational diabetes in the pregnancy for my second son at age 38. At first I ignored it, now I am on metformin.

You are a lovely group and I am very happy to join. I have one question: Is anyone else on Metformin (I am actually on Glumetza, the only type of Metformin ER my stomach can handle), and do you keep taking it in the same strength on your fasting days? Thank you very much, and blessings from DC.

PS, I want to put my Christmas tree up!

Hello and welcome to all newbies. Actually I’m probably still a newbie as I’ve only been on this for 2 weeks 🙂 I’m not doing as well as I would have liked, but I guess slow and steady is the right way. I’ve started missing breakfast and just have lunch and dinner on FDs and that seems to be working for me. Surprisingly I haven’t been starving next morning either. How does everyone else do it? One meal at night? Or 3 small meals? I found a cookbook that makes 500 calorie recipes and you just have half for lunch and half for dinner. There’s a few yummy & easy sounding recipes so I’ll let you know how I go when I try them. Do you eat the same things every FD to keep it simple, or do you vary it? Love to hear how everyone manages their FDs.
Have a happy day!

Good afternoon everyone! I am so sorry I’ve been out of the loop. I try to stay mostly tech-free on the weekends just to give myself a break from the week. Usually pop in and say hello during my work days, but we are in the seventh circle of inventory hell at the moment, so I will be in and out for a little while.

So far down 1 lb this week! So pleased. I still have 45 lbs to go, but when I started my journey, it was 100, so 45 isn’t bad!

I won’t comment much on everyone else’s posts from the past week, because there is just so much to say, but I did read them all 🙂

Welcome newcomers! I hope everyone is having a great week so far. I fasted yesterday and today – feeling okay, but looking forward to some food and likely a large glass of red tomorrow.

Keep up the great work, ladies! Have a fantastic day, and get those Christmas trees up!! 😉

its 16th November here lol, so I will beat you all to the post.!!