RT I agree this IS the thread! I am delighted to have found such a positive group of supportive and interesting women – and Samm (who brings so much information and chuckles)
Wee Mam -congratulations on your upcoming anniversary, I love a bargain too. I have 5 star taste and a 3 star pocket 😉
Like so many of you I also married young-just a month before turning 20. At the time it did not seem ‘young’ but now looking back it certainly was. However, 32 years later we’re very much together, still opposites still sparking off each other from time to time but in a way we’ve grown up together and have been blessed in many ways.
The travelling bug seems to be a common theme too, we have lots of the world still to see. I love planning trips (frustrated travel agent) and have enjoyed fly/frive trips to many parts of the States and Canada. So much so that we feel quite at home on that side of the pond and if we havent been for a while miss it. Our younger daughter is in Perth WA at the moment so we’re off there next which is very exciting.
Fast day went fine yesterday despite the great British Bake Off final lol.
Smiffy and Amazon I appreciate your kind words, I need to find a way of coping without turning to food. I could justify not continuing with this WOE at the moment but it wouldn’t help anyone. Unfortunately we are in for a difficult time but with support we’ll get though.
Best wishes to all

Hi Tartan Lass.
I have friends who live 30 minutes drive from the centre of Perth, and I was there in January. It is a great city, and I’m sure you’ll love it. Fremantle is great too. If you get to Fremantle go to the Kiosk for breakfast. It is opposite the old East Street jetty. They serve the best breakfast ever, and the full veggie is to die for!

I didn’t start proper travelling until I was 35. Before that it was package holidays only, but that was enough to make me realise that there is a lot to see out there. I can no longer do beach style holidays, and as a result of opting for more active holidays I’ve had some amazing experiences and adventures. Last year when in South Africa I went zip wiring through the forest which was terrifying but brilliant!

Wee

Know what you mean about the tummy rumbling bit. Mine has a mind of it’s own too.
Strangely, pleasantly strangely, I have found my IBS/Diverticultis seems to get on well with the 5.2. Doesn’t mean there are no strange noises, but who really cares.
You HAVE done well havn’t you. I’m envious 🙂

“I’m a relative newly-wed second time around, having only been married four years after ‘living in sin’ for 24.”

Sorry but I don’t see that as ‘living in sin’. To me there’s something of wisdom about it.

If it’s ‘the Church’ that makes you say ‘living in sin’… a friend of mine used to say to me “Those that play the game should call the rules”!

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What a lovely and very sensible idea!

We had our wedding reception in the local scout hut near the Church.
1 week before the wedding there had been floods and the Church was under water!
It subsided just in time.
I had my sister’s daughter and the 2 daughters of a friend as bridesmaids. 5 or 6 years old.
My Mother nearly had a heart attack because they were bored with the reception, went outside and collected some conkers , brought them in and proceeded to ‘decorate’ the wedding cake!
We didn’t have an evening ‘do’ just 1 straight from the Church.
My Mother had organised it all herself, Father not in the picture.
She was a wonderful Mother.
Thought my husband was the best thing since sliced bread and never allowed me to ‘tell him off!’
He was an absolute rock when Mother had a terrible accident and later when she died. He organised everything.
I still do ‘tell him off’ sometimes and am always reminded of her when I do 🙂

Love reading all your posts. Wee I can imagine having the same (or similar) said to me 😆

Well it’s weigh day today – another 1.5kg gone YAY!!! Plus another 2cm (overall) vanished!

Whoever said it might be fluid retention last week must have been spot on as yesterday I “sprung a leak” (hopefully not TMI).

Total loss so far is 6.6kg in four weeks (well really 3 wks 3 days but will call it four as I’ve settled on today as my weigh day) – I have just worked it out into pounds and it’s roughly 14.5lbs (I think that’s 1 stone – please correct me if I’m wrong) gone!!!

I’m almost jumping out of my skin for joy! I’ve never, EVER, been able to lose this much so quickly and I’m not hungry (apart from a couple of hunger pangs last night, drank some more, and pangs have gone this morning) another 3.4kg and I’ll have made my first goal so not far away now 🙂

When I first started my TDEE was well over 2000 now it’s a smidge under 2000 so that’s also great 🙂 and of course my BMI and BMR are reducing too which is wonderful 😀 what a wonderful start to my day … wish there were some jumping for joy smilies available in here 😀

Well dona Aussie and yes 14 pounds are 1 stone . Yeeessss.

Isn’t it such a brilliant feeling 🙂

Hubby and I are taking Dad out again tomorrow and I really look forward now to planning what I am going to wear when I go out .

My lovely DIL bought me a gorgeous Maine Jacket a few years ago and it has always been tight . WELL!!! I just tried it on and it is brilliant . I have looked out trousers that are almost a perfect match , It would sound daft to others not loosing weight BUT I am excited about putting it on tomorrow .

it seems such a long time since I have said this but I am actually beginning to like what I see in the mirror .

You guys are brilliant and it is brilliant all the support we give each other . I will be going to bed with a big smile on my face and look forward to the weekend when I hit the 2 stone mark …Yipeee!!!!!

Night all and remember to be good 🙂

Wee xx

Happy Friday people ok some house keeping first up Aussie Oma gold star to you 41 years of marriage is another great news story fantastic news and you have shredded a further 1.5kg nothing gives you a natural buzz and a high from them evil scales going downwards no matter where you put them on the bathroom floor 🙂 and Tartan lass a big shout out to you 32 years and still going strong wicked good and I agree completely in the 80,s that’s how it was hey? when I was 30 I had been married for 10 years and we had 3 kids our now 30 yo son shows no interest in the C word at all ( much to the current girlfriends annoyance) and as for parenthood hhmmm He is not keen at all never mind plenty of time 🙂 Ok this week has been kind to me also with a loss of 1.3kg and after 3 weeks on this WOL -4.7kg the man boobs have gone down atad and the verandah over the toy shop has reduced alittle.Bring on the weekend people
full of peace love and happiness for all
RT

Good morning all. Such successes to log in and find! Wee, OA, RT, Tartan gold stars all round I think.

Had such a bad day yesterday (eating), started OK at breakfast, morning tea with strawberry tart as mentioned, lunch OK but our daughter and grand-daughter waiting at home when we returned from shopping. OH opened a bag of Red Rock chips for g/daughter who loves them and is skinny as – reminds me of me at the same age, all legs and arms and bony behind. Most uncomfortable when she sits on one’s lap because she can’t sit still 🙂 Anyway, you can guess the rest. I suppose not so bad when considering 150g shared between 4 but just so cross with myself for eating mindlessly.

Last day of school hols today so taking the grandies to the Central Market, at their request. ‘Pa’ is always a sucker for lollies &c. Still, what are grandparents for? Anyway, determined to only have coffee for morning tea. With moderate lunch and fish for dinner, which I will cook as if a FD for me, yesterday’s slip-up will be put into perspective.

Happy Friday all.

Thanks RT and everyone else … that’s such a lot to lose (for me) in such a short time … it’s never been (a) this quick or (b) this easy … so happy smiles all day long 🙂

PVE hoping you have/had a fantastic birthday (thanks Bay for letting us know 🙂 )

Well out for dinner tonight … I’m getting to the point where I don’t worry about lunches most days (I take it but if not hungry I bring it home again) but am looking forward to dinner as this is the day I have an icecream (the only treat I allow myself most weeks now).

PS I like the idea of getting rid of oversize clothes. I did that yesterday and feel even lighter. Good advice JoJo

AO, keep up the good work. It will be that much easier now you know it really does work.
Well done to everyone else too.

Getting rid of oversized clothes is wonderful. I have a shelf piled high with winter clothes that need sorting out and I know that most of them are destined for charity shop or recycling. I’ll save it for a day when the scales haven’t moved and I need cheering up 😉

The first 16 months after I retired my feet didn’t touch the ground. I was out almost every day, I had 14 weeks worth of holidays and the time flew by. Since then I have slowed down. At first it was because I was ill and couldn’t do much, then I got it into my head that there is nothing wrong with doing nothing occasionally, but the occasions have become more frequent. I’ve never had much of a routine as I worked all hours on any day in the NHS, but now there is no plan at all. So after 2 years I’ve not yet found the right balance, but I’m working on it.
As for exercise, I just keep imagining the fat melting away……………..
Time for my walk.

Failure is always temporary, only giving up makes it permanent.
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” ― Tom Stoppard
“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.” ― Ayn Rand
Most of our suspicions of others are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves.
My parents worked hard to give us everything money could not buy.
“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” ― Helen Keller
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” ― Kahlil Gibran

2lb a week is a math problem .
1 1/4lb  calorie restriction +  3/4 lb of exercise.
In other words 
Three 600 calorie fast days
Four 1,500 feed days of a 2,000 BMR basically 500 of calorie restriction.
200 of exercise calories  after every meal on feed days.  or 2,400 over seven day period.

Here’s a list of exercises with their calories .
http://fiti-vation.tumblr.com/post/56022726323/calories-burned-during-exercise-activities

My choice is  jumprope . It is a triple benefit. 
100 calories per ten minutes
Can accomplish HIIT and increase vo2max
Helps to circulate the lymphatic system.

If I get winded , I continue to do jumping jacks .I always use a timer . It goes beep and it’s over with.

My experience with this WOL way of life
I keep detailed notes on what eat By the week.
I pay attention to weeks I have lost 2 lbs
After a year and a half I’ve lost 57lbs and have 43lbs to Keep On Keepin Off

4:3 and 500 calorie restriction on feed days with 200 cals of exercise is the only times I’ve lost 2 lbs a week for 5 weeks in row.

Oh, forgot to say SAMM great going with the data 😀 always interesting to know these things.

Hi Weemam.

I have one day when I eat up to my TDEE and am trying to keep it down on the other days. I’ve also started eating less than 500 on fast days.

Can’t help with the smoothies but I’m sure someone will be able to.

@jojo58. I am part of a walking group in Kent. I mainly do the 5-6 mile walks on sundays. There is also a 11+mile walk but since I am still working full time, I don’t want to give up the whole of Sunday. (I will do it some time though)
All the people are really really nice and joining the ramblers this summer it was one of the best things I have done in long time. i should have done this years ago.

Hi Emel this is a great group to get to know, a wealth of knowledge from around the world 🙂

I too feel lighter after my FD’s (fast days) and find this WOL or WOE (way of life or way of eating) great for me.

Many of us use an app called MyFitnessPal to track what we’re eating and it also has areas for exercise to be input too 🙂

Greetings and Salutations to all my new and old fast tracking friends SAMM thanku for the one liners that was awesome and the quotes of inspiration you always find pearls of wisdom and nuggets of knowledge and share to us all much appreciated…I have an interstate work trip on next week and living out the suitcase in a motel till Friday I am feeling a personal challenge coming on and a 4 day fast to complete my first month on this new and exciting WOL..I am really keen to Bear Grylls it style 🙂 with nothing more than a jug a toaster and a mico-wave…
Stay Beautiful People
Peace
RT

RT
RU under doctor supervision with those 96 hour fasts.
It’s my understanding that the body starteps to burn muscle after a72hours and is why it accepted that any fasts longer than 48 hours be with supervision.
I just curious about you and want to see you succeed.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— Lady Dorothy Nevill

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
— Alice Walker

From 2010
 Intermittent fasting goes against most of the traditional bodybuilding, fitness and nutritionst endorsed diets. However, medical science and anecdotal evidence suggests it is the way to go for those struggling with weigh loss, especially those with low thyroid function. There are no meal plans to follow or certain foods to eat (although eliminating simple carbs will make the lifestyle even more effective). The basic premise of this diet (it’s really a lifestyle) is skipping breakfast and lunch everyday, and eating all of your meals within a specific time frame during the day. Some common styles of eating are 16/8 (16 hours fasting and 8 hours eating) 18/6, 19/5 and 20/4. While fasting your body (as it has evolved to do) will burn stored fat as energy (contrary to popular believe your body does not switch to burning muscle until 72 hours without food). Doing some sort of exercise during your fasting period will increase the amount of fat you burn, even if it is just walking. During the eating time frame you eat as you normally would, in the small time you have to eat it is almost impossible for you do go above your body’s calorie limit for the day. The intermittent fasting lifestyle also you to no longer be a slave to the “food schedule” you have all day from the time you wake up to the time you eat in the early / late afternoon to not plan where your next meal is coming from. The fast helps your body detoxify itself and fully digest your last meal. With your body spending less energy digesting, the rest of your organs are able to receive more blood and more oxygen in order to function properly. This is especially true of mental function, while fasting your brain releases hormones which increase mood and mental clarity (goodbye brain fog!) If you have high blood sugar or are pre-diabetic this lifestyle is extremely useful as insulin resistence is lowered considerably, cholesterol levels are improved and trigylcrides are eliminated from the blood. During your fasting period you are allowed to drink non-caloric beverages (coffee, water, diet soda, green tea, etc. etc) and chew sugarfree gum. The great thing about this diet is you are NOT starving yourself, you eat everyday and around the same amount of calories as you normally would eating 3 meals or 6 small meals yet due to the fasting period your body is able to burn fat. Try this during your next work week (just skip breakfast and lunch) and you’ll be amazed at the results.

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I’ll add that if you suspect thyroid issues. While intermittent fasting to avoid spinach.

Wow!! Smiles all over my face and brain!
I had to run down to the living room to fetch my specs as I didn’t quite believe what the scales was telling me this morning. I have lost 3 lbs in the last 10 days. I’m chuffed to bits. If it keeps up I shall have to have words with Father Christmas about clothes!!

What I’m really enjoying ( apart from all the encouragement here) is the cooking challenges as I love cooking.
Each evening I plan next days ‘menu’ and calorie intake.
The hardest part of the day, when my brain tries to continually tell me I fancy a nibble, is when we’re watching TV in the evening.
I’ve tried to be extra careful so that I can really enjoy our celebration tomorrow. 🙂
Be encouraged that your challenge is effective jojo.