What a brilliant idea P I have put a tray in the freezer which will come in very handy on fast day after 42 here yesterday and a very pleasant 38 today 😯
The less you eat the more you lose.
Peace RT

You certainly do get some mad weather on your side of the world! It’s pretty calm here this winter so far…although temperatures are going to be dropping later this week – you’ll have 40s and we’ll have 4s. Somewhere in the middle would suit me 😊

I fasted today, with just a bit of marmite (and milk in coffee!) to see me through the 24 hours. I’m still 2kg over my pre-Christmas weight. A week to put it on, a month to get rid of it. How does that work exactly?!

So Fast800 recipes aren’t good (for us anyway!), but is it otherwise worth a read? I’ve dipped into the serialisation in the Mail online but didn’t really learn anything new. Should I save my pennies?

Yay, summer seems to be coming back. The last few days have been horrible – rain and gales, it was starting to look as though our summer had happened while we were in Aus. I am so sorry you struck this period, Jo.

I’m back at work next Tuesday, but any Friday would be good for me. When do you take flight again – you mention your ‘last week’, so is that next week? Happy to meet in the Gardens on 25th (eldest grandson’s 21st birthday 🙂 )

Lunch with Wiwi is booked for tomorrow – who cares about FDs when it’s an occasion?!

I’ve booked the e-book from the library, will read it in due course.

Stay cool, P. I found Sydney and the Gold Coast too hot to be pleasant, happy (mostly) to be home.

Morning/evening all,

Happy,

The fast800 doesn’t hold much for the likes of us but it helped me to work out a different approach. I read it in an hour and it is excellent for someone who wants to lose weight and improve the quality of their diet and maybe their health and who has been put off by the idea of only eating 500 calories on a FD. There is just enough science to prove why it is a worthwhile way to approach weight loss, including the results of some new research studies that have recently been completed, but it remains easy reading.

Day 4 today and it’ll be porage for brunch and pumpkin stew with a sprinkling of crumbled feta for dinner.
I’ve also decided this would be a good opportunity to see if I can decrease my cholesterol level so there will be a lot of porage (which is perfect for this time of year) and no butter transported to the mouth by slices of bread and much less cheese than I’ve been eating recently.

It’s a bit warmer than yesterday but grey and overcast with a forecast for the coming days that says cold, cold, cold.

The weather in parts of Australia is crazy. Keep cool everyone.

Last time I was in Perth we had almost a week when it was over 40C every day. I spent a lot of time my friends pool which has a sail like construction on one side which keeps the sun off for most of the day, and a sunken seat in each corner.

We spent a whole Saturday afternoon sitting in there gossiping and keeping cool.

Have a good one everybody 😜

Morning/evening all,

So far this morning we’ve had rain, snow, more rain and now there is a clear blue sky with bright sunshine 🤔

Day 5 and all is well.

I’ve been food shopping so it’s time to update the menu plan. I have a mountain of leafy greens, salad leaves etc and a nice piece of tuna, something I’ve not eaten for quite some time.

Have a good one everybody 😜

Sounds delicious.

I’m going to roast a capsicum and slice it then put it in a parcel with tuna, garlic etc and serve it on a bed of steamed veg.

I’ll use the other half tomorrow in a stir fry with lots of chilli and ginger.

I am finding it easy to limit myself to 8oo calories every day. I tell myself every morning that it’s a FD so it seems like a lot and since Christmas when I bought a lot of fresh fruit I realised how little of it I’ve been eating and how much I miss it, so I’m going to have one portion every day plus a mountain of veggies.

The trick is concentrating on quality, not quantity, isn’t it? Value every bite 😉
The tuna dishes sound great. P

Sounds good, Jo. Listening, Wi? Good ‘lunch’ with Wi yesterday, consisted of two cups of coffee over three hours. 🙂

Morning/evening all,

Day 6 and thus far 800 calories every day does not feel like a diet.
I’m going to have to be disciplined over the weekend as it is when I usually open a bottle of wine and I’ve decided not to use any precious calories on alcohol. I really want to get through to next Saturday.

I’m really enjoying the Australian Open. There have been some fabulous matches so far and I hope it continues.

Have a good weekend everybody 😜

Thanks Purple,

7 days of 800 is equivalent to 4 x 500 and 3 x 1200 which means that the occasional day off shouldn’t be damaging which is a good thing as it’s my birthday next weekend and I’ll definitely be celebrating 🥂😀

I’m gradually cutting down on the milk in my morning tea and my coffee and cut out the carbs that have been consumed almost daily since the Christmas celebrations began.

RT,

Thanks for the Friday funnies. I really enjoyed this week’s offering,

My favourite,

“Police were summoned to a day care centre where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.”

🤣

I cannot understand drinking latte. Always tasted like hot milk to me.

If you are going to drink it and eat ice cream when you are on holiday or any other time for that matter then get on with it, enjoy it and stop feeling guilty about it.

As for not fasting, that’s OK too. I don’t fast when I’m on holiday.

I guess NZ is like here, Jo, unlike the UK, we don’t buy wine in supermarkets but in “grog/bottle shops”. We normally pay between $15 to $30 for decent wine
$30NZ is $28AU, so you paid on the upper end. We just paid $18 for a large glass of Italian red in Jamie’s Italian. 😉

I didn’t realise there was a boycott on cross Tasman trade, B. Does that mean I have to take back all my Katmandu gear? 😂😂😂 P

As you say, B, it’s a global world. The big sharks devour the successful minnows. Hardly any Aussie companies are locally owned any more. 😐 I support local wineries, wherever I am in the world, if at all possible. Kiwi wine in NZ, but never in Australia. Californian wine in California etc.
Eg I refuse to buy Californian oranges here..We are in a citrus growing region. Would NEVER buy Chinese garlic (doubtful farming methods) and try to support local, genuine, farmers markets. Hard to be ethical, but one must to preserve our future. P

Barata,

I might be missing your point, but you appear to be suggesting it isn’t OK for Australian firms to take over NZ trade but it’s OK for NZ firms to take over trade in other countries?

As a resident of the UK, I will not buy NZ lamb, Aus beef, Danish bacon, etc. I would rather pay more and support our UK producers, who need all the help they can get.

On the subject of fasting, I did a 24 hour Tuesday fast, then on Wednesday from lunchtime until Thursday morning. My weight is inching back down towards pre-christmas weight. Only another kg and a bit to go!

Morning/evening all,

I’ve never heard anyone slating NZ for the miles travelled, but like Happy I won’t buy meat that hasn’t been reared in the UK. I’m trying very hard to buy seasonal produce and the only veggies I buy from overseas are things that don’t grow here or are aren’t commercially grown in huge quantities eg capsicums, chillies although that is slowly changing.
Fruit is more complicated as I buy blueberries year round, but apart from that it’s English apples and pears,citrus and the occasional tropical fruit.

Day 7 of fast800. I got on the scales before I began and it didn’t make pleasant reading. Either the trousers of truth are telling lies or they’ve stretched and I’d gained several lbs 😳 but I’m 1lb away from pre Christmas weight and am very pleased with that as it has been easy thus far.

Excellent work, Amazon. 2.7kg! That’s terrific! I totally understand the salted nut issue. After a 30 hour fast, with a splitting headache, I succumbed to a handful of cashews that became 3. After all, I had to finish the bottle 🙄 Solved the headache, so now I can go to bed feeling good. P

Porridge, made on water, with blueberries, flaked almonds and a little plain Greek yoghurt. Yum. I agree, very filling.
Tuesday morning here. 1 meal only since lunch on Saturday. It always amazes me how I’m much less hungry if I’ve eaten very little, especially simple carbs. I’ll eat some time later in the day.
We had a colossal thunder storm in the wee small hours. Very exciting when your safely in bed. 😊
P

Well done, Ash Barty! What a game of tennis that was. There have been some great games, I confess to spending some of my summer in front of the television. It won’t be so hard today, cloudy and windy 🙁 And not so hot for you, Jo.

Grandson was posted back to the Gold Coast yesterday, via Auckland, leaving at 6.45am so it was an early start for all of us. Safely delivered back to his mum by the great people at Air NZ. 🙂

Although it should be a FD I am going to have a plate of home-made muesli with Greek yoghurt, blueberries and cinnamon later. I’m still on holiday as it is a local holiday here, so I am not back at work until tomorrow. Reluctantly…

That’s always a disappointment, Amazon. I buy my avocados green, and refrigerate when ripened.

And why haven’t the tennis authorities outlawed the shrieking? It certainly annoys me, and surely is unnecessary? 🙁

Some varieties of avocado are better than others in terms of going from ripe to black in an instant, always disappointing to have a mouthwatering meal planned only to find that one of the star (and not cheap!) ingredients has cheated you ☹️

Amazon, I’ve been buying Morrisons wonky avocados for a while now, never ready to eat, but they do seem to ripen well at home.

Been to see The Favourite this evening. I thoroughly enjoyed it….and the tub of popcorn 😊 Mostly air though I believe….. 😂. I’ve done 20000 steps today though, so I’m not going to worry too much about it.

Stay cool, southern hemispherites!

The 5 day forecast in SA is 38,37,39,44 and 33 so very light salads with good olive oil balsamic vinegar some orange segments for some tang and sweetness mixed with 100g of meat and 400 gram of salad combination 500grams of food in total I read this somewhere and begin a week of this.
I am always looking for opportunities for self-improvement as a self-experimenter and results based evidence keep on keeping on.
Peace RT

Yes, we are showing Jo that Wellington is the most windy city in the world. And we have just thrown in an earthquake for good measure 🙂 Measuring 6 on the Richter scale but not local.