Samm
You are doing really well. ..97kg. You’ll get there. My reversed diabetic hubby (interesting description) finds he can get away with a bit of naughtiness on eat days as long as he definitely does 2 fasts a week. He has been squarely in his healthy weight niw fir most of thus year having lost 30kg.

On fast days he has nothing but black coffee and water until 6.30pm when he has veg or salad and fish…don’t count the calories any more, but low as there are no starchy foods. He drinks wine on normal days. Anything too sugary (cider/beer) sends his bs up. He also finds this happens 2 days later if he has excessive wine or pigs out on a sugary dessert. P

Because of my level of exercise Ive been choosing oatmeal as my feed dat breakfast, as I can flavor it in many ways. It can give me a spike, but I follow the recommended oatmeal guidelines for diabetics. As it helps to keep cholesterols at health levels. Very small portions with stevia instead of sugar. It trickles rathersthan gushes. Cholesterol’s are typically high in people losing weight.

I’ll look up dr fung

Here the oat meal info

http://www.diabitieslife.com/diabetes/diabetes-diet/food/diabetes-and-oatmeal.htm

Morning/evening all.

A cold, but clear and sunny morning. Thankfully those strong winds have gone.

19lbs gone, so that is 43lbs in total and I am officially at my lowest weight for 25 years!
I did B2B Monday and yesterday as I’m out for the day today and didn’t want to lose a fast day, and I’m so thrilled and motivated I’ve decided I’m going for another B2B tomorrow and Friday and then back to ADF until the end of November.

Lots of posts to catch up on. I probably shouldn’t have but really laughed at the term “fatty Purple” and I bet you’re not scrawny, just slim 🙂
I have a couple of recent photos that I like. One of them is a group photo from my South Africa trip, and it is a good photo of all members of the group, although some might disagree!
After the discussion yesterday I went and had a good look at myself in the mirror and saw a not yet slender but definitely thinner person, so I’m happy with my progress apart from the fact that my skin needs to shrink a bit 😮

I had a bright pink hula hoop when I was 5 which was kept behind the sofa, and I loved it! It reminded me that the Wii fit has a hula hoop module on it and a boxing exercise that I really used to enjoy. I must dust it off and take a look.

Time to get moving, have a great day/evening everyone.

Morning all – busy bees as always. I’ve had a quick run throu the posts -it looks like everyone is doing well 🙂
The cast of ‘York The Movie’ are gearing up to what looks like a great weekend. Samm is a fountain of knowledge as always. Skipping or jumprope seems to be very benificial – I have a couple of things that make it quite uncomfortable but a good sports bra should sort me out! Could I just caution every one to wear good supportive footwear and stretch and warm up a little before starting. This should avoid any nasty achilles tendon problems. Samm – a man who can dance is a rare and wonderous thing in my experience.
Jojo – I watched Horizon last night until my eyes closed I think I have 30mins to catch up on later. This is a truely historic advance in medicine and makes my heart glad. I’m delighted you made a good recovery but your experience obviously gave you an insight to the difficulties faced by many. I think I’ve missed some posts re facebook – I am a sceptical convert to f/b over the past few years and its put me back in touch with many old friends. What is the group name?
2nd fast of the week for me today. Hoping for some weight reward tomorrow but happy to have some clothes that feel very loose and down a size in others (I’m sometimes reluctant to go down a size because I enjoy the novelty of too big clothes – weirdo!)
Best wishes to all

Tartan lass, I’ve just parted with a much loved sweatshirt that was so large I could get someone else in it at the same time. I didn’t want to part with it because it is very warm and has a fleecy lining, and every time I caught sight of myself wearing it I was reminded how much smaller I am. Last but not least, I’ve spent many years finding cloths are getting tighter, and experiencing the opposite is fab!

Trying a fast day today starting from after lunch

So sweet of you to be emotional on my behalf, Jojo. Thank you.

Hi bay,

As promised, here are a few suggestions for learning Spanish, some test-driven by Him Indoors who found them to be useful and fun. Firstly a freebee which you can start on immediately if you want to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

It includes a little 12-episode soap called Mi Vida Loca – My Crazy Life – which deals with the sort of everyday situations that a visitor to Spain might experience, plus simple but useful vocabulary.

OH also recommended another BBC publication:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Active-Talk-Spanish-Pack-books/dp/1406644587/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413894319&sr=1-7&keywords=BBC+spanish

You’ll see the link is to Amazon UK. It may well be that you could find it on Amazon Australia. If not, this link should give enough detail for you to order it from somewhere else close to home.

When you said you were heading towards Latin America, it occurred to me that this one, ‘Sueños’ (Dreams)’ may be even more useful as it travels around different countries and, I think, different variations of Spanish, i.e. the same language but some different usages, just like there are between you guys Down Under and us guys in the land of the other Hermaj – the one in Buck House. Hopefully, Amazon.au may have the CDs and books but the details should help you track them down elsewhere.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Suenos-World-Spanish-CDs-Sue%C3%B1os/dp/0563472480/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_z (CDs)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Suenos-World-Spanish-Coursebook-Sue%C3%B1os/dp/0563472464/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1VFQHDTWEPXHT7VF5X5T (course book)

A final thought. Our good friend Amazon – the lovely lady, not the online retailer 🙂 – is off to Cuba very soon and I know it’s not her first trip to Latin America. She can probably offer some useful advice based on her own experience.

Anyway, hope this helps. 🙂

Is this possible that I can Lose 2 lb per week?

Hi Ahmed,

I think a quick answer is some weeks yes, others, no. And it isn’t necessarily because you have done anything wrong. Bodies seem to have minds of their own.

Good luck, though. You will definitely get there, but it might not be quite as fast as you would like. Don’t forget all sorts of other good things will be happening, e.g. reduced blood pressure, cholesterol levels and blood glucose. And you may find, as lots of us do, that the tape measure or the way clothes fit give a better indication than the scales that we are making progress.

Hi Hermaj
You have a way with words. Thanks for making me laugh.

XX Tangatwiwi

Thanks Tartanlass.
Yes I will take your advice and Hermaj’s and go onto the 5:2 until we get to New Zealand.
Thanks for your kind words, Tartanlass and Hermaj.
XX Tangatawiwi

Jojo just read your other post . Do you mean to eat right up to your TDEE? . I was going to try that too BUT I am so scared I would put weight on . Today is the first day I have felt I could have eaten up to the TDEE but most days I have been really happy with less .

Wee xx

Thank you, Tangatwiwi, it’s sweet of you to say so.

Being dyspraxic – ham fists and two left feet; dyscalculic – number dyslexic and rubbish at sums; and born with a foot right in it, I guess it’s good to be good at something. I’m not a bad cook either, but there endeth my talents.

Basically it’s what I do for a living. I’m sure you would agree that the mark of a good translator is that s/he makes the text read and sound as though it was written in English rather than translated from French, Spanish, German or whatever. It’s also helped to go back to uni to do part-time post-grad work, where writing well (and making it sound as though you know what you’re talking about 🙂 ) is par for the course. I’m now waiting with bated breath to see if I can call myself an MA.

Also posting on this and occasionally other threads where there are so many fine wordsmiths with great turns of phrase that you automatically raise your game.

BTW, how do you keep your wonderful 18th-century stone house warm? We spent a couple of Christmases in a house rented from a colleague in the Pyrénées-Orientales and foraging for firewood was a major occupation. Fortunately there was plenty about. There was a very effective stove that kept the kitchen cosy, but trying to be Christmas-y around the sitting-room fire was a disaster. We had to scurry away before dying of smoke inhalation.

Finally, is there a chance that, if the Glasgow excursion comes off as a lot of us hope it will, you will be able to come along?

Hi Amazon,

Sounds like you had an absolute, bog-standard art museum visit. A combination of Wow! and Ummm, not sure about that, and what the so-and-so is THAT all about? And why does he keep painting Westminster Bridge over and over again?

After three years studying Art History, the experience is still pretty much the same for me. I guess I’ve found a few more things to like and learned to understand why I like them and why I still dislike others. And I did start to really appreciate architecture, largely due to the lovely jojo lookalike who made it so fascinating.

Glad you enjoyed Wahaca. I haven’t been to the one on the South Bank but have eaten several times at the one near Covent Garden. It’s so easy to over-order but once you get the hang of it, it’s well worth a visit.

I forgot to thank you for the info you posted about Westonbirt. Much appreciated.

Hi all, am feeling relieved that my final blood results were clear re diabetes but the warning is there so I am even more determined to adopt the 5:2WOL. I am off to buy a skipping rope ( thanks Samm) as struggle with workload and finding time to consistently Oh, my school had a walkathon so had a good hour walk yesterday and it was part of work.
I still struggle on FD keeping under 500 but I figure it is practise and letting go go entrenched habits!
Best get ready for work so have a great day for all those in the Southern Hemisphere and trust those in the North are sleeping soundly:)

Hi Wiwi

Agree with everything already said. Have a break from strict fasting.

Please don’t forget Samm’s post about having a break from IF every now and again being good for us. I think that we do it to ourselves naturally if we go easy when significant events are happening to us. 🙂

Hi Jojo and AO and others,

I am also having a doldrum ( new word alert 😆 ) and have sabotaged my last two Fast days by eating sweets. Oh, oh !

I am sitting on 60 kg and shrinking a little, but just going up and down through each week. People are now commenting more on my weight loss than they did when I first reached goal weight about four months ago. They are interested in trying fasting as there has been more publicity recently and they can see my results.

Cheers, Bay 🙂

Well done, Amazon, great weight loss. Health benefits too 🙂 Bay

Dreadful energy on this fast day.

Tried to fast on my lightest work load of the week.
I tried to sleep through it when I got home , but family was disappointed I stayed to myself.  Not really worth the effort when a  day of good times lost.

Rearranging furniture now, and oh don’t you know they are not around today. Lol

Well there two reasons to lose weight.  
1.  To look thin.
2. To live longer.

Fasting, seems to help live longer as long as there isn’t malnutrition involved.
Exercise also is proven to extend lifespan, but only walking.

So my approach is to make fasting and walking my way of life for longevity.
 All other exercise and calorie restriction is simply for becoming thinner.

I suspect there’s  a third factor is keep from getting or to lose visceral fat. The fat that surrounds the organs.   It’s proven that walking after meals help to lower fat in the blood, thus lowering the gain of visceral fat.  

Thanks to Micheal Mosely it explained very well in the video eat fast live longer, and again in the truth about exercise. That HIIT. Helps with lowering the amount of fat in The blood.  taking about three minutes a week . But it’s intense  so if you have doctor. They should give you the green light to go at it.

My approach is to use jumprope  ,but also to do jumping jacks.
This only speeds up what walking does for time purposes.  I bought a mini trampoline . As the the jumping serves to help circulate the lymphatic system. So I multiply the benefit of exercise by both walking and jumping.
My understanding is you double you exercise , but not the benefit.
With that in mind I try to do the exercises that save time, but work multiple muscle groups at once. Such as jumprope, and compound lifting.

The walking and fasting though !  
I switched jobs taking on a position in warehouse share I can walk from 7-12 hours a day racking up big numberson the pedometer. So I don’t have to try and walk after work.  And figuring out how fast on work days where I walk so much is discouraging , but I know the focus for me is not to look thinner , but to live longer. So I keep trying to fit  the fast days into mt life, even though the amount of exercise is helping to lose weight.  I know the fasting must be the lead factor.

It’s my approach to use this phase of weightloss. To find what the foods I really enjoy on a fast day.

Where in the beginning I was all about  meal replacements.
Now after the fasting experience has gone on long term.
I want to share my insight to thinking I’ll keep fasting the rest of my life even after I’ve reach my fat ratio goal.

When I drink diet soda. There no nutrition in it .  So I still have to eat something.

When I drink sugary soda there still not much nutrition in it.

When I drink herbal tea, and eat vitamin and mineral rich food.
I’m rejuvenating.  When I learn to fit 50% of nutrition needs into 250 calories, and don’t feel feel hungry for hours.  Then I’ve found a life long meal for fasting days. IMO although there are many , I dont enjoy them all.  

I’ve found that planting my own fast day vegetables to be incredibly good for my soul.  

Cruciferous vegetables
Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, collard greens, bok choy and kale) have been identified by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) as clearly reducing the likelihood of cancer of the mouth, pharanx, larynx, esophagus and stomach. 

Tomatoes, red sweet peppers, beans, onions, garlic,and carrot .
My aim is be able to find 500-600 calories twice a week in mine own garden. Going as far as utilize some windows in my home for year round growing.   I did this earlier this year, in a previous dwelling and found it to be as personally inspiring as being on the forum.   Sad that I let it go, but glad that I know that want that in my life.   A little year round green house that keeps me connected to cancer fighting  fasting foods.

Just 2-3 days a week. Then out with friends and family to enjoy life’s other pleasures.   Finding the fish  on the menu had been very gratifying as well ,  it’s supposed to extend longevity another two years.  

Jumping for joy ! 

The goal is to enjoy the fasting meals enough to eat them long after my belly fat is gone.

Good morning all. Finally caught up with huge backlog of posts.

Well done everyone with losses and commiserations to remainder. Won’t mention anyone by name for fear of missing someone out. Thanks for such a positive thread everyone and especially Jojo for starting it.

Monday fast day went well, total cals about 400 but Tuesday something else! As have mentioned, been very busy at work and Tuesday was hot – 36oC by midday. Had been out tracking down plants all morning and despite drinking plenty, came back about 12.30 to my office with headache and very shaky. Because of my colouring I always wear a hat outdoors between the September and March equinoxes but pretty sure hat is headache cause, OH said he always knew I was a hot head 😉

Anyway, had cup of Bovril and felt less shaky, went home early as had done all that I could but then shakes returned. After that FD out the window although nothing really naughty, total about 1000C. No attempt at FD yesterday, left work at 630pm, having started about 7am so totally drained.

All hard stuff finished so will eat moderately this week and FD Mon-Tu as usual.

Keep up the good work all. Nicky xxx

Hi Nicky and Purple, wonder if you can link headache to food intake, or just random ? Look after yourselves, both of you. Cheers, Bay 🙂

Hi SAMM

Do you mean sprouted broccoli seeds? Haven’t had them for years but if so, they taste very much like sprouted mustard and cress as they are in the same plant family, the brassicas (also cabbage, cauliflower, kale, swede, ….)

Therefore probably also same nutrient profile – high in the sulphur-containing amino acids that are so good for us wrt their cancer fighting properties.

Thanks Bay, all OK now. Probably for me due to hot weather and hot head caused by hated hat. Purple, hope you and OH OK too now.

Take care all.

Emil1962
I point always to simcoeluv’s advice to just get used to 500 or 600 caporie fast days. Befor trying to do more. Some folks can fast straight off. I tried and failed many times. But kept on trying. It took me almost 4 months before I could do 4:3 cobsistantly. And I still stuggle with getting all the exercise I need to 2500. But I keep at it more than focussibg on the losses. The scales has disappointed me more than nessasary. Meaning my weight fluctuates so sometimes I dont see the fatl Ioss immediately on the scale.