Hi Fast Friends
Happy Hump Day
Nicky Emel and Aussie O in South Australia Nama in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA and Hello World (You know Who You) 😆
Welcome aboard the fast trackers train wilbersnana bergenblarter CRICKEY!!! these call names are fun it has to be said well a feed day half way through the week for me is ideal coming off the B2B was very cleansing I’m so full on Zen its outrageous 😆
Nama good to see you tentatively putting your big toe back in the 4-3 pool at the deep end clearly the new swimming cossy is working a treat 😉 nice one
Jojo the 19/5 regime is a winner then? That’s fantastic hey? Great measurable results for verification. Bugger all difference between 18/6 and 19/5 or stick to one meal a fast day etc what ever works We all tweak and try to improve or as my Dad used to say ‘fiddle’ about with the fasting however he would shout at me when I was in his beloved shed aka man cave ”Stop Fiddling” just sit still hmmm yeah right 😯 ok you fast efficient fat burners keep on keeping on
Peace RT

Hi and welcome Wilbersnanna, I’m sure several others on here will understand re having an upset elsewhere. Here we have a few laughs (usually at ourselves) but treat each other with respect. We have a variety of people who are all willing to share their experiences. The beauty of this WOL (way of life) is that you can have breaks and just start back, plus as your social life moves around you can adjust your FDs to suit.

Waking up to another beautiful sunny day, although we are looking forward to the rain coming. Having homemade pizza tonight, very low cal as I make the dough mix and it’s meant to be divided into 4 but I divide it into 6 and just make the base thinner which then gets lovely and crispy. I add all sorts on the top but just tiny amounts the main calories are in the cheeses but I only add a small amount for any pizza I have. My OH likes a thicker base which is why I divide into 6 – 2 larger ones for him 1 smaller one for me and the rest into the freezer as then I can make pizza for the grandies or myself.

I have a few things to get done this morning so I’ll catch up with everyone tonight.

I love reading RTs posts too, but I’m always tired when I’ve read one, so I’m training myself to remember to breathe as I’m reading 😉

ply, good news on the cleansing diet. I must say some of the recipes look delicious.

I’ve found a gym with a pool, sauna etc, exercise classes (including Pilates)all inclusive plus personal trainer, massage, beauty treatments, for an additional cost. It has a reduced rate membership for over 50s if they use the facilities between 9am-4pm which suits me. I’ve made an appointment for Thursday to have a look round. It sounds perfect so I’m hoping it is as good as it reads.

I love swimming but I rarely get round to going to the pool, but if I’m at the gym either working out or doing a class, I know I’ll swim afterwards.

Hi Ply
Well done with the ‘clean eating’! Your fish, beans and sage sounds fabulous. What do you do with the beans…soak, cook and hit with a rolling pin? 😉

I too enjoy RTs frantic style. Samm, also has an unusual turn of phrase. That’s what is so great about the varied nature of this thread.The characters come out through the words. Long may it last.

I get up and put swimmers on first thing to have a swim and then get distracted. ..like now! 🙁
Cheers all P

Are you working out perimeter or area, Happy? 🙂
Laps…swim along the pool, touch the end with one hand for freestyle, two for breast stroke. One lap. 😉 😉
Or in my tiny plunge pool…count 50 strokes of freestyle while swimming against the swim jet. More like a racing lap than a slow rolling crawl. 😥

Hey Jojo, do you breath one side or bilaterally? I’m trying to improve my stroke by bilateral breathing every 4 strokes rather than one side every 3. P

Keeping cockies at bay, Bay? 😉

She is either in battle out there now Purple or building a scarecrow!

Morning/evening all,

Welcome Wilbursnana, I am a sticky beak so wondering how old Wilbur is? Glad to hear you have been having success already. It can only continue if you stick with us!

Kierra, you are a true dinky di camper and Dargo is such a beautiful area. Funny how we go back to childhood places isn’t it? We have frequently returned with our kids to camp at Halls Gap in the Grampians as that’s where I was taken as a youngster. But the first time I visited Jamieson I fell in love with it. I know it reminds me of the Grampians but I also have a weird theory that there is something in my very Irish heritage that pulls me there….it is so very green. And my mother was a McCormack and all around Mansfield is littered with McCormack families and their history. Too old and soft to camp now but do like the sound of the hair dryer tho!

Your story reminds me of yrs ago when my husband needed something wire like to repair electricals in his fancy sportscar and we were in the bush. I had to donate the underwire from my bra! It worked! For the blokes, it was a Bolwell. Beautiful to look at as it was built by an architect (kit cars) but always breaking down at inconvenient times! It had a fibreglass body and the first accident he had in it, it was a write off!

Looking forward to the latest in the cockie saga Bay!
Fasting again today, very hot here so lying low and researching local pools.
Thoughts with the South Aussies, hope the fire doesn’t flare again in the heat today. Too much damage already.

Hi Samm
Like my OH, you have worked out what suits you. Well done.

My two concerns re diabetes are:

People not doing regular (daily) bloodsugar tests to monitor their progress (we have a friend went blind by not monitoring closely) and

The medical fraternity frightening diabetics into eating all the time (a bit like the breakfast myth), when increasing evidence shows fasting is a very quick, effective way to drop high bloodsugar levels and an excellent way, long term, to sustain steady levels.

Keep up the good work mate. P 🙂

Go Bay Tenacious Leafoz!
Think of all the physical and emotional energy you will have used in the battle. The cooking wouldn’t have THAT many calories, would it? 😉

It’s a well know pseudo fact that a Bayleaf only has to look at and smell sugar and carbs and weight piles on 🙄 Enjoying my second fast day this week. It’s going to be 30C here today and for the rest of the week. Off to buy some sugar to make jam for gifts. Cheers, Bay 😉

I’m laughing out loud here at all the goings-on around the globe 🙂 We have heavily netted pear and quince trees at present and we’re hoping for a bountiful crop so I’m rooting for you Bay!! (the birds had our white peaches while we were away recently).
Re the swimming, I call one length of the pool a lap and that’s 50 metres long. I do 20 lengths (1km) at the moment but want to build up to 2km over the next few weeks. I can’t wait till I can do some proper weight bearing aerobic/cardio gym exercise (apart from walking which is excellent I know) but that’s probably another 20kg away. Come spring though…!!!

Hi Amazon,

Most of the public pools in big cities are Olympic sized over here and yes, I am feeling daunted myself as am starting my “swimming quest” in one tomorrow morning. I hope I can manage one lap before being out of breath! Fortunately I am confident in the water as I grew up in a hot country town and we spent endless summer days at the local (Olympic) pool, but perhaps I should start at the deep end tomorrow in case I conk out. Would be embarressing to need rescuing! Also aiming to go really early as pool crowded due to school holidays, hope I don’t get mown down by the serious swimmers! So that is a challenge in itself, for me to get up early!

Just heard it’s raining on the Adelaide bushfire, yay! We have some of our own in Vic though, many started by lightning as we have had lots of thunderstorms this afternoon, flash flooding too apparently, not a drop here! Hopefully the new fires won’t get too big.

Fasting today so lovely fresh salad (with everything in it but the kitchen sink) for dinner. This 4:3 is hard! Already looking forward to my Meusli in the morning and it’s only 7pm! And I plan to swim first! Hopefully the Xmas bonus will be gone, with interest!

Hi all.

I sometimes wake up really hungry and on other days not at all, and I can’t make a connection with what, when or how much I ate the day before either.

I’m able to do my belt up on the next notch so something is happening, but as I’ve mislaid the tape measure I can’t check it.

Hmm, an odd Thai fusion jojo! But I would say yes, definitely the spud and bread which lead to you having to eat a sausage roll for breakfast. The perils of insulin and blood sugar I’m afraid. And why so many of us avoid processed carbs…

Awesome, Amazon. I am curious!

I think Bay records such things. When she has finished doing battle with the cockie maybe she can enlighten us 😛

I’ve not had a good time of it today. Sometimes life gets in the way and dampens the mood so I gave up the fast at lunchtime. I’ll try again tomorrow, and save enough calories for a drink when I go out.

Hi Fast Tracking Friends
Nicky Emel and Aussie O in South Australia Nama in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA and Hello World (You know Who You) 😆
Happy fast day fast tracking friends and thankyou for your positivity now with this typically hot weather SA is experiencing 43d here yesterday down to 28d today I have to say I find fasting very therapeutic even natural in the heat even refreshing 😯 every day I learn more of the details about my own body speaking to me and I enjoy the fast
3 of the 4 days fast planned this week today now bring on TGIF Thank God Its Friday
FYI
If you’re ever stuck out in the wilderness, remember what survival experts call ‘the Rule of
Threes’.
You can live 3 minutes without air, though we don’t recommend trying. In a harsh environment — if it’s snowing, say — you have 3 hours to survive without shelter. After 3 days, you need water or you’ll perish. You can make it 3 weeks without food, though we promise you that won’t be fun.
Now I am quite sure the glaring stat is not lost here on all you fast trackers campers and glampers Nama and Keirra if you are lost in the Grampians provided you have fresh clean air shelter perhaps a fire for warmth plenty of fresh water you will be fine the last on the list is food good to know 😆
Despite this possibly helpful rule, some people have survived 8 to 10 days without water. Again, leave such shenanigans to the truly desperate.
As 65 percent of the human body, water is essential to people.
Water flows through the blood, carrying oxygen and nutrients to cells and flushing wastes out of our bodies. It cushions our joints and soft tissues. Without water as a routine part of our intake, we cannot digest or absorb food. BI Answers: How many days can a human survive without water?
We can’t live on air and sunshine alone. The human body needs food and water to survive.
A human can go for more than three weeks without food (Mahatma Gandhi survived 21 days of complete starvation), but water is a different story.
At least 60% of the adult body is made of it and every living cell in the body needs it to keep functioning. Water acts as a lubricant for our joints, regulates our body temperature through sweating and respiration, and helps to flush waste.
The maximum time an individual can go without water seems to be a week — an estimate that would certainly be shorter in difficult conditions, like broiling heat.
The week limit is based on observations of people at the end of their lives, when food and water intake has been stopped, Randall K. Packer, a professor of biology at George Washington University told Maggie Fox of NBC News last year.
However, one week is a generous estimate. Three to four days would be more typical.
“You can go 100 hours without drinking at an average temperature outdoors,” Claude Piantadosi of Duke University told Fox. “If it’s cooler, you can go a little longer. If you are exposed to direct sunlight, it’s less.”
As much as 65% of the human body is water.
The Danger Of Dehydration
Our bodies are constantly losing water, which is why drinking a glass of H20 once a day is not enough to keep the body replenished. We lose water when we sweat, go to the bathroom — even when we exhale.
“Under extreme conditions an adult can lose 1 to 1.5 litres of sweat per hour,” Packer wrote in 2002 article for Scientific American. “If that lost water is not replaced, the total volume of body fluid can fall quickly and, most dangerously, blood volume may drop.”
When you have too little blood circulating in your body, blood pressure falls to levels that can be fatal. Body temperatures also rise when we stop sweating.
Dehydration that causes “a loss of more than 10% of your body weight is a medical emergency,” according to the University of Rochester Medical Center, “and if not reversed can lead to death.”
Water Sources
We get some water from food, “but drinking water is your main, and best source, of water,” according to a website maintained by the National Institutes of Health.
Other beverages like juice or milk also help keep the body hydrated. The only fluid you would want to stay away from is alcohol because it actually causes the body to lose more water than normal through excessive urination.
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Peace RT

Hi RT:

One comment on your 3 weeks without food statement – of course, people throughout history have fasted for longer than three weeks, with the documented world record being over one year on a water fast.

But how long you can live without ingesting food depends on how fat you are to start with (how much food you are carrying with/on you). The world record holder started at over 450 pounds!

Hello Jojo&Co. Just home after a day spent at the V&A to see the Constable Exhibition. Well worth the trip! Kept me from my kitchen,too!! Fast Day tomorrow. WN.

Nice one Ply. Up late for second night in a row booking our North America trip. Thank goodness for the ‘net! So many choices.
Haven’t read all posts yet as I’ve just woken, but saw yours re carbs and hunger Jojo. I decided to eat none this week for this reason but OH insisted (I’m only human) we have a bit more of the left over Xmas pud, with natural yoghurt for dessert last night. By midnight, still up, so I polished off the last fruit mince tart! Really unusual behaviour for me. 🙁 Of course my weight is still in mid range now instead of dropping overnight. Damn carbs and sugar! 🙁 P

Hello fellow FT’s, another horror on the news with the terrorists in Paris. So horrible and unnecessary.

I’m unchanged so far in the weight stakes this week. I’ve been weighing daily but those pesky scales aren’t budging, but it will happen. A friend who I haven’t seen since Christmas Eve caught up with me the other evening and commented that I’d lost more weight, which according to my scales I haven’t but my tape measure says yes I have. Quite strange really but I’ll accept any reduction 😆

RT great info and backed up and expanded by Simcoeluv.

Ply love the quote thanks for sharing 😀

Woke a little later than usual this morning, well not woke exactly but got up a little later would be more accurate so I’ll sign off for now but will try to keep reading through the day even if I don’t post 😀 have a fun FD/non-FD all (FD for me).

PVE, I’m a little reluctant to share the kimchi recipe until I see how it turns out – and then I won’t know if it’s worked, as I have never eaten it before and don’t know what it is SUPPOSED to taste like 🙂 . So watch this space (or look at http://www.atmykitchentable.org/recipes/pickling-naturally-swiss-chard-kimchi with a few alterations – honey instead of sugar, added fish sauce, grated carrot & small apple, spring onion).