Just Do It! ✔ June Challenge

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  • Welcome to the Just Do It! ✔ June Challenge!

    According to Wikipedia, Nike’s tagline was coined in 1988 at an advertising agency meeting. The founder of the Wieden+Kennedy agency, Dan Wieden, credits the inspiration for his “Just Do It” Nike slogan to a death row inmate. Gary Gilmore’s last words – “Let’s do it.” 😳 ‘Just do it’ became – & still is – one of the most effective marketing campaigns of all time.

    The emotion that Nike sold through the ‘Just Do It’ campaign was motivation. This emotion resonated deeply with people because it tapped into their intrinsic desire to succeed and to be their best selves.

    The subject of motivation comes up a lot during our monthly challenges. How do we get & stay motivated? Why does it seem easier for some than others? Why can’t we always be raring to go, like every day was January 1st (minus the hangover) or even like it was the start of a new month/challenge? Maybe we can. Maybe it’s just about changing how we think. If we just wait for motivation to occur though, it might never happen. So we have to work at it.

    Motivation can be developed as a skill. It can be learned & improved upon through conscious effort & practise. Action → Result → Motivation. Two fast days & 5 sensible eating days per week. The fast days are the action. Two fast days + 5 days of eating to our TDEE = weight loss (or maintenance) = the motivation to repeat. Mission accomplished!

    If you’re not already at your goal weight, then you shouldn’t be having cheat days. If you do, then you’re only cheating yourself, by putting off the day you reach your ultimate goal. Definitely NO feasting! What is a feast, anyway? It used to mean ONE elaborate meal, on a very special occasion, not because it’s the weekend. Now, it’s just an excuse for a binge. It’s your birthday month? Too bad. You’ll have another one next year when you’re at your goal weight. Have a birthday banana; the cake can wait until next year. Whenever I hear the word ‘feasting’, I think of Henry Vlll & his nobility, lounging around a huge table, slurping wine from goblets & slinging chicken legs around. Well, we’re not nobility, & this is not the middle ages. If you really want to ‘feast’, go for it. Henry Vlll weighed about 400 lb when he died, by the way. Just saying…

    Don’t Just Talk About It – Do It! ✔

    These monthly challenges were started by @coda in May 2016 and have been going strong ever since. Goals can be overwhelming when viewed as a whole. But by breaking them down into small achievable pieces, we are able to stay focused and motivated to accomplish our goals one step at a time in bite-sized monthly challenges.
    There are no rules, but as a general guide, here are some tips for any new people:

    1. Posting – This is our only true rule: please start each post with the day of the month, where you are, and if you’re on a fast day (FD), non-fast day (NFD) or controlled day (CD). We’re located all over the world and in different time zones so it helps us keep track of which day we’re talking about, who else is fasting with us on a particular day etc. Look at the various posts, and you’ll soon see the pattern, and will learn how useful it is for reading.

    2. In your first post, please introduce yourself to the group – this helps us to get to know each other, which is especially helpful for newbies. Perhaps say something about where you started, your journey so far, what you’re aiming for or how you are benefiting from fasting. You might like to include your starting weight or your goals for the month. But you don’t have to – share only what you are comfortable sharing online.

    3. Spreadsheet – A spreadsheet is created each month. It’s in alphabetical order by username. If you find it helpful, you can use it to record and track your progress as well as keeping track of how others are doing. It can help with perspective, accountability or planning. And if you need help just ask – there’s always someone happy to help. But you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to. It’s just another tool you can use if you choose.

    4. Frequency – Some people post daily, others check in every few days. Some are brief, others are long and chatty. If you’re posting for a second time in the same day please head your post e.g. Day 1 – 2nd Post. Past history shows that posting every day truly does help with motivation for staying on track with your goals, so please don’t feel shy about suddenly posting daily; we love new members!

    5. Content of your post – Comments or questions, complaints or celebration – anything you’d like to share with the forum. Recipes, tips, tricks and bright ideas are always welcome. Remember: we all have good days and bad days, days we fall off the wagon or days when we are hanging on by our fingernails, days when our mojo deserts us and days where we feel completely in control. So DON’T GIVE UP – whatever it is, you are not alone!

    6. Community – This is a worldwide forum so there’s usually someone online. We all do our best to offer advice, support and solidarity.

    7. Pocket lists – A ‘pocket list’ is a list of the names of people who are sharing the same goal on a particular day. It’s great psychological support in mentally keeping that list in our back pocket, knowing we’re not alone. Anyone can join a pocket list or start a pocket list. Typical pocket lists are for a FD but in the past they’ve been used for people doing daily exercise or planks, or DTF (dry till Friday).

    8. 5:2 basics – answers to many FAQs plus top tips:
    https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/

    9. The “rule”. The F word (FAIL) is prohibited!! We all stumble in our journey – it happens. But acknowledge it, think about what you can do next time, and continue. We’re all here to help!

    We tend to use a LOT of abbreviations in these posts. Here’s a guide to some of the more frequently used ones:
    5:2 – 5 days NFD – 2 days FD. The FDs can be consecutive or spread out. Mon/Thurs is a popular choice.
    16:8 – 16 hours fast – 8 hours non fast

    IF – Intermittent Fasting

    ADF – Alternate Day Fasting (FD – NFD – FD – etc)

    AF – Alcohol-free

    B2B – Back to Back (consecutive FDs)

    BMR – Basal metabolic Rate

    CFD – Controlled Food Day (a day’s eating comfortably below your TDEE)

    DH, DD, DS – Darling Husband, Daughter, Son

    DTF – Dry ’til Fri (no wine, beer, etc.)

    EE – Emotional Eating (reflex grazing out of a need for instant comfort instead of satisfying hunger)

    EFS – Epic Face Stuffing (Definitely due to a faulty OFF button!)

    FD – Fast Day (500 cals)

    FD800 – Fast Day 800 calories

    Hunger Dragon – that dreadful psychological beast that sometimes cannot be satisfied. Some people even name theirs (e.g. @i-hate-lettuce had an inner warthog!)

    IF – Intermittent Fasting

    Keto – way of eating that generates Ketones

    KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid!!!

    LC – Low Carb way of eating

    LCHF – Low Carb High Fat way of eating

    LFD – Liquid Fast Day (incl. tea, coffee, miso, bone broth & water)

    LOL – Laughing Out Loud

    M/WOAM – Man/Woman on a Mission (courtesy of @i-hate-lettuce)

    MFD – Modified Fast Day (800 cals) on the new
    Fast800, it’s a FD

    MFP – MyFitnessPal – a smartphone app & website that tracks diet & exercise.

    NFD – Non Fast Day

    OH – Other Half (e.g. spouse/partner)

    OMAD – One Meal A Day

    PFDS – Post FD Smugness (courtesy of @stitchincarol )
    Pocket List – Names to “keep in your pocket” for a common goal for the day

    TDEE – Total Daily Energy Expenditure (see the ‘how it works’ link on the home page to work out yours)

    TRE – Time Restricted Eating
- Having an ‘eating window’ of, e.g. 11 am to 7 pm
    WFD – Water Fast Day (Water only)

    WFH – Working From Home

    WOL – Way of Life

    WOCA – Woman Of a Certain Age

    WW – Weekend Warrior (c/- @jaifaim)
    ZBC – Zero Breakfast Club

    @funshipfreddie – I have done the spreadsheet for Just Do It! ✔ June 2025 Challenge – see link below. I’m still looking for my MOJO…….perhaps I will find it in June……

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XPhioUGRRgeFP7j8s-GwDkewz_X9OWyzd2baW2PcGL0/edit?usp=sharing

    Day -1 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

    @at – thank you!

    USA. Day 1

    See you all tomorrow!

    Day 1 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

    About me:- David, 63, originally from Manchester, England. Retired & living in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Been 5:2-ing/IF-ing since 2014 after watching Michael Mosley’s documentary, ‘Eat, Fast & Live Longer’. I joined the Challenges after I retired in 2018. I do basic 5:2, having around 600 – 700 cals on FDs – one evening meal – and I usually stick to an eating window of around 12 noon to 8 pm everyday. Currently weighing 71.7 kg.

    Some wise words from Dr Jason Fung; – JUST DON”T SNACK – “The healthy snack is one of the greatest weightloss deceptions. The myth that “grazing is healthy” has attained legendary status. If we were meant to graze, we would be cows”.

    Wishing everyone a RESOLVED, hassle-free June Challenge!

    Yesterday You Said Tomorrow – Just Do It ✔

    Pocket List – Day 1 🥚
    @funshipfreddie

    Day 1 – UK – CD

    Perhaps my birthday month is the month where I find my MOJO and start to lose those extra kg/lbs that have crept back on…….

    Today will be a CD leading into tomorrow’s planned FD

    So even though the weather is not enticing out there ☔️ I am joining some friends for an early Sunday walk, planning on around 5 miles so not too taxing……

    I have to go get ready as they will be at my house in 1/2hr ready to start 🥾

    Hope June is definitely a “Just Do It! ✔ June Challenge” for us all

    Day 1 NE England

    Inspired by @funshipfreddie to Just Do It. Thank you for taking the reins. I think Jason Fung talks a lot of sense, I’m currently rereading his Complete Guide to Fasting I have a daily exercise challenge with a group of friends this month so hoping for results in June!

    Day 1 UK NFD

    Thanks for steering us @funshipfreddie 👏

    I too need to get my act together @at . I KNOW what works – putting it in to practice is another matter , I’m being realistic and a 1 – 2lb loss will be great this month

    See you on the list tomorrow – Let’s do this 💪

    Day 1-No. VA USA-FD
    Joining the June challenge and I will “just do it”. Thanks for the reminder about snacking!
    Fast day to start the month.

    2nd Post – Day 1

    @at – your birthday month?! Don’t forget to stock up on those birthday bananas😜

    @excelsior12309 – yay for us Sunday fasters! Any more..?

    Pocket List – Day 1 🥚
    @funshipfreddie
    @excelsior12309

    Day 1 – USA/GA – NFD – 242 lbs.

    I was happy to see my post-vacation weigh-in is the same as my weigh-in the morning I left. I was going to make today a FD, but it’s so much easier when I’m at work. It has been a ZBC so far, but a cousin died while on vacation so her funeral is in a few hours. However, the important parts I have been missing is eating no more than my TDEE each day and stopping the snacking. Although I won’t be having just a banana for my birthday, I completely get the sentiment and I can’t expect things to change in the right direction by throwing caution to the wind. One thing that was interesting about this last beach vacation was that the home had a large body length mirror in the living room, directed at the couch and recliner. I thought, how difficult would it be to eat in front of the television if you had to see your corpulence shoveling it all in? I may have to find a mirror 🙂

    USA. Day 1. FD

    Here I am fasting and on the pocket list, FUNSHIPFREDDIE!

    Pocket List – Day 1 🥚
    @funshipfreddie
    @excelsior12309
    @ccco

    I am sorry to be so late today! I have been so busy!

    Day 1 – Lincoln, Nebraska, USA – NFD

    I’m here! We have slept in our new home three nights, and it’s starting to feel normal…sorta, LOL! Nineteen years in the parsonage will take a long time to replace.

    In the middle of May I was around 153-154. Then the move started in earnest, and I was working hard. I was also eating out or take-out most meals. Then I had the serious back pain and went on prednisone and oxy-something and my weight shot up to 160. I didn’t have time to worry about it; my focus was entirely on packing and moving. I finished the prednisone on Wednesday (and have needed the oxy-something very little), and by Thursday my body was starting to eliminate everything it had been holding on to. And last night, we had pizza and I didn’t even bother to feel guilty about it, LOL. I did, however, have wine not beer, and was astonished to find I liked it as well with pizza (thought of you, @penz!), which is a good thing because when I have a beer I almost always shoot up a pound the next morning.

    And this morning, even with the sodium weight of that pizza, I’m at 155. So, I think I can safely say I managed not to gain weight while we moved, or at least not much.

    My kitchen is not yet unpacked, so cooking meals of any sort will be a bit of a challenge, but DH and I are both sick to death of eating out, so we’ll be much more focusesd on healthy eating, and I’ll be glad to “learn to cook” in this kitchen where the layout is entirely different.

    @funshipfreddie Your opening essay was so good. Thank you. Just do it…yup, no trying, ho hoping, just deciding, and a boatload of RESOLVE so that Action → Result → Motivation. DH and our sons and I went out to brunch after church, and I had some fried potatoes, two eggs, and two SMALL pieces of bacon, plus black coffee. Supper tonight isn’t yet planned, but it won’t be much. I think the day will easily be under 1500 calories, which is an NFD for me.

    @iona72 How lovely to have friends doing an exercise challenge with you; tell us about it!

    @northgeorgia Welcome back from your vacation, and how excellent that you didn’t gain. I chuckled at your thought that you’d go buy a mirror!

    @ccco Being busy is an excellent reason for being late in the day to post; all that matters is that you show up.

    So, if we’re going to run with @funshipfreddie‘s reminder against snacking, how about if we have a list where we pledge not to snack? And I don’t mean “say we won’t and hope it turns out to be true” but PLEDGE not to snack? Anyone game?

    Okay, another half hour of relaxing, then I’ll be back at the kitchen. It’s so different from the cupboards I did have that it’s a huge challenge to figure out where to put stuff, but it HAS to work somehow, LOL!

    Have a grand one, everyone!

    Day 2 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 71.5 kg

    A real Sunday pocket list! 🎯 There’s definitely a sense of resolve in the air, from the northern hemisphere anyway. Maybe because you’re now in your summer months. My first June FD was a cinch, but it was freezing last night ❄

    @northgeorgia – Well done for not doing any more damage on your vacation. Not a bad idea re the mirror! Or maybe hang one on the fridge door? 😅

    @stitchincarol – I’m glad you liked the opening essay, thanks! And I’m in for the ‘no snacking’ pledge. As I have an 8 hour eating window every day, I think I’m starting to behave like I can eat whatever & whenever I please for the whole 8 hours 😳 Good luck organising your new kitchen! 🧑‍🍳

    @iona72 – I’ve got Jason Fung’s ‘Complete Guide to Fasting’ too; I think I should read it again.

    “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” ~ Amelia Earhart

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie

    Day 2 UK f800

    Back to basics for me – started the year well excellent January , good February & March , middling April and a disastrous May but we are at the 1/2 way mark and even after May I’m lower than year start and now’s the time to get back on track💪 so f800s Monday Tuesday Wednesday, I’m off on holiday to Sicily on Thursday and whilst I won’t be fasting I’m really aiming to be mindful and I’ll have the last 10 days of June to really make a difference

    Looks like we have quite the gang this month , looking forward to our journey

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie

    Day 2 – USA/GA – FD – 244 lbs.

    Eww, and I was mindful yesterday, too. I guess all the travel, vacation food, and need to rehydrate caught up to me this morning with a two pound gain. Hated seeing a number I haven’t seen in many years on the scales, but I am resolved to get the NFD count under TDEE. And I also need to remember Fung’s approach, where it’s doubtful you would get fat eating 3,000 calories worth of broccoli (if one could even stomach that much), but it is easy to down that in processed food in a single meal. Got to remember to treat processed stuff as poison and put more whole foods into meal time.

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia

    Day 2 – Lincoln, Nebraska, USA – NFD – 154.4

    Still working at the kitchen cupboards/drawers…tedious process. Still eating rather reasonably. Today will be something on our pellet grill, and I’ll choose sides that are simple–perhaps just two steamed veggies. We’ll see; I’m not awake enough yet to actually meal-plan!

    I’ve not read Jason Fung’s Complete Guide to Fasting…perhaps I should add that to my reading list.

    @brightonbelle A vacation in Sicily sounds lovely!

    @northgeorgia Do you have some record of what you were eating when you were solidly on your way down? Perhaps that would help you focus more on how to revise your eating now to regain the same steady loss…

    Okay, @funshipfreddie, I’m all for pledging not to snack today, but what do the letters “NSL” stand for? Wouldn’t it be “NSP” for No Snacking Pledge???

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol

    Let me tell you about my new living room. There’s a large north-facing dormer window (completely inaccessible, just there to let in light and look lovely on the outside) and a pair of windows also on the north, and three two-foot-square windows on each side of the fireplace, which is on the east side, and a sliding glass door on the south side. So the room is exuberant with light and morning sunshine…such a lovely contrast to the house we were in, which was very pleasant, but never got direct sun until late afternoon because of all the trees. This is a whole new life, LOL!

    Have a grand one, everyone!

    Day 2…Florida…FDs

    I can’t believe that it is June already… Where in the heck has the time gone?

    I watched this YouTube video, conspiracy theory at it finest, that since our world is in such a state of disarray, God has sped up time to rid the world of dark things by not allowing them enough time to full execute their plan….. Which is why time seems to be flying…So, not a 100% sure if this is true but if we think about it. This doesn’t give us a enough time to execute our plan of losing weight and getting healthier. According to this conspiracy theory means that we need to get ourselves in gear and do the gosh darn thing! As @funshipfreddie said “Just do it”

    In spirit of “Just do it”, I am going to do the Gosh, darn thing…..

    Today is an FD….I really need a solid one as the last couple times I have gone over the 500 calorie and hung out right around 800. From past experience, I need to get in a minimum of three solid FD.
    I am also embarking on something I did not do the first time around. I have challenged myself to start walking daily. I would like to get up to 5 miles a day, right now I am just happy to get in 1 mile.
    I have also decided that I am not weighing myself until July 1st. I noticed last month getting on the scales daily was just making me doubt the process and when I doubt, I tend to eat more and become unmotivated.

    Well, I must get moving…… it Monday and my inbox looks like my week is going to be less than desirable….

    USA. Day 2. FD

    Well, I weighed myself this morning and it appears that I am down 2 lbs. I hope this will be my June trend! 🤗

    Joining today’s pocket list:

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia
    @ccco

    I was wondering what NSL means?? I am thinking that means no snacking!

    Here’s to hoping we all have great June results!👍🏻

    2nd Post – Day 2

    @stitchincarol, @ccco – yes, NSL = No Snacking List

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia
    @bert1802
    @ccco

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol

    Day 2 – UK – FD600

    I managed to stick to my CD yesterday and our Sunday walk ended up at 6.55miles ✅

    Today I seem to be on track for a FD600 – I have an evening yoga 🧘‍♀️ class that should stop me going over 🤞

    @brightonbelle – thank you – I’ll definitely be trying to get my act together this month
    @funshipfreddie – funny you should mention bananas as I have started having a daily one recently 🤣
    @stitchincarol – good to hear that you survived the stress of your recent house move and I’ll join you in the NO SNACKING LISt for June as I’m planning on a late brunch and an evening meal on my NFDs and OMAD on my FDs for this month

    We have got 10 joining in our Just Do It! ✔ June Challenge so far – Can someone call me out if I don’t do a daily post please as in the past I did find posting daily helped me so much to maintain motivation!!

    Tomorrow I’m going to the coast dog walking with my DD and she’s then taking me out for a birthday lunch – planning on a light lunch (instead of Brunch) and a light evening meal

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia
    @bert1802
    @ccco

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol
    @at

    Day 2 NE England CD

    So far so good for eating this month! I am all in for the NSL 🙋🏻‍♀️ I usually have a handful of nuts mid afternoon but I have been thinking this is just a habit I can do without. I can add the nuts to meals if necessary.

    @stitchincarol Hope you are getting organised in the kitchen, we remodelled ours a couple of years ago and I still can’t find the right place for everything.
    Our exercise challenge is just to keep our small group of Mums and Grannies accountable for 20 mins exercise a day for June. As I walk a lot anyway I’m adding some strength exercise to my day.

    Have a lovely birthday @at how nice to spend it with DD

    Pocket List – Day 2 🍒
    @merry🍎
    @at
    @brightonbelle
    @northgeorgia
    @bert1802
    @ccco

    NSL – Day 2 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol
    @at
    @iona72

    Day 3 CD country west Australia 83.7 kgs.
    Thank you @funshipfreddie for taking over the reins for June.
    I loved your opening spiel and it certainly has resonated with me too.
    I will join the NSL.
    It is interesting how often we/I eat things mindlessly.
    Whilst in the car with the 2 toddlers mentioned below, we were coming home from a function.
    My platter contribution was nibbles – small cubes of cheese, carrot and celery sticks- and I had the leftovers on the plate on my knee whilst DH drove us home.
    The 4 of us ate all the leftovers by the time we arrived home. Not much dinner required after that !!
    Apologies for being MIA in last part of May but unexpected 4 days of looking after 2 extremely active toddlers who prefer not to sleep much meant going near my computer just did not happen.
    Hate to think what my inbox will be like and hope 🤞🤞I haven’t missed any bill payments😱….
    Back in the office this morning.
    @at I am unable to put my goal for the month in the spreadsheet. Put in weight no problem.
    Anyway, my goal is to get to 80kgs and I plan to ‘ just do it’!!
    Hi to everyone joining in for June. Yes there definitely does seem to be a more determined and optimistic air for June.
    And a big thanks to everyone for posting, encouraging, giving tips, keeping the thread/ community going etc for the past few months whilst I have lurched along rather wildly as the ‘host’.I really appreciated it and your forbearance 😊💐

    Day 3 NZ NFD 69.5kg🔻

    Love the intro, David!! I think Henry the VIII had a traumatic brain injury from multiple horse and jousting accidents. He displayed all the behaviours which you might imagine led to him weighing in at an excess of 400 lbs… lack of resolve, Cruella visiting, erratic snacking and eating well over his TDEE!!🤣

    I have had a terribly social and therefore erratic eating for the last couple of weeks… I’m keen to get back to my regular pattern of focusing on carbs, like oats and sourdough for breakfast and lunch then having vegetables and protein at dinner time. No snacking other than an apple at afternoon tea. I feel better when I’m eating regularly and in control… It’s bad enough having to do 2 FDs a week without having to to add in OMADs when I have overeaten the night before…☹️ It was fun though!!
    I do love cooking fancy pants meals and having dinner parties but the cost of food has gone up sooo much it’s become a luxury…

    Thank you @funshipfreddie for taking the helm. It was probably my turn but that great intro was worth delaying my round!!!
    @bert1802 I nearly spat out a mouthful of tea laughing when I read your YouTube theory. They probably think the earth is flat too.🤣
    @stitchincarol Great to read you’re in the new house!! It sounds lovely. And your steroid course has finished…
    Yeah @ccco Great start to the month!!
    @northgeorgia You have the theory sorted. Now to apply it!!
    @brightonbelle, @anicecupoftea,@at, @iona72, @excelsior12309 I’ll be joining y’all in the refocus focus group💪

    Just do it ✅

    Day 3 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

    @at – Happy Birthday to You! 🎉 🥳 🍌 ⬅ birthday banana

    @lilymartin – dunno what’s going on with the spreadsheet? Maybe you can type your goal into a blank space & then copy/paste it?

    Great to see some Southern Hemesphirites (is that even a word?) here. Now we just need @penz..? 🤔

    “If you want to do something, Just Do It. No-one is going to do it for you.” ~ Jaime Pressly

    Got to run. Have a great day everyone

    NSL – Day 3 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie

    Day 3 – USA/GA – NFD? – 241 lbs.

    I’ve decided to wake up every day possible and start it out as a FD (ZBC), because in the end, I want most NFDs each month to be under TDEE. @stitchincarol Although I kept good weigh-in records, I didn’t keep good food journals or even notes about each day. I remember the FDs, but not the NFDs. I think after two good years, my metabolism changed, and I didn’t adjust my TDEE, plus old habits would creep back in. Anyway, 240s are unacceptable. I want to make a big dent in things this month, and I believe I can 🙂

    Day 3…….Florida…….CD

    I made it through yesterday, did not think I was going to….. Monday just kept getting in the way of everything I was trying to do. Was so glad when the work day was over.

    My FD was better than the last couple times, I was only over by 75 calories. That’s a win!

    I did notice something in regards to this snacking business…. Well at least for me. I never made the correlation until the no snacking challenge came to light. I’m not a huge snacker, when I first did the 5:2 back in the day, I was able to break the habit….. on NFD days, snacking never even crosses my mind, but on FD I want to nibble on everything in sight.
    I don’t snack but I’m wondering if this my own brain trying to self sabotage? I’m gonna have to research this some more.

    Fun fact…… when I hit menopause….. I really thought I jump on the crazy train….. it was right smack dap in the middle of the C disaster…. Doctors were more concerned with the stuff surrounding that…. It was hard to get help….. I was on a 8 week waiting period to see someone about it. I took a nose dive into the world of mental health.
    Very interesting world mental health….. By the way I was not going crazy….. my hormones were just way out of wack…..
    In the midst of all this research on mental health, I really took a look at self sabotage. While they say it part of our mental well being and can be linked to stress, depression and anxiety….. everyone experiences some form of self sabotage. Dieters tend to have one of the high instances of self sabotage.
    While there is no “cure” for this condition, recognizing it in one’s own self, can reverse the likely hood of doing it.
    One term that is used frequently to reverse this type of thing is coined “show up for yourself”….. be the person today that you want to be tomorrow.

    Im not saying snacking is causing any harm to those who partake but it something we should be aware of..

    Today is a NFD but I’m gonna try to make it very controlled and since I’m traveling the next couple days, I am really focusing on making good choices.
    My June goal is to really focus on 5:2 and increasing my walking.

    @merryapple…… they probably do believe the earth is flat…… I only watched this one video but I am thinking this fellow maybe be a part of the doomsday preppers we’ve all heard about.

    Sorry about the word vomit this morning about self sabotage…. I just thought maybe it could help knowing some of the useless information that rattles around in my head from time to time

    Well I am off

    Day 3 UK f800

    I was up and out early for holiday haircut but really suffering with my hay fever today , apparently unusually high pollen levels

    Catch you tomorrow

    Pocket List Day 3 🌻

    @brightonbelle

    Day 3 – Lincoln, Nebraska, USA – FD800 – 153.8

    I’m planning on fewer calories than 800, but I’m allowing myself some wriggle room; I will not, however, have any wine/beer/etc.

    And we’re headed out the door to go pick up another load, so this is it this morning.

    Pocket List Day 3 🌻
    @brightonbelle
    @stitchincarol FD800

    NSL – Day 3 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol

    Day 3 NE England IF 17/7

    A successful day today, felt like I’ve made good choices and haven’t really felt like I wanted to snack at all!

    NSL – Day 3 🚫🍿
    @funshipfreddie
    @stitchincarol
    @iona72

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