Hi Alimay! Welcome here!
Hopefully you will find 5:2 is just the thing for you.
The best thing is that you can make it a sustainable habit that fits in with your life. A light fast two days a week is so doable!

Have you decided when your first day will be? If it was today, let us know how it went!

Tilly cheers for your back to back days. Wow! I keep mine as far apart from each other as I can! But I bet you will feel great when you wake up in the morning!

Salma, sending good wishes, I know those busy travelling months are really taxing. I hope you can find some good ways to really look after yourself.
Keep on keeping on!

I’m fasting tomorrow! My sister is here and will be taking me, my daughter, and my granddaughter out to breakfast, so I think I will have two coffees!
But it is Tuesday evening in Melbourne now, and bedtime. Goodnight!

Me again! I was really happy with my fast day yesterday. You know how some are kind of effortless? This was one of those. Yippee!! Wish they all were like that. Part of it was because I was distracted trying to nail down this newsletter problem. I’m trying to completely take on the newsletter duties for our company. I’ve been doing the content and formatted it in Word but now I’m trying to format it in their all-in-one program that also sends it out. It’s called Netsuite and it may be great for some things but it’s really wonky for this!!!! It’s driving me nuts!! But it kept me from thinking about food.

Unfortunately, the end of summer has me up about four pounds from the low I hit before our trip. Grrr. But I was thinking that before I would not recover from that and keep inching up instead of resetting everything and starting a new track. So I’m still happy not to be getting fatter, haha! Also, the fitbit is keeping me mindful of being active.

Good luck everyone!

Good Afternoon!

Soon time to go home! YAY! Well…….2 more hours, but it should pass quickly.

My FD yesterday was not a great one. I think I had more like 1,000 calories till all was said and done. I had a very strenuous boot camp yesterday morning with lots of weight work, so I think that made me extra hungry. The extra that I ate was protein, so I don’t feel too guilty. 😉

Took the day off exercise today as I am very sore from yesterday. I’ll be back at it tomorrow, plus it’s a FD again!

Sherry…you are wise to have that mole checked. Can’t be too careful. I’m going to a Derm for a full body check in a couple weeks. Just a screening, no specific worrisome spots.

We’re going out for dinner tonight. Chinese. I’m planning to have Shrimp w/broccoli…no rice. DH likes sweet & sour chicken, plus I’ll force some of my broccoli on him. 😉

Hope everyone has had a good day so far.

Hello Everyone,

Salma, congratulations on a good fast day! Slow and steady wins the race!

Cheers to everyone with their pilates and cardio and workouts!

I had such a lovely breakfast with my sister yesterday (and d and gd). It was very easy to just have coffee. Great coffee! And I had two!
And a good rest of the fast day too, ty. (Not quite effortless though! Kudos to you Carolina!)

It is Thursday morning and I am picking up my granddaughter in a couple of hours and looking after her until tomorrow evening, while my daughter heads up to Benalla, a few hours north, the only place she could book in a driving test this week, which will be first thing on Friday morning (in torrential rain judging by the forecast!). So that will keep me busy!

Hopefully she will come back with her license and the era of me needing to taxi drive her everywhere will be over. Cross your fingers for us please!

Best wishes! And good luck to everyone fasting today!

Hi- my name is Sheila and I’m also in my mid fifties. I’ve successfully done weight watchers (on-line) when I was an “at home” mom. But now I work and travel for work and I’m also at my heaviest (non pregnant) weight…158 lbs. Worse yet, my energy is at the lowest it’s been since I can remember. I need to do something about it, so here I am. Full of hope that this will help.

Hello!!

Fast day again today and so far so good. I’m also doing fairly well with the fitbit although the party on Saturday and going to my inlaws on Sunday messed me up on those days. Overall, I’m pleased.

Welcome, Simeagher! Hope your first fast day goes well!

Lori and Salma, congrats on getting back in the groove.

Cinque, good luck to your daughter. That is a big step for her I’m sure.

Sherryann, I know you’re happy to be maintaining your weight. I hope I get there one day.

Tomorrow we’re going out to eat and then to a play. I haven’t done that in ages!

Welcome here Slmeagher!
How did you arrive at 5:2? Much easier than WW (in my humble opinion!).
Have you had your first fast day?
My tip, make it as easy as possible. Hopefully you will be one of the people who find fasting on work days really easy!
I saw your profile, are all the kids still at home? Fingers crossed that doesn’t make it too hard!

SALMA! Sparkling water only at the book club feast!!!!!! You DID it! You just won GOLD at the 5:2 Olympics!

Carolina, hooray for a good fast day, with the inlaws well away!

Lori, those veggies sound wonderful! I hope your protein shake sustains you, and that your chiro adjustment does the trick!

Sherry nice to know you are all flu vaccined up!
What a lovely thing to bake for your hairdresser, and cheers for the new headspace you are in.
Of course you had to have little tastes!

Rose’s driving test is in one hour. Thanks for those crossed fingers!
Granddaughter is playing Peppa Pig games on my ipad, and I am about to have my coffee!

Cheers everyone!

Sheila, I just saw that we are the same age and have children sort of the same age–my son is 20 but will be 21 in November and my daughter is 12 and will be 13 later in November! My son is in college but when he comes home I want to have lots of food and my daughter has snacks so that makes it hard!

Salma, don’t despair if the scales play a trick on you! It will show up!!! I had a nasty trick this morning after my second FD this week and the scale was up. Fortunately this is not my first rodeo so I know the tricks!

Cinque, how did the test go?

Africa, two pounds a week is AMAZING. I am beyond jealous.

We are off to get dinner and then the play. Hope I don’t do anything stupid! Have a great weekend, all.

Hi girls,

Ugh! I was in the midst of typing on here and left too long to do something else, and it all it vanished! 🙁 So here we go again!

Today started well enough… the kids had a chapel where they sang patriotic songs in honor of the anniversary of 9-11 this weekend. So, my hubby and I decided to make a date day out of the rest of the day and went for a long walk by the beach and then out for lunch. We then got a call from a manager at one of our offices telling us that another employee in a supervisory role did something fraudulent. We were on the phone the rest of the day with our HR company and their lawyers as well as the employees in our office. When all was said and done, we had to terminate this employee who, heretofore, we loved and trusted implicitly. Even my kids were sad to hear the news because they liked this woman so much! So very sad! I know many of you here who own businesses or are managers have probably had to deal with similar stuff, but it just hurts when you feel “duped” by someone you trusted so much!

I fasted yesterday, but had to run out of the house so early for the kids’ chapel performance that I didn’t have time to weigh this morning. I didn’t feel especially “light” so I’m wondering if I even lost anything? My eating has been pretty good today on my NFD so we will see what tomorrow brings.

Hi to our newest member, Sheila. I’m a mom too, (obviously)…9 year old twin girls, 10 year old boy, and 15 year old daughter. Like Carolina said, having kids around brings a whole other dynamic to the weight loss game…there’s always snacks around to tempt you! I, like you (and many here), have done the whole weight watchers thing more times than I can count on my fingers (and toes!) and never have been super successful on it. I think you’ll find this way of life much more do-able and pleasant. IMO, I think when you have to obsess over how many points every morsel you put in your mouth is, it makes you even more food crazy! Best of luck! 🙂

Salma, hope you were able to pull of the back to back fasts successfully!

Carolina, did you do well at your dinner out? Were you “smart”? 😉

Cinque, such a bummer about your daughter’s driving test! If it’s any consolation to her, I took mine twice before I passed. I think it was parallel parking that did me in! I’m sure second time will be a charm. And oh my goodness, I didn’t realize she was that far along and the baby was due so soon! Seems like yesterday you were telling us that she was pregnant! Is Josie excited for the new baby?

Time to clean up the dinner mess. Good night ladies!

Susan, great to see you here again! So wonderful that you’re losing 2lbs a week! Bravo!

Hello!

The play was great (Anne Frank) and I did pretty well at dinner–I had a tapas plate of crab cakes and a spinach salad. I snacked a little when we got home but not too bad. My fitbit has been giving me lots of positive motivation. Now not to do anything stupid today or tomorrow!!

Cinque, so sorry about the driving test. I am another one who had to try two times so tell her not to get discouraged. It must be intimidating to be doing this as an adult.

Lori, I’m amazed how early you rise on the weekend!! Have fun playing a new course.

Sherry, we are business owners although my husband had a corporate/technical career prior to this. The HR stuff is the most difficult. We recently had to go through the first termination and I don’t feel it was handled well. The operations manager did it and I don’t feel the employee had enough feedback/warning that she wasn’t doing satisfactory work. The hard part was that she was very sweet and never missed–it was simply that she had no common sense or critical thinking skills so she couldn’t really do everything they needed her to do. Meanwhile we have others who are very problematic but they’ve been there for years and know the job and have skills. What you describe would absolutely gut me but I know that people are capable of almost anything under the right circumstances. My idealism is long gone, haha! Anyway, I’m thinking of you. I hope you caught it in time!

Better run! Have a great rest of the weekend!!

Carolina, that sounds a lovely evening out!
I always fancy snacking when I get home after going out. I thought I was the only one.
It makes me think I am better off not eating out, since I am going to want to eat something when I get home anyway.

Thanks everyone, to those kind wishes to my daughter. She is fairly philosophical because she doesn’t know anyone who got their license first time (except for me, but that doesn’t count because it was the olden days! 😉 )

Yes only two weeks to her due date! But we are a family that tends to go over, so I am thinking it might be three weeks.
Josie adores her mum’s big belly and kisses the baby through it, but Oh dear what a life changing experience it will be for her!

Sherry I feel so sorry about that employee, the shock and the feeling of being duped, and all the fixing up that has to be done. Something similar happened with an organisation I was involved with years ago. It was really sad, the worker had a problem, I can’t remember if it was gambling, or whether what she was doing was a kind of gambling as accounting fraud, it was a terrible secret she could almost keep from herself as well as from her fellow staff. Being found out thrust it into reality and it was dreadful for her, as well as everyone else, but it gave her a chance to look at her life and do something. It makes any further employment a problem though!

I hope you can have a good time at the wedding.

Lori enjoy the golf course!

I am heading over to my daughter’s where we will cook lasagne to have ready for post baby meals.

i had a good fast day yesterday, and managed no coffee (which I like to do but it has been theory rather than practice!). Enjoying a morning coffee right now!

Happy Sunday girls!

Well, there was a fairly healthy taco bar at the wedding so I did pretty good with regard to dinner. It was the dessert “pizzookie” that did me in! It’s a dessert that consists of a chocolate chip cookie made to look like a small pizza filled with ice cream! They’re made by a local restaurant and it’s one of their claims to fame. I couldn’t resist! 🙁 I am NOT getting on the scale for a while! Alas, today is another day and a fast day at that so here we go again!

Cinque, glad you were able to enjoy a good cup of coffee after abstaining the day prior! How did the lasagna making go? Did you make a pan for eating today too? Yum! It’s nice how you two are always preparing in advance!

Salma, great job doing the back to back fasts! I’m wondering what you might be able to do to help keep eating in check on these frequent trips you take because they really seem to impact you. Is there anything healthy you can bring with you to eat or research in advance where there are healthy restaurants to eat at? Is it mostly work related dinners out that get you? Just trying to help brainstorm ideas! Anyhow, wishing you luck that you figure out how to incorporate something into your busy lifestyle that will work for you! 🙂

Today my mom and her husband are coming over to watch part of a football game with my hubby. Actually my mom (and possibly a sister) will be coming over to look at the clothes I’m getting rid of before I donate them. They like shopping in my closet! I have a very small walk-in closet that I just couldn’t function with any longer. I had to get rid of the things I don’t wear often enough to justify them taking up space! At least I’m organizing a bit, right!

Thank you again for all your nice words regarding the terrible employee issue. We did receive a nice resume already, as we need a replacement ASAP and posted a job listing yesterday, so that makes me hopeful!

Let’s have a successful week ahead of us ladies!

Glad you are relatively pest free Minn! I hope the spiders go away.

Have a lovely clothes clean out Sherry!

Salma, your letting staff go was a lot harder than I realised, I thought you were able to lose the people who were making your job hard. Sigh.

I’m in the middle of FOUR non fast days! Good grief. Lots of opportunity to practice not eating after my evening meal!

best wishes all

Monday…….blah!

Soon I won’t care if it’s Monday or what day! 😉

I had a fun weekend on the golf course. My play was not good, but lots of laughs and fun. As it always goes, too much food & drink went along with the golf. Ah well….this too shall pass. LOL!

I’m having a FD today and have all my food planned and hope to not deviate from said plan. I’m having a hard-boiled egg & a stick of colby cheese along with a cup of broth right now. Dinner will feature a piece of baked cod along with some sort of veg.

Don’t be too amazed at how early I get up girls. Keep in mind that I often go to bed before 9PM! Early to bed, early to rise you know! I am a morning person and can get more done by 8AM than I ever could in the evening. Luckily, my husband is the same way, or there could be fights breaking out over noise in the early morning! LOL!

MM…glad you got a relatively bug-free report. I wouldn’t say spiders are any bargain, but better than the alternative. Hope the guy sprayed for those creepy crawlies.

Cinque…so exciting to have a baby coming soon! You are right, Granddaughter will have a period of adjustment after being used to having all the focus on her. Hope all goes smoothly.

Sherry…sounds like you had fun at the wedding this weekend. A taco bar sounds just the thing.

Salma…Oh my…..those trips you have coming up sound exhausting! You won’t know if you’re coming or going! Do your best with your eating…it will all work itself out.

Off to finish my lunch. Have a wonderful day/evening!

Good morning,
Cheers to you all.
I am quite enjoying my four non fast days. But I have just remembered I promised my daughter to do more cooking with her next Sunday and to have lunch too, so maybe I had better go Wednesday and Saturday again this week.

I do have a good relationship with my daughter (now those teenage years are in the past!) 🙂

Carolina, maybe the weight fluctuation is water? I gather it usually is, from this article from our science organisation: https://www.totalwellbeingdiet.com/community/blog/are-your-weighing-scales-telling-the-truth/#vyALqoLzIqhxLz3s.97

Lori, before I became ill I was very much a lark, although more like 6am than 4am! I remember that great feeling of morning energy!

Sherry that table sounds glorious! How long will your October Hawaiian retreat be? I hope you will find wonderful things to fill it up, once you have had your fill of peace and quiet!

Best wishes for a good day!

Good Morning!

Just in from a breakfast meeting. Happy that it occurred on a NFD! I managed to stay pretty low carb just having an omelet and a side of bacon. No toast or muffins please! I had a bit of pancake envy while watching some of my coworkers downing a stack with twin berry syrup…..drool……. 😉

Should be a very quiet day for me. I’m hoping to get an appointment to get my hair cut/colored this afternoon. I’ll just take a couple hours of vacation and leave early if I can get in. If not today, maybe tomorrow or Thursday. I have 28 hours of vacation to either take or get paid for by October 7.

Salma…congrats on the low number! Woohoo!!! I, too, saw my low on the scale this morning. Now to get to a NEW low. Onward we go.

Hugs to all!

Good Morning!

Just getting in under the wire as it is nearly Noon already! Where is this day going?

Sherry…..your trip to Hawaii sounds like a little slice of heaven! I may show up on your doorstep! 😉

I was successful in securing an appointment yesterday for a hair cut/color…feel much better! Didn’t I just feel like the proper Princess yesterday afternoon being pampered and having a glass of wine at 2 in the afternoon! Love my salon! I’ll be back there after work today for a pedicure and yet another glass of their wine!

Happy to report that I saw a number on the scale this morning that I haven’t seen for probably 25+ years! Woohoo! Would still like to lose another 12 lbs, but not stressing about it. I’ll just keep on doing what I do and see what happens. I know our travels this Fall will put some weight back on, but I’ll deal with it when I’m back home and in a routine.

Cinque…any baby news to report?? We cyber Aunties are anxious to hear! ((Hugs))

Have a great day/evening everyone!

Sherry…so sorry to hear about your brother! I sure hope they can get things corrected without surgery. We just never know, do we?

I’d love to join you in Hawaii sometime, but not sure I’d be able to sneak away without the husband. He has no problem with me doing girl trips, but Hawaii may be a stretch! I could make him promise not to bother us! LOL!

Keep us posted on news of your brother. ((Hugs))

Me again! Thankfully the scale was a little better again today. I just had lunch and need to not eat anything until dinner! This weekend I have two challenges–my cousins will be here tomorrow/Saturday morning and then Saturday evening I have a supper club. Lots of things to trip me up!!!

Beautiful day here. Unfortunately our neighbor has been felling giant trees all week. I hate it! Of course we essentially live in a treehouse so they probably wish we’d follow their example.

Have a good day!

Good Friday morning!

Yes, another Friday has arrived! YAY! It has been a long week. Only a few more to go now.

Sherry….how was the musical? It sounds like great fun! Also your Mexican food sounds awesome!

I had a failed FD yesterday. Just TOO hungry! I was still fairly low calorie, but not near my FD target. Oh well……I will try again Monday. Weekends are much too social to try to schedule a FD.

I’ll be on the golf course this weekend. What will you all be up to?

Good morning everyone,
It is Saturday Fast day for me!

Hi Lovesgoldens! Welcome here. I am not able to exercise due to chronic illness (ME/CFS) and 5:2 still works fabulously! It is hard enough to deal with arthritis and those spinal issues, without carrying around a whole lot of extra weight, my sympathy. I hope you find 5:2 as wonderful as I do! The trick is to make it easy and sustainable I find, and it is easier to do that when you are with a group of friends. Hooray for this forum!

Salma, Woohoo! That 80kg! Celebrations!

Hi Carolina, I hope the tree felling has stopped! So glad the scales are doing the right thing!

Sherry I LOVE the Addams Family, particularly the old series. I hope the concert was fun!

Lori, sorry for the Fast Day Fail. Fingers crossed the next one is a good one. have a great weekend in preparation!

I have had cruelly busy days, but I think I have a quiet day today. I will spend it fasting and looking after myself.

My haircut was fine, but usually I am really happy with it, and this time not so much. I will see how it grows.
I have been so busy I have not been able to get a proper meal until late, by which time I was so hungry I ate til I was overfull. Hoping I can avoid that in the future, as it would take hard work to sort out how to deal with it. I’m not the kind of person who can miss lunch on a normal day!

But going to bed with such a full belly last night, does make fasting easy today.

Best wishes all of you!

It is Sunday morning in Melbourne, Cold and grey. Where has Spring gone?
I had a lovely quiet fast day yesterday, and hoping for a lovely quiet day after fast day today!

I’m glad the Addams family was fun! I shared a house with a friend who preferred The Munsters and we had a friendly rivalry about our favourite horror sitcom. But I had to admit she was right when she said the Addams family plot was ALWAYS “Who comes to the Addams Family House today?”
Ofcourse that is the fun of it.

Such good news about your brother, hooray!
I hope the chiro worked Sherry. Your breakfast sounds delicious! I am having rava dosa http://www.cookingandme.com/2013/07/rava-dosa-onion-rava-dosa-instant.html

Off to make a coffee! best wishes!

Good Morning!

Just sitting here watching the weather forecast and trying to decide if I’m going to play golf or not. There are showers and t-storms hanging around. It looks like we’ll probably be able to play, but may get a bit damp.

Sherry…sounds like Dad & Mom & kids will all have fun with the luau and dinner & movie! Oh…and the salad you described sounds wonderful! So happy that your brother did not have to go thru surgery! Whew!

Cinque….the baby has not arrived? I keep waiting for the announcement! I’m sure your daughter is ready for the big day as well.

I have had 2 VERY hungry days. I just cannot seem to get enough to eat. Everyone keeps telling me that I’m losing more weight, but the scales are only reflecting a pound or 2. One of the old guys at the golf course told me that if I lose any more weight I will have to drink chocolate milk so they can see me?! I did have a bit of trouble keeping my golf shorts up yesterday. Constantly pulling them up! LOL!

At any rate….I will need a good fast day tomorrow after eating too much this weekend. I’m due a good fast day after having the failed one on Thursday.

Speaking of food 😉 I think I’ll whip up an omelet for breakfast. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

So last night didn’t go quite as planned. The movie was sold out an hour before it started. We’d gone to buy our tickets before dinner, thinking we’d beat the crowd but no such luck! Anyhow, after dinner we went to the local mini golf/arcade and played $20 worth of games, and I let him ride on the go cart around the track. He had a good time and I must admit, I had fun playing the arcade game where you try to harpoon fish and get points! 😉 Dad and daughters had a great time too.

Well, hubby is off for Hawaii to work and I’m stuck home. That’s ok! My turn comes in October! I’m starting my 4 day cleanse/fast today to give my body a positive jolt.

Lori, you must be looking good to be getting those compliments! Yeah, I get those sort of days where you can’t seem to get enough in your mouth! Don’t know why? Try to distract yourself with more golf! 😉

Cinque, sending prayers your way that your daughter’s delivery is on time and not delayed like usually happens in your family! Sometimes the second one makes it out quicker from what I’ve seen!

Time for my walk and then the making of the cleanse bone broth in the pressure cooker!

Adios!