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Fill up on low cal veg and herbs with a little Parmesan as an accompaniment to your one wonderful whole egg, Pent. Stick to full fat dairy too. Eat well, but in moderation. There are SO many options for reducing your calorie intake without resorting to corrupting a beautiful perfect egg.
Better still, do what many of us do and skip breakfast to reserve your cals for later. P
Oh P., I missed the last part of your comment….the part about ‘skipping the most beautiful meal of the day, breakfast!’
I LOVE this meal like I love breathing air…on the other hand suppertime can easily be forfeit but never my happy morning meal; break-fast starts my day with vigor and good cheer! Just for me though so it seems.
Pent, I was always a breakfast lover. I used to dream of great breakfasts. It’s what got me out of bed! About 18 months ago, Happy convinced me it was possible to eat breakfast at another time…same food, different time. When you can only eat so few calories every day (and I’ve been maintaining for nearly 2 years), when you eat your favourite food is unimportant. What you eat and how much is what counts. Mealtimes are random now, but the quality of the food is SO much higher. Go on, enjoy your eggs and full fat dairy. They will sustain you while you lose weight. P
Thanks for your feed back P. For me only, it’s not the actual FOOD that I eat at breakfast as I often, (pre-5:2) eat what would be called traditional ‘supper’ foods for break-fast but rather it’s the TIME of day that I want to eat. I’m an early riser, 04h30-05h00, after my writing, correspondence and spiritual time finishes, circa 08h00-08h30, I am VERY hungry and I eat. After my FOOD/FUEL and pretty regular like rain, (new post 5:2). I go do my cardio exercise. This life-rhythm only changes in the summer months as often by 07h30 it’s too hot (for this northern girl) to move a muscle outside but then I will get to swim for cardio instead. Ahhhh such is the pleasant life of the retired folk…
Hi everyone,
Just back from the gym. After my workout I decided that I was going to buy myself some hot cross buns which meant walking five minutes from the gym to the shopping centre. As I walked out of the gym a bus came along and saved me from myself 🙂
Happy, my bedroom was such a mess I have no desire to have a record of what it looked like. I might take a photo once it is finished and my new furniture has been delivered.
I only eat one egg unless I’m frying it and I accidentally break the yolk as I feel cheated, and to be honest I can’t see the point in not eating a whole egg as the yolk is nutritious and delicious.
I do miss my egg sarnie on a Saturday morning and am looking forward to breaking the bread fast with one at Easter 😋
I’ve just had Bircher muesli with a fresh fig and home made full fat yoghurt for my brunch 🙂
Hello all, been laid low by flu for the past 2 weeks, it really has taken some getting over. Feeling much better today, especially since I got my hair cut too – I feel presentable again! I have not been on the scales yet but my appetite (and exercise) has been virtually nil of late. Looking forward to getting back to routine and catching up with you all.
Hi Fast Trackers
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 CakeyWakey Sarah103 HealthCoachB Tessy pen nib Iona72 Pentimento pranayama and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Last night I reached for my liquid Viagra and accidentally swigged from
a bottle of Tippex. I woke this morning with a huge correction.
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My girlfriend said she was leaving me due to my obsession with the 60’s
group The Monkees. I thought she was joking …….. and then I saw her face
I went to the pub with my girlfriend last night. Locals were shouting
paedo and other names at me just because my girlfriend is 21 and I’m 50. It completely spoilt
our 10th anniversary.
My budgie broke his leg today so I made him a little splint out of a
couple of Swan Vesta’s,his little face lit up when he tried to walk..
Unfortunately, I forgot to remove the sandpaper from the bottom of his
cage.
I got sacked last night from the Salvation Army soup kitchen,
ungrateful bleeders.
All I said was, ‘hurry up for goodness sake, some of us have got homes
to go to!’
Christmas is like any other day for me, sitting at the table with a big
fat bird who doesn’t gobble anymore.
Women should be like golf caddies, either holding your balls or getting
your bloody tee ready!
Last night I was sitting on the sofa watching tv when I heard my wife’s
voice from the kitchen,
‘what would you like for dinner my love, chicken, beef or lamb?’
I said, ‘Thank you, I’ll have chicken please’
She replied, ‘You’re having soup you fat b*stard, I was talking to the
cat!’
Got myself a new Jack Russell puppy, he’s mainly black and brown with a
small white patch,
so I’ve named him Bradford.
I was sat in a restaurant and got hit on the back of the head by a
prawn cocktail.
I looked round and this bloke shouts, ‘That’s just for starters!’
Yoko Ono has been signed up for the next series of ‘I’m a celebrity,
get me out of here!’
Show bosses think she will do really well since she’s been living off a
dead Beatle for the last thirty years.
Have a happy weekend all you beautiful losers 😆
Peace RT
Oh RT! Thank you for a great start to Friday. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I really needed a laugh. Just heard last night that my long-standing colleague, the one for whom I had been filling in on Wittunga weekend duty died yesterday. He had bowel cancer and wasn’t yet 50. He was a cheerful friendly man who lit up everyone’s day, lived a healthy life of good food and was physically fit and active with his job as a Botanic Gardens of SA horticulturist and black belt karate instructor. Sometimes lifestyle and attitude are not enough.
Enjoy the long weekend my SA mate.
Hi Nicky thats terrible not 50 wow that is reality in one big slap in the moosh bugger when i heard the Geelong football player Paul Crouch had suffered a heart attack and died last weekend whilst bike riding the same thoughts i have when reading your post healthy lifestyle good diet excellent physically top bloke good scout happy aussie fella do anything for anyone that phrase only the good die young is very shallow and empty one 😥
Peace RT
Hi everyone, RT love the jokes. Nicky so sad to hear such a void to fill. I’ve been “listening in” on all the conversations, but not got around to posting even though I’d meant to, so here I am 😀
Not going so well still but endeavouring to keep within TDEE limits (which I AM achieving albeit not managing fasts just yet). One thing that keeps nagging at me is to perhaps kick start and do a liquid only fast (non-alcoholic I promise lol hahaha) for a minimum 24 up to 72 hours however will need to time it so OH doesn’t go all “you must eat” on me which he’s liable to do so need to get my strategy right first 😀
Nothing much to report other than I’m still hanging in by a thread … good luck to you Jojo and hope you get that gall bladder removed soon, so difficult for you. Have fun all and chat later 😀
Hi all,
AO lovely to hear from you. Hanging on by ‘a thread’ is all you need to do for now! If you can stay around TDEE you won’t undo all your good work. I think considering what you have been through with your shoulder and your job changes, you are doing well! Lots of lesser mortals would have just gone back to overeating!!
Nicky so sorry to hear about your friend/colleague. Way too young. Every day is precious.
RT, so funny! Jojo is right re the non political correctness – aren’t we lucky to have this thread where everone has enough common sense to just enjoy them for what they are…..mmm liquid viagra, imagine if you got the dose wrong….. the mind boggles.
Have a great weekend all. Long one here too, to celebrate the eight hour working day on Monday….its a funny old world where we get a public holiday to celebrate working less!!
Hi again
Thanks RT, AO and Nama for your kind words. In his final months he set a wonderful example of how we should all live our lives as if each day was our last. Cheerful and brave even when he was so thin and haggard he looked like a living corpse.
AO good to hear from you. As Nama said, hanging in by a thread is enough when times are tough.
Take care all and enjoy the long weekend. Nama, ours is ostensibly for the Adelaide Cup which isn’t run until May but they changed the holiday because the weather is better in March – go figure that one out!
Jo, sorry to hear about your error of judgement with your car – dents can always be fixed but it’s so irritating. You asked about my planned 3-day fast. Like AO I have to time it right because of my OH’s concern about me not eating. He’s going to Perth for the week before Easter so planning to do it then. I love him to bits but sometimes I like being on my own…. 😉
A man went to the doctor because his foot was sore. The dr gave him a large pill and left him in the office while he went to get some water but took so long the man found a drinking fountain and, with great difficulty, swallowed the pill. He then returned to the office. A short while later the dr came back with a bowl of water to dissolve the pill so the man could soak his foot.
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Morning/evening all,
Sunshine and frost again this morning,
Another FD beckons.
I forgot to say yesterday that I had unearthed the scales and I’ve lost 8lbs in just over 4 weeks which is very satisfying and feel confident that I can lose the 12lbs I’ve set as a goal for my trip to Rome 8 weeks tomorrow.If all goes well it might be more. Setting a mini goal with a deadline usually helps and as soon as the bedroom is back in order those skinny pink jeans I bought last year and never got into will be hanging on the wardrobe door to remind me.
Have a good weekend everybody 😜
Hi pen nib,
I’m already wearing skinny blue jeans but they have some lycra so they stretch a bit and the pink jeans don’t. I would love to be able to wear them when I go to Rome.
This article is about the link between cholesterol and heart disease and is very interesting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35775318
The sentence that interested me the most was
“It is worth noting that exercise both increases HDL and reduces the risk of heart disease.”
Hello from Milton Keynes
A bit sad to leave beautiful summer behind downunder!
A long silence, as leaving NZ was a fulltime job.
Now a big effort needed to counteract the excesses!
Off to Rome on Monday where I hope to find my wee grandsons, some sunshine and then back to France when we get tired of Italy (unimaginable).
There will be no pasta in Italy for me, but instead, hopefully those wonderful vegetables of Rome will be available.
I will catch up with the thread and answer when we are in Rome.
xx Wiwi
Hello all,
Congratulations Amazon, 8lb gone despite the cake and the renovations! Pat yourself on the back, thats a real achievement.
Lovely to hear from you Wiwi – safe travels and keep us posted. How lovely to see your grandsons, a great compensation for leaving the sunshine behind. And how you will enjoy getting home to France and the Spring garden!
I will be AWOL til at least Tuesday as off to Jamieson for long weekend and no wifi this weekend. Walking shoes and new gardening gloves packed, plus my oil paints in case I get bored with gardening…..
Have a lovely weekend all xx
Morning/evening all,
After going to bed hungry I slept until 8.30 this morning!
It’s a bit dull here this morning but no frost and the difference on temperature is noticeable ☺
Jo, there is usually a big blackboard just inside the entrance at Kew telling everyone what is worth looking at/in bud/bloom. If not ask one of the staff at the gate.
I have a way to go until maintenance but am determined to be there by the summer. It is nearly 3 years since I first begain 5:2 although I did have an 8 month break in 2014 when I regained 18lbs, so it has turned into an epic. Having said that if someone had said to me at the start that 3 years later I would weigh what I do now I would have taken it!
I’m trying hard to remind myself of how far I’ve come and how close I am as it does help in moments of weakness or disappointment if the scales aren’t moving.
I’m having a haircut later then meeting my friend for coffee. She’s been in NZ since the end of January so we’ve much to catch up on 😎
Have a good one everybody 😜
Jo,
Do you have to eat with the team during competitions? I know you enjoy the social aspect of a group dinner but if whoever makes such decisions insists on being so intransigent then you must take matters into your own hands. The first thing you can do is arrange your own meals. If you are travelling or at another local club you can always try calling the hotel/club and asking for a vegetarian or grilled fish option. If they are unable to accomodate you then you could ask if they would be able to heat up something if you provide it.
If you are playing at your own club then you’ll just have to say goodnight after the match and go home to eat a healthy and satisfying meal if they won’t accomodate your request or allow you to bring your own food.
You must not allow them to scupper your diet.
Let them think what they like, it’s your life!
Sermon over 😉
You need to be tough at bowls Jo. I meet with friends every week on one of my fast days. I have done for a couple of years now. They eat yummy food and drink wine. I just have black coffee and water. They know it’s my fast day and never question it. I’ve learnt to ignore the smells and enjoy the conversation. Excellent training, I think. Steels my resolve.
Interestingly my skinny friend often has one tiny strip sandwich and coffee. My larger friend will have 5 sandwiches and 2 wines. Hmmmm…P
In that case you have to think outside of the box.
Choose the cheese salad and take a small container with strips of raw veggies, peppers, courgettes, carrots, mushrooms in a yoghurt, mustard and lemon dressing and add it to the salad. The whole thing takes minutes to make.
You could add a hardboiled egg or some fish of your choice and leave the cheese.
If it is cold take a small thermos of your lovely soup that you can drink from a mug with your salad.
You’ll just have to say no to dessert.
You can do it ☺
Hi Everyone,
Jo-jo asked if I am trying anything new. I signed up for a math class. It will be 90 hours of math this year. They are going to give us a test the next time we meet to see if we get better. The class is to help teachers teach math better. Algebra equations baffle my mind.
I am enjoying reading the posts and relaxing. Made some veggie soup today and a green been casserole.
Also, I started a new food journal, hoping to figure out why I overeat. I think I fail to plan. So it will also be my planner.
Take care everyone,
Morning all,
Well it’s definitely milder here, and my thoughts turn to the garden…first things first, get some seeds started! Chillies and broadbeans (for the polytunnel) are germinating, I’m going to start my tomatoes, courgettes and cucumbers today, and maybe sow some carrots and beetroot in the polytunnel too.
I’m going to ‘sacrifice’ a couple of raised beds and prepare them for the asparagus I grew from seed last year. I’ve got 10 plants, but need to start more as I think I probably need 20 to get a reasonable crop for two people. Do any of the other gardeners here grow asparagus? And if so, how many crowns?!
Jo, I don’t have time to take up a new hobby, I don’t have time for my existing hobbies! Now if only I didn’t work…and had a cleaner…and a gardener…!
Morning/evening all,
Happy,
When I first got my allotment I had no idea what asparagus was and was very annoyed with these funny green stalks that kept appearing all over the place seemingly overnight and I dug them all up. When I discovered the taste of asparagus the penny dropped and I was so annoyed with myself. I bought some crowns and planted them but they died and I guess I did something wrong as they obviously could survive in the soil 😤
I think 20 would be a good number and you may find you want more but IMO there is no such thing as too much asparagus!
The weather is definitely more spring like so let’s hope winter is over. I was going to plant some chillies this year, I have an electric propogator that I put in the living room in the bay window, but what with going away at the end of January and the building work I didn’t get round to planting any seeds so it’ll have to be some seedlings this year. I’m planning on growing them in window boxes so they get lots of sunshine.
Only two weeks until Easter, I can taste that bacon sarnie already……..
Have a good one everybody 😜
Thanks Amazon,
I’ll aim for 20 in the first instance.
Re: starting seeds. I have a couple of heated propagators too, but I’ve found to my cost that if you start some things too early you don’t get an earlier harvest, you just get weak etiolated plants. And things like cucumber and sweet corn want warm growing conditions, hard to provide if spring is cold and sunshine scarce!
Hi Jo,
We haven’t installed the automatic watering system…yet! It’s on the list though. It will obviously save time, but it’s also much more efficient use of water, particularly important as we’re not on mains.
I’m the plantswoman, but OH is the lawnmower. Thank God I don’t have to do everything!
It’s been a great day, not wall-to-wall sunny, but 15 degrees!! I know the Upsidedowners will laugh, but we’ve been out in t-shirts AND sweating working outside!
I’m glad to hear you’re feeling well enough to restart the BSD. Sounds like the sooner you get rid of your gallbladder the better?
Happy,
15° is positively balmy 😉
I think you’ve had warmer weather than me today. It has been a glorious sunny day but the wind was bitterly cold when I went out this morning and I was wishing I’d put a warmer jacket on!
I went to the local Sunday market which consists of less than a dozen stalls but there are some great foods on sale. I came home with olives, some fabulous cheese, pork belly and a huge bunch of ruby chard which made me very happy as it isn’t something I see on sale very often in London.
It has definitely warmed up as I haven’t had any heating on today.
My garden is very small and there is not a blade of grass in sight. When I first moved in there was a small patch and I dug it up and laid a patio using paving slabs.
I would love a bigger garden so I could grow some vegetables but I can’t see that happening unless I win the lottery or move to John o’ Groats!
Sometimes you’ve just got to love Spam! This is an excerpt from the thread Overnight Weight Loss, worth saving before the thread is deleted.
“Being overweight does not necessarily make a person unhealthy. It just makes the person a bit unfashionable.”
Seems we’ve all gone wrong! The answer isn’t weight loss at all, but a make over/ personal stylist 🙂
Jo, I went to Kew today and the bulbs are spectacular. The woodland glade is full of scillas, there are daffodils, crocii and snowdropes everywhere, and if you go round the back of the Princess of Wales conservatory, the funny shaped mini conservatory at the end of the rock garden is full of delights!
Sorry I can’t join you, maybe next time!
I don’t have any bookings for the spare bedroom in January, Jojo, so let me know dates 🙂
I’m off to my personal stylist on Thursday, should see a drop on the scales on Friday morning (nothing to do with Thursday being a FD, or course).
Fortunately my OH does the lawns too, Happy – but I do the rest !! Just need a bit of rain overnight for the grass to grow, there has been so little in the last two months, and February was the warmest on record here in Wellington.
Or of course, it could be exactly that, just coincidence? Two things happening at the same time aren’t necessarily cause and effect.
The Mediterranean diet, low in refined carbohydrate and saturated fat, seems to be exactly the well-balanced healthy diet recommended for gall bladder…Well in fact everything!
Oh well. Hope whatever you decide to do instead works.
Morning/evening all,
Jo, I think your symptoms are more to do with your gall bladder needing to be removed as soon as possible than the BSD diet. You’ve been having problems for ages and the time between attacks of pain and feeling unwell has been diminishing.
As Happy says, the diet is very healthy and low in saturated fat so it is the best eating plan you could be on at the moment. If you don’t mind me saying, I think you need to slow down a bit and stop making such physical demands on your body until you’ve had surgery and are fully recovered. I know you have always led an active life but your body is telling you that it is struggling to cope with everything at the moment.
Cold and cloudy this morning.
Have a good one everybody 😜
Hello all,
Back in Melbourne after a wifi free weekend. Now wondering if the long silence on here is due to a crisis for Jojo’s gall bladder! I certainly hope not!
Kew Gardens sound wonderful, I would love to be heading into Spring/Summer instead of Autumn/Winter! The Victorian countryside is so dry though, we do need some winter rain. Crossing the Bonnie Doon arm of Eildon reservoir was a shock this weekend, it looks like a moonscape with just a narrow channel of water. It has dried up considerably in the four weeks since I last went to Jamieson. My ‘gardening’ weekend consisted mainly of watering the poor garden.
Happily though, minimal weekend entertaining meant sensible eating and fasting! Finally removed the “Vietnam” kilos and moving downward again. Its amazing how complacency is never far away. Losing 23 kgs was a challenge, but the extra few that crept on in December have been determined to stay with me! Obviously I can never lose focus, but its well worth it to be able to wear size 12!
Hoping you are ok Jojo….
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