Day 29
89.3kilo
Had big celebration so eat like the proverbial something or other and subsequently put weight on- was it the crisps or 🎂 cake ? Both methinks
Back to it now
Get up- run 5 k

Eat after 12
Eat 6 ish
And then don’t eat again.. that’s the plan anyway 🤣
Anyone hosting for super July?
Thanks as ever🙏

Day 29 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Yesterday’s WF lasted until 8:00, and then I could stand it no longer, and ate some rotisserie chicken and a peach…they were both SCREAMING my name and I simply ran out of resistance (and that peach was truly amazing, so I didn’t regret it at all…). But It was still far less than 500 calories, and the scale this morning was an astonishing 147.2 so I’m feeling rewarded for the RESOLVE I accomplished even if it wasn’t complete.

Today, we’re having BLTs for lunch and Fruited Chicken Salad (hence the rotisserie chicken) for supper. As long as I refrain from snacking, the total calories for the day will be fine, so I’m reminding myself I have made a promise to myself, and must KEEP it, just as I would keep a promise made to anyone else.

Day by day, I’ll get back to my former discipline and my former weight in the 140-145 range, and then continue the journey down.

@mariaelena I have no thoughts as to why you’re suddenly so horribly hungry. Are you drinking enough water? You’re showing such impressive RESOLVE that, despite the overwhelming hunger, you’re still maintaining your discipline and thus your weight loss!

@gardenlily Have a grand time on vacation!

@michelinme Don’t you love those unexpected FDs when you simply don’t have time to eat?? Well done!

@penz Don’t forget my perfect peach!!!!! 😜 Your post sure made me laugh! I just went into the kitchen to pour another cup of coffee and saw the peaches and thought about the rotisserie chicken in the fridge and…nothing. As a 45 year member of the ZBC, the thought of food in the morning is uninteresting at best and revolting if I’m entirely honest. If I could make this feeling last all day, I’d get down to a lovely weight in no time at all! 🤣🤣🤣

@matpi You poor thing! I hope you’re back to good health quickly! And you made me laugh at your complaint you struggle not to eat like a 5 year old! 😃

@northgeorgia Yes, I’m sure it’s frustrating and disappointing that you’ve only lost ten pounds this year to date…but I remain in awe of all you’ve lost AND THE FACT THAT YOU’RE STILL HERE, YOU HAVEN’T GIVEN UP, AND YOU HAVEN’T GAINED BACK HALF OF IT. (Not to yell, but I wanted some serious emphasis and that was my only option.) Changing decades of habits is hard work that takes lots of experimenting to find the approach and combination of habits to accomplish new goals, and you’re in the process. It may be a plateau of weight loss, but it’s a very active process of learning, and you WILL get to the 200s, and then below.

@fastingnurse I’ve had overnight oats and they are indeed yummy; enjoy and congratulations on another successful FD!

There’s lots to do today, including some gardening things that must be done (and it’s going to be a roaster today, near 100, so must do it while it’s still reasonably cool), some tidying-in-the-house that’s been ignored too long, a lesson to teach (my only local student), and a meeting at one o’clock. I’d rather go into my sewing room and start tidying, but I guess I’ll be disciplined and do the other things. 🤷‍♀️

Have a grand one, everyone!

It’s going to be hard, but hard is not impossible.

Pocket List Day 29 🐪
@goal10kgs

Day 29 – FD 800

How is it that June is just about gone? This year is flying by.

@linda.b The chicken should be wonderful leftovers in the freezer- I admit in my household we have never had any left to freeze except that wonderful fat I reuse. DH and I adore the recipe and I have a kitty who gets up on his hind legs and begs for chicken whenever we cook (or eat)it. It goes very quickly here, lol.

@funshipfreddie – Kudos for the cat wrangling technique! Always makes me feel accomplished when I outsmart a clever feline!

@gardenlilly – your cauliflower dish sounds terrific! I usually buy my veg cut and frozen, but I’m going to try your method/recipe! Lol on the raspberry harvesting warning, and good job on losing the 3lb!

@michelleinme I agree, that ‘this item of clothing fits better’ feeling is fantastic!

@penz Oops, sorry about that. I also read the forum in the a.m. but luckily too early for my ZBC natural state to get hungry. And thanks for July hosting!

@matpi – I didn’t know the resistant starch trick worked on bread as well, very interesting 🤔! I don’t eat much bread/pasta/as wheat and I are not the best of friends, but it is good to know for the occasional

@northgeorgia Your head is on correctly. It took time to put on the extra weight, so taking it off slow and not roller coaster if is so sensible! Good pep talk!

@fastingnurse I haven’t had oats since last summer, but I’m drooling. I miss wheetabix as well. When I was trying to eat breakfast those were my go-to’s – now that I’m back to ZBC I miss them.

@stitchincarol mmmm fresh peach! Like you, food is just unappealing in the a.m. to me. And one trick to my ‘resolve’ even though I have been ravenous lately – there is precious little food in the house – especially snacks! Well, DH has his tortilla chips, but they almost never tempt me. When we lost power, we lost all our frozen meals and except for almonds, which we buy in bulk, and right now very little food is around in our house except whatever we are preparing that day. So, I pull out a bag of frozen mixed veg, a potato, or chicken broth when I get the hangries, because that is what we have, lol.

@brightonbelle et al I am totally in love with baked potatoes and my prep means there is always a baked potato two minutes away from being ready, lol. I try to tell myself to choose roasted veggies instead, but usually it becomes in addition. @brightonbelle my potato ritual doesn’t result in those crispy skins, for that, forego the initial microwave and make sure the potatoes are not encased in foil while baking a good 30 or 40 minutes longer. I would still oil and season the outside, but put the potatoes on a tiny sheet pan so the oil doesn’t drip into the oven.

Gosh, got to get a move on. Good thoughts!

Day 29 Ohio, US — FD800

This morning the pants were a little tight around the waist, so after the “new normal” breakfast I decided to see if I could make this a fasting day. And it appears to have worked! This is in contrast to last Saturday when I started the day off fasting and then felt so bad that it became a NFD. Amazingly enough I was able to both do my regular yoga practice and get the daily walk in. This makes the first time in twelve days that I’ve been feeling well enough to do that. Yay!

I suppose that tomorrow I’ll have to weigh-in and see how much damage the infection and medical/dental treatments have done.

@michelinme In one sense, the infection hasn’t been all that bad — certainly not like getting the big C. On the other hand, it has been sapping my energy for a long while. My dentist said that it probably had been going on for some time, so that might explain all the little health stuff going on. It does seem as though it takes me a long time to get over infections, which is why I am so scrupulous about taking precautions to prevent getting Covid. I’m optimistic that this new antibiotic will clear things up completely.

@stitchincarol Of course there’s something that 5 year olds used to do that I’ve not done in a very long time: At that age my mother would send us outside to play for 3 or 4 hours and we’d run all over the woods near by and climb trees or just ride our bicycles up and down the street. Maybe if I did that every day (ha!) weight wouldn’t be a challenge.

Pocket list Day 29
@goal10kg
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim (a late runner 🐎 😂)
@matpi

Day 30 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

Well there’s June all but done and dusted?! Down a whopping 0.3 kgs. Which I’m delighted with, because I feel like I’ve been fairly mindless regarding food, & haven’t put in anywhere near the effort I could have.

I have to ask. Is this true?! Americans don’t use kettles; and make tea… in the microwave?!! 😱
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10965225/Britons-mock-Americans-discovering-electric-kettles.html

@michelinme – thank you for being our gracious host 💐 Congratulations to everyone who successfully maintained, hit targets or at least moved in the right direction 🎯

Se y’all next month 🤝

Day 30 Uk
Down to 88.10
Thanks for a wonderful June
Keep strong in your commitment to maintain health
We are all doing really well 🙏😊

Day 30 UK FD

Thank you for hosting @michelinme 💐

I’m weighing tomorrow morning but I’m optimistic that I’ve stayed the same or May even manage a small loss, given that I had 3 weeks on holiday , I’ll take that .Have good day all See you in July x

Day 30 – 16:8 CD

@funshipfreddie It has been my experience that most Americans don’t have an electric kettle. Some Americans do drink tea and I would guess that tea drinkers would be more likely to have an electric kettle, but it is not unusual for an American to just not drink tea. I’ve never seen anyone microwave tea, people I have seen microwave a cup of water and put the tea bag in when the water is hot out of the microwave. Some but not many (older?) Americans have a stovetop kettle for boiling water. I’ve been on team electric kettle all my adult life as we got used to them living in London. Even converted my DH. I now have (thanks to goodwill store) a stovetop kettle as well for power loss emergencies, of which I endure many times a year.

As I grew up in many different countries I don’t think of myself as particularly American – but what I don’t understand (which does paint me as American) is the practice of dunking cookies into tea! Not an appetizing mix of tastes imo. Dunking a cookie in milk or coffee is a yum to me tho.

@goal10kg Your described workouts do impress me! HIIT training has lots going for it! But even reading descriptions tires me out, lol.

@matpi lol the memories of my mom trying to shoo me outdoors when I’d rather curl up with a good book. She gave up and enrolled me in swimming. But I walked everywhere. Even when we lived in cities with good public transport one often had a good walk to and fro. I certainly wasn’t sedentary but not a high energy child either. More of my childhood was spent in Chicago than any other place and it was not unusual to walk a mile or more to visit friends homes, and at least 1/2 a mile to school. Come to think of it, She never had to shoo me outside in Chicago winters, playing in snow or ice skating was always a treat – I even volunteered for sidewalk shoveling chores (tho, I still do that if I visit my family there in winter.)

@michellinme Good on you! Better fitting clothes is such wonderful progress!

Thanks to hosts past and future, I’m so happy I found these boards – so very helpful for my weight management and FD resolve.

Have a wonderful day all!

Day 30 – Rural Nebraska – FD500 or perhaps WFD

I’m pleased with myself: yesterday’s NFD was well-behaved. Every time I thought of eating, I reminded myself what my planned meals were for the day, and got myself to wait to eat. So this morning, for the first time after an NFD in ages, my gut is entirely happy since I didn’t put too, too much food in it yesterday. Small victories lead to big success!

@funshipfreddie Deep sympathies to you! Similar real estate problems are happening in many areas of the states, and it’s frustrating for buyers/renters!

@mariaelena I chuckled at what you are forced to snack on, LOL!

@funshipfreddie After our trip to Germany in 2017 (or was it Israel in 2019?) I came home and bought an electric kettle and absolutely adore it. But, no, I still don’t use it to make tea. Because the only tea I drink is decaf unsweetened iced tea. 🤣🤣

And that’s all the chatter I have time for today; it took a long time to water, and I need to get to my secretary job. Thanks so much @michelinme for hosting us in June; you were wonderful about responding so nicely to each and every one of us. And @penz, thanks for stepping up to host July!

See you all “over there”!

Day 30 Ohio, US — NFD

The morning weigh-in gave some good news: 181.6 lb (82.4 kg), definitely not as bad as I feared. On the other hand, the same weight as of Day 10 and higher than at the start of the month. During the last week and a half or so, my diet has had to change rather drastically. I worked at being careful of how I ate and it seems that there’s more latitude possible in my diet than I thought possible. Interesting …

@michelinme Thanks for being a wonderful and supportive host this month! How do you do your eggs & beans? Scrambled eggs mixed with baked beans?

@northgeorgia Fortunately weight loss is not like horseshoes — close does count! Great job on getting to within 2 lbs of your goal.

@goal10kg 2.5 kg loss is great! Kudos!
@funshipfreddie I certainly boil a cup of water in the microwave and then put a tea bag in it for a few minutes. Most Americans love coffee and instead of a kettle, the coffee-pot/coffee-maker is a standard kitchen fixture here. I don’t drink coffee due to an unfortunate childhood incident.

USA. Day 1

I just have to respond to FUNSHIPFREDDIE! I am sorry to say the answer to your query is yes. My father, who was from the UK, would be turning over in his grave over this as he was very particular about how he made tea. I still use a kettle, though! Well, you must know that Americans are always in a hurry and the microwave solves that problem! LOL