Enjoy your tennis Amazon. Well done on your fasts, 3:4 will get your weight moving I am certain.

Hi Iona, well done! Two consecutive days is quite an achievement. Your weight will bounce up again but overall will decrease if you keep fasting. Keep a record of your weight (and measurements too) and you will see a trend. Its great to look back on if you have a week of no losses. Fasting really does ‘reset’ your appetite too, lots of us are in bad habits of either grazing or just oversized portions that have seemed normal. Your appetite should decrease after fasting. I have a sweet tooth and that has improved a lot. I still love sweet things and sometimes have a breakout, but the cravings have diminished hugely. You are right to plan, its a big help. Good luck.

Wee – if they feel good, they’ll look good. Go for it!

We’re both in the same decade. Traditionalists might want us to toddle around in beige crimplene with blue rinses and pensioner perms, like these poor old souls in this popular perception of how women should look beyond a certain age, not like the foxy ladies who frequent the forum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26654759.

We know where the traditionalists can go, don’t we? 🙂

If I wasn’t such a big baby with a very low pain threshold I’d get myself a tattoo, small, discreet – a ladybird, a butterfly, a flower, maybe, but a tattoo nevertheless.

Wee, wear your jeans with pride 😛

Well I’m certainly not meeting those exercise targets so time to change my ways I guess!

Hermaj and Wee just go for what you want. I know my 87 year old mother wears jeans nearly daily in winter (too hot in summer) and goes and does what makes her happy 🙂

One thing which riles me is when “strangers” come in to the forum and the first thing they do is try to give links to non related diet or exercise sites – yes I’ve reported the latest one! Strangers please get to know us and let us get to know you before posting links and really find out first if we are even interested 🙂 – apologies Jojo if I have overstepped just get sick of their posts coming to my emails.

I think what saved me from more weight gain while incapacitated was getting back to 18:6 or 19:5 as soon as I could. What I had available to eat was dependent on my OH as I could not drive and the nearest shops are almost 8 km away which I couldn’t walk that far as I was off balance. I am this week starting to move more normally in my walking and getting better balance again.

Have a great weekend all 🙂

Thanks Ply and Nama He has been a bloody worry to me for the last 5 years and it was fair to say I was more nervous than him he had washed his car and bought a new shirt and was extremely anxious, he had booked a table at the local Indian restaurant for 6pm last night he picked her up he didn’t want to meet her there so off he went & 3 hours later they came home she met y-fee and I already knew her from work 😉 he does not drink alcohol and neither does she so he made 2 milo’s they watched a movie in the living room snacked on some chocolate and then he took her home. Very old school he was back in ten minutes he smiled and he was just so happy and that dear fast friends is why.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

That was pure gold for me to see 😥 happy Dad tears

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
— Erma Bombeck
Peace RT

Hi AO

Most of those links are Spam. You can see by how many threads the link has been posted to, that mostly it’s done by computer not human. Good job on reporting it.

Cheers, Bay 🙂

RT,

I love that family quote, so true!

Fantastic that your boy is hopefully now in a place to trust again and have a relationship.

Jo,

Good to hear from you. Fantastic news on the weight loss!

I also ended up water fasting this week (Thursday lunchtime until Friday night) due to a stomach bug. I blame Ply! I wouldn’t have fasted earlier in the week if I’d known! At 1.6kg lost this week, I’m a fully paid up member of the lose 2lbs club…but a bit lower than I want to be so unlikely to be fasting again for a while…

Happy Saturday all.

Enjoy the tennis Amazon.

Wear those jeans with pride, Wee. Just don’t come back and ask us about mini skirts and hot pants… 🙂

Morning/evening all.

Lots of posts ro catch up on 🙂

A beautiful hot sunny morning 😛

I have recycled every item of clothing that was too large as I’ll never need them again. I also have a few items bought on impulse that are too small, but I’ll wear them one day. Day one of B2B. I am pleased that it is a hot one as eating nothing and drinking a lot is so much easier than when it is cold.

Earrings are not exclusively a teacher thing. I had my ears pierced for my 7th birthday and have had a life long love affair with them. I wear silver jewellery and have a large collection of earrings both small and large. I bought a beautiful pair of danglers shaped like Gingko leaves home from Bruges.
I always had to wear a uniform so used to wear patterned/funny socks as did many of my colleagues.

Happy, does having lost weight unintentionally through being poorly mean that you have to eat a bit extra to build up your strength…….. 😉

RT, good to hear you son had a successful evening. Despite it taking so long, and you being so worried about him, the fact that he took his time before putting his toe in the water again is a good thing. It must be wonderful for you and Mrs RT to see him happy again.

As for the exercise targets, I have time and energy to devote to such things and I enjoy the gym, but not everyone is able or wants to. Now that I’ve improved my health and fitness with weight loss and exercise I’m looking at strength work because I no longer do anything else. My job was fairly physical in nature and involved moving a lot of heavy equipment around on a daily basis and I needed to replace the workout my muscles got with something else. I also gave up my allotment which was another source of hard labour.
We all do what suits us.

Have a good one everybody.

Hi Amazon,

My digestive system is still a little delicate today, but yes I’ll be looking to ‘eat up’ to my maintenance weight. I can honestly say that before I found 5:2 there was not once ever in my life a time when I thought ‘ooh, I need to eat more’. I really do feel as though intermittent fasting has ‘fixed’ me and my body finally works with me not against me.

Hermaj,

Good to see you here!
I guess I should add re: age appropriate clothing that Wee’s jeans might be inappropriate if she’s wearing them with 6 inch heel snakeskin shoes and a bra top 🙂

And interestingly, mini skirts and hot pants on younger people aren’t necessarily appropriate, depending on body shape and size and context.

I’m afraid I can’t join in on earring (or shoe!) obsessions. I’ve always worn my hair longer and loose, so although I have some nice earrings there’s little point wearing them! As for shoes: wellies, walking boots, running shoes, bike shoes, a pair of boots for winter, a pair of shoes and a pair of sandals for summer: replace any that wear out!

Whoops! Obviously out of practice. The last post was aimed at Amazon AND Happy. Poor old soul’s obviously losing it. 🙁

I’ve a good excuse though. I’m alternating posting with translating stuff about Central Asia in the Middle Ages – Genghis Khan and all that. Now there was a real nasty piece of work. Obviously a role model for ISIS and the like. And cheeky with it. Having destroyed a whole city, seemingly just for the hell of it, as one does when one is an evil, power-crazed, homicidal maniac, he went on to tell the few survivors that it was all their own fault. He had been sent by the Almighty to punish them for their evil ways.

Happy,

We just had a by-election due to a vacancy on the local council. Only 26% turnout. The other 74% are too busy complaining about local services…

Hi hermaj 🙂

I wore a swimsuit for my 60th 😛

Hello everyone, well I am back. I have decided that this forum actually helps with accountability as I simply gave up a couple of months ago, not long After my trip to China and whilst I have not put on much I realised this morning that I felt better when seriously doing 5:2. So here we go again. I am about to start a new term and after ten days of a cold which became an infection I am beginning to feel a bit better. So tomorrow is day one. I will fast and see whether I go straight to 4:3 or stay at 5:2. It has been wet, cold and miserable so not wxercising much, all of which have contributed to my lethargy. Off to Melbourne work a girls week end in seven weeks so want to fit into my lower sized jeans,.
Cheers emel.

Welcome back emel. It does keep you accountable, doesn’t it? I’ve decided to stop the forum addiction a couple of times and quickly returned. Too many great fasters here to keep you on the straight and narrow! 😉

Hermaj, Bay is right. But what we have is compulsory ‘turn up to have your name crossed off the electoral roll’. Some people (idiots) still write x’s or obsenities on their ballot papers. I’ve done scruntineering and it staggers me how blase people can be about their precious right to vote.

Having a good weekend up watching the ocean and eating to make up for too much fasting last week. 🙂 P

Morning/evening all

Sarah, I was on holiday in Australia and my friends threw a breakfast BBQ on the beach for my party, so it wasn’t daring or outrageous (must try harder) 😉
Several fasttrackers swim regularly so wearing a swimsuit is nothing unusual 🙂
B2B means fasting on two consecutive days which I am doing this weekend and today is my second day. It isn’t that difficult if you keep busy, and I’ve done it a lot but got out of the habit.

Hi emel welcome home 😆

Off to the tennis today and I’m really looking forward to it 😛

Have a good one everybody.

Right with you on the shop assistant point, Purple.

When I was about to marry Him Indoors after 24 years ‘living in sin’ a well-meaning younger relative suggested I might get a personal shopper – i.e. a high-end shop assistant – to help me choose my outfit. I’m afraid she got a colourful reply, bless her. I did not want to wind up with a ‘mother of the bride’ outfit or worse, looking like the blankety-blank Queen Mum, in pastels with a silly hat, while leaving the poor personal shopper in tears.

It made matters worse that, as a result of the quack continuing to shovel corticosteroids down my throat to treat polymyalgia rheumatica two and half years after the condition had cleared, I weighed 84 kilos (this was before 5:2 was invented), which at a height of 1.55 metres was obscene. I also had a great, big moon face with little piggy eyes. Yuck!!! I wore black, OK with a rather nice sparkly decoration around the yoke, but not very bridal.

Evening all

Hi Jojo

I had a wonderful day but the fast day went t*ts up 😆
I fasted yesterday so it’s not too bad. I didn’t eat all day and then got home feeling absolutely ravenous and wanting to celebrate the win so opened some wine and had a slice of bread and butter as dinner was 45 minutes away. I had 375 calories worth of stuffed peppers so not a complete disaster, but I can’t see any of this wine surviving until tomorrow. The end result is a 4:3 week and I’m planning on making the next week the same.

The tennis match was wonderful and the atmosphere so exciting. The result was never in doubt but it was a really tough battle. The sun was very hot but fortunately there was a cool breeze. It was fantastic to be part of the whole thing and I’ve never watched Andy play live before where he has had such great support from the crowd.
GB play Australia in the SF in September and we are at home. It will probably be played in Scotland.

Hi Bay,

I meant to ask you before – what is preferential voting? Is it where you get a list of candidates and are asked to number them in order of preference? Sounds a lot fairer, but must be murder to count.

Re calories on eating days Jo, mine is about 1200 also. And I still need at least one fast and an extra 1/2 day fast to maintain my healthy weight. The shock reality for me, and Mr P, was how little food we need to sustain our goal weight. That’s why we choose our treats carefully. This is for life, like a kitten, not just for Christmas! 😉 P

Hi Efficient Fat Burners
Nicky Emel comespring and Aussie O in South Australia Nama & Keirra in Victoria Bay in ACT PVE in NSW WiWi in France & Barata in NZ and Jojo SAMM HappyNow Amazon Herm Lizzy Ply Tartan lass Smiffy Lor_PA CakeyWakey Sarah103 HealthCoachB and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Interesting to read AO that 19-5 or 18-6 was the stabilizer whilst recuperating I think this is one of the keys in IF as when everything else may go pear shape ie exercise or good fast days this fits into our daily lives so well.
Nicky what an outstanding game for the showdown so much respect and commitment to the ball and for the Walsh family and oh yes the closest margin ever 3 points not forgetting we WON wohooo!!
Emel how nice to see you back on the bike so to speak put the steps in place get a plan and a strategy to eliminate the doubt and remove the confusion in the day to day fast world.
Amazon thanks so much Mrs RT is the original mother hen who goes broody very quickly 😆 and she is very happy. This time around is very different and it will most definitely be the tortoise and the hare story unlike well to me at least the courting in these times of meet someone Friday night bed them Saturday night (if they can wait) move in together Sunday on the skids by Wednesday and move out Friday morning and repeat 🙄
Sarah our son has shown great strength and character to put his faith into the life journey so whatever needs to be done from us for him will be done as i am sure you have but appreciate your kind words.
Jojo sometimes I think for our kids we try too hard and want things for them to be easier happier better than our own journeys perhaps but it will all go into the story book of life the MIL has been on the farm alone for 15 plus years and a kind gentlemen a widower from the croquet club would love to be more than her playing partner but she is adamant and vehemently suggests she want be having any of that nonsense 😆 each to their own
Herm I got my first tattoo at 38 exhilarating stuff after the burn and pain wears off 😉 granted it is not quite like jumping out of an aeroplane to sky dive or bungy jumping off a bride into a river but face the fear and enjoy the power of positive thought.
Nama I think we bumped the pies out the 8 with yesterday’s win and the big full forward Travis subbed out that’s not ideal hope its only short term for you guys.
Purple I concur on how little food I need to be in the right weight zone I could graze on greasy yummy crap all day and drink beer and chips in between on a daily bases and now perhaps only on a handful of days in a month. Dry July has not been an issue for me but will enjoy a stubby or three come August one for sure 😉
Ok lets get our fast on people
“It is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT

Iona put the weekend behind you, thats why most of us fast on a Monday! The main thing is to get back on the horse (or the bike or whatever!).

Jojo I have tried to discipline myself to count calories but it feels too much like the thousands of previous failed diets when I do. And when I do, if I overindulge I beat myself up too much and end up eating even more! This works for me by fasting strictly then relaxing on non fast days and just trying to be ‘sensible’ And by going with the flow if social events pop up, then being strict with myself if I happen to overdo it. I also aim for 18/6 most days, especially if a special dinner is on that evening. Seems to be working so far. I guess I am just too lazy! I have tried using MyFitnessPal a few times, but find it really tedious.
As we all often say, whatever works or is doable for each of us!!

I had a lovely afternoon yesterday at a dear niece’s baby shower – hadn’t been to one for 25 yrs, they must be back in fashion! Her in laws are Italian and the best cooks, the food was fabulous! The scales are frowning this morning but I hope they will be smiling tomorrow after a good fast today. The compliments I got yesterday will spur me on….