Day 5, Cornwall UK, NFD

@fatrabbit – you are amazing and inspirational. Congratulations on your weight loss and sorry about your painful tooth!

Hi everyone
Day 5, NSW Australia, FD
Weighed this morning: 79.9kg, finally under 80kg –
Has been a long time coming. Had the best FD today. Had cup of tea at 9pm last night, then today: ACV & honey; rooibos tea; visitor, so coffee with milk; 4pm miso soup; 8pm fish fillets & steamed mixed veges = 427 cals. Usually a bit, ok more than a bit, lazy – so very happy with today. Even took the dogs for a walk this evening. Enjoy whatever you are all doing. All those that are not well – get better soon. Bye for now

Day 5 – Peru 🇵🇪 – NFD

Here we are in Peru. Very long day flight yesterday but so amazing to be flying over the Amazon rainforest for hours and hours. I sat looking out at the spectacular views from the clouds, classical music on the headphones……it was heaven.

I did partake in all the food and drink that was offered on board but hey ho 😁

I will try to do my planks in a minute. Then we are off to the Dakar Village in Lima to see the start of the race and soak up the atmosphere. Going to try to be mindful

Day 5 Wisconsin USA NFD

Hello you beautiful losers. Soaking in all of the positive comments and motivational tips expressed by this group and thinking that this has become one of my happy places and a place I look forward to visiting.

Fairly good FD yesterday but could have been better since I’m sure I went over in the evening when I had my meal and a few “extras”. Calling today a NFD but may try to fast as the day unfolds.
Activity will be the three classes I teach (Hatha Yoga, 2 Senior Yoga classes) and 5 miles on the bike (rolling hills).

I’m fairly new to this group since December was my first challenge month. It’s wonderful to see so many new posters as well as the familiar voices I’ve grown to know. Good luck to each and every one of you today.

Take care, Markie

Thanks for the support for the dry January group. It’s early days but I’m sure we can do it together. FD going well so far, despite my painting group turning up with cake, chocolates, biscuits. Hmmmmm…..

Day5, Guildford UK, CFD

Did my first zombie run today on the treadmill. Awesome.

It’s a free app and it’s fun, although I don’t watch the walking dead or Got.

Sure motivated me to run!

Going to look up the Colloidal Silver, thank you @bert1802

@daffodil2010, so so envious right now……have a well deserved wonderful time

Mari

Day 5 a sunny, frosty Belfast NFD

Despite not really being successful with FDs this week my weight is down a pound. Now for a nice controlled weekend. No alcohol is no problem. Now the sugar…. that’s a different matter!
Thank you @basyjames, michelinme, SongBirdMe, for your kind words. I found all your good wishes very comforting.
@flourbaby – I had to rise to the challenge. As an English gal from Kent (who was a teenage Sun worshipper,) living in NI I can’t imagine why I left the sunny south east for the north west. Maybe 38 years ago the weather wasn’t as bad here or my rose tinted love-struck glasses didn’t notice! Now if you live Ireland it is generally accepted that it rains a lot, hence the 40 shades of green. And yes, I’m happy if we hit 20 degrees on a summer’s day, which seems to happen less and less each year. However, we don’t get the snow much either, which is good or not depending on whether you have to go out in it! We are notoriously poor at dealing with snow. On the same weather note, there was a bit on this morning’s TV Florida, and the lizards freezing in the trees, falling out, and then thawing when they were put in the sunshine. It brought a smile to my face@Bert. There’s no such thing as poor weather, just inappropriate clothes!
@markie99 – I totally agree that this is a happy place😀
@Mrjbcd44 I too am happy reading your private gallstone forum! You never know when the info might be useful!

Having a good CD todqy.

Remember: A quitter never wins and a winner never quits

Day 5 – USA – FD

@anna6, so sorry you have a severe infection…thinking of you and hope you recover quickly! @fatrabbit, congratulations on meeting your goal of wedding weight…what a feat! @arelkade, welcome and congrats on your recent dispatch of lbs.! @basyjames, happy birthday!

Day 4 – FD – Perth WA
Day 5 – NFD

FD yesterday was hard, I guess that’s just the novelty wearing off. But I made it with minimal snacking and came in under 500 🎉 Today was probably worse, I am keeping track of my cals (@onahealthyhigh yeah it’s working really well for me. I’m from South West WA 🤗) each day and inputting my Argentinian food truck sandwich brought me painfully to grips with just how many calories are in take out so I will be a little more selective next time and maybe try and keep take out to a 1meal/week kind of thing.
In Solidarity ✊🏻

@basyjames Happy Birthday!!!! Enjoy your day.

@basyjames. Sorry I meant to wish you happy birthday 🎂 XO

Day 5 Preston Uk CD hello world 🌈 🌎

Well I’ve reached day 5 and still feeling totally motivated, which I must admit is a first for me. In the past when I’ve tried to lose weight, by day 5 it’s definitely a case of having to really fight the cravings and as you can imagine, I always lose. But hopefully not anymore. Trying to keep to around 1300 kcal today but having a very lazy day with no exercise. Tomorrow is a FD and I have started doing the Preston 5k park run on a Saturday so hopefully it’ll be a double whammy for me.
Hope everyone is having a good day, thanks for all the support and positivity, stay warm, stay safe, stay motivated. 😀🏃‍♀️👍

Day 5, Gozo Malta, nfd

Metatauta and leggit thanks for your wishes. Leggit infections are not easy to get rid of and hope you’re feeling better soon and healthy again. I’m on the road to recovery as I’m feeling better.

Bert1802 I missed going to mass today as I’m too Cathartic did not go out today. I hope to go to Sunday mass though.

Happy Friday everyone the first weekend of the year starts today.

Day 5 California NFD

The scale showed a new low of 58 kg or 128 pounds this morning. This was my amended goal after starting 5:2 with a 59 goal, which I recently decided was the one to stick with. Either way, it’s a nice problem to have, figuring what my end goal should be.

Yesterday was a successful FD, coming in at 512 calories for the day. FD have become very routine for me. My usual days are Mon and Thurs, but the last two weeks it has been Tues and Thurs because of the holidays. I must say that I prefer having 2 NFD between. I think there is less tendency to overeat on the NFD, knowing that there are 2. It also spreads the fasting across the week.

I’ve lost 12,7 kg or 27.8 pounds since May 10th on this WOE. It may have been slow, but I had lots of mindless eating days scattered over those months. I do try to eat mindfully but am not always successful. I very rarely count calories on NFD and always count the 500 calories on my twice weekly FD. I have never missed my 2 FD per week and have very occasionally done 3, usually to move off of a long plateau.

For the newbies, I’m 68, so don’t be thinking you’re too old to lose weight. All the pain that I had when climbing stairs is completely gone. My knees feel fine now. It wasn’t old age, it was being too fat! I’ve also cut down on BP meds from twice per day without good control, to 1 low dose one, that controls it pretty well.

Day 5 UK CD

After successful FD yesterday my weight was down to 77.5kg/171lbs/12st 3 this morning – a drop of 0.5kg since Tues and 1.5kg this week! I’m now back below my pre-Christmas low of 78kg. Not sure how much that’s the stomach/dizzy virus which wiped out 1-2 January but I’ll take it.

Worked out some extra short-term goals to give me motivation for Those Moments:
-2lbs will get me below 170
-4lbs will get me below 12 stone
-5lbs will mean I’ve lost a whole stone since 1 Dec

@basyjames thank you for reminding me about anomalies. I’m so easily caught up in the moment & will try to be mindful of scales going up & down with water consumption, food digestion, hormones etc.

@fatrabbit congratulations on reaching your goal! I’ve just spent 2 hours caught up in reading your personal journal and really enjoyed your generous, beautifully-written sharing of experience and insights. It’s inspiring to read what you have learned, and how you’ve re-found yourself in the process. It resonates with me on many levels, thank you.

Can’t remember where it came from but cooking veg in soya milk and spices worked wonderfully well. I thickened up the sauce with some natural yogurt and topped with a little cheese – yum. And raw cacao is my other Wonder find – so chocolatey, and so few calories. Makes a delicious dessert mixed in plain yogurt with a tsp honey, or as a hot chocolate with boiling water/milk/honey. I seem to sleep like a log when I’ve had it in the evening – my quality of sleep is generally better since I started this WOL.

I’m so enjoying rediscovering healthy food, experimenting with cooking, learning about calories, nutrition and different ways of making things, I’m beginning to notice the interplay between food and fuel, physical and mental health, diet and well-being. This WOL is opening up something beyond diet/weight, making me think about balance in other areas of my life. So glad to be learning from and alongside you all.

Day 5 – UK – NFD

I was watching on the news the devastation the freezing weather is causing on the Eastern Seaboard in the US, saw some footage of the freezing floods in Boston where Winter Storm Grayson hit the city right at high tide – @leggit and any of our fellow Challengers involved – stay safe!

Lovely day out with DD, met her future MIL for the first time and had lunch out together – weather much improved and we even got some sunshine this afternoon 😎

@debster251 @bigviking @flourbaby @emma-taylor and others – Regarding the issue of carbonated water – If you have been drinking it and it does not make you feel hungry or gives you the munchies on a FD then keep drinking it! Personally I don’t find that it makes me feel hungry, but then I don’t drink a lot of it, we have such lovely water here in cumbria that I drink plenty of cold tap water or hot water with lemon
@penz – yes they tested plain water, carbonated water, carbonated drinks e.g. coke and a flat version of same – highest increase in Ghrelin was in the carbonated coke group but carbonated water drinkers also had a significant increase!

@daffodil2010 – Good to hear your flight to Peru was fab and looking forward to hear of your travels and keeping you in mind for your daily planks!!!
@debster251 – cherish all the great memories you shared with your cousin 🤗
@shinything – should have made it clear, I use Safari on a MacAir to go on line and at the top of the screen, not the Fast Diet Page!! I can access emojis through that Edit button😕
@emma-taylor – enjoy Rome – lovely place to visit “The Eternal City”
@saggirl – did I understand your post correctly – are you planning on water fasting for a month??
@mari84 – nice to have you on board again – try to log in daily as it’s a great form of accountability and it will provide you with support when most needed as well x
@rahul1905 – great job on completing a 3 day fast! and feeling so good on it – hope your NFD following it was a CD as you hoped x
@tasha58691 @libertybelle @fatfingers – Welcome on board – never too late to join!
@miraclelou – your Day 4 post post appeared just above the post from @onahealthyhigh where she had copied your post from her email onto the site, then there is another post from @onahealthyhigh saying that the site would not let her post copy despite it appearing on the forum………… strange that!!!!
@rainbowsmile – “you are stronger than you think” – good on you for not letting news re the divorce derail you 🤗
@lindasue – thank you for that link but I was unable to open it???
@bigviking – those pesky mince pies will jump into our mouths 😉 I hope the almonds were not salted ones…….
@Strawberriesandcream – great news regarding your OH rehabilitation after his knee op and that he is back to dancing 🕺 Good to hear that you are “buzzing and you are not a bore – a lot of us are keen to hear of the health benefits you are gaining from being alcohol free so keep posting x
@maayyaa – I started yoga 2 years ago and it has transformed my life both mentally and physically – I found the most brilliant teacher and do 2 classes a week with her – hope it works for you too! 🧘‍♀️
@anna6 – hope the infection you are suffering from is reduced soon – take good care of yourself x
@fatrabbit – what an amazing journey you have had and such an inspiration to many here – I was so pleased to be able to follow your journey on here and read of the changes it has made to your life 👍
@basyjames – hope you feel better soon and wishing you a very Happy Birthday and enjoy! 🎈🎁
@leggit – have you tried home made Kefir to help with your IBS??
@songbirdme – I’m with you in maintaining nicely too – This WOL is great!
@califdreamer – great job 💃 personally I like being below my original target weight as it gives me some leeway for holidays or weekends of indulgences – I always aim to be at least 2kg below my target weight before a holiday – I find that it certainly helps with staying in maintenance!

What a lovely group we have for this January Challenge, from all over the globe, all starting from different stages of our journey and aren’t we lucky to have this forum to express ourselves knowing that we have great support, no judgement but plenty of advice and @coda look what you started 😲

“It starts with a DREAM
Add FAITH and it becomes a BELIEF
Add ACTION and it becomes PART OF LIFE
Add PERSEVERANCE and it becomes a GOAL IN SIGHT
Add PATIENCE and TIME and it ends with a DREAM COME TRUE”
Doe Zantamata

Norway, day 5, nfd

Had an OK FD yesterday, but I did have a small milkshake in the evening…I Have noe idea how many kcal it had, but I didn’t eat much else that day so I think I can call it an almost FD?
Anyway, it was pampering day, I never have them, and I forgot I had manicure ordered and an agreement with my husband to take the evenig “off” from the kids, so I just could not resist having a treat. Oh well, I still lost 0.5 kg, so I’m ok with not mastering the FD completely. Next week will be better, I know it!

Have a great weekend everyone 🙂

Day 5 of water fast. Feeling good no hunger. Drinking distilled water with apple cider vinegar and on the first cup i add a little himalayan sea salt. On day 4 i couldn’t sleep. Got a burst of energy at night and slept only 3 hrs some time in the day. Weird. Slept well last night. Keep you informed.

Day 5 : Cheshire, UK : FD (liquid)

I’ve been busy at work, then did my grocery shop (all good for this WOL), then babysat for my gorgeous grandbabies for a couple of hours. By the the time, I arrived home and did some stuff including catching up on posts, it was 9.30 pm and I thought it might as well be a liquid fast day! 🙂

@basyjames – Happy Birthday! Hope you had a lovely day! Thank you for your kind words too.

@bert1802 – Thanks for sharing your experience of Colloidal Silver. My OH used it a several months ago after doing some research but it’s good to hear from someone who has had positive results from it for many years.. I will definitely try it myself.

@daffodil2010 – What a wonderful picture you paint. Enjoy!

@joblot44 – I’m contemplating doing the Saturday Park Runs…..I’m interested in your experience.

@fatrabbit – Mega congratulations!

@mjrbcd44 – Ooh, I’m so pleased you found the link helpful. Please keep us updated with your progress…I’ve subscribed to your ‘private gallbladder forum’. 🙂

Thank you everyone for your posts. I love this forum. 🙂

Happy Birthday, Baby James !

Day 5 Second post

Thought people from outside the UK might be interested in the experiment which looked at the effect of carbonated drinks – inc sugary drinks (sodas) and water – on hunger / appetite.

The original experiment tested fizzy drinks/sodas, flat sodas and tap water on a group of 20 healthy men. Result – carbonated drink increased appetite/hunger more than flat drink.

On the BBC programme this week Michael Mosley repeated the experiment on a similar size group but included fizzy water as well as tap water and the two sodas. NB the fizzy water showed a SLIGHT increase – not a significant increase – in hunger/appetite compared to the tap water.
The headlines have been rather misleading!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42542818

Day 4 Ireland CD
Day 5 FD

Yesterday’s controlled day went really well and today’s fast day not so well but over the two days just 2,000 calories consumed so I’ll be happy with that.
30k bike ride tonight in the cold and it feels good to be back in the healthy zone.. a few lbs dispatched already and hoping the downward trend continues😀..
Dry and no sugar January is working out well and managed my plank challenge today too so a good end to this week. I’m also not giving up my fizzy water..saw the program but don’t believe it increases my hunger levels so it’s here to stay for me!
Hoping all those on the east coast USA are safe and warm… We really don’t know what real cold is over here 🤔.

I’m interested in joining the January challenge.

Day 6 NFD – Mornington Peninsula Australia

Already above 32 degrees at 11am this morning, not particularly looking forward to the forecasted 40+ degrees and hot northerly winds. Happy to report that the wedding anniversary was a dry one but yesterday’s lunch at another winery with the family resulted in a refreshing glass of estate Chardonnay. Never mind, spent the morning watering the garden and hosing down the chicken coop followed by swimming laps in the pool. I have now retreated to the shade with a good book and do not plan to do anything but try and stay cool for the rest of the day.