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enjoy that birthday celebration, JFitzy! LD, I don’t see why it would matter with 16:8 if you shift the hours a bit.
hope everyone is having a good day, fasting or not. My day has become insane (started with a sick cat and moved on to a work day with twice the normal workload). Just as well I’m fasting, no time for lunch anyway!
Hello girls,
congratulations JFitzy, 2.5 lbs is a fantastic achievement and those lost inches are even better news 🙂 Sounds like you deserve to let your hair down a bit this weekend and after all we only get one birthday a year!
JenkiJ,Kilda and Angie how’s the fast been? Am fasting with you today – don’t know why I’ve been freezing cold all day today! Am so looking forward to my hot dinner in about half an hour’s time.
Little dragon did your day turn into a fast or did you enjoy those luscious berries and the mango!
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well, I had a couple hard candies – 35 cal total which I’ll deduct from my calories for the day. But otherwise surviving well. I still have about 2 hours worth of work left – going to be a late evening. Hope everyone had a good day, by the time I get home from work you’ll all be asleep on your side of the pond. 🙂
Hi LittleDragon still at work this time of night – yuk!! Hope it’s not too stressful this evening.
Have a very big rest at the weekend and have something totally indulgent for the sheer enjoyment xxx
Afternoon Kilda – keep going, must be hard sometimes with us Brits finishing our fasts before you but there again just think, as we were fasting you were still tucked up in your lovely cosy bed 🙂
PS confession time all, have bought some crusty bread and Taleggio (my favourite Italian cheese) to enjoy tomorrow 🙂
In case you check in before you go JFitzy, Happy Birthday – have a fabulous weekend.
xxx
Morning peeps!!
its stupid o’clock for me again lol!! Happy Birthday JFitzy!!! have a fabulous weekend 🙂
lets hope the sun comes out today…raining at mo… sooo glad I did my fast yesterday, after all this time I still cant decide wether its better to fast at home or at work!!!!!!!!!!!
hope you all have a great day, LittleDragon I am wishing for a better day for you,and why should you feel guilty on eating choc bunnies lol, the amount of choc I eat on normal days you would be horrified hehe!!! no way I will ever give up chocolate, impossible, unthinkable 🙂
chat soon and good luck to those fasting today!!!!! xxx
Morning Angie et al! Thanks for all my birthday wishes. My weekend started last night with dinner with my best friend great night but far too much wine!!! 🙂 Anyway off to have a facial now and then the hairdresser and then off to to the country side for the weekend.
Hope you all have a great weekend and I will be back on the forum on Monday x x x
Well that was a bit of a tough fast! Ended up having to work until 2am and didn’t manage to get anything to eat so survived all day on caffeine and water. Then had to get up at 6 this morning and haven’t really eaten properly so boy am I looking forward to my lunch!
LD – joining you in the hellish day/weekend! Still at least I feel a lot better and thinner even if I have no idea how much weight I have lost!
Happy weekends everyone!
You’re welcome LD, and you WILL get there, if I did anyone can 🙂
hope your day isn’t going too bad, the weather is a bit rubbish in London today!
have a good afternoon!!
Jenki2 well done on your fast, with no food, wow!!!!!!!!!! I bet you will enjoy a nice lunch today 🙂
take care all, have a good day!!!!!!!!!! xxx
good morning all! Jenki2 I hope you get something truly delicious for lunch today – and dinner! I had a long day yesterday too but you definitely have me beat! Yesterday was exhausting and busy nonstop from 8 am to 10 pm, but I finally got to come home and eat around 10. And all my fast days are done for the week! 🙂
LD, can you beam some of those brownies over here? 😉
Afternoon everyone, well still going strong at work and likely to be here until about 10pm tonight but at least I had a nice lunch! Although still feel so stuffed but am definitely going to have a BIG glass of wine tonight. Hmmm maybe not too big as am working tomorrow as well.
LD – I work in event production am onsite at the moment hence bad hours!
Hope you have all had a good day and have a fab weekend all.
Can’t wait for Sunday!!!
Evening everyone – boy some of you are working incredibly long hours, don’t know how you manage to drag yourselves out of bed in the mornings!!
Little D and Jenki, hope you have a very large glass of something you love when you get in tonight!
Think I’ve had a tad too much chocolate today!!
Bit of a inspiration for you all, my work buddy has now lost 4 stone doing the 5:2, he started in July. He looks amazing 🙂
Oh and a news report on Fast Exercise – have been doing it for three weeks now, every other day and am feeling much fitter already. For instance I can now do 15 press ups from my knees (could only do 6 very pathetic efforts before), star jumps are now easy for 30 seconds and really do feel it’s making a difference. So have a go, it might make a difference for some of you too.
Not been on the scales – roll on March 7th.
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Morning everyone,
hope you are all well and enjoying a good weekend, I am very sad today 🙁 sorry to be on a downer, but this morning I found out I lost 5 hens and my beautiful rooster, Henri… a fox got in their coop because OH didn’t put latch down, stupid mistake!
I know there are only chickens, but I have had them 3 years or so, and I feel terrible and guilty, it could have been avoided and that is what hurts 🙁
I have 8 left now, soon I may get a couple more,as my colleagues love the eggs 🙂
have a lovely Saturday, not sure if anyone is fasting but if you are, have a good one!
xxx
Hi LD and thanks for kind words 🙂
had a good cry with my doggies, they are so “in tune” with human feelings, its unreal! Tilly, my girl took one look at me and jumped over from where she was sitting and came to me… then Rory followed and all three of us cuddled 🙂
the love they give you is priceless..
have a good Saturday, and enjoy some nice food :-)xx
Good morning everyone,
I’m fasting today and Wednesday too!! 🙂
Off sick today, was sick this morning but I think it might be stress induced rather than a bug!
Little Dragon, I think you said it’s your last super busy week, so things are going to start to get easier!!
Enjoy your fast day girls and anyone else that’s joining us on fast Monday.
x
Hi Hilly66, hope you feel better soon, and as LD said maybe give today’s fast a miss?
LD good luck with the weigh in!! let us know how you get on 🙂
I may be getting a new rooster today, have my eye on a batam one ( very small one lol ) and also a few new hens…we’ll see 🙂
have a fab day everyone!! xxx
Morning all I am back from my weekend away and catching up on all your posts.
Angie I was so sorry to read about your chucks I hope you are feeling better today.
Hilly66 hope you feel better soon.
I am now most definitely back on the wagon after my weekend of yummy food and wine – feel like I have gained a stone!! 🙂
I am very happy to be fasting today and I am also doing Wednesday this week. I am determined to make March a good month – 3 months before I go on holiday so my target is to lose one stone (plus the one I put on this weekend ha ha!!!).
Have a good day all x 🙂
Morning all,
Hilly66, hope you feel better soon. JFitzy – glad you had a good weekend with lots of yummy food and wine.
Angie – love bantams and their eggs are lovely!
Littledragon – hope your week isn’t too bad and am also getting nervous about the weigh in.
Have a bit of a nightmare week this week with traveling abroad for work which always makes fasting a bit tricky. Think I am going to aim to fast on Wednesday and Friday which should make the weigh in on Friday interesting. Still have managed to avoid the scales so far – of course it helps that I haven’t been at home much!
Right off to Switzerland, too much temptation to fast today!
Afternoon eveyone,
hope my fellow fasters are going well.
Aw bantam hens are so cute, sounds like they’ll be a fantastic new addition to the coop.
Fasting whilst travelling, that really is determination Jenki, still at least it will be one day out of the way.
Went back to bed for a while but feeling ok now, off to the green grocers in a while to get some bits to add to my green salad tonight. My stress is of an emotional nature, as you all probably worked out, split up with my bf of 4.5 years. Trying to remain friends as I do think a lot of him but had a very unpleasant conversation last night, which has left me wondering!
Haven’t had any snow here this year, has been nothing but rain! Shame it didn’t snow sufficiently for you to have a day off.
Glad you had a thoroughly indulgent weekend Jfitzy, think that’s the beauty of the 5:2, it’s so adaptable!
X
Hi Littledragon, well done, like you lost 8.5lbs in first 4 weeks and well pleased, just spent hour and half in gym doing circuits so will prob not be able to walk properly for a day or 2 now lol. I am just loving 5:2 find it so easy to keep to. Look forward to seeing what the next four weeks brings. 🙂
well it ended up being a day off after all. I got a couple of miles down the road, conditions were terrible, so I called and told them I was staying home. Am now sitting in my bed reading in my jammies! I may take the dogs for a walk in the snow later – they would love that.
Hilly, sorry to hear about your breakup. The staying friends thing is tough – often you can but not always right away. I hope you feel better soon, physically and emotionally.
Welcome to our gang Redswallow, an excellent achievement in 4 weeks and working out too. You’ll be a new person in no time 🙂
How cool is that Kilda, your wish came true 🙂 Walking with dogs in the snow, sounds idyllic. I do some private tutoring and two of the houses I visit have the most adorable dogs – broodie for a puppy. Though in reality it wouldn’t be possible and Chubby Wubb, formerly known as Tom, is petrified of dogs in any event! But sounds wonderful all the same 🙂
Thanks everyone for all your support, funnily enough fasting is good, normally in such a situation I would eat like a pig – am definitely not one of those people that fade away when stressed!!!
Ooo Little dragon so sorry just noticed a post of yours on 27 February which I somehow missed on the subject of cheese. How could I miss such an important enquiry!! I had mentioned an Italian cheese called Taleggio. Try it it’s delicious, it’s a fairly soft cheese a bit like brie but without the bitterness brie sometimes has. It’s mmmmmmmmmm with fresh crusty bread, maybe some tomatoes and a few olives. Fortunately there is a wonderful Italian deli near me, which has numerous goodies and all very reasonable. However I have also spotted it in Asda and Waitrose. Try some (on a non fast day :-))
ooo 3.45 only 3 more hours or so ’til dinner time.
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Hi LD I had a great weekend thanks – back to reality now and I am determined to have a great loss in March and looking to lose 14 lbs in total before my holiday at the beginning of June.
Hope everybody is having a good day. I had my carrot soup for lunch – 180 calories and I am having a turkey stir fry for dinner tonight. I am going back to my tried and tested stir fry for my fast days as they are filling and I can have a good sized portion mainly vegetables which I like.
Have a great evening all and catch up tomorrow 🙂
Afternoon peeps!
hope you all had/having a good pm, well my day has been turned a little upside down, and its all OH fault of course!! on our way to the farm he declares he’s starving and off he goes and brings back enough KFC for an army, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so I gave in, shame on me…I was so hungry 🙁 so I am salvaging today and making it a 16.8 as I didn’t have breakfast, hopefully keeping close enough to TDEE and will do a proper fast tomorrow… not what I had planned, at all!
ah well, hope all you fasters did much better than I did uh!! on the plus side we got a gorgeous multi award winning rooster, Pete! he is an absolute beauty 🙂
my girls are getting used to him now, that should cheer them up a little 🙂 and OH has gone off to get some new hens, if I can work out how to post pics then I will!!!
have a lovely rest of the day!! xxxxxxxx
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