Day 8 Herefordshire U.K. FD

Yesterday was tough, felt wiped out and put that down to the heavy duty gardening done Mon – Thursday so was relieved it rained heavy all day and could give in to tiredness. Spent the day reading and listening to the radio with the cat for company. Today looks similar so no gardening today which means my battle with the ground elder is on hold. Although the garden is hard work it’s a delight to have inherited such a beautiful garden, someone put a lot of love and joy into it, and we are reaping their rewards.

@snowflake56 – yes Saturday again! Hope I survive as it’s going to be a long day as picking OH up from London at midnight or later depending on what time the paper goes to bed and then doing the three hour drive home. Good luck today.

@funshipfreddie – congratulations on a breaking a three decades barrier, must feel great!

@ciren2 – hope your wrapped up in waterproofs that work!

Wishing all a happy weekend.

Pocket list day 8, anyone wanting to join us?
@snowflake56
@dingping

2nd post

@dingping could you take a nap this afternoon? Lucky you with that garden, ours was a mess when we bought the house. The house wasn’t lived in for a year, the children didn’t do anything. What a pity we can’t post pictures, our roses are doing so well this year. Painting day today: hall goes from lavender to grapefruit. Was hungry so had a small bowl of broccoli soup. Tamme is on my footstool but I have to go on painting, the brush and the roller dry out. x

Day 8 – UK – NFD

Still raining here, not sure it has stopped since it started around 2pm yesterday 🌧☔️

Had a lovely evening with DD yesterday, met her after work and went for a cocktail 🍸 at a Bar we both like – I had a Raspberry and Elderflower Tom Collins which was really nice!!!
Dinner was lovely, shared a cold seafood platter (with a lovely cold Viognier 175mls) and then surprised myself by going for an old fashioned beef stroganoff (with an equally nice Shiraz 175mls) – we were both full after that so no pudding!!! Managed to come in just above my TDEE for the day so not a bad day………

@daffodil2010 – lovely to hear that you had a wonderful birthday xx
@rabbette @michelinme – I too love those accidental FDs but does not happen very often for me 😉
@penz – birthdays are definitely to be enjoyed with family and friends and who am I to refuse an offer of celebrations 😉
@snowflake56 – thank you and I’m sure that I will 😋
@ciren2 – thinking of poor you doing your deliveries in this rain – you’ll certainly need those waterproofs!!
@funshipfreddie – well done on reaching that weight for the first time in decades……
@snowflake56 and @dingping – I think that you can post photos here using for example
https://imgur.com/
I’m not sure how it works but have noticed that some on other forums use this to post photos on the their forums!

Great job by those who have had a successful first week of this June Challenge – for those who are struggling keep at it and you will reap the rewards too.

I love this quote from Michael Jordan:-
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it”

Day 8 UK CD

Another quiet day on the food front – not sure what’s wrong with me! Early o-clock this morning I weighed in at 143lb – down 2.5lb in a week. That’s the joy of the Easy On Easy Off weight gained during my May virus break.

V early start for rehearsal, sensibly set off with lots of water and a little black coffee and fruit. Broke fast early afternoon with a teeny sandwich colleague had kindly made for me – gf seedy bread with peanut butter, spinach and marmalade! Now planning early supper – spring vegetables, green pea pasta with tomato sauce, pudding of strawberries & blueberries with yogurt, pumpkin sees and cacao – bc tomorrow may involve cake 🙂

Had a lovely hour catching up with posts, great to have such a lively international forum 🙂

@funshipfreddie congratulations on your epic 3-decade low!
@ktcaroline not all foods are created equal – even (esp) those with the same calories. The body works really hard to digest food – and we probably only notice once we begin to fast. Carbs are the hardest work of all! I find light lunches of eg omelette, salad or soup will boost body rather than sending me to sleep
@dingping your garden sounds glorious! But rest important too 🙂
@snowflake what colour is grapefruit paint?
@at dinner with DD sounds lovely – hope your second dinner with DH is equally wonderful. Lookign forward to enjoying it vicariously 🙂
@ciren2 v glad you didn’t get soaked this time – but 🙁 re your buttock ache. Empathy. I’m going to be better disciplined with daily yoga this week, and go see GP if no improvement by next weekend…
@shinything @borealis hope you are doing ok xx

Wishing you all a good weekend, whatever the weather 🙂

Day 8 USA (Utah visiting) NFD

Silver Sneakers yesterday was especially energetic as the sub who taught the class usually teaches kick boxing she said. Whew … we worked hard!

Onward and downward.

Day 9 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

Very quiet on here today? I’m trying not to do too much damage over the weekend, but I really needed a break from not eating. I’ll be back on the fasting wagon tomorrow.

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend 🌍 🌞

Day 9. London. NFD

It’s Open Garden Squares weekend in London so we have been visiting lots of gardens which are normally closed or hidden from public view. We were on a lovely rooftop garden at Nomura in the City yesterday when the Red Arrows flew past for the Queen’s birthday, and we’re volunteering at Kensington Square this afternoon, so I’d better get up and get dressed! Fasting has gone awry. Got to get organised. I feel so much happier when I fast.

Day One Uk
Hoping to get back to fasting soon and going to get lots of rowing done. Have a great weekend everyone:)

Hi Flourbaby, thanks for all your lovely enthusiasm. Hope you have a fab time on holiday in July:)

Good luck on your fast. I know what you mean, just the smell of fresh bread is enough. Diet, what diet:)

Day 9 – Ireland – NFD
Hi all, just checking in…. with my parents this weekend so I’m busy doing bits and pieces for them although had a lovely early beach walk this morning.. followed by coffee and cake 😁
The weather is glorious here so now sitting outside just chilling with them… my mother has Alzheimer’s so it’s nice to just sit and be calm… 💕
I will hit the road for home later on 🚗
I’m not sure if anyone is fasting today but good luck if you are!

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

DAY 9 – UK – NFD

A lovely weekend but unfortunately too much food/alcohol consumed and therefore in definite need of a good FD tomorrow

Meal out with OH on Saturday was wonderful – a theatre experience with great food sensations and some lovely wines too……….need I say more!
Met up with friends visiting cumbria today and it was definitely not the CD I had planned 😈

@ciren2 – glad you had a dry delivery day on Saturday – shame that your upper-hamstring-tendonitis is not settling down…..
@xatie – welcome on board – I have added you to the spread sheet in case you want to use for motivation – here is the link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1msk_6oZgafX6BAFHTZAVLCmk9l7iC_vXMGuCce-T3H4/edit?usp=sharing
@redrockgirl302 – your mini break at the cabin sounded fantastic!

I suspect that there will be a lot of us pressing that RESET button tomorrow with a FD – I definitely need it and also planning another FD on Thursday with the remaining days being CD before I head off to Greece at the end of the week for a yoga retreat – I have meals out with friends planned on both Tuesday and Wednesday so must ensure that those days are OMAD in order that I stay below my TDEE 🤞

As @michelinme said “The beauty of this WOL is you can always hit the reset button – and getting back on track just takes one good day!!!”

Right off to bed for a good sleep as will be starting tomorrow bright and early with a 7am Broga Class with OH

Day 9 USA (Utah visiting) NFD

Doing fine on maintenance.

@at – loved the Michael Jordan quote. We Chicago Bulls fans adored him through the great years, well, also through the lean years. 🏀🏀🏀

Speaking of sports: are there any World Cup fans out there? I see England beat Scotland. Don’t think we have any Scottish members here, do we? Of course, I am U.S.A. all the way! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@redrockgirl302 – this Utah weather has been amazing! Today high 60’s but so sunny. Beautiful.

Onward and downward.

Day 10: Gloucestershire, UK, NFD:

@penz: The (official) Queen’s Birthday….I suppose we in Britain should know that. We had the Trooping of the Colour and the Royal Family on the palace balcony….but no bank holiday for us! However we only just had one a couple of weeks ago the Spring Bank Holiday, used to be called Witsun in the old days. On top of the earlier May Bank Holiday, I suppose we’ve had enough!! No more until the August Bank Holiday…

Well, off to work now, bye xx

Day 10 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

Doing a B2B then another FD on Thursday. Had a wonderful weekend, great food, too much wine, but lots of love and laughter. Yesterday we just lazed around in our (nearly completed) camper van making plans for when we can finally take her on the road.

So big reset today and looking forward to the week ahead and staying on track. Plan for today is nowt until 13.30 then a small homemade Oatbran bread sandwich with ham and mustard, at least 3 litres of water, green tea etc, no milk in coffee, then I will prepare a light veg soup for dinner and whilst that is cooking I will leap about to Day 10 of the 30 day shred 😄 Early to bed.

Good plans and I feel good so won’t get derailed.

Pocket list day 10
@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010

Day 10, Emden Germany, FD
Day 8&9 NFD

Saturday’s FD didn’t work out at all, I went from Fd to FD800 to CD and ended at a normal NFD ~1300 cals. But no sugar so not too bad. Yesterday we had friends over for dinner and ended tasting every liqueur with orange in it, found 5 different brands. Also drank 3 Guiness. So need a FD, but I’m not very motivated today. I’ll just see how it goes.

@matpi hope you feel better soon, allergies are so exhausting.

@xatie welcome!

@at thanks, looked at imgur, no idea how to transfer pictures. Yoga in Greece?

@dingping hope you did better than me on Saturday and hope you came home safe. No English garden here, we’re just beginners and very happy if things survive and don’t die or got eaten up by lice or slugs. In the next house DH wants to have more lawn, he’s dreaming of a sit on mower. No need for somthing like that here, I’m sure you’ll need one.

@michelinme and @dingping this is the color, it could be a bit warmer but it works in the hall and the stairway, lavender was too dark. I didn’t use this paint, took the liquid version of it. It doesn’t cover the lavender very well so I’ll have to paint it twice.

https://www.obi.de/bunte-wandfarben/obi-design-color-grapefruit-matt-2-5-l/p/3898715

@michelinme I made the banana ice cream yesterday, I used a bit of normal milk, it tasted great so it’s a keeper. I combined it with a kind of dark chocolate lava cake. Made it with stevia instead of sugar, this didn’t work at all. The fat of the butter and chocolate separated from the eggs and the flour. I poured it out, the cake was edible but strange. So not a keeper this one.

Day 10 pocket list

@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56

Have a nice day everyone!

Day 10, London, UK, FD

As I’m back on the original 5:2 plan of 500cals, I’m not sure if I can call yesterdays’ 700cal day a FD………………….. so I’ll stick with CD, although I’m chuffed to bits since at home fasting/control is unheard of for me!!!

I’m working today as I have an appointment tomorrow, so today, unusually, is a FD. I’ve a small snack planned for 3pm, then soup for dinner at 6:30. This should be a successful 20:4 day providing the herbal tea & water continue to flow.

It’s been a good start to June for many of us, I’m spreading the mojo and hoping all future fasting proves successful to all of us!! We’ve got this!!!

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – unknown

Day 10 UK FD

Day 8 NFD
Day 9 NFD

My weekend was OK. A few sweet treats but nothing like the quantity I was mullering a couple of months ago. Also, a few low carb meals and avoidance of garlic bread and potatoes at the family BBQ.

On a positive/negative note I ran my quickest 5k for a couple of years yesterday evening without really pushing myself at all :), but managed to tweak my calf again having rested it all week. Not sure I’ll be able to do my 20k hill run at the end of June if this doesn’t heal in the next week or so 🙁 . the rowing machine is being dusted down tonight to try and see if cross training helps for the next week and a half/two weeks, but it’s not looking good. I’m going to try this and a long run the weekend before the race before I make the final call. Might have to sign up for an early September race instead. Without a target on the horizon I find training easily becomes less of a priority…

Another week of 800 Kcal FDs. Trying to do OMAD Mon-Fri each week for the rest of June. Seems to work at the moment. Emergency soup for lunchtime if absolutely necessary.

Good luck all. Do we have a pocket list today? Ahh, yes here it is… I’m adding myself. Will you? Go on, turn today into a bonus FD 🙂

Day 10 pocket list

@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56
@johnnyr

Day 10 – Ireland – FD
Tired today… lots of travelling and a busy weekend and increased sugar intake is definitely taking its toll. need some time out of life I think 😂 😴 😂
Fasting today but never great FDs when I’m tired… will soldier on 👍

Pocket list for today:
@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56
@johnnyr
@jaifaim

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 10 – UK – FD

The sun is shining 🌞 but I think I might struggle with my FD today – too much carbs over the weekend showed in a weight of 56.8kg this morning – a gain of 1.5kg!!!!! Pretty sure some of that is water retention but must persevere and ensure that this FD is a strong one……..

So far today – an early Broga class followed by a semi skimmed flat white with OH!
Food shopping done and will soon be going out for my regular Monday coffee group (sparkling mineral water for me)
Pilates to follow mid afternoon and an evening yoga class which is a stretching and chilled class this week – must keep drinking plenty of water……

@snowflake56 – Yes Yoga on the island of Ithaca – my yoga teacher and another teacher friend of hers from Kent have booked a yoga retreat on the island and are doing a Yoga, Sun, Sea and Summer Solstice Retreat there with a mixture of their students – so looking forward to it!!

I just remembered that I promised to make a cake for tomorrow for the BBQ at one of the walker’s house after our usual Tuesday walk – will have to make it tonight when I return from yoga – planning on making a Sticky Maple-Apple Traybake

Adding myself to the Pocket list for today – Day 10:
@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56
@johnnyr
@jaifaim
@at

For anyone struggling at the moment – this is for you:-
DON’T EVER GIVE UP.
Don’t let frustration knock you down.
DON’T LET FEAR STAND IN YOUR WAY.
Don’t let time get in your head.
WHO CARES HOW LONG IT TAKES OR HOW MANY TIMES YOU TRY.
Your only competition is yourself.
WHEN YOU FINALLY SUCCEED, THE STRUGGLE WILL ALL BE WORTH IT.

USA Day 10 FD

I’ve been a little remiss in posting lately but have been reading all the posts. Way too much going on for me this month and am enjoying my new baby grandson! What a sweetie! I love being a grandmother. I just hope I don’t too overindulge him! LOL Anyway, I weighed myself this morning and amazingly I am down 3 lbs.! I was getting fed up with being a slow poke and decided to jump way in there with eating only one carefully measured meal in the middle of the day and that got the scale moving again! Maybe I will meet my goal this month! Here’s to hoping!

Adding myself to the pocket list:

@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56
@johnnyr
@jaifaim
@basyjames
@ccco

Good luck today, everyone! 🙂

@penz: The Queen’s official birthday is June 6th (I think)….apparently the tradition started in the 1700s, I believe, when they decided the then king’s birthday in November was a bad time of year for celebrations, so made it June, and so it has continued. As @funshipfreddie says, the Queen’s real one is in April.
@flourbaby: Sounds like you’re on a roll….well done fasting from home. 700 sounds pretty good to me.
@basyjames: Good luck on your 96-hour water fast. That’s FOUR days…..wow! keep us informed on your progress….what an inspiration.
@ccco: Congratulations on becoming a grandma xx

Day 10 Melb Aust NFD
Day 9 TDEE Day 8 NFD Day 7 FD800

Didn’t lose a gm after my FD800, so indulged at the weekend – very poor response! Long weekend for the Queen’s birthday, as has been mentioned.

@penz has said – from here, it’s a bit sparse in holidays for a while. BUT, Victoria has two sporting public holidays which I think are rather absurd, but still – the last Friday in September holiday is the day before the Australian Rules football grand final where there’s a parade of the players, etc., and the first Tuesday in November is a public holiday for the running of the Melbourne Cup horse race. Where else but in Australia would you have public holidays just for sporting events?!

It’s been cold but erratic weather here, beginning of winter for us, and my eating spiralled out of control over the weekend. I think I need to throw out a few things that have crept into my cupboards (not looking at anyone in particular, but I live alone 🙂 ), and set the re-start button.

Portion sizes – very important. A friend commented recently about her parfait dessert serving dishes from 30 years ago, and how the amount of dessert we eat now tends to be twice or three times that amount. Availability doesn’t mean we need to eat something, but sadly, a lot of people do, often including me.

@rabbette, yes, my Wilbur is a beautiful looking cat, but a bit pudgy. He’s always hungry at this time of year, then loses some of the fat by late spring again. At 14 years old, I let him be.

@ciren2, just a question – could the pain in your hamstring actually be some referred pain from your lower back, as you have to do so much bending? Hope it settles soon.

@at, as always, good inspiring words to follow.

All right, restart button set. Finishing off now and going out to throw out some of the “extras” in the kitchen. Three B2B2B FDs coming up!

Day 10, VA, USA, FD

Day 9 NFD
Day 8 NFD
Day 7 FD

Was so tired after leading the 4 day Yin Training. Whew did not have time to check in with you guys. I’m catching up.

Kitty cat seems almost back to normal (except she has managed to catch a little cold *while on antibiotics!) she is very talented. And not all antibiotics treat colds so theres that. None the less, she’s just having lots of sneezing (although that could be allergies, poor thing does get allergies I the fall when its damp out.

@funshipfreddie – ๑۞๑,¸¸,ø¤º°°๑۩ 🅖🅡🅔🅐🅣 🅙🅞🅑 ๑۩ ,¸¸,ø¤º°°๑۞๑ I feel your excitement so much!!!!

@dingping – the garden is a labor of love.

@johnnyr – that is usually my game plan at events, stay away from snaking and enjoy the cocktails. (Or bring a snack thats better on the healthy scale such as carrots and guacamole.)

@snowflake56 – You are my kind of gal! We found the most amazing Orange stout here Choklat Oranj by Southern Tier Brewing – YUM!

Pocket list for today – Day 10:
@funshipfreddie
@daffodil2010
@prina39
@snowflake56
@johnnyr
@jaifaim
@basyjames
@at
@ccco

PS – READING is especially difficult for me today. I love reading all of your post and I found that I could only get through a couple. My Dyslexic is really getting in the way of communications for today.