Hi Jo,

Sorry to hear you’re not feeling too bright this morning…another one down!

On the subject of weighing, and why your very infrequent weigh-ins aren’t particularly useful, these two links are interesting and explain where you’re going wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2015/sep/04/why-your-bathroom-scales-are-lying-to-you-and-how-to-find-your-true-weight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/lJ0tjmnq1djGt52Y4CFJWL/can-my-scales-ever-be-wrong

I’m pleased you enjoy Nordic walking, but I won’t be joining you…yet. My knees and hips are fine and I find normal walking is better for my back than walking with poles, I suspect because (although there are many benefits to poles!) the very act of using the poles constrains natural movement. They are also just a nuisance when your walk includes numerous styles and gates to be navigated!

On the subject of my back, it is now much easier. The new lumbar supports and the exercise and stretching are, fingers crossed, helping. I’ll be out running in no time…definitely no poles required 😀

Thanks for the links and information on the silo art in Australia RT and everyone! Art on a massive scale…but then I guess you’re a big country!

RT,

I’d seen that episode of TMIAD. As you say, small trials but very interesting. The longer eating window particularly so, since it appears to correspond with my experience 😀

On the subject of artificial sweeteners, I’ve never bothered, partly because I’ve never felt the need for a sugar substitute (I’ve never been a fan of fizzy drinks, gave up sugar in tea and coffee at age 13, and now don’t have added sugar from one week to the next…) but also because I tend to think that putting artificial manufactured chemicals into the body is probably not particularly wise… Oh yes, my body’s a temple 😇🏛 Ha ha, not.

I hope the fingers/ sore throats etc are all improving.

Have a great day/ evening all.

Grrr when we reach a new page, and I don’t see it!

Finger’s doing really well, thanks for the concerns. The nail should grow out in another couple of months. Glad the back is improving, Happy, and the throat, P. 🙂

Hi all,

Purple, well done on sticking to the plan on your FD yesterday. I admire your discipleine and determination. I deviated slightly due to catching sight of a hot cross bun in the freezer and completely forgetting that it was a FD until I was eating it but I’ll make up for it tomorrow by foregoing brunch and fasting until dinner. Previously I would have ditched the FD and eaten another so I am pleased that I had sufficient control to stop at one but not enough to throw the half eaten one in the bin….

I had another good morning at the gym. I’m making the most of it being quiet due to Easter holidays although I didn’t have sufficient energy left for a swim.
It is a glorious afternoon so I might go for a stroll now I’ve replenished my caffeine levels 😎

I wrote a great big post and it has gone .
Last week our youngest granddaughter came back from Australia . She just walked through the door and I couldn’t believe it was her . I had to look 3 times to make sure and I BURST INTO TEARS AND JUST HUGGED AND HUGGED HER . sHE HAS BEEN AWAY FOR 9 MONTHS BUT HAS COME HOME BECAUSE HER BIG SISTER IS GETTING MARRIED IN august. I have been really good on 5.2 the last week and I am 5 pounds under what I call my fighting weight . I feel great and I want to have a few pounds to play with when we are on the cruise . 10 days to go . I have never seen Jim this excited in almost 60 years lol .
Youngest granddaughter and DIL took me shopping on Saturday foe my Mothers day/Birthday . They bought me a beautiful dress and a tailored fancy jacket . It has always been my dream to wear a dress like that . It is fitted ,black background with flowers and a mock wrap skirt and 3/4 sleeves .IT is so elegant . When I was 6 stone heavier before 5.2 I always wore tent style clothes .
I have our clothes we are taking with us lying on the bed in the spare room and hanging up on the minky drier .Excited just doesn’t explain how we feel lol .
I wanted to say thanks to all of you for the support you have given me ( especially when I was so anxious about the passports) This holiday is a dream come true in so many ways . Thank you all so much

Wee xx

Hi Wee,
We are happy when you are happy! Thank God all good news from that end 🌺
My Fast didn’t go well yesterday!
Meanwhile my DIL was taken out by my stepdaughter so I did laundry and tidied the entire house 😱
The weather is beautiful today here.
Right now after a well deserved shower I have ice on my knee and the leg a bit elevated.
See you later 😍

Hi Wee, Have a wonderful trip. Cheers, Bay. 💐💐🎉🎉🌺🌺

Here we go again, Bay. 20mm out of the rain gauge tonight, batten down the hatches. Glad you are finding some breaks in the weather.

Great news and a lovely surprise, Wee. So glad you have your granddaughter to put your arms around again. 🙂 I hope this cruise is the start of a series. There are so many exciting and fascinating places to visit.

Take care of that knee, HCB.

We are both among the public, P, me on the trains and OH with his passengers. It’s based on personal experience – yours of having had a bad bout, and us of having had a charmed passage over the last few decades. OH says he will reconsider if he gets it. Not sure of the logic there.

Morning/evening all,

As a health service worker I had flu vaccinations every year but now I have to pay if I want them as they are only free to over 65s. I decided that I would see how it goes and so far so good but I’ll be in the queue in a couple of years time.
I had flu when I was in my 20s and was in bed for a week, an experience I never want to repeat.

Wee, you must be so excited. Your dress and jacket sounds lovely.

It’s a nice bright morning here with the sun peeping through cloud.

FD today.
I had a lie-in this morning and am going to think about which clothes to take this weekend as I’m out most of the day tomorrow and need to get organised.
A long walk in Richmond Park is on the agenda this afternoon 🙂

Have a good one everybody 😜

Hi Purple,

The weather is good at the moment with average temperatures for this time of year apart from a couple of very warm days last week, and unusually it is dry. No sign of April showers so far……

I’m warm enough with a lightweight top and a jacket but I’m taking a vest and a sweater away with me this weekend as it’ll be cooler near the East coast.

Jo, you need to be patient, weight loss is neither linear or fast.

Happy shopping 🎁👍👗👙👜👡👠👒

Hi Jo.
“Patience is not a virtue of mine, ….. but persistence I have in spades” I think they are just two sides of the same coin, what you see depends on your perspective. You have proved over and over again that you have the persistence Jo, if you were patient it would just mean you enjoyed the ride more!
Dont confuse your poor body by trying RTs all meat diet, unless you stick with it long enough to really test it. From a self declared “Pescatarian/vegetarian” to a pure carnivore is a big jump!
I think your last idea is the best, some retail therapy to momentarily distract yourself. All the people I know that have always been seriously slim simply dont put food at the top of their list of needs. We on this forum all have an overdeveloped interest in it and it would be useful to reduce this. That is one of my goals, just to eat what I need to be healthy and not focus on the pleasure of food so much! I think it is Amazon who claims to be ‘a work in progress’ – hopefully we all are!

Evening all,

The weather was much sunnier and warmer than the forecast indicated. We had a lovely walk in Richmond Park, saw lots of deer including the latest babies which was really nice as considering how many deer there are in the park we often go and don’t see one whereas today it was nearer to 100!
We ended our afternoon in Pembroke Lodge café. We were both hungry so decided to have something to eat. They have a terrace which has lovely views and we sat in the sun eating delicious open sandwiches which were served with a huge green salad all washed down with mugs of tea 😎

I have to say that the food in there is very nice and fairly healthy. They serve a hot lunch every day and there is always a vegetarian option, plus the usual (very good) sandwiches, cakes and cream teas and a huge salad bar. There is also plenty of fresh fruit and drinks that don’t come in cans and not a single packet of crisps/snacks/biscuits in sight.

My legs are sore and I’m very tired so should sleep well tonight.

Wee, wear your swimming costume with pride!

Jo,

Prove your persistence to us by sticking to what you are doing at the moment and not chopping and changing every 5 minutes. The weight will come off when your body is ready to lose it so relax and give it a chance.

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉

10. Question: If a blonde and a brunette fell off a building, who would hit the ground first?
Answer: The brunette – the blonde would have to stop for directions!
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9. The assistant asked the blonde if she would like her pizza cut into six pieces or twelve.
“Six please” she said, “I could never eat twelve!”
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8. A blonde was walking down the road with a healthy looking pig under her arm. As she passed the bus stop, someone asked,
“Where did you get that?”
The pig replied,
“I won her in a raffle!”
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7. A person went into the office kitchen one morning and found a new blonde girl painting the walls. She was wearing a new fur coat and a nice denim jacket.
Thinking this was a little strange, he asked her why she was wearing them rather than old clothes or an overall.
She showed him the instructions on the tin:
“For best results, put on two coats”.
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6. Two blondes were in a parking lot trying to unlock the door of their car with a coat hanger.
First Blonde:
“I can’t seem to get this door unlocked!
Second Blonde:
Well you better hurry up. It’s starting to rain and the top is down!
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5.Three blondes were walking through a field when they came across a set of tracks.
The first blonde looked down at the tracks and said,
“I think they could be bird tracks.”
The second blonde went to look and said,
“No, I think these are deer tracks.”
They stepped aside and the third blonde went over to the tracks. She looked down, then got run over by the train!
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4. A blonde asked someone what time it was, and they told her it was 4:45. The blonde, with a puzzled look on her face replied,
“You know, it’s the weirdest thing, I have been asking that question all day, and each time I get a different answer.”
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3. A blonde was driving down the road listening to the radio and was quite upset when she heard blonde joke after blonde joke. A little way down the road, she saw another blonde out in a field rowing a boat. The blonde stopped her car and angrily jumped out yelling:
“You dumb blonde bimbo! It’s blondes like you that give the rest of us a bad name! If I could swim I’d come out there and give you what’s coming to you!”
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2. A blonde and a redhead went to the bar after work for a drink, and sat on stools watching the 6 O’clock news. A man was shown threatening to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and the blonde bet the redhead $50 that he wouldn’t jump.
Sure enough, he jumped, so the blonde gave the redhead $50. The redhead said,
“I can’t take this, you’re my friend.”
But the blonde insisted saying,
“No. A bet’s a bet.”
Then the redhead said
“Listen, I have to tell you that I saw this on the 5 O’clock news, so I can’t take your money.”
The blonde replied
“Well, so did I, but I didn’t think he would jump again!”
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1. A dumb blonde was really tired of being made fun of, so she decided to have her hair she would look like a brunette.
When she had brown hair, she decided to take a drive in the country.
After she had been driving for a while, she saw a farmer and a flock of sheep and thought,
“Oh! Those sheep are so adorable!”
She got out and walked over to the farmer and said,
“If I can guess how many sheep you have, can I take one home?”
The farmer, being a bit of a gambler himself, said she could have a try.
The blonde looked at the flock and guessed, “157.”
The farmer was amazed – she was right! So the blonde, (who looked like a brunette), picked one out and got back into her car.
Before she left, farmer walked up to her and said.
“If I can guess the real color of your hair, can I have my dog back?”

Have A Happy Easter All You beautiful Losers 😆
Peace RT

Happy, is that like “eat a grey squirrel to save a red squirrel “? Or is it the other way round? 😉P

They sell grey squirrels in the market in Edinburgh with that sign…every bit counts 😊😊

Morning/evening all,

I thought I pressed snooze but apparently turned the alarm off so I’ve only been out of bed for 10 minutes 😆
Must have been tired.

Thanks for the funnies RT, although it would have been better if some of the dumbs were blond rather than blonde 😉

Happy, Richmond Park is an enclosed space so the deer can’t go anywhere. As a result they are culled regularly and a local butcher sells the venison.
There is also a butcher near here I used to work that gets the venison it sells from Windsor Great Park.
As for their increasing numbers elsewhere, we need some wolves and soon (I know there are plans to re-introduce them and apparently bears too……..)

Purple, I’ve never had bad food or experienced unhygienic facilities in all the years I’ve been going to RP and I’m sorry to hear you had a bad experience last time.

I’m sure you’ll have a lovely time at home this weekend. It is more than 20 years since I last went away for Easter and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m leaving tomorrow morning before the roads get too busy and will be halfway there by the time they do and not returning until Tuesday so should miss most of the traffic.

The sky has lots of dark clouds but the sun is shining and it is very breezy.
I need to water everything before I go as we’ve not had any rain for a while.

Apparently squirrel is quite tasty but I think I’ll pass 😉

Have a good one everybody 😜

Happy Easter💐🍾🐰🐣🐿

Hi Jo!

Sorry to hear you’re in pain today. I’m the same, shift something heavy because I’m strong enough (and perhaps don’t want to admit there are some things we need men for!) but then suffer for it! Hopefully it’s just muscular and you’ll be fighting fit again soon.

Thanks for remembering about my back! Now you just need to work on remembering how much progress you’ve made…😀 Focus on your achievements, not your failures.

Nama,

Yes, it’s going to be light duties only this weekend. Very frustrating, but the forecast isn’t overly inspiring (ooh, dry and 10 degrees…) so maybe I’ll just light the fire and read a book! I’ll have to google your books, I’ve not heard of either,

I hope you enjoy your Easter. I guess at the end of the day it’s about getting the family together, with the location less important?

Yes, we’re tucked up at home, avoiding the traffic and the weather. As the internet has been down for a lot of it, it’s been a day of filing, un-filing and shredding, scanning and shredding. There’s a large bag of paper for the rubbish collection from earlier years now. At work we have gone almost paperless – it’s a bad day if I have to print something. And now I am trying to start the same processes at home. I won’t be going back through past years though, just dealing with documents as stuff comes in, and tossing once the seven years are up. Can you wonder at future generations, holding up a stapler or a paper clip, and asking what on earth this was for?

One of the downsides of going paperless is less opportunities to jump up to the printer and stretch those muscles. Too much sitting 🙁

Sorry to hear you northern ladies have been punished with pain for trying to be productive and creative. Take care.

And RT, those poor blonds! Thank goodness I’m a redhead (for now!)

I must see if some of these recommended books are available in e-form through the library.

Happy Easter, all. 🙂

In Australia, virtually every shuts on Good Friday. The shops were chaotic yesterday with people scrambling to buy food before the one day of no shops!!!
Today, a stunning warm autumnal day, it has been SO quiet and peaceful, really only disturbed by screeching cockatoos. If only the city was always this quiet.
Have a relaxing weekend everyone. 😊P

Well it’s mostly been a damping day, some sun early afternoon so I got a short walk in, and now just beginning to rain ☹️

I’m avoiding sitting, and driving as little as possible over the weekend, to give my back a chance to heal. At least I no longer have to worry about digging the veg patch (6 x 6 m) as my man who does did 😀

I haven’t bought any hot cross buns this year, OH hates them and I didn’t really want a pack of four. I was wondering if I could buy one singly if I went into town over the weekend…but then what’s a girl to do on a rainy afternoon except some baking! I’ve done a half quantity, but it will still make 6… so much for only wanting one! Ah well, if they’re nice I will gift some to my MIL..or eat them all 🐖🐖 And who knew? The cross is just flour and water…

Amazon,

I hope the knee improves quickly. You’ll be really frustrated if you have to ease back on exercise.

Jo,

My OH made a set of steps, carpet-covered, so our old arthritic cat can get on and off the bed without jumping. She loves them!