Day 21 UK NFD

Yes I’m with you on the weekend struggle @jaifaim – it’s hard to change the habits of a lifetime at the moment I’m content with a slow loss

@daffodil2010 Those bullet coffees were a big thing on here a while ago and I love coffee and butter but the thought of them together makes me queasy

Onwards

Day 21 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

@daffodil2010 – Pocket Lust Day?! You’ve got to love predictive texting 😅

Day 21 Canton OH FD

@penz that is horrible 🙁 Eek! I am glad she did not die, there is a major artery there!!!

busy day today. I’ll check in again later

Pocket Lust Day 21
@daffodil2010
@penz
@basyjames

Day – 21- Atlanta, Ga- USA- FD

Day 21,UK, NFD

Sorry I’ve been awol, just been busy and a bit annoyed with myself. Lets say it was a heavy weekend 🙊
Yesterday however, was a very good day, successful FD and I even exercised! 😃
Still not seeing any change though.
I read sonething here about fat fast? Didn’t see the link, its difficult using my phone to search properly, could someone please repost it?
Have a great day everyone!🤗

USA Day 21 FD

Day 21
@daffodil2010
@penz
@basyjames
@suki2
@therealwil
@ccco

Originally, yesterday was my FD but in the end it didn’t work out, so today is my replacement day! So far, so good! Wish I could go outside for a power walk but it is so bitterly cold out there, so that isn’t happening today! Hope everyone is having a nice day!

Day 22, NFD, Aus

Not sure how I ended up on Day 21 pocket list? Did I miss a promise to myself?? It WAS an egg fast day but prob over 500 cals. Under 800? Huh. On reflection, maybe I could credit myself with a FD??

Squat toilets were a challenge for me as a Westerner. Easier if one was wearing a long loose skirt and no stockings; challenging if wearing tight skinny jeans. (Even easier if one had fantastic bladder control and could wait out until one was back home!)

Wow, @daffodil2010, you’ve never had avocado before? I hope you fall in love with them! One of my favourite beverages (seem v popular in the Middle East) is an avocado smoothie – yum! And did you know (bit of a patriotic pride thing here) that macadamias originated in Australia? (Hawaii takes the credit for them but they’re native to us.) I saw a chef on tv explain the best way to remove an avocado stone was with the heel of a knife (ie as close to the handle as you could get) – I’ve always used a knife but perhaps not carefully enough.

Ooh, look after yourself @Ihatelettuce! If you know an 800 cal FD works for you and your MOAMs, stick with it.

For those of you who struggle with weekends (@jaifaim, @brightonbelle and others) my philosophy is that this is a WOL and I can still enjoy my weekends (yes, sometimes to excess) but provided I diligently stick to the 5:2 “rules” during the week I know I can lose weight. It’s all about balance.

Great results @suki2!

@ciren2 – I don’t want to comment on whether or not the internet lies. !!! Maybe it was referring to the backed-up drains and gutters that can sometimes happed in suburban streets after a heavy downfall? It usually clears v quickly and usually just means heavy water on the outer edges of the streets (still ok to drive through).

Thinking of your DH @songbirdme and hoping he makes a speedy recovery from whatever mystery ailment he has. The egg fast is just one Keto-diet variation; similiar to the fat fast. I like eggs, which helps. Here’s a link: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/egg-fast (but I don’t follow those “rules” strictly.)

Great idea, @flaquita! I’m defn going to add a plie squat to my toilet routine! If your friends think you’re crazy, then clearly they’re not trying it out for themselves. And yay for your positive, in-control feeling.

Day 21 Ohio, US — NFD

Back to the usual NFD, but with 10K steps. The experiment with just walking 30 minutes a day didn’t pan out — the weight went up 3 lb (1.4 kg) last week. While the 30 minutes daily may be sufficient for health, for me it just doesn’t keep the weight under control. It appears to be more than just the calories burned — if I get enough steps in, then my eating also stays under control.

By the way, sodium also seems to be important (at least for me) on FD’s. It really helps to have salt with all my food on FD’s, as opposed to NFD’s when I use salt only at supper, and maybe sometimes for lunch.

@flaquita Congratulations on your NSV! That kind of positive reinforcement really can give a nice boost!

@ccco The inclement weather can certainly mess up a walking routine. One solution I’m trying is that I went out a purchased some inexpensive runners and built a “circular” track around my great room. It seems to be going well and it’s a pleasant change to watch TV while walking.

Patient endurance attains to all things!

Day 22: Gloucestershire, UK, NFD:

@penz: That is SO annoying, I know, it’s happened to me many a time! Did you try looking in your history, copying and pasting it back. That worked for me once. I’m on a PC not a phone though.

@songbirdme: Sorry to hear about your DH. I hope all turns out well. I diagnosis would help. Good luck xx

Day 22 – FD – Ireland
🚫 ✅ 🤸‍♂️
Finding this week tough but my willpower is strong… colleagues birthday cakes yesterday and I stayed away from all cakes… I did have a crisp or two… but that’s ok..they don’t unleash the dragon 🐉.
Walked and cycled yesterday and I’m beginning to feel the benefit of the plank and squats now…
@flaquita great to see your progress and to note the improvement in your general health… i have two auto immune conditions and am always searching for ways to improve my compromised health and in particular brain fog.. 👍
@matpi I’m laughing as if I built a circular route around my largest room it would only be about 10 steps 😂 I have a wee cottage but luckily weather than I can generally get out in….😂😂

Pocket List Day 22:
@jaifaim

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 22 – Cumbria UK – FD

Good morning everyone

@suki2 – I’m OK with French to a degree, understanding it is OK, but getting a reply together …. bit slow, but most French people I’ve come across are more patient than you might think! Had some fun getting it right sometimes, in fact getting it wrong has been even funnier!

Going to try another FD today,but somethings not quite right? Again, yesterday, was on a FD (although had been removed from pocket lust ?)had a longish walk, just over 5 miles, but not at speed. Again didn’t feel well (not dizzy or faint) more like had a few drinks too many, rather weird.
Yesterdays figures – Total calories consumed 963 – Exercise calories burned 882 – Net – 81 for the day.

@songbirdme – @ciren2 – Haven’t changed things much (apart from trying a water only day, which I won’t be trying again!) will have to look back through my notes.
@flaquita – Got to be careful with salt, have had blood pressure issues in the past.

Pocket list day 22

I-hate-lettuce

Day 22, London, UK, FD,

Another FD for me as I’ve a meeting this afternoon at the time I would normally break my fast, so it’ll be OMAD FD for me.

@songbirdme, I found those links but had no intention of joining the programme, their website and dietdoctor.com have lots of free resources for anyone who needs to reinforce what we already know!!! One of many things I love about this WOL is how cheap it is, you save on groceries and eliminating excessive treats helps too!! Sending healing vibes to Mr. @songbirdme!!

@basyjames, thanks for the list, I think I had ‘egg fast’ stuck in my mind. I could definitely do a fat fast of even just salmon, avocado, olives, mayo and bone broth!!! No cheese on the list though, I love cheese almost as much as wine!!! Cheese and wine, Mmmm …………………. Good grief it’s 9 a.m. AND a FD AND Dry-January!!!!!!

@flaquita, your doing so well with the NSVs. Taking control of our own health is the biggest gift you can give yourself. I think fasting gives you back the sense of control we lose when we find weight is a problem you can’t easily solve ………………. But WHY can’t I lose weight/ stop eating/ stop binging/ eat healthily???!! …………………………. Who would have thought they had soooo much self-control before starting this journey? I’m forever hearing, “But I couldn’t go a whole day without eating!!!” ………………… you truly don’t know how strong you are until you try!!! Also, it’s never TMI to share something of yourself, we’re privileged that you’re willing to share xx

@lilymartin, a few FDs or CDs seem to reset everything, I was worried after Xmas that I wouldn’t be able to drag myself back onto the wagon!! Phew, thank goodness this isn’t a diet, otherwise we’d all throw in the towel after the first slip up!!!

@funshipfreddie, I’m wishing for NSV’s for everyone here!!!! ………………… the 2nd type of course!!! LOL

Pocket List Day 22:
@jaifaim
@daffodil2010
@i-hate-lettuce
@flourbaby

Keep the faith people, we’ve GOT this!!!!

Day 22- Atlanta, Ga- USA- FD

Day 22 – Japan – NFD

Here is the youtube video about the “Miracle Benefits of Fasting”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgVz3837l0 It is based on the study from the New England Journal …

@daffodil2010 I missed your comment about apples and bananas giving you a sugar rush. You are correct if something does that you should avoid it. They are sweet but digestion is very complex and I probably have different gut flora than you. In fact if I eat too much fruit have I have fructose malabsorption systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose_malabsorption

The malabsorption systoms started months after I cut down on added refined sugar consumption. I’ve measured my blood glucose many times to look for blood glucose spikes or it just being high but have never seen much impact from eating fruit, even bananas. That doesn’t mean that is true for everyone.

Actually I started checking blood glucose because of claims that artificial sweeteners cause blood glucose to spike, but I never saw one if there is. Maybe it does happen to some people. I’ve noticed some anti-artificial sweetener folks have gotten clever and are now claiming it causes insulin to spike, which is vastly more difficult to get a measurement of. However what most people don’t talk about is the amount of an artificial sweetener needed is tiny compared to a natural sugar like fructose. Typically like 1/100th the amount. Some experiments did find problems artificial sweeteners, but at insanely large doses. So I feel much safer drinking a diet cola if I’m going to drink a cola. I’m not claiming these are health foods either, they aren’t. Still there has been so much misinformation about refined sugar for so long, we think it is a natural food. It isn’t, refined sugar is also man-made and artificial.

http://www.sugar-and-sweetener-guide.com/sweetener-values.html

In the 70’s there were big pushes for everyone to give up butter and use margarine instead because it was healthy. Turns out it was the man-made trans fats causing a lot of the heart attacks. I eat a lot of margarine when I was a kid. Even when I got married I thought it was better than butter. However, my wife was cooking a lot and she would only use real butter because she didn’t like the taste of margarine. Turns out to be a good thing for me. 😀 Anyway that is kind of how I feel about the claims around refined sugar being “natural” and healthy.

Day 22 Canada NFD

Small drop in the scales 😇

@shinything good for you for hitting the reset button
@songbirdme hoping your DH is feeling better today 🙏
@flaquita you must be feeling great. It’s great when clothes confirm progress
@lilymartin control definitely improves with practice
@penz 😩
@funshipfreddie thanks for the clarification 😂
@jaifaim stay strong 💪
@daffodil2010 glad you could 🎉
@i-hate-lettuce good idea to listen to your body 👍

I’m the only one responsible for reaching my goal weight 💪⬇️👖

Day 22 Oxfordshire UK FD
Today was the third of my b2b2b. Calories a little higher today, but I’ve managed 3L of water on all three days.
Feeling much more in control thsi week.
Tomorrow is my monthly rambling group outing which usually includes a pub lunch. So to counteract some of the harm I shall not break my fast until lunch then probably just having something much lighter in the evening. Hopefully combined with the walk I’ll be ok.
enjoy the rest of day 22.

@daffodil2010 – glad the avocado destoning worked. There are so many new skills to learn out there. Naples is bonkers, but I knew that already. It’s like going back 400 years in time. And it’s so dark. And sooooo noisy. But, the food is just unbelievable. I’m hanging on by my coat-tails but it’s gonna be a serious business when I get home. I’m trying not to pig out, just to eat normally and deal with the consequences when I get back. But every single thing you eat is fantastic. Hey ho. I wasn’t expecting miracles. H

Day 23 – Japan – NFD

Day 23: Gloucestershire, UK: NFD:

@penz: Computer wizardry is NOT my thing, but I have discovered that, on my PC, at least, down the left hand side (sometimes it’s along the top) among various little icon things, is one for browsing history….hey presto, it brings up the pages you’ve been looking at, today, yesterday, etc. Click on the appropriate fast-diet page, maybe back arrow it to find the place where your post was entered. Copy and paste….wey-hey! It worked for me, once. I have to say that , another time I couldn’t get the relevant page….so, maybe worth experimenting.

Off to work shortly…I have to go a bit earlier to get everything done, as I have two appointments this afternoon.

Day 23 – CD – Ireland
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Tough week continues….quick lunch with some family today but will choose wisely… I’ve been very active this week so maybe that will help we’ll see… 2 min plank yesterday and lots of squats between loo visits and gym class…. I’ll be sore tomorrow 😂
Congrats to your DH @daffodil2010 👍 will the new job be less physical I wonder? I can’t believe you had neither bought nor prepared avocado 🥑 before… I love them! And about two years developed an intolerance to them but cut it from my diet for 6 months and can eat them again now … I, in the other hand have never bought sardines, mackerel etc… would love to love them but just can’t do oily fish.😂😂
@suki2 and @ I-hate-lettuce i’m a french speaker too and spent a good part of my life in France and have some family there..love the language and the lifestyle… if you want to improve your french there are great series and films on Netflix and Channel 4 which can help. Even being able to just greet someone in their language makes such a difference and shows them the respect you have for them and their culture… 💕… In this case a little goes a very very long way.. 👍
@songbirdme I hope your OH is doing ok! 🙏
Good luck to all the fasters today!
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 23 – 2nd post

Brilliant comment from my OH just now …

“I’ve started putting some of your clothes in the tumble drier, need them to shrink.”

RESULT !

Day 23, London, UK, FD,

Another FD for me, it may well be the ONLY reason for me to go to work!!!

Yesterday’s OMAD FD went so well that I’m repeating it today, usually I bring some soup or snack cheese to work as an emergency hunger killer, but today, just a sachet of miso soup as I’m clearly strong enough to ride the hunger wave particularly if I drown dragons in 3L water!!

Congratulations Mr. @daffodil2010, hopefully this job isn’t as physically taxing on the knee??!!

@dykask, so true, we used to listen to the ‘experts’ because we had so little information, these days we question EVERYTHING. Probably because we have easy access to information, false or not, via the internet. It’s best to inform yourself, research and make your own mind up, there are too many ulterior motives out there to take ANYONE’S word for it!!

@basyjames & @jaifaim, that internal conversation is an easy one to have with myself, exactly as you describe it @basyjames, however ………………… add a glass or two (bottle!) of red wine to the conversation and ALL bets are off!!! Decision making & making healthy wise dragon slaying choices is NOT recommended after the vino ………………………… no wonder we don’t drink & drive!!!

Right back atcha @penz …………………………. 10 a.m. and (whisper it!!! peanut butter has raised its ugly, addictive, tasty, moreish head!!! …………… where’s that miso sachet???

Ok, so I’m crossing Naples off of the ‘places to visit’ list @emma-taylor ………………. It sound equally heavenly and hellish!!!!

@songbird me, I’m sending extra strength healing vibes & prayers to Mr. @songbirdme, the hospital will have him fixed up in no time!!

Pocket List – Day 23 🍏
@i-hate-lettuce
@penz
@lilymartin
@daffodil2010
@funshipfreddie
@flourbaby

Onward & downwards folks!!

Day 23- Atlanta, Ga. -USA- B2B FD

Day 23 – 2nd post

I’m not really trying to lose weight. I might at some point decide to lose a few more kg but it isn’t a pressing concern. I carried a bag for my son to the airport a few weeks ago. It was a bulky duffel bag and it seemed really heavy by the time I put it on the ticket agents scale. It was only 13kg. That is only 1/2 of what I lost. I was kind of shocked I used to carry around that much extra weight all the time. No wonder I didn’t feel good.

So why an I still fasting? There are a few reasons.

1) Fasting is still having positive impacts on my health and it is getting easier to do. The best way to make fasting easy is just to keep repeating it. (At least for me.)

2) I really enjoy eating and strangely fasting make eating even more enjoyable. I think it makes me more mindful of eating. I also get to eat more food in general without guilt or fat gain.

3) Sometimes fasting isn’t fun, but I actually do enjoy letting my body just empty out. It isn’t the same as eating, but there is some good general feeling I often get from it.

4) Fasting is getting easier, working out fasted is getting easier, I’m getting stronger, my body is continuing to change and adapt. I’m hopeful it is healthy, at least it seems healthy. I’m curious to see where it will go.

I’m reading a book by David Sinclair, “Lifespan Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To.” I bought after listening to a youtube video of a talk he gave. He thinks we are only decades away from extending our lifespans. Not sure if that will help me but he mentioned a bunch of things he and family are doing. He mentioned fasting more than a few times. I’m not afraid of dying, but I don’t want to become a living corpse either. Many people suffer so much the last years or even decades of their lives. My father has a brother that is two years older than him, but one would think he is 20 years older as the last decade has been hard on him. (My father is almost 88.) My mother died this last year, she was 81, but she had extremely poor quality of life for years. The doctors probably could have done more and saved her, but to be honest there wouldn’t have been any point to it, she had been gone for some time. That isn’t how I want to go.

So I’m hopeful that fasting will continue to help me. I hope fasting will continue to also help all of you putting so much effort into it,