Good morning Bay!

Good morning HCB!

Hello,
It’s so nice this virtual connectivity!
While many of you are fasting and you are out and about I am getting mentally sane for my day tomorrow. My last meal was at 7pm and no alcohol at all. I think this way my body and mind takes less stress tomorrow.
When I am up tomorrow you’ll be done with yours.
The weather was beautiful here today, we went to church, I walked Sasha and dinner was leftovers.
Take a shower now and explore that Obesity Code.
Happy Fasting to you all!
Jojo my cousin sent me program of our week in London so I must make time to meet with or you join us 😘
Tomorrow will be a better lighter day 😍
Xoxo
B

Good morning all from a still quite cold but sunny day here in Bonnie Scotland . Still patiently waiting for Jims appointment . WE are taking our Granddaughter to Dunfermline today to pick up her Gluten Free Birthday Cake she will be 22 on Wednesday.
I had put on a few pounds but in the last week I have had 2 liquid only fasts and I am back to my fighting weight . I don’t do them all in a row as I find it better to have a day or even 2 between . Works better for me like that . Don’t want to give this auld body too much of a shock at the one time lol .
I was out and about with my 6 sizes smaller on yesterday as it was lovely weather and I didn’t need to cover up . I got so many compliments I am sure my head has doubled in size lol .

Had Dad out yesterday too . The Alzheimer’s is slowly taking him away from us . He loves being out in the car and he still sings constantly. He smiles whenever he sees us and I have so much fun with him . We have lots of cuddles too.
I hope you are all well . I LOVE to read all the posts in here every morning .
Jo JO . please pop in and let us know you are OK or send wee messages via FB .
Better go get dressed now . I used to feel bad when it was a nice day as I felt self conscious in my size 22/24 . Now I can’t make my mind up what to put on . YESSSSSSSS I LOVE 5.2 and all of you lovely helpful and friendly people ..Take care

Wee xxxxx

Good Morning,
It’s beautiful here today! Little fresh but for me it’s part of the morning.
I don’t have anything big on my schedule today but do things around the house and walk Sasha.
I had a very restful nights sleep! I am taking glucosamine and massaged myself with castor oil recommended by my Chiro.
Wee I can imagine how you feel 😘
Sarah you’ll be one hot Mama – aren’t you in Boston?

Question – I have one those blood glucose at home. My last meal was yesterday at 7pm (when I started). Today at 7am, empty stomach my reading was 95. Are you watching your blood glucose?

It is FD for me! Let’s see if I can push it to as far as 24 😉

Have a wonderful day wherever you are.
Xoxo
B

Also fast day for me after breaking my fast yesterday at 10pm with a glass of wine and cheese crackers….going well so far and also did an hours workout DVD. Planning on Asian lettuce wraps for dinner made with turkey mince and I will avoid the rice, so OH and I can eat the same thing.

Had a bad weekend drinking too much, so feels good to have a detox today.

Tangatawiwi – I was reading some blogs about 4:3/ADF, if it really makes a difference. Do you find it does?

The perfect end to our day . Jim just had a call from the hospital . He has an appointment to see the vascular surgeon on Wed . All has gone well with all the tests ( he was told by the people doing them) so hopefully he will get an appointment for the surgery .

Wee xx

Hi Ali
I think that the one fast day per fortnight that ADF gives/imposes as against 4:3 is probably not significant, but Amazon, your option is a good idea, and your point about non-fast day is the salient point. I like to keep the Monday/Wed/Fri/ fasts constant to organize my life. Sometimes I do 2pm Saturday to 2pm Sunday if things are getting out of hand and social life allows. Amazon is correct that 5:2 has been remarkable for some of us, but not enough for me. I have lost 27kg and need to lose another 10 before I change to 5:2. any maintainers go back to 4:3 from 5:2 when necessary. What we all do is a qualitative assessment of what we eat.
There is so much literature on food, fast etc which are being put on the site all the time.

The collective knowledge on these threads is golden.

Wee, happy to know that things are advancing for your OH, and you are emerging from limbo.

I’m through to early evening with a pick me up of 4 brazil nuts. So only 20 hours to food time!

XX Wiwi

Sounds as though the National Obesity Forum is reading Dr. Fung….

I saw it on the news today as well, but I think what they are saying is a lot of “diet” goods are bad and try and eat as natural as possible. As in not out of a packet! We always buy butter, full fat yoghurt and my husband and I are both normal weight. I am doing this more for the health benefits as my digestion has major issues and this works by giving my system a break.

Turkey Asian lettuce wraps for dinner and need to stay away from the vino during the week!!

RT you can’t beat Paul Macartney and John Lennon’s words!! “You tell me its the institution, Well you know, You better free your mind instead” Its easy to see why their songs were so popular!

I have conducted my own personal experiment following three ridiculously overindulgent weekends in a row. And I can report, it is true, carbs do make us retain water! Each Monday I have fasted srictly and the ‘weight’ has literally disappeared overnight. Eg. my weight had gone up consecutively this Sat and Sun mornings, 2kg in total. No, that couldn’t be real fat in that short time. This morning, after a strict 36 hour water (and milk in coffee) only, it is down 1.6 kg, overnight! After Wednesdays fast it will be back to Friday mornings pre indulgence weight. Gosh I am glad Michael Mosley developed 5:2!! Give him a knighthood I say!

Morning/evening all,

Nama,
You are doing really well in managing the temptations of a food filled social life. I’ve not been anywhere lately where there has been a huge buffet or lots of food on offer but I like to think that I am more discerning and rather than having to have some of everything, which I would ALWAYS have done before 5:2, I would be able to cherry pick.
It is fabulous to be able to indulge over the weekend and then fast to prevent gaining fat. Nothing was worse than the misery of getting on the scales after a social weekend or a holiday, but now we have a powerful, free and simple tool to enable us to enjoy a few treats and not pay for it with an increased girth 🙂

My FD went well yesterday and I’m fasting again today but it’ll be broken with tea and cake as I’m going to Kew with a friend this afternoon and we’ll be going to our favourite teashop afterwards. It isn’t the healthiest FD dinner but I am not prepared to sit and not eat so it is a good compromise for me. I’ll be at the gym in the morning and never feel hungry while I am exercising so any sugar cravings will go unnoticed until lunchtime.

It is another sunny morning with a clear blue sky. Long may it continue 🙂

Have a good one everybody 😜

Nama, good to know that you lost it all nearly. Yes I agree about MM,
for making us aware.

Happy put an interesting article on the maintenance thread about an experiment where two groups were studied- one group ate 3 meals, another ate the same food in one meal.
Simcoeluv originally put it on a thread.

RT, Aussi football escapes me and the rivalries between Victoria and South Australia.
Your experiences with fasting however are so to the point. Thanks for that!

Thanks, Purple, I got cramp this morning too which would indicate magnesium lack. OH is getting out the magnesium as I write.

I would have had difficulty with a FD if I were still teaching as I would have been worried about conking out in front of 50 students.

XX Wi

Hi Wiwi,
Occasionally I get light headed, but thats when I forget to drink enough, BP probably too low. A drink always fixes it. Is your BP ok? I agree with Purple, salt and Mg worth a try. I used to get leg cramps at night on fast days until I added extra salt.
Thanks Amazon, I have had plenty of practise lately. Wise words of yours and Bays pop into my head. I so agree with your comment re it being not the fast days but the non-fast days that we have to tame, plus Bay’s comments about remaining ever vigilant are so true! I guess it is something we are all finally learning! “Naturally slim” people learnt the art years ago. Whenever my husband used to return from a business trip, especially to California, he would always complain that his trousers felt a bit tight around the waist from all the extra eating out. So he would simply cut back on potatoes and bread for a few weeks and hey presto, back to being slim! The big difference with us was he would be on top of it before it got out of hand, guess I am just a slow learner. But I also prefer the dramatic effects of fasting I think.

Yes Purple, I can imagine your wee ones wondering what to.

Mine would have been fifty 21 or 22 year old Engineering students, all male with an oversupply of testosterone!

I was a slow learner too, Nama, but not too late.

Off for a walk.

Afternoon all,

For me, feeling faint is cured with water and headaches with salt. I don’t get dizzy but I include brown linseeds in my diet and they are rich in magnesium and B6.

Just back from the gym in time to see Andy Murray finishing off a very tricky R1 match.

When I first started at the gym I had a couple of episodes where I almost fainted in the shower. After the second occasion the penny dropped and I doubled my water intake during my workout. It is so easy to do when we are trying to keep busy on FDs and I ensure that I always have a glass of water at my side or a small bottle in my bag.

I’m going to Kew in under an hour so he had better be quick 😉

tHANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE . wE ARE BOTH A WEE BIT ANXIOUS TODAY BUT BOTH TRYING NOT TO SHOW IT :).Will let you know what is happening .

Wee xx

Wee lights and blessings! Keep us posted.
Very busy – drop a note later 😘
B

Thanks for the link Happy indeed real food rocks !! Hi Nama that is a perfect example “of a study of one” right there and you all know how big a fan I am of that fantastic now when you have full understanding and knowledge of what the cause and effect of our caloric food intake is on ourselves that people is absolutely golden. Forgive me as I now digress for a moment the baby Aliya is just gorgeous (it’s in the genes) although I did not have the female factor 😥 she is now over 5.5kg from birth weight of 3.7kg 9 weeks yesterday had a photo session just beautiful incorporating 5 generations of her Mums family a very special day and I will be getting my snap to add to my wall of fame don’t you worry 😉 Her Great Great Nana was born in 1916 and is 99..5 years old amazing Aliya born in 2016 with Great Great Nanna – Great Nana – Nana – Mum and Baby Aliya bloody priceless !!! Ok sorry Now research cap back on 💡 entering into keto adaptation or the primal way of eating of becoming fat adapted got to love the marketing right 💡 there with so many papers written with so many leading experts all scrambling to lead the charge it is now IMO more important than ever to do your own research put ourselves up for the experiment and see what suits us. Some say keto adaptation is 3 – 6 weeks others 2-4 weeks others a complete 72 water fast and boom you are on planet keto whether you seek nutritional ketosis under 10grams or a strict low carb under 20grams of carbs a day or moderate of 20-50grams we owe it to ourselves to “know thy self” to find our doable and keep on keeping on.
Happy Hump Day
Peace RT

Excellent work on the 24 hour fast Nicky. “Looking well” definitely reads as “Lost weight”!!!! P 😀

Thanks P and RT.

Hi all

Amazon, you did do well to walk so far, no wonder you slept well.

FD nearly over – watching mindless TV quiz show for another 10′ before it’s time to cook dinner. Stomach making gurgling noises, fortunately OH is in another room. Was quite hungry about 3pm but had YET ANOTHER cup of tea and chatted to colleagues so didn’t even succumb to the temptation of miso. Soooo looking forward to Atlantic salmon and salad for dinner.

Good morning NHers, sleep tight SHers. n xxx

Nicky, I should have pointed out that I wear my pedometer all day and after the gym it is usually at 7-8000 depending on my workout but yes it is a lot regardless of whether it’s outside or on the treadmill.
I did a lot of walking on the cobbles of Rome and am trying to keep it up as in just over 2 weeks I’ll be staying minutes away from the North Cornwall coastal path and there is one along the South coast too.
I think long walks are a very easy way to increase stamina and IMO it is more about distance than speed. It also has the advantage of being free and easily available 🙂

Ali,

Carbs and low fat is the government’s current advice, and I suspect mirrors the official guidance in a lot of western countries.

That isn’t controversial.

What’s controversial is what you refer to as ‘the other articles on this site’ which seek to challenge those ‘healthy eating’ guidelines 😀

Ali,

The point is that the official healthy eating guidelines don’t work for the vast majority. Unless you’re doing a massive amount of exercise/ physical activity you really don’t need much if any refined carbohydrate or added sugar.

Despite the obesity, and type 2, explosion, the strain on the NHS etc, the powers that be are sticking to the unhealthy advice.

NOF and PHC have put the cat among the pigeons by going mainstream in the UK with the alternative views that most of us here are already on board with.