Well done Amazon and Nicky on your latest losses. And everyone else 😉

You aren’t kidding about cool evenings/mornings Nicky! Had to resort to buying a warm throw last night to make it to 10 for the 2nd Buena Vista performance. The crowds were HUGE!

We are doing marathon numbers of steps each day, but I think the food and wine will more than make up for it. P

Hello All

I just started a 4:3 plan 2 weeks ago. I have been following this and the “over 50” thread every day. As I said in the “over 50” thread, I have decided to stop lurking and join in the conversation, as both groups are so inspiring. I introduced myself pretty fully in the other thread, but the summary is I’m 57, want to lose a realistic 20 lbs. If I succeed in that I will go for a “dream” 26 lb loss. I am a former long distance runner who was sidelined 2 years ago with a knee injury. 2 years and 20 lbs heavier, I have finally decided enough is enough, time to stop moaning about the weight and start losing it. I was stunned when I got on the scale today to see that I have lost a total of 6 lbs over the 2 weeks. Hope things keep going this direction, but fully expecting to hit a plateau every now and then. As soon as the weather gets above 0 degrees C. I plan to start walking, which I hope will help move things along at a 2 lb per week pace. PS just call me DJ – when I went to join the forums DJ was already taken so I panicked!

Whoops, what was I trying to say? Now, I think.

Hi all thanks for all your advice. I think I might give 4 3 a go this week only because I have a bridesmaid dress fitting in 3 weeks. I’ll give it a go and let you all know how i get on. Thanks for all the tips.

Morning/evening all.

Thanks for the good wishes. I am so pleased that the weight has started to come off again, and am determined to keep it moving. B2B FDs today and tomorrow to compensate for the gratuitous food that went with the beer 😉

Well done to everyone else. We are all working hard towards our personal goals whether it be losing or maintaining, and getting ourselves as fit and healthy as we can.

I agree with everything Nicky says about this thread, I came here after joining another and deciding it wasn’t for me. It was the right decision, as I’ve had so much support and made new friends too.

Purple appears to be having a high old time in Adelaide, and whilst the SH mob are reporting chilly evenings and mornings, the weathe here seems to be sliding gracefully from winter into spring. I have some dwarf daffodils only 15cms high, in a window box on the kitchen sill, and when I got up this morning, 4 of them are in flower. I love them because they are the colour of sunshine 😛

Have a great day/evening everyone.

Well 4 weeks and 10lbs down.

You are all so inspirational.

Last week I started trying to do more exercise – I have bruises on my waist from hula hooping!! Might have to give it a rest for a day or two sk getting out the skipping ropes this afternoon.

Mondays and Wednesdays are my fast days and strangely I look forward to them. But I also enjoy my non FD too – as I sip a lovely coffee with a Sunday morning croissant.

I like the balance this WoL is offering, it doesn’t feel all consuming like other diets have done. You don’t feel guilty for enjoying your food.

Having tried this last year and not getting to grips with it at all, my best advice is to try and stick to set days where possible. You’ve always got the opportunity to swap days if you get a better offer 🙂 but last time I just kept procrastinating.

Sorry I sound a bit evangelical.

This weeks step change is to drink more water- this diet definitely making me thirsty and diet coke really isn’t a good solution all the time.

Happy days

Thanks amazon I will definitely give 4 3 a go this weekk I will let u know how my weigh in goes Saturday. Thanks for the help appreciate it.

CW,
Well done on your weight loss.
Quite a few of us avoid diet drinks because of the artificial sweeteners as we don’t think they are very healthy. I used to drink Diet Coke every day, but I can no longer tolerate any type of cola. The only fizzy drinks I have are water, which I drink daily, and tonic for my gin 😉
In the summer, I buy organic cordials such as elderflower, and dilute them with sparkling water if I want a change from plain water.

Thanks Nama.

There are others here, Jojo for example, who’ve lost more than me, I’m just hanging onto their coat tails.

Glad to hear you are enjoying your weekend, and the health benefits of losing some weight.

Thanks RT very much!

I would only recombined 4:3 to those folks are a very good at 5:2. My strategy in the beginning was to start on monday.

Monday fast. , but if I couldn’t stay in the 600 cals. Then tuesday. I just kept trying until I had the 5:2 in 7 days.
About the 10 week mark I started to plateau . So I wanted to keep on with fasting. , but I needed to be more disciplined. Monday wednesday and Friday. Would be my fast days because on the weekends. There was too much temptation.

I was able to get back losing weight and some weeks were 2lbs. I kept a journal of my food entries and still do. .

After 8months I had schedule change. Money was very tight too. I was just eating my pantry foods , I fell back into my old menu foods. I went four months without fasting again. Until I simply just became curious. Around the 1 year mark I had lost 33lbs in 8months , but put back on 5 in four months.

After all fat loss attempts I felt the intermittent fasting gave me a longer approach. More satiation along the way. So I joined this forum,and decided my second year would be about 4:3 or ADF, but the my msintenance goal was not fat loss but accomplishing HIT, Commiting myself to jumping rope as my HIT exercise. It took me 7 months to get to the 7 minute mark and started in ith HIIT .

I felt HIT was just as important as waist loss. I can now jump for ten minutes, but don’t try to go much further. I like to jump after meals , because i seem to have more energy, but also as I understand it it help with lowering the amount of fat in the blood which I believe could possibly keep visceral fat from getting worse until I reach my desired body fat ratio.

I realized that combining the benefits of exercise and the benefits of intermittent fasting could be a doable lifestyle for me. Ihad a few more hurdles added to my journey,with diabetes, and some other personal challenges. Definately settle on the exercise and the intermittent Fasting as my lifestyle.

I ad always been reading from the Internet since 1993 a lot of food information. And other statistics about death rates. I find it intresting. To be aware of the top risks of death. Accidental, preventable, and age related. Finding this simple sentence fitting it al in .
“Avoiding cigarettes, limiting alcohol, reaching a healthy weight, and getting regular exercise are a great start to preventing cancer, but to best support your health, you also need to look at your eating habits.

After looking up the many foods that add benefit to health as opposed foods that do no good or even harm.
I found that the exercise, intermittent fasting , and improved food choices. Is very doable at the two year mark. While it can all be made complicated I keep trying to keep it simple. So that when I get into conversations with strangers I can get that power message across in as few words as possible.

I get about 2000 calories of exercise a week.
Like the 5:2 diet . I Semi fast for 3 days a week for 5000 calories of restriction. .
I also eat the foods on the anticancer diet. Proven cancer prevention and fighting foods.
So I do lose 2lbs a week sometimes.

Ive lost 69lbs so far and so have many others on the 5:2 forum.
I’m never hungry for more than one day.

I think I was still undecided in my thinking , until the discussion about. The lifestyle maintenance of intermittent fasting. I mean to say what lay beyond reaching the healthy weight. Thats when I realized I wasnt on a wright loss diet. I am living a healthy lifestyle.
I skip rope, walk for over 100 miles a week, and lift weights. I also fast 3 days a week But on the feed days I’m eating the health foods. I’m just glad hummus is a health food. And peppers stuffed with pizza toppings.

Good luck everyone!

Hello all

Another busy week but good from the fasting point of view. I had the usual two fasting days plus managed to stick to around 1200 cals on the in-between days, except for an unexpected treat to dinner out by OH. I had soup, fish and ice-cream, so not too bad, though did succumb to two glasses of wine! Hopefully no damage done, I’m so determined to get shot of these remaining ten pounds. I tried on some old tops tonight which I haven’t worn for years. Quite stretchy and classic style – v-neck and three quarter sleeves, and even if I do say it myself, they look pretty good! They’re in the wash for wearing very soon.

RT – your tv commentators’ quotes were hilarious! I’ve sent a copy to just about everyone I know.

Everyone sounds really positive and there are some great stories on here. Jojo – how lovely that you weren’t recognised! I went for a ‘Well ‘Woman’ check on Friday. Everything absolutely fine and I spent most of the consultation telling the (slightly overweight) nurse about 5:2. She was amazed. and was going to go away and look up the website, so I hope she does.

Ha ha Amazon – in for a penny – that’s exactly what happens to me! Alcohol always makes my brain make me do stupid things. Olives and cheese sound worth it though!

Nicky – you are spot on saying with a great bunch this thread is. Like you, I defected from the ‘other thread’ and was very apprehensive, but the fantastic support, banter and good humour has certainly helped me stick at this WOL, and being in contact with lovely people all over the world is the icing on the (low calorie, of course!), cake.

Hello Bryn and DJ. Bryn, you can definitely lose that two stone by August. Stay with us and let us know your progress. You will get all the support you need here. Good luck!

CW – well done! You are so right about the flexibility of this WOL – being able to enjoy your coffee and croissant without feeling guilty, or not having it and feeling deprived is why it works.

Wee – so glad OH had a good birthday. Brilliant achievement on your huge loss, and for resisting the rice!

Jojo – I would love to see you in your IW Day getup! What a hoot!

Off to have roast chicken, courtesy of OH who always cooks on Sundays – bless!

‘See’. You all soon.

Smiffy x

I think I know the one about Jack, RT. Very good – do post it!

Good morning all.

Welcome Pobster. From your expression ‘well chuffed’ I assume your are a Pom, as we charmingly put it in Australia. Congratulations on you granddaughter – the arrival of the next generation changes everything and they are such a joy to have around.

RT, my South Aussie fellow faster, seems you and I are the only ones up early on this public holiday in southern Australia (Vic, Tas, ACT and SA). Rough about having to work but it makes fasting easier. Only time and a half for PH? – or are you calculating the net gain?

Nama, well done fasting on PH but are most days similar when retired?

Mr F still asleep so decided to do some prep for my TAFE class on Thursday after trying to go back to sleep for about 30′. No FD for me but back to the routine tomorrow.

Purple, hope you and Mr P enjoy WOMAD’s last day and safe travelling tomorrow.

Amazon, lovely quote from Orson Welles 😆 Coat-tails nothing! You are one of my inspirations.

Happy Monday everyone and keep up the good work. n xxx

Morning all, well FD didn’t happen after all yesterday … why is it when your OH is away everyone thinks you need company!!! I was happily ensconced in a good book when eldest grandie and his dad came over for a while (grandie ended up staying which meant as I didn’t have anything out for his dinner we ended up buying dinner 😆 still love him to bits – we had his choice of dinner though hence FD gone!)

I’ve been told that someone else is coming over today (other son and granddaughters) so hopefully no-one will be staying for dinner as I really do want to get an extra FD in this week.

Great to see so many new “faces” in here … it’s a great thread with lots going on all the time … so welcome to everyone who’s joined in since last I was in here yesterday morning.

Nicky I finally got a small sleep in (to 7:30am) so happy with that, since then I’ve been out fed the dogs and chooks and let them all out, had cuddles with each of the dogs too while giving them their brekkies and now I’m back inside and doing “my” things for a time 😆 . Glad that your day is going well and is well planned out. Your students are very lucky to have you when you’re getting things prepped this early (still saves time/angst later if things start going pear shaped later in the week 😀 )

Going to run as I want to make sure I get my reading in this morning before others arrive 😀

Cheers to all, AO 😀

Good Morning to those awake in the Southern Hemisphere,

Internet slow but working so a quick Hi! Husbands theory is that Telstra want us all to upgrade to 4G so they are limiting the bandwidth deliberately, maybe! (Only Telstra available here in Jamieson, they have a captive market).

Yes Nicky, you are right re days all the same once retired, in theory….but funnily enough I am still very aware of weekends etc. Over the years I have worked a rotating roster with different shifts and zillions of weekends, but the weekends and public holidays still feel different, maybe its just the traffic! Or that family have regular hours. If I get to the point that every day is the same it might mean I have disconnected with the rest of the world, no thanks!

Happy fasting everyone, off for a long walk/hillclimb. Have a great Monday x

I bought a pack of nuts at the beginning of the festival and have been rationing them with Mr P all weekend. Saw Buffy Sainte-Marie in conversation yesterday (*front row)and about to see her perform. Well done Adelaide. Your WOMAD is tops! And plenty of healthy food options!!! P

Just had the most spiritual experience with Buffy performing. Most of us were crying through Universal Soldier. Why can’t the world put down their guns? Chillin’ under the trees.
Walked through Adelaide Botanic Gardens this morning and photographed their lovely Amazon Lily pond for you Amazon 😉 Live well everyone. P x

Hi RT,

I buy carbonatd mineral water but I use filtered tap water for all cooking, putting in the kettle, coffee pot etc., and it is what I take to the gym to drink. I only buy bottled still water in countries where tap water isn’t safe.

RT,

I’m on a private water supply, rainwater fed. UV treated and filtered, but no chemicals, so pretty much everyone else’s tap water tastes foul now.

Luckily we don’t tend to get too many droughts, so the supply doesn’t dry up… Although we do get pipe blockages from time to time, which mostly turn out to be frogs and worms stuck in the pump 🙁

Fatal for them I’m afraid, and makes me look at our tap water in a whole new light 🙂

Hi P,

Luckily the filter seems pretty effective at cleansing the water. And the effect of a frog blocking the pump is pretty immediate, so they get removed (intact, if slightly mangled) before they decompose…

So I’ll just have to take your word on what dead frogs taste like… 🙂

But can it outcompete the odour of sheep muck and slurry…?!

Me too…4am start tomorrow 🙁
Night all. P

Where did the day go? How did it get to be 3.30 already………………

I fasted yesterday, and decided to have a normal day today as it will be easier to fast tomorrow after Pilates than after using the gym equipment and swimming. I’ve been really hungry on gym days and having to have two meals if it is a FD which I don’t like to do because once I start eating I don’t want to stop.
I’ve just had a jacket potato, and it is the first one I’ve had for months. I filled it with a little cheese and chorizo and had some asparagus and spinach with it.
I am now absolutely stuffed 😉

Thanks team i am looking into one of the water purifying systems our rain water is good quality however the rest of the house moan about taste flavour and a smell which i dont find EVER 😉 i will start by a buying a bench top terracotta 5lt one from bunnings to try out have a happy day
keep on keeping on you losers
Peace RT