Hi Kay,

I was originally aiming for a 19lb loss, but it ended up being nearer 30. 5:2 definitely works 🙂

Regular posters here are friendly, supportive and caring. Sadly every now and then (and on any popular thread on this forum) irregular posters chime in with a bit of discord. But that’s life, eh?!

I’m just lying in bed, putting off getting up. Been awake since 6.30. The only downside of summer is the early light! I just can’t sleep in in the mornings… Roll on the short days of winter 🙂

Wow! What a weekend! Nearly bedtime on Sunday and the first opportunity to sit down and catch up with the postings.

My cousin had her student piano recital yesterday, and we help out with this every six months. Then a quick dash home and off to a dinner with Lions and overnighting at the attached hotel. It’s our 45th wedding anniversary today, so that was the celebration. After a three-course breakfast (as you do!) home to find that my aunt was ready to be collected from hospital ??! So that’s been most of the rest of today, feeding the family and lots of admin stuff, I’ll be pleased to go to work tomorrow for a rest – yeah, right!

Glad you enjoyed the Hunt for the Wilderpeople, P, and that it seems to be doing so well in Aus. We loved it, helps to know all the actors and locations, and suspend reality for a while. 🙂

Wee, so pleased your OH is doing so well, and that the sparkle is back. I know you will never by 74 in your head, mine is about 20! Surely ice-cream swimming is good exercise? I now only keep ice-cream in the house for son and step-grandson (my story and I’m sticking to it)

Enjoy Cornwall, Amazon. OH has ancestors from there, farmers not miners.

We used to host the neighbourhood bonfire for Guy Fawkes night, Nama, for all the farmers on the road. We weren’t allowed to have a guy, though, as the farmer next door was Guy! What a silly thing to do in New Zealand, celebrate the attempt to blow up the parliament of a country on the other side of the world, centuries ago. High time we moved to a celebration of our own – Matariki here we come (hopefully in my lifetime 🙁 )

I emptied 75mm from the gauge, and will have another quantity to dispose of by tomorrow. Roll on the lovely long days of summer!

Don’t go, Aine. We are many voices, but one when it comes to support. We are all on the same journey, and all are wonderfully grateful to have found the 5:2 way.

Hello all
I’ve been reading the forum, mulling for a few days now and wondering what I should do as someone who believes in taking responsibility for herself. Kay, please don’t let my sensitivities put you off this forum. This (weight loss and health) is not an issue to be toyed with. Amazon meant well, and I could even see that at the time. However, I’m still raw from life / people / circumstances and find it difficult when I experience the ‘cruel to be kind’ motivational approach.

I can understand it when people become frustrated with ‘irregular posters’ causing discord, but actually, that wasn’t my intention. Happy, you may be right generally speaking, but you’ve definitely misread me. The last thing I’m about is causing conflict and all I wanted to do was to be part of a group like this. It occurred to me that if everyone was very clear, consistent and positive from the off there would be no need for forums and support groups. I’d be surprised if all the seasoned posters here read their early posts and found all their contributions to be logical and following a naturally progressive trajectory. For myself, I struggle with being positive about myself, not because I like it, because its where I’m at ‘now’. Luckily, I get a lot of support from health- related folk and I’m improving in that regard – I accept it as a life journey, like the 5:2.

There is so much kindness and wisdom here it would be a shame if anyone was put off by my experience – everyone has their own understanding and I’m just not ready for this forum yet …… but like Freddie Kruger said, ‘I’ll be back’ (hopefully). Amazon, I just wanted to say thanks for your last message to me. I do understand and you obviously care about how things are for other people. I probably do need your ‘truths’ – I just need to grow a bit of a thicker skin first, though. Thanks also to everyone who took the time to explain the nature of this forum and its lively discussions and who urged me not to leave. However, I’m going to exercise my Diva muscle (just below the Pouty muscle) and flounce off again …… no, I’m not really! I’m planning on reading various forums for a while and eventually joining the one I feel suits my needs best.

Kay, I hope you get what you need here (perhaps I’m still looking for what I want) and good luck with this new way of life.

All the very best to everyone else and once again, thanks for taking the time to share and support me. Time to dig deep and try and understand why I reacted the way I did. Nothing worthwhile has come easy to me though, so it could take a while and much going and froing!

Stay strong peeps 🏋🏽 Aine x

ps I’ve just read this back to myself and can see a quite bit of ‘poor me’ – ugh! I’m going to leave it as it is though, because it’s too easy to wipe it away, yet life’s not like that. I’ll never learn if I ignore those parts of me that are holding me back from contentment. Sorry this is such a long missive and definitely signing off now!

The last 3 days it has been late when I got home from the hospital and I have eaten less than 500 each day . Today I was early and tired and my Knee was killing me (RA) with all the walking . I had Ice cream and gateaux .a lot of Ice cream but should be OK . Tomorrow I will be late again . Jim was looking a lot better . They took the oxygen feed thingy from under and into his nose away . His hands and feet are swollen and cold but they said that was OK . They hope to get him into the shower tomorrow and they said that would help the circulation too . Long long walk to the ward BUT worth every step to see that cheeky smile 🙂 .

Wee xx

Lovely start to our holiday fast day. Love is always in the eyes. Long term love is like a warm comfortable hug…life giving. Be good to your loves everyone. P x

Jim indeed has a cheeky twinkle, as does his lovely wife. 😀⭐⭐ Mr P and I are so pleased to hear he is on the mend again. P x

Bad luck Ali 😯
If it wasn’t a fast day (and let’s face it, who would fast on Italian Day? ), you could have a slice of pizza and just eat the topping ☺ I’m fasting today, only 11:15am, and I’m salivating over pizza topping 😢P

Good Morning,
Another beautiful day here!
Unfortunately we have this terrible news going on from all sides about this shooting in Orlando. Also we are without good options for our future leader. Very frustrating.
It’s so nice to hear that everything it’s falling in place with The Wee Family 💖.
Today I am meeting a Girlfriend for breakfast and for lunch a young couple are here from Switzerland visiting the Town and most likely will be going out for lunch.

Talk to you later 😘
B

RT I think you are still bathing in the warm glow of your teams great win! Very cold nights in Melbourne at present too, lovely sunny days help though.
I need another B2B Mon/Tues fast, to undo the weekends Ricotta and Pumpkin lasagna and Polish Black Cherry cake! Yesterday’s fast was not strict enough! Better keep busy today….

Ooh yum Purple, what do you stuff yours with? I had some with cream cheese and chives on Sunday but I don’t think that would qualify for a fast day!

Thanks for the ideas Purple, sounds yum!
It seems you have this WOL well and truly licked! That ‘eternal vigilance’ has become second nature to you perhaps?

Hello Everyone,

Isn’t that funny when you think that you think that you know everything butttt, butttt don’t do it 👀
My week has been planned last week (there was always a plan). For my breakfast with my girlfriend, still celebrating my B-day, she was at this very expensive hotel in Town and I am there for breakfast today😍. I had the most expensive egg in my life. Yes! I was in control and that was that.
For lunch another engagement with out of town friends and I had a veggie spinach and a small glass of wine.
For dinner tiny risotto small piece of chicken.
In older times I could probably eat and drink like there’s no tomorrow the whole day.. There’s a plan for tomorrow 😍. Fasting 👍
Looking forward to have a flat and normal weight in my life. Not going 20 lbs up and 15lbs down.

RT – in Brazil where my Mom is and I was once before, we don’t have the same insulation like here and all the chananigans for the winter like the US. Can be cold for her and everybody… Hope it’s a mild “Brazillian winter”.
I love the noise, the smell, the color and the warmth of a fire place.
Enjoy it 🙏

Tomorrow the surveyor comes! We have a very weird neighbor that for years keep advancing towards our property while we are in Florida.
My husband and I are so exhausted with this silly person so we are paying extra to be in Peace with the surveyor re-staking the property because all the marks disappeared.
Be good my Folks
💖
B

Hello,

Great resource guide RT! It is really clear to me now. My only little problem is the black coffee. I need a little bit of milk and I wonder if that “breaks the Fast” and start sending insulin to deal with “that” calorie.
Any thoughts?
Fasting was easy today! Huge single salad meal.

Great news for my husband and I today. We have a crazy neighbor and for years she kept advanced into our property. The markers were gone so we could enforce her.
The surveyors were here to start looking for our boundaries.
We only want peace! That simple 🙏
Xoxo

G’day emel. Hope all is going well.

I know your pain HC. Neighbour disputes are a nightmare.
Theoretically any calories will put you back. Research shows even drinking zero calorie “sodas” will give you a bloodsugar spike, as your taste buds detect sweetness and pump in insulin, in expectation of sugar. It’s a complex business. P ☺

Every diet will work initially, no matter which one it is. The eat only chocolate diet, the cabbage diet, the fruit diet etc. How many of them are sustainable? Virtually none of them. You need to find an eating pattern that doesn’t feel like a diet but makes you head in the right direction. I do not (or hardly) eat bread, rice, pasta, pizza, potatoes. I may occasionally have them but there has to be a reason like a birthday. I avoid sugar like the plague.

High carb diets provide for energy substrate, that’s all they do. If you are overweight then one can argue that you don’t need lots of carbs. The excess is being stored as fat. You really cant hide from that fact. What you need is a diet that has low carb density and is filled with micro nutrients, salts, some fats etc. By definition if your carb amount goes down then your fat and protein percentage goes up. But the absolute amount need not go up.

I avoid any processed grains as all they provide is glucose. Any benefit the grains once had has long been processed out of the product. I eat a variety of vegetables (apart from the starchy ones like potatoes). I use a simple strategy and pick different coloured vegetables as I make the assumption that they contain different micro nutrients. I get most of my protein from tuna, tofu, beans, cheese and yogurt. I eat some chicken, pork and red meats but not a lot. Perhaps one or two serves of one of those meats per week. Fats I get from avocados, nuts, olive oil, cheese, yogurt. I eat some fruit and when I do its mostly berry type fruit.

I under no circumstanced drink fruit juice or eat dried fruits. I limit my alcohol consumption to probably 1 or 2 glasses per week.

Good Morning,
What a beautiful day we have here today! Since 4:45 the birds are having fun and I am back and four trying to sleep.
The story of life! Even nature struggles with balance. You guys are having so much rain there in the UK and we here haven’t seen any water for days. Our property runs on whell water.

The good fact of Fasting days for me is that I “eat” LOL lots of water I go to at least 3 liters of plain H2O, no fermented juice and eat that allowed food so mindful. Next time I will try to cut the stevia and the dairy for coffee.

Jo what’s the name of the group on Facebook?

Off to a long walk with my husband and Sasha in the forest.
💖

Wow got through the day without issues. I think it works for me when I don’t eat anything until the end of day… It has however has been a long day and I am back at work early tomorrow. I feel like a hamster on a treadmill,

Hi everyone!
Fasting day for me today and so far Ive had 2 herb teas, black coffee and lots of water….still feeling ok and Im about 19 hours in so confident I will manage through til tomorrow morning and do the full 36 hours!
However tomorrow is when I go camping for a few days. So far Ive been counting the calories on my NFDs so I stay close to TDEE but for the next few days I will just have to be careful until my fast day on Monday and then I’ll be back on it!
Kay