Good Morning,
It’s very cold here. Not so good for my husband finish some outside work but not a big deal at all. Sasha seems to enjoy the cooler weather.

Jojo sorry to hear about about that dinner specially when you paid for it. I have a skinny vegetarian girlfriend in wich she is never hungry. She eats before she goes out or carries her food around. Unless she knows the restaurant and have always a piece of salmon with salad. That’s it!

Amazon looks like we all reach a plateau sometime. You are doing fine so far. Don’t you think? Your goal is a reasonable and doable one for NY. All the food you cook is delicious btw.

Purple darling you have my goal. For the upcoming year my goal is 5:2, 58kg, toning muscles 3 x week (30 minutes), look at food as something to keep me alive (fuel), don’t drink too much read and learn something new.
Not doing any extrenious physical activities because of my knees and my back.

The Fast went well yesterday! I need to keep and eye more on the 5 more than the 2 nowadays.

Have a good day Fasters

Hi Amazon
Like you (and my father) my philosophy has always been to live to eat.
I can now have my mince pie (and wine), as I did today, guilt free as I know how to compensate. Sounds as if you have that down pat too.
The 2 proper fasts a week always reset my appetite so that my other 5 days are surprisingly restrained these days, but I still manage some real indulgences without breaking the bank. 😊😊
Jo, planning is everything. It reduces impulsive, destructive behaviours. Flexibility can still be there, but if you plan a fast, stick to it. If you plan a low eating day and plans change, just be more creative with your food choices, but keep it small. You’ve come too far to slip back. P 😊

Good morning,
The weather here isn’t friendly at all. It’s a rainy December.
My gym membership is frozen because are getting ready to go to Florida. In a few minutes I’ll jump on my treadmill.
Last night 12:30 I was awake like an owl! I took one of my husband’s sleeping pill. I am thinking a fell asleep around 2 or god knows when. I am tired and slow.
Jo pink pants size 14 if I recall is only one size up to your desired goal 👏👏👏👏👏.
Tonight we are invited so if I want to be successful fasting tomorrow and see scale results Friday I better focus on “five”.
Purple thanks for the link! Looks like nowadays more people are talking about the benefits of fasting for the brain 👍
Have a beautiful day Folks ❤️

Hi Fast Trackers & Welcome New Fasters And Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Greetings and salutations from an extremely wild wet and windy SA crazy times ahead fast friends on the Eastern Seaboard prepare to batten down the hatches Thursday fast day let’s get our fast on !!! on Tuesday evening I was prepared and ready to eat the cushions off the couch yfee had a slow cook neck lamb chop and onion braise number happening the aroma amazing but I got through that ok with shed loads of water day 4 of the 7 day fast and very refreshed and centred no hungry dragon now the body is an amazing thing 😯 for those looking to advise their Grandchildren into a career suggest Law I needed a document drawn for a Deed of Family Arrangement for Mum’s estate I canvassed 2 Lawyers one was $475ph or the budget group of $395ph it will want to be on quality paper hand written with ink and quill with a hot wax seal for sure 🙄
“It’s is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT

Morning/evening all,

It seems to me that overweight/obese people fall into two categories. Some of us gain weight because we fall into the habit of eating too much and the weight creeps on over the years (often due to following the three meals per day mantra) and some of us overeat for other more deep seated reasons and the result is a bad relationship with food. Greed also plays a part.
The speed at which we eat is not necessarily related to one or the other. Mothers often eat quickly while they have a chance. I used to eat quickly as a result of meals snatched between emergencies when on call, and it is habit forming so we do it even when we don’t need to. Those who have a bad relationship with food do it for a myriad of reasons depending on what their issues are in the first place. It isn’t one size fits all. We all need to recognise which one of those categories we fall into and work out what we need to do to address the issue which in some cases involves exploring deep rooted issues that we have been burying.

It took me until I gave up work to figure out what my particular problem was and I’ve been working on it ever since. It hasn’t been easy and the job isn’t done yet but here I am nearly four years later, after numerous ups and downs and a recent plateau only 2lbs off my previous lowest 🙂

I’ve taught myself to eat at a slower pace. I sit at the table rather than on the sofa with a tray mindlessly eating while watching TV. I pay full attention to my plate. I put my cutlery down until the mouthful of food has been chewed and swallowed. It works. When I am in company, I pace myself with my fellow diners.
I’ve always loved food but came to realise that most of the time I ate at such a pace I didn’t have time to enjoy it. I used to be able to continue to eat even when full.
When I cook for myself there is often enough for two as single portions of so many things are hard to produce and invariably it would all get eaten in one sitting. That doesn’t happen any more and along with fasting that led to a fridge that never seemed to get any emptier. It took a while to adjust what I put in my shopping bag.

I rarely comfort eat these days as I recognise the signs and find something else to do that will lift my spirits but the greed is still there lurking in the background trying to spoil FDs and every other day. It is a constant battle that I am going to win.

Food for thought.

Have a good one everybody 😜

Congratulations, Amazon. 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺☀️☀️☀️🎉🎉🎉

Jo why don’t you just buy one small bread roll and eat it for God’s sake! You have that little potato already once a week don’t you think would it be okay as well?

RT, you might be as mad as a snake, but it’s a racing snake 😉

I remember being lectured by a nurse who weighed at least 250lbs on the risks and implications of becoming diabetic despite my blood test being normal, which she followed up with dietary advice that advocated never going more than three hours without eating………….
I think that most of them have forgotten every bit of physiology they ever learned during their training.

The Christmas walk at Kew was fabulous. Lots of lights, lasers and displays set up along a designated route through a large section of the gardens which ended with a light show across the lake.
It was very enjoyable and we followed it up with pizza and cider.
We won’t talk about the cheesecake…..

Looks like I’m fasting again tomorrow 😆

Bay, I read it as RT was interested in what they looked like during a long fast. Normally it would not give you a comparable reading over 12 hours.
Do you have the colossal winds this morning? Drying up all the good soaking rain of last night. P

Hi Bay
Your description is the same as here. We are getting classic early summer storms.
Enjoy your time with your dear mum. P

Morning/evening all,

Bay, your description of the weather and the flowers is fabulous. Thank you for sharing it 🙂
It is mild and overcast here.

Fasting for 12 hours prior to a blood test negates the effect of the last meal and in a healthy person the result would be within the “normal” range. Anything longer and we are getting into glycogen depletion and the body utilising fat stores. That would give a rise in blood cholesterol levels as it is released from fat cells. Blood glucose levels would be affected but I’m not sure what a blood test would show in a non diabetic, and I’m sure that levels of many other things normally carried in the blood and/or usually stored in fat cells would be “abnormal”

Friday already, where did the week go? Where did 2016 go 😲

Time to get moving,

Have a good weekend everybody 😜

It’s an educated guess based on my professional knowledge and personal experience so don’t quote me on it 😉

Hi,
My Fast went well yesterday but since I am trying to get back on track I am not really worrying that the scale didn’t move yet.
I had I horrible night! At 3:30 i was really awake. Then decided to organize de kitchen and watch the new in Brazil since they were 3 hours ahead of us. I went back to bed… could fall asleep again. So, at 7pm I fell asleep and woke up at 8:30 but was daytime already to be on bed.
Today I am a little edgy, nervous, hungry … so long I don’t compensate with food tomorrow is another day.
Meanwhile as I drag myself through the day he house needs some tidying. I got a lot done today. Even Sasha had a bath 👍
Can Amazon and Happy explain me please what is mincemeat pie. I saw them on Facebook and I am glad they are not in front of me today 😀
Xoxo

Morning,

Sorry about the mince pies Amazon! They’re in Dad’s freezer now for Christmas, and I’ve got a little mincemeat left, enough to make myself a few. I won’t be having cake or Xmas pudding though as OH not a fan, and there won’t be any tins of chocolates, etc so the odd mince pie will be my Xmas indulgence. And actually not as indulgent as shop bought due to being reduced sugar 😀

Just about to head home from Wales after a long weekend away. Looking forward to seeing Cumbria again 😀

Hallelujah!!!!!!

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/742143/fat-is-good-for-you-eat-up-says-new-dietary-research

Hi Fast Trackers & Welcome New Fasters And Hello World (You All know Who You ARE)
Hi All well my father surprised me with a snap and unannounced visit yesterday claiming he had arrived for the Sunday BBQ lunch which of course was not on at all but somehow he convinced his wife it was indeed on 😆 Go Dad so we quickly put one together however so my 7th day of fasting of zero calories was abandoned I have a Dr appointment for a follow up of another medical issue this afternoon and will report back on the bloods tomorrow I found the desire to eat and the hunger dragon after day 4 was simply just not there and the first food was not as pleasurable as you would think either rather like flying for the first time which for me was only 5 years ago from Adelaide to Melbourne it was an ok experience but not as memorable as I had hoped nothing like becoming a father for the first time trust me :shocked:
My mental clarity intensified (although yfee and boys will question this) I had great energy and less sleep equalled better quality of sleep and better work life balance and tranquillity running on big bowls of Zen and general all round peace love and happiness now for the number crunchers it looks like this.
Tue -.900
Wed – 1.2
Thr -.800
Fri -1.2
Sat – 1.3
Sun – 1.1
Total 6.5kg
“The less you eat the more you lose”
Peace RT

Hi RT, Well done. With Dad and the long fast. 🌺🌺

Amazon, Happy, sad to say I ate one of my own cooked mince pies yesterday, and it was disappointing. Have to analyse whether my tastes have changed, or if it was a mediocre batch. My grandmother used to make her own fruit mince with soaked fruit and suet. She then churned it by hand through her meat mincer which was clamped on to the edge of her wooden kitchen table. She also made her own meat mince. She was a great cook.

Home again to blue skies and gentle breezes. Lucky us. Working in garden today.

Cheers, Bay 🌸🌸🌺🌺🌷🌷

Hello Gang,

Just wanted to say hi and checking on RT and I am glad he is okay (the pounds 😱 Lost) and e erevyone else is okay as I just went through my emails.
The holidays is a great time to earn extra money 😻, keeping busy and not thinking about food 😇
I’ll get back to you guys soon… Very busy 😱
Xoxo