Hi JFitzy!!

Hope you are ok and everyone else!! I have been out all day.. How did the fasters go?

LD its lovely to see you on the forum again, and it sounds like you had a gorgeous birthday!! Nothing to fel guilty about!!! Take a break, dont worry about fating, when you feel ready you just start again and you know it’ll work again 🙂 xx
Have a lovely evening peeps, take care 🙂 xx

Hilly i just read your post,

Oh dear i remember those grunting noises only too well lol,i have 2 grown up sons and so i know a thing or two about teens moods… But a slap on the face!! Jesus!! I hope he apologised? Poor thing though, am sure he felt terrible after, and the stress of the exams must be really hard… He’ll be fine am sure, and he knows what a wonderful woman his mum is!!!

Take care and have some rest, you deserve it 🙂 xx

Morning all. Hope everyone is good.

Well done kilda on not going over ur calorie budget.

I wanted to ask & I know it may sound a little daft but do u guys count ur veg too? The calories? If so how do u do it? I struggle with counting veg.

Thanks in advance xx

Morning all hope everyone is well. My second fast day of the week today and then I am going to try and be really good over the weekend (famous last words)!!!

Have a prawn salad for lunch 236 cals and I am having a ham salad for dinner so my day will be just under 500 calories. Went out last night so had a couple of glasses of wine which was definitely not on the agenda as I normally drink on Friday and Saturday but hey ho I was still within my TDEE so that is fine.

I am going to weigh in on Friday 4 April as I weighed in on 7 March so that will be one month since my last one. Then it will be exactly 9 weeks to my holiday in Spain and I plan to lose a stone by then. I have started a bit of running again and with the lighter evenings I have no excuse not to go when I get in from work!

Hope you all have a great day 🙂 x

Hi Shelly

Good luck for your fast today. A 16:8 example would be to have your dinner on Monday night and then you don’t eat until noon on Tuesday and you have all your calories between noon and 8pm you then have your fast day on Wednesday. It is supposed to work well with the 5:2 I do 16:8 most day during the week as I am not bothered by breakfast and I try to have dinner at around 7.30pm.

I started on 6 January and despite having loads of social things on and weekends away I have lost around a stone – I can be more accurate when I do my monthly weigh in next Friday.

Paris sounds great – hope you have a fab time. Is it business or pleasure?
🙂 🙂

Hi JFitzy, ah ok I get it, that does sound really good.

Thats brilliant you have lost so much in a pretty much short amount of time!Especially when you have alot going on so its good to know it really does work.

Pleasure its my birthday tomorrow so my fiance is taking me yay 🙂

Hi Angie! lol thank you, now it makes sense and I know what you mean when you mention it. Ooh cool you must be fluent in French then? Paris is beautiful been twice already but cant wait to go again.

Hope you have a good day 🙂

Aw thank you JFitzy! another year older boohoo 🙁 lol

Thank you Angie!!

I am feeling so hungry now, hope I can stick to the fast day today, I have some grapes and an apple so hopefully that will keep me going.

you too X x

morning all! Shelly, I hope you have a wonderful birthday. Wow, Paris, what a birthday trip! I’m jealous – I’ve never been to Paris. Or any part of Europe for that matter.

JFitzy and Angie, I will be doing weigh-in on that date too. I weigh every Friday but tend not to mention it here as I know so many are trying to stay away from the scales.

By the way my little girl is not so little – 9 years ago yesterday she joined our family when we adopted her at the age of 9-almost-10! So she is a big girl now but will always be my baby of course. 🙂

JayJay, I count all my food intake by logging it in myfitnesspal. There aren’t many calories at all in vegetables, aside from a few such as potatoes, so you don’t have to log them if you don’t want to. Myfitnesspal gives you full nutrition info including vitamins, fiber, etc, so logging my veggies helps to inspire me to eat healthier. In fact if someone wanted to lose weight or eat healthier without counting calories, I’d suggest just trying to count fiber. Choosing foods that are high in fiber automatically forces you to healthy food choices.

Thank you Kilda 🙂

Yes JFitzy I am going to stick it through, had some grapes now so feel a bit better, will keep drinking water and will make some coffee later to keep me going.

oh yes yummmy french food!! mmmm 🙂

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Really unfair. Well I am going to resist, lets see how long I last 🙂

Thank you very much for the motivation Kilda. I have resisted the temptation and I am sticking to my water and grapes. I also made a cup of coffee and that has helped 🙂

LD lovely to see you on the forum :-)!!

I hope things are ok with you at work, don’t worry about fasting this week, we are allowed a holiday every now and again 🙂
things at home are pretty much the same… I swear if I could I would love to be on my own in my own place… but right now, its just not possible, we have an employee programme at work, they offer all sorts of services, and I am going to see if I can get a counselling session near home, on my own though!
thank you for asking 🙂

take care and have a good day,and I bet you you’ll get a nice surprise re the weigh in 🙂

ps I was just thinking, there are a few of us born under the same star sign on this thread 🙂 hence all the birthdays lol, a whole bunch of Aries!!! that’s probably why we all get on so well hehe!! xx

Hi LD hope all is well. I saw your post and sent you a stern reply (ha ha)!!

I am having a day off tomorrow so if I don’t get a chance to pop in over the next few days have a great weekend one and all and speak to you on Monday.

Shelly – well done you for staying strong – you will be really pleased tomorrow that you did. Have a fab trip 🙂

Angie hope all is okay as I dont know the full story I dont want to comment too much but counselling should really help you so it is defo a step in the right direction.

Thank you LD and JFitzy I am really surprised that I have resisted. I think I know today would have been a waste if I did give in and I cant fast now until Monday, lots of birthday celebrations ahead! So I have to do it today.

There are alot of Aries on here lol!

Have a fab evening everyone 🙂

Thank you Shelly!!

To cut a long story short i found some daming texts on OH mobile… More than anything its the lying that gets to me, makes me really angry and i know i still dont know what really went on, but am done with the asking and getting nowhere!!

Anyway, enough of depressing stuff, have a good evening and take care xxxx

Hi everyone,

missed you all – a week and a bit to go and we break up for Easter – 🙂

Thanks for the advice Angie – how long does the grunting phase last?!! He was very remorseful afterwards but with an underlying hint of defiance!! Maybe I need to seek out a dictionary of grunts, since I also have a 13 year old daughter, who is also quite the mistress of grunts!! Sounds like things are calming down a bit for you, even if not actually better.

Ha ha so many Aries – but it’s us little Pisces smoothing it all over 😉

Shelly sounds like you’re already succeeding. I use my fitness pal too, I really like it, it’s got thousands of things on it’s data base, anything with a barcode on it, you can just scan it and then adjust depending on how much you’re having; it’s very easy!! Like JFitzy I started on 6th Jan and coincidentally I have lost around a stone too (13lbs as of last week, hopefully a stone this week). I’ve got about another stone and a half to go to be well within the healthy weight range for my height but am quietly optimistic that I can make it, since IF seems to work for me.

Enjoy that breather Little D – I may end up having one over the Easter Hols being off with my two but will just see how it goes.

Enjoy your trip to Paris Shelly 🙂

Fasting for me tomorrow 🙂

Hi:

As you have already ‘reviewed’ it, you must know what it is like.

Good Luck!

Sorry if you are fasting today, I am too lol!!

but just had to share with you all I made the most gorgeous milk choc chips cheesecake, its cooling down now…but have to wait till tomorrow to taste it hehe!!

hope you all are having a good day! xxxx

Hey all

Hope all is good. I’m fasting today haven’t had anything to eat yet will eat my 500 at 7.

Angie that cheesecake sounds delicious don’t know how u can wait until tomorrow to taste it. U must have loads of will power. I’m also sorry to hear about what u have been through, hopefully things will become more clear for u.

Shelly hope ur enjoying Paris & have a good birthday.

Xx

Evening all!

Thank you for kind comments lol, only i am no saint and i have come in here to fess up 🙁 i did succumb and had a little taste… Oh my its lovely lol!! I swear it was only an ever so small tiny weeny piece 🙂

Hope everyone is well and survived their fast! For me thats it, all done, had dinner around 6pm, now i just want tomorrow to be here quick!!

Take care fab fasters!! Xxx

Hi guys!!

where is everybody? very quiet here today, kind of lonely 🙁
hope you are all ok and having a good day, take care xxxx