Sorry to hear about the funeral Iona. Was it someone important to you?

I am thoroughly fed up with the lack of movement on the scales or tape measure. There is just 3 lb to shift to get to the one stone loss. Its been weeks of bouncing around the same numbers despite IF and making good choices. There has been cake this afternoon for a birthday celebration but I just had one piece and didn’t have much for lunch.

Tomorrow I am skipping breakfast, out walking in the morning and keeping busy before a roast dinner in the evening. I am at a bit of a loss quite what to do to shift these resistant pounds apart from keeping going with IF. I am certainly not going to meet the goal of 14lb by the end of the year.

How is everyone getting on?

Thanks Iona.

Perhaps change the goal to 3 lb by the end of the year and then start the new year with the goal of 14lb loss for 2025.

I can only be consistent and try to be patient. Damn frustrating but I am not in charge, my body is.

Still no change so I will have to make some changes instead. Switching some lunches and evening meals to salmon, tomatoes and cole slaw, which I love.The aim is to reduce the carbs which I am already having at work. Hopefully this will make a difference.

How is everyone doing?

We are merely human, Iona.

I have managed a day without any biscuits but feeling very virtuous despite the pudding and custard.

We had roast chicken yesterday and I didn’t have any Yorkshire pudding. Planning on leftover chicken today and tomorrow with coleslaw and tomatoes. Hopefully the scales are moving down wards….

I was a paragon of Virtue on Monday and Tuesday, not on Wednesday and it wasn’t great the rest of the week. But despite that, my trousers are certainly looser around my thighs. Finally back to the pre Australia weight with the elusive 2 lbs to lose which will give me a 14 lb loss. Measurements are exactly the same.

I skipped breakfast today and hopefully that will help with my new goal of 2 lbs by the end of the month. The plan is to eat carb free for 3 nights out of 5 next week.

Bought some Christmas food today. I like to buy some each week from now on the spread the spend.

I have been in denial about having carbs in 2 meals a day, Iona. Its a compromise with the boy and I eating different food 3 nights next week, but hopefully I will be able to avoid the siren call of the biscuits and Cake Thursday.

I have bought a Christmas Cake(un-iced) I love icing but my chaps do not plus 2 packets of mince pies and a pudding. They are all quite safe until they are opened at Christmas. I have been practicing by buying the boy things that I love but not touching them. Its working so far…

For years now, I can buy food when I am fasting and its perfectly fine. I have a sore throat and a silly cough which is annoying and makes me want the sweet stuff to cheer me up. Of course the joy would be short lived.

Lets see where we are next weekend, Iona. Hopefully a bit less of both of us.

Morning All,
Stood on the scales this morning and the seem to have acquired several lbs, which is not a surprise after this week. The hard one half an inch off my waist is back on too which is disappointing but not a surprise either.

The plan for today is to skip breakfast and have a light lunch. I am off for coffee this morning with a friend and really need to buy some food for the boy and I to eat this evening.

Its 11 days until the blood pressure review. I wonder if I can get the scales and waist back by then???

I have been given lots of chocolate at work, which is lovely but I intend to share as much as I can with the boys when they are home for a few days. Sadly I love Christmas cake, mince pies and christmas pudding.

Disappointed that the scales are exactly the same but I skipped breakfast and didn’t eat until 3pm.

Shall aim to do the same for 2 more days this week. Sharing out the work chocolate with the boy.

How wonderful to see your little granddaughter in her dance show, Iona. I don’t have any grandkids or expect to have any which is sad.

Onwards and downwards fast friends

Well there has been a Christmas Miracle. The scales refuse to budge but I have reclaimed that half an inch off my waist and most excitingly, have shrunk half an inch off the bust.

I am thrilled as I have been learning to sew clothes and had made 2 shirts for me that should have fitted. They didn’t, no where near and have been hung up until they did and then I could think about making button holes. I can now think about making button holes.

My Christmas plan is to join in and have fun, eat what I like and then start again after the festive season is over. Its only 2 days and I am looking forward to having some of the family together, however briefly.

It’s not for long Iona.
I have made chocolate truffles and coconut ice, for gifts. I have eaten the coconut ice that couldn’t fit in the jar but if they’re in the jar then they are safe until Christmas morning when I pop them in gift bags.

I may fast tomorrow and Christmas Eve, by skipping breakfast or I may not. I shall see how I feel when I wake up.

There’s lots of bugs around, Iona. I was struck a few weeks ago with a sneezing, cough and sore throat that lasted for a few weeks. Kept waking up in the small hours coughing and then couldn’t get back to sleep.

Had the blood pressure check up and weigh this morning. All good and weigh 4 kg less than I did a year ago which I am pleased with. Hopefully I can double it next year which is a goal.

There have been truffles and coconut ice but nothing else today has been excessive. I don’t imagine that tomorrow will be dreadful either.

My plan is to enjoy the next few days and then get back to skipping a few breakfasts. Also planning to lift some hand weights for 10 minutes every morning and evening.

Have a lovely time ☺️.

Taken the plunge on the scales this morning and it’s not much of an increase from before Christmas. Okay, so this is the starting point for the coming year.

No standing on the scales on the 1st January and feeling depressed.

Well done Iona on half a lb, mine is more but it will go again. Waiting to find out what the boy is working this week and then I can plan the final week of holiday. Looks like another storm coming in on New Year’s Day.

I have decided to redecorate the dining room which is my sewing space too. Found some leftover paint and painted 2 walls and the back wall of the cupboard. Took everything out of the cupboards and created a pile of things that I didn’t want anymore to make space for sewing stuff. Friend popped round and took most of it, great result.

It’s great to get back to eating normal food, my stomach certainly appreciates it. I can’t eat the things I used to.

I haven’t decided when I am going to fast.

Skipped lunch today and breakfast yesterday. Hopefully there’s some improvement somewhere…

And the winter walking trousers that have been too small, I tried on this morning and I can do them up. They’re tight but wearable and as it’s chilly I am wearing them today. Beyond thrilled 😀.

Me too, Iona.
Its my birthday next week and there are meals with family and friends planned. I have just stood on the scales and am exactly the same as after Christmas, which isn’t much of a surprise.

So , I am starting small and skipping breakfast this morning. I might do the same again tomorrow before a birthday lunch. I just need to get this week done and then in my head it will all be easier.

Isn’t it just?

I have had breakfast and lunch with nothing in the evening for 4 days out of 5 this week. Birthday evening did involve drinks and nibbles which was lovely although, there is still about a third of a Christmas cake to eat. But it is delicious.

My plan tomorrow is to see if the scales have shifted and take measurements, and skip breakfast.

But I am finding it tough with the cold, grey days.