Hi my first fast day today. Found all your posts really helpful. I think I will drink water and black coffee all day and have 500 calorie meal tonight ?
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Good morning!
Back to reality after a 2 week holiday. We had a wonderful time traveling down the Oregon Coast. What a beautiful part of the country. Seattle was fun too, but the coast is just breath taking. Watching whales and seals right from shore, amazing!
We had a nice evening with Jayney early in our trip. A yummy dinner and then she took us on a little city tour. Was great to meet her.
Jet lag is killing me a bit right now. We brought the red eye home Saturday night, so Sunday was a long day. We essentially were up from Saturday morning at 7 until Sunday night at 9. Sleeping on the plane did not happen. I decided to wait until tomorrow to resume boot camp, as today is going to be rough enough just going back to work.
Now for the bad news. Scale is up 5 lbs. I’m not surprised, but disappointed in myself. I’m not fasting today, but it will certainly be a lower calorie day than I’ve had for a while! We walked a lot, so I’m sure that helped, but 5 lbs! ACK!!
Came home to no Internet, so a new modem is being mailed to me. I’ll have that mess to deal with tomorrow or Wednesday.
Missed you all!
Later!
Hi Dollydiet, Welcome here! How is your Fast Day going? I hope it has been a really good day.
Welcome home Lori, I hope you get a really good sleep and those 5lbs start disappearing, and your modem arrives!
Australia was in the wrong time zone for the red moon. 🙁 But it was a wonderful full moon anyway.
Hello Ladies,
A warm welcome to Dolly! Welcome back to Lori! Glad you had fun visiting with Jayney!
Not much going on here. The kids are off school tomorrow due to teacher conference day (I had my teacher conferences today so don’t need to go in tomorrow). I’m going to take them to see a Halloween movie and to look for Halloween costumes.
Still counting the days till hubby is home on Friday. My son’s 10th birthday is this weekend so I’m trying to quickly put together a sleepover and laser tag for him and his buddies. I’m behind the eight ball on everything lately! :~(
I’m fasting Wednesday and Thursday this week. Sometimes it’s just easier for me to knock it out with two days in a row.
Just threw the trash out to the curb this evening and came face to face with a coyote…not an unusual event out here but still disconcerting. I banged the bag of trash against the trash can and it took off like a rocket. Thankfully they’re more afraid of us than we of them!
I’m trying to slowly but surely, with the little bit of spare time I have, get my suitcase packed for my trip to Hawaii with my mom. I already have two nights out planned, a contest winning Elvis impersonator (with background dancers & singers) doing songs from his time spent in Hawaii and a luau where they give you a traditional Hawaiian dinner with Kalua pork, poi, etc. and teach you hula and crafts like basket and hat weaving. Days will probably be spent visiting various beaches on the island and snorkeling. My mom will be there a week and then I get to spend a glorious 10 days on my own doing whatever I want! I’m so excited! I NEVER get time like this! I’m bringing a bunch of books I’ve meant to read (plus bought some new ones) and I’ve purchased some art supplies to try to revive the artist in me (long buried!).I will probably do some shopping for stuff for our condo too while there.
Hoping you all are having a successful week. Looking for MM! Where are you Missy? We are in this together after all! 🙂
Sherry
Wow that trip sounds amazing Sherryann! I have not done a holiday on my own like that, will be nice and peaceful for you. How did you come to decide to do that? Have you done solo trips before?
FD day today, home made squash and pepper soup for dinner tonight plus some fruit, have few strawberries and raspberries left from w/e. busy day so hopefully not too tough to keep to,
Susie
Good Morning!
Sherry…..10 days alone in Hawaii? How perfectly awesome does that sound?? Color me envious! Have a wonderful time!
I didn’t weigh myself this morning, but had lost 2 lbs of the 5 I gained on vacation in just one day. Bloat from the airplane and airport food, no doubt. I haven’t managed a fast day so far this week, so I’m thinking I need to begin again in October. This week has been for getting back in the “boot camp groove” and getting caught up at home and work. I’m still without internet at home, but hoping the new modem arrives today so I can get it set up tonight. We’re going out for dinner and a beer before I attempt it! LOL!
Sorry I’m not caught up enough to do personals, but know that you all have my support and I’ll attempt to get to know you all in the coming months.
Make it a good day!
Good day all!
Doing an impromptu FD today, so I’ll get in three this week. I have a house guest coming next week which generally means lots of cooking. I’ll definitely be fasting 16 hours every day while he’s here. Hopefully that will keep me from gaining anything. It seems rather pointless to undo every loss on a regular basis! I was able to do a 16:8 every day when my mother-in-law was here for 7 days in July. I don’t lose anything when I have guests now but I don’t gain either. M-in-law is not nice about “fat people”. She’s Swiss and is incredibly intolerant. She thinks she’s thin because she is disciplined but she can eat anything and not gain weight. My husband, John, takes after her. Call me evil if you will, but I rather enjoyed fasting while she was here and watching her die of hunger trying to match me. The whole time she was here, she talked smack about John’s brother’s wife who is quite overweight, so what are the odds that she doesn’t talk about me when I’m not in ear shot? Fine.
We’re in the middle of a positive deluge today. Looking at my rubber garden trug out the window, it looks like 7 or 8 inches so far.
I have finally given in and started interval training. Every book on fasting that I’ve read recommends it. Oh, if only reading made one thin.
Sherry, your trip sounds wonderful! I used to travel in Europe by myself and loved it. I hope you have a fabulous time!
Salma, isn’t it amazing how stubborn our bodies can be about down-sizing? I’m not giving mine a choice but, oh, how slow it is.
Good luck to you, Dollydiet. You’ve come to the right place. These ladies are wonderfully supportive.
Hope the sun shines on you all! Pam
Hi Girls,
Undertaking a fast day today… so far so good, but it’s only 9 am 😉
Susie, here’s the scoop on my Hawaii trip: my hubby and I have owned a business in Honolulu for 6 years and finally realized our dream of saving enough to buy a condo there late last year. My husband is there working (as he is right now) every 2-3 months for about 2 weeks, leaving me home in California to take care of the kids. Being the great guy he is, he realizes how tough that’s been for me over the years and fully supports me going there on my own or with friends/family to take some time off. Since we have the condo, I’m comfortable and feel safe going on my own now. I’m really blessed to have this place and a supportive spouse! Before one of my 8 year old twin daughters was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes late last year, we had dreams of leaving the kids with relatives for a week here and there and going together, but as you can imagine, we don’t feel comfortable leaving her with anyone until she gets much older and can handle things better on her own.
Thank you Salma! It’s true, we have to take care of ourselves in order to take care of others! Luckily my husband knows this.
Lori, so glad you were able to get 2 lbs of that vacation bloat off…you
are well on your way. I feel for everyone here who’s had some vacation gains. I always gain on vacation (5 lbs average) and am hoping to avoid that this trip. There will be some going out to eat with mom the first week, but since she tends to eat healthy and keep it light, I think I can keep the gain to a minimum (not to mention we will be walking a lot as you do in big cities). Then of course I have 10 days when she leaves to eat light too.
Well, off to check the movie schedules so I can get these kids out for lunch and a movie then shopping for the Halloween costumes!
Have a good one girls!
Hi Sherry
I’m so envious – couldn’t get to Hawaii without the boys, there would be a revolt. My dream is to go to Paris myself, did it three times to try and get us married there, OH didn’t know I was away. Would love to spend a week in the Louvre – not an arty type at all but would love to do some drawings there. Weird eh? OH happy to take me and spend the time there with me – but as he would be bored in 10 minutes and I crave the solitude it ain’t gonna happen.
Hi Pam – considering what we go through with our MILs, you would think there would be more films about how to murder you MIL? I think she is thin because she doesn’t enjoy life! Hows that for a broad statement of someone I have never met? My MIL is thin too and she awful in so many ways – when I get these books and scripts done I’ll certainly have loads of material to draw upon. BIL stays with her, set fire to the garage, went into the house for the fire extinguisher – she had moved it and couldn’t remember where she has put it – I still haven’t worked out how he refrained from sticking her on the bonfire – though not bonfire night so time yet!! I LOVE the idea of you fasting and her having to grit her teeth.
And remember the scene in working girl when Signorny Weaver was told she had a ‘bony ass’ – just imagine your MIL naked with her bony ass – I guarantee it will bring a smile to your face!
Still keeping you company hanging onto the fat Salma – well, I suppose it took a while to arrive, its well settled and comfy,so not likely to want to leave in a hurry. I’m doing a normal day today, liquid tomorrow, fast Friday and trying for a fast at the weekend, then fast Monday, mindful Tuesday and fast Wednesday before 5 days in Denmark.
Must say I’m getting quite brilliant at planning – just hope the execution doesn’t go tits up – something usually goes awry, but I need to bank something so I can indulge in the Chocolat Hotel!
Hi Lori, welcome back – sounds like a great time, hope Janey was looking marvellous – sure she was!
Hi Dolly, welcome to the snakes and ladders board of 5:2! First week is the hardest – well there are other bloody hard weeks too, but somehow we get through them, without actually having to give up our favourite foods!!! Is it just a few pounds or are you on a journey – quite a few of us are!
Hi everyone else – keep the faith, tuck in the chin – make a plan – write it down – and try not to lose the paper it is written on! 85 day to Christmas – and if you are not a Christian, no excuses, its still 85 days to Christmas. Let our Christmas present to ourselves be a dress size down!!!
Hi all
My FD yesterday was moved to today when DH phoned about 11am to suggest dinner out last night, we went to local Lebanese place.
Sherry that place sounds lovely- we would like a place in the sun in Europe, just not sure where yet.
My Mum was diabetic from young age and can quite understand you don’t feel comfy leaving your daughter till she is independent and can recognise warning signs. Sure you will go together in a few years.
Susie
Hi everyone,
Second fast day underway. Losing a bit slowly but surely. Would be most excellent if I could get under 130 before I leave in a week (fingers and toes crossed!).
Milena, tell you what, when you get that weight off, you can sneak away and stay with me at the condo as a reward to yourself! Given your gift at story telling, I’m sure you could come up with some convincing story so that your son(s) wouldn’t know? 😉 Is it one son or two or are you including your hubby in the plural of “boys”? Just tell them your new sun tan was from staying in the South of France or Spain!
Yes, Susie, I’m sure as my daughter gets older, we will have an opportunity. It’s just hard to see the forest through the trees sometimes, especially after nights like last night where I was up 4 times with her due to crazy blood sugar levels. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right?!
Ok, must get busy with arranging for my son’s birthday party this weekend. There are presents to be bought, decisions to be made (do I make the flipping cake or buy it?), and goodie bags for his friends to put together.
Toodles!
Sherry
Hi all. Sorry I’ve been AWOL for awhile. I had to go to Bismark to give a talk. I did manage a fast day on the way back, but doubt that I’ve made much progress (know I haven’t by how my waistbands fit) because of all the restaurant meals while I was away. I’m hoping some of the bloat is salt. We’ll see. North Dakota was sort of like Minnesota on Prozac. Lots of quiet, tidy, laid back Scandinavians. Nice.
Sherry, I’m still heading to that under 130 goal with you, but September was sure a month of roadblocks–birthday, travel, dinners with friends leading to weeks with only one fast day. My next travel is the same as yours, October 9. I’m pretty sure I won’t make the goal by then but I’ll give it a darn good try and at least make sure to get in two fast days a week this month. The first one in the week always seems to be easy. Why does it get so much harder later in the week? Like you, Milena, I’m great at planning the week but my second fast usually goes tits up.
Glad you guys in the UK are having an Indian summer too. Here in Minnesota we’re having the nicest autumn we’ve had for years.
Enjoy the weekend, everyone. Anyone else fasting tomorrow?
MM
Yeah right Sherry, the South of France is ONLY their favorite place in the world, I would be in deeper kack if I said that!!! Ah, but I have a plan!
Both my boys (the one I am married to is a couple of years younger than me) are petrolheads, and building cars to race next year. When we have more money, apparently! Hubby hasn’t raced for years but is about to spend a LOT of money. I figure I’ll just disappear next season, love the idea of a condo – BTW what is a condo – they call it a but ‘n ben here, but I suspect – hope – a condo is much much posher!!!
Hi MM, good to see you back! Glad you are having a lovely Autumn too – we NEVER get weather like this. Just back in time to get stuck in before Christmas – 12 weeks to goooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
MM, glad you’re home! Yes, some weeks/months are tougher than others. Continuing to just move forward the best we can is better than saying “the heck with it” and watch the scale move further upward, right?!
Ok Milena…Whatever you can pull off with the boys! A condo, short for condominium is basically an apartment or a flat? I guess you’d say. I don’t know what a “but ‘n ben” is? Ours is 2 bedroom , 2 bath & about 1250 square feet if that helps! We are right across the street from a pretty green park called “Magic Island” and the beach is just beyond. Waikiki beach is a block or so away. So, feel free to use this as an added weight loss incentive! 😉
Ok, I really still need to get out of the house and run my errands! Bye again!
P.S. btw, our condo is not yet what I’d call “posh”! Like most condos in Waikiki area, it was build in the 1970’s and needs a lot of updating. We just put new wood floors in and painted but can’t remodel the kitchen and baths until the condo association does an upgrade of the entire building’s sewer system which will entail ripping out some plumbing. As a result, they have recommended that anyone thinking of remodeling put it off till the sewer upgrades are completed (which given how slow things happen in Hawaii…since everyone is on “Hawaiian time”… could be a long while! Heh, the harvest gold sink in the kitchen is kinda growing on me! 😉
Good morning everyone.
Your holiday sounds wonderful Sherryann. But my heart goes out to you: getting up four times in the night. So exhausting and such a worry. I do hope her sugar levels settle down and make life easier.
Your MIL must be such a strain Pam, but I do love it when I get to see the humour in people who say such awful things. I wonder what awful thing she will say next?
I hope you can enjoy a few stable days Minn, before you are off again. What a lot of things there are in the world to make Fast Days problematic!
I am starting a Fast Day today but it might be an unusual one. We will see how I can manage it. I’ve got a meeting and I am not sure if I might eat something a) if I am not concentrating well, or b) if there is food there to try (the meeting is with a caterer I hope to do business with!).
I am SO enjoying getting dressed for things now I have lost some weight!
Ok, Salma and Milena, you can come together as your weight loss reward but you have to sleep in the girls’ bunk beds! It will be like “posh” camping! 😉
Cinque, yes, my daughter just got on an insulin pump about a month ago and we are still getting used to how to work best with it with the help of the nurses (things like adjusting her background insulin levels and how much insulin per carb she gets). The hard thing with kids is every day is different. Just when you think you’ve got it down and things are going smoothly, it changes. Things like how much running around she did, how hot it was that day, if she’s growing, hormones, etc. cause levels to run amuck. As the nurse said, “diabetes management is a messy thing”! While hard, it could be worse as I saw with other children at the hospital when we were there. I am happy for you that the clothes are fitting better…nothing better than that! 🙂
Pam, I meant to say hi to you as well! Your post that ended up coming up just above mine wasn’t there when I first posted! How fun to have travelled through Europe on your own! I don’t know if I’d be that brave, but I am thinking of possibly traveling there this summer with my eldest and her friend and her mom. We will see! And regarding the MIL, she just must be miserable person to be so focused on the weight and negativity in general. Just pity and pray for her I say!
Geez I’m a chatty Kathy today. I do have a life and way too much to do (really)…actually, that’s what it is… avoiding cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry by being on the computer! Night all!
Where is everyone? No posts yesterday? Well, I weighed today and I’m getting soooo close to my goal for the end of next week. Despite doing the limbo and all sorts of contortions on the scale, couldn’t quite get it to the magic number! The slow but steady loss is encouraging though and I’m hoping to still get there by next Friday before I leave on vacation. Now if I can just survive my son’s cake and pizza birthday party today!
The ticket for me lately has been following my revised eating plan and fasting within that plan 2-3 days per week. Also not to be discounted is the fact that like many of you have mentioned, I haven’t had too many events/dinners out, etc. this last couple of weeks to derail me. It makes a big difference! Oh, if only we could live in a bubble while dieting, huh?!
Hubby returned home in the wee hours of the morning and despite that, took the twins to their early soccer game (I’m taking my son to his late morning game later). I think he’s living on fumes and will pass out as soon as he gets home…his body clock is going to feel it as Hawaii time is 3 hours later than California’s.
Ok, off to make my son’s birthday cake with his help (one of his favorite things is to help me in the kitchen…he likes to cook more than his sisters do!).
Have a great weekend all!
Sherry
Slow and steady wins the race Sherry!
Happy Birthday to your son! I hope he has a great party!
And good wishes to your hubby, I hope he gets a good sleep tonight.
(And you too, and your daughter, may she have an easy night!)
It is a lovely morning here, and a slightly gentler heat than yesterday’s and tomorrow’s. Summer has come with a vengeance. Also daylight saving has begun.
I’ve pulled out the light cotton kimono that is my summer dressinggown and I am having my first cup of tea for the day. I checked some summer clothes I had packed away in the wooden chest, and already have a couple things to take to the Op Shop because they are too big. Nice!
Disappointed about a pretty summer skirt that I found a couple of months ago. It fitted me perfectly and I was looking forward to wearing it this summer. I tried it yesterday and thought maybe I could still wear it as a hipster, but I gave it a go, and it didn’t stay sitting well, so bye bye skirt. Bitter sweet.
I’m thinking about Fast Day tomorrow, and I will make sorrel soup.
Best wishes to everyone.
Hi all
We are away at MIL overnight- headed out last night to local Indian place- shared a starter but ended up leaving as they took so long to do our food! Not good as we ended up in the fish and chip shop instead- oh well, not much choice around here at 930pm.
Home later, have leftover cooked chicken breasts so either salad or soup tonight, probably salad.
FD tomorrow, think this will be the third week- loss is slow for me but ok with that as am eating things I fancy every w/e. Try to restrain myself a bit in the week.
Hello, All,
Glad to hear you’re getting steady results, SherryAnn and my hat’s off to those of you who’re able to go without breakfast, I can’t make it through the day without it!
I’ve been laid low by whatever nasty virus is running around New England. It came on hard and fast and put me in bed for three days. Coincidence that I was seeing my doc for annual check and he said, “yeah, there’s a bad cold going around that’s flattening people.” Thankfully I had the time to take off but frankly, I couldn’t keep my eyes open so I wouldn’t have been able to go anyway.
Not great news, my blood sugar is in the pre-diabetic range so Doc and I are getting back in 3 months after I diligently pursue this 5:2 and see how it works as losing weight will help the blood sugar, we hope. I’ll also go back to walking laps around the firehouse and Town Hall complex at lunch which should help,too. I can’t leave the grounds because an on-duty firefighter goes into Dispatch when I come out and I have to carry a portable radio so if we get an emergency call I can run back in so s/he can go out on it. But if I eat first, then walk, it will lower the blood sugar spike from eating, by about 50%, according to Dr.James Levine, who coined the phrase “Sitting Disease” back in 1999.
SherryAnn, one of our firefighters has an 8 year old son who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. I don’t know if it’s the same (1or 2) but they’re working on getting an alert dog for him. The kid is great,totally took to doing the maths calculations in his head about carbs but as you said, it’s a messy thing. But the dog will be one trained to alert him when his blood sugar is wrong, even at night. It sounds like he’ll be able to get active again as the dog will accompany him everywhere, even to school. I don’t know if this would work for you but with your holding down the fort alone on a regular (and I understand needed) basis, perhaps a literal watchdog for your daughter might help? Hope I’m not being presumptuous or going over ground you’ve already covered.
Now, to food!!! And who else is being a chatty Kathy? But it’s 0737, Hubby is sleeping, and I’m on the couch pinned down by a cat so, why not?!
I felt well enough to cook yesterday so I made a batch of meatballs and red sauce. I usually use jar sauce but sweat a LOT of garlic before I put it in the pot and then add oregano, basil, and marjoram but had some fresh tomatoes that needed using so I sweated garlic, chopped the tomatoes and added them in. Cooked them with herbs ’til they reduced, then added the jar sauce. Meatballs are ground beef, bread crumbs, egg, and Romano cheese. A big batch so I can have a few on FD over spaghetti squash this week.
I’ve decided to do FD on the first day of my shift rotation and the second overnight of my shift rotation. I’ve got the calendar marked so now it’s down to planning the food part…and making sure I have plenty of herb and green tea on hand.
Well, that was quite long winded! I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. The much ballyhooed Hurricane Joaquin seems to have gone out to sea so I may get off the couch to go for a walk with husband and the dog later. It’s cold enough now in the morning to hook the dog (retired sled dog) up to the bicycle to let him really run but it requires some mad pedaling to keep up, especially up hill and I don’t feel well enough for that today. Maybe tomorrow…
Have fun!
Good Morning!
Sorry I’ve been MIA. This week I’ve been trying to get caught up on everything at work & home.
I’ve gotten back in the exercise groove, but the eating thing has not come together yet. I’m hoping tomorrow morning will find me waking up with new resolve to get back on plan.
Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday!
XL Diva, glad the hurricane went out to sea and spared you on the east coast. I hope you get to enjoy your walk and the rest of your Sunday.
Sherry, I also know people who have dogs to help with children with diabetes. I have friends who take puppies to get them ready to become guide dogs for the blind. These dogs are lovely and well trained, but do not always make the cut for this purpose. Many of them go on to become dogs for children with diabetes and seizures.
It is morning in Melbourne, silvery sky and cool fresh air, but a hot day on its way.
Fast Day today and I think I will have my porridge early, I woke up in the night dreaming of mashed potato! And that was after a normal meal day!!
I have so much to do, I just hope it keeps me distracted from being hungry, rather than being hungry distracting me from getting things done!
Congratulations to you Lori, on getting everything done! I hope today is a good day to get back into your groove!
Hi Sig!
XLDiva, I do so hope that 5:2 gets you out of the pre diabetic zone! What an incentive that is.
I do hope that virus clears up quickly, so many people have had a nasty nasty virus! Writing nice long posts with a cat on top of you, and pottering around cooking good food, seem like the best things you could possibly do!
I hope your dear sled dog can wait patiently until you are properly well to take him for his run.
Cheers for your good planning!
I am also one who needs my breakfast…. at the moment. I have gone through some interesting stages since I cut sugar out of my diet 4 (nearly 5) years ago. I cut out all high sugar foods including fruit, but I let myself eat whatever I wanted of everything else. My appetite/hunger levels immediately changed, and sometimes I went for 24 hours without eating anything. I was 20 kg heavier then and I lost a lot, very easily, over the first year or so.
Then I stabilised/plateaued.
But after a while I went through a long stage of not wanting to eat until well into the afternoon. I must have been doing a natural 16:8 then.
Now I am back to being a breakfast person. I am really concentrating on listening to my body and what it is asking for foodwise. It is a pleasure to do this now it is getting into a normal healthy routine.
Except on Fast Day when I tell it to wait until tomorrow!
Cheers to everyone else who is fasting today, and all of you who are not!
PS Hooray for hurricanes that go out to sea!
Happy Sunday Ladies!
I’m happy now because all but one of the eight 9-10 year old boys I’ve had spending the night/going to laser tag have left! Hallelujah! Mostly I’ve been used to girl sleepovers, having 3 girls also. A boy sleepover is worse! The little monsters wanted to stay up all night! Finally convinced them (or so I thought) to go to bed at midnight. Around 4 am I got up to check my daughter’s monitor and I heard a bunch of them (not my son, he was asleep!) up talking. They said they just woke up. I told them to get back to bed immediately as others were sleeping still! Crazy! One kid, the one still here, claims to have not slept a wink! Since he’s obviously got so much energy, I’m having him help my son clean up after the hurricane that was his birthday…nerf darts everywhere, legos scattered here and there, assorted candies and wrappers…ugh!
My poor hubby who’s still on Hawaiian time, just went to take a nap and I’m taking a deep breath. Whew!
My eating last night at the party was not great but definitely not as bad as it could have been/would have been in the past. So eating a semi fast today to make up for it.
XLDiva & SLG, yes, I’ve heard of those alert dogs for diabetics. I know she (and all my kids) would love to have a dog…but hubby is allergic. Plus I don’t know how she’d react to having it with her all the time, especially at school. Sometimes she just doesn’t want to draw extra attention to the fact that she’s different in any way. In addition to having a pump attached to her person, she has a glucose monitor attached to her that within 20 points or so reads what her levels are and alerts us with an alarm if she’s too high or too low, so I guess that works like the dog. It is wonderful though all the ways they’re able to use dogs these days to help people with different health issues! I do hope you can get your pre-diabetic state reversed because this is definitely not a disease you want to have. Best of luck with that! 🙂
Cinque, I’m with you on needing a morning meal (or at least brunch) of some sort. I get cranky if I don’t!
Well, we are not experiencing a hurricane, but we did have a nice sized rain storm hit us last night into this afternoon. The weather that came with it is so refreshingly cool after all the hot days we’ve had in the last month or so-So, I am enjoying it! We rarely get rain this early in the season so I think that it will be a very wet year winter for us.
Sherry
Yay Sherry! I’ll hallelujah too!
Sleepovers are soooo exhausting, (even when they sleep!)
I hope both you and hubby are having a great restorative catch up sleep tonight, and the everyones sugar levels behave themselves!
I’m at the end of my Fast Day, another easy one. I wonder why?
I’ve made sorrel and potato soup and I am just about to have a bowl.
Everyone is so busy being mid fifties they don’t get to come and say hello? Cheers to you all, I hope everything is going well!
Good Morning!
Monday again! Where does the weekend go? I was pretty much a lazy slug over the weekend. I guess I’m still catching up on rest from being away. Who knows, but this morning I’m raring to go!
Boot camp done and now to put in a day at the office. I’m not going to have a “pure” fast day, but it will certainly be a very low calorie one. I’m going to try to stay below 1,000. It’s very hard to stick to 500 calories on a day where I’ve done boot camp. Whew! I’m going to log on MFP religiously for the next few weeks to try to get the scale moving. On a good note…I have lost all the vacation weight and am now back to where I’ve been forEVER!
Good luck to all Fasters today! You can do it!
Good morning all,
Sorry about all the blood sugar issues. It’s a tough problem. One of my nephews has Type 1 and it’s very stressful for his family. His mother can’t sleep for worrying if he’s okay though he has a pump, etc. Because Type 2 runs in my family, I check my own levels periodically. I don’t eat sweets at all and am very careful about starch, so, this far I’m okay. I think fasting most of the day helps as well.
I am one of the ones who doesn’t eat breakfast. I used to because “they” say you should. But I found that I tended to eat more generally and gain weight.
It’s funny Salma; I never feel very old until I look in the mirror and my grandmother looks back! It’s disconcerting as I wasn’t one of her favorites. Oh, the irony. She had icy blue eyes as does my mother. Mine are brown but the rest is the same. They both always struggled with their weight, too.
Cinque, I never dream of food though I dream a lot. Sounds lovely! Yesterday my husband and I had BLTs. I rarely allow myself to eat bread but, oh my, was it good: crusty toasted pain au levain slathered with mayo and covered with dripping, ruby red, perfectly ripe tomato still warm from the garden, with clouds of just picked lettuces and savory Niman Ranch applewood smoked bacon. Nirvana.
But today is a FD and that is always a relief of sorts with no choices to be made about what to eat this evening. I always just have a big salad. The scale refuses steadfastly to budge lately. Buzzard. Well, I guess it’s better than gaining which I can do at the drop of a hat.
Good luck to you all this week! Pam
I sent Jayney an email today with a picture attached that we took when we were together a few weeks ago. She wants me to tell you that she will be back when her life slows down. She is very busy, but thinking about us here on the forums.
I know some of the newbies do not know to whom I am referring……but some of you have been wondering about her, I’m sure.
Good morning!
Just returned from a rainy morning walk with a friend. I didn’t think the skies would open up so I just opted for a hat. I am DRENCHED! Oh well, it’s a welcome relief as I said before to our recent hot weather and as it stands, it’s supposed to heat up again by week’s end.
Still trying to catch up on sleep. I think I live on adrenalin when my hubby’s gone and when he gets back and I can catch my breath, I just want to collapse and sleep! I’m sure the weekend’s festivities didn’t help the sleep either! I’m sure I’ll catch up in a few days. Cinque, thanks for the well wishes on sleep!
Lori, I wish we could post pics on this site. Milena was going to look into it but I haven’t heard any update? It would be lovely to see a photo of you and Jayney on your trip! So happy for you that the vacation weight is off!
Salma, good luck on your fast day! It should almost be over now I’m thinking as I type this given our time difference! I hope it was easy and successful!
And yes, sounds like you can relate to dealing with a house full of rowdy boys! My mom always reminds me to savor it because some day the house will be quiet.
Pam, you always paint a food picture with your words! Love it…except when I’m fasting! ;). I love that Neiman’s Ranch natural bacon. That’s all I buy (organic/no nitrates). Yes, I’m sure your sister can relate to the sleepless nights one experiences with a diabetic kid. You’d think that darn pump would make it easier (and it does for the purpose of not having to give a shot), but the blood sugars still are crazy sometimes.
Not much else going on hereabouts. I’m going to shower and start packing for Hawaii as Friday will be here before I know it! Was just informed by hubby that our condo’s new wood floors will be being installed right when I get there (bad timing but it’s the only time they could get in). I think I may have mentioned (not sure?) that we’d just had new floors installed last May due to a flood from someone’s air conditioning/swamp cooler above us before we bought the place. Well, ironically the freezer overflowed in another unit above us in July so now we are replacing the floors yet again! Crazy, but the good thing is, the last installer did not level the cement floors well before installing the wood and it was rather like a roller coaster walking on them in some spots! This time around, we are making sure it is level and done correctly…a silver lining! 🙂
Have a GREAT start to the week everyone!
Sherry
Hi all!
The last week was crazy and this one not much better. We’re about a third of the way through the term, which is when the first major papers are due and when the first big problems seem to surface. Students sick (same monster bug as is going around New England, XL), students depressed, students who can’t write a grammatical sentence, etc. Well, they pay us to do more than read books we’d probably read anyway, right?
Cinque, we were on the same wavelength only in reverse this weekend. While you were getting out your summer clothes I was packing mine away and getting out the woolies. Too bad about the skirt. Can you take it in? I’ve still got the opposite problem–several lovely things that are just a wee bit too tight. But I have hopes that by Christmas . . .
Sherry, you made it through the single parenting! I hope your husband gets reoriented to CA time quickly. I do find coming East much harder than going West. And that magical 2 is in sight! I haven’t had the nerve to get on the scale since my birthday. I seem to be only managing one fast day a week these last few weeks, so expect to be doing no better than holding steady. Still, a few mornings ago as I was stretching before getting out of bed I passed my hand over my abdomen and it was flat! That’s new! Of course it wasn’t so flat once I stood up. 🙂 Planks, anyone?
Lori, you lost the holiday weight in short order! But I sympathize with how hard it is to shift those pounds that have gotten nice and cozy and have no inclination to move on.
Sorrel soup and a BLT. Mmmmmmmm. Both sound lovely right now. I’m fasting tomorrow. Tonight I’ll be making my annual pot of Bolognese sauce. It will use up some of the tomatoes, carrots, onions and garlic from my CSA as well as lots of veal and pancetta. I freeze most of it for easy suppers throughout the winter.
Have a great week everyone.
MM
Good morning from 37 degrees South (latitude).
Bush fire season is here already, poor old world. We have a total Fire Ban day. 22C was the lowest it got overnight.
Lovely to read all the catch up posts.
Lori good luck with your under 1000 day, I really like sneaking one of those in. I might try one tomorrow. I am so glad you got to be a lazy slug for a little while.
Hello to Jayney! I was here before she got quite so busy. Hope all is going very well.
I think Photobucket works for photos, but I haven’t used it.
Oh Salma, I identify to so many of your list of complaints (but no sore knees, thank goodness, touch wood and whistle) – and isn’t it strange when you still think you are 19, or 29, maybe early 30’s?
Ofcourse, for the rest of our lives we will look back at our mid 50’s and sigh for how young we were then! (I was 58 last birthday so I am not sure if I can technically call myself mid fifties any more!)
PS Did you last the distance?
Pam isn’t it weird looking like family. I look down and see my mothers hands. My sisters and I look like our old aunts.
I hope you can bring some good energy to your grandmas visage!
Oh that good bread and tomato sounds like heaven. I have one tomato planted (self sown, came up among the stones, has survived transplanting) and one to go in, so hopefully only a few months before I can enjoy the same treat.
Sherry I can’t believe you will be dodging builders on your precious holiday! LIfe! It never stops! Have fun packing!
Minn I was a primary school teacher before I got sick, and I always think I miss it terribly, until I hear a teacher talking about all the demands. Then I remember the hard bits! All power to you!
I did think about taking in the skirt, but decided to let it go. Sigh. It was such a lovely skirt! But I will find something else gorgeous!
Time is racing. Must go.
HI Cinque
I’m 58 and I reckon its the early 50s though 59 at the end of this year – I’ll be in my 60th year by Christmas – hoping for a floral housecoat, a bottle of ‘go grey’ and some lavender water for Christmas- that was my nana at 60! And I catch a glimpse of her in the mirror occasionally – can only think she must be my angel – cos surely I don’t look like her – do I?
Or I could decide to keep my hair long and blond, lust after men young enough to be my son – Christ Hemsworth and Henry Cavill – as well as men of my own age – Alan Rickman, Sean Bean and Viggo Mortensen – to name a few! I could still opt to wear jeans, wear my sons cast off – such as unwornd superdry jackets and tee shirts – and aim to look good in a leather skirt one day soon -you never know!
I’m am definitely on a plateau at the moment – last week did two fasts, plus a 46 hour liquid fast and semi fasts for two days – and fasted today – result? All I can say is at least I haven’t gained any weight!
So have decided not to fast tomorrow, a liquid fast on Wednesday and then I’m off until next Monday – and I’ll have to hope I don’t put on much. A bit depressing.
Sherry
I used to help out occasionally with brownies – a bunch of divas at times, spiteful even, took them an age to get ready and sooo untidy – though a lot of nice girls, was asked to help out with some cubs, so different, all joining in together, no nastieness, no rudeness, – lovely!
Would have the girls again anytime but not the boys! I still cringe when I remember the clean up of the dorms – truly awful but but they saved the best til last. The toilets were sooo beyond disgusting I threw up!
Never forgot, it became my mission to make sure my lad used the toilet properly, though when he was wee (no pun intended!) if I stood next to him he would turn to face me while weeing! But he never misses, the toilet seat is up when used and put down again, and his job is to clean the bathroom.
Surprised over the years at just how often boys – and the occasional man – misses the loo.
Hope your lot of young visitors were well trained!
EEUUUW! Milena, I hadn’t inspected the toilet/floor near it yet. Hadn’t even thought of that nastiness. Just looked and all seems fairly clean thank goodness until it can be thoroughly taken care of on cleaning day (it’s mainly my son’s bathroom anyway!). Funny story: my grandmother hated boy overspray and used to have my dad and his brother and even my grandfather sit on the toilet and point down! Not very manly but they did it and it saved her a lot on the messy male clean ups! Thanks for looking into the posting of photos! It would be great if we could!
Cinque, I can relate to those nasty fires when it heats up. Same thing happens here in California. Hoping they don’t hit too close to you! Btw, “Cinque”, isn’t that the number five in Italian? Just wondering about the significance of your name?
MM, thank goodness there are people like you who teach our young people. I don’t think I could do it. I don’t have much patience…just volunteering in my kids’ classrooms sometimes makes me bonkers (though they’re obviously much younger than the college age you teach). Anyhow, my hat is off to you! Thanks for what you do! 🙂 So, should we bite the bullet and weigh on Thursday right before we both leave?
Well, I didn’t get to much of that packing yesterday. The older I get (and it seems the more ADD I get!), the less able I am to pack quickly. Oh who’s fooling who, I’ve never been a good or quick packer! I pack weigh too much and I’m always the one (despite weighing the bag ahead of time) who’s shifting items from one bag to another to make the 50 lb per bag limit! You’d think, “how much could bathing suits, sundresses and a few shorts weigh”? Doesn’t matter, I still usually manage to go over the limit!
So, the goal today is to pack, go do pilates and grocery shop for the week and to stock up for hubby while I’m gone. Btw, the pilates instructor is a young, handsome guy from you Brits’ side of the pond. Have to ask him from where!
Sherry
Well, Sherry, I’ve off for 5 days and 4 nightsThursday, we usually take one wee overnight bag between us and I take a large handbag. We try to get apartments with washing machine, if its a hotel, we take a bit more and I have to carry the toiletries in my handbag. We change appartments on Saturday, I’m off before 7, live hubby to do last minute clean and pack and he’ll put the bag in the locker in the train station, and come to meet me – we’ll pick up the bag at teatime and get the train to Kolding.
I am such an organiser!!! Luckily what we buy is usually just jewellery so small, but OH did get some glass last time and I have to make him put back the light fittings. Think we will drive over – hmm, when I have the car – a grand espace – I take the kitchen sink!!!
It’s official. I do not care for HIIT. I suppose if it gets the scale moving though…. I’m stuck on that plateau with you Milena.
You all make me want to pack my bag and go on a trip somewhere. I never used to take enough clothes and always wished I had packed more. Don’t want to leave the poochies now though.
My house guest comes in tomorrow night. I’m sorely tempted to craft some shatteringly crisp-crusted French bread from scratch. Doesn’t seem to matter what I do. I wonder if I should just embrace chubby and be happy.
2Black! What’s all this ‘it doesn’t matter what I do?’ misery talk! Spit it out! Have your big whinge. Kick the scales.
And then remember that this is about a healthy life. That your wonderful body is a complicated thing. That results will show. That you MUST be kind to yourself. That you SHOULD make shatteringly crisp-crusted French bread from scratch. Enjoy it with your houseguest. And then enjoy a really wonderful Fast Day. Both of those things are part of living a good healthy life!
PS I can’t even think about HIIT. My chronic illness (me/cfs) means I need to avoid anything aerobic.
Milena, Hooray, I can be mid-fifties for nearly two more years!
I think Chris Helmsworth would love you with that long blond hair ;). Isn’t he beautiful.
I bags Alan Rickman!
Completely agree re boys (and men!) and toilets. Whenever the argument about leaving toilet seats up comes around, I state quite forcefully that I am very happy to put a toilet seat down, but I am NEVER happy to clean up drips and splatters of stinky wee!
Melbourne is famous for changeable weather (4 seasons in one day), but we went from unseasonable cold a week ago, to a furnace hot day with 200 bushfires (wildfires) burning. 4 of them are still a problem this morning. Not even summer! It is new territory.
I think we are very similar to California, and I know our fireys help each other out. It is a proud but fearful bond.
I am safe in the city, and the weather has changed (again) to a lovely fresh cool day. Not too windy, so fingers crossed those fires can get under control.
I chose Cinque on a whim when I was joining up for this site. I have been trying to learn Italian (though not lately) and love the word! Plus I am fifth of seven children and one of 5 sisters, so it is a favourite number. My name is Joy! but I love being Cinque on here.
Good luck packing. I am the sort that loves one tiny bag. I hate carrying around things I don’t end up wearing. But when I get home I really love being able to wear something different!
Aiming to have a no snacks day today, and Fast tomorrow!
So for you Brits on this thread, here’s the follow up scoop: the handsome pilates instructor is from the Isle of Wight. Says he likes it much better here in the perennial sunshine.
Confession: I did pilates, shopped and STILL haven’t packed! Yikes! I think I have a disorder in that I hate packing so much I unintentionally (or is it intentionally…I don’t know!) avoid it. I will probably end up throwing a bunch of random stuff in last minute which will result in not having something really important. Oh well, good thing my condo’s right across the street from the major shopping mall if I miss anything! Bravo to you girls who can pack light. I obviously am not one of you!
Milena, I have to google all these actors you’re talking about. Only ones I know are Chris and Viggo! I’m picturing you with your long blonde hair in a black leather mini chasing down these boys. You go girl! 🙂
Cinque, I love your thought behind choosing your name! Perfect! I am half Italian by heritage and love the language (though I don’t know many words, just a few from my grandmother), the food, the people, the countryside… ahhhh!
Pam, like Cinque said, come here, get your moaning out and then you can move on! We’ve all had the same thoughts at one time or another. Ultimately if we just keep steering in the right direction most of the time and we will eventually get to our goals! I can’t do a HIIT program at this point in my life either due to back issues. I just walk daily and am just now trying out pilates to strengthen my core which down the road will hopefully allow me to do more physically.
Off to make dinner, meatloaf covered in a whole berry cranberry glaze with mashed potatoes and green beans on the side. Yum!
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