Just a quick hello to let you know I have not been abducted by aliens!
I was away all last week, first half at Lorne then last half Jamieson, wonderfully self indulgent week! Now my iPad has decided to expire, so typing on phone which I find really tiresome. Dear husband bought me a Samsung tablet today, so once I can figure it out you will be hearing more from me!
Well done to all who are persisting with their healthier lifedespite the temptations of Xmas!
I did manage to fast really well for 3 days at Jamieson, by only taking salads and some freshly picked cherries (bought on the way)with me….very limited shopping locally. It was amazing, because I knew there was nothing unhealthy to eat, I just did not think about food. I succeeded in reversing the buffet breakfasts and the slap up Italian dinner we enjoyed in Lorne.

Hi everyone,

It’s been a bit damp here this morning but the cloud is breaking uo and the sun has just put in an appearance.

Wee, lovely to hear from you.
There is always lots of paperwork at such times however organised we may be and it can be frustrating and worrying.
Take care of yourself and try to find some time and a method of relaxing of an evening so you can get some decent sleep.

I didn’t manage food free yesterday but my FD was fine and well under 500 calories. I’m fasting again today and have lots of things to do to keep busy.
I went to the gym this morning, the first time in nearly 3 weeks. It was tough going at first but I persevered and enjoyed it. I’ll go again tomorrow and it should be a bit easier.

I’ve just iced the cakes which didn’t take long as it is my only cheat, ready rolled fondant icing and a few shooting stars cut from the scraps leftover and sprinkled with tiny silver stars and some ready made edible trees, robins etc. They look good if I say so myself 🙂

Gift wrapping is next, something I enjoy doing 🎄🎁🎀

Have a good one everybody 😜

Well I’ve got all my packages posted, and started on the cards, and sorted Dad out with Xmas goodies, so I’m feeling a bit more relaxed now about the approaching festive season!

Fasting tomorrow. OH is at his Xmas do so it should be a relatively painless fast…until he returns inebriated and silly…! But I get my revenge at the end of the week 😀

Wiwi, I hear Chile is an interesting country, but know more about the wine than the food 😀🍷

On 29/11/16 I went to the Doctor I had been struggling to breathe and I had a terrible cough and I had to have a (puffer) Ventolin inhaler overnight wheezing and puffing coughing etc I was going very rough so I had a check-up with chest x-rays the lot and sure enough I had a bad lung infection slash Pneumonia my BP was 221/150 a red flashing light Doctor put me on tablets as expected I recalled Dr Alan Goldhamer suggested water only fast is the number one health recommendation to quickly reduce BP so this prompted my 7 day trial he suggests usually a longer water only fast 21 days now that’s just not going to happen I was put on BP medication as well so the numbers now are 135/77 was it the meds or was it the water only fasting I hope it was the fasting. Amazon 3 days in I will call it a 4.2kg weight loss and very good work with the jeans you go girl !! no Jo not a PB a little bracket creep 😥 so corrective action was required and just a reset refresh in time for the silly season I really enjoyed the challenge.
“Remember that reserve of fat you have on your body already and realise you actually don’t need food, you just want it.”
Peace RT

Hello,
It’s cold, damp, ugly and I am hungry. In my head I want to Fast by my body not.

RT – hope you get back to “normal” numbers. Numbers tend to vary fro person to person.

Wiwi – Brazilians are not that much interacted to our neighbors. I guess starting with our language. Here in the US people talk about the wine and skiing. Now in the winter I see all the summer fruits coming from there. Patagonia is a luxury that’s be sure.

Wee – glad to hear you are a maintainer besides going thought Dad’s passing.

Guys because we have no date to leave fro here yet there’s no Christmas deco here or there. I don’t really make a big fuzz about Christmas. What amazes me is that another year is gone just like that.
He well everyone ❤️

Hi team, no alien abductions from this part of the world either.

My dear aunt died on 1 December, and as next of kin I have been tied up with arranging funeral, gathering family, trying to sort out what to do with her bits and pieces (one of the paintings which was gifted to a local gallery is worth $150K !!, so was glad not to have it in the house, and uninsured, for more than a couple of days). Still need to clear her apartment, get an appraisal of the remaining artworks. Plus lots of other stuff. She died suddenly of a stroke, having been rushed to hospital. So went suddenly, without pain, lucid (trying to answer questions put to her by nursing staff), and surrounded by people trying to help. I want to go that way – at 92 !

Three social events this weekend. Weather ghastly – overnight low of 10 on Monday, gales tomorrow, where’s summer? Sorry, Jo, you might want to reconsider.

Sorry, meant to say Hi to everyone else, especially you Wee. I am pleased you are ok, emotions can be so draining cant they?
And RT, glad you have the BP down, your GP must have been nervous, that was high! Well done on taking control of your own health! Is there a strong family history of hypertension? I hope you are feeling much better and can breathe again too!
Amazon, you have the presents wrapped!! That is always a xmas eve job for me, watching the Carols by Candlelight on TV. But I will finish the Sri Lankan cake this week, fruit, nuts etc been macerating for 6 weeks.
A big shout out to Wiwi too, whatan adventurer you are! Enjoy all that bread that they are forcing you to eat!

Hi Fast Trackers & Welcome New Fasters And Hello World (You All know Who You ARE)
Hi Amazon no actually I was not aware of any of those details that you speak of so thank you as we live we learn .Hi Nama the boys are indeed lucky we forget that when we get caught up in the hurley burley of living life don’t we? In this neck of the woods a Mum Dad and their 26yo son went fishing in a boat on Monday never to be seen again now deemed lost at sea with debris washed up on shore so tragic for everyone. I have been on BP medication for a long time and foolishly went off them when 1 shed 26kg yes Dr did have a mini melt down with sentences including we will admit you to hospital and you will not be allowed to drive !!
He certainly had my attention 😆 Thursday lets get our fast on Tuesday it was 38deg here yesterday 20 and today 19 weather gods must be crazy !!!
“The less you eat the more you lose”
Peace RT

RT, I’m pleased to hear you’re OK now, bit of a scare though! I’ve got the joy of BP issues…together with the rest of middle-aged lady complaints…to look forward to 😳

P, it took me a while to realise that you are happy that the weather is cooler, and not actually directing a comment to me. Me me me 😊

Nama, I’m with you on healthy eating/ lifestyle! I find it hard now to eat unhealthily, and have no stamina for carbs and sweet binges. Who’d have thought it!

I’m just slumped by the fire, comfortably full at the end of a fast day. It’s been hard today, a hungry day, but such a satisfying feeling to have succeeded.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been on BP medication for 10 or 11 years and it was creeping up and up before I started 5:2. It is now back down to normal, but not low enough for medication to be decreased let alone stopped. Like Purple, I’d rather take it than have a stroke. My Dad had hypertension so along with that and the familial hypercholesterolaemia I’ve inherited some rather unhealthy genes.

Happy, getting through a FD when you’ve found it tough is great isn’t it 🙂

B2B again for me tomorrow and Friday.

Indeed 😊😊

Morning/evening all,

Happy I’ve not seen a link or any mention of Fung’s new book so here it it

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/10/16/complete-guide-fasting.aspx

I woke early so decided to get up and get moving. It is strange getting up in the dark as I rarely need to these days. I used to leave for work at 7am some time in the dim distant past 😉

FD for me today, bring it on 🙂

Have a good one everybody 😜

You’ll get more out of the boots, Happy! You KNOW how to fast already 😊 P

Hi all,
Jo I am sorry about your back, but glad to hear you are relaxing! Perhaps I just took your comment (about aliens maybe having the secret to a healthy life without all the stress and effort required) too literally. Perhaps you were just meaning it as a throw away line!

Happy, Purple is right about the boots – an absolute necessity!

Great news here, we sold our little country cottage in 3 weeks! Of course I am more sad than ever now, but we thought long and hard about it and got the price we asked, so I can’t complain. Settlement is not till early March so I will be making the most of it till then, as long as its not bushfire weather! The purchasers are keen to look after the garden, so that pleases me too. Now I will have more time to look after my Melbourne garden, two big gardens was just a bit much, even for me! My Christmas lillies are flowering like mad here, the perfume is wonderful.

After swearing (years ago) that I would never cook a turkey again, I weakened today and bought a Turkey Breast to cook for Christmas. Hopefully just this pared down version will be more manageable and I wont dry it out! Really hoping we get a nice sunny day so I can have everyone outside, including the two dogs and toddlers that will be here… one never knows in Melbourne, it could be 12 or 42, all on the same day!

Re BP – I was lucky and chose the right parents so mine is fine, even when I was overweight. Husband very slim, eats healthy food, exercises regularly but needs medication for his. He inherited this from his mother and grandfather and is happy to take medication after seeing their fates. His grandfather died after suffering strokes and his mother refused to see a doctor until it was too late and she ended up with dementia resulting from several “mini strokes” My dear Dad succumbed to prostate cancer aged 90, so I guess I have that to look forward to! On that happy note, I must do some ironing so I can get into the laundry!!

Hi again,

I went out to get food for Saturday’s dinner and a few other things plus some other items that I didn’t know I wanted which resulted in spending over £100.
The freezer and store cupboards are now stocked up with (almost) everything I could possibly need/want for quite some time.

I also took the car to be cleaned inside and out as last time I did it I made a terrible job of it 😉
The valeting service is in the corner of the car park at the garden centre so I went inside for a wander round and a coffee. I was looking for some seasonal plant or greenery for inside and everything was either red which I didn’t want or planted in a twee little pot with a Father Christmas or a snowman or even worse a penguin (go figure, they come from the Southern hemisphere not the North Pole :rollseyes: )so can’t be used the rest of the year. I came home empty handed.

Happy, I agree, new boots are essential items and there is no point buying a cheap pair. I paid a small fortune for a pair several years ago and they are still in excellent condition despite being worn often through three or four winters.

Jo, I loathe household chores and put them off until it is absolutely necessary. I did the ironing last night and I’ve just washed the kitchen and bathroom floors and need to get the vacuum cleaner and the polish out as I could write a book in the dust that seems to be everywhere. If you hear swearing sooon it is me cursing the day I bought a glass TV table 😖

I am trying to pretend that I’m not hungry so I guess I should get busy and take my mind off it.

Oasis 🌷🌲🌺🌼❤

Hi all
Going away/out a lot keeps my house clean 😉😉 All I do is spot vacuum, when I get home, the cat fur left where she sleeps. 🐺🐺
I bought a large glass coffee table about 30 years ago to stop the boys running and jumping in the loungeroom! It didn’t really slow them down, but has never needed more than a quick wipe with a damp cloth. The cat sits on the lower level (covered in art books) to peep through the glass.
I followed Nigella’s turkey recipe many years ago. It involved soaking in a huge tub of iced water with fruits and spices for a day or so first. It was a really moist turkey. I usually do duck as Mr P loves it. I must do some planning today..having about 30 for salad/bbq food. It’s meant to be casual, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be stressed. 😑😑
Two fast days ’til Christmas 🎄🎄 P

I don’t know much about Spanish wines, Amazon. Willing to learn though 😉😉

Amazon I also drink a wide variety……usually dry whites in summer, full bodied reds in winter. Don’t like oaky wines….they seem too old fashioned. I try to drink local wines anywhere I go. Must visit Spain… 🍷🍷P

I’m surprised they were able to even register on the forum with that offensive handle.

Straight on, but share them around😁😁

I love the way we are doing similar things across the world. ..we will buy our 6′ Christmas tree from the scouts tomorrow morning!
Just trialled a cous cous salad, with toasted almonds and marinated figs etc for our Christmas feast. 🙂 P

Oh Amazon. That recipe sounds fabulous! I didn’t realise trifle was a Christmas thing. I did notice there are no brussel sprouts in the Aussie shops today. I loved the ads with little sprouts last year in the UK. P ,:)