Morning all, and sorry to hear about your back Weemam, hope it improves greatly very soon. Whoo whoo Aussie Oma on the loss – I love that it feels so good to be ‘back on a losing streak’ 🙂 And that’s great about the gym Amazon, sounds ideal and a great deal too. And SO SO inspiring to hear more of your story jojo – I had an idea from the last 50 pages of posts(!!) that you had lost a lot of weight, but 5 stone is AWESOME!!! It gives me great heart to know it is doable.
I also weigh in on Fridays AO for the same reason that Friday night is a night out for us. Today we’re packing for a week at the beach so will be out of range at times with only my phone to tether for internet (and I very quickly reach my cap doing that!).
Lastly, I can proudly say that this week’s fasting has put me ‘back on track’ too and I’m 100gm below my pre-christmas weight (lost the 2.4kg I put on with a 1.4 loss last week and 900gm this week) and I’m back on track for my goal in spring. Look forward to reading all of your successes tomorrow.

Hi emel, nice to here from you. I hope you are feeling OK and that your recovery is going well. Good luck with the fast.

Hello everyone,
Think I have swapped hemispheres in my sleep, it’s cold and raining in Melbourne this morning! Thank goodness the humidity is gone for now.

Glad to hear you are feeling so great Jojo, what a transformation!
And hello to our wounded soldiers Weemam and Emel, hoping you feel much better very soon. Don’t listen to your family Wee, it’s great if you can move a bit. I know they are just concerned for you of course. Emel your Dad sounds lovely, hopefully we will still be helping all our kids when we are 79.

No stiffness from yesterday’s foray into the pool, obviously didn’t work the muscles that hard! I plan to start gently, twice a week til the end of the month then up to 3pw from Feb when the pool empties out of school kids. I know this is nothing for all you exercisers out there, but it’s a huge commitment for me who has an anaphylactic reaction to any exercise.

Nicky thanks for the idea re cheese for the magpies, tried it this morning and they vacuumed it with glee!
Congrats on your big loss again AO, great way to start your Friday. I heard on the radio last night that there are warnings re possible flooding in bushfire area on the weekend, oh goodness I hope not!

I “over celebrated” my excitement with my swim yesterday, plus wanted to use up last of Xmas unhealthy foods, so used last of cream, bacon and cheese to make Spag carbonara for an easy dinner. Well. Scales up .8kg this am, after being down 1.2 yesterday! I know the spaghetti cannot possibly be converted to fat that quickly, and not stressing as fasting today, but it really demonstrates how such a low fibre, high carb meal can really make your gut sluggish and literally “weigh you down”!! Cream etc would have been better in the bin, better even not to buy it. Sometimes I need a reminder obviously!

Cheers all!

Thanks Jojo, I most certainly AM thrilled. I had two weeks where I allowed myself to have whatever I wanted (Xmas/New Year) and now I’m back doing 5 2 properly. I agree the timing is important.

I still allow myself sugar/carbs but this will now only be on Fridays for sugary things if wanted (but endeavouring to cut that out completely).

I also got to a goal today with now being in double digits (albeit only just), so now my goals are 5kg (approx 11 lb) until reaching my next major goal.

Emel glad to hear you’re back home, even though still not back to your full health.

Wee please take care of your back.

Hope everyone else is fit and well 😀

Good luck to all those having a FD today, I’m sure you can do it 🙂 I won’t be able to get back online until tonight now so will hopefully have lots to catch up on by then 😀 😆

Im falling behind on the thread this week.
My apologies.

Jojo had a dizzy spell?
I’ll need to go back and read.

no I don’t work on or live on the water.
I have a 26 foot sailboat . Its been in the family for 25 years it’s a 1974 . So its 40 .

I swim like I was born in the water. But ive so many perfect days turn into disasters .I’m constantly keeping vigilant with safety.
I believe chance favors those whom prepare.
so treading water and swimming styles practice is how I prepare in the indoor pools.

only recently have I been aware of swim HIIT. where you can swim from 1 end of the pool a then walk back. A you tube search for swim hiit shows the technique.

I’m a firm believer in all three fasting, adequate nutrition, and exercise.

A few years ago I found a Web page that was critical of diets mostly the viral popular ones.

comparing them against sustained weight loss.
the insight was . If a person ate healthier and exercised it didn’t matter which diet they were on.

enter fasting

the fasting approach offers benefits very close to calorie restriction. So after watching. Eat, Fast , Live longer. And also the truth about exercise.

There is several things I want to start doing and then keep on keepin on.

fast
Walk
weights
hiit
improved nutrition
Increase vo2max
detoxification

and stop
drinking
smoking
over eating
clean my air and water
avoid risky behaviors
and then focus on the top 20
accidental and preventable risks of death.
and prepare for age related issues.

not all in the first day,

Well done, AO. Great result. Bay

Thanks, Samm

Will think on it. Since I haven’t gained weight overall, I think that somehow the processed carbs could be retaining water and slowing my metabolism, thereby expanding my waist and hips. I will have a few weeks without any processed carbs and see what that does to my measurements.

I am successfully using the 5:2 to maintain my weight. And I am sure it promotes health.
Cheers, Bay 🙂

Hi SAMM,

So the old saying ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, supper like a pauper’ really is good advice then!

Morning/evening all.

Happy, that was exactly what I was thinking and it does give some credence to the breakfast is the most important way of thinking.

Another FD for me today and I don’t feel particularly hungry this morning. Very windy here but nothing compared to what is happening in the north and Scotland.

Have a good day evening everyone.

I can’t eat first thing in the morning either. Even if I feel peckish it makes me feel bloated and sluggish.

We are in the business of changing habits and beliefs here so I guess we need to stop thinking of breakfast in terms of a bowl of cereal or a piece of toast eaten while half asleep first thing in the morning, and think of it in terms of the original meaning ie breaking the fast.

Brunch rules 😉

Amazon, I’m with you on reclaiming break fast from the breakfast eaters!

Jojo, have a great walk.
You’re really on a roll (low carb!) at the moment, go girl!

The endorphins released from exercising also make you feel good, something that can’t be underestimated. I look at exercise as improving my fitness and flexibility, and fasting for fat burning. Having said that, once the body is in fat burning mode, exercising will help to keep it there.

I’ve decided that I won’t be going near any bread, rice etc for a while as my system is still a bit out of sorts. I’m having roasted tomatoes stuffed with garlic, pesto and reduced fat mozzarella with a green salad for dinner.
No bread until I’ve lost at least 5lbs!

Mm had to think about those Happy joints Purple, thought you had taken up smoking for a minute!
Is the vegan diet just something you have been drawn to? Were you ever a big meat eater?

One of the joys of no longer working is having the time and the inclination to look at the variety of food on sale rather than buying the same things every week. I was looking at tomatoes yesterday and the nicest looking were the very large varieties that I don’t usually buy, so I bought a couple with a view to stuffing them. Reduced fat mozzarella is the only reduced fat cheese I’ll eat, as the others don’t taste good and I’d rather have less of them.
I love roasted tomatoes, I have a lovely recipe that uses garlic, basil and olive oil. Once cooked, they are left to get to room temperature and then drizzled with balsamic vinegar and more fresh basil. They make a great starter, or can be served alongside other salads.
I must stop talking or even thinking about food as dinner is a long way off!

Amazon I love the way roasting or grilling, or even frying tomatoes brings out their real flavour! Yours sound yum.

Purple I think I could avoid meat thru the day if I knew it was still on the menu in the evening. Just finished 4:3 for this week, I really find it tough, feels like fasting all week. Hopefully scales will reward me in the morning. Dinner was really hard tonight. I had some really lovely coleslaw plus a nice pumpkin and chick pea salad with mint and a few walnuts, BUT the others added grilled, marinated lamb riblets and baked potatoes. Not sure how I let that happen as I am the main cook around here, but it won’t happen again. Still got lots to learn !

It’s raining again so I think I will just get into bed and listen to it and convince myself I am not hungry.
At least the garden is happy with the beautiful soaking it’s had today!

Hello All.Just a quick note to say that I have lost 2lbs this week. Am very pleased with myself!!

Good evening all
Boy that was some wind last night about 100 MPH . Quite scary . We were fine but lots of trees down over the roads .
Could not get my Dad out of my head last night . I got quite upset as it has been about 2 weeks since I have been able to see him .
Back wasn’t just as bad this morning so I managed to go see him. He is looking really wandered now . he knows I am his daughter and I love him but I don’t know if he would know my name . It is just so sad seeing someone you love just vanish before your eyes . About 7 or 8 of the family Have been taken by Alzheimers . I couldn’t take him for a drive but he got loads of kisses and cuddles .
I have lost the Christmas weight . I am quite happy with that . I thought I might be at a standstill with all the painkillers I have been taking .

Lots of love

Wee xx

Hi Fast Tracking Friends one and all new and not so new 😉
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) 😆
Week 16 and down – 1.3kg and I’m really happy to be me today 😆 with two back to back fasts in 5 days this week it was enough at the end tho 😈 but that said my first ever 4 day fast was my chosen entry into this wol and I still have not achieved that level of loss or got even close to it again my standard routine is ADF 4-3 MWF and 18-6 which achieves a kilo a week and really I have to say is my go I think. 14000 steps walking a day is the exercise component for me and works a treat but wow wee I am so badly out shone by SAMM Nicky and Jojo you guys are weird in the nicest possible way you understand 😆 Really Bear Grills Nama 😯 I think he is the 2000 version of our 80’s World Safari guru Alby Mangels in short shorts that’s me clothes where optional as I recall & with the very lovely and beautiful Judy Green 😉 a little sexed up yes but it is still a dangerous world out there right ? I personally would risk it with her to save me but. Now I realise our non Aussie team will think I have gone quite mad but really you would have had to have watched this gem in your local town hall to know right 😆
Amazon fantastic news a private gym instructor hmm 😉 you go girl Weemam glad to hear the back is a little better and your dad will know the cuddles and kisses and feel the love I am quite sure and I wouldn’t be too worried about the odd typo here and there check out my one finger wonders here if it were an style type writer it would seriously fly off the end at the end chaa ching 😆
I am so lucky here in that I don’t have to ever buy eggs as I have chooks myself & the mother in-law always brings in a few dozen a week she has a fully enclosed orchid at the farm that also has her chooks in and she has more in there than I can count by the way 😯 and doves ducks pigeons 2 peacocks a couple of guinea fowl a few guinea pigs a fluffy bloody big bunny and a very slow moving goose and gander 😆 So I was wondering fast trackers how do you guys buy yours super market butcher shop vegie shop local market farmers market maybe you know someone who knows someone or do you have your own chooks?
Have a great weekend Ya Losers 😉
Peace RT

Hi RT and Amazon . I was brought up in the coun try and played in the fields with the horses,cows and sheep . used to get all our egs and veg from the farm . Now we just shop at the supermarkets . I am one odd 🙂 as Ilove to go grocery shopping . One of the reasons I hate being stuck at home

Lol Amazon were you winking at the instructor 🙂 .

Wee xx

Hello Fters
Slence from me at present.
I am finding the situation in France so upsetting that fasting is not an option.
It’s almost worse being absent from France than being there. Waking up in NZ this morning was not an easy awakening.
When you have spent a quarter of a century in France as I have- you have a strong love-hate relationship with it. But it is a country that one can never be indifferent to.
As RT says
Paix, amour, bonheur et je suis Charlie.
WiWi

Wiwi, such shocking events in France are almost beyond words, so I can understand a little of what you are feeling.

Amazon, I also keep all bones and carcasses, boiling them for eight hours once I have a bag full then skim and freeze for casseroles and soups. My daughter started me on this, among other things – it was a learning experience having her living with us and being chief cook. Well done signing up for the gym, and getting such a good deal.

Hubby and I both joined gyms when we moved to England – gosh, was it 15 years ago? – and his trainer was astonished that he didn’t move a kg. Got fitter, but no weight loss. Neither did I, but exercise doesn’t do it for me either. Totally mouth-related!

SAMM, you might be right about evening carbohydrates. I have a problem with evening snacking on non-fast days, which is sabotaging my best efforts, so must be stronger! I think the evening wine weakens my resolve. And 16/8 doesn’t seem to help with the weight, just being aware of the total daily intake.

Must be stronger!

RT, I get free-range eggs from the supermarket, but I have my doubts about their veracity. They seem flavourless, especially compared to the (long-ago) memories of our farm eggs of childhood.

Good morning fellow losers 😀 … Please don’t think I’m not thinking of you if I don’t mention you personally – this post would be two miles long if I did that 🙂

RT in great form (and shape) this morning I see, well done on your losing streak (not literally!!).

Wilbersnana (WN) great going for your first week in here, you’ll see that we may not all make the 2 lb each week but on average over time that is our aim. I’m aiming for at least the 2 lb each and every week (but may not make it) now that the festive season is over, everything else is easily catered for thank goodness as we have a lot of socialising at this time of year (summer).

Jojo I’ve heard that those hormones do often perk up the more you lose

Wee glad to hear you got to see your Dad, it is such an indescribable feeling when this happens I know (happened with my Dad) so super cyber hugs to you

Amazon we’re considering having our own chooks but need to set things up securely for them first otherwise they’ll be fair game for foxes and other feral creatures. That is IF we do decide to get some. Love the double yokers btw 😀 .

PVE I also cannot abide food first thing, not only do I feel sluggish all day I also feel hungrier all day and tend to snack which is something I don’t do when I start eating lunch time or later. I’ve not really ever been an evening snacker but if I eat early in the morning I don’t stop snacking at night.

I’m challenging myself to eat later and later each day, FD’s I’m aiming for one meal, evening, with non-FD’s eating not before 1pm and evening meal completed by 7:30pm this way even if we’re going out for a meal (other than Fridays) I can use my semi FD strategy of either nothing before going out and then having anything I want or am presented with (leaving starchy carbs to last) or having a clear soup or Bovril/Bonox for lunch around 1 to 2pm and then eating what I’m presented with or want but limiting starchy carbs, by leaving them to last and usually I’m too full up to want them by then 🙂

I don’t find I’m hungry the next day either until around lunchtime and on a FD I just drink extra water 🙂 or have a Bovril/Bonox (10 calories) if the water just doesn’t cut it.

Wiwi thinking of you and the people of France, this is such a horrendous act. Last night I heard they had surrounded the perpetrators but that someone else may have been taken hostage. I haven’t heard/seen any news yet this morning so I can’t comment if this has been resolved yet or not.

Well time to get myself moving (p’ing down with rain atm) and might get out the old Wii Fit stuff and use that to get some extra movement happening 😀 at least I won’t give my neighbours heart failure or panic attacks seeing me “bouncing” down the road hahaha

Have a great day/night one and all.