One important thing that we need to remember is that the ratio of the calorie intake to the calories burnt needs to be looked after.However, at times the height and the weight of a person may need to be proportionate. Thus, make sure how much your body should weigh and then decide upon the steps that you need to take.

Amazon and Aussie – well done! We’ve all got to have a little treat now and again – even if it’s a fast day. That’s the great thing about 5.2. So flexible and we don’t feel deprived x

Nicky, great work keeping under 400 cals for your FD 🙂

Hi Smiffy, YAY down another 1.5lb so now you’re officially 11st & a bit 😀 😆

Welcome Schouke & CarlosCont.

Hi to Ply, PVE, SAMM, RT, Wee, Amazon and everyone else, so much going on as Jojo says it’s hard to mention everyone by name and it’s nothing personal if I don’t mention you by name 🙂

Haha thanks Aussie – 11st and a very big bit, but I’m getting there. Jojo – my death would almost certainly be by Kettle Chips!

I agree with the cheese. There are more than 300 French cheeses, so you could have a unique experience everyday before your unfortunate demise.
I saw a black humour French film some years ago called La grande bouffe ( a big meal in non-elegant French) where these guys got together with an excellent chef with the idea of eating themselves to death which they did enjoyably.

Hi JoJO
The French cheese with the smelliest reputation is munster. I haven’t eaten it in years. My ex French husband used to find bits of cheese long forgotten in the fridge and eat with alacrity. He found that even camembert gets some flavour 6 months after its best by date!
But the smelliest thing I have eaten is a tropical fruit called durian. According to one guide book, it is like eating the most delicious strawberry tart in the most disgusting public toilet (you probably have to come to France to find the latter)
It is my up day today. I fasted well yesterday and are on the losing curve again. Just 1 kg short of my October objective. It is raining and I am sorting out clothes today and have one pile of too bigs, one of ok now, and some dating to the 1990s which will be ok in 10kg time.
We are caught in rural France today with all roads closed due to works. Tomorrow my down day will be miserable (but effective) as the food is running out and I don’t feel like walking 11 kilometres(and 500m in altitude) down to buy a bit of food.
I hope you are all right after your dog scare of the other day. The dogs here are lucky as they can just roam at their will.
Have you started the ADF again?
Good fasting to fasters of today.
KiwiWiwi

Good morning all from a sunny cold Scotland.

off shortly to get the flu jab ,Ross getting his too . Then off to Matalan to return some stuff, .. No noise as yet from next door BUT they can’t do what they have to do without making some noise . They are really such a lovely young couple . I found out the young guys Granny is a good friend of mine . I jokingly told him if he is trouble I will tell his gran lol.
I am just so pleased they are so nice . I have bought them a nice wee welcome to your house gift :).
Death by Ice Cream would be my favourite lol . And maybe the outside crust of the bread toasted with butter lol.

Have a great day all of you but be good :).

Wee xx

Breakfast on the road away from home this morning at a chain bagel shop, not usually a good option. However, they had a “skinny” breakfast sandwich with egg and sun-dried tomatoes. They even cut the bagel “skinny”, which means they cut out the middle, so it is not such a carb bomb! Still wouldn’t do for a fast day, but not the worst.

Hi Tartan lass.
I was just coming on here to moan about feeling hungry, and your post brought me back down to earth.
Sorry that you and yours are having to deal with the tough side of life.
You are right about how easy it is to fall into comfort eating, so well done for being on your second FD of the week.
Good idea not to go near the scales until you have a few fasts under your belt.
You can do it!

back home and I am freezing . Ended up going to the shops on my own . The sale was on and I got some really good bargains of trousers and jumpers for my lovely Dad . I have to put the heating on . I joked with OH that is was my extra layer heating that has gone round my body lol . My insulation :).

Jojo so chuffed for you that the holiday weight is coming off for you . Welcome home Tartan lass .

No hammering next door yet so going to have a coffee and relax for a wee while .

Got flu jab over with earlier and have a hair appointment tomorrow . Exhausted thinking about it all .

It will be our 53rd wedding anniversary next Tuesday so I bought a nice top for myself today …OH had told me to make sure I treated myself . still my best friend ,he is just so thoughtful ..Love him to bits . 56 years since we met . I was 16 and he was 19 and got married 3 years later . I am very blessed with my family ..

Well have a great day everyone . You are all so nice on this thread ( even if I can’t remember ALL the names 🙂 xx

Amazon it is Ok though pal . The top OH paid for was reduced to £9 and the one I bought for myself was £3:50p . so not breaking the bank :). I love my bargains lol xx

I love the thought of buying something new, something nice but I won’t indulge until I’m back into double figures 🙂

Jojo do you have any Scottish ancestors pal 🙂 .

I hope your daughter is ok . I am glad she has a nice Mam like you to take care of her xx.

We will not be travelling very far in the future . We prefer out own beds and own loos now too 🙂 .

What is halloumi ?

Wee xx

Thanks PV I will look out for it

Wee xx

Good morning fast-tracking mates. Having a coffee while reading all your posts, OH gone to the dentist after breaking a tooth on a Fruchoc! My SA mates will also wonder how he did it, given they’re not really hard.

Wee and RT, such a love(ly) stories. OH and I met when I was 19 and he 21. We married 3 years later with great parental misgivings but 46th in December. Despite occasional hiccups (who doesn’t have them?) he’s still my best mate.

Tartanlass, sorry to hear life’s not so rosy just now. So easy to return to (bad) old habits of comfort eating – we’ve all been there. Hope things improve soon and take care of yourself extra well in the meantime.

OA, keep up the good work – you’ve been doing really well. Such a lovely day here, hope it’s the same up your way.

Ply, what self-control on opting for skinny breakfast – not sure I could have resisted because am a sucker for slap-up breakfasts, especially when someone else cooks and cleans up 😉

Jojo, your daughter is lucky to have such an understanding Mum. Glad the holiday weight has evaporated, as I’m sure you knew it would.

Purple, please wish your OH a happy 64th. Don’t know how you can cook things like bread while fasting – a wonderwoman!

Apologies to those not specifically named, put it down to ‘old timers’.

Had my usual PT-supervised weights session after work yesterday. Recorded new PB for overhead press of 12.5kg (each hand). Have been lifting 17.5kg each hand for bicep curls but now glad to have left the ladylike 😉 shiny weights and graduated to what I mentally called the “boys’ weights”. Also had 3month assessment and body fat gone down another 7% and weight loss 4.2kg, so despite gradually lowering my TDEE, I’m losing at a slightly greater rate than the 1kg/month I set myself initially. My knee flexion has also improved by 2o, so have improved on orthopod’s gloomy prediction that what it was at 12 months post-op is the best I could hope for.

Keep up the good work all – you keep me inspired.

Hi again

Wiwi, your mention of durian brought back memories of a Malaysian trip I did for work about 4 years ago. Was a guest lecturer at Nat Uni of Malaysia so put up in very swank hotel. Was intrigued by signs in lobby and at lifts saying durian was not permitted beyond that point.

Not familiar then (and me a botanist!) but tracked it down in the local market. Utterly disgusting smell but delicious to eat. Unfortunately my sense of smell trumped taste buds after one go and couldn’t overcome the revolting smell again.

Give me smelly cheese any day. Death by cheese and biscuits? Bring it on!

Nicky seriously OMG your numbers are amazing 12.5kg overhead and 17.5kg bicep curl per hand that’s impressive your our bright shining star what a wonderful good news story 46 years wed that is terrific my parents got to 25 then pulled the pin Dad re-married and has 25 years on the clock this time around.. Mum did not but has found peace love and happiness with a lovely Maltese chap they live in Richmond West off Marion Road and for want of a better phrase has lived in sin 🙂 for 24 years she is 75 he is 85..I Will admit to a fruchoc addiction bung fritz balfours pies and pasties and farmers union iced coffee………There iv said it.!!
I feel better now :).
Peace
RT

 
Dieting is wishful shrinking. 

Obesity is really widespread. 

Joseph O. Kern II    

Gluttony is not a secret vice. 

Orson Welles    

Dieting is not a piece of cake. 

I am a nutritional overachiever. 

Where do you go to get anorexia? 

Shelley Winters    

I think I just ate my willpower. 

Life itself is the proper binge. 

Julia Child    

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. 

Never eat more than you can lift. 

Miss Piggy    

A waist is a terrible thing to mind. 

Tom Wilson    

I’m not overweight, I’m undertall. 

Dieters live life in the fasting lane. 

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. 

Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket. 

Not afraid of heights – afraid of widths. 

We never repent of having eaten too little. 

Thomas Jefferson, 1825    

Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate! 

Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes    

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. 

One should eat to live, not live to eat. 

Cicero,    

To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. 

Proverb    

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. 

Erma Bombeck    

I’m in shape.  Round is a shape… isn’t it? 

Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork. 

English Proverb    

If I can’t have too many truffles I’ll do without. 

Colette    

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. 

Don Kardong    

I’m on a seafood diet.  I see food and I eat it. 

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. 

H.S. Leigh    

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. 

Lewis C. Henry    

Fat is not a moral problem.  It’s an oral problem. 

Jane Thomas Noland    

I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me! 

I’m not overweight.  I’m just nine inches too short. 

Shelley Winters    

Don’t go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. 

Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. 

Betsy Cañas Garmon,    

The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. 

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. 

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy. 

Edward “Grandpa” Jones, 1978    

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. 

Cyril Connolly,    

The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. 

Peggy Ryan    

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams. 

Jason Love    

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. 

John Kenneth Galbraith,    

The cardiologist’s diet:  If it tastes good, spit it out. 

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. 

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. 

Peter De Vries    

I’m on a 90-day wonder diet.  Thus far, I’ve lost 45 days. 

The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity. 

Mervyn Deitel    

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. 

I’m allergic to food.  Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. 

Jennifer Greene Duncan    

replaced sex in my life; now, I can’t even get into my own pants. 

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is fourteen days. 

Totie Fields    

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. 

Harold MacMillan    

I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. 

Paula Poundstone    

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. 

Mark Twain    

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it. 

Horace    

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny:  they too, shape our ends. 

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth. 

Chauncey M. Depew    

Flabbergasted, adj.  Appalled over how much weight you have gained. 

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not! 

My wife is a light eater.  As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat. 

Henny Youngman    

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. 

William Shakespeare    

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. 

Dave Barry    

It’s okay to be fat.  So you’re fat.  Just be fat and shut up about it. 

Roseanne Barr    

You know it’s time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. 

Quoted in    

You can’t lose weight by talking about it.  You have to keep your mouth shut. 

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. 

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. 

Cyril Connolly,    

Food is like sex:  when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. 

Beth McCollister    

My advice if you insist on slimming:  Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it. 

Harry Secombe    

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. 

Dan Bennett    

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when.” 

P.G. Wodehouse    

Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. 

Mignon McLaughlin,    

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

John Milton    

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. 

Plutarch    

All people are made alike –
of bones and flesh and dinner –
Only the dinners are different.

Gertrude Louise Cheney    

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first.  By the second day, you’re off it. 

Jackie Gleason    

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.  Unless there are three other people. 

Orson Welles    

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back. 

Robert Quillen    

I never worry about diets.  The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. 

Mae West    

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. 

Elmer Rice    

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. 

Benjamin Franklin    

It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator. 

Hugh Allen    

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 

Mark Twain,    

I have a great diet.  You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. 

Ed Bluestone    

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook. 

Andy Rooney    

I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu. 

Jane Wagner    

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park.  When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem. 

Chris Adams    

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. 

Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,”    

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. 

I bought a talking refrigerator that said “Oink” every time I opened the door.  It made me hungry for pork chops. 

Marie Mott    

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. 

We’re the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it. 

It’s not women’s fault that diets don’t work.  It’s not perversity of lack of willpower.  God did this – in Her great wisdom. 

Dr. Wayne Callaway    

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. 

Herbert B. Prochnow    

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the “I still have more to go” crap.  You worked hard and you deserve the compliment! 

Jillian Michaels    

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they’ll find me like a strip of bacon – a streak of lean and a streak of fat. 

Texas Guinan    

I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades.  I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds.  By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. 

Erma Bombeck    

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.  Kate Moss?  Well, she would have been the paintbrush. 

Dawn French    

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. 

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. 

Stephen Phillips    

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat.  Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. 

George Bernard Shaw    

When we lose twenty pounds… we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have!  We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. 

Woody Allen    

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth’s gravitational pull has become since 1990. 

Dave Barry    

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away.  But first I spray them with Raid so I won’t dig them out of the garbage later.  Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn’t taste that bad. 

Janette Barber    

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information:  french-fried potatoes are out. 

Jean Kerr    

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.

Dave Barry,    

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

Phillip C. McGraw,    

Funny Samm…laughing in the train!

Wow Nicky..you are wondergran 🙂

I met my OH when I was 12. Fell in love by 16. Had to get parental permission to marry..I was a week off 20, he was 3 weeks off 21.
We celebrated 43 years of marriage last week. Busy time for celebrating in October. As I said before. He is still my best friend. Love him ♡
Cheers fast trackers, P

Once again, I spent five minutes giggling at SAMM’s one liners.
Thanks SAMM.

Great stuff with the weights Nicky!

It is a dry clear morning, and the first time for 3 months I can see the sky properly as the scaffolding finally came down yesterday. I didn’t realise how much light it was blocking out.

Feed day for me today. I am going to spend some time writing a menu plan for the next week, and try to ring the changes a bit so I don’t get bored.

Have a good day/evening everyone.

Hello JoJo and team

Your sayings are a good breakfast, Samm, I ingested them with green tea.
JoJo, I find 1200 cal max possible with this ADF. I never eat more than I need on up days and the down day at 400-500 cals. The average is about 1200 cal.

I spent 3 years living in Papua New Guinea. I went there with my husband and two small children. We were volunteer teachers in a very remote high school. We lived among the sweet potato growers. They could get enough calories(1200) from eating these, but lacked protein. They hunted to get protein. But not far away were the sago growers. That was different. The women had to thrash the sago to remove it from the palm. Sago is poor in any sort of nutrition and the women used more energy to prepare the sago than by eating it and were very underfed. They had bananas and coconut, but were not on a 1200 cal daily ration.
The amazing thing about the people we lived amongst was that they had not reached the pottery stage of development. They did not store water at home. If they were thirsty they had to go to the river to drink (often many hundreds of metres below). More often they chewed sugar cane or just did not drink. Sweet potato is very dry. We often stayed with our students for holidays. On a sweet potato diet, we always shrank away. We carried piles of peanut butter to keep the children from starving.
In PNG 1200 cals was considered the absolute minimum level of calories.
Ah that will keep a faster from thinking about food for a few minutes.
For me it is a sewing day. I need new smaller clothes. I need braces to hold up my cords now.
Remember that book? Falling Pants by Lucy Lastic.
Good fasting
KiwiWiwi

PVE some real life experiences in there fantastic to think you have the recipe and yes the C bomb Commitment to arrive at 43 years married I dont care what anyone says that’s another inspired story today number three
and I havnt included my own
this is the thread people 🙂
Peace
RT