Have you tried taking magnesium to improve your mood Jo? It works a treat. ☺ Sleep well. Wake happy. P
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Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Nama I could not agree more I have Zero Tolerance for Kyrgios I will not make excuses for his poor sportsmanship and lack of respect for anyone and for any reason whatsoever and I can assure you if he was my son I would be putting steps in place to sort it out immediately. He will not break into the top ten IMO. Give me Pat Rafter any day of the week what a good Australian on the world stage he was sorry Amazon with all due respect brat is too kinder assessment. I am on the Federer band wagon this championship graceful quiet assassin similar mental strength and character like Pistol Pete Sampras.
Singles champion
United States 1997-98
Doubles champion
Australian 1999
Davis Cup
1994-2001
Captain 2011-
Popular both on and off the court, Pat Rafter captured back-to-back US Open titles in 1997 and 1998 – the only Australian to do so in the Open era. Rafter was known and admired for his serve-and-volley style, which suited the grass courts of Wimbledon, where he was a dual finalist in 2000 and 2001 and semifinalist in 1999. He also made the semis at the Australian and French opens. Rafter was respected for his sportsmanship, which saw him honoured with the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award and four ATP Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Awards. A winner of 11 ATP singles titles and 10 doubles titles, including Australian Open 1999 (with Swede Jonas Bjorkman), Rafter was also a regular inclusion in Australia’s Davis Cup teams between 1994 and 2001. He finished with a 21-11 win-loss record (18-10 in singles, 3-1 in doubles). The 2001 Davis Cup final was his last event. Within weeks of his retirement, Rafter was named Australian of the Year in 2002.
Ok rant over 🙄 Happy Hump Day to All and for those of us on the middle week fast day
Go well stay strong and keep on keeping on !!
“It is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT
Yes guys Yfee is as well a HUGE fan of one Mr P Rafter 😉
“Rafter was respected for his sportsmanship, which saw him honoured with the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award and four ATP Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Awards. The 2001 Davis Cup final was his last event. Within weeks of his retirement, Rafter was named Australian of the Year in 2002”
Don’t see this level of acknowledgement being afforded to Nick anytime soon
Hi Slimnhealthy thanks yes I can cut & paste with the best of them just sayin 😆
Peace RT
Hi y’all,
I had a very low cal fast day thanks to my meditations holding my hunger down until 5pm. Then, just when I was needing my protein shakes, a number of mishaps happened that kept me from food or my credit card or home.
My OH felt so bad about the mishaps, but I have a dear old friend in hospital right now, inches from death and I just kept thinking how much she would have loved to have been healthy with all these silly bumbles. You can’t talk yourself into such a feeling, but when it happens naturally, as it did today, there is a peacefulness in life’s little problems.
Jojo- take care of your Kidney. It’s the last organ I’d want problems with.
Nite all.
Morning/evening all,
It is a beautiful morning here. Summer has definitely arrived 🌞☀🌞☀🌞
Jo, look after yourself and get well soon.
I’m looking forward to the tennis this afternoon. It is a very unexpected line-up for the last eight of Wimbledon.
RT knows his way round Wiki 😉
Have a good one everybody 😜
Hi everyone, what an amazing week or so. It has been cold and incredibly wet! It is the end of term and we are so busy …. Managed to keep my calories under benchmark today…. I just have not had time to do anything but work and then collapse….my asthma since the start of burn offs in Clare has been challenging to say the least. it has been good catching up on everyone’s posts. Emel
Hello everybody. I weakened yesterday and had a huge bag of crisps although it still came in under 2000 calories for the day’s total, so not too bad. Not happy about it though especially with them sitting in the cupboard taunting me…I would give them to my neighbour but his cholesterol is way high and he’s not allowed to eat them anymore. Seems a waste to throw them away. Must try to be strong.
Nearly Slim, if you think about it, it is just as wasteful to eat the chips and let them turn into fat on you. The wasteful bit was buying them, there is absolutely no nutritional value in them, just pleasure (if thats what you like)! Lots of us round here have learned to give away or bin stuff that is too tempting to have around. Its just torturing yourself to have them in reach. But no point beating yourself up, bad habits have plagued most of us for years, they take a while to change. Just learn from it and don’t have the stuff in the house in the first place. Or if its a non fast day and you want to treat yourself, just buy enough for a reasonable treat, no leftovers.
I did not fast today and ate too much of the fresh sourdough I had bought for husband (!) Afterwards I felt really unwell, never experienced this before. I am wondering if I am a bit intolerant now as I really eat very little bread these days…… hmm I always thought I could eat anything! Maybe my gut is getting more discerning….. it had to be the bread, as that is all I had (apart from butter and vegemite)
Cold and miserable here too P, predictions of snow on the nearby hills tomorrow! (Mount Dandenong) But I am not going to let that dampen my anticipation of going to the ballet tomorrow night, Romeo & Juliet!
I hope your pain has settled Jojo and you have a proper diagnosis?
Totally agree re chips Nama. Slimn, they are a complete waste of calories. We went cold turkey on them for a year. I will eat a couple now and leave the rest.
I also get a stomach ache if I eat too many carbs at once. It is not intolerance, simply your clever body telling you not to do it again!!! Keep warm Nama.
I hope Jo is ok by now. P
Sleep well dear Barata. Australians keep close to the fireplace. Just to make you feel wonderful, it-s quite warm today here. Probably 25 degrees.
Bad news about our car which broke down on the motorway last week. The mechanic who serviced it did not pay enough attention, and the engine is moribund. I think I will stay fasting until I have saved enough money to pay for this repair. I would die of starvation first!
SlimnJim, at least there are no more chips to eat now. I put things like that in the compost if I am at all tempted, but then forget and at times desperately search for a treat.
C”est la vie.
Fast well and hope you are feeling better Jojo.
xx Wiwi
Today-s food if any will be green stuff too as the garden is producing this in quantities. I think I will add nasturium flowers and rose petals to get some colour, but my garden greens do not melt in the mouth, and I will be chewing my cud for a while after.
I have some new crowns in my mouth and chewing is now a piece of cake again.
xx
Hello,
Guys we have terrible heat wave at the moment and going to last. The air quality isn’t to good either.
Just being everywhere with my cousin! The eternal vigilance still on. I am not fasting today as usual but having coffee now, fruit and kefir later happy hour at neighbors w/some snacks and dinner. Planing the next fast Monday.
Slim if you are craving crunchy things have same raw veggies with hummus or yogurt dip. Start eating slow and aware of that action. It takes 20 minutes for your gut and brain to be satisfied with that food. And avoid having foods that doesn’t make sense around your house.
Jo I hope everything is okay with you there 🙏
Hi everyone,
I am a very happy woman today as I nailed a FD yesterday after a couple of weeks of struggling and giving up at every attempt.
I went out in the sunshine in the morning and had a walk and then did some errands and got home in time to watch tennis and two five set matches kept me occupied for many hours 🙂
I made a spicy tomato sauce based stew with vegetables and prawns which was delicious and I have another portion in the freezer.
Another beautiful day today. It was overcast this morning but the sun came out 30 seconds after I left the gym and the clouds are disappearing and being replaced by blue sky ⛅☀⛅☀⛅
I broke my fast with some Bircher muesli and coffee and am going to try not to eat anything else today. I have some salad in the fridge if I decide I need something else.
Nama, I used to suffer from IBS and had to cut out wheat products completely for a while. As a result I have eaten much less of it since then. When I started 5:2 I cut it further and I find if I eat too much I feel bloated, lethargic and have a sore gut. That might be bad news for many but for me it means I have to make better choices if I have a treat.
It may well be the sourdough that your body didn’t like. I used to be able to eat lots of bread but these days more than 2 slices once or twice per week is all I can have. I noticed when I was in Cornwall that eating scones every day didn’t affect me so it may be wheat products that contain yeast that cause my tum to complain.
Hi Wiwi, sorry to hear about the car, neither a cheap or simple fix for a dead engine. When it happened to me I bit the bullet and bought a new car which caused a large hiccup in the finances 😒😖🚘
Hi to everyone else.
Jo, I hope you are OK and it is just an infection and not renal colic.
Have a good one everybody 😜🎾
Thanks Amazon. Dont think it was the sourdough as we have it regularly – I think I was just a Miss Piggy and had too much! Usually I cut a new loaf into four chunks and freeze them seperately, but today I was just plain greedy! It was unusual though, because I didn’t simply feel over full, actually felt nauseated – followed by lots of “wind” It may have cured me for now!! I am glad you nailed a good fast. Your sunshine sounds wonderful…….
I know I’ll suffer if I eat too much bread which does make it easier not to, but I still succumb occasionally.
I have some home made bread sliced and frozen and I haven’t touched it since the weekend so I’m getting better at resisting.
I am so relieved that my FD went well yesterday, I was beginning to think I’d lost the knack 😉
I had a swim after my workout today and it is the first time for weeks as the pool has been so crowded every time I’m there. I was lucky today and I realised how much I’ve missed it as a wind down after 75 minutes in the gym.
I’ve been out in the garden pruning the shrubs on the downstairs flat side of the garden as they get so tall they cut the light out. I thought I would do it while the place is empty. The estate agent came today and rang my doorbell to ask a few questions so I took the opportunity to ask her to refrain from slamming the front door so that the house shakes………. 😇
Hi y’all
100 degrees all week here (have no idea in C) so ill send some heat if you’ll send some cool wind! Always want what we don’t have huh? Though ill readily admit, sunshine is easier on the mood. This is El nino year so more rain n clouds, Austin is replete with green grass!
Sooo… My little one swims well enough this week that mommy actually got to stop being a vigilent neurotic life guard and swam on her own a bit, which was mighty nice for this arm injury. I cant actually swim yet, but i can submerge and stretch about. My body feels better today. Between children and cats waking me, i slept like a fat baby!
The big birthday pool party is Sunday and Elliot will not be the birthday girl wearing a floaty! Yea!!!
I would rather go work a nightshift in the ER than host a party and this pool does not allow tequilla, but i will persevere.
So crisps? I suppose those are chips. I have no advice SlimJim. All i can say is i was a potato chip addict and now, after so very many fasts, i have 2 bags in my cupboard from the holiday and ive not even thought about them!!! This can be nothing short of a fasting miracle. It will happen SlimJim. Trust that with each fast your body gets better at choosing wisely. It just happens, naturally, over time.
Not enough coffee yet to remember what anyone else said…oh yes, happy has been abducted! Enjoy the ride!
Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
One night, Mrs McMillen answers the door to see her husbands best friend, Paddy, standing on the doorstep.
“Hello Paddy, but where is my husband? He went with you to the beer factory”
Paddy shook his head. “Ah Mrs McMillen, there was a terrible accident at the beer factory, your husband fell into a vat of Guinness stout and drowned”
Mrs McMillen starts crying. “Oh don’t tell me that, did he at least go quickly?”
Paddy shakes his head. “Not really – he got out 3 times to pee!”
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An Irishman was flustered not being able to find a parking space in a large mall’s parking lot.
“Lord,”he prayed,”I can’t stand this.If you open a space up for me,I swear I’ll give up drinking me whiskey, and I promise to go to church every Sunday.”
Suddenly, the clouds parted and the sun shone on an empty parking spot. Without hesitation, the man said,”Never mind,I found one.”
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Two paddies were working for the city public works department. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one man digging a hole, the other filling it in again.
An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn’t understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, “I’m impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don’t get it – why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?”
The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, “Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we’re normally a three-person team. But today the lad who plants the trees called in sick.'”
What’s the difference between God and Bono?
God doesn’t wander around Dublin thinking he’s Bono.
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Billy stops Paddy in Dublin and asks for the quickest way to Cork.
Paddy says, “Are you on foot or in the car?”
Billy says, “In the car.”
Paddy says, “That’s the quickest way.”
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Paddy and Mick are walking down the road and Paddy’s got a bag of doughnuts in his hand.
Paddy says to Mick, “If you can guess how many doughnuts are in my bag, you can have them both”
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Peace RT
Thanks RT 😊 Some oldies, but goodies.
Slimn, it’s great when the kids start getting independent, then they become teenagers!! 😯😯
100 deg F is 37.7C. We all used to say, as kids when we used Fahrenheit, that schools closed at 100. Sadly, I often taught in unairconditioned classrooms at 40 and we didn’t get to go home. 😯😥
In Aus we use the word chips for the hot cooked ones and the packets of crisp ones. The UK folk use it for hot ones you eat with fish, but call the packet ones crisps. You in the US use French fries for the hot and chips for the packet ones. The French use frits for hot cooked chips. Hence, context is the only way to differentiate the variety of potato items that should never be consumed by healthy adults. 🍟
Have a good one. P
Ah, the poor Irish, always the butt, RT. As my grandmother came from the Ol’ Country I can join the others on the floor. 🙂 🙂 I’ll skip the doughnuts, though.
I find chips (crisps) feel fatty on my palate these days, don’t keep them in the house, easier to resist.
Keep cool, Slimn. And enjoy the party.
Bad news about the car, Wi. But don’t fast to pay for the repairs, there’s little enough of you left, now, that we can’t risk you fading away completely 🙂 I’ve just driven home the little old runabout that son bought for his children to use but he has taken for commuting. It’s running on 3 1/2 cylinders. The workshop is looking for a second-hand engine but it could be a costly exercise to replace, and might end up being scrapped.
Sorry about the double post, it was bedtime and the computer was playing up a bit, that dratted circle that keeps going round and round and…
Have a great Friday, everyone.
Hello,
Isn’t that wonderful a thread that you get fit, meet wonderful people despite who and where they are, and always learn something 😘
RT – I love the Friday jokes and also proud that so far I can get them all 👏👏. In Brazil they do the exact same thing with the Portugueses. I wonder what they think of us.
OMG – as a child I do remember those hot days in classroom. We are equipped w/ AC. Be happy if you a teacher and a chance to go to school. I am a blessed one 😘
The debate about chips and crips! They are all delicious… Better do no touch them.
Wi we have a pice of junk that we are back and fourth to Florida for years and I told my husband to start thinking of major future problems! At our house we use everything to the bones… It’s time to move one.
Otherwise hot and running with guest!
Jo send us a quick hi!
Slim in Texas 😱 I can’t think 😱😱😱
Be good everyone 💋
Hi fasters
A good fast yesterday and jaw muscles developed by the garden salad.
The car problem was caused by dirty deisel. The car is newish, but will be repaired.
To add to the confusion of potato products, the French call the crispy ones les chips, pronounced ships.
Thanks for irish jokes, RT, some great ones.
I am relieved for you, Jojo, that the kidney stones have passed.
I get terrible cramp if I don*t drink.
It*s forecast to be 29 deg here today, so indoor activities planned until the evening.
Have a good day~night.
xx Wiwi
Morning/evening all,
Jo, glad you are recovering. Kidney stones can be caused by several things and it is highly unlikely that yours is due to lack of fluids. One of the causes is given as high protein, low fibre diets so maybe you need to look at the amount of fibre you eat?? Just a thought 🙂
Have a good time in Cornwall ☀
I didn’t have anything else to eat after my muesli yesterday so that counts as another FD.
They were originally called potato crisps but we lost the first word somewhere along the way. I love them but rarely eat them although they did turn up on my plate in Cornwall on the two occasions that we had a sandwich lunch in the pub along with some salad greens…….
RT, I am not a fan of Bono so that one is my favourite, although the hole diggers was pretty good too 😆
Have a good weekend everybody 😜🎾🎾🎾
I sometimes have a bag of thin-cut deep-fried crispy potato slices at the weekend with an egg sandwich (white bread too!). The bag is out of a multipack which sits in the cupboard untouched for 6 days of the week. When I’m in an ‘eat everything’ mood now, neither they (nor the bread in the freezer) appeal and it never occurs to me to eat them unplanned. My go to snacks are raw nuts, and corn cakes with marmite or cheese. Bizarre how my preferences have changed… I can’t have a jar of peanut butter in the house though 🙂
Jo, enjoy Cornwall. Glad to hear you’re OK… Not more antibiotics though…?!
Happy,
I rarely throw jars out as I use them for chutney, chilli jam etc. I have Kilner type jars for home consumption of contents and the recycled are filled and given as gifts.
The knowledge that has liberated dieters from low fat hell has left me free to eat as many nuts as I want…………………. 😎
I am very partial to salted, roasted nuts especially cashews and I buy the smallest bag I can find. Not cost effective but a necessary method of self control.
I always have unsalted nuts in stock, usually almonds and pecans and a small helping of 2 or 3 have rescued many a FD especially on occasions when I open the cupboard and discover the fairies have eaten all the peanut butter!!!!!!
Good Morning,
It’s going to be another hot day here. We are going to a little road trip to entertain my cousin and my hubby visiting one of his longest friend who is very sick.
Guys I miss my Fasting it is really a WOL.
Also I am a glass jar collector! I store my kefir, salsas, saurkraut with my recycled ones.
Enjoy your day…💋
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