Morning all – hope everyone is well. Thanks for the congrats Hilly66 my hubby is English but supports Ireland as his second team! I have to admit I did cheer when Italy got that try as I was worried about the points difference – oops that didn’t go down too well as you can imagine.

Hey Angie I am going to the Tate later today with a client as we are having a function there in April – small world. Glad your chat with the Welfare Officer went well as you say you need to take it one day at a time.

My fast yesterday went well and I am fasting again tomorrow. My Mum arrives tomorrow afternoon so I will see if she notices my weight loss and will report back 🙂

Have a great day one and all and good luck to those fasters today:)

Yes definitely Angie I would love to. Maybe we can get LD along as we did say we would meet up one evening when the weather is better and have a glass of wine!

Hope you are managing at home okay – I am sure your dogs are keeping you company 🙂

morning ladies! I’m fasting today, going ok so far. Wish I could join you all for a meetup, what a fun idea! Angie, I bet my dogs would love your dogs.

I didn’t make it to the gym last night – was going to go with the whole family but got home from work late and then no one really felt like going. Will try again tomorrow if work cooperates.

Hope everyone is having a good day!

Hi Kilda

I am not going to the gym this week as I cannot fit it in so this week I am running instead.

I am jealous of you and Angie as I would love a do but as we live in central London it is not is not really possible 🙁

Anyway I am off home shortly so hope everybody has a great evening and speak tomorrow x 🙂

Evening everyone – sounds like you have all had a superb day 🙂

Oh no Angie your cheese cake!!! Don’t you just hate it when things like that happen. The replacement sounds yummilicious though. Glad the talk with the welfare officer went well

I’m up for a meet in London too :-)- wish the Atlantic wasn’t so big, so you could come too Kilda.

My kids are always pestering me for a dog, when I see the cute dogs at some of my tutoring places my heart melts but I know it would be too much. It’s a big enough struggle getting my daughter to clean her rabbits and besides Chubby (the cat) is terrified of dogs!

The Thai curry was good, was hard founding half fat coconut milk (could only find it in Sainsbury’s. I like making things on fast days, seems to be more filling and the actual preperation helps to keep me busy. That said Waitrose spinach and ricotta cannelloni at 279 calories is a definite staple of my fasting days.

Am with you tomorrow Little D fasting again.

x

Morning peeps!

hope you are all ok, its going to be another warm one and sunny, yeah!!
good luck to those fasting today, be strong 🙂 am doing another 16.8 and a fast tomorrow…

take care all and have a lovely day :-)xxx

LD sorry you are unwell, OH is spot on, no fast for you today!

get better soon xx

JFitzy good luck with yours,and let us know about your mum lol!!

have a lovely day everyone 🙂 xx

hi LD!

You are doing real good food wise today, fruit and protein, way to go!! hope you are feeling better though..

I am doing ok thanks, 16.8 is much easier than I thought, a little tough going in the mornings as I have always been a breakfast person but midday comes soon enough lol…
tomorrow will be a normal fast, then i’ll do it all over again next week 🙂 but I may fast Monday, we’ll see, this is what I love about 5.2, the fact that we can tweak, swap and change as we like !!

have a good afternoon, take care xxx

hi Kilda!!

16.8 is going well so far, don’t know yet if it’ll make a difference re weight loss but i’ll be happy to maintain 🙂 will let you know!!

don’t worry too much about going over, its still a very low cal day so no worries!! and as you say there is always tomorrow 🙂

take care and have a lovely day xx

Hi and welcome Shelly27!!

You have come to the right place here for support, we are a nice bunch 🙂 wishing you all the best on your journey, there will be a few us fasting with you on monday, so you wont be alone!!

Keep us posted 🙂 xx

welcome Shelly! 🙂

Hi Angie et al lovely day again! DRUM ROLL – my Mum did notice my weight loss yeah!!! She is so funny; she is tiny and weighs about 8 stone but she always complains about her “spare tyre” (aka muffin top)! She asked me how did I manage to lose mine as she might do what I did!!

Had a great fast day yesterday – actually couldn’t finish my dinner 🙂

I will pop in again today before I sign off for the weekend! x

LD forgot to ask – how are you feeling today I hope you are getting better x

Hello Shelly27 welcome to our the happy fasting camp! You will find this really easy once you get into it. At lot of us fast on Mondays (me included) and I also do Wednesdays. One piece of advice though measure yourself on Monday morning before you start; bust, waist, bingo wings (if applicable!), waist, hips etc. The reason being some weeks you may not lose on the scales but you will find you have lost inches. I only lost 2.5lbs in the month of February but I lost inches. Also some of us here only weigh monthly as it gives a better picture – anyway good luck!! 🙂

Thanks for the advice JF il will aim to do that on Monday. I am actually really excited to fast…. which is a bit strange as i love food so much lol! Looking forward to seeing some results.

lol thats ok Angie…oh dear I do hope everyting is okay at home.

Little Dragon thank you and hope you feel better soon X

Also sorry I forgot to add was wondering if any of you could help me with this as I’m confused.

So worked out that my TDEE is 2106 but that seems quite high. Is this the amount of calories I’m allowed on non fasting days?

As I put down that I do moderate exercise which is 3-5 times a week, I actually do more than this I work out 7 days a week for about a hour, I do the 30 day shred which is 20 mins & then other aerobic & cardio exercise. But I put less as thought best to keep it low. However I still ended up with 2106 for TDEE.

Am I doing this correct?

Hi Jayjay84 welcome to the forum. To work out your TDEE you need to put in your sex, age, height & weight. If you pick sedentary you will get one number and if you pick very active (which is your category) you should get a completely different number so not sure what the problem is. I just did it now and it is working.

You should be eating a number somewhere between your BMR and TDEE so for me I should eat about 1400/1500 calories on my non fast days but sometimes I eat less, if I am not hungry and sometimes more, if I run or go to the gym or I am out to dinner.

Hope that helps and good luck! 🙂

good morning ladies! Angie, not to fear, I’m fasting with you today. I don’t have to go in to work as early on Thursdays so I’m just now getting up – ah, so nice to sleep past 6 am!

LD, so glad you’re feeling a bit better. And Shelly I definitely second that advice to measure before you start. Some weeks the scales don’t move much but the measurements do. JFitzy, so glad to hear your mom noticed! That had to feel good.

JayJay, sounds to me like you are pretty active, hence your fairly high TDEE. That is just an estimate though – you may have to see how it plays out in real life. Use that as your TDEE for several weeks, eat only 500 on your fast days and see how it goes. If you aren’t losing, you may have to lower the TDEE a little.

Also to the new folks, remember that if you don’t have much to lose, you won’t lose as fast. I don’t know how much you have to lose, but if it’s only a little bit, expect it to be gradual and don’t get frustrated. I’ve lost pretty quickly so far but I think that’s partly because I was so big to begin with and I expect the loss to slow down gradually as I get into a healthier range.

I have lost 5lbs over the last 3.5 weeks but I was just eating sensibly & exercising daily. So after this 5lb loss I have exactt one stone to shift to be in a healthy range for my height.

I’m not fussed even if it’s 1lb a week as long as something comes off.

Thanks you so much for ur help guys I understand now so as long as I eat between my BMR & TDEE I should be fine.

I like to exercise first thing in morning while my little one is asleep & then I know it’s out of the way for the whole day, plus can’t exercise if I have eaten.

Hopefully I should be able to shift this stone with the help of all you amazing peeps. X

for some reason, my weight loss seems to alternate weeks. I’ll have a large loss one week (3-4 lbs) then 0-1 lb the following week, then a large loss again the next week. I’ve noticed this over the past 7 weeks or so. I expect this week to be one of my small loss weeks so I’m not expecting much on tomorrow’s weigh-in. But if I stay true to form, next week should be a bigger drop.

Just my pattern, no idea if anyone else has experienced this. My body seems to drop a large amount, then rest, then drop a large amount again.

Hi Angie, I am good thanks 1 hour to go and then I get leave work wohoo! Hope you had a good day x

I am clock watching now lol! Yea not long to go which is good, what you got for dinner tonight as its your fast day?