Day 13 – Lake district UK – FD

Good morning everyone

Really enjoyed yesterdays ‘day off’ lazy day, back to ‘the project’ this morning though, final push. Well, for now!

@daffodil2010 – well done negotiating shorter hours, well done for the company for listening! Like you I need a good FD today, not been keeping records etc or walking this last week, been too busy, got to keep the eye on the ball!

Was expecting a long pocket list today, not yet though, so …

Day 13 pocket list
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD

2nd post … took me so long to compose my post I’ve crossed posted the PL

Day 13 pocket list
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes

Day 13 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

MUCH-needed FD today; let’s not talk about the weekend 🤦‍♂️

The sale of alcohol in South Africa is banned AGAIN?! Too many hospital beds being taken up with weekend ‘partiers’ who have a tendency to shoot and stab each other; not to mention road accident victims. But no-one thought this was a problem before Covid-19?! Fortunately, due to being ‘dry til Fri’ my stash should last me a couple of months, at least!

Have a good week everyone!

Pocket List – Day 13 🍏
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes
@funshipfreddie

DTF List – Day 13 ☕️
@funshipfreddie

Day 13, London, UK, NFD

Yesterday was a rather low calorie NFD, just about BMR, so today will be another NFD since a LFD might be a step too far!!

However, my energy levels are high and I decided to try the 30 Day shred this morning😲, don’t get me wrong, I’ve managed to walk off 6+ inches with Leslie Sansone since the end of April😁, and it’s a great way to exercise when the knees are as creaky as mine!!! Anyway, I really enjoyed doing something different, I’ll walk with Leslie later, but I’m patting myself on the back for banking one session before 9a.m.😇!!!!!

@northgeorgia, I think your scales need a handle of their own!!!😤 Although, ratting you out over the Mexican meal, salsa & chips might give you pause for thought the next time temptation beckons!!! 😟😳

@funshipfreddie, as you’ll be rationing your booze stash, the peanuts that are irresistible after just one sip will be safe!!!! 🙌 As much as I love a glass🍷 of vino (bottle!) or 2🍷🍷, just like cigarettes, the government have NO interest in our health and safety when it involves vast amounts of tax revenue!!!!

To those thinking about the weekend that was; remember ……….. “No looking back, you’re not going that way anyway!!”

NFD mocha is calling my name …………………….Onward & downwards folks, stay strong!!!

It’s a lovely day I’m feeling positive Let’s go !

Pocket List – Day 13 🍏
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@annabelle48
DTF List – Day 13 ☕️
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle

Sorry had to add my name this way to FD list as last time lost the whole post.

Day 13 – USA/GA – FD

Ha ha! I’m glad to report that my scales and I have returned to friendly terms. No negotiations needed this morning. I enjoyed some high fiber fruits and vegetables last night for dinner (our garden’s first cantaloupe was plucked)! This morning I weighed in at 256.0 lbs., no fuss.

M/W will be great times for fasting for me this week. I have state meetings (online) with a very busy agenda from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today through Wednesday. 1 p.m. is the average time when I break for my first snack, so it should work out well.

Looking forward to this week’s FDs. I think finally the pounds will start creeping downward a bit. However, I am wearing a bland outfit today of clothing that was too small a few months ago, so YAY!

@bert1802 I’m adding you today’s Pocket List; hope that’s OK 🙂

Anyone else on board today?

@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@annabelle48
@northgeorgia
@bert1802

DTF List – Day 13 ☕️
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle

Hi I am 58 and exercise 6 days a week with no medical issues.I just finished my first week of 4:3
I was down 2lbs. on Fridy but seems to have regained it over the weekend. I’ve started again at 7 pm last evening for week 2.

My questions are :

Is this normal?
Will I lose this with this week’s 3 fasts?
Should I use a calorie tracker like my fitness pal on non-fasting days?

Hope someone on here can provide answers to keep my motivation high

Day 13 – Rural Nebraska, USA – FD
Day 12, NFD

Meant to check in yesterday, but got busy having a lovely day. 🙂 Was it @songbirdme who mentioned magnesium for Charlie horses? I was so tired of going to bed and struggling for fifteen minutes to find a position where my right foot (always the right foot, never the left, never either leg…weird) wouldn’t cramp, so I picked up a bottle on Saturday afternoon and took a pill with supper. Drank lots of water. Had no more than 1200 calories that day, drank lots of water in the evening (which wreaks havoc with sleeping through the night, but oh well), so should have been at LEAST 2lbs lighter in the morning, but probably 3+ (remember, I weigh every single day, and usually every night, so I know how those scales behave)…and was only down .8 lbs. So strange. Yesterday was also a well-behaved day at less than TDEE, and I was up a further 2lbs this morning. So, so, so strange. Can magnesium make you retain water? We’ll see what today’s FD accomplishes for the scales tomorrow.

@northgeorgia, I think you have a future in stand up comedy!!
@Baily’sMom, a fluctuating scale like that is entirely normal. Well done on exercising regularly and doing 3 FDs last week. Using a calorie tracker (and the MFP tracker is very popular) can really reveal where we’re overeating on NFDs, so that might be a good idea for you to try. The thing to really hold on to, however, is that our weight naturally fluctuates, so don’t sweat the up days because you’ll soon have another down day, and eventually your up day will be lower than your current down days! Welcome to our group; we’re active and everyone’s wonderfully encouraging and you’ll love it here.

Pocket List, Day 13
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@annabelle48
@northgeorgia
@bert1802
@missybear
@BailysMom
@stitchincarol

DTF List – Day 13 ☕️
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle

“I can do anything for one day.”
“It’s going to be hard, but hard is not impossible.” Chuck Palahniuk

Day 13 Melb Aust TDEE

Today moved from being a FD to a TDEE so the next couple of days will have to be FDs, with stacks of vegetables and some protein, but not much else. That’s okay. Doable.

@northgeorgia, tell your scales that they are in the bad books for being rude to you, their owner, even if they did shape up more recently. Yay for fitting into formerly too tight clothes! 🙂

@penz & @lilymartin, you did give me a chuckle with your responses, too. We need to smile.

@funshipfreddie, I saw the SA closure of the sale of alcohol on the news, and wondered how it will affect you. Glad you will be able to eke out your supply by being DTF.

Onward and downwards everyone!

Day 13, UK FD

Yesterday was a blow out- too many snacks around, I decide beer and crisps would be a reasonable thing when watching TV, why did I do that? This was after I’d polished my halo on Saturday after resisting crisps and alcohol all day. Who was it that said the halo can slip and become a noose!

So today is a FD, hopefully ending the day at or around 500 cals.

Pocket List, Day 13
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@lilymartin
@fasterjo
@penz
@dykask – WFD
@judyjudes
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@annabelle48
@northgeorgia
@bert1802
@missybear
@BailysMom
@stitchincarol
@saffy420

Stay safe everyone.

Day 14, FD (again!), Aus

Your FD yesterday sounded like mine @lilymartin. I successfully had a salad with my friend for lunch which should have been under the 500 cal limit but it woke the hunger dragon. So I had dinner with my OH and a glass of wine. Sigh. But a reminder why only liquid FDs work for me. Try again today. No, not try. Do!

Good luck with the fruit transition (from apple to pear) @judyjudes but your early experience with the Fast800 subscription service doesn’t sound promising.

I’m looking fwd to hearing about MrBert’s reaction to all the changes you’re making around the house @bert1802 – he’ll either never want to go away again, or will take it as a great opportunity to put you to work behind his back!

May your détente with your scales continue, @northgeorgia!

Welcome @BaileysMum! I won’t try to answer your questions because really, 5:2 is about finding what works for you. We’re all a little different, but universally supportive. Just stick with it and it will work!

Day 14 pocket list (I need the company!)
@penz

Day 14 DTF list (I better get back on that one too)
@penz

Day 14 country west Australia FD
What a day for a FD! It is cold ( 10ºC) wet and windy🌂☔️🌨 and I am at the dining table doing Office-work ALL day.😠 So close to the kitchen and I am a procrastinator par excellence .🤔🤔
So I will fiddle with the papers for a while then decide that we really DO need a cake 🍰or biscuits 🍪or both 🍰🍪, stop paperwork, make and bake the goodies, try one for a ‘ taste test’ and suddenly FD has gone down the hatch!!😲
No! seriously, today I will NOT give in 🤭. I will NOT give in!🤭 I will NOT give in!🤭
Welcome @Baileys Mom. I find that the scales bump up and down without rhyme or reason up to a few kgs each day. I weigh daily but only record once a week on a Saturday.
I think that as long as the general trajectory over time is in a downward direction it is all good.
I record my weigh on Fast Diet Tracker on this page.
The peaks and troughs look like the Italian alps 🏔- up and down all over the place. BUT whatever you do, please do NOT give up.🥺
I did a few years ago and the result is NOT healthy or good.🙄 Now I have to lose MORE than I ever have in my life. But it’s all good. With the support of this group I am determined I will succeed again.🤞
@bert1802 well done on all the projects you have done. Sounds like you have been busy.
@northgeorgia I am glad you are on speaking terms with your scales. I am in a huff with mine because they were most unfriendly this morning but it is a wake up call that I still must plug in the numbers in MFP for a while yet. I do so LURVE carbs but they do tend to stick around.
No chance of becoming a svelte pear🍐 like @judyjudes just yet – more like a watermelon 🍉. But it is a WIP ( work in progress!)
I bought the Fast 800 Recipe Book some weeks ago. A friend who has started doing 5:2 and has lost 8kgs in the past 3 months told me she had it and how good it was.
I copied a few recipes and then decided it was just as easy to buy the book.🙄 I need another recipe book like a hole in the head. I already have hundreds ( yes hundreds!!) as I LOVE to cook and hence one of the main reasons for needing to have a 5:2 WOL….
The recipes are indeed really delicious, pretty easy to make and I have most of the ingredients in my pantry, so winning all round.
I made a few of the dishes for a dinner party a little while ago and they were enjoyed immensely without anyone being aware that they were all under 800 calories. 😇
Have a happy healthy day everyone.

Day 14 – Ireland – Bastille Day 🇫🇷 aussi – LFD

Bonjour tout le monde 👋
Bastille day in La belle France which I miss lots… Like others I’m sure… God how we travelled with such ease before ☹️ 🙃.
Me and my french gang won’t be celebrating today so I’m going for a LFD – let’s do this… my body is tired today after a super active weekend and another hike with some family yesterday. I’ll be busy with work & don’t need to fuel for exercise so all the 🦆🦆🦆 are lined up 👍

@judyjudes, @stitchincarol and others I have the same frustration… between great FDs and serious exercise I’d expect to be slim and trim and in fact MFP keeps telling me I’ll be like a whippet 🐕 when I complete my diary on some days But No – forever bobbing!!! 😖 😂 🐢

Welcome @BaileysMom, to help with your queries:
We are all different so there is no “one size fits all” with this WOL.. with 3 FDs in a week I’d expect you would lose some weight but it very much depends on how you are eating on your NFDs, how much you have to lose and also your body… ultimately you will most likely lose weight if you continue with 2/3 FDs of 500 cals a week but many of us find it hard to lose weight quickly…
I use a calorie tracker (most of the time) as otherwise it’s hard to correctly guess how many calories you’re taking in… some people don’t as they are good at estimating but I’m not great and like to look back at my diary From time to time. Many of us use My Fitness Pal (MFP). Please read the intro post which @brightonbelle (our very kind host this month) posted on Day 1 for tips and a list of abbreviations.

We are a group of supportive people who find this WOL works Well for us rather than an official support group so there is never one correct answer to the many questions that come up but hopefully it will be a support to you…
there are also many more scientific people than me who can provide great nuggets of wisdom 👍. Someone may be able to post the helpful post ftom @simocoelv (Spelling?)

@funshipfreddie oh no – not again 🍻 🛑 although I sometimes think we should have done the same here – that would have been a very interesting experiment 🤔

@daffodil2010 -I hope you have a better commute this week 🤞
Ok here we go…

FD List – Day 14 🇫🇷
@penz
@jaifaim
@lilymartin (do not bake the cookie 🍪 😂)

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 14 – Lake District UK – CD

Good morning everyone,

Project slow going yesterday, fiddly bits and painting! But the kitchen starting to look really good. The plus side, Mrs I-H-L wanted a new fridge, so ‘the brewery’ gained a large fridge which will be converted into a fermentation and chiller cabinet, result!

@funshipfreddie … Hope you’ve got a reasonable stock in which will last you each weekend until ‘normal service’ resumes.

I’ve not had the brewery running for the last 3 or 4 years, but finally ran out of ‘stock’ so decided to get going again.
The guy who supplies me with all the grains, hops and yeast, has had a massive increase in sales, a lot of people are starting brewing AG beer in sheds and garages all over the UK. (AG beer is beer brewed from scratch, malted barley, hops and brewers yeast)
I took my latest brews to neighbours for a BBQ Saturday just gone, I had to come back for more supplies!

Dancing scales, I used to weigh every day, was amazed at the fluctuations, often making no sense at all, do all the right things ie FD, next morning gain… NFD and BBQ, beer, crisps, pizza etc, next morning loss! (doesn’t always happen, but has been known) So I just weigh in on Friday mornings nowadays.

Take care all

Day 14 – UK – NFD

Hello Everyone

@jaifaim Yes forever bobbing 😅. Happy Bastille Day! Does everyone get the day off?

@penz I know it reads poorly. The coaches have said they are working on updating the forum so that’ll help. They have also replied re:- calories. Basically trim or miss a meal as I see fit. So I’ll probably be somewhere between hardcore Fast800 and 5:2. Yesterday was a FD and I will admit I enjoyed my meals. I had got stale in choosing suitable fair on FDs and tended to have the same. There is more prepping and cooking and I wonder how workers manage their time. Got the menus for next week, it’s going to be quite expensive… salmon, steak, white fish. Sounds delish though. I’ve signed up now and I’m focusing on what I’d like to achieve by the end of it. For me that’s a solid 1lb a week (12lb overall) to get firmly in the 9sts. To quote @jaifaim I’ve been ‘bobbing‘ around the same 7lbs for nearly 2 years.

Have a great day Everyone 😊

FD List – Day 14 🇫🇷
@penz
@jaifaim
@lilymartin

Day 14 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

Good FD yesterday, cheese omelette & veggies. And the scales were kind this morning, despite my somewhat manic weekend. Not so much wriggle room now, but I’m still at my goal weight.

@baileys-mom – welcome to the July Challenge! And ditto everything @jaifaim said. Depends on how much you’re trying to lose & how close you are to your goal. I didn’t stop yoyoing until I started tracking the NFDs & stopped treating them as ‘feast days’. I only weigh myself after FDs now.

@i-hate-lettuce – SO glad I splurged a bit at the bottle store the last few weeks. I could probably hold out for the rest of the year! I’ve stashed away 18 large cans of cider, 3 bottles of vodka, three bottles of rum & 5 bottles of wine. But talk about a nanny state?! Cigarettes/tobacco product sales have also been banned since the lockdown started. 🚭

Pocket List – Day 14 🇫🇷 🍒
@penz
@lilymartin
@jaifaim
@daffodil2010
@mia139

DTF List – Day 14 ☕️
@penz
@funshipfreddie
@lilymartin

2nd post.

Sorry forgot UK.

Day 14, UK, NFD

Yesterday’s FD was good. My OH wanted my spicy pasta for tea. It’s definitely not a normal FD meal, so I weighed myself 200 cals worth of penne (omg, it’s about 10 tubes!) and had that with the sauce. Later I had a low cal jelly and ended the day just on 500 cals.

Today we’re planning on a nice walk and I’ve been promised fish n chips for lunch. I’ve been dreaming of it for weeks but kept putting it off as not fitting in with 5:2. But this is not meant to be a low cal diet, so I’m throwing caution to the winds.

@i-hate-lettuce, your brewing beer hobby is really taking off. Craft beer is really popular at the minute, maybe you should consider selling it – my OH would be your first customer.
@funshipfreddie – apologies for talking about beer, I would imagine there’d be riots on the streets if they banned alcohol in the UK.

I’m off for haircut later, it will be almost 6 months since it was last done. Hopefully mum won’t greet me tomorrow by saying I’m looking more like grandma every day.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

Day 14. OMAD. London UK

Just popping in to say hello. @penz – you saved my bacon with DTF. I think I’ve got into the habit now. I do go a bit bonkers at the weekend but I’m hoping I grow up eventually. So if anybody adds themselves to the DTF list, feel free to add me. Honestly, the thought of my international DTF group stops me going on the sauce every day! OMAD still going fine. I read the Fast Five book which talks about appetite correction, and amazingly, it works. You just never seem to get hungry, which is a complete revelation to me. Anyway, early days yet. Happy Tuesday all. H

Day 14 – USA/GA – NFD

Whew. It was a tough FD yesterday. I had a headache that wouldn’t dissipate for several hours. I think it was the added stress of work (I can’t believe a government organization would call me up and whine about a non-essential worker (one of my staff members) needing to return to their site when 1. there was a COVID outbreak there just three weeks ago, 2. there continues to be COVID cases on site, and 3. my staff member in question has a family member at home who tested positive for COVID, and he’s waiting 10 days to be tested himself. No, I am not making him return; smh. Anyway, just had to vent; back on topic now!)

I ended up eating a can of soup within an hour or so of my first snack, tried drinking more water, eating pickles, drinking seltzer (anything low-calorie with electrolytes). Finally, around 5 pm, the headache went away. Finished up some tasks for the next hour and a half, visited my family next door, and did some other things that caused a major disruption to my regular day-to-day. Before I knew it, it was 8:30 and realized I hadn’t eaten anything else — probably just a 350 calorie day, maximum! So, I got ready for bed. The good news is that in the end, the FD was very successful. My weigh in this morning was 254 lbs. Yay, at last! I’m within a pound of my July goal, so here at mid-month, I think I see the light at the end of the month’s tunnel haha

This is a new record for me, having last weighed 254 lbs. on June 6, 2018. On my fun little “obesity meter,” (based on the “obesity” label by the CDC for my BMI by weight/height), 254 lbs. marks 3/4th of the “tank!” (I started the 5:2 overfull, considered a few pounds “morbidly obese.” But once the tank is empty, then I bump down into the “overweight” category). And yes, I yanked off the 259 lb. link from my closet Christmas garland today! Looks like my new baseline will be the mid-250s for the next week or so, whew!

Got a virtual meeting with our state office today from 9 to 1 with no lunch break, so it may end up being a CD for me by accident. Here’s wishing friendship between all of us and our scales for the weeks ahead!

Day 14 USA (Illinois) FD

Happy Bastille Day to all Francophiles indeed! Sorry, no food celebration, @jaifaim – not here either.

Pocket List – Day 14 🇫🇷 🍒
@penz
@lilymartin
@jaifaim
@daffodil2010
@mia139
@hedwig6
@songbirdme

DTF List – Day 14 ☕️
@penz
@funshipfreddie
@lilymartin

Onward and downward.

Day 14 Canada FD

Gorgeous sunny day and ready to commit to a fast day, number 4 of 9 this month. I do enjoy the fasts

Pocket List – Day 14 🇫🇷 🍒
@penz
@lilymartin
@jaifaim
@daffodil2010
@mia139
@hedwig6
@songbirdme
@bellyblast

DTF List – Day 14 ☕️
@penz
@funshipfreddie
@lilymartin
@emma-taylor

Day 15, NFD, Aus

Glad the DTF list is working for you @EmmaTaylor. I’m failing at my own creation! Clearly I’ve not grown up yet either. Trying to work out why I went wrong. I think it was because I’m going back to the office a few times a week now and I’ve not got into a proper routine. I’m very much a creature of routine and it felt like a Friday coming home last night, knowing I wasn’t going back in today. So being Friday, it had to mean a martini before dinner and wine with it! Tomorrow is a FD and I will be working from home and that combination has worked for me before. So tomorrow it is. Can’t afford to let that mojo gallop away from me.

Day 15 – UK – NFD (wk1 d3)

Hello Everyone

Stayed on plan yesterday. Had quite a substantial evening meal last night in the hope I slept better, which worked to a degree.

Wishing you all a great day.

Day 15 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Great FD yesterday, heading in and out to the city means I don’t have time to think about food and now that DH is back working normal hours 9-5 Mon to Fri (he left his job in aviation a couple of weeks ago as work .came to a shuddering halt due to Covid), he is also in with the fasting.

So neither of us eat anything until lunch, then no more until a healthy dinner. We prepare our individual FD lunches the night before. Dry till Fri too. He feels better with the extra exercise in his new job, loves the great sleep that less food and no alcohol can bring, so hopefully I have him finally on board with this WOL.

As I need it!!! I have now gained nearly two stone since summer 2018, so I am thinking of ways to get myself on track. I might need some outside control/influence and might look at the online F800……

I did so well with the online Dukan Diet 7 years ago but could not sustain it. I am also not able to sustain this 5:2 either it seems, I am NOT dropping out of this forum, but I am struggling for ways to stay on board the wagon.

Have a great Wednesday everyone.