Hi everyone,

Had a great morning at the gym which surprised me after two weeks away with a sore back as I thought it might be difficult. Everything went well and after my workout I had a lovely 15 minute swim to wind down and a nice few minutes in the jacuzzi.

As I turned the corner into my street on my walk home British Gas range to ask if the engineer could come early so the boiler has been serviced and I have a free afternoon 😎

It is scorching here 🌞🌞🌞

I’m aiming for a food free FD today and despite being up early and working hard all morning I’m not even peckish. Long may it last!

Jo do you think the likes of Slimming World are just banging the same old drum without considering the evidence, or do they think that compliance is/will be better with the diet they are suggesting?

Every time I see the Muller Light advert where the woman is astounded that the yoghurt (if you can call it that after all flavour has been removed and the cr*p has been added) has only 99 calories.
Give me 100 calories worth of full fat natural yoghurt any day.

I make my own yoghurt these days and I’m always amazed at how smooth and creamy it is and that it tastes sweet to me. I guess my taste buds have changed more than I thought. There are many thing I can no longer eat that I used to enjoy on occasion and I’m happy with that as most of them are processed carbs that I can do without.

My builder is doing some work next door and he said he’s very upset 😉 😉 that I’ve not offered him any cake as no-one makes nicer cakes than me. I guess I’m going to have to make one for when he comes to replace the garden stairs in a week or so or I’ll never hear the end of it. I hope he enjoys it with half the sugar 😆

As for Bay, have you looked on our fb page today?

Morning all,

I’m feeling much better now. As Jo predicted, it’s progressed quickly, perhaps helped along by Monday’s fast?

It’s been a warm few days, but nowhere near the mid 30s thankfully! I don’t even want it that hot when I go on holidqy 🙂

Re: life with no/low sugar. I have a few friends with very sweet tooths who pity me because they think I’m living my life deprived of food joy, but i know my every meal is a taste and flavour sensation that they will never experience unless they kick their sugar habit 🙂

Morning/evening all,

Hi Jo, not sure where the spinach lady got her information from but if she believes it works I’m sure it makes her feel better.

Happy, good to hear that you are feeling better 🙂

Purple hit the nail on the head regarding tasting natural sweetness when we eat less added sugar. Replacing it with artifical sweetener isn’t the answer. How many of us used to take sugar in tea and coffee but have given it up? If we can do that and enjoy the sugar free versions we can do it with many foods.
I have no intention of giving it up completely as I love a nice cake or an ice cream or dessert, but I can happily live with having them as occasional treats.

Yesterday’s food free FD was really hard but today I am wearing the smug “I did it” grin 😉

HCB is MIA, I hope she is OK.

Time to go,

have a good one everybody 😜

Good Morning,
Hi Nama – I’ve reading all posts. Just a little discouraged lately. Haven’t fasted on two weeks.Thanks fir the thought.
We are going on a 10 day trip out west today. The weather here is beautiful but thee a little cold. Little challenging to prepare what to take with. I try to carry minimum … I bought a new camera. The iPhone can make so much.
The reason I am down is because the result of my Pap smear showed some “abnormal cells” as the nurse put it. I have an appointment with a Gynecologist scheduled. I am a little concerned.
Jo soon will give us news weight loss tips, Amazon and Purple is busy with her kitchen gadgets and delicious food, Happy I am glad you are feeling better and yes I agree that when cut down sugar many things taste real, Wee has a nice little garden shed.
I will try not to eat much on this vacation and jump on my fasting schedule when back❤️

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Despite the attention grabbing headline there is a wealth of great knowledge to add here excellent graphs and in general just a bloody good read.
http://cristivlad.com/total-starvation-382-days-without-food-study/
Food for thought happy Thursday let’s get the fast on !!

“It’s is easier to avoid eating than to stop eating once started”
Peace RT

Vegie Eater – how are you liking 16:8? It sounds easy, but after 2 days of doing it and trying to stretch it to about 17:7 it’s not as easy as simply “skipping breakfast” when your body is used to eating later at night and at SOME point in the morning. But it feels like a manageable plan for my life so am giving it a shot…curious to hear how it goes for you as well!

Hi all,

Well we have just come home from meeting our brand new grandaughter, Chloe! Thank goodness all went smoothly and she arrived safely just 24 hours ago. They have already been discharged from hospital which worries me a tad as she is only a little munchkin – 2.9kg (6.4lb). However, I will try to put my nurses hat away and just remember she seems perfectly healthy and alert. Hopefully she will teach her brand new, very green parents how to care for her!! They asked me to leave my phone on overnight, hopefully I wont get a call! I think they are both so exhausted they will sleep, if Chloe permits it! So, a big sigh of relief from me ……. for now!

Nothing to report fasting wize, just had a late “dinner” (10pm) of a coffee and lovely piece of toast and peanut butter – rather a nice celebration I felt! Back on the horse tomorrow though as the wedding outfit is very, very, fitted!! And that is only 10 days away, with a night out tomorrow at the ballet (dinner with friends first) and a High Tea at the Grand Hyatt on Sunday! Asian girls dont go in for drunken, rowdy hens nights thank goodness, don’t think there will be any male strippers at the Hyatt. Actually, I will have more problems keeping my hands off the cakes I think! Just have to remember the Vietnamese outfit that I have to fit into – it does up all one side with press studs, now that would be a funny sight on the dance floor if those start popping!

Well done on your 3lb loss Jojo, great you have rediscovered your mojo! The word Syns intrigues me – or am I missing something. Maybe its a play on the word ‘sins’?

Sorry to read you have been down HCB, its hard not to worry at such times isn’t it? I hope you can put it away for now and enjoy your break.

Nama,

Congratulations, granny! No offence, but it seems unlikely that you will ever stop worrying about your first granddaughter 😀

I like your style too…some might have popped the champagne cork, not you though!

I had to google ‘syns’. It’s not a play on words, it’s short for synergy…apparently. I’m not even going to go there. As I think Jo said, mostly appallingly bad nutritional advice and no help understanding calories or how the body works. The group leaders main role is presumably to promote SW.. Just hope Jo doesn’t lose sight of Jason Fung end Michael Moseley and start buying in to SW marketing!

Hi Faith,

Welcome. Good luck with the fasting.

Hi Fast Trackers and Hello World (You All know Who You ARE) 😉
Fantab e osa congratulations Nama that is a significant and memorable moment life is a beautiful thing I hope mother baby granny Dad and Pa have soaked it all in 😉 I think I have outlasted the remaining SA fast folk with Nicky AO and Emel I hope all is well ok Go Crows and lets have a laugh.
Differences between Men and Women • Women have more imagination than men. They need it to tell men how wonderful they are. • Women have a number of faults. Men have only two – everything they say and everything they do. • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. • Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. • When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. When men are depressed, they invade another country. • A man is a person who will pay £2 for a £1 item he wants. A woman, however, will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn’t want. • Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Dogs are a man’s best friend. Now you know which sex is smarter. • It’s not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can pretend to be foolish whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence. • Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance. • To be happy with a man, a woman must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, a man must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. • A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does. • Men marry because they are tired; women marry because they are curious. Both are disappointed. • A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. • A woman will always cherish the memory of the man who wanted to marry her; a man will always cherish the memory of the woman who he didn’t. • There are two times when a man doesn’t understand a woman – before marriage and after marriage. • Only two things are necessary for a man to do to keep his wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. • Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die. • Any married man should forget his mistakes – it’s no use two people remembering the same thing. • Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke. • Husbands are like cars: all are good the first year. • A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Have A Happy Weekend All You beautiful Losers 😉
Peace RT

Congratulations Nama and Mr Nama, welcome little Chloe. You are going to LOVE being grandparents. ..SO much easier than parenting, with still that wonderful love ☺☺ Don’t worry about her. Babies are tenacious little things. She’ll have them trained soon…if they listen to her 😉😉
Ha RT. All I can say is vive la difference! !
Good fast. Excellent low weight. All looking good 😊😊 P

Evening everyone! Well I finished my first fasting day! It was easier than I thought during the day, but I have to admit the evening I really struggled with it. Old habits and routines die hard!

But I pushed through, distracted my self with a mediation class and I’m ready to hop into bed now. I’m hoping that these days get easier as time goes by.

I am so grateful to be a part of this group ladies, it really did help keep me on track. Knowing that you have all been in my position and that I am supported was really wonderful. Thank you for welcoming me! Also knowing that if I stay strong, I’ll be better able to offer you my support in return, was a great motivator.

Well done Jojo! Amazing results – keep going!
Chat soon! xx

Hi all and welcome Faith, nice to have another Melbournian on board!

Thank you all for your lovely comments concerning my new ‘status’!! Very exciting time for us. And thanks HCB for enquiring about the other son’s knee injury. Happy to say its almost better, he is back to work next Monday after 6 weeks off! Just in time to have a bit more time off for his wedding next weekend! Luckily his boss appreciates him…

I am just home from the ballet and a bit too wired to sleep. It was a very unusual ‘modern’ ballet, quite frantic at times, not as relaxing as a more traditional one. But still lovely to have a night out with old friends, dinner in the city etc. I REALLY need to fast tomorrow! Also missed my swimming this week due to the lurgy that possessed my body, thank goodness thats cleared up and I can get back to the pool on Monday.

How strange that you are also having flooding in the UK – Victoria is so bad at present I have asked husband to build an ark, just in case! Our biggest worry is the cottage at Jamieson, mud brick and not far from the river – it would probably just melt if it got too wet!

Well done on your first fast Faith, yes it does get much easier. (Easier than saying First Fast Faith in fact!) Initially I only got thru fast days by promising myself a treat the following day. Once that came I did not actually want it, its all mind games. But fasting does get easier and you are right, the secret is to keep busy away from food. Hanging around this lot is a huge help too, so many lovely and smart people to inspire you.

Jo I will post a few pics of bub on F/B – her parents are not fans of F/B but I guess on our private group it will be just that – private! She is rather cute and will get even cuter when she gets a bit of fat on her!
I am glad you are adopting your great nephew Granny Amazon, we can learn about being grannies together. Actually Granny Nama sounds much better than what some of my friends have called me: Grannie Annie – horror!

Night all xx

Hello everybody.

You may remember me mentioning that after losing 2st 5lbs and getting down to 19st 6lbs five weeks ago I was so hungry after my third fast of the week I decided to treat myself to a takeaway pizza. Unfortunately because I then got a taste for the pizzas I had one at the end of my third fast every week for the next three weeks. I then had a little holiday from the fasting and pretty soon found I had gained 8lbs back. I then stopped the pizzas and my weight has remained constant at around 19st 11lbs for the last couple of weeks.

So it’s now been five weeks since my last fast and I had come up with a plan that when I went over 20st I would start fasting again. Well I weighed myself yesterday and I was 20st 1lbs, so I thought I would start as I mean to go on by doing the first fast today instead of waiting until next Monday. I’m finding it quite easy at the moment, hopefully I’ll feel the same later tonight.

I had been doing 24hr fasts 6pm to 6pm for the few weeks before my little holiday, but found that I would sometimes eat so much at the end of the fast that I might as well not done one at all (over 4000 calories once; this was pizza, a tube of Pringles and some walnuts), so now I’ll be doing a full day water only fast like I did when I first started this mad obsession about four months ago. As RT says, it is easier to not eat than stop when started and in my case it’s impossible to stop when I’ve started and I’ve got the taste for something.

Oh Amazon, I don’t envy you that! Come and stay here! Except for trains all I can here is bird song. And it’s a beautiful morning, definitely autumnal, but blue skies and sunshine.

OH has been away for a week, due back this weekend. Much as I’ve missed him, I haven’t missed cooking for him. I’m just looking through recipe books for interesting vegetarian meals that I can supplement with animal flesh for him.

I’ve also realised that he’s responsible for most of the fluff and bits of matter on the floor! When he’s here I run the vacuum over downstairs daily. I’ve only needed to do it once this week. And there I was blaming the cats…

Happy, I would love to come and stay with you! Fortunately the family next door have gone out so we just have to put up with the dog yapping :rollseyesheavenward:

I went out and did my 10,000 steps in a quiet and peaceful Kew Gardens. The weather probably means that tourists went elsewhere but members know that the gardens are beautiful in all weathers. The newly replanted Broad Walk is looking wonderful as the plants have matured over the summerand is full of flower varieties too numerous to mention, and the formal beds are also stunning and full of colour with plum leaved red begonias, bright pink salvias and silver leaved foliage plants.
I stepped off the paths and walked through the trees which was like being in the countryside. Lots of squirrels and birds working away as there are acorns, beech nuts etc everywhere waiting to be eaten and/or stored away.
I visited the lake and saw the 9 cygnets, all chirruping away to each other and as large as their parents.

I came home and had my weekly bread fix in the form of a bacon sarnie and am now watching tennis and reading jam recipes!

Jo,

Sorry to hear your back is bothering you. As a long-term back sufferer, I sympathise. Although you might prefer to rest it, rest is generally not prescribed these days, but walking is!

Pleased to hear your neighbour’s builders have finished. That’s the kind of thing that quickly gives me a headache. Mind you I’m generally pretty intolerant of noise pollution. Our nearest neighbours are half a mile away, as is the road, although that’s only one car’s width with passing places. I even get grumpy now if I meet one car on my 3 or 4 mile run! Perhaps best if I don’t move back to civilisation 😀

I’m just tidying the garden up. I harvested all the peas last weekend, and have today removed the netting and supports. Climbing beans and runner beans are still producing though, ideally we need a couple more weeks of nice weather…

After a cool start its been a glorious day, warm enough for t-shirt and shorts in the garden. We’ve had a decent summer this year, but I can’t help being a bit depressed that it’s next stop the depths of winter ☃☔️

Jo,

If you’d ever been to a DC tie you would love the noise and the atmosphere. I was at last year’s SF and my Scottish friend is there all weekend.
I don’t get nervous watching any more, I talked myself out of it as it was seriously hampering my enjoyment.

I need to keep moving every day or my back misbehaves but I know how much exercise I can do in a single day and ignore the signs my body gives out at my peril.

It is cooler and cloudier in London than many parts of the UK today which is fair enough as we’ve had plenty of lovely weather and a cool day or two is welcome.
I was doing some research on Myanmar yesterday and went onto a website for a street map of Yangon and there was a weather report, 6pm and 31°C which means I’ll have 2 weeks of intense heat and then come home for the last week of October which will be considerably cooler 😕
I’m trying really hard not to think too much about winter just yet…….

Hi Wee 💋

What a Saturday RT….Swans AND Wallaies both winning 😚