Whole berry cranberry glaze…Yum!

Sherry, I’d just throw a swim suit, gauzy cover-up, big hat, big dark glasses, art supplies and a toothbrush in a bag and go! But maybe you need a city outfit, too. Well, I know you’ll have a fabulous time.

I adore Alan Rickman! That voice. “The air is full of spices.”

My house guest is quite a beautiful man, a blond 35, or so, year-old. He lives in my parents basement and is an engineering post-grad. We’re giving him a holiday from taking care of my folks and school. I shall spoil him to death. Lovely little bit of eye candy and a totally sweet, gentle creature.

Hi ladies,
We have no power today since 6 am & they say it won’t be restored until midnight! So I’m typing this on my phone which I hate! Hubby us getting out the lanterns now as it will be dark soon. Had to bbq our dinner.

I’m on my first of two back to back fast days today & all went well eating-wise. Got my tune ups today: chiropractor & pedicure done ! Off to kids’ soccer practice- wish us well that we get power soon!

Good Morning!

Up and at ’em after a great night’s sleep! The cat didn’t get up until 5:30! I hope this is a new trend for her.

Sherry, hope your power came back on last evening. You don’t realize how much you depend on electricity until you don’t have it! Was there a storm that caused the power outage?

As expected, I’m quite stiff and sore from a boot camp session yesterday that was a lot of work with weights. I can sure feel it from head to toe! Day off today and then back at it tomorrow. I have 2 rounds of golf planned for the weekend. My, I’m busy! 😉 I have to take advantage of it, as I’ll spend far too much time sitting on my butt once the winter weather sets in.

I saw someone I hadn’t seen for a few months last night and she said “Wow! You’re really losing weight!” Hmmm…..well, not according to the scale, but I guess the sands must be shifting. My shirts don’t seem to fit right this week so I must be losing some “padding” around my arms and shoulders.

Hope you all have a great day. The weekend is coming! YAY!

Salma…I am the queen of the stuck scale! I’ve been within the same 5 lbs for over 2 years! Of course, I wasn’t really trying to lose for much of that time, but still!! My body has gotten very comfortable at this high number and isn’t inclined to change. Sigh….all we can do is keep working our plan of choice, and make healthy food choices. Strive for health rather than a certain number on the scale. It’s hard to do when the darn scale is staring at us every morning when we get up!

Keep on keepin’ on!

Acck! I just lost a long post I just ttyped on my phone! Power back on as of 8pm but computer now not working! Can’t type much as I hate doing it on phone but Salma, u kno I’m always moaning about weight not moving . Only thing that worked recently is really tightening it up on my NFD’s- not as fun but effective ! Even if done 1 or 2 wks a month might help?

MM, I’m soon close! Did u weight today? I’m 130.2! Hoping I have time to hop on scale tomorrow morn before I leave for HI & that I’ve actually finally dipped below 130!
Hi to everyone else! Can’t bear to type on phone anymore! Will try my best to keep in touch while in HIvif possible !

Good Morning!

Foggy, cold morning here! I’m heading for the golf course later and hope the fog clears. I played(horribly)yesterday too…was a beautiful fall day.

I’m still working on “unsticking” my scale! Tomorrow I’m drastically changing my eating, so hoping that does the trick. No more cheese and hummus with pretzels….oh the horror! Those have been my mainstays for months now. Hmm..perhaps why the scale has not been moving? We’ll see.

I’m looking into taking an online course to become a “Certified Nutrition & Wellness Consultant”. I don’t know that I’ll ever use it for income, but I think it might be very interesting. It focuses not only on weight loss, but also using food to manage different medical conditions. It’s only a 6 month course, and it will give me something focus on as I near retirement from my job of 30 years.

Ok..time for breakfast and to get ready to head to the golf course. Have a lovely day everyone!

Good morning, wet and cool here: which is lovely after a couple of hot days.
I’m having cup of tea and some forum chatting before a busy day.

Congratulations Opal! What a lovely result! It must feel so lovely! All power to you!

I snuck in my waist tape-measuring a day early and I have lost 10cm over the last 4 weeks (minus a day).

Lori that course sounds really interesting! It must be a big thing: preparing to retire. Good luck unsticking your scales. I must say that cheese and hummus with pretzels does sound more like an occasional treat than a mainstay! (But O yum).

I got my first Fast Day of the week out of the way yesterday (decided the week began on Sunday!) because I have such hectic days ahead. I’ll just see when I can squeeze another one in.

Good Morning Salma & Everyone!

Salma…you are wise to give yourself a break from fasting until you get things sorted with your move. What a huge undertaking! Moving is no fun, that’s for sure.

I’m planning to retire in just over a year. October 31, 2016. I will have over 31 years of service & that’s enough! I want to find something part time eventually, but I will enjoy the winter of 2016 snug in my house. I just hope I can still get myself out the door for boot camp! Maybe I’ll shift to a session later in the day instead of 5:45AM!

I haven’t officially signed up for the nutrition course. I want to talk to our trainer and ask him if he is familiar with the organization that offers it. It is AFPA – American Fitness Professionals & Associates. A quick search online didn’t turn up any red flags for me, but I’d like to see if he knows anything about them before I plunk down $500.

I had a good eating day yesterday and have today all planned out as well. No boot camp today, so I have to be extra careful. My sister is coming this weekend which means eating out and taking in more calories than I should. I’m trying to be very strict this week to help offset the weekend!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Hi All

Just a quick pop in to see how you are doing. Salma, moving what a true chore. The time off will be good when you get to it!

Lori what a lovely thing to look forward to, a new beginning. The world will be your oyster then and you can pick and choose what you want to do and explore other avenues, definetly move boot camp though.

Hi Cinque

I know you from another thread, I’m glad you are active on the forums as that really helps.

Hi everybody else

Nice to see the thread so busy.

Ginette

Hello all the Mid Fifties!
Hi Ginette here too 😉

Hi Milena, I’m crisscrossing with everyone through these lovely threads. You have mastered the evil scales and made them do your bidding! It seems to me they have no rhyme or reason, but yours are good ones. Or is it that the wonderful food and lots of walking is a fine healthy balance.

Salma I hope your new home is getting nicely ordered.

I am pretty whacked after a huge day yesterday, but I can rest today. I cleverly fasted yesterday! I like fasting on a busy day. Today I will curl up on the sofa and catch up on some tv.

All good things

Good Morning All!

Yes…I know the year will fly by! I’m so anxious, but at the same time, scared. I hope I’m doing the right thing. It sure feels right, so here I go!

I’m going to start my Nutrition & Wellness Consultant course in the coming weeks. I talked to the trainer at boot camp and he told me that the organization that does the course is accredited and he actually has some certificates from them.

My sister is coming for the weekend, so all bets are off as far as eating goes. I did lose 1/2 lb this week, but I suppose it’ll be back come Monday morning. Sigh…. Round and round I go!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Hi girls!

Long time no talk to! Well, I’ve been in Hawaii just over a week with mom. Took her to the airport yesterday. We didn’t get to do all that we planned due to bad weather and the fact that she felt sick for a good part of it. We did take some lovely scenic drives, walk some beaches & into town many times, and go out to eat daily- usually mid day. We’d usually eat a light breakfast & then the one meal out a day. We went to a luau and saw a great Elvis impersonator.

After dropping mom at the airport I walked across the street to a local hotel to watch their Friday free hula/music show & fireworks afterward. Today started my first day of solo relaxation but seem to have come down with my mom’s bug! Loose bowels, achey joints and extreme fatigue! I went for a walk by the beach this morning and then got extremely tired. I went back to bed and slept most of the day! I’d hoped to walk into town as a festival was taking place but that obviously didn’t happen.

Glad to hear many of you are having some good results! I hope to get back in the swing of things as I start to feel better. Good luck to all of you & Salma, hoping you’re life gets easier soon! Moving isn’t fun!

Lots of rain & lightning tonight and off & on rain expected for tomorrow so I’m going to try to go out for some breakfast if I’m feeling up to it & the weather isn’t too bad and then come back and snuggle up with one of my many books I brought with me!

I’ll try to keep in touch more this week! Happy weekend all!

Aloha, 🙂

Sherry

Hi all. Sorry I’ve been AWOL for so long. Somehow a lot of extra work climbed onto my desk while I was in Bismark and I’m only now getting on top of things. Sorry to hear your mom was sick, Sherry, and now you. We have had a really nasty cold going around here. Part of my extra work has been filling in for sick colleagues. I’ve managed to escape with only a very mild version–a sore throat for a few days, but not much more.

Lori, your course sounds really interesting. Do share the highlights with the rest of us. I’m not sure what to believe about nutrition these days. As for the fasting, I fell off the wagon for a week or two. Haven’t been on the scale, but my jeans tell me I wouldn’t like what I saw. So, time to start over. I had a good fast day Friday and am half way through another today. I’d like to add another tomorrow, but have not had good luck fasting back to back days, so probably won’t get to my second day till the end of the week. I don’t have any more trips till late November so am hoping to take a real run at this for the next four weeks.

Milena, my scales are as capricious as yours. That’s one reason I avoid them. My body seems pretty determined to hold onto these ten pounds. I’ve noticed that on fast days I get quite cold, then get super hot (and hungry) on non-fast days. I find the fasting pretty easy, but the next day I crave carbohydrates. Has anyone else had that problem? I never used to crave carbs before–I have more of a butterfat tooth than a sweet tooth.

We finally had a frost. I’m taking the screens off the windows today. Amazing how much more light that lets into the house!

Good luck to everyone.

MM

Hi MM

wish I could blame my scales, but it just seems to be the way my body loses weight, been doing this for 9 months now, haven’t yet lost the lb a week average, yet have lost 40 lb in 38 weeks. It comes off in fits and starts, and it yoyos. I’ve just learned to carry on without worrying about the scales.

There are days I don’t even bother to check my weight every day – I’ve even been known to weigh myself in my knickers and bra, still wearing jewellery. Even stopped wondering how much my hair weighs and whether I would be much lighter if I cut it all off. Probably not worth it, as its baby fine hair, I’m obviously quite blase about weighing these days.

Then again there are days I’m very tempted to chuck them out of the window.

Hi ladies,

Well it turned out to be a beautiful day in paradise after all, no rain! That’s the way it goes here- crazy weather! You really can’t depend on the weather forecasts even a day out! So Milena… I make no promises on the weather!☀️?⚡️☔️??

So I walked to the cafe nearby that I’ve been meaning to try for brunch and had French toast made with thick sweet Hawaiian style bread and chopped pineapple sautéed in butter and cinnamon. It was yummy but next time in think I’ll partake of one of the savory dishes I saw the people next to me eating: 3 egg omelet presented in the little fry pan it was cooked in with a variety of local veggies/toppings and eggs Benedict with Portuguese sausage, kailua pig, vegetables, or salmon & spinach served with purple potatoes & a taro or wheat muffin- interesting! All of the food is locally sourced & mostly organic.

Afterwards I went back and took another nap! This weird illness just wears you down! As I’ve said before, I’m not a napped so this is making me crazy! I feel like half my days are wasted sleeping!

Well I’m now off to the market and vitamin store for a few things. I’m going to make a pineapple coconut breakfast cake to bring in to my gals that work for me tomorrow ?

Aloha!

Hello everyone!

Lovely you could pop in Salma, next week will be your last week at your old job? Lovely! The end is in sight.
I hope your new home is coming together beautifully.

I hope you can soon get back to where this journey to better health is less a tough climb, but becomes a nice easy path, for a while at least!

I was at a dinner last night at a restaurant run by the hospitality course. So it is all students cooking and serving. It was a degustation menu and I had to come home before we even got to the main, but I got four amazing serves and was not hungry!

Sherry I hope you are feeling better today and are enjoying more holiday. But if you are still at the stage where you need to be gentle and sleep a lot, I hope that is a pleasure too!

I’m Fasting today, best wishes to everyone whatever your Fast status is!

Hi Makica

lovely name, is it pronounced Ma -kit -sa? I ask as I have a sister called Anica – our father was Yugoslav, hence the names! My surname was Katanic, a fairly common name, I think.

I’ve been here for the full ten months, since Salma began this thread – we are both still moving along.

I don’t think we had had any men since FatGraham, I was thinking of him only yesterday, someone somewhere had mentioned Atkins. It would be interesting to know how he is doing. Always good to compare what we do to others.

12 kilos from 84.7 is doable, would love to say easy, but I can’t, though I was heavier than that and I’m lighter than that now, if you have read up to page 17 you might not be up to the hard part of my journey yet – lol!!! I can though say it hasn’t been a hardship, in that its not purgatory, and its certainly not hell, more a matter of making adjustments and being mindful for most of the time, a way of life not a diet.

Jayney is still with us from time to time – she became our first success, and shows what total focus, lots of exercise,grit and determination can do – the rest of us, I’m afraid, just stumble through it – but we seem to get there.

How is everyone? I’ve had a brilliant week, lots of fasts and being good, broken up by eating lots of rubbish, not going on the scales until I’ve done a couple of fasts, today and Sunday, hopefully Monday as well. Pointless giving myself bad news – not like me to eat rubbish, but OH was in the mood for sweet stuff and I felt the need to keep him company.

Travel hopefully, everyone.

Thanks Milena, yes it is pronounced Ma -kit -sa LOL. It is so rare for anybody to be able to pronounce my nickname. When I was a student in the US I had a huge problem with my name Marijana trying so hard to explain that it is just our way to write Marianne.

I can see this WOL is not too easy but the rewards are there. Kilos are going down nice and slow but then you can eat “normally” the rest of the week.

I do yoga twice a week, stott pilates also 2 days weekly and some HIT on my stationary bike at home when I remember to do it. And my memory is not as it used to be so I do it from time to time. Honest. 😉

As all of you, I have tried almost everything to lose these kilos I piled on during the past 7-8 years, since my hormones went haywire. I have even been a vegan for 2 whole months! And that was a stretch because I am not a fan of vegetables at all… and my dream is to be reincarnated as nice, mild person loving kale. Instead of loosing, I gained weight because being vegan was a great excuse to eat a load of potatoes and all kinds of healthy bread! And guacamole!

So still going through your amazing 47 page story loving every minute of it. So sorry there is not “like” button or a way to leave a comment how much I loved some of your posts.
Love m

Hi Lori

please stay with us, you will become our nutrition expert – boy do I need one! Would love to know what they reckon gall stones make you put on weight, and why lack of a gall bladder stops you from losing it. And if not all calories are the same, confirm that calories from alcohol are ONLY beneficial!!! lol!

Makica – my cousin once got detention for making up stories instead of doing her project which was about family, she was accused of making up names!! I know what you mean about pronunciation too – I am surprised when someone gets the pronunciation correct. Never ever met anyone with my name until last year – then met 4 in 4 months, all Polish.

No no no no!!!! I’m looking for encouragement re the alcohol, not abstention!!! Lol!!!

Already making headway, I can now decide on buying a bottle of wine instead of a bottle of oil, fewer calories – though I usually only buy olive oil, so its a difficult choice.

Hi Cinque

how is it going, enjoy the family!

Problem is I might be tempted to eat rubbish in order to fill the jar more quickly – I’ll try to be good, but it will be well filled at Christmas!

Fasting for me today. Third day this week. Had some goooooood red wine with healthy gof* fish last night. It was a family celebration. What I did is have a snack before I went for dinner and then couldn’t overeat. I read it somewhere here on this thread. And it is solid advice I will use it often when going to places that tickle my resolve with yummy goodies.
I also like the idea of 16:8. What really sticks to my middle torso is dinner. So if I eat something nono in the evening it tends to glue it self to my anatomy in that region in the form of fat with an orange peal finish on it. It does spread to the other unsuspecting parts of my body but since menopause it is focusing on my midriff. Completely unacceptable. So I think on my NFD I will try and eat in that 8 hour window. Just have to decide when is the best for my crazy life.
My TDEE i surprisingly high about 2600 kcal because of my active life but I am trying to keep it at 2000 on my “free to eat anything you mind, body and soul want” days. Although my food choices have changed drastically in the past 9 years as I am a double cancer survivor so I went for the healthy choices a long time ago, I still crave the occasional cake or chocolate delight.

* Mediterranean fish, tried to find an english name but couldn’t.

I just posted this story on the thread: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/starting-a-new-life-style-not-a-diet/#post-116439
I explained why I came back to 5:2 and the fasting concept in genera.

My middle daughter is a scientist, molecular biologist who told me a story about a group of scientists on the first floor of her lab building who were working on Alzheimer’s where they put rats with the same Alzheimer’s gene on various diets. There was a group that was feed fast food, a group that ate a healthy diet a group that was put on a 5:2 fast and a control group of course. The gene was set to “kick off” after 3 months in normal circumstances, which it did for the control group and the one on a healthy diet. The fast food group developed full blown Alzheimer’s after just a month but the one on the 5:2 fast developed the disease after 12 months.

So the scientists tried the whole fast thing on them selves. What they did is take pictures of themselves and detailed blood work on the walls of their lab and updated them (photos and all) at first every 6 months, later every year. When my daughter started doing her PhD in the same lab they were on a fast for a decade already. She tells me that they look a decade younger that their initial photos and that their blood work, and all other results are textbook although they most of them are well into their 60s.

So not only are they an ideal weight but they are healthy and look much younger that their generation.

This is why I came back.

Glad if it helps Lori 🙂

Hi Salma and thanks for the warm welcome. BTW I am on page 20 of your thread and I can see that there is no smooth sailing but you need to keep you head above the water. As the founding mother you have the right to take your time and go at a pace that is good for you, you can choose to row slower or faster. I loved what you said a long way back “Contemplate; evaluate; eliminate (frenemies).”

As for my schooling I am a lawyer, who went into HR and ended up in banking. I love to change careers every decade so it seems hehe. I work for a nice little microfinance bank that is oriented to the unserved population of my country. So I am not the BBB (big bad banker)I hope.

Bosnia is beautiful. Whole of former Yugoslavia is a great part of this crazy world where crazy people make life difficult. But I am totally apolitical so back to fasting and being OK in our own shrinking skin!

Love m