Morning fellow losers 😆 (in the nicest possible way of course, lol)

Well it’s 2:30am and I’m up again having a drink of water etc. So much going on in my head I suppose but will be back to bed soon but thought I’d “check in” here and catch up as I wasn’t able to yesterday (work hectic, puppy people came over to see babies etc).

WOW baking AND on a FD!!! I wouldn’t be able to resist. Had quiche for dinner last night (have some frozen, in portions, ready for days like yesterday).

The day of my headache I forgot to mention that I was wearing a pair of 3/4 pants which last summer I could not even do up and I was fitting into them quite nicely (with a “bit of room to spare” around the hips and waist when I took them off to get ready for bed I thought I’d just see what size they were (thinking probably size 18) well blow me down they were a 16 … yes 16!!!! So that means that I’m slowly getting down into the more regular sizes available in shops and hopefully it won’t be too long before I can get into some of my really nice size 14’s that I’ve hung onto all these years (they are really nice quality and I refused to get rid of them so hopefully I’ll get some more wear out of them soon) … I aim to be in them before the end of summer and maybe even have them not firm on me by then too

FD for me today, hope everyone else is losing nicely too 😀 …

Yes, jojo, I’ve counted the calories

I’m in a cleaning/tidying mood too which is rare for me so I’m making the most of it as I usually avoid household chores as much as possible.
I sorted and tidied all my paperwork just before my holiday as it was such a mess I couldn’t find something I needed.

I’m having home made quiche and salad for my dinner. It is an individual one made as I had some pastry left over from mince pie making. I’ll be under my TDEE despite all the cake!

AO, that’s good news. It is great to be able to wear something that had become too small. Well done:)

As for baking on a FD, I knew I would be eating it today so it wasn’t difficult.

It is cold and windy out there this evening.

” its nice to be important but its important to be nice”

RT

Hi RT and The Pack of Losers 🙂

I want to be able to do those animated smileys, so will go back to Amazon’s post.

Thanks to this WOL and yesterday’s strict fast, I am back within my normal range. 😆

Cheers, Bay

Jojo as I have HEAPS more to lose I’ll join you on your quest in the new year as I really DO need to lose even more than 40lb (or 18kg approx) which will help me get to where I want to be hopefully by next summer for us here in Oz. I’m not fussing over the Christmas/New Year week but will be careful not to over indulge too much (I think SOME drinkies will be in order, particularly NYE as we’re out to a very social party with karaoke, fun and laughs)

I wonder what size I’ll end up being if I’ve gone down almost 2 dress sizes since starting (I refused to buy size 20’s so squeezed … and I mean squeezed … into looser size 18’s … which now fall off me btw )

Love the stars PVE … hoping everyone’s having a loser of a day 😀 chat more later 😆

Checking in while I have a friends mobile.

my quick question fur all of you.

how many calories of exercise do you aim for per week?

I ask in the same spirt of practicing the doable fasting.

what is your doable exercise?

Mine is to aim for 2,000 calories of exercise per week.

Samm and Jojo,
I don’t program in any exercise. Never have. I am naturally someone who doesn’t sit still for long. I use public transport, stairs instead of lifts, always walk up escalators, park as far as possible from my destination, always run for trains and traffic lights and I walk or run quickly whenever I can. I do a lot of consciously going quickly up and down the levels in our 3 story house and a lot of fairly energetic gardening most days. I do long walks in winter and fun swimming in summer (not laps).
I tried yoga, a gym membership and then a pt years ago, but hated being told what to do.
According to my Fitbit I easily do 10000 steps on a normal day and easily burn the calories I consume. 😉 P

Morning everyone.

I don’t count exercise calories. It is essential for me to do it now that I’m not working, but I’m trying to look at it as a way of improving fitness and flexibility, and toning up, so I’m not going to think about calories expended, just keep on keeping on as SAMM would say.

I have no idea what my body fat level is either, and I’m not sure that I want to know

I’ve worked out my TDEE for when I reach my goal weight and I’ve decided that I’m going to try to keep under it on non fast days from 1st January, so that the weight will continue to come off at the same rate, and so that once I’m there, I won’t have to make too many adjustments.

FD today. I’m off for a haircut and then meeting a friend for a walk.
Have a good day/evening everyone.

Good morning/evening all

Life is still hectic here at the moment with social events, Christmas preparations, organising the wedding flowers I have been asked to do on the 27th, and doing Christmas flower arrangements for two local churches. Also, I have 8 coming for a festive supper on Sunday and have been busy sorting out the menu, with a shopping list as long as my arm. In between, I’ve been visiting my mother who lives 10 miles away and doing shopping for her, as her arthritis plays up horribly in this wet weather.

Have you had any more snow Weemam? The weather sounds pretty bleak up there at the moment.

OM I hope you get a better night’s sleep tonight. The pups must look gorgeous at this age, but no doubt a handful now they are a bit older. Have you got homes for them all?

Jojo – I will jump on the bandwagon with you and the others who have committed themselves to the New Year Challenge. Like Amazon, I am intending to enjoy what is probably the first Christmas in a long time where I will feel neither deprived nor wracked with guilt. I am religiously fasting twice a week but enjoying the bits in between. Not overdoing it though. I find that when I can actually CHOOSE to eat anything I want, I usually don’t. On previous diets, where I was watching virtually every mouthful every day, I would end up eating anything and everything. It’s interesting how this WOE has that psychological effect.

I’m happy to stay at my current weight until the New Year, but will then start with a vengeance to get rid of this last stone or so.

Hello to everyone – sorry I haven’t time to write any more – off to take dogs for a wet and windy walk before the marathon shopping expedition. Fasting today – I don’t have lunch on these days – which is just as well – I need the extra time!

Have a good one all

Smiffy x

Hi everyone, looking forward to ramping things up in the new year. I’ve put my request in for a fitbit flex for Christmas.

Smiffy as of half an hour ago all puppies have new families to join at the end of this month. They really are very lovely and full of character. I only put an advert on the dog site last Thursday as at the time we still had 2 puppies available. While writing the advert I had a call from someone looking for a pup and they came out on the weekend and put a deposit on a pup. I’ve had 2 other people come to see them. One wanted to think about it and see another litter and now the 2nd people put a deposit on the last pup.

I might have to bite the bullet and get a new laptop soon as mine is 14 years old and slowly giving up the ghost … keeps crashing and can’t cope as runs out of memory.

Talk more soon … oh yes had a good FD today. Onwards and downwards 🙂 ♡ ♥ ★ ☆

Hiya everyone . Sorry not been posting but reading all the posts every morning . Dad not been well as you all know . He seems fine now but really slowed down a lot . I know he is almost 97 and everyone keeps saying he has had a good innings but he is my Dad and I just can’t get him out of my mind . I am down another 2 pounds and now on the stone . 4 pounds to go to where I was 6 years ago and 10 pounds to where I haven’t been foe over 20 years .
I still dontt have my decorations up as my back is still a bit sore . That is my RA . I can say though that it has been so much better since I started this WOL .I was planing to decorate the house this afternoon but by the time I had changed the bedclothes and got the bed remade my back was a wee bit sore again sooo tomorrow all the corners done ( again downstairs and the glitter goes up :).

I have a vibration plate but haven’t used it for a while as I am not sure if it will help or hinder my back .
We are going to Ross on Christmas day and taking dad again . I am goint to roast butternut squash for myself in place of potatoes . I will have meat and veg but not a lot . I will be having my Ice cream but not a full carton as I would have in the past . I always get a small box of malteesers from Ross because I love them and I will be eating that too . I have not gone off this WOL since the day I started so I reckon one day in a year is OK . I don’t drink so that is not a problem .

We were going to take dad out today but it has been snowing hard on and off all day . I look onto the Ochil Hills from the back bedroom and it looks amazing but I don’t like driving in it if I don’t have to . It is not lying here for long and that is good .
I just love this WOL and I am so happy that I have met all of you lovely people to take my hand on this amazing journey

Wee xx

Thanks for the welcome jojo. Good to find some fellow scots. I’ll do my best to use a bit of dialect 🙂 I’ve been doing 5:2 since mid-October. It’s going great. I don’t tend to weigh myself but can tell I’ve lost weight consistently together with feeling much fitter as obviously there’s less of me to carry around.
I tend to work quite long hours and only really cook at weekends when I have my kids.

I tend to just do the lazy method of a small breakfast of 200 cal or under, then a supermarket diet meal of about 350 cals in the evening. Surprisingly I’ve had some really tasty meals though.

Not nearly as good as the lovely recipes I’m sure you cook, but at least it keeps me on target. I’ll be interested to hear how you get on with the Mitchell Beazley book because 30 minute prep time sounds do-able for me.

Good morning fellow losers and g’day to Peely 😀

0.8kg down again this week which is pretty well spot on 2 lb. Over the Chrissy period I’m just trying to NOT put ON and happy to keep the same or a tad lower (if I can). It’s starting well and truly tonight – street party for our small town (main street closed from 4pm until 10pm) we meet a group of people for dinner in the main restaurant – we have an outside table so we can watch/see everything while we eat, drink and be merry

Wee I understand what you mean re your Dad, you’re so lucky to still have yours so enjoy him and cherish him 😀 . I also hope your back improves each day.

Chat more later 😀

Hi Fast Trackers
‘The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings’
Before I was quite possibly the only human being on the planet who had never heard of the 5-2 Diet or who knew someone on it or had read an article in a newspaper regarding it or had any idea at all of the who what when where how or why of the diet. Until it was a feature on the Australian TV program Sunday Night on the 17/9/2014 and I took up this WOE/WOL 5 days later on the 22/09/2014. And what a significant wonderful and life changing experience it has been for me so far.
I would watch the Documentary with Michael Mosely Eat Fast & Live Longer and listen to his interview with Dr Mecola at least weekly I will seek counselling for this at a later stage I’m sure 😉 I am fascinated with this way of life I must admit…. I have the 5-2 Diet Book and now The Every Other Day Diet book by Dr Krista Vardy and her 20 minute interview with Dr Mercola I watch that regularly also her work formed a small segment in the Horizon program.
Week 12 – 1.3kg = 79.6 kg
A 16kg ish loss and I have today now just snuck into the healthy weight range BMI of 24.6 😎 at an average loss of 1.33kg a week following in the main with a few exceptions of one 4 day fast at the start and a B2B x2 in a week the 4-3 Alternate Day Fasting is my weapon of choice to defeat the fat & with a loss expectation of 1 lb or 453g per fast day x 3 is 1.35kg that is an amazingly for me at least accurate forecast of fat loss.
1st goal 80kg check
2nd goal 75kg
3rd goal 70kg
Have a Great Weekend You Losers 😆 Peace RT

Hi Wee. Would you lend OH to me, I could do with a hand with the housework 😉

You are a kind and generous woman XX

I had my hair cut today, but I don’t think it’ll make much difference 😆

Would it not be brilliant if we could go into a shop and order a size 12 body ,curly hair,wrinkle free . and apron taken away OHH!! and batwings ( empty hot water bottles) 😛 . all done in a day and of course pain free lol xx

Wee xx

True pal and 2 beautiful people inside and out to thank for it 🙂 xx

Good morning losers all: Jojo, Amazon, Smiffy, Wee, Ply, SAMM, Kiwiwiwi and my Aussie mates Purple, Bay, Nama, AO, RT and Emel. Apologies if I forgot someone – no offence intended. Been keeping up with the posts but no time to write more than a quick hello up to now.

Well done everyone on losses and welcome PeelyWally – what does it mean? This colonial at least is mystified.

Good idea for 2015 challenge and to calculate TDEE based on predicted weight. On that basis my FD intake should be 375C which is usually what I manage. It’s the other days I need to deal with.

Wee, as AO says, you’re so lucky to have your cherished Dad still around. Hope your back is feeling better soon.

Purple – how often do you have your hair cut? 🙂 The only time I lost 0.5kg like that was when I had my hip length hair cut to a Mia Farrow (remember her?) style. The hairdresser offered to buy it as it was fair, fine and straight. Still fine and straight, not fair any more 😉

Emel, I asked JJ, the tech on this site, to send you my email. Sorry I didn’t think of it before but remembered when Purple mentioned it.

Keep up the good work all and thank you once again for all the positivity and encouragement this thread provides.

Nicky …peelywally means pale looking as in not looking well . I use it a lot .

Thanks guys I do appreciate my Dad I give him lots of kisses and cudles an tell him I love him . he is a very loved old man and the nice thing is he knows it even with Alzheimers 🙂

Wee xx

Not organised at all, N. The place looks like a bomb hit it!
Psst…I think poor Happy gets left off lists too 🙂
Have a wonderful wedding anniversary on Sunday, both of you ♡♥ P