Day 23 USA (Illinois) NFD

Favorite food? Probably anything with cheese… and that can run the gamut from melted cheddar over broccoli to pizza or cheese Danish. Likely sweet or savory doesn’t matter.

Onward and downward.

Day 23 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

@flourbaby, @shinything, @penz – Thanks so much for the links to your favorite Leslie Sansone videos, and suggestions on how to approach her stuff. I did one yesterday and found it fun; I especially appreciated that I was able to do it just fine in the tiny space in my living room in front of the TV where I was ChromeCasting it.
@dee22 serious bummer on the leak no one can find leading to a hole! I hope it all gets done quickly and with excellent skills!
@annabelle48, sympathies for your gut problems! I hope they’re over even sooner than the 5 days you’re expecting
@judyjudes Brussels Sprouts with chopped chestnuts??? COOL. My DS and I love to cook together, so I’ll have to try adding chestnuts one of these days.
@northgeorgia I too am anxious for your dad, and will appreciate updates as you can give them; I loved the details of how clever your mom was!

@penz My favorite food? I love sweets, and am actually a really good baker, but seldom bake anything given my struggle to lose the pounds previous baking (and savory and simply overeating!!) gave me. Favorite sweet? Blackberry pie or cobbler made from blackberries picked in the Redwoods in northern California. Haven’t had one in over 30 years and still drool to think of it, LOL! Savory? Barbecue anything. A great bread. A beer of terrific flavors (liquid bread, you know). Yeah, I could go on. The problem is that I love to cook as much as I love to eat, so that’s where much of the problem comes from.

Okay, after a good FD yesterday, and a decent drop on the scale, today I need to eat mindfully. So wishing you all (AND ME) a laser focus on your (AND MY) goals with an abundance of determination!

Day 23 UK NFD

Favourite food – that’s the problem I love ALL food ,the good thing about this hot weather is I’m concentrating on salads so that’s keeping me out of trouble and for dessert some nice fresh strawberries 🍓

Day 24 – Japan – NFD

Today I was able to do 3 more push-ups than what I did on my water fast day. It seems that hard exercise on a fasting day didn’t cause any harm. I expect that if I were fasting for multiple days it might not be as good as an idea.

Day 24 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

Going to try for an FD today as opportunities for food are limited in the Dublin office and so I will sip coffee and water and see how it goes.

But oh my, the commute 😨 Took an hour to drive into work, but coming home, although I was let off at 4pm….it took TWO hours!!!! It took 20 minutes to do one kilometre on a certain road. 😱 Now it may have been that unexplained heavy traffic that often happens for no reason…but….THIS is why I have a local job that takes me 15 minutes tops to get to work.

I will drive in again today, but if the commute is just as bad I will investigate the Park and Ride options for next week. I spent many years driving in and out of the city and do not want to get back to that hassle again. 😳
Luckily it’s only for training and not a long term option.

So I am afraid I Popped a cool beer as soon as I eventually got home 🍺

Wednesday already. I habitually hopped on the scales and nothing joyful to report but I am looking slimmer and can feel my waistline coming back. Only a few days left of June, let’s do this.

Has anyone volunteered for July? Come on, don’t be shy……👍

Day 24, London UK, NFD

Yesterday’s LFD went well, they’re getting (dare I say it?) easy to manage, although, to be honest, the FDs were NEVER the issue!!!!

Thank you @northgeorgia for sticking me on the Pocket list, it helped when I visited my mum and she offered me some cheesecake🍰 and in the same breath asked if I was fasting😟. I immediately thought “Pocket List!!!”, so I told her I was fasting, at which point she whisked the cheesecake away pretty sharpish!!! She’s very supportive of my WOL, my mum!!! 💕 💕 💕

@daffodil2010, WFH has cut 3hrs off of my daily commute, I need to weigh up whether being a bit isolated & able to exercise regularly is more beneficial than seeing friends/colleagues or going for coffee or lunch with them!! I think ‘human contact’ will win hands down!!! With the heatwave expected, the commute from hell not to mention the actual training, I fear your beer supply may be in danger!!! 😉 🍺🍺😂

This is my 2nd week this month where I’ve added some weight training🏋. By that I mean light hand weights and some slightly heavier dumbbells!!! I have to say, there’s definitely less jiggling, my bingo wings MUST be defeated 💪 and although squats & lunges should be outlawed 😟😳, I’m doing some serious shape-shifting, so it may look like a grimace of pain, but it’s really a smile of satisfaction …………. No really, it is!!!!

We’re on the finishing straight, so it’s time to put that extra bit of effort in to end this month STRONG!!! 💪 We’ve got this!!

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 24 – UK – CD

Hi Everyone

Not much loss showing on scales. On looking over stats I’ve had a small loss of .2lb in recent days; therefore total loss for June stands at 3.2lbs with nearly a week left to go. I’m carrying on doing my thing and refuse to get despondent about it. I’m exercising more than I’ve done in years (and suffering for it) and eating right and consistently. I’ve not had any alcohol in June (not really missed it as not a habitual drinking anyway). I’d really like to reach my mini goal of 4lbs loss for June (I know this journey isn’t just about the numbers but wanting to get waist and BMI reduced)

@penz Sprouts and chestnuts are delish. If I have some in small pieces of fried chopped bacon are good too (for anyone not vegetarian).

Take care everyone.

Day 24 – UK – FD?
Day 23 – NFD

I almost forgot that it was OH’s birthday yesterday…….so was not a FD as planned but Monday’s FD500 went well ending up below the 500cals and yesterday was just below TDEE so not bad. Today will be another FD I think???

I asked OH what he wanted to eat for his birthday dinner and his request was for an oven roasted vegetable/pasta bake (I chose red onions, mushroom, red peppers with a homemade marinara sauce with some fresh baby plum tomatoes and basil added – no cheese!!! His naughty request was a mixed berry Pavlova with a berry coulis for dessert – all homemade and served to the birthday boy – he was a happy chap!

Looking forward to an outdoor yoga class later this morning – 5 of us with our regular teacher in a friend’s garden – she has a large space so social distancing should be adhered to. Lots of suncream on before as it’s a hot sunny one out there today!

@metatauta – you are on the spreadsheet – welcome
@annabelle48 – I hope you feel better soon – have you tried drinking some kefir daily for your gut health?
@basyjames – 🤗 thinking of you – hoping that your “stressful family events” are easing and that you are finding a way of coping with all the emotions involved – you are absolutely right in taking one day at a time xx
@shinything – hope you hear good news re the work front soon – such a stressful time 🤗
@saffy420 – good to hear that your back pain is easing
@betsylee – I should have said dark chocolate cherry ripe especially and yes agree that violet crumbles are nicer than crunches too 😋
@i-hate-lettuce – That’s a lovely walk you did yesterday – I did that recently with my DD and her dog
@flourbaby – Your posts always make me smile – thank you for your cheery input
@penz – *what’s your favourite food? I love cooking, experimenting with new recipes, maybe I too have a slight bias to savoury but in all honesty I’m with the group that just love good food and wine……..

Pocket List – Day 24 🥕
@snowflake56
@daffodil2010
@at

Day 24 – DTF List ☕️
@penz
@emma-taylor
@funshipfreddie

Right off to get the suncream slattered on before heading out for my outdoor Yoga class 🧘‍♀️

Does this quote also apply to 5:2??
”The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ steady effort in the direction you want to go.” ― Sally Kempton

Day 24 USA (Illinois) FD

Going to join the pocket list today. Need a re-set:

Pocket List – Day 24 🥕
@snowflake56
@daffodil2010
@at
@songbirdme

Day 24 – DTF List ☕️
@penz
@emma-taylor
@funshipfreddie

Onward and downward.

Day 24 Melb Aust FD750

After my TDEE day yesterday, surprisingly another 100 gms DOWN to 69.8, so after today’s FD, hoping for even better on the scales tomorrow morning. Yes, I’m one of those who weighs every day, it keeps me “honest”.

@at, yes, dark chocolate cherry ripes are indeed yum! They seem to have a little more chocolate than the milk chocolate ones, which chocoholic me approves of 🙂

@northgeorgia, you’re going great, and so what if it takes you till next year to be officially “overweight” instead of “obese”. You’re in this for the long haul, it’s a WOL, not a diet, and you are making choices now which will give you a healthier future, so well done you!

@funshipfreddie – cheese and onion pie? Never heard of it, but it sounds delish.

Pocket List – Day 24
@snowflake56
@daffodil2010
@at
@bert1802
@songbirdme
@northgeorgia
@betsylee

Day 24 – DTF List
@penz
@emma-taylor
@funshipfreddie

Onward and downwards everyone!

Day 24 UK CD/FD?

Another really full day, but all good things. Yesterday I indulged late evening so coming here tonight to make sure I don’t. It’s been an unplanned FD800 and I’d like to bank it.

@betsylee glad to see your post – you keep me honest! I seem to go up to 158lb and back to 154lb like a yoyo. Hoping that today’s strength of mind will encourage the weekly weigh day to be a bit closer to you

Looking forward to catching up with posts and friends tomorrow x

Day 25 Melb Aust TDEE

After yesterday’s FD, only 100 gms more down, but I’ll take any decrease. In that, my cholesterol has apparently gone UP, rather than down over the past few months, so looks like statins coming up for me, sigh!

@snowflake56, Thanks for the encouragement. It’s slow and painful at times, but at least the move is in the right direction – DOWN!

@michelinme, you’re such a star at this WOL, I know you can get down past that pesky 150 lbs. Have you had the antibody test yet for Covid-19? It will be really interesting to find our whether yeah or nay to you having had the virus. And any of the other tests?

@penz, difficult question. I’d say FDs are easier, for sure, unless I really plan the TDEE/ NFD days well, but I also find it very hard to stay under 500 cals on a FD unless it’s a LFD. As soon as I eat on a FD, it transforms into a FD800, or thereabouts.

Only 5 days to go everyone, let’s make a positive dent in this weight hanging on to us.

Day 25 – UK – FD

Hello Everyone

I was number crunching and cross referencing between my Apps that I log weight and meals to see if I can tweak anything (As I’m a bit geeky I love graphs and stuff). Within my ‘Weight Diary’ app there is a built in Calorie Calculator. Generally with these calculators they always give me too big an allowance. This one I find is realistic and confirms what I’ve learnt to be true (unfortunately). I need sub 1000 cals a day for weight loss of a 1lb a week. To be precise the app recommends 906 cals 😮, which I’ve multiplied by 7 = 6342 per week – 1600 (2 FDs) = 4742 divided by 5 = 948.

So even on 1000 cals a day I’ve been over eating my allowance on NFDs and that’s why I’ve not been losing. On reading Gary Taubes book Why We Get Fat he includes an example how eating just 20 cals over your daily needs can lead to substantial weight gain (over years).

In summary I will be tweaking my cals down. If I eat smart I feel it’s doable and I should be able to feel satiated.

@penz FD NFD Which is easier? To be honest there are 3 variables that affect both; 1) It all depends on how much sleep I’ve had. If I’ve had a good nights sleep my appetite is dialled down and after poor sleep it’s dialled up; 2) What I’ve eaten the day before can set me up to win/fail. Lower carb/higher protein keeps the appetite lower, higher carb/sugars raises it; 3) Weather. Hotter reduces appetite, colder turns it up. 1 & 2 hormone related. As I ate well yesterday, slept relatively well last night and a scorcher is forecast, today’s FD should be a breeze 😬

Take care everyone

Day 25 – Lake district UK – FD

Good morning everyone

Today is going to be very hot, just got back from walk, decided early was the best bet!
Yesterdays walk was rather amusing, part of it was along a bridleway near the moss, it’s really lovely and cool as the trees are not very high and form a tunnel. There was one stretch about 400 metres long and is a 2 metre wide track which is limestone with a run of grass down the middle which was damp.
There were loads of froglets, often see them, they’re only about a centimeter long, but the numbers! There must have been thousands all along the pathway for the entire length, we just walked slowly along the gravel and they quickly hopped out of harm’s way, but really quite funny.

@funshipfreddie – cheese and onion pies …. and todays a FD! Haven’t had one for years, absolutely delicious, especially topped with mashed potatoes!!!

Take care all

Day 25 pocket list:
@penz
@snowflake56 FD800
@i-hate-lettuce

Day 25 DTF list:
@penz
@emma-taylor

Day 25, London, UK, NFD,

I’m going slightly off piste from my June ADF plan (unplanned plan!😉) and having another NFD as I’m heading to the park/lake across the road to lounge in the sun🌞 & have a picnic with my BFF. There will be cider, there may be wine 🍷, there will definitely be potato salad, cheese & crackers and quite possibly a large soft-serve icecream!!! It’s gonna be a scorcher at 34 degrees, so SPF 50 at the ready and I’ll be taking a big golf umbrella to hide under!!!

Speaking of golf, I hope @ccco is doing ok, NY is having a hard time with this pandemic; my niece is a frontline nurse in the city. 🙏

@daffodil2010, I meant a total of 3hrs for my commute, 1 ½ hrs each way. It’s so frustrating as it’s only 17 miles, if I was anything like @jaifaim, I’m sure I could do it quicker on a bike!!! I bet you can’t wait for the training to be over, if only to avoid that commute!!

@penz, for me, my FDs are definitely easier to navigate than NFDs, I have a tendency to binge and NFDs prove a minefield unless I plan, plan, plan and portion & package my days’ meals. FDs have become much easier since I changed to LFDs since I was adding a few calories here & there and that fast 800 did a real number on my brain!!! @judyjudes, Gary Taubes clearly knows more than I did!!!

Onward & downwards people!!!!

Day 25 FD UK
Hallo everyone

Well what can I say. Still have guts ache in spite of an unplanned LFD yesterday in the hope it would sort things out. BIG PLUS is have lost a whole pound. Glass half full.
Am hoping that IF will eventually sort gut problems out as have read in Michael’s books that it has sorted out problems for people who were resigned to being ill or on heavy meds for life. We’ll see.
I’m with you @flourbaby re bingo wings. If you find out how to get rid of them let me know.
Thank you @at I have tried kefir and quite like it but it doesn’t seem help although I’m sure it is very good for you.
Started this about an hour ago but phone went from someone also in lockdown so spent quite a long time talking to her.
@daffodil, glad I’m too old to commute, don’t think I could cope with it now although when I was younger! I used to commute to London each day. Loved working there but that was then.
Hoping to maintain yesterday’s loss today.

Keep strong. If you change nothing then nothing changes.

Day 25 – USA/GA – NFD

Five days until the end of the month! Today begins the long period of NFDs until next Monday morning, so got to be careful to be sure I meet my goal weight. I think I will; today I weighed in at 257 lbs., which is 2 lbs. under my goal for June. Fingers crossed!

I made a fun little item on my personal spreadsheet at home: an “obesity meter” LOL! I took the CDC’s BMI info for obesity, correlated it to my weight and height, and it shows “how obese” I am. For fun, I put yesterday as my first day, and it read 83% obese. Today I am 80% obese. (Not actually a true measure, but at 101% is morbid obesity and -1% is overweight, etc.) Oct. 5, 2018, is when I last weighed in at 257. Next year, I’m hoping the “tank” will be near empty haha!

Still, the Christmas paper-chain garland with each pound written on a link remains the most fun thing I do. I basically look back a week in my spreadsheet and add two pounds to my highest weight. If I see a link with a weight over that amount in the past week, I dramatically RIP that link off and dispose of it.

@flourbaby My pleasure! I hope you can enjoy that cheesecake soon!

@stitchincarol My parents finished their second FD (and the last of the week) yesterday. My dad claimed it was tougher than it looked, but my mom is still sneaking him a little extra sweet tea, fruit, and baked potatoes LOL

@betsylee Thanks! Yes, it is a WOL and I’m in it for the long haul. I’m very surprised and pleased at my results so far.

Good luck, everyone!

Pocket List – Day 25
@penz
@snowflake56
@judyjudes
@i-hate-lettuce
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie
@annabelle48

Day 25 – DTF List
@penz
@emma-taylor
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie

Day 25 Canada FD

I haven’t been able to comment as often as I would like but being back on the forum has been a huge help, I have lost 1kg this month and am feeling a better “shape” is developing.

Your question of the day is timely @penz! I can generally do well on the FD’s. I have a good idea now of what sort of day helps make it easier and often don’t feel hungry at all. NFD’s though are another story altogether, the afternoons are my downfall. Some weird and evil switch gets tripped and I start snacking and snacking, now I have ID’d that hiccup I am going to work on it!!!
@flourbaby your day sounds perfect- enjoy the sunshine!
@daffodil2010 that commute sounds brutal
@bert1802 glad you got your FD in
@basyjames hope today is an easier one for you
@northgeorgia your paper chain is a great idea, sounds like you have inspired your parents to join you on this WOL
@annabelle48 DR Megan Rossi has a great book called Eat Yourself Healthy with lots of great gut advice, she is also on insta as thegutheathdoctor

Pocket List – Day 25
@penz
@snowflake56
@judyjudes
@i-hate-lettuce
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie
@annabelle48
@basyjames
@bellyblast

Second post

@stitchincarol Your posts are disappearing and mine are duplicating! Oh no, its a Tech Trouble Thursday!

@bellyblast @basyjames Yep, glad my folks are joining in at a more cautious level, and I love ripping those paper links off!

Day 25, UK, FD

I feel so hot! Its been a very hot day here, hardly any wind, which makes the air just sit there 😓 . The heat woke me up really early today, so its been a very long day, which is not ideal when you are fasting 😬 . But so far so good.

@penz I find NFDs harder, in a way that I find it harder to control how much I eat. I seem to do better on my FD when I have a plan 🙂

Who is hosting July? I can’t believe July is around the corner already! 😮

Stay strong everyone 💪

Pocket List – Day 25
@penz
@snowflake56
@judyjudes
@i-hate-lettuce
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie
@annabelle48
@basyjames
@bellyblast
@stitchincarol
@shinything

Day 25 – DTF List
@penz
@emma-taylor
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie

Day 25 – SECOND POST

First, is it possible that if I post from a browser page that isn’t refreshed, my post is getting swallowed up because of that? Do I need to refresh first? So strange!

Second, for those of you who do LFDs, what is your liquid? Is it only water? I remember someone said something about a bullion cube? What about a can of chicken broth heated up as if it’s tea? Are there advantages to liquid fast days that center on the fact that it’s liquid, aside from the minimal calories?

I’m asking because DH and I are toying with doing a LFD today. Supper isn’t for another two or three hours, so we’re considering if we can do it, and wondering what the various options are as other people do it.

Thanks!

BTW the term “bingo wings” was new to me! I am certain they come with age for women. Is it British? Maybe there is another term in America, but I don’t know it.

Day 25 – THIRD POST

LOL, @penz, no indeed, I know there are no rules! I guess I’m wondering what the point is of a LFD–is it simply to be more dramatic with calories, in conjunction with If-I-don’t-start-I-can’t-overeat?

So, rephrased question: for those of you who do LFD, why? and how? Any details would be wonderful.

It’s getting hot today (88F/31C) and so far, I’m fine to continue drinking water. If I suddenly lose it, I have some back up food in place and I’ll still be fine. Fingers crossed!! 🙂