Happy Friday!
Congratulations to the 33 years young bride! Good job!
I have been married for 29 years and it makes the life interesting.
Enjoy your celebration! How did you meet your husband (if I could ask?)?
Ratatouille, your remark about R. Davies made me look him up – cool! If you want audiobook of Whole30, I can share it. It was not a ‘light bulb!’ Kind of thing, but I keep looking/experimenting different approaches/ ideas, because I cannot make peace with my eating (overeating) habits, so the search is on…
This morning I made fluffy ( with coconut) omelet with blueberries- the taste was good, but it did not look good. My husband said he could make it better ( he got permission). The clumsy omelet kept me full till lunch 😉
For lunch – green salad with an egg and king salmon with broccoli for dinner. I cooked all the meals and did not overeat!
Do not have my Fitbit yet!
Talk to you tomorrow

Greetings,
So glad that you are both here. Alisa, I will check out Whole30. Floridagirl – great attitude and goals. It is good to see this.

I am all over the place with my eating. Hmmm. But, I am here.

Today is a FD. Floridagirl – good luck on yours. Alisa, what are your usual FDs?

My weekend was successful business-wise. All good.

Hello! I too am a 5:2 restarter. A couple of years ago, my hubby and I started 5:2 and within one month I had lost 10 lbs. and was down one pant size. However, all the progress came to a halt when my binge-eating habits on ‘feed’ days caught up with me and my progress began to slow and halt and I became upset with my binge eating habits and so chucked the diet. In the meantime, I began doing treadmill faithfully 5 days a week for 45 min as well as limiting my calories to 1500/day (no 5:2 fast diet) and I began to see results. Then I caught a bad cold and that went by the wayside. Plus Spring Break had come and gone and I had lost my reason for wanting to lose weight. Now here I am again. I have for the last month attempted the 5:2 diet with very little success. The first week I lost four pounds (water weight). I have since stayed right where I’m at or…horror…gained a few pounds back. In essence, I am right where I started give or take a couple of pounds. I have lost an inch or so around my waist, which I know is good. I am very faithful on my fast days but…I think once again the type of foods I eat on my feed days are what is possibly sabbotaging me? I stick to the right calorie count, i.e. no more and not much less than my TDEE…I am about to chuck the 5:2 yet again. I should do bloodwork as my bloodwork last time on 5:2 was amazing! I really believe it helps to repair cells and can earn one a fabulous lipid profile! I still do treadmill but only three days a week and only for 30 min I just can’t motivate myself to do more. So here I am.

Morning
NFD

Hello, Hope, nice to have you join us.

Alisa, good luck with your fasting day. 🙂

Karen, congratulations on the weight-loss…you’ll get to where you want to be, I’m sure.

Ratatouille, how did you do with your fasting day? better than I, I hope.

I totally blew my fasting day, yesterday. 🙁 home alone with “pig-slop” and I caved. It’s left me feeling totally disgusted and ashamed. 🙁 I woke in the middle of the night, and spent a couple of hours berating myself…so now I haven’t had enough sleep…I’m in a pretty foul mood.

I’ve decided that I will watch some of the intermittent fasting documentaries this evening and try to re-energize myself…and try again tomorrow.

Have a great day all.

I hope that everyone is having a good week.
FD…I’m going to do this, I’ve got to get back on track.

Ratatouille…I hope that you had a nice lunch and that you remained true to yourself after returning home.

Hello,
I received my Fitbit yesterday and got busy setting it and learning how to use it. It captured my 6 hours 56 min of sleep last night – I got ‘on track’ feedback. I need to research if it recognizes my indoor cycling.
Today was my eat day and my breakfast was not whole30 one;-( Just did not have time to make it after cycling class, I ate my favorite oatmeal. There are changes with whole30 and they are uncomfortable. Food is good but planning and cooking need practice. I will try my best to follow in march hope that I manage few recipes cooking fast and efficiently. One thing I do 100% – no weights in for one month.
Tomorrow is fasting again and yoga in the morning- yes!
Ratatouille, I liked your answer about communication with people, agreed. Good job on enjoying the lunch and after.
Have a good NFD, Floridagirl

Good morning…
NFD

Ratatouille, it sounds like you are back on the trail, awesome! Good luck with the remainder of the week.

Alisa, good luck with your fasting day.

Karen, I hope that you had a successful fasting day.

My fasting day, yesterday, was successful…I’ll be eating today, but being careful not to go crazy and binge…it’s been a rough week emotionally.

Tomorrow is Friday!

Hi all,

I read all the posts that come through, just have a hard time getting around to posting 🙂

Alisa — which FitBit did you get? I just love mine (charge HR). The heart rate tracking thing is so useful for me. My life is very sedentary (I used to have to walk 2 hours a day just to/from work, now I work from home so I rarely move!) so it’s useful to get feedback when I do the laundry 🙂

I’m doing well. The weight from my work trip fell off quickly and a week later I was back down lower than I had been when I left.

I am about 5 lbs away from my smallest in a decade, so very, very happy right now.

Happy Friday
FD

Alisa, congrats on completing your fasting day 😉
You wouldn’t know it now…but in high school I was anorexic, I just never ate. As I got older (in my 20s) I severely restricted calories…in my 30s the weight began to creep on, I tried just about everything…started to believe that I had really messed up my metabolism. We went to low-fat…that was the fad then…then due to son’s allergies, we went vegetarian for quite a few years…quit working for a while and really packed on the pounds…all that pasta, rice, and potatoes … we did a total 180 and went Atkins, nothing but meat…we did lose weight, but then slowly put it all back on…tried doing Atkins again, didn’t work. Then got really sloppy, gave up…then menopause…I have gotten very overweight. It really started affecting my health and restricting activities…started having trouble with my joints and such. That is why I decided that I MUST do something…and here I am. The biggest thing for me right now is learning about balance, stop with the extremes… although some would consider fasting 2-3 days a week extreme. I am liking the weightloss so far and I feel great! I believe that this is something that I can live with.

SavBlanc…you are doing great, congratulations.

Have a great weekend 🙂

Savblanc – doing laundry is hardwork — it has gotten you to the low weight that you are now at!

Alisa, congratulations on the fast day! I have tried so many diets, but the bingeing is what throws everything off. January to now of this year is the longest that I have stuck to something. I am still bingeing unfortunately, but not often, and, if I can say it “more restrained bingeing”?///. What we do to ourselves and our mental well being as a result of body image challenges…… for me food is love, comforting, escape, disappearing —-> I can go down a rabbit hole and come out of it so depressed, but whilst in the hole I feel nothing except gratification. The diet does not matter, it is the wacky day to day eating behaviour that I have. I seem to be managing sort of ok for now. I am down 17 pounds since the start of the year.

Floridagirl, yes, so many of us have this wacky relationship with food. I will say that I agree that 2 to 3 days of fasting per week could be considered extreme, but I like how we are allowed 500 calories. so, it is 2 days of some deprivation and then “normal” eating. Normal is the key word for me. Trying to rediscover that. You sound like you are one focused woman – I look forward to following your success.

Savblanc — lists are good for me. don’t always do them, but when I do it works. Thanks for reminding me.

Have a super day everyone.

Good evening!
Thank you so much for sharing your stories and thoughts. I needed to hear other people to get some prospective and patience too. Floridagirl, maybe your bad eating habits come from the deprivation in your 20s? Your body does not want to starve any more. SavBlanc, my experience with the Rice diet was successful, but I am not sure it would work again, not a novelty! Ratatouille, wow! 17 lb down, sounds like you are doing something right!
My new best friend (Fitbit) does not recognize indoor cycling as exercise activity, there is a setting Exercise Activity, where I promised to exercise every day 60 min and I got nothing for my cycling class this morning. 10,000 steps I complete if I add 30 min walk to the morning class.
My eat day went well. Have a good weekend

Good Saturday evening!
I love jazz!!! I go to jazz clubs in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago… anywhere I go. My favorite is the Birdland in NYC. I watched the 30 hours documentary Jazz. Did you enjoy the music?
Ratatouille, alcohol made you loose it, I know it. Oh, I wish I would go with you to listen to jazz
My Fitbit ignores my indoor cycling because it uses GPS and I get nowhere on my stationary bike. The new Fitbit Blaze would work, it more expensive, I will think about it…

Oh, I had too many snacks today;-( hoping that I will behave tomorrow. There is always something to finish: last few nuts, one spoon of jam… I went for the after dinner walk again, with less enthusiasm at first, but it felt very good in few min.
Almost 2weeks of whole30 eating – I do not feel any different. I mean I feel good, I have energy, I just cannot loose weight.
Ratatouille, I am questioning your ‘I ate way too much’ maybe you think it was too much? you were dining with the friends, they would say something.
Jazz is always different, it is a conversation between musicians. I enjoy listening BB King, Miles Davis. I listened Pat Martino in NYC – was a great show. Swing type of jazz – John Pizzarelli is very good – he makes every song sound like he sings it only for this audience.

Good morning everyone

Well done to those of you who have lost weight, you are doing something right so keep on doing it. I haven’t had a lot of time to post recently but I’ve been reading how you have all been doing and it’s spurring me on the get to where I want to be.
Had a blip last week, stress, wine and eating too much rubbish but I think I’ve managed to get a grip of it these last couple of days. I’m starting the week a wee bit lighter that last so I’m going on from here. I have just under 2 weeks until my daughters engagement so would like to lose a lb or so before then so I know the pressure is on to keep to the straight and narrow.

I’m going to try to check in every night with an update on how the day went, maybe that will help, I know Ratatouille does that and it seems to work for her.

FD for me today so unwards and downwards here I come

Karen x

Happy Monday to all!
Snow is expected in Virginia tomorrow, I want spring!
I am eating today, good luck to Floridagirl and Karen with fasting, I will do it tomorrow

Hello
NFD

I hope that you had a successful fasting day, Karen.
Mine actually went well.

Good luck to you, Alisa and Ratatouille, with your fasting.

Until tomorrow…

Hello all.
The weather is sad – cold icy rain, gray and damp;-(
We are much better than NYC and New Jersey, I have to say. Thanks for asking, ratatouille.
Good job yesterday! To Karen and Floridagirl. Do you plan to stay with 500 cal or even nothing or make adjustments to 700 cal? According to new research.
I am fasting today and it is going well so far.
I came across some of my old (well, ten years old) pictures and… I looked good, I looked very good! At the same time I remember that the year they were taken I could not look at them – fat, not photogenic, plain… many times it is all just twisted mind.
Till tomorrow

Hi all,
I hope everyones fast have gone well, mine yesterday did not 🙁 It was fine until after having salad for evening meal then I ate 2 bags of crisps and a bowl of cereal, I felt very guilty afterwards, the scale was up a tad this morning. NFD today and so far its not gone too bad apart from cake at work (very delicious but naughty whoops), Ive had past for evening meal and sharing a bottle of prosseco with hubbie later. Hoping to do better tomorrow then fast on thurs.
The weathers been really nice here in North East England, quite Springlike and it makes me feel better and want to walk further with my dog so I hope it carries on.
Hows everyone else done today? X

Hello everyone,
FD for me.

We are having unseasonably cool weather here in Florida, as a matter of fact, they are calling for record breaking low temperatures tomorrow morning. The good thing is that, that will probably be it! for the cold weather ’til December. We always enjoy the lower humidity levels.

I made the decision after the first 2 weeks of doing 5:2 that I would have nothing to eat on my fasting days…I am doing a true water fast. It was just too hard to keep it under 500 calories once I started eating and I also wanted my body to have the full benefits of a true fast. Seeing how slow my progress is, I can’t imagine that I would lose anything if I ate up to 700 calories on my fasting days. I am going to stay with my true water fasts, it seems to be working for me, albeit slowly.

SavBlanc, I hope that you had a good fasting day…and I totally understand how you feel. Don’t give up, keep going…it is going to be so worth it!

ciao

Hello,
Cold in Virginia, I wish to be in north east England, Karen, enjoy the weather!
NFD for me today. Good job, ratatouille! And when I grow up I will be like Floridagirl!
This morning I came to my cycling class and… no instructor. Do not know what happened. Some people left, I did not. Six of us regulars led the class – it was good fun. My Fitbit is driving me crazy. The one I have is definitely for walking people. It recognizes only half of aerobic exercises and makes me go for a walk if I want to reach my steps goal.
Have a good day everyone

Good Morning,
Alisa, talk about commitment to your fitness. I am impressed that you and others stayed and created your own fitness experience. Your fitbit — sounds like you might want to set it aside until you can get a different one(?).

Floridagirl – so great to read that you are keen for a weigh-in on Friday. That bodes well for good news.

I had an unsuccessful food day yesterday, but I am here this morning.

Have a good day everyone

Happy Friday…Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
FD

Sorry to hear about your “off” day, ratatouille…don’t give up!

Alisa, I do most of my walking on a treadmill…which as you know, can be very boring…I usually watch documentaries, I love it! Sometimes I will be so engrossed in the documentary that I will go longer than planned.

I did have a good weigh-in this morning…If I can keep this up and stay very disciplined, this could be my best month for weight-loss since I started in January. 🙂

Have a safe and healthy weekend!

“remind us why we live here” not “remind us why we leave” 🙂

… good day today! Speaking of eating habits.
I had 3 meals, no snacking or binging.
I will do it again tomorrow, promise!

… Sunday night. I did it again – 3 meals only, no snacking, no binging! My husband and I just came back from a restaurant- good food. We shared spaghetti squash pancakes with spicy sauce. I had Arctic char ( excellent crisp skin) with sautéed greens and then we shared again fried acorn squash rings with buratta drizzled with honey – very nice! We ate it as a dessert- it was enough sweetness from drops of honey.
Ratatouille, thank you very much for your kind words. Oh, I am so happy to read that you listened to good jazz, very cool!
I am sure you will report successful NFD tomorrow.
I also have an eat day tomorrow and plan to have 3 meals only again, till tomorrow