EMEL
Very good to hear you are enjoying the trip.
I believe it’s just as important to enjoy our foods as it is to restrict them. To me the important thing would be the confidence knowing I can restart intermittent fasting any week of my life. So I could enjoy the new experiences while traveling . Thank you for sharing your trip with us.

Amazon I’m chuffed for you! Great work keepin on!

Ok JoJo
http://adrianarmstrong.com/help-reduce-pain-and-inflammation-by-balancing-your-ph/
Here an article I like about dietary PH
It’s not complete, but is an easy to read and simple to try approach.

Ill spend most of the day looking through other views. Some people’s think it’s goobledegook. I don’t think it is , and see how easy it is to be aware and simple to remedy. I don’t see how it could harm even if it is gobbledegook.

It say something about how it takes 8 waters to neutralize. 1 coffee . So In That context it mat be intresting to wrap our heads around it for times when were dealing with inflammation symptoms. May good to understand how to test at home, and have a quick remedy as quick delicous meal or treat.

Good one RT.
however , when I caught my first wife fooling around , I lost 50lbs in 6 months. Hmmmm.

Here another PH info website. Foods link with a nice little chart too.
http://www.trans4mind.com/nutrition/pH.html

Here’s a much much longer lists of foods and their ph values.
http://www.pickyourown.org/ph_of_foods.htm

http://www.eidusa.com/Theory_pH_FOOD.htm

And this about turmeric
http://www.naturalnews.com/042335_turmeric_phytochemicals_vitamins.html
If you choose to use turmeric as an anti inflamatory food, it’s best to use together with black pepper.
And you should read the weblink to avoid possible drug interactions.

I use it in tomato soup with mixed vegetables where pepper is preferred
It is on the #12 highest IF
Serrano peppers being the highest, but the Serrano doesn’t have the other benefits the turmeric has.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000992000000000000000.html
If your looking for anti inflammation foods. This page should be copied.

IMHO
I truly believe there will be a shift from screaming at us to control our cholesterol. To screaming at us to control our inflammation. My thought is combining the proven anti cancer foods, and the proven anti inflammation foods into the diet in almost every meal. And makem taste yummy!

RT
Red beans – one of the highest sources of anti oxidants, also has the enzyme that makes most people sensitive to the full feeling. Glad you were listening. Besides. 300-400 calorie for 70cents. Lasts 3-4 hours before feeling hungry again. It’s at the top of my list.
My experience has been that I can add all sorts of stuff to them if I like. If I may toot mine own horn!

My fav combo is red hot luisiana catfish, red beans, and turnip greens for 600. Not hungry for 5.5 hours.
But on a feed day I add the cornbread, and sweetened carrots. For 1200

Hint from my notes.
1 can mixed vegtables in sugar free tomato sauce
1/4 can red beans in chili sauce
300 calories. Last 4 hours before hunger and 5 hours before hunger pang.

But keep up on some good farting humor as the occasion to use such humor may arise!

Hello fellow-fasters everywhere – have been following the posts but never enough time to respond properly and every day there were ever more pages to catch up with.

in South Australia: Emel (so glad you’re enjoying your China trip, hope your sore foot is better soon), AO, RT and comespring

in Victoria: Nama in (thanks for telling us about your breakfast RV with Purple)

Bay in ACT, Purple in NSW, Barata in NZ

in UK: Jojo (have loved hearing about your French adventures with your daughter and Smiffy, sad about your triple hit on arrival home, your aunt sounds like a marvellous role model, hope your boiler and hip soon mended), Smiffy, HappyNow, Amazon (great weight loss!), Hermaj, Lizzy, Wee (sorry I missed your birthday while I was AWL, glad you enjoyed your icecream treat; sad news of your BIL’s death, sending e-hug to Mr Wee), CW and Tartanlass

Wiwi in France, Applepie in Spain

in USA: Ply, SAMM (sorry to hear of your scary accident, hope your knee heals soon, wise words about both good and bad times not lasting) Lori and HealthCoachB

DJ in Canada;

If I’ve missed anyone, no offence intended. As RT says: “You know who you are.”

Two good fasts Mon-Tue this past week, stayed under 1200C on Wednesday and under target TDEE Th/Fr. Saw friends Wednesday for first time since January – comments like ‘you look amazing’ were very gratifying. Feeling very ‘second-hand’ today as have caught OH’s cold, which he caught from grandies. Had yummy road beef for dinner last night and have made big pot of leek soup for lunches – very comforting now the weather has turned wintry.

Take care everyone and keep up the good work.

Great joke RT. Again I am looking at all your comments so late at night. I did make it through my 12th fast day while joining 5:2 and doing so good. I use to binge on Fridays.. now I fast. SAMM take it easy, Chalene Johnson just came out with a new podcast about IF, lots of information which I thought was controversial. I am still reading Cristi Vlad’s book.
Good night everyone or is it good morning.

Morning/evening all.

One thing about losing weight is that I can’t tolerate alcohol as well as before, so last night after three glasses of wine at a friends house, I was thanking my lucky stars that my journey home only meant crossing the road!
I do feel fine this morning though. It is a beautiful morning and I’m going to Hampton Court Palace. I’ve not been for nearly 30 years and it is time I had another look round. It is right by the Thames, so if we have energy left, we’ll walk some of the way home along the towpath 🙂
Jojo, sounds like a great day, but I doubt your hip got much rest, I think someone is going to have to tie you down 😉

Whatever you’re doing this weekend, enjoy 😛

I will not be known as a cheap drunk, I’ll have to start drinking champagne 😉

Downloaded the podcasts.
It’s always good to hear more perspectives on the same group of subjects.

I guess mine would be that no mater what , I refuse to be sedentary ever again, and refuse to NOT be in control of my weight.one thing learned over the last two years. I can exercise and get my weight down to healthy levels, but If I don’t make healthy food choices I’m still in the top 3 risks of death.
Those being tobacco, alcohol, and poor diet.

As you may guess, I love eating food so much that became obese, I now semi fast to lose fat.
With the suggestion to do what is doable, not only for exercise, not only for fast days, but also what’s doable on feed days!
First I gave up fizzy drinks. Anti cancer/Anti inflammation teas instead.
7 walnuts everyday
Healthy fish 2-3 times a week
Only 20 servings of beef,chicken,pork a month.
Low glycemic vegtables.
Foods rich in anti oxidants
Pre and probiotic foods
Appropriate supplements.

Not to mention HIIT, walking and weight bearing, balanced with good sleep.
Steadily losing 70lbs over 2 years .

I’m still keepin my ears and mind open. However after looking back in mine own past in the ways I’ve lost weight. I look at IF as a food lover. As intermittent hunger days. I will lose weight slowly over time and will not be hungry 4-5 days a week. In addition I will be able to enjoy myself eating with friends and family, participating in the holiday feasts , and then go right back to the IF lifestyle.

The one thing I won’t forget no matter how far I go with this. I started incapacitated , in bed and have slowly increased my activity by doing the doable. Luckily that has meant becoming stronger and more active than I was in my youth.
Getting injured again , stuck in the bed only able to walk to another place to rest or to a car. I know i need to heal. So I do it. But I’ll never go back to the sedentary life again. I find 1 lb a week doable, and 2lbs a week achievable. This week I gained 3lbs 😮

I’m more like the turtle than the hare. I may not win the race , but I will get to Finnish line.

Wow, purple, you get around. Driving to Melbourne to say hi to Nama, and pick up a tuba. Did you fly in your classy fiat? I once hitch-hiked from Sydney to Melbourne and it took 24 hours. Now you are off to Boston to see Ply.
I like your sum up of where people are, Nicky.RT too tells us, but I find the paragraphing easier to follow.

Ply, as from next week I think I will do 4:3 and continue the 19:5. I eat from 5pm to 10pm. It turns into more of a 20:4. It’s effective. But by the end of the afternoon, I’m starving! Like you, I have big events in May and I would like to lose 2 or 3 more kg before then.

I discovered something interesting with my scales. On the stone floor downstairs, I weigh 2 kg less than on our too flexible floor upstairs. That brings my weight loss to 4 kg in a month.

I am following in your steps, Amazon and JoJo. I am the proud owner of a pair of pink jeans too now, though they are in Italy. They are dusky pink.

I must follow up your threads, Samm

Spring cleaning and getting rid of junk is great. We took 2 carloads to the village bin. It feels like losing weight too.

Happy weekend.
XX Wiwi

Are pink jeans becoming uniform for fasters? I remember when little Welsh JIP started then trend. I wonder what happened to her? Wiwi, why have you left yours in Italy? Can’t France cope with your chic rose pants?
Our downstairs scales weigh about .2 less, so I use them if I’m almost into the next kg down. Anything to feel good about yourself 😉
Ply, don’t disappear completely before we catch up 😉 Your regime sounds perfect. Well done! Can’t wait to see the results.
Happy days everyone. P 😆

Very summery, A 🙂

Hi everyone and I mean everyone.
Wiwi.. two car loads, i am impressed.. that is my new focus when I am not eating or reading this post.. that is cleaning.
I had a pair of red jeans for awhile, they became to big. I am a little shy to wear pink, black and blue jeans hide me well. I ve got to live a little.:) Amazon I admire you.
I have something to celebrate.. only a 1/2pound to my goal weight. I hope it stays there,today is not a fast day, so I am going to be up. But by Wednesday I will be ready to fast again and I know if I keep this up I will score and live this wol forever. But I have to stay focused.. like you all.
SAMM.. Thank you for the websites.

🙂
Knee just had a good pop after some of the swelling has gone down. Feeling much better!

Morning/evening all.

I has a great day at Hampton Court Palace. There is so much to see so we didn’t do everything, but saw 75% of the palace and about 25% of the ground. We’ll go back in the summer and have a goo walk outside and round the maze. I didn’t eat until the evening, and we went for really good pizza and wine 🙂

FD today to make up for the dessert which I didn’t need and was quite frankly a little disappointing.

It was overcast earlier, but the sun is peeking through, so a walk is in order.

Happy Sunday everyone.

It is a myth that dark clothes make anyone look slimmer, and as for enabling anyone to hide, the only way to do that is stay at home!
Well fitting clothes are the most flattering, and that is what most overweight women avoid, by wearing loose fitting clothes. I used to do it myself and it doesn’t work. I wear any colour that suits me, and while there are some black and navy items in the wardrobe, they are in the minority.
The most important thing about the pale pink jeans, is that they are jeans, something I had not worn for over twenty years until I had lost some weight with this WOE and they are also skinny jeans. They are still too tight but when I wear them it will be with a short top or tucked in shirt, not something loose covering up my hard worked for small bum!
We are so used to being ashamed of being so overweight that we find it difficult to embrace the fact that we aren’t any more. Be brave and reveal the waist that you have rediscovered. Be proud of what you’ve achieved and show it off, you don’t need to wait until you reach your goal, life’s too short!

Absolutely right Amazon! I have had to totally rethink my “look” and am even rejecting some size 8s that have stretched a bit! No baggies for me!
Today we did a walk in an historic cemetery with Nat Trust. Fascinating. There was a massively fat woman in black slacks. Mr P actually said “Well they don’t slim her down!” She really could have benefitted from a Trinny and Susannah Makeover and boy was it hard to watch her struggle to move when we know how to help her. So frustrating. Poor lady. Glad you enjoyed HCP again 🙂 P

Excellent advice, Amazon! I learned the importance of fit from the show What Not to Wear, which I believe started as a British series. Wear what makes you happy and confident!

I feel the same way amazon. For me the intermittent fasting has given me patience, being hungry for a short time , then not being hungry again for days. Very empowering , compared to most weightloss diet I’ve tried. I guess it comes down to what happens after the weight is gone. I confident that when I reach goal I won’t feel like I need to go back on a starvation diet again or non stop hunger till goal. Just a few weeks or more of intermittent fasting. Doing the math. Very empowering over whom I was when I began.

Good morning/evening everyone.

Wow what a busy thread – I remember when it used to get quiet on here over the weekend! I have been away from wifi for 3 days and its taken ages to catch up on reading all your news. Loving all the pink jeans!

I had a lovely, lazy break with a couple of good friends in the fresh (very fresh) country air. We still walked a fair bit (with umbrellas at times) and it was easy as one friend is doing a ‘10,000 steps daily’ challenge thru a group at her work. Very helpful. I tried a pedometer a while back but found it a bit addictive and ruling my day, so it was good to have someone else doing the thinking! Jamieson looking stunning with autumn colours. We ate out a few times but healthy choices available, it was the wine, cheese and chocolate by the fire that was the challenge… Never mind, it was lovely and fasting awaits today. Hopefully some Bayleaf style therapeutic housework too!

Funnily, my friend with the pedometer is quite overweight but appears not to be concerned about it. Her husband does 5:2 for health reasons. She is informed and otherwize very healthy, does pilates and yoga as well as walks and swims. I figure she is just not vain re her shape, or maybe its just ‘too hard’. Fortunately she never tried to sabotage my efforts to behave over the weekend. I emphasize to her how easy it has been to lose 16kgs but she does not seem interested in applying it to herself.

Now to get out of my warm bed and face the scales ……

“Turtles and Picnics” joke from joke budda
Hot 7 months ago
Three turtles, Joe, Steve, and Poncho, decide to go on a picnic. Joe packs the picnic basket with cookies, bottled sodas, and sandwiches. The trouble is, the picnic site is 10 miles away, so the turtles take 10 whole days to get there.
By the time they do arrive, everyone’s whipped and hungry. Joe takes the stuff out of the basket, one by one. He takes out the sodas and realizes that they forgot to bring a bottle opener. Joe & Steve beg Poncho to turn back home and retrieve it, but Poncho flatly refuses, knowing that they’ll eat everything by the time he gets back.
Somehow, after about two hours, the turtles manage to convince Poncho to go, swearing on their great-grand turtles’ graves that they won’t touch the food. So, Poncho sets off down the road, slow and steady.
Twenty days pass, but no Poncho. Joe and Steve are hungry and puzzled, but a promise is a promise. Another day passes, and still no Poncho, but a promise is a promise. After three more days pass without Poncho in sight, Steve starts getting restless. “I NEED FOOD!” he says with a hint of dementia in his voice.
“NO!” Joe retorts. “We promised.”
Five more days pass. Joe realizes that Poncho probably skipped out to the Burger King down the road, so the two turtles weakly lift the lid, get a sandwich, and open their mouths to eat. But then, right at that instant, Poncho pops out behind a rock.
“Just for that, I’m not going.”

RT
Funny RT .
Afte I moved I left my grill behind as it would most likely get stolen just for the metal where I live.
I spent my money on the pressure cooker, and crock pots. As they they come out very tender for me.
I also bought all ceramic pots and pans, and large sets of Pyrex. Perhaps I’m bit paranoid about metals especially from residues scrubbing them clean. Also the slow cook keeps from burning the foods which I will avoid like plague, so no need for the grill anyhow. Rosemary is said to help with burnt food toxins. So when I’m out and enjoy a serving of BBQ And I believe it has burnt or smoked particles in it . I make one my next meals heavy on rosemary. Like potatoes.

Good morning all I am in Dezhou today and then off to Beijing tomorrow morning on the fast train… We have taken two fast rains thus far…it is a scary experience getting on and off. The first train ride our group caused the conductor to blow his whistle hysterically as we were taking too much time to get off. You have two minutes or less, a bit difficult with 20 people’s luggage. The next trip our leaders put our luggage in two cabins so we did not block the doors etc…
I cannot get over the sheer numbers of people and the school sizes. 60 students per class’s. Mmmm will be mentioning that to my teachers when they start complaining…. I am in a small school and our numbers are small.
I have suffered with my feet and they have become quite swollen. I am wondering about the salt in the food as I did not have issues the first few days. Today I chose not to have breakfast hence sitting in the lobby writing this. We just seem to go to one meal after the next. I am feeling a bit puckish but am choosing to welcome the feeling. Lots of unusual food but more interesting are the translations fragrance of rabbit and beef heaving! Are but two examples.
Tonight we are put in pairs and are taken to a family for a meal… It will be an experience given my lack of Chinese language but we are becoming good at sign language.
Mmmm my aim is for a pair of pink jeans for my next birthday. December so I think that is doable. Cheers all

New tea maker just arrived, apparently my neighbor accepted it 3days ago. But was at work. Even though I haven’t left home for 6 days. No harm no foul I guess.

This one has a timer. I know it’s probably about as intresting as my aches and pains. Sorry. I keepin this one right next to the bed. I bought a cabinet that has 30 cube holes for the many different teas, ingredients, and equipment. Very organized! Very glad with myself about it, as feel it will inspire me to start out with health , from the moment I awake.
I moved it all from the kitchen , as many days I just need to avoid the kitchen. But it had been just a small tea maker in the bed room. Now is like a mini bar except stocked with all that healthy stuff I keep reading about. A pretty penny , but I won’t be having regrets.

Hi EMEL
Glad you are enjoying your trip. When my feet including my ankles swell , I put them in the cold air of an air conditioner . With them put up above my heart. No idea how. To manage that , perhaps a cold water bottle?? 60 kids wow?

Be brave and reveal the waist that you have rediscovered. Be proud of what you’ve achieved. Who ever wrote that is what I need to do. I enjoy reading everyone’s post and which help me. Cakey Wakey I bought a fitbit 10 days ago and it is keeping me accountable. I ate too much today but I did lots of food prep for the week. Have a great monday everyone.