Day 6, London, UK, NFD

Well I had an unwanted, unexpected, uninvited visitor yesterday ……………………… TOM. As a meticulous planner, I’m struggling to deal with not knowing what is happening & when it’s happening, especially when it’s my own body …………………………. There’s a deep sense of betrayal at the moment!!!! Anyway, my appetite will be less and I’ll be guzzling water to counteract any dehydration.

I’m looking forward to B2B2B this week, although there’s been talk in the office of a Thai lunch ………………. Completely irresistible, I may be swapping FDs!!

I’ve nothing special planned for the Bank holiday, as I don’t work on Mondays nor Fridays, I’m feeling a little cheated!!!

@funshipfreddie, I always think of a CD as a NFD made up of healthy choices at or below TDEE, simple. A FD is a FD as far as I’m concerned, however, the dangerous territory of the NFD can be a minefield …………………….. at TDEE but consisting of ONLY chocolate and wine; at or below TDEE and consisting of healthy filling choices (CD) or above and beyond TDEE ……………….. EFS (Epic Face Stuffing). I applaud myself & polish my halo when I have a CD since making the right choices and sticking to TDEE is actually the hardest part of this WOL!!!

I’ll try to catch-up & comment on posts later.
Stay strong everyone!!!

Day 6- FD- Atlanta, Ga. USA

Day 6 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 FD

Nothing special planned for today’s Bank Holiday so sticking with my usual Monday FD.

Day 6 Melb Aust CD

Today was meant to be a FD800 but it went a bit haywire because there is still some Easter chocolate lurking in the fridge. No, I didn’t buy it or receive it before Easter, just couldn’t (well, chose not to) resist the post-Easter 75% off sale.

Tomorrow I’ll be meeting a friend for lunch, which is also hard, as I usually have most of my calories in the evening. I’m hoping to just have some scrambled eggs in toast, though, which won’t be too bad, but can’t make tomorrow a FD to replace the one I messed up today’s. Hmm! Not a good start to the month. In trying to analyse what’s been going wrong for the start of May, I think it’s been both recovering from my cold/asthma, plus not enough sleep over the past few days. Both problems are in the process of being addressed, so I hope all will settle quickly.

However, no excuses. Onward and downwards!!

Day 6 Canton OH NFD

It’s nurses week and i believe I will take a break from fasting because i need one. I struggled with this but every once in a while, the body tells us what it needs and I have learned to listen. I will be even more ready to get back into my routine after getting off it for a while.

@snowflake56 even though this is technically a fasting group, we support each other through all things, and you do not necessarily need to be fasting to participate. You have been a source of support for others when they were struggling, now it is our turn to support you, please let us do it. Also the best wishes on your hand- I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

@dykask those cramps can be a killer, hydrate and replenish – but you know that already

keep on keeping on folks – and Happy Nurses week, thank you for all you do to make the world a better place.

Day 6, Emden Germany, NFD

hi everyone,

@dingping, @missybear, @songbirdme, @ciren2, @at, @betsylee, @gretta and @basyjames thank you all for your kind words of support. Last weekend we went through all my medical reports and may have found the cause of the misery. We asume it’s hypokalemic periodic paralysis (hypoPP), we talked about it with the neurologist before as a possibility but he wasn’t sure and doesn’t have any patients diagnosed with it. It can be triggered by high carb eating, high sodium intake,fasting, infections and other things. Who would have thought fasting can trigger it. I will have the MRI tomorrow, not looking forward to it.

@dingping glad to have you back! How far away is Hay-on-Wey from your home? I looked up the festival page, so much to do there. Love the idea of the long table, wining and dining with strangers.

@bellyblast and @arelkade welcome back!

@ciren2 hope your sciatica got better!

Have a nice day everyone!

@snowflake56: You are so kind to think of me when you have your own medical troubles! I’ve just had a warm bath which has made things feel a little more comfortable. Lying down as you suggest is a good idea…lying down IS the best position for me….a pity I can’t do it all day though…ha…ha!
It sounds as if you may be about to find out what your problem is. That’s good, because then you have a chance to know what treatment to use. Good luck. MRI is not so bad, noisy, but it’ll soon be over. Good luck xx

Couple things: MFP’s email today had this:
https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/6-intermittent-fasting-mistakes-to-avoid/?utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MFP_Newsletter_20190506&os_ehash=55@sfmc:3637875

Take it all with whatever grain of salt necessary.

@ciren2 -my sciatica has been greatly improved with yoga. I do the easy version taught by our Silver Sneakers teacher who fully understands my back issues. I have 3 degenerated discs (T 11-12, L 1) that has caused some sciatica but also numbness in my whole hip area and often down my legs. Is there a yoga class you could take? Then there are online YouTube helps as well.

Day 6 – Eastern WA USA – FD

@ciren2 thanks for corralling us fasters into a list. I do hope your sciatica improves for you; definitely not fun

@russetfox – belated happy birthday and Happy Anniversary!

@Ratiki44 – that’s interesting about a WFD vs LFD. I still call it a WFD if I keep my tea and coffee black. If I add cream or other goodies to the coffee I change it to a LFD. I’m going for a WFD for at least 24 hours; longer if I can. So far so good. Sipping on some ginger and lemon tea at the moment.

@arelkade – welcome back!

@daffodil2010 – I’m glad there’s a light at the end of the tunnel on your van. What is the purpose of the beeswas on the cupboards; maybe to make for stick free opening and closing?

Pocket-List of Day 6 Fasters.

@dykask
@alisa253
@gretta
@funshipfreddie
@therealwil78
@missybear
@rafiki44
@songbirdme
@annemarilyn

Day 7 – Japan – NFD

34 water fasts done in 2019 so far. I’m now going to disappear for a 8 or 9 days. These trips tend to keep me so busy that I won’t have time for updates or reading. It is all I can do to stay on top of the work. I always get thrown multiple curve balls and just have to deal with them as they come.

@gretta has a good point about the sodium maybe helping with the clamps. I had fasted for 100 hours and had done 4 reasonably intense workouts during the fast, also a very intense workout after breaking the fast. I probably pushed it a bit too much and should have been doing something to maintain minerals lost from sweating!

On my trip I might skip a few meals, but I’m not going to push fasting. I’ll resume fasting when I’m back. I typically tend to lose some weight while traveling even when I tend to overeat. The harder part is I’ll have to workout late before going to bed instead of early in the morning because I tend to have a harder time sleeping on the road and tend to sleep more towards morning. So it is always a shift for me.

I check back late next week.

Day 6, VA, USA, NFD
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Hello! My SO and I have returned safe at home. I had no scale and stepped on when I got home to see that I stayed the same weight! Thats exciting for a 5 day vacation! If we are getting down to brass tax the scale read .2 increase.

I found that since we were staying up rather late (we had shows in the evening we saw at Red Rocks!) We would wake up, get a breakfast/brunch. Then really after that I did not feel compelled to have anything else except good water the rest of the day.

It was nice to just focus on the OMAD, b/c then I could adventure with food choices and didn’t feel restricted. Not that I am a saint and restrict myself or I wouldn’t be here in this group!

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OH an in other news although I didn’t have a scale I did have an exciting event happen with my fitted jeans as I slipped them down without undoing the button! (I didn’t mean to I have other trousers with me the do slip on/off) and being tired I did the same thing to the jeans, and they went! WOAH!

@ciren2 – I found some useful videos that pull the socks inside out and then start that at the toe and fold them up and over the leg. This link was helpful for putting on compression socks, but I can imagine it may help with getting any sock onto someone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzf4d0ZyNb8

@aglowworm – I was also quite the snacker. I found that changing my snacks (one of them I changed was chips to arugula.) yes just plain old arugula, I love the peppery taste and I just put some in a bowl like chips. I’m not saying this exact thing for you, but maybe find a snack you do like and use that in place of something thats not as good.

@dykask – Yamasaki style push up, well there’s a new challenge – and the cramps (I think you are right it is a mineral imbalance) I think you need salt *it is usually the thing I found that helps me, even tho here in the west it gets a bad report. **** MORE on that Push UP @at – Yes this style of pushup it is similar to going from Dolphin pose to chatarunga pose in yoga. I did find the I could do it (just barely, and had to give just a nudge to one arm first * my left arm would take the lead, for that transition. I am probably able to do this, b/c I have muscle memory from holding a tighter form for plank dropping to chaturanga all the time in yoga. I won’t lie tho I could only do 3 of them before I couldn’t even try and nudge myself forward for the next one. Ha

Also @at – Mmmmm Thai food. Well I’ll hunt you down for a Thai food buddy should I end up in the UK sometime 😉

@funshipfreddie – moving is such a chore, but does give opportunity to really take with you what matters most.

@snowflake56 – you take your time do you best. Life is about figuring out what helps YOU feel balanced and this group is all about that too. We may be into fasting, but we also know that life is not about JUST fasting. Otherwise we would not have any eating days and those are just as important (you could say, even more important for survival than our fasting days)

@russetfox – Happy Belated Birthday for May 4th! Cheers

@flourbaby – I also found that drinking down an 8oz glass of water helpful for those sudden cravings! I would need to swap FD days for Thai food!

@jaifaim – Happy Belated Anniversary! I have a grand love of “vintage” clothes. I have many clothes from my friends grandparents (back when I was 20 years old or so) and so many polyester shirts of colors and patterns!

@daffodil2010 – ooooh I too have had some drinks 🍷

@shelliz – I too had a vacation! Glad to have you back and that you had fun! Oh an Gelato Festival ummmm yes That is weight to celebrate!

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Cheers to you all – glad to be back home (although we are considering moving out to CO)

Onward and Downward! (Love that expression)

Day 7 – Melbourne Aus – NFD

Finished off the FD strong with a cardio circuit HIIT session, and a tofu stirfry (ended up at 505 cal). Had a dreadful sleep so skipped the usual morning weights session for some extra rest, might go for a walk after work. Didn’t have any niacin or MO, so that definitely wouldn’t have helped. Need to get diligent about my bedtime routine.

@funshipfreddie like you I can’t resist a salted nut! I only ever buy pepitas and almonds (both natural and unsalted!!!!) otherwise it’s game over.
@flourbaby that’s no fun at all, take care!
@ciren2 that all sounds very overwhelming. Hope you’re holding up ok, you will get through these tough times! Whenever my sciatica has flared up, I’ve found gentle strengthening work to help. Hopefully you are able to recover quickly!

Day 7 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

Another half a kilo down! So that’s a total of 1.5kgs lost this month. Yesterday was a tough FD though; by 2pm I was ready to start gnawing on my arm. So I chugged on sparkling water, & managed to go until after 6pm before I ate anything. I think I need to eat more on my NFD’s though.

Like many people, I sometimes have trouble sleeping after a fast day. Not through hunger though. I read somewhere that we don’t need as much sleep when we’re fasting. Food digestion takes up a lot of energy. Still, if I get less than 6 or 7 hours’ sleep I feel like a train wreck sometimes. Occasionally I use those Somnil tablets. They work like a charm for me, & I don’t experience any side-effects. They’re over-the-counter too, so no prescription necessary; not in South Africa anyway. In the UK and USA they’re marketed as ‘Unisom’, I think? (active ingredient doxylamine succinate). They just make me nicely drowsy, & if I wake up during the night, I find it easy to drift off again.

A NFD today, but I’m planning on sticking to a TRE window, between 11am – 8pm for the rest of the month.

Best wishes if you’re fasting today!

Day 7 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

First of B2B today. My body needs a break from the quantity of food and wine over the weekend. Oh dear, and lots of packets of Tayto cheese & onion crisps (@jaifaim, you will know what I mean 🇮🇪). So like @funshipfreddie and others, it’s the salty snacks that get me!

It’s only a 3 day week for me as I have booked Friday off, yay! So I can experience a @flourbaby working week 😆 Sorry to hear about your unexpected TOM….that’s been happening to me a lot lately but at my age it’s part of the change of the seasons I suppose. Pain to still have to go through it.

@ciren2 hopefully your sciatica eases soon. I suffered big time at the end of March, when I was gung ho on the 30 Day Shred, and had to stop it. I found it difficult to change gear in the car etc, so every morning since then I have been working on building strength for the glutes. It has helped, but I still have a residue crampy feeling in my toes every now and then….may not be related but I think it is.

@annemarilyn I put the beeswax on the inside of the cupboards, along the bare wood, to give them a bit of protection and shine. We have left all of our red cedar wood ceiling and walls untreated, as the smell is amazing. This weekend we got a lot done in the van, the kitchen build is coming along. Yay.

Have a great day today.

Pocket List Day 7
@shelliz
@arelkade
@daffodil2010

Day 6, UK, NFD
Day 7, UK, FD

Fast day today.
Will read the posts and write a proper update later as busy day at work today.

Have a good day everyone!

Day 7: FD, Netherlands. Today is the first day of re-starting fasting for me since November – I finally decided to dive back in. I came on this forum a lot last year, but fell by the wayside over Christmas unfortunately. I’m starting at maybe my heaviest (66.7kg) since I began fasting a year & a half ago – so lots to lose!

I’m hoping to shift 5kg within 2 months and hope to do so with some healthy veggie-laden meals. I would also like to kick an annoying sugar habit that I’ve suddenly acquired over the past 3 months or so!

Hope to see you again regularly! Thanks for being a great community 🙂 happy to be back!

Day 7 UK NFD

Day 7 Melb Aust, CD

Didn’t manage a good low-eating day today – my young friend who took me out to lunch did it for Mother’s day, which is next Sunday in Australia. She wanted to go to a slightly more “upmarket” restaurant, so I had more than just scrambled eggs on toast – think chicken breasts with a creamy mushroom sauce, potato chips and cooked vegetables. Yum!!! At least I only ate half of it and brought the rest home, which I’ll eat on my next CD.

Anyway, FD800 tomorrow should help me get back on track.

@ciren2, hope the sciatica eases off with treatment.

@snowflake56, Don’t be too concerned about having an MRI. They’re just very noisy, but you’ll have earphones on. If it makes you nervous to be moved into the machine, just keep your eyes closed and you’ll be fine. I’ve had a few, and that’s how I’ve handled them.

@flourbaby, one more chocolate egg gone – gave it to my young friend for her and her husband to enjoy (whew!)

Keep on keeping on everyone!

Day 7, VA, USA, FD

So things on the agenda, go take a class today! There is one starting at 9:30 that I have my eye on. I had canceled my classes for today in case we had a delay from our flights ((and we did have one and almost missed the connecting flight!)) which would have set us back 12 hours! But we made it, so now I get a relaxing day off.

Decided I would start out Water Fasting and then be open to the idea of a small dinner tonight.

@ciren2 – oh I see yes crouching can be challenging. I personally like to just put other folks socks on while they are laying in bed. I sit at one end and place their leg over my legs and work the socks up that way.

@flourbaby – this magnesium oil sounds awesome, thanks for sharing. I have restless leg syndrome (and while it is worse at night) I feel like I have shin splints and leg soreness as soon as the sun sets.

@songbirdme – I find DAFD (if the next day is Friday or Saturday) I find them a bit rough too. Ooooooo and you mean we are getting cheated on Gelato here in America! I live next to a swanky Gelato place, but only manage to go about once or twice a year. Otherwise I may not fit through my front door.

Pocket list for day 7
@shelliz
@arelkade
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@rabbette

Day 7 Canton OH FD

@ciren2 my heart goes out to you. I wish you were close, I would gladly volunteer hubby’s services to mow your lawn. Hang in there, one day at a time. Being a caregiver is not easy

@snowflake56 I am glad they have found out the problem, that’s one step closer to fixing it

@annemarilyn I am in awe of the ease with which you complete WFD. I am usually good until I get home and then… the rest is history

@dykask safe travels and see you when you get back

So I was supposed to take a break from fasting this week and it turns out I can’t make myself do it, so back on the fasting wagon I go; I guess it has become a way of life for real now.

Pocket list for day 7
@shelliz
@arelkade
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@rabbette
@therealwil78
@georgia83
@flourbaby
@basyjames

Day 7 Eastern WA USA – FD

Continuing with mostly WFD, did add cream to my hot Dandyblend beverage in the evening yesterday. Will continue water today as long as possible like @rabbette. I’m looking forward to the chilled tea; decaffeinated green tea and mint tea brewed in the sunlight. @basyjames I’m still developing my water fasting muscle, but thanks for the encouraging comment.

@arelkade – as you mentioned, hydration could have been part of the issue around your headache. Salt may also be. I know this morning after I dissolved some pink salt under my tongue this morning, things improved for me.

@catch87 – welcome back! Something that helped me with kicking the sugar, was learning that if one can make it through 72 hours, it usually loses its hold on us.

Pocket list for day 7
@shelliz
@arelkade
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@rabbette
@therealwil78
@georgia83
@flourbaby
@basyjames
@catch87
@annemarilyn

Off to a celebration of the opening of a pedestrian/bike bridge in our University District! My son is integral in this, so looking forward to the event on this sunny spring day!

Glad we’re on this journey together!

Day 7- Ohio mfd

Thanks for well wishes. The stomach bug is gone. Now, I’m pampering a twisted ankle. Not sprained, just still annoyingly tender with weight on it two days later. I finally succumbed to the pothole I usually step around just right. But, today I’m feeling like a fd will be good for me. So, off I go.
And we barely got the older girl off on her school trip on time. The first time in a while where she is going somewhere by herself. We are expecting a call at some point that they lost her. She has a habit of just going off during trips if she gets bored. When family were on the same trips, we would keep an eye on her. This really is the first time she doesn’t have that backup. So, I’m expecting the call at some point in the next few days. I also want to see when there are foods placed and none of the options are what she likes if she will doblike her brother did and try it or just not eat. She is an extremely picky eater, which I may have mentioned in the past. I’m not going to check up on her during the trip just like I don’t on past ones. Gotta trust everyone else.
@snowflake56 hope the mri goes well. Lots of hugs because you deserve them.
@michelinme hoping that the bug goes away soon. Sounds like you neefed that rest.
@georgia83 cool that the jacket is fitting better enough to wear. You must be shrinking then.

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@hieiren – keep your ankle elevated! Use ice also you should take anti-inflammatory meds (like Advil) as long as that would not interfere with any meds you may be taking already. A twisted ankle can take a good amount of time to heal depending on where the injury is located. Take care.

@gretta – I know how you feel, I purchased ice-cream for my SO and boy do I WANT SOME now!

@annemarilyn – hot Dandyblend (had to look that one up) sounds yummy!

Day7 California. NFD

Managed to survive my LFD for 42 hours but it was a little challenging so I may only try it once or twice per month.

@annemarilyn – yes I did add cream to my coffee as I’m not a fan of it black.