I do the overhead extensions every day with 2kg in each hand as I can’t manage to do the dips.
You’ve just reminded me that there are lots of exercises on my wii fit DVD which I had completely forgotten about……….

I’m going to do a couple of practice runs of the kettle workout at the weekend and incorporate it into my exercise routing next week.

I won’t have time for anything else at this rate!

Great job on the classroom and the wheel . 10/10 all round 🙂 . have a nice picnic tomorrow .

Wee xx

Hi everyone – can someone help with a technical problem. For some reason my I’m no longer getting posts sent to my email address. I’m subscribed to this forum and suddenly all my emails have stopped.
Planning fast x3 this week tomorrow. Wish me luck people! I’m taking the chance when I’m home alone this week.
Can many of you exercise on a fast day? I fully intended to do a class yesterday but I was so tired after work I really couldn’t face it. No headache this week and found the fast ok ,drinking lots of water is the key I think.
Good luck everyone!

What a great incentive your 92 year-old friend is, Jojo! I hope we are all as active at that age. So glad your daughter had a good first day as well!i am always so pleased when smart and dynamic people join the teaching profession!
Tartanlass, my notifications are on-again, off-again even though I have never changed any settings. When I haven’t seen any e-mails for a day or two, I know I have to go to the site to see what I’ve missed. Inexplicably, the e-mails start up again at some point.
Just weighed myself when I got home from work, fully clothed and jeweled, and only .2 pounds over my low weight, so you KNOW I will be breaking through that barrier tomorrow morning, and will be less than 10 pounds from my goal. Woohoo!
Grilled pork marinated with garlic, lemon, and rosemary atop arugula salad with a dressing made from the marinade for dinner. Yum!

“Happy days, slimming ways,” another great mantra, Jojo!

I log out , log back in.then re tic then notify me.

I used to exercise on fast days, but it always made me hungyER!
I typically exercise on feed days , so as to help with fats in the blood stream. Where fats in the blood stream arn ot probably not as high on fast days.

So address exercise . I choose not to exercise every day.
I choose feed days as the days best suited. To benefit from exercise.

I went then to discover how do the body builders cut and bulk. To try understand how best to maintain muscle. While cutting/fasting- when working out. #1. Go low carb 2days in row to lower glycol storages.

Then 1 hour prior to a compound lifting sets. Eat fruits that gush sugars into the blood stream ie the glycemic index. So to have fuel And not burn muscle as fuel.

I also found looking up the exercises that actually burn fat like sprints to be worth the time to look up

Hi Jojo – so excited about the kettlebells, I will definitely keep it up. What weight is yours? Mine is 8kg and feels really heavy but I hope over time it will get easier. I always worry in case I let go of the damned thing and it goes through the telly …..

V xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tartanlass, I exercise almost every day, whether a fast or non-fast. Most days I work out first thing in the morning, so tiredness us not an issue. On the nights when I have Pilates in the evening, I do feel tired, but I go anyway, knowing I will make it through and feel better afterward.

Versy, have a great weekend and stay on the straight and narrow (mostly!) sounds like you have an active time planned, which is always a help.

Jojo, have a wonderful time strutting your stuff! And thanks, as always, for the support!

TGIF!!

Hi Ply! I’m going to do my best to be good. Going to have chicken skewers instead of burgers and sausage. My weigh in is on Monday so that is enough incentive!!!!!

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Hi Jojo
Hope you had a lovely time at Wisley – it’s such a lovely garden. Have you been to the Savil Garden nearby? It’s one of my favourites. Congratulations on your thindisguise!

Ply, great going. I hope 9lb doesn’t take too long, that’s about how much I have left to go but it does seem to be taking me a while to get there. I think it’s because I have taken my eye off the prize, need to apply myself a bit more. Fasting today – but off for a pub lunch with my sister in law tomorrow and this particular pub seems to specialise in hearty helpings, so will need to choose wisely.

Hi Weemam, hope you and dada are fully recovered. I like hearing your stories about him! Good luck with the B2B fast. I always found them very effective, and not too hard. Sometimes the day after I would eat a lot more than normal, though. Seemed like some sort of unconscious permission because of being deprived for two days, so watch out for that!
Cheeseplease, have a great fast day and a nice lunch tomorrow. I would probably be at goal already, that was my original plan, but I pretty much took a vacation from FD for July and August. Back on track now, and will power through these last pounds. Feels good that the number is a single digit! Jojo is available for some tough love when we need it!
@samm, I am sitting on my exercise ball at my desk at work, and bouncing when I know no one is looking!

Weemam, great story about your dad, love it!

Ply, I am away on holiday in our motorhome for two weeks and as we usually have quick and easy food (and wine)when we are away I don’t hold out much hope for losing in September. Still, I know I can get back on track in October :-)). Love the thought of your sneaky bouncing, how do you feel it helps?

Amazon, your description of Kenwood House really makes me want to go – and that salmon sarnie. Well done ignoring all the sweet things.

Ply, thank you for your good wishes. I might have internet access from time to time so I will try and keep up with the thread when I’m away. Thank you for doing the FD on my behalf – you will be losing the weight for me as well!

I use a ball in Pilates class, supposed to improve your core muscles. We wave our arms and upper bodies around (that’s not the technical term for it) while trying to kept your lower half still – challenging!

Hi Amazon,

If you were at Kenwood your weren’t too far away from chez hermaj. Sadly, may I add, we don’t live in posh and ruinously expensive Hampstead – I’d be there like a shot if I had some massive win – but more modest Hornsey.

Isn’t great when you’ve been been allowing yourself holiday treats, but come home not a lb heavier? It happened to me last year after two weeks in Scotland, which included a few naughty things. Like a fish supper from the wonderful chippy in Perth, which even earns brownie points on TripAdvisor. Very gratifying. Hope the same will apply to you too, Cheeseplease. Have a great holiday. Where are you off to?

@tartan lass

I noticed increase in slight headaches when first started fasting at 500 calories days.

I found that excedrin worked well, but also to confirm what you’re saying. Stay hydrated when fasting! I found I rarely had headache on fast days when drank a lot of fluids.

I got hooked on lemon water, especially green tea with lemon. I tend to find what works then pair up things that double benefits. Like lemon, green, tea. Hydrates, cancer fighter, vitamin c. Zero calories.

Add stevia. This helps with acidity if drank with meals.

@ply
I used to wonder if no one was looking . I felt that way about skipping rope. Been too hot and humid to jump in parking lots lately. Just like stability ball basics was my goal resolution for 2012, fasting practice in 2013, 2014 is jump rope. 2015 is a year of body building, ands 2016 will be goal weight of 100lbs or more fat loss. Keep on Keepin on

Hello everyone

It has been a very busy week so haven’t had chance to post, but have been following. Jojo, that’s a fantastic achievement, and what a hoot that you weren’t recognised by old fiends! Hope the teeth are now ok and glad you enjoyed your day out – I sympathise with you over those pesky mozzies. I had a particularly bad experience about a month ago and ended up in A & E. Take care.

Ply – keep up the good work – those last few pounds will be off in no time – just keep bouncing!

Cheeseplease – enjoy your pub lunch. Will it be al fresco? The weather should be good again today. The great thing about the 5.2 is we can enjoy these treats without feeling guilty because we know we will get rid of the effects of a little over-indulgence with a carefully controlled fast day. I had a particularly social weekend last week, despite two FDs during the week have only lost half a pound, but hey, it doesn’t matter. As Jojo had demonstrated so effectively, even the small losses add up to significant figures.

Have a great holiday, and I’m thinking of your poignant pilgrimage to Snowdonia. I do the same thing in Dorset, where my late brother’s ashes were scattered on a cliff. We have had a family caravan there (not the same one!) for 30 years and he loved that part of the world.

Weemam – what a lovely story about your old dad. It’s so sad to see loved ones with dementia change from the person we knew and loved, but they are usually happy in their world (we are the ones who suffer from the sidelines) and they can be very entertaining at times!

Amazon – do you recommend the Wii-fit? I’ve been toying with the idea of getting one for several years but never quite convinced myself that I could justify the expense. Do you use it regularly. I’d love a bit of information about it.

Good luck with the fasting Tartanlass, and Versy – I’m exhausted just reading about the amount of exercise you do. Fantastic!

Samm – wise words as ever.

NickF – well done on the B2Bs. How lucky you are in that pat of the world to have all that lovely fruit to look forward to. We’ve got a few apples, a very small second crop of strawberries (but more than the first!) and three blueberries!

Hello to Hermaj and Bayleaf. I’m so glad we joined this thread.

We’re off to the land of no wifi for a couple of weeks, though hopefully will have organised something by the time I get back. We’ve got quite a stream of friends popping down for day visits during that time, all anxious to see the area I have been raving about, so will have to carefully plan my fasting as there will no doubt be a fair bit of feasting! Thanks for the tips Jojo.

Have a great weekend all

Smiffy x

Hi Jojo, those sculptures might be a bit beyond my pennies …..yes, I may be able to catch them. The ones on display at Chatsworth are also for sale by Sotheby’s – a Damien Hurst anyone?

Smiffy good to have you back. Yes we will be al fresco as very tiny, old fashioned pub, with masses of flowers outside, very pretty. A bit grey here in Hampshire so may need to take a cardi.

Have a good day everyone.

Hi everyone,

You may have noticed I’m posting a bit less lately, and when I do I keep it fairly short. The reason is that, following some good-humoured suggestions, especially from the lovely Aussie ladies on the maintainers’ thread, that I should be getting on with my MA dissertation, I’ve been doing just that. So this is a catch-up and hopefully I’ll have the will power not to do more than lurk.

Speaking of lovely Aussies, hi, bay, I hope all is well with you.

Amazon, I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never visited Kenwood House and didn’t realise that it was home to such a rich art collection. We used to go to a lot of concerts by the nearby lake, until they started to go down market. 🙁

So jojo, maybe we should explore together as you suggest. It would be great if some of our other friends within relatively easy reach of North London could join us for a bit of “culcha” and some nice FD-friendly sarnies. 🙂 And what a great idea to take a cruise around Central America. An opportunity to practise your Spanish, although there will be differences between Latin-American and Peninsular Spanish. For example, in some Latin-America countries, the verb “coger”, to catch, take hold of, which is absolutely harmless in Peninsular Spanish, is very, very rude (English translation begins with F). So you have to be careful if you are telling someone you have a train or bus to catch . 🙂

On the cruise itself I’m sure there will be no problem about travelling alone. If you get the chance, read Salley Vickers’s Dancing Backwards, which features a lady of similar vintage travelling alone across the Atlantic on a luxury liner. On shore, it might occasionally be problematic if you are completely on your tod, but no doubt you will be able to team up with a companuon or two.

Cheeseplease, I’ll be thinking of you and your other half as you make your pilgimage to Snowdonia. It must be comforting to know that your son is resting in such a beautiful place. Do I detect a touch of gentle humour in your choice of the Devil’s Kitchen as a happy place for a chef to be?

Smiffy, enjoy your trip to no-wifi land. Hope the mozzies leave you in peace.I thought I was bad enough when, as a kid, I had to have my arms bandaged to stop me scratching multiple bites. But I never wound up in A&E, which can’t have been much fun. Have you found a way to keep the little so-and-sos away?

Finally, SAMM. Whereabouts in the USA are you? Would I be right in thinking somewhere in the southern half? This time two years ago, we were driving around the US and the furthest south we got was North Carolina. I remember travelling along the Blue Ridge Parkway – sadly it was too soon for fall colours – with some great Blue Grass on the car stereo and thinking it couldn’t get better than this. Then it did, as a young bear crossed the road ahead of us.

My husband practises Tai Chi, in fact he’s now in the final stage of qualifying as an instructor. His aim was to do a sequence in as many states as possible. With the odd bit of quick state line-hopping, e.g. from Indiana into Michigan and from Kentucky into Tennessee, he managed to do it in 14 states.

Have a good weekend, all of you. Me, I’m about to get my brain in gear for a bit more of the dissertation.

I am infuriated for and with you, Jojo! Rude and ridiculous. You are surely burning calories with all that emotion…channel it into positive progress in the garden! I am generally a very even-tempered gal, but there is nothing that gets my blood boiling like injustice, and I feel it should never be ignored. We can’t always rectify it, but I always at least try.