Hello!!!! sorry I forgot to post on Saturday but very pleased to donate 3lbs to lil miss MT since 1st August 🙂 Did three days fasting last week and planning on doing the same this week. I am finding exercising before breakfast on a FD brilliant as a) it means I have fasted for a minimum of 15 hours from dinner the previous night to brunch time and b) it doesn’t seem too long to eat my remaining food in the evening. Exercise really does help push the hunger pangs away. Had a busy weekend entertaining good friends – ate and drank lots, but actually refrained from pigging out on bread and crisps and never managed desert as so full after mains. Yesterday (slightly hungover) I did crave some bread and ended up having scrambled eggs on toast for brunch and beans on toast for dinner, plus a slice of yummy homemade chocolate brownie and a serving of ice cream (the non eaten desert from the previous day). Woke up this morning feeling really yuck, my stomach has not thanked me for eating all that bread (and therefore I guess – wheat) after having had so little for the last 3 weeks. Fasting today – went spinning first thing this morning and come home to grey skies and drizzle (with washing on the line…) just had 2 boiled eggs and am going to make Mimi’s lovely shepherd’s pie with celeriac topping for tonight’s dinner, I use venison mince as well which makes it even lower in cals – cannie wait. Been doing a ton of swimming in the sea – aren’t we lucky Rubylily? I adore living by the sea, I also love hearing from our kiwi friends, as my hubby and I spent 8 weeks touring there at the beginning of this year in a motorhome – we had such a wonderful time and met a lovely bunch of people – one day we do hope to return – maybe I will be a fraction of my former self?…. Well good luck to all this week. I’m aiming for a loss of between half a pound and a pound this week as I have a feeling this last weekend may have slightly damaged my lovely 3 lbs loss?….

Hello, I would love to join the group even if I am a little late. I lost 40 pounds after my two kids and I am working on the last 15 pounds. I did most of my weight loss through running but have had great success with 5:2 for the last 10 pounds and hoping it can help me shed the last 15. I am in full holiday mode so here’s hoping I can lose 5 pounds this month. Good luck everyone. I get lots of motivation reading your posts.

Hi everyone,
I am only registering a 1lb weight loss and I think it is due to a few glasses of wine as they do make such a difference to me.
Also I did check out TDEE and guess what, I should be eating 1500 calories and not 2000 so I am going to have to readjust that too.
I too am trying to lose post baby weight but my boys are now 21 and 19. I was so slim before but have not kept a steady weight since then. I guess that and enjoying my life add up, no bad reasons for weight gain but it is the one thing that stops me doing more and feeling confident about how I look. For years I got the boys to stand in front of me on a photo but now I am the shortest of course.
Fast day today and Thursday too but the I have a long weekend in London. Hopefully all the walking whilst sight seeing will help. We are off to Twickenham to see the future World Cup winners I hope 🙂 Sorry New Zealanders! J

Hi JoBarnaby, love your comment about your 19 year old baby fat….. very funny, it made me smile.

Now regarding your Twickenham comment, be advised that the AB’s (All Blacks for those non rugby people) are arriving to take on the world and the Poms will only come second in the upcoming world cup, even though it’s in their own back yard.

Having said that I did support England recently in the Ashes Cricket series, being a Kiwi I support two teams only, New Zealand and any other team that plays Australia…. so when the Poms play Aussie in the Rugby World Cup you and I can cheer together for the men in White but after that it’s “back to Black” for me…

OK Milena,

here’s a demo of a few Kiwis doing what they do best, take a close look and practice some moves and it’s guaranteed to lose a few calories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmS9e_4m6A

(and stop looking at the ripped bodies !!!)

Shhhhh not so loud Chipmunk, not every brown body is AB quality however this lot is a hell of a lot better than some of the Hakas that can be sourced from say the local Marae, now there are some real candidates for joining our Little Voices 5:2 Forum.

Don’t you worry milena, you just keep your fantasies alive, dreams are free !!!

Hi AB

must stop reading oats backwards!

Ripped? Hmmm. Hugh Beckman is Australian isn’t he? Has me hopefull for a team looking like him, pity? You’re right chipmunk, they could do with a little 5:2.

My nana was much much scarier than than, all she brandished was a wooden spoon!

You’ve reminded me of something, just off to watch Stanley Baker and Michael Caine in a clip of Zulu!

We English support all the home nations and I would back ‘Men of Harlech’ against the haka any day, brings a tear to the eye! If I can work out how to post links I’ll list it.

Fitnfast, glad to hear you’re through the surgery, but 4 weeks is just plain nasty. Maybe you’ll recuperate so fast that they’ll let you back on your feet early. ? Will be watching this space to see how you make out.

I add my welcome, RunningNorth. I visited Whitehorse for the first time last fall when I was doing a publishing workshop for The Writers’ Union up there. Nice little city, and the scenery around it is spectacular. My cousin lived in Whitehorse for a long time. Is that where you are too?

Hello to everyone else, too. There are so many of us! Not reporting on my weight today but I just thought I’d pop in and say Hi.

Hi All, so sorry to all my old Little Voices friends for not posting for a while … and also new friends for not talking to you!! My excuse is summer social events and a special (65th) birthday celebration at end of July which lasted for about a week!! I have completely lost the plot here on our forum – my fault for not logging in for a while – but found we are now a book club and a rugby/cricket club!!? Can perhaps contribute to the book club, but no way cricket or rugby!! ha-ha!

Anyway, Fit, RESPECT in maintaining/leading this thread after your surgery. Know you must be feeling like s*** and well done you on your cheery outlook!!

Just passing on my pathetic results for the first 10 days of August (my official weigh in day is Monday and I will continue with that until Mon 31 Aug!) Btw I know this is Tuesday … But been busy!! I have remained the same! I actually gained 3 pounds from 1 August and, with the help of my first ever 4:3 lost those 3 pounds so hence the plateau scenario for me – as has gone on since beginning of June – with too many summer social events, and yet another week long holiday I gain some, then, with the magic of 5:2, I lose some! So, I am not depressed at all – hey – if I didn’t have 5:2 (or even 4:3) to rely on I would be at least half a stone heavier by now!!

As Rubylily says “May the fast be with you everyone”!

Speak next week!

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Hi just reporting a .8kg loss, your gain Ms MT so still on target!
Well wishes to fit and hope its not too long till you are back on your feet.
Hello to our latest member.
Also don’t rule out Ireland in the rugby!

Phew! Crisis passed, thanks to catching up on the forum – and its wide ranging topics…..

Crisis, what crisis? I hear you ask. Without diverting into the addition of Supertramp onto this forum (Crisis, what Crisis? was the name of one of their albums) – my mini crisis was an I WANT TO EAT SOMETHING crisis.

FD today and I had my nice poached egg on butter-free toast and coffee, went to yoga, went for a walk and had food on my brain the whole time. I joined this forum to give myself an added boost/incentive so I came home and read everyone’s messages and it’s helped me over the danger. Crisis passed. Thanks everyone. Keep posting.

Hi everyone, thanks for all the welcomes. It is encouraging to read all your posts. I am back on track with a successful fast day on Monday and workout and will fast tomorrow as well. For the last month I have been endulging in the evenings after dinner and going over my calories so I am hoping I can behave better this month. Yes marywwritter I live in Whitehorse Yukon. It is a very pretty city but it is very emote for most people. My family and I love it. Are you Canadian. Thanks again for all the welcomes.

Hi Fit Wishing you a speedy recovery and sending out healing vibes to you. Welcome Runningnorth! I have always wanted to go to the Yukon, one of the things on my bucket list.

Just popped in to read the posts and gain some strength and resolve back – I had a tussling match with some perogies last night and unfortunately the perogies won big, big time. Glad we were of help to you Chimpmunk and now it’s my turn to get some help.
Today will be an unscheduled fast day for me to make up for the perogie pigout.
Strength and resolve to everyone fasting today or tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for these fabulous contributions, it’s so good reading about everyones favorite places in the world.

One day Diz I might come and see you, I notice Savannah isn’t too far from Augusta, (well on Google Maps it doesn’t !!). My bucket list includes attending the Masters Golf at Augusta one day, so before time runs out I hope to achieve that.

15 days ago I was given a block of my very favorite Choclate (Cadbury Black Forest, rich dark with nuts and chewy fruit in it). Before my new FD way of life this block would have been consumed in one day, over a very short period of time, without any guilt at all.

Chocolate is/was my biggest weakness in my dietry habits. Well, I can report that chocolate still has 6 small pieces to be eaten, the other 20 odd pieces have been nibbled at over the past 15 days and I’m enjoying every single little piece. It’s amazing how we can train ourselves. I wrote last month about “Pain and Pleasure” to overcome temptations and for me the pain of consuming all that chocolate over a couple of days was just too hard to handle when I thought about the efforts put in to date and wasted if I saw the scales go backwards from that short “pleasure” trip.

So folks, it does work, we can still reward ourselves within the limits we set ourselves and it doesn’t have to reflect on the scales afterwards, as long as we don’t over do the “pleasure” all in one sitting.

Runningnorth, I am keeping my fingers crossed for you all day today!

I had my second fast day of the week yesterday. It was very hard, and I’m not looking forward to doing a third one tomorrow, but I do want to give it a shot because we are away for four days after that, and then it’s my grandson’s 4th birthday next Wednesday, and then I’ll be helping with the childcare of him and his 11 month old twin brother and sister on Thursday/Friday, and there’s editing work to be done and all in all, next week is looking totally unmanageable. And next weekend we’re invited to one dinner party and we’re hosting one. So if I’m going to meet my goal for August, I have to take the fast days while I can!

Weighed in this a.m. and I am down another 1.5 for a total of 2.5 lbs so far in August. I’ve been on 5:2 since the end of April and my total loss is 22.5 lbs so far. For me the key has been to stick religiously to the fasting days (I eat 200 cals in the a.m. and 300 cals 12 hours later, like the book said to do. No soup or anything but coffee and water in between) and I try to keep it moderate on the NFDs, but I’m not always successful at that so the most important part I think is that I forgive myself when I’ve overdone it on the non-fast days and just keep on keeping on.

Fitnfast, I am wondering how you are feeling?

Hi Mary WW

Gee you certainly have a busy lifestyle and you are achieving great results at the same time, 22lbs since April, well done you.

When I read your post my thoughts were try not to look too far ahead, what you are doing and what you have achieved to date is certainly working so just keep doing it, take one day at a time, don’t worry about next week and what is in your diary, just focus on today, the next 24 hours, stick to that plan, THEN DO THE SAME TOMORROW.

When you see a challenge appearing tomorrow try and turn that into a positive rather than a negative or a challenge. “Being busy” certainly makes the fasting go so much easier (that’s what I find anyway) so how will doing the child care make a fast day even easier to get through. Don’t panic about the perceived negatives, they are only thoughts at this stage, they aren’t even real yet so why fret about something that hasn’t even happened yet?

There’s a saying about what we all “fear” or what we think are barriers to success. FEAR is a “False Expectation Appearing Real” however it’s all in the future, it’s not happening right now so why worry about it NOW.

When the going gets tough focus on the positives of your 22lbs that you have left behind to date, that will motivate you to do whatever it takes to keep those 22lbs off and not relent to the pressures of the day, whatever it takes and we will all pat ourselves on the back on 31 August for a month well managed.

Take care everyone, we are all amazing people who are achieving amazing results. Cheers, Mike

Hi Guys,
Just want to say your posts really keep me focussed. Sorry I don’t post a lot but life gets in the way. Looking forward to one day being able to do my own thing but ATM am working more hours than I would like. Anyway, feel like this is the first time I can control my eating and can lose weight on the way. I really love reading your posts and wish I could be a positive influence for someone like you guys are for me. Keep positive and thanks for your words of wisdom!

Hi folks, lovely to hear how life is showing up for you all. I relate so much to what you are all saying, particularly the days which feel more challenging.
If its ok to share a little. The fast days that work really well for me are actually the days when I am not focused on the food, the calories, the scale numbers. When I reflect on these days I notice that I am in a peaceful state of mind. I have slowed my thinking down, and I am more present to the joys of my surroundings, what my body is saying. To explain a little more, these arent always days when I am less busy doing things – but my thinking is. So I am learning that my thinking is creating my feelings and so my behaviour.
I also have a thought that I see my fast as a gift to my body – a time for it to calm down and relax too, instead of getting busy on digesting the plethora of food I sometimes throw at it. I am also enabling my body to do what it needs – if I feel like I’ve fasted really well, but the scales dont change, well my body needed to keep that weight this week, this month.
Now that is not to say I dont have struggles too on some of my fast days – my stomach appears to take on a voice of its own. But yes like a few of you have said, we start again, the next day, or at a better time. Perhaps take a look at the fasts that have quite simply worked. Can you pin point your thinking, state of mind?

I’ll report in again at the weekend, if I can get my scales working again!
So once again – may your fast be with you, and you with your fast.

It’s so great to come here and find out how everyone is doing. Particular congrats to Pinkdodo on your engagement. And congrats to Runningnorth for such a successful week. Liard Hot Springs looks beautiful. Have fun!

Rubylily and Actionhero, thanks for your inspiring words of wisdom.

Fitnfast, now I am thinking I don’t even want to go there when it comes to the surgery, but you do have to give yourself a break. Heavy narcotic brain meds and clear thinking do not ever go together! I’m sure you’ll get it back together as soon as the pain recedes.

Have a great weekend all. I’m looking forward to some swimming, canoeing and cycling in Muskoka!

Nothing much to offer to Miss MT just yet – I joined on 7th august and my fast days were earlier this week so I’ll wait til Tuesday for my first weight in. Trying to have a TDEE weekend but out to dionner with friends tonight.

Fitnfast – I don’t even have to be on mind bending narcotics to waver – our cold NZ winter can drive me to comfort food, though I know after eating it I don’t feel at all comfortable either physically or mentally. In the wise words of Action Hero – focus on the one day at a time. the next day! Well done RunningNorth for getting back on that horse the next day.

Go the ABs – wallaby for dinner tonight.

Good morning all from a grey and dreitch Dundee (again). Yesterday didn’t turn into a FD. Too much leftover food from Thhursday and can’t bear to throw good food away. That’s it gone now, so today am doing a FD, although having put on 2.5lbs over the last two days, I have a feeling it’s going to take more than one fast day to get where I was. It didn’t seem as though I had eaten 2.5lbs of food? Oh well, back on the wagon, and here we go again.
Many congratulations Pinkdodo on your engagement – there is definitely ‘something going on’ on this thread!
Action Hero – your post is again very insightful, I keep going back and rereading it.
Fit – it must be very frustrating for you, but it is done now and you are on the mend. This too shall pass. Bit like dropping weight – just need patience , but enjoy this quiet time for what it is and do things you wouldn’t normally do.
Well done everyone who has reduced, and those of you that haven’t remember that things are happening inside that can only be good. Have a great weekend all, wherever you are in the world.

PS – Pinkdodo – many many congratulations! I think Third is right about this thread. Babies, engagements, weddings….watch out!

Yay fitnfast! I just realized that I forgot to report 2lbs lost last week. I am not sure I will do so hot this week but – sigh – First week back at school attending professional learning, driving to different sites everyday, plus driving 2 kids to and from different camps, husband to/from work plus his dr. appointments and PT (he still can’t walk due to ankle surgery) while also trying to plan dinners, cook and run the household… I am just feeling lucky I got through it. Success to everyone the rest of the month. If I get lucky, I will be reporting any new lost on Monday. Trying my best to balance my so-so fast day during the weekend.