Day 30 – SW WA USA – NFD

Enjoying the ocean!

@strawberriesandcream – I’m planning a weight in when I get home, Monday morning.

Day 30 California USA FD – June challenge goal met 5:2

Congratulations to everyone who met their goal this month and also to those who hung in there for the month and are on their way to their perfect weight. And a big Thank You to Strawberriesandcream for hosting this challenge for all of us.

I wanted to lose 6 pounds this month, to put me at 144 pounds and I weighed in at 144.2 – 65.4 kg this morning, so I’m going to call it a goal met. That means I’ve lost 11.6 pounds since I started the 5:2 plan on May 10. I’m on the fourth day of antibiotics for a UTI and it doesn’t feel like it’s all gone yet. I was traveling this week which made it too difficult to fast so I did a FD yesterday and will try to do a B2B today. I want to get my 2 days in this week and I want to be able to eat tomorrow, which is Saturday, so I’m hoping to tough it out today with these fast buddies:

Pocket List for June 30

@bigviking
@dykask
@xrox
@debster251
@chitown gal
@califdreamer

@ciren2 – even more curious can you give me an example of when you would start a fast and finish it and if you eat anything in between?

Day 30- Montreal – NFD

Finishing the month at 75.3 kg 🎉🍾🎉

(31st January :86 kilos)

Well done everybody and see you in June. Thank you for hosting @strawberriesandcream

Day 30, Germany, NFD

Final weight 52,9 kg/116.6lbs. BMI 19.9. Measurements stayed the same. Up 0,8 kg, that’s fine, was a bit too low with my weight, staying comfortable below 54 kg without FD’s lately.Plan to stay at this weight, feeling fine with it.

Thanks to @strawberriesandcream for doing such a huge job keeping us all on track.

2nd post,

@ciren2, it sounds like a fabulously successful FD if as you say……..

“From about 11am yesterday till about 1.30pm today, I only ate a bowl of porridge (for breakfast). So that 26 hours”

If from 11am yesterday to at least 11am today you only consumed 1 bowl of porridge, then unless the bowl was Papa-bear sized, then that’s a bog standard FD!!!!

500 calories consumed within any 24hr period is a FD you can extend it as I do for convenience………. I count my FDs as 7pm(day 1) to 7pm(day2), so in theory, I could eat anything I wanted after 7pm(day 2); thats 24hrs, but I don’t. and just head to bed, meaning I only consume 500cals over 40hrs when I ‘break my fast at 11:30am(day 3). I hope this makes sense!!!!

Final weigh-in & post tomorrow a.m.

Day 30 FD

Final fast day of 5! Hoping to undo holiday damage at weigh in tomorrow. Looking forward to the July challenge.
Many thanks to @strawberriesand cream for hosting the June challenge and looking after and encouraging us so well.
See you all in July!

Metatautata
Did you try the noodles? I am curious to see what you think. I wanted to comment yesterday, but I wanted you to try them first. I finally found them at my grocery store last month and gave them a try. How were they?

@ciren2 I agree with @flourbaby you didn’t just sort of fasted – you completed a 24hr+ fast. I just wonder as you don’t count calories and therefore don’t know how many you are actually consuming. Could it be, that, as in your eyes, you were not completing fast days you tried again and again. Stressing more and more. As we all now know that a low calorie diet doesn’t work and your body lowers metabolism to compensate. Added with stress, could this be why you have been going backwards? And why when on holidays with eating and not fasting and feeling more relaxed you lost weight? My understanding as to why fasting works in loosing weight is the feast and famine so your metabolism remains high but total calories are reduced. It fools your body.
I looked up a 24 hour fasting protocol in ‘the complete guide to fasting’. It says you can fast from lunch one day to lunch the next (which is what you did) or dinner one day to dinner the next. For instance you have dinner on Sunday 6 pm, sleep, skip breakfast and skip lunch and have dinner Monday at 6 pm. Dr M found you can consume a meal/snack of quarter tdee or approx 500 cals without any adverse effect. Do you make you porridge with milk or water, do you add fruit or yogurt? Do you have a rough idea of how many cals?
Why don’t you try your ‘sort’ of fasts 2 or 3 times a week, eating healthily the rest of the days and see how that goes. Don’t force things but rather than beat yourself up, accept this way for a while and go with the flow. You never know you may be able to extend little by little as to when you eat. I also wonder if the daylight saving knocked you out of your rhythm, you felt it was about March time you started having difficulties? Maybe a co-incidence?

I broke my fast at about 36 hours. I guess my goal for June was just to let work stop dominating my life. In that line of thought I’ve started some alternate revenue generation. It is kind like getting one’s body in shape, you just have to keep plugging away at it. Each day there seems to be little progress but over months or years the changes can be amazing.

Congrats to the many that achieve their June goals here! 🙂

End of challenge weigh-in. My first weigh-in for the month was on June 2nd and I was 92.2kg. I set a target of 6.4kg/1 stone. This morning I weigh 96.0kg, so a loss of 6.2kg in 29 days. So close to target!

Thank you @strawberriesandcream for hosting. Now off to July challenge.

DAY 30 – UK – NFD

Thank you Strawberriesandcream et al for your patience this month Been a lousy poster
and gone slightly off the rails. Hayfever, lots and lots of treats due to holidays etc. etc. and a v. big birthday yesterday hasn’t helped. But, here I am still hanging in and raring to go in July again. Reading this board has more of less kept me inspired and I have ended June by gaining only 1lb. So looking back that is excellent in my book.

So 30 JUNE weigh in 10st. 02 lb. Thanks to all. July here we come.

Sorry I haven’t really done the challenge on here this month as in logging days. I’m going to join. The July so I can really shift some weight for my holiday in August.
I’ve lost 4 lbs in June which has finally put me back in the 10 stone something, which really feels good.

Just reading the forums has helped me a lot

Thanks for just being there

July 1

Thanks you strawberries and cream…. not only for being our host but also updating my space on the spread sheet. I am officially the same as I started…. 140lbs.
If I was in maintenance mode, I would be doing one hell of a good job!

One thing, I did discover this month, is why I’m still in this lovely plateau camp site, my hopes for next month, is to put it into practice and break into the 130’s.

AT, fat rabbit, Coda, gosh, I wish I could name each nad everyone of you individually…..Thank you for your support, great stories and the laughs. I’m so happy to be on this never ending, sight seeing, adventure having, trip around the world ride with all of you!

One last time for good measure……

Kung-fu fighting? Surely, NOT everyone is doing it!

1st July

Farewell to the June 2017 30 Day Challenge and looking forward to the July Challenge with hopefully a lot you joining @coda for the next month!

Weight this morning = 53.7kg/118.4lbs – 300gms less than yesterday! despite a meal out with plenty of 🍷last night with friends before going to see the local amateur dramatic society performing – good company and plenty of laughter – best medicine in the world ☺️

Thank you for the great stories, laughs and especially for sharing your life with us so freely on this forum where there is no judgement just understanding and plenty of support. Hoping to “see” a lot of familiar names on the July 2017 31 Day Challenge – a BIG THANK YOU to @Strawberriesandcream for herding us this month 💐👏

I leave this June Challenge with one of my favourite quotes
“ONLY I CAN CHANGE MY LIFE. NO ONE CAN DO IT FOR ME” Carol Burnett

Day 30, Mountaintop PA USA, NFD

I am ending June with my goal achieved, 2.2 pounds gone and a final weight of 145.7 lb/66.7 kg. I find it easier to lose/maintain in the spring summer months with all of the outdoor activities available. I walk four miles a day, prepare, plant, maintain and eventually harvest my vegetable garden, enjoy regular golf rounds and breath in the fresh air.

I have been on the Fast 5:2 for 7 months and have bid adieu to 12 pounds. I am four pounds below my original goal weight and am at my lowest in 47 years since my oldest daughter was born.

Clothes that I love and kept throughout the years in smaller sizes are fun to wear and others I take to the seamstress for fitting. There are new acquisitions too. Styles do change. It is amazing how our bodies respond to this WOL. Two days a week of 700 to 800 calories is the plan for me.

Thank you @strawberriesandcream for the interactive spreadsheet and for your encouragement to all members. I use is throughout the month and noting the 2 pound loss for June is thrilling.

I will continue in July and see where this goes. My energy is over the top.With a total loss of 45 pounds over the last 3.5 years there is much less of me. I don’t post often but enjoy hearing all the stories from forum members. There truly is strength in a shared experience for all of us. On to July!

Interested in joining us in July?
Follow this link
https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/july-2017-31-day-challenge/

@strawberriesandcream thanks for the link!!

Phew! Just read all the posts. I fell by the wayside. I’ve just caught up with posts over the last few days – which has helped me to fast once again. I’m in the thick of my first fast since 22/6 today, and I know I’ll get through. Famous last words… but I do have that quiet ‘knowing’ today which has been with me for past successful fasts. I’m posting here because as kind and wise and wonderful a host I know @coda would be, keeping up with the July Challenge might be a bit too much for me – as I found the June Challenge, this time around. I did want to say a few things to the Junesters though, belated though it might be.

@Strawberriesandcream, thanks for hosting – a big job!

@okeydokey, my name (way back when you asked!) is, for me, about not thinking of the future as some faraway thing, but as what I’m continually becoming a part of. Procrastination with managing my weight (and other areas of life!) can be a problem for me. I have dreamed so much, for decades, of how I’ll lose weight and keep it off, and it all happens in the future. ‘Next week, tomorrow, later today I’ll eat less and move more.’ Well, I’m in the future now, and due to my actions on too many of yesterday’s todays, I still weigh way more than I want to. I want to remind myself that today is yesterday’s future, etc. I like what my name meant for you – about when we calmly connect to our calm, flowing energy and inner wisdom, we are already on our way to solutions/our most beneficial future, one way or another!
Also, there’s a lovely happy quirky little song of the same name by Dave Graney which flew into my head when I was joining the forum.

@steve toon taxi driver, I like your idea of using the tracker for helpful little notes, and also I laughed at your ‘stay away from BLOODY chip shops’ story. You and many others gave constant positive encouragement.

@schatziii, I wish for a peaceful world, too.
I seem to have that oral neediness thing happening too, which is why I tend to drink heaps on fast days. On NFDs too, I sip a lot of hot drinks, but especially FDs. It doesn’t harm me! A long time ago I was a regular smoker and it took me 10 years to quit – I chewed nicotene chewing gum for 10 whole years, and weaned myself off that eventually with normal chewing gum and cinnamon sticks and toothpicks, pen lids, etc. I now find smoking to be truly foul, but I still want to put too much of the ‘wrong’ things in my mouth too often! Anyway, I hope that you (and whoever needs it) can look at and work on whatever else is going on in your psyche that makes not overeating difficult sometimes. I am working on my own stuff.

@dykask, thanks for telling us about how you started off so slowly, and how difficult it was before it became more of a habit. Also, I too find it helpful to think of my fast days as not so much dieting/restricting, but a kind of medicine/therapy that only lasts a day. (‘The one-day diet’ someone said.) I’ve never been good with diets. It’s the idea of restricting what I can eat that’s so hard for me. I know it sounds like I have the most appalling will-power in that regard (I have! – sometimes), but… we all come from different places.

Thanks again to everyone for sharing so much of your ups, downs and sidewayses. Your stories, tips and tricks, quotes and encouragements were great. Although I wasn’t so much a part of things, I’ve greatly appreciated the posts from real, imperfect people, in real time. They have helped and will keep helping me. I won’t continue with the challenges for a while – I found the volume of posts too overwhelming. I’m not happy with just dipping in and out when I have time – I don’t want to miss anything – call me obsessive! Also, life is too busy atm ‘cos I’m going on a trip-of-a-lifetime to Europe and U.K. and I gotta get organised. It’s all so far away (in distance but not time…) that I’m making the most of it and am taking 4 months!! Doing it very cheaply mind you. I’ll be back around December. Good luck in all your journeys.

I did some heavy lifting this morning – I walked up a hill.
Onwards and downwards, and upwards in spirit. 🙂

Hi all, is this monthly challenge thing still active? Looks like there aren’t any posts since May/June 2017?

I’d like to join the next one, if this is still going!