Hello Fast Trackers
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) 😉
Happy fast Monday team
Oh Jojo that is sweet sweet wording 30 years of leisure and pleasure it’s my intention to work until 70 so that is 18 years away and that will make me 105yo im going alright at that minute 😉
Nama the footy was a great result not real sure how the form stacks up though last Saturday Sydney smashed us this week we beat Richmond who have beaten Freo and the Hawks the top 2 premiership contenders so time will. Third son very coy about things but they seem well suited introverted but happy in each other’s company.
Your trip sounds amazing and I am envious but I am not a man of action more of your sloth maybe 😆 Y-fee never keen to do anything so in holiday mode we are both relaxed and casual couch surfers or couch potatos and lounge lizards if you will… 😆
Lets get our fast on
Peace RT

Good morning fellow-fasters everywhere:
Emel, AO, RT and comespring in South Australia
Nama in Victoria (currently in Queensland)
Bay in ACT
Purple in NSW
Barata in NZ
Jojo, Smiffy, HappyNow, Amazon, Hermaj, Lizzy, Wee, CakeyWakey, Tessy and Iona in UK
Wiwi in France
Applepie in Spain
Ply, SAMM, Lori, HealthCoachB and Sarah103 in US
DJ in Canada;

Have been reading but no opportunity to post until now; internet problems at home and busy at work.

EDIT: Good evening Jo.

Nama and Bay, thanks for taking the time to post about your travels – love it!

Emel, my near neighbour, well done on the promotion from beginner yoga. Is your class somewhere close to home? I go to a Monday lunchtime class at work but would love to fit another in if possible and Saturday would be perfect. Good news on finding your Fitbit charger.

RT, when I got to 64 I was doing a fairly physical job full time and resolved to retire at my next birthday because my knees were so bad but with a new boss and hours reduced to 3 days/week I’m still here with 70 looming next April. My current boss keeps saying we should retire at the same time (he must be joking as he’s probably more than 20 years my junior) but keeps finding me interesting projects. Unless pushed, I plan to keep on until I have at least reached my weight goal – you can see how dedicated I am to my career 😆

Good fast day yesterday following a moderate previous week. Saw my PB on the scales this morning so, unless something disastrous happens today, looking forward to a new result tomorrow. Boiled egg and kiwifruit (Chinese gooseberry) for my 3pm break-fast and low cal fish and salad for dinner. Still very cold here but weak sunshine coming through my office window, highlighting the crystalline purple flowers of African violets on my desk.

Take care all and keep up the good work. n xxx

Thanks P.

Retiring before Christmas? 😆 😆 (wish I could do one of Amazon’s rolling around laughing smilies)

Sadly still many kgs from goal (and retirement), as still in the upper overweight range but not trying to look too far ahead – small steps, small goals and celebrating each small achievement. Working on being well within the normal range by my birthday.

avagoodone! n

Hi Jojo,

Just read you have a cat sitting job to start tomorrow, so have I! Joined a site, hoping to cat sit in France eventually, first job is in Oban. Second looks to be looking after a cattery in Surrey. Is yours thru a site or just for friends?

Lurking as usual but keeping up with all your ups and downs – mostly downs I think, keep up the good work, you keep me going with your great chat!

After a longish silence, hello again! I can see why this is the fast track thread- if you aren’t fast, you fall off the track!

I have been in Rome and my wee grandie is not too ill according to the doctors. He may be prone to those chronic breathing problems, small children get in winter, but no CF.
It was so hot in Rome. Good thing as pizza didn’t seem attractive.

I got a bit off track recently as we have had house guests coming and going for nearly three months and I have been in the kitchen. Fortunately summer food is not too calorific, but all the same preparing lots of pommes de terre sautées (tiny potatoes just cooked slowly in a mixture of oil and butter until crisp and flowery inside) are my downfall. In this dry part of France, we have wonderful potatoes.
Until two days ago it was still very hot and sunny.

Ten days ago I did a very useful exercise and went back to first principles, read all the literature again and started again. For 10 days now, I have been strictly adhering to ADF ( RT in two weeks that’s 7 fasting, 7 eating) and I am in the high overweight range too, Nicky. On a bad day, I still hit BMI 30.

Tomorrow is shooting stars night here ( in fact all over the planet). I love this light show, and I have arranged my fast days to fully enjoy this night. The weather forecast is not good and the sky may be covered. I recommend this as a wonderful experience if you have clear skies. The peak will be at 5am UTC on Thursday( great for Californians, Sarah.) Some meteors may touch the earth’s atmosphere, and the moon won’t rise until day break, so nice and dark.
I love stars and I think the best place for them in my experience is Ukuru in Central Oz where they seem so close. But this show not put on for Australians due to timing.

Must organize for today’s stargazing friends arriving. I will fast today and feel wonderful tomorrow.

Tangatawiwi

Hi Wiwi great to see you back on the line 😉
Fantastic efforts 7 days out of 14 fasting
whereas 4-3 is 6 fast days out of 14 what great return to the fast life welcome back
awesome news the grandie l am sure everyone concerned is feeling the love right now
peace love and happiness RT

Thank you all for kind words. I am so happy for my wee grandson.

The courgettes are abundant, Purple. We shall have crumbed corguettes tonight

Enjoy the cat-sitting, JoJo

RT, I liked what you did a while back and put down all the web sites. It’s a very good reference, and I do love to know about the science of what we are doing.
I think going back to first principles worked for me as I got sort of blurred around the edges. In fact I think what did it was trying to do 19:5 on up days. I could not maintain the strictness and got too hungry on fast days. A compromise is now 19:5 on down days and probably about 17:7 on up days. Basically 3 meals in two days.
Anyway summer here again today with the garden veges looking so attractive.

Bonne journée ou bonne nuit, mes jeûnes amis. (Remember déjeûner from your French classes- = to stop fasting)

No wonder you are in a good mood. Well done Nicky!
Careful RT, she has a good joke collection 😆
P

Beautiful work Nicky I love a good laugh there where some doozies among st them good skills you 😉

Hi all from Noosa Heads in Qld – one of my favourite places to visit – reminds me of a little place called Carmel in California. Very green and lush compared to outback Qld and beautiful ocean as well (just for a change!)

Well done Nicky & Iona and everyone else! Great to hear from you Wiwi and wonderful news re your grandson – CF is the worst diagnosis, such a life sentence, you must be so, so relieved.

Jojo your comment about missing fasting is very telling – it would seem that fasting has truly become a part of your life now! A few detours on our path is ok, the fasting will still be there! I planned to fast tomorrow, but new plans for a nice lunch out have meant I will fast Fri instead when we are travelling. Love it! My weight is still stable and my new eating habits are really working, so liberating to see it working in “real life”.

We have been using airbnb a bit on this trip and it has led to meeting some lovely people. At present we are staying in an apartment attached to the home of a retired business man (very social and very active still at 77) and his wife who is an artist. Such delightful people who we would never have met otherwize. I think the accommodation industry has reason to worry. Where we are is on a 3 acre property, 10 mins from heart of Noosa but backing onto a National Park – 10 steps to a bushwalk!! Its cheaper than an apartment and we have 3 times as much room.

Cheers all x

Hi everyone, nothing so invigorating as a music festival like Jojo just the usual everyday stuff for me. Looking for a loss come tomorrow as have mainly kept on track, I know I will get better as the weather warms as I know I don’t drink enough water while its freezing cold and wet, so am happy with small losses through winter. Loved the laughs Nicky as did my OH. Have a great day/night everyone, catch up more later 🙂

Hi everyone, just dipping my toe in this wonderful fasting stream of life. Dear wiwi I was so glad to read about your grandson, waiting and not knowing is so stressful. Jojo, cat siting is a great way to stroke your way around the world I feel 🙂 you can come and sit my cat any day. She is our last cat, her sister sadly died earlier this year, she is so unlike her sister. Very nervous, not sure why. But she has to go into a cattery when we go away ( well prison really as she sees it) and she has a second sense about when we might be going, and disappears for days on end if she gets wind of an impending holiday!!! A disaster as you can all imagine:-( So we cannot start packing in any way until she is safely ensconced in the cattery! Sometimes she just catches sight of the slight fear in my eye that she may take off and she’s gone! Not good when you have a plane and a cat to catch 🙂
Well done on the new low Nicky and thanks for all the puns, I keep chortling to myself about ‘Velcro – what a rip off’ that has really stuck fast haha.
I managed to see a few shooting stars wiwi, before the clouds came over, it was wonderful, hope you had a clear night to see them all.
Happy fasting everyone, I am still plugging away, better day yesterday, had 3 very small meals, an egg, then banana and 3 Brazil nuts, then home made lentil soup, seemed to work well. I was fearful of opening up the sleeping piglet in me with breakfast. But it seemed ok. Will try this again, although felt like very few calories to manage on come dinner time!!! Go well everyone 🙂

Hi Tessy, I know what you mean about psychic cats. Mine always knows when I’m going out, or want to take her to the vet or on “holidays”. She even followed me along the street on my walk the other night and waited about 500 metres from home, up a tree, until I came back half an hour later. Don’t know what would have happened if I’d walked home a different way.

Good one RT. I ended up having about 60 calories of salad at 4.30, as we are going to a play tonight and I am sick of coffee and tea. This way, I’ll survive the peak hour traffic heading back into the city! All strength to you. 🙂

Jo, you can get away with busking here without a licence. My adult kids have done it as uni students. Mind you, you have to pick your places and you have to be good! P

Jo,

Good news that you didn’t gain any weight. Good luck with getting back into the routine of fasting.

I’m afraid I don’t agree with your sweeping generalization (“Cat and dogs are definitely better off in their own home when we go away”).

That may be your experience and your opinion, but it is not mine. My cats are attached to me, not the house, and are not used to being left for a night let alone a week or 10. We lock them in from dusk til dawn (safer for them, safer for wildlife). They are companion animals not independent latch key cats.

So to have a stranger (or even a family member) come in for half an hour once a day to feed them is definitely not in their best interests.

What happens if the cat is missing or ill? The ‘sitter’ doesn’t know the cat’s habits or where to begin to look for it. And doesn’t know the cat’s normal behaviours/ health well enough to be able to assess in half an hour (assuming they see the cat each visit) whether there are any potentially serious emerging health issues (as there could well be, particularly with older animals).

In my experience, my cats are far better off in a cattery when I’m away. They’re safe. I have peace of mind.

Hi Jo,

You didn’t offend me, I just thought I’d put my point of view forward for balance!

I agree there’s a world of difference between popping in once a day and moving in, and you’re clearly a softie where animals are concerned 🙂

Also, you’re right, it’s what their used to that’s important. We tried to put an old dog of mine in kennels for the first time as an older dog. He hated it, pined and lost weight. Yet we’ve had some very sociable dogs who apparently saw it as an adventure and practically ran in to the kennels each time!

A friend of mine has also used a service that places your dog in someone else’s house. So the sitter dog sits in their own home.

I see there’s already been storms and flooding in the south today. Hot and humid here. I think we get the tail end tomorrow.

Yes, you take care tonight! Definitely stay away from the trees… Wear rubber soles… Don’t use an umbrella! Hope it’s more enjoyable than yesterday.

Evening/morning all.

I’m back from a fabulous few days in the countryside with my friends. Apart from Monday morning the weather was very kind and yesterday was glorious 😛
I have eaten well but wisely so am not expecting any gains. My friends daughter is vegetarian and they have a very productive kitchen garden along with chickens and ducks so the emphasis was on using what they had and making it something that we could all eat. We always cook together and got a great deal of pleasure from producing interesting dinners from what was in the garden and the fridge. All we bought were two lemons and some mozzarella and we had four amazing dinners. I did make a huge blueberry pavlova which lasted us two days but apart from that it was all very healthy stuff.

We went out every day and did a lot of walking. We were in the Forest of Dean yesterday and clocked up 21000 steps on our walk!

I left this morning and came home via a pick your own farm. I have strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, cherries, plums and apples along with carrots, courgettes, runner beans, corn on the cob, cucumber, potatoes and red onions. I’ve never done it before and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I also stopped at a farm shop that sells locally produced food and have stocked up the freezer with meat and also bought local butter, yoghurt, cream, milk and cheese.

On Monday when the weather wasn’t too good we visited a wholefood warehouse which is much cheaper than London and I stocked up on nuts, seeds, dried fruit and other organic staples. I also bought some spelt flour and potato flour. The bakery stall at my local farmers market sells the most amazing potato and rosemary bread so I’m going to give it a try, and I’m going to use the spelt flour for bread making and baking.

Dinner this evening was delicious corn on the cob picked only a few hours before, followed by some cheese.
I am now having a glass of vino and catching up with everything. I had such a good time but it is nice to be home 🙂

Well done on the weightloss Jo! Keep up the good work and don’t read Amazon’s delicious post 😉
Welcome back A. We missed you. I use 60% spelt with 40% wholemeal in my bread, with added flax seeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. Delicious.
Happy, my cat nearly died when we put her in a really nice, recommended cattery. I’ve also tried a house visitor. Neither sit well with ‘madam’. We have had live-in minders a couple of times. She’s hell when I get back. We find it easier to take her with us, if we can. You are right. They are attached, emotionally, to their human family and don’t want to be parted. Bit of a drag, but my kids were the same 😉
Eating day for me today. 😆
Happy weekend guys P

Hi Milena and P,

It just goes to show that cats (and dogs) are all individuals too!

We have one now who hates everyone but us. TBH I don’t know whether someone else could win him over with food as I don’t think he’d come home. He vacates the house when visitors arrive and we have to find him nightly and get him in for food. Grumpy pain in the ar…!! Him, not me 🙂

It sounds though that we’ve had lucky experiences with excellent catteries wherever we’ve lived.

And having gone through the trauma of losing cats in RTAs, well, I’d rather know they were safe and are still going to be alive when I get home.

I was sorry to read about Willow, Milena. It’s never easy to lose a pet, but it always seems particularly hard when you’ve nursed them.

Hi Fast Trackers
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) 😉
Confucius say:
• Man that is stuck in pantry has his ass in jam.
• Man standing on toilet is high on pot.
• Secretary not permanent fixture until screwed on top of desk
• Man who stick foot in mouth get athlete’s tongue!
• Man who live in glass house should not throw parties!
• Man that go to bed with itchy butt wake up with sticky fingers!
• When called an idiot sometimes is better to be quiet, than open mouth and remove all doubt.
• Man with glass house must dress in basement!
• Everyone has a photographic memory, some people just don’t have film!
• Passionate kiss like spider’s web, soon lead to undoing of fly.
• Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone.

Have a great weekend you beautiful losers 😉
Peace RT

I have not lost 2lb this week and have quite a few social events coming up, make try 3 fast days next week. Now that my dog is getting on in years he won’t walk far so my step count has decreased quite a bit, I need to alter my routine so I walk without him- but that seems very strange!
Have a great weekend everyone, the weather is due to improve here tomorrow, here’s hoping!