Good to see your spirits lifted, Jo. 😊
Excellent Easter Sunday here…egg hunt for the littlies, swimming and games for the adults. A lovely family day.
Hope everyone else is enjoying their Easter. P

I also lost four inches round my middle but I am not daft. I presume most of it is water. It is a good boost at the start though. Husband and I ate the same basically. Maybe he go two poached eggs instead of one but I think I now know the problem. I had forgotten to tell him to stop drinking diet fizzy drinks. Another good reason to join this 5:2 world. I am actually enjoying my warm water with apple cider vinegar too.
Thanks again peeps.

Hi all,
Clouds have not got to the Jamieson Valley yet RT, still lovely. I am sitting under a tree watching husband wield his chainsaw, clearing some fallen gum trees from the roadside. Its a bit noisy but I never let him go out alone with a chainsaw! There is a paddock opposite full of gorgeous cows and calves, I bet they are annoyed at the disturbance. I am sure it will soon be open fire weather though, this sunshine can’t last!

We had the best family dinner last night. My brother and his son-in-law buried two camp ovens in the ground with coals all around them. There was a piece of beef plus potatoes in one and a piece of lamb with carrots in the other. Eaten on the verandah with millions of stars overhead and a glass of red in hand, heaven! We are in the town so dont dig holes for our BBQs but my brother has 6 acres out of town on the side of a mountain, very spoilt for choice we are!

I hope everyone’s Easter has been as relaxing as ours. Fasting today because it is Monday, what a creature of habit!

Some reason for the last week this thread stopped arriving in my emails…hmmmmm

Short note: after fixing my errors that stopped my weight loss I met my 1-kilo per week goal at my weekly weigh in on Saturday. But unfortunately I didn’t reach my goal of 10,000 steps per day but managed to maintain 7,500 steps each day.

1) increased my water intake
2) returned to ‘correctly’counting my calories…and stopped the self-cheating like not recording my small finger-licking’snacks’ calories, deadly mistake it instantly stopped the weight loss!
3) increased daily physical activity

RESULT: back on track with steady shrinking body size & less excess weight on my bones. me pleased.

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) 😉
Camp oven cooking was Dads favourite and reading your Easter experience Nama with hubby and chainsaws nosey cows and calves eating dinner on the verandah under the stars with brother and family it doesn’t get any better than that seriously and a glass a red as my Dad would always say “I wonder what the poor people are doing”
Live life & have fun
Peace RT

Thank you Tasa, this forum has helped and guided me several times in my quest for a smaller, lighter, more limber, healthy body. I have to say that I’m Over-The-Moon seeing the scales reflect my hard work. And my HUGE but shallow EGO is delighted every time my husband compliments me on my smaller thighs/butt/tummy. I LOVE it! Every single bit of sacrifice and re-training is worth the GOOD FEEL I’m experiencing. Yes, I DID get a wee bit depressed with two consecutive weeks of zero weight loss, but reading some of the comments here helped me redirect my wayward ways back on the right path. The measuring tape and scales always tell the truth, sigh, no BS-ing these 2 badboys!

Had a successful FD yesterday with 480 calories consumed and 5-hours hard work bed-building and giant stone removing type of gardening, drank nearly 3L water.
As I have another warm sunny’home-day’ I’ll repeat yesterdays FD AND maybe even try again on Thursday…who knows…as long as I feel GREAT and sleep so deeply, why not?
My goal date to lose 3stone/19kg/42lbs was 23rd of July (start Jan.2016 don’t know the exact start date ’cause I myself messed around so much, cheating ‘n tricking ‘n so on). As of today 1.2 stone/8.1kg/18lbs of FAT removed! Me is pleased with meself.

Stay strong folks and if you fall off the path, just get back on!

Yessss!!!!Pentimento – the psychological boosts are fantastic and compliments keep on coming!! Well done!!

Penti,

Jo’s only speaking for herself/ generalizing wildly.

It certainly didn’t get any harder for me, and it’s as easy now to lose weight (at 59kg) as it was (at 72kg).

So long as you accept that as you shrink you need less food, and keep carbs and sugars at a reasonable level, you’ll be fine!

HappyNow…you lost 13 kilos REALLY? nice to hear. Yes, I have already noticed that I eat much less in actual volume now all the time and nowadays carbs are mindfully consumed and NEVER after 5pm unless I’m planning some kind of cardio exercise after supper which is unlikely. For me it’s just to STOP cheating a little bit here and there and telling myself it’s AOK…..only me’n the fridge will know….but not true! So do the scales and the measuring tape know…and God only know what else knows…the spoon too maybe?

Penti,

Can’t help with the fridge, scales or measuring tape… but I’ve got just the spoon for you!

http://www.ladedaliving.co.uk/product/calories-dont-count-on-this-spoon/

Answer for Pentimento’s question – Since February 2015 I have lost an average of one and a half to two lbs per week with the odd ‘blip’ but been determined to ‘keep on track’. so the result is amazing – I’ve lost over 5 stone and I am 15 pounds away from my goal weight – I want to have ‘nil’ spare tyre around my hips and wear size 12 skinny jeans!! At the moment I have got a nice new size 12 jumper which is definitely NOT sloppy to disguise the curves – instead it shows off my trim figure!! Weight has come off from the top downwards so my hips have been the slowest to show benefit! I’m down to size 14 jeans however (from size 20 no less!!!) and I’m going to get them professionally altered to size 12 so that I get sufficient value out of them!! They are already a bit loose and I have to use a belt to ensure snug comfort! Oh the joys……………………!!!

pen nib, you have done really well and I’m glad to hear that you are patting yourself on the back for what you’ve achieved so far.

The last bit of excess weight always seems to be in the area we most want to lose it from. Mine is all sitting on my tummy and I can’t wait to be rid of it.

Hi Wi
A camp oven is a large round cast iron lidded saucepan (also known as a Dutch oven), which you can use above the heat of the fire or nestle into the coals. Great for roasts, damper, stews when camping in the cooler weather. 😊 P

Will be thinking about you, JoJo:
All the best and looking forward to seeing you bouncing back.
XX Wiwi

Morning/evening all,

Sunshine and blue sky restored 🙂

FD went well yesterday and another has begun. My plane have changed so 4 days in a row will not be road tested this week as I’m cooking dinner for a friend tomorrow so will do B2B Th/F.

Jo, I hope the operation and your recovery go smoothly. X

Have a good one everybody 😜

RT,

Thanks for the links, fascinating stuff! I knew cooking/processing changed calorie content, but potatoes! Wow, nearly doubled by baking?! Luckily I’ve never been a calorie counter…and I don’t think I’ll start now 🙂

Jo,

I’m sure surgery will go well. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.

Tasa we all have times when we feel out of control. Find a quiet moment and sit down with a pen and paper. Write down your goals and think of one thing you can do for each goal. You know about 5:2 and that it works. Just think about why you have become derailed and think of some baby steps to regain control. Just writing on here will help you focus, dont panic. There is no urgency, your extra weight did not appear overnight and whatever you have lost won’t all reappear overnight. Just think about things and make some concrete plans. We are all here to help.

Yes, Tasa, if I, the lazy, self-serving, hedonist that I am, with fat on me poor body for nearly 30+years can do this life-affirming program, well, you can do it too.

No matter how many times you fail just start again…a failure is someone who quits, not someone who keeps correcting and trying again. Like Nama said it took us many, many years to embed these bad habits that allowed us get fat in the first place. You can just imagine that it will take some concentration, time and effort to replace these bad habits with appropriate behaviors. And even MORE time to actually get rid of the excess weight and become limber & healthy again. It took me nearly 30-days from the first day I committed to do this 5:2 lifestyle to actually settle down and Just Do It! I was like a kicking colt being brought in to the corral from the freedom of winter pastures. Funny thing is that it was I myself that was ropin’ meself in and it was I myself that was resisting.

Slowly, after 3-months these food, exercise and fasting choices are starting to feel as regular as breathing in and out. But (just for me) I’ll keep the support here on this forum at the ready as I get weak ‘n wobbly now and then and the feedback is experienced and pretty honest here.. AND I’ve not reached my goals yet!
Good Luck Tasa!

Hi Tasa
One other thing I would like to add. It’s great to be in almost daily contact on this forum. It’s like a café and we come in and speak and if we have time we talk a bit more. For me at 25kg down, it’s the daily contact which helps so much.
If you want to get those annoyances out, we are all happy to support you.

I am going back to France (sort of home) at the weekend. I haven’t been very consistent about FDs recently due to socal life and crossing the world. It will be quite a challenge for me to get back the disciplined way, but I know I can do it. My goal time for the last 10kg is 30 June- 3kg/month quite doable. No more sugar and simple cabs till then. I feel better without anyway.

Today, Nama, I found some celeriac and I am reminded of that amazing restaurant in Melbourne. I am going to have that brunch recipe often – cavallo nero, poached eggs on celeriac. I will give the sourdough bread a miss for the moment, but I am looking forward to choosing what to eat or not to eat, and when.

It’s warm in Rome today. The air even feels warm. I find spring is quite a deceitful season, the sun says I’m warm, but the wind attacks and cools the air. I can’t say it in English, but the French say: le fond de l’air est froid ( the back of the air is cold?) we obviously came back to Europe 3 weeks too early!

Happy fasting.
XX Wiwi

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) 😉
This is for Jojo Tasa Emel AO and whoever else is having a bit of a silent struggle right now you will know who you are. And for the girls who make up the international fast forum Enjoy.
When God created woman he was working late on the 6th day…….
An angel came by and asked.” Why spend so much time on her?”
The lord answered. “Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her?”
She must function on all kinds of situations,
She must be able to embrace several kids at the same time,
Have a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken heart,
She must do all this with only two hands,”She cures herself when sick and can work 18 hours a day”
THE ANGEL was impressed “Just two hands…..impossible!
And this is the standard model?”
The Angel came closer and touched the woman
“But you have made her so soft, Lord”.
“She is soft”, said the Lord,
“But I have made her strong. You can’t imagine what she can endure and overcome.”
“Can she think?” The Angel asked…
The Lord answered. “Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate.”
The Angel touched her cheeks….
“Lord, it seems this creation is leaking! You have put too many burdens on her”
“She is not leaking…it is a tear” The Lord corrected the Angel…
“What’s it for?” Asked the Angel….. .
The Lord said. “Tears are her way of expressing her grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her suffering and her pride.”…
This made a big impression on the Angel,
“Lord, you are a genius. You thought of everything.
A woman is indeed marvellous”
Lord said.”Indeed she is.
She has strength that amazes a man.
She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens.
She holds happiness, love and opinions.
She smiles when she feels like screaming.
She sings when she feels like crying, cries when happy and laughs when afraid.
She fights for what she believes in.
Her love is unconditional.
Her heart is broken when a next-of-kin or a friend dies but she finds strength to get on with life”
The Angel asked: “So she is a perfect being?”
The lord replied: “No. She has just one drawback
She often forgets what she is worth.”
Peace RT