Hi all,

Once again I had to put y’all on ice as I was having my daughter’s birthday party during W finals and didn’t want to hear the results until I’d seen my taping of it last night. I had tons of fresh fruit plates and veggies so no real desire to overdo until after the party.. Then it was tequila and risotto…that’s my “whew!” It’s over meal. Despite looking very homemade (as I’m not a baker) my vegan cake turned out very tasty and everyone said so.

Then I got the sad news this am that my dear friend Jeannie passed in the early hours. So I’ve been drinking beer and wallowing a bit today even though it’s a FD.

Going to try my best to get on track since I only have one week before I leave for home to see family and old friends. Would like to feel my best.

And RT, you missed me on your list of fast trackers! 🤔

Hi Slimnhealthy I am sorry for your loss I decided I would not use the template as people move in and out so quickly now so not real sure what happened there 👿 and no I didn’t miss you you are in here Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Peace RT

Thanks. I was hoping you would use it all up RT😉 Due here tomorrow. …Mr P …bring in more wood!!!!

🌧💨🌪🌨☔️⛄️☃🌬☕️☕️☕️🍵🍵
Yes fire and soup extra special stay safe people Bay wish you where here 😜😜😜

Good morning all from another cold wet day in Scotland . I am with you on a FD today RT :)..I have been kind of half hearted lately with my FD . I have made my mind up today to get serious again . I had put on a few pounds in the last weeks but they will be off ASAP.
Jim is getting a wee bit stronger every day . His weight is down to 10 stone and he is very skinny but that was expected . I am making him very healthy meals and although he is not eating a lot ( he was never a big eater) he is eating “good” food . .We are off for a wee drive in a minute . Poor scone needs a memory foam cushion to sit om because he has such a skinny bum . . It is nice though to get out for a wee while . Just so so pleased to still have him . I am making it a FD today as it is much easier to do it if I am not in the house all the time .
I haven’t been posting much but I do love reading the posts every day .
In the past I would have eaten everything in the food cupboards so I am pleased it is just a few pounds . Goes to prove that 5.2 is AWOL and NOT a diet .

have a good day all
Wee xxxxx

Hi Wee….
We crossed over…
Pleased to hear Jim is getting a little outing. 😊 I see your summer is not too good at all, is it? Much the same as our winter. 😕😕 P

I was buying sugar today (haven’t needed to for ages) when I spied one packet with “low GI” written on it. Now I KNOW low GI, sugar ain’t!!! It turns out it was cane sugar and “sweetner”! Hmmmmm..a sugar manufacturer adding sweetener to flog off their sugar? They obviously haven’t looked at the research re artificial sweetners and blood sugar spikes (or they have and ignored it. ..that’s the cynic in me 😊😊) Be warned folk. Always read the label. Don’t trust the b**st***s. P 😊

Well done Pen nib!! 🎉🎊
It is such a great feeling to flaunt the new body. Do it with pride for the rest of your life. ☺☺☺P

Hi pen nib and well done.

For me one of the joys of losing weight is being able to wear fitted clothing rather than the elastic waisted trousers and baggy top so I know what you mean about showing off your figure.

Enjoy your success, revel in it 😎

Pen Nib
Great incentive for us trying to fit back into our clothes and the feeling being lighter it’s so good.
Purple my cousin noticed the amount of fat I consume. She’s quite chocked! She eats everything fat and sugar free. I’ve been telling her to try to let go of sugar and specialty the fake ones … I am trying to save this soul here 🙏💖

Hi all,

I’m a bit dazed today after my Stout Beer and Birthday Cake meal yesterday, so though I’ve read all your posts, I can’t retain enough to actually comment. 😔 This is always a struggle for me but worse today.

Proudly I fasted after said meal and am still fasting (almost noon next day). Boy have sad binges changed for the better.

I’ll leave it at that.

The difference for me is that when I was obese nothing fitted properly due to my lack of shape so baggy was all I wore and that now I’m a more regular shape I have a much wider choice of clothes in varying cuts and styles. Loose and flowing is great if you don’t resemble a huge blancmange wobbling along…… 😮

🙂

I did a lot of altering, initially, Pen, but was staggered how fat had fallen off everywhere….
Shoulder seams were inches too wide, darts in completely the wrong place. I had a few, expensive, favourites altered by a taylor, but eventually decided to replace and donate to charity.
Amazon, I too love being able to just walk into a shop and fit into anything…except when they aren’t small enough 😉😉
I have virtually no clothes that I owned 3 years ago now…except a 37 year old dressing gown and a 45 year old wedding dress which is still too small. 😆
I find it interesting studying people’s body shape. Shoulder definition is a very good indicator of obesity. Shoulders should be horizontal, with an almost 90 deg angle to the neck. If the shoulders slope up to the base of the head, it is all fat. This fat will go when a healthy weight is achieved…see if you notice it. Cheers, P ☺

Ha Nama! I use the shoulders more as an indicator of overweight, not minumum ☺
My advice…hang onto that extra until the weather warms up ❄⛄
I know a round figure to stay below (fasting trigger point) is neater. I use 60, but as you are toweringly tall, 70 would be convenient. It’s nice to not have to worry about the wedding dress not fitting, isn’t it? You will look gorgeous, (again). You’ll also be proud of your image with the new baby when it comes, grandma ☺☺
Has RT frozen solid????? P

Good Morning team happy hump day to all you beautiful losers 😉 I think it’s fair to say my sewing altering and general ignorance in regards to fashion are at best poor 😉 although I know what I like 😯 Nama lamb has taken over the back half of the house in its entirety now 😆 no longer content to remain within the recycled kids play pen with the hay empty wool bales and old blankets and more of a roamer now I do have the elastrator at the ready for tail and nuts that may slow him down for a day or 2 then IMO he goes back to join the flock however he is now known as Frankie so that may be a problem for yfee and youngest son but not for me.
Keep on keeping on find your doable and do it.
Peace RT

Hello,
I have forgotten about those little baby lambs. We are in such a faraway land in which everything comes from everywhere for us to get fat. Nama makes those delicious dishes and … The little lamb 😥😥😥.

We were invited tonight and the host and hostess still are that beautiful couple from the 60’s out and about from the fashion industry as everyone talks about beautiful clothes. Our friends actually are going through a very financial hit bottom end. Globalization and online did it. They are wonderful friends 💖 So even them can’t fit their stuff 👀.
Purple I will look at my shoulders tomorrow morning when get up ☕️ 😉 … 90 head to shoulder 👍🏻
Stay warm down ubder’s, happy fasting or good morning. 💋

Morning/evening all,

Blue sky and sunshine this morning 🙂

I am still surprised by the amount of room I now have when travelling on a bus, train or plane 🙂
The sad (?) thing is the shoes that are now too big and there is nothing to be done but replace them.

FD for me today and off to the gym again soon. My cold decided to make me cough for a day or two and has now almost disappeared so I might go for a swim today if the pool isn’t overpopulated 😉

Kew Gardens annual music event is on this week so I was treated to fireworks last night as I can see them from my window. I love them so am very pleased to have another five nights of oohing and aahing to look forward to 😎

Have a good one everybody 😜

Wow Pen Nib!
Yes, Amazon, I buy smaller shoes too now, width and length. Enjoy the Kew Festival.

I am suffering a bit today. I am allergic to something in my garden and I have been feeling a bit seedy. It’s good for fasting as I don’t feel like eating anyway. The temperature here 2 days ago was well over 30°. Today it will be 16°max. That’s a relief.

I now have the definitive answer on the brokendown newly acquired car. If we had stopped immediately, it would have been ok, just a washer to change. Now a new engine costing €3500 is required. It would have been cheaper to do the 2000km we have done in a limousine! Even the car looks dejected.

I guess it’s no one’s fault, and it’s only money. Yes, Nama, I might have to get a job! Or give up eating caviar and truffles for a few days.
All this brings to mind a joke which I have loved for a long time, as you can see it on several different levels:

A family was very short of money, so all the women, glamorous young teenager, 40+ mother still very attractive, and 70 year old grandmother missing a few teeth and a bit floppy in so many places, decided to go out onto the street and sell their bodies. At the end of the week they sat down and pooled their earnings.
Glamorous teen put down her $500 notes very pleased to help the family, mother put down her $100 and $200 notes, still very pleased with herself. Next it was grandmother’s turn and she was bursting with enthusiasm. The others asked her how much she had earned and the reply came back:
” One hundred and thirty 20 cent coins!”

Happy Fasting.
xx Wiwi

Good conversation going just now! True – some people don’t recognise me v quickly but it’s so good to give them a big confident smile and tell them my story!!
It’s true that some clothes needed a lot taking off but it’s good to find favourites look even better when they fit well!
It did cost me to get alterations done but I saved on the cost of new clothes plus the effort of trying to replicate a familiar range of things to wear!
I’ve learnt a way of making a rag rug using remnants so that’ll be further reminder of my achievements!
I’ve got a particularly comfy pair of brushed cotton Jim jams with a long jacket to keep my bottom warm and it was the first garment I altered when I’d lost a couple of stone – they don’t envelop me in masses of material now and they are soooo comfy!

Hi all,

Started my new med last night LDN for my frozen shoulder and general autoimmune tendencies. Hoping to get back to yoga by fall and stop being such a bed potato.

If you’re unfamiliar, its an ultra low dose opioid receptor blocker. So while you sleep it blocks your receptors and the body responds by making more of your own to compensate. Then, there are all these immune modulations that happen in response to your body’s natural opiods. Like, autoimmune markers go down.

Anyway, didnt sleep well n woke up queasy. So fasting not too hard today..supposedly this mild side effect only lasts a week.

Kind of excited to see if i get out of pain n improve beyond where ive plateaud.

💃💃💃👯👯

Happy Bastille Day everyone. 😊💃🔵⚪🔴

WELL!!!! the sun is out here today :). Jim is looking much more like himself and eating more . All is good with the world and I am actually having a brilliant FD . So far 300 calories that’s OK as my TDEE is only 1200. . Jim has his check up with the vascular surgeon tomorrow so as I will be out for some time then going to visit my lovely Dad so I should be able to do a back to back . Feels so good to be back in the loop .

Wee xx

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) :wink:–
The moral of the story is………
One day an old poodle starts chasing butterflies in the African bush and before long,
he discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a
leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of
having lunch.

The old poodle thinks, “Oh, oh! I’m in deep doo-doo now!” Noticing
some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to
chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as
the leopard is about to leap the old poodle exclaims loudly, “Boy,
that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more
around here”

Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a
look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.
“Whew!,” Says the leopard, “That was close! That old poodle nearly
had me!”

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a
nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and
trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the
old poodle sees Him heading after the leopard with great speed,
and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up
with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself
with the leopard.

The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says,
“Here, Monkey, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to
that conniving Canine!”

Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his
back and thinks, “What am I going to do now?”, but instead of
running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers,
pretending he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close
enough to hear, the old poodle says: “Where’s that damn monkey? I
sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!”

Moral of this story…Don’t mess with old farts…age and
treachery will always overcome youth and skill!
Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience!

…….Marie Celeste….???????