Milena, forgive me if I often don’t know what you’re talking about! I’ve heard of haggis but wasn’t sure what it was. Looked it up and saw it was a “fictional creature with left and right legs of different lengths, allowing it to run quickly around steep mountainsides only in one direction.” Further stated “there are two varieties of haggis, one with longer left legs and one with longer right legs and they are unable to interbreed because in order for the male of one variety to mate with the female of the other, he must turn to face in the same direction as his intended mate, causing him to lose his balance before he can climb aboard. As a result of this difficulty, the differences in leg length among the haggis population are accentuated”! For any other U.S. girls, who, like me have no clue, haggis in a traditional Scottish dish made from the innards of sheep including the heart, lungs, and liver. Whew! Thanks for the education!;)

Lol Sherry,
You’ll know forever now!
And ofcourse they make out haggis to be as disgusting as possible, when infact it is a wonderful mixture somewhere in between a sausage and a savoury pudding. I’ve even seen a recipe for a vegetarian one.

Re the filing… No worries. I am really good at it, and just love it. That is why there is a metre high pile on my desk. The minute it has gone I’ll be over!
I not only file, I ADDRESS all the things that have to be done as I go. Should only take me a minute or two!

Cheers MM, jump on those cross country skiis! Cheers for your fast day!

Hope it’s okay to jump in here. I’m mid-fifties and needing to lose about 20 pounds (sorry don’t know the conversion – should have looked that up before typing). I just plugged my stats into the BMI/BMR/TDEE on this site and it’s worse than I thought!! Menopause and thyroid issues and my inability to control myself have left me really out of shape, depressed and rather pre-occupied with my body. Not good. I saw Dr. Mosley on youtube a long time ago and he’s been on some radio shows here in the U.S. but I’ve never made an effort. So here I am. I haven’t read through all the posts on this thread yet. Thank you and looking forward to making some 5:2 friends.

Hi Lizzy and welcome – we still do pounds – and kilos.

I have always used metric, sold desks for a living, can work which size will fit by eye, yet I haven’t the foggiest what my height is in metres.

And your can still order wood at 2 metres by 2 inches by 2 inches!!!

Happy Australia day Cinque.

Filing is sitting here anytime you are ready!

Good morning Lori,
Milena we order metres of 2×2 too!

Thanks for the Australia Day best wishes.
It is a strange holiday here. It marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.
Therefore, for indigenous Australians it is known as Invasion Day.
It is a day for celebrating the good things about Australia, and trying to work out what to do about our more shameful history. Ie should we move the date? Each year the call is louder: but what to change it to? It makes for interesting conversations.
Oh and we also talk about becoming a republic. You never know, that might happen one day too!
There has been a nice move from lots of drunken barbeques to more sociable things like the growing celebration of the Australia Day Citizens of the Year Ceremony, and we have the Australia Day Honours and lots of ceremonies for newcomers becoming Australian citizens.

True to my usual form, I do nothing! Can’t even shop as they are closed.

But I did a bit of filing!
Sorry Milena, quelle surprise! I haven’t got mine quite finished yet!

I did make a big veggie lasagne and had two helpings. I am SO full!

Enjoy Boot camp Lori! Glad you are feeling better!

Thanks for the lesson Cinque…very interesting! Now about that veggie lasagna……I’d like a nice big slice for lunch! 😉

Good morning everyone!
I’ll just pass a plate of lasagne through the monitor for you Lori!

Welcome here Briar Rose. Cheers for your decision.
I could tell 5:2 was right for me by the end of my first fast day. I’ve been doing it for six months and I have lost about 6 kilos. I am going slower than many people but I have a chronic illness ( me/cfs) and have to be very sedentary, also I am getting close to my optimum weight (4 or 5kg to go) and it goes more slowly. However, just yesterday I making another pile of clothes that have got too loose, to take to the op shop! The best fun!

PS another Australia Day tradition: arguing about changing our flag 😉

Whoops, the above post got disordered! Bottom paragraph was supposed to be near the top! That’s what happens when you’re tired and insert some info, forgetting you have typed below it!

Hi all and welcome to all our lovely newbies, including the other Susie!
Brief recap that one asked for- toto dieter forever, got to goal at least twice with WW and regained it all 😞
Now post menopausal and it comes off a lot slower but watched the tv programme, read the book several times and believe this is a good way forward.
I am doing two FD days back to back usually a mon and tues, I have ‘juices’ in the day and home made veg soup for dinner with hubby. Weight coming off slowly- am also doing SW to keep me accountable on the other 5 days and am enjoying finding new dishes to try now I am retired ( since end of year).
Think this is a healthy way to eat and am also trying to walk more to get fitter, Susie

I learnt my lesson from last nights lasagne and only had one portion tonight. With salad. Excellent meal and I am replete! 😉

Getting ready for tomorrow: Dashi and chicken out of the freezer. That’s it!

Briar Rose, when I started fasting I had a small bowl of porridge in the morning and a bowl of veggie soup in the evening on fast days. But I also had all my usual cuppas (tea and coffee) with milk. So I went a bit over 500 calories. But I still lost weight!

After a couple of months I worked out that if I didn’t have the porridge I could drink my cuppas without feeling guilty! I had miso soup with chicken in the early afternoon instead, and my soup in the evening.

Then a few weeks ago I realised fast days had become ridiculously easy and didn’t really feel like they were doing their job, so I moved my miso soup to the evening and didn’t worry about the other soup any more.

I still have my cuppas, but I try to have as few as possible, and lots of water.

Hi Susie! Hi everyone else!

Good Morning,

Sherry…busy, busy! Your schedule makes my head spin! Glad the husband made it home and that things can return to normal for you. So your client knows where Hoffa is buried? Did he tell you? I’ve heard rumors.

I got thru my dental appt yesterday, but it was not pleasant. I had to have an old filling replaced and OY the drilling! One shot of Novocaine was not sufficient and he had to give me a 2nd one. ACK! My jaw is a bit sore this morning, but not bad. I’m just glad it’s over. The old filling was over 40 years old, so I guess my Mother got her money’s worth, huh? 😉

Enjoying a leisurely morning. I may even eat breakfast before work as I didn’t eat much yesterday. I usually fast until 11 or 12, but feeling hungry this morning. I’m down 6 lbs so far this month and want to keep it going! I want a salad for lunch so have to figure out where to get a good one. I think I’ll have the husband pick it up and deliver it to me at noon when he finishes for the day at his part time job.

Time to get the day started…make it a good one!

Good morning from a lovely sunny Melbourne morning. Heavy rain forecast.

Salma thanks for popping in. I am sorry you are so stressed. Sending good wishes that work settles down. I hope it isn’t the people that are a terrible stress, that is the worst.
Sending best wishes that, even if you can’t manage fasts at the moment, you can eat well, so that your health is good.
I hope you can get back and chat soon, but in the meantime you have a steady stream of good wishes coming.

Hi SusieA, great start! How nice to be doing 5:2 with your husband, it should make it so much easier and more fun. I usually find fast days easy ( even when I’m hanging out to eat!) but I have had some every now and then that are really hard. Luckily they are only one day long!

Yay for your leisurely morning Lori, a lovely treat. And I am glad the dentist visit is done and dusted. It sounds a horrible one, but as you say, your mum got her money’s worth!
What great weight loss you are achieving! are you feeling gorgeous? I hope so.

I’m starting the morning, a bit leisurely until I have finished my cup of tea. Then I want to get productive. It is fast day for me. Off to make that cup of tea that I am going to drink in a leisurely way. Maybe outside looking at my little garden, before the rain comes. Fast day!

Hi all, just popping in, second night working through the night – give up at about 3pm and had a couple of hours kip, nearly done! As usual thinking of resolving to tax return done sooner,but OH did point out that, working 90-100 hours most weeks, it would be tricky for me to fit things in! Hoping to have a day off sometime in February, getting hair done Friday, 40 miles away, doing about 150 miles in all, but I have stuff to catch up on so it will just be a change, not a rest! Then fair to prep for – off to Durham on Sunday, my favourite city, but won’t even get a glimpse of the cathedral!

Sherry, see if ournumbered in on youtube, watch the last episode with your son – younger lad is playing Spartacus – your son will feel empathy with the character!

OH – got me thinking obnoxious husband, only husband, obedient, obese, obtuse, obstinate?

It means other half! Though in my case, quite a few of the other words apply!

Hi SusieA, good luck, my hubby is doing 5:2 at the mo, two edged sword, men seem to lose weight so quickly!

Hi Salma – another stressful job? Hope there are lots of good bits!

Hi everyone else, have a great Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone! So happy to be a part of this great group! I haven’t started my fast days yet … wanting to get some specific foods in the kitchen first. I found a great web site/ blog called Tinned Tomatoes that has some great vegetarian recipes for the 5:2. I have started counting my calories with My Fitness Pal on my iphone and that has gone well. I really am excited to start this new venture .. a slow but sure path. My ex mother in law has been doing this diet for quite some time and she actually had to stop because she had lost too much weight … here’s hope!!
Cinque, thanks for sharing … I am inspired that you have lost so much weight without too much exercise. I used to walk and jog almost everyday, but have been too busy to do that for a couple of years now. I home-school my 16 year old son and run my own little business…
Today I am heading to town to get groceries with my hubby. Will let you all know what I eat for my fast days …. we live in a small village about ten minutes outside a small city. (Peterborough)
I must have clicked something … or not clicked something because I wasn’t notified about new entries. Will change that.
The weather here is more mild than usual but still cold. Still snow on the ground and still icey!!
I enjoy reading all the posts and am really happy to be a part of this! All the best to all of you!

Hi Salma,
Thanks for the encouragement. I am really excited to be starting this. Your job sounds fascinating …what do you do?!
I wanted to include here that I am an Herbalist and am open to any questions about using herbs. I just started taking Milk Thistle tincture for some liver support. I imagine my liver must be a bit sluggish as I seem to be retaining more and more water the last few years and more so this last 6 months. Examining all the organs involved with elimination is so important.

I also make Nettle infusions which are full of nutrients and great to drink on fasting days…. on all days actually! Not sure if you get this personal on here or not … but since we are all tackling our health through diet I thought I would share a bit. 🙂

Milena, how about adding “ostentatious” to the line-up?! Can’t believe that didn’t click in my brain as “other half”, but it’s been driving me nuts for months now when I hear you all say it so just had to ask! Sounds like your business is crazy but fun! I love jewelry so would enjoy what you do (minus the long hours!). Do you ever come across any nice 18k byzantine pieces with emeralds, rubies and sapphires? Years ago in Greece I bought some byzantine earrings and a small band ring and always wanted a necklace to go with them.

Cinque, thanks for reminding me that things usually turn out in the end! All that worrying about how the kids are doing doesn’t end up damaging them for life then I guess? Hoping you get some cooling rain soon and a nice batch of fish and chips on you next NFD!

Lori, thanks for the good wishes for the little Lion King! Will let you all know how it went tomorrow! My wellness counselor prescribed some essential oils (Doterra) for me for various things such as hormonal, etc. What/how do you use and for what if you don’t mind me asking?

Salma, thanks for popping in! What you’re doing does sound tiring, but in the end, when you’ve successfully turned that stodgy place around, what an accomplishment it will be! So great to add to your resume! I’m hoping you can get some ordered eating going in the near future (I need to do the same!).I agree with Lori, the weight you’ve lost is awesome! You’re in so much better a boat this year than last year at this time! You go girl! 🙂

Briar Rose, I’m sure I’ll be bugging you the most about herbal questions! I’m totally into the natural path. I take various Chinese herbs for things and am seeing a wellness counselor & naturopath who are guiding me on that path too.
What an interesting and self gratifying business to be involved in! I keep thinking I should be drinking a milk thistle tea to help the liver out. I have that MMTHFR gene that doesn’t allow me to detox easily/assimilate B vitamins so helping out the liver in any way I can I think is key. Any ideas?

Ok, time to get done, get to pilates, back to the school a bit later for cast make-up and then the play!

Hi all, and welcome to the newbies. This is really an encouraging group of lovely ladies. I find hearing from those who’ve been doing this for awhile–Salma, Milena, Cinque–and had so much success really helpful in keeping me going.

Lori, I read your post about going to the dentist and 40 year old fillings and thought “hmm, I’ve been lucky. Mine are all still hanging in there.” I must have tempted fate because last night a filling gave way and took out half a molar. So it’s off to the dentist in about 15 minutes. What was I eating, you might ask? Cheese fondue! Go figure.

Got to run. Love to all
MM

Hello everyone,
Note to self, make dentist appt. overdue!

I love your ‘food wishes’ Salma, it’s like my ‘crime brulee’ !
That 7 kg loss makes it a productive past year.
Just a thought, can you and Lori do some cosmic balancing, so Lori’s work gets a bit more interesting, and yours gets a bit less stressful?
Just a little solution from the Southern Hemisphere 😀

And maybe my health could wondrously improve and I can cosmically balance with Makica.

No one else get any busier!!!

MM🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 busy bee. I hope you have a good day. Good luck at the dentists!

Briar Rose, enjoy all the preparations! You do sound busy too. Do you grow a lot of herbs?
People are always complaining of emails not coming through etc so maybe it is the website’s fault and not yours!

Lori my mouth is watering for that chicken paprika! Even more than for the fish and chips! I hope it was yummy.

Sherry I’ve got my fingers crossed for a wonderful Lion King.
I’ve woken up to rain, rain, rain. The cat is not impressed!
The garden is delighted!
And I get to have breakfast! Woot! So glad it doesn’t make me queasy!

Best wishes all! 🌿🌷🌿🌷🌿

Hi Salma,
If the cosmic balancing thing works at all, then that sharp mind I once had, that could function on little sleep and rise to a challenge, must be out there in the ether somewhere. Reach your hand up and grab it for your major meeting! You’ll be brilliant! 😉 😉

Best wishes to you and everyone!

Hi all.

Well, not so good news from the dentist. I have to have a crown put on that tooth. So yesterday he just smoothed it down and I go back next week. And again two weeks after that. Sigh. Lori, glad yours was able to just replace the filling.

Salma, I hope your travels go well and you get Cinque’s cosmic balancing. I’m off tomorrow myself to visit my mother in Pennsylvania and then to give a talk next week at Villanova University just outside of Philadelphia.

Lori, my goodness you’re doing well on the low carb track. I’m just doing generic 5:2 right now, but may try out the low carb route after this trip. Enjoy the lite beer–you’ve earned it!

Sherry, holding your Lion King in the Light.

MM

Hooray for the lion king! So glad you worked out the problem, and that it could be fixed. Your mama sense was right on!
Enjoy your friend’s celebration Sherry! And best wishes for the last Lion King performance too!

Just been for a coffee with my friend Lin. She gave me some jeggings (jean-leggings) that she had got too skinny for (she is also doing 5:2 and is tiny, as in a few inches shorter than me). They fit me and make my legs look so skinny she thought I should stop doing 5:2. What if my legs get really skinny and my arms stay fat? I’ll look like a pelican.

MM so sorry about your tooth, although crowns are wondrous things and they do them so well nowadays. I have several.

I did make my dental appointment but it is a couple of weeks away.

Ooo dear Lori, you might curse me for my cosmic meddling if this keeps up!
Btw did you finish your nutrition course?
My garden is looking extremely happy. I finally have tomatoes coming, and so much basil I need to make pesto pronto!

Salma hope your travel and meeting went well.
Makica, sending good wishes!

Best wishes all round.

I bet we have the same conversation the other way around in six months (except without the bit about snow! 😉 )
Best wishes for a good trip and a great time, cheers to your mum! And best wishes for that talk you give next week too!

Great to hear you have been certified Lori 😉
I do hope some interesting opportunities come along.

I hope it was a wonderful night out.

Congrats on your successful low carb pizza, although I must admit that it is making me hungry for the woodfired pizzas they make up the road.

I’m at the beginning of my Sunday fast day. It is looking like a long day ahead at them moment, but ofcourse it will be done before I know it, and I have plenty to keep me occupied!

🙂

Good early Sunday morning!

Sherry…glad your son had a successful run as the Lion King! He’ll have to get involved in another activity now that the play is over. Hope the storm today is not too bad. Wind is scary!

We went out with our son & his fiance last night. The restaurant was pandemonium. It took forever to get seated, served and out of there. It was nice to sit and talk to them, but frustrating to wait and wait for everything. Oh well…first world problems, right?

Today my husband and our son and grandson are going to an outdoor show so I’ll just be puttering around the house doing this and that. Hard to believe tomorrow is Monday and the whole work week cycle starts over again. Sigh…

Oh, Sherry, for the low carb pizza crust, just search “Fathead pizza crust” My problem came in when I melted the mozz cheese and cream cheese in the micro and then tried to combine it with the almond flour. You know how “gummy” mozz cheese gets? OY…I never thought it would work, but it wasn’t bad. I have found another recipe that says it is a thin, crispy crust, so I’ll try that next.

Back to my coffee…..