Good Morning,
Purple, Nama and Bay – I am glad your heat wave passed for now and your weather is better. Here in FL people are addicted to a/c rooms. I really don’t like and I don’t think is healthy.
Amazon is nice to hear you are slowly getting together to your “self”. Sorry I can’t eat oats the way you do. Mine is cooked with milk and nowadays a banana as a source of sugar a a tiny bit of butter.
I lost 2 pounds from yesterday’s Fast! There’s no celebration because I gained all those pounds back because I was not paying attention with the food, portion and excessive empty calories from wine.
My body is really sore! What a shame. You stop for couple of months and your body falls apart. Should never let the guards down.
RT – hope all is well there with your legal challenges.
Talk to you later 💋

Amazon,

Lucky you! It might have been 8 degrees here today, but overcast and damp. And the same tomorrow! Grrr. I took my exercise indoors again, a different 20 minute beginners HIIT routine. The time goes quickly and I can certainly feel my muscles are working.

Jo,

I’m not sure who the ‘in control’ types are! I think P is the most disciplined, but then she has to be for Mr P’s diabetes. As for the rest of us, I suspect it’s a constant battle with the inner demons and a long slow retraining of eating habits and food preferences. I can honestly say now though that 99 times out of a 100 it will be the healthy choice that genuinely appeals more. Stop thinking you are being deprived, and start thinking positively about the healthy options, and your brain (and gut bacteria!) eventually gets on board!

Oh, for goodness sake! Get real! I have no more strength than the rest of you! You should hear me when I’m desperate on a fast evening and something comes between me and my dinner!!!
Mr P is also reconstructed, but, as Happy says, we don’t think deprived, we are aware of the benefits. Your gut will thank you. P

As the pedestal slips and I break my leg…
Actually having houseguests who eat everything is an excellent weight control program 😊😊

Hi Purple

O, no. You’re human like the rest of us. 😉😉😉

I learnt to make or ask for ice coffee the American way. A shot of espresso poured over lots of ice cubes. Then add either chilled water or milk. Very refreshing. No sugar, no cream and no Ice cream. I make espresso with decaf coffee these days.

Nama, I also make porridge with rolled oats in water. No salt. It’s lovely with berries. 🍓🍓🍓

Cheers on a lovely cool post fast day. Bay 🌺🌺🌺

Hi,
I am working on creating a exercise routine everyday. The experts say it takes a while but eventually grows on you. I am betting more on that happy hormone and good sleep. My legs was the target today.
The weather was beautiful here. My stepdaughter took us for a short boat ride since her boat is at our dock we just couldn’t say no. Poor Sasha was terrorized again lol. She really doesn’t like that at all.
After we went our for lunch and a big salad with chicken was my pick.
I was so tired after I just took a nap … gut free 😌
Bay most Americans don’t know what an espresso is. Unless there’s a Starbucks in the area in which I care less about it they drink extremely large coffee, too hot sometimes too dark and bitter. 😤
My good coffee machine died off on me. I am thinking of getting a Nespresso one but just the thought of creating more garbage with those capsules bothers me.
Happy what HIIT program are you following? Is it from YouTube? I want to rotate my excersise every other week.
Looking forward to my 2FD17 tomorrow 😇
Have a good one Fasters 💋

Hi RT
I picked it up off a cafe menu one fast day when we were drinking a long black. In the hot weather, it is perfect. Use lots of ice and a long tall glass 😊
No fasting for us with visitors, but usually following 18/6 and cruisin’ at my lowest weight 😊😊
Hold on mate, only a few more hours. 😉P

Morning/evening all,

Another cold and frosty one here.

I like iced coffee and it is easy to get it here without sugar but there are a lot of calories from the milk. I’m thinking of trying Purple’s version with vanilla and I might try using almond milk.
Obviously not right now as it is cold and frosty but when the summer heatwave 😉 arrives it will be a perfect drink 😎

I have woken up with a severe attack of tennis addiction so the gym is on hold and I’ll do my home workout later.

FD today and I’m going to make a huge plate of steamed and roasted veggies and chuck some tofu in the oven for the last few minutes and see how it turns out!

Have a good one everybody 😜

Hi Jo,

potato isn’t a processed carb as is bread so it makes sense that the world isn’t full of spud addicts!
My bread addiction is a work in progress and I won’t hesitate to bin it at the first sign of trouble.

You are doing well, you’ve come a long way and like me you’ve had some ups and downs. I also think we both want too much too quick, expect too much of ourselves and are too hard on ourselves when we put a foot off the path of the straight and narrow. Having said that, we are both much lighter than when we started and learning from our mistakes.

Gurnard is a much underrated fish that until recently was used as bait for bigger fish who knew long before we did that it is delicious 🙂

Last time I went to Australia it took me a week to get over the jet lag.I hope you recover from yours soon.

Good luck with the tea, I’ve never found any that I really like when I’ve been overseas apart from Sri Lanka.

Hi WellMe and welcome,

Losing weight is 95% calorie restriction and 5% exercise so don’t rely on adding walking to help your weight loss. Exercise is excellent for fitness, toning and mental wellbeing so we should all do some but it;s the calories that count.
Weight loss on 5:2 isn’t regular and sometimes we don’t lose anything for a week or two and then a couple of pounds drop off.
Are you measuring? If not take some measurements now as you might find that the scales haven’t moved but you’ve lost inches.
The other thing to do is take a close look at what you are eating on non fast days snd ensuring you eat well within your TDEE. If you’ve not re-calculated since you started you should do so as the less you weigh the lower your TDEE.
The other thing you can do is take a look at which foods you are eating. Many of us have concluded that processed carbs and sugar do not aid weight loss and have either cut them right down or out of our diets.

I hope this helps 🙂

Evening/morning all,

Another successful FD nearly over 🙂

The roasted veg was very tasty, cooked with herbs, garlic and lemon juice and served on a bed of salad leaves. I didn’t use the tofu as I’ve decided to save it for a different version of Pad Thai on another day.

I watched tennis all morning, did my workout, then spent the afternoon doing housework. I’ve polished everything except my halo 😉

There’ll be some nocturnal tennis watching later as Andy is playing at 2pm Melbourne time which is 3am here and I want to watch. I’m hoping it doesn’t take more than 2 hours so I can go back to bed for a while.

I can’t believe it’s Friday tomorrow, where did my week go……..

Hi Barata,

I got up this morning, turned on the TV to check what was happening at the AO and saw the last 6 games of the match. I’m not impressed with Novak as a person and although I respect what he has achieved on court I’m not sorry he lost. I’m also very pleased for Denis Istomin who has had a really tough time and a lot of bad luck over the years including breaking his leg in two places in a road accident and not playing for 2 years!

You are having a rough summer weather wise aren’t you but there has been a lot of unusual weather patterns all over the world in recent months.

When I worked I used to do my shopping on the way home on a Friday night and then settle down to a pizza and a bottle of red, only 2000 calories in one sitting……….😱

I have pencilled in the 8th, Jo. But Wi mentions two pages back that they get in at 5pm on the 9th. Safe travelling. 🙂

Sounds like a Friday plan, Amazon. But I have never been a fan of pizza, tends to get cold very quickly, and all those carbs… Perhaps I knew something back then. The wine is still on the menu, but perhaps in more limited quantities? I had never heard of Denis Istomin before, but my ear is not glued to the tennis court 🙂

It’s horrifying thinking about what we used to consume as a ‘snack’ before a meal and then eay the dinner.
We enjoy eating tapas when out as we get really tasty, usually protein based food, and can limit the quantity too. P

You can heave a sigh of relief and go back to bed, Amazon… 🙂

Jo, OH is not keen on Asian, so they should get on. Anything else would be fine, remembering he’s a carnivore. Hokey pokey… mmmm.

Amazon you are making me feel tired. Just dropped the last family visitors off at the airport. Sitting in an outdoor restaurant in steamy Sydney. English accents on one side. Glaswegian serving us. Classic! P

Thanks ALL! Did some measurements this morning.

HealthCoachB…developing an exercise regiment, keep me posted. I’d like to develop some exercises I could incorporate while Mall Walking. Here the rain can influence getting out for a walk but I thought if I could get involved in the local “Mall Walking” group. Mostly elderly but certainly not getting drenched outdoors. Incorporated with stopping at intermittent points to do various strength exercises would mix it up a bit.

Any advise would be great. Thks!

Hi WellMe, forgive my ignorance, but what is mall walking?

Thanks P!

The idea that it would be too hot (or too cold) to walk outside is pretty alien to us in the UK! I guess there are some benefits from a temperate climate!

I’ve avoided the TV all day, but just caught the end of the news. I really hope Trump isn’t as bad for the world, or the UK, as I fear. With that and Brexit, I can’t help but think we in the UK at least are all going to hell in a handcart!

P, I’m afraid the sane people appear increasingly to be in the minority.

I’m beginning to think The Matrix was a documentary, because everything’s suddenly gone very surreal!

No Barata. The bought kefir is sieved, sans grains. 😑 Try a farmers market (a hippy person😉) or online. Ours came from interstate Australia. You’d have to find an NZ source. Customs would not be impressed. I posted some to Nama. You could get someone from here to bring it over? Should have asked when you were here unfortunately . P

Enjoy your tennis, you night owl. Too lovely a summer’s day here to waste in front of the box. 😊😊P