Welcome Nicola!
You seem to have got the essentials nicely! Cheers for your first fast, I am fasting tomorrow too!
Perth sunshine… Australia? Me too, but I am Melbourne 🙂
I hope you find 5:2 easy and natural to fit into a normal life. That is what made it work for me!
You can also check out the documentary on youtube “Eat Fast and Live Longer’ if you want to.

Sherry and Salma, thanks so much for your comforting and sensible words. I was right in the rhythm of the countdown, so it was hard, but I am already adjusting.

Had a big eating day today. Finally made the salads this evening, and ate the bits and pieces (cherry tomatoes, cucumber, burgul, lentils with roast pumpkin and lettuce and basil leaves) left over from making the jars full, and then added a piece of fish (frozen crumbed fillet) and then realised I had a perfect avocado, so added half of that. Ate it all up and then had the other half of avocado for dessert! But Oh it was yummy.
Ready to fast tomorrow now 🙂

Bye!

PS OH&S Occupational Health and Safety!

Good Morning!

Sherry…sounds like you’re having a busy & fun time! The snorkeling will be awesome, I’m sure. Enjoy each day!

Welcome Nicola…this is a great group. You’ll get lots of good tips from the other ladies here.

Cinque, too bad about the delay in opening Yam Daisy. I know you were ready to go, but all things in their own time, right? Your salad sounds yummy!

We had a nice, if quick trip to Annapolis. It was nice spending a bit of time with our son and grandson. Our son ran the half marathon in 2:08. He said it was the hardest course he’s ever run. Lots of BIG hills. We got home about 3:30 yesterday afternoon and husband and I just collapsed. Not sure why we were so tired…we didn’t run!

Aiming to have a good fast today as I’ve been eating all manner of “stuff” for the past 2 days. Ugh.

Have good days!

Good Morning!

Carolina….sorry about the loss of your fur baby. I lost my 18 year old fur baby about this same time of year 4 years ago. Leaves a void, that’s for sure.

We have no snow, just cold and very windy. Nothing I hate worse that a cold wind in the winter time. Brrr…. I ventured out for boot camp this morning and will run 1 errand this afternoon and that’s it! I’m hibernating!

Just finished getting the spare bedroom ready for husband’s brother to arrive this weekend. He’s coming for a few days for hunting season. I’m getting out of here before the hunters descend. I’m going to my sister’s for 4 or 5 days. Just hoping the hunters don’t burn my house down trying to make breakfast for themselves on Monday morning. They’re used to me being here making pancakes and bacon for them. Not anymore. Not my circus, not my monkeys! LOL!

Thinking of you Sherry and Salma….being where it’s warm while I sit here with my Alpaca socks on trying not to freeze! I’m not jealous…honest. 😉

Had a good fast day yesterday and am well on my way today. I’m doing the window method and am determined to give it a solid month of good effort before bailing on it like I usually do. My goal is to have a 5-6 hour eating window. Not really counting calories, just trying to stay low carb and eating to satisfaction within my eating window. I will not weigh myself until January 1. Hoping to see a number I like to start the New Year.

Hugs to you all……….have a great week!

Good morning! Winter has definitely blown in although we don’t have snow. We’re hoping for a bit of rain to break the drought on Friday but we’ll see. We’re having landscaping done in the back yard so there are workers around but at least they’re outside. I feel bad for them being in the cold though!

Our son gets in tonight so I’m doing things for that today.

Cinque, I understand about the eating!!! You will be focused on the cafe again before you know it and the holidays are coming quickly. Do you have any type of harvest festival in Australia? I guess it would be in April or so if you did!!

Lori, do you eat a lot of venison? I’ve never cooked it but I did have this incredible venison apple chili. It was wonderful. I try to use bison whenever I can but the last couple of times I haven’t been able to get it. My son is eating meat again and I was wanting to make this Serbian mousaka recipe while he’s here–I think he’d eat bison but I’m not sure about beef …. not sure why they’ve been out lately.

Well, I need to work on this training course for the online class I’m doing–I’ve had some glitches, which is not a good omen!!!!

Wow Lori, good luck making it. But if you can’t, remember that 5:2 is meant to be doable!

I ate well yesterday, by which I mean good food, sensible portions.
And I pretty well finished the business plan, but now I have found a whole new list of urgent things to do!

Fast day today. Starting the day with ginseng tea.

There is often a harvest festival in churches here, sometime in Autumn Carolina, but not anything on a National scale. Planting season now, I just put in a tomato, zucchini and lettuce seedlings. A self sown tomato plant already has fruit!

Best wishes everyone!

Hello……

Nicola, I never knew people ate kangaroo….I definitely couldn’t do that! I’m fine with venison but we’re not hunters so I’ve never made it myself. There are so many deer, they need to be hunted or they would be terribly overpopulated.

Lori, hope your kitchen isn’t too much worse for the wear, haha! How did your turkey come out?

Salma, hope your travels go well! I will join you and Lori in the eternal struggle with ups and downs!!! Better than that eternal inching upward.

Cinque, no fasting here until my son goes back. Glad you had a nice time with your daughter. I have heard of the asthma thunderstorm but don’t quite understand it….

Well, I basically went off the rails between having my son home and cooking for Thanksgiving and stress eating at my inlaws!!! I’m hoping to undo the damage next week. I have to weigh or things will get out of control…..

Wow–where is everyone?? I feel as if something happened that I don’t know about, haha.

I continued my terrible eating the whole time my son was home. Why do I do that???? Ugh. That instinct to make healthy food for my child is strong–I worry about him not eating right at school so I’m cooking a lot more than usual. And I’m still really bad when I’m around food in the kitchen. When he’s not here and my daughter is at school/dance, it’s so much easier. Anyway, I hope this will be a cautionary tale for Christmas!!! Yesterday was fast day and it was great to get back on track. I also had a lot of lemon water and detox tea.

Good morning everyone. Start of my Wednesday fast day.
With Salma on her business trip and Sherry in Hawaii, it is quiet! Lucky you have posted from your sister’s place Lori!
I have been sooooo busy still with YamDaisy, should slow down a bit after tomorrow.

Carolina, that asthma thunderstorm is hard to understand. It was the worst anyone has any knowledge of (climate change) and eight people have now died. One is still in a critical condition in hospital. Fingers crossed they pull through. Apparently the heat and wind took enormous amounts of rye grass pollen into the air, then they swelled with the moisture from the rain, and exploded into tiny fragments that could much more easily get into peoples lungs.

I can understand that having your son at home would bring up all those complex issues about being a mum, and food. It is so central to caring for them! And yet (with most kids) it is impossible to do it right. Omg my life got so much easier when my daughter left home!

I’m still getting the hang of being on maintenance. It is a long slow journey for me to work out what normal eating looks like! Overdosed on almonds last night, so glad of a fast day today.

Best wishes to you all!

Hi girls! Wow, no one on here since I last popped in two days ago? Anyhow, I’m home, super tired, ate very badly (mildly depressed about that!), and in the midst of roasting six organic chickens, the bones from which I plan to make three big pots of bone broth to start back on my cleanse tomorrow. I hope to have extra to freeze. The hubby is so unhappy with his own eating over the trip (and the fact that Christmas will all to soon be upon us) that he will be joining me on the four day bone broth cleanse excursion!

Last night we arrived home just after midnight to an awful smelling house only to find the frig had quit working and everything inside was spoiled. Stayed up till about 2 am dumping the contents! Now we’re shopping for a new one and trying in the mean time to live with only the use of the frig in the garage (thank God we have that one!).

I’ve been trying to read along here and there but no time to do personals as Lori says! Sorry! Will get back into the swing of things here soon! Hope you all are well and wish me luck getting back on track. I feel seriously gross! 🙁

Love ya!

Sherry

Hi Sherry,
Welcome home! Although, oh dear, what a time for the fridge to pick to breakdown!
Enjoy your bone broth cleanse Sherry and Mr Sherry!

Hi Lori.
Glad you are over your tummybug.

Hello everyone else, good luck with your 5:2ing!
Anyone joining me on a fast day tomorrow?
best wishes

Hi ladies!

Well, I’m back in the swing of things! Just completed my second day of the cleanse with “Mr. Sherry” (lol, Cinque!). He’s survived surprisingly well. He’s usually good that way though. Whenever in the past I’ve gotten him to join me in an eating plan, he does so pretty easily as long as I mostly to do the prep and he just eats what I give him on auto pilot! I told him, we are “older” parents and we need to be healthy/keep our weight in check for both our and our kids’ sakes. He goes up and down about 10 lbs and tends to get the “man belly”…nothing huge mind you, but there just the same. He looks so much better without it (don’t we all?). He probably needs to lose 15-20 lbs. Told him the plan is that he fast twice weekly with me (I plan to consult him on what foods he’d like to eat so I can get a 600 calorie plan together for him) till he loses his weight and then fast once a week and do the cleanse once a month with me to keep things in check. He said he’s good with that…we will see! Anyone else’s spouses doing FD’s with them? Seems I remember someone’s was?

Today was a busy day. The three youngest were in the town’s Christmas parade singing for their school honor choir. I was the “caboose” mom, walking behind and yelling to the kids to avoid the horse droppings in the road ahead of us! Why they didn’t require the horse people to have someone following behind with the rolling bucket and shovel, I don’t know?! That’s what I’ve usually seen in parades. After the parade and lunch we went and picked out our Christmas tree and hauled it home. Also, the new fridge came today…yay! Trying to not to cover it up with the tons of magnets, pictures, etc. that were on the prior one!

Lori, I can’t help but feel sorry for the poor deer! I know all of the arguments….they’d be overrun with disease if not hunted, and people eat them so no different from eating other animal protein, but they’re so beautiful! My husband grew up out in the country in Michigan and hunted most of his life. In fact, on our honeymoon we spent one week in Michigan so that I could meet the relatives there that couldn’t make it to CA for the wedding and one week in Jamaica. It was November and of course he had to go deer hunting! I think that’s a great idea re: the part-time salon job… something easy to keep you busy and make a little money to boot! 🙂

Hi Cinque (good luck on tomorrow’s fast!) and Elizabeth!

Getting late hereabouts! Good night all!

Hey girls!

An uneventful but busy day hereabouts! Got the ‘ol walk in with the hubby this morning and then spent a good part of the morning sorting through all the mail we received while in Hawaii. Probably spent more time than necessary because I got caught looking at all those Christmas ads they send this time of the year. After that, laundry, Christmas decorating (we’re still working on ours too, Elizabeth…we have to tackle the tree slowly but surely this week).

Elizabeth, so funny! We’ve also done the candy thing at our business at our quarterly meetings. The employees do love it! You shouldn’t feel guilty about the ice cream-it was your birthday after all! I don’t know when I’ll attempt to step on the scale. Day three down now on my cleanse and I still feel tubby! 🙁 Hoping by fasting twice a week till Christmas that I’ll be back to pre-Hawaii weight! And OMG, it was a Samsung fridge we had that died! We called an appliance repair place and described what the fridge was doing-basically dead and had some weird codes on the front panel and they told us it sounded like the motor died and it wouldn’t be worth it to have a repairman come out and waste our money. Can’t remember when we bought it? Thinking 7-8 years ago. Unfortunately, we are hoping to remodel in the upcoming year and that small (Whirlpool) fridge we just bought will not work with my new kitchen plans (I plan to have two full sized fridges in the kitchen so as not to keep going out to the garage for the extra food we have to store for a family of six). I supposed I could go to the market more often, but it’s such a chore that I try to knock it out in one visit a week and only rarely shop more if I’m missing something.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Hope everyone who was fasting this weekend was successful! I’ve got one more cleanse day tomorrow and then I’m done with that till after Christmas.

Bye! 🙂

Today is my real fast day!! I’m trying to do modified fasts on Monday, Wed. and Friday–ie, not eating until afternoon or not eating carbs, for example, unless I have a lunch scheduled or something like that.

I do have a hint to share for winter. I drink lemon water through the day and in the winter I heat it in the microwave. I squeeze a quarter lemon in a pint glass in the morning and I add to it as the day goes on. When it’s heated, the lemon flavor will still come out even on the third refill. I just make sure there’s a little water in the bottom when I refill it. Anything that helps!!!!

Hello to the few that are here! Quiet forum lately!

I finished the cleanse as of this morning. I don’t know at what weight I started but it must have been bad because this morning I was 118. Aaaack! I was down to 116 before Hawaii. I suspected as much because I was figuring it would take me till Christmas to get fully back down to pre-Hawaii weight.” Mr. Sherry” lost 4 pounds. He seems to be happy and packed himself a healthy lunch-even measuring out his beloved tortilla chips at 1 ounce!

Lori, you seem to be able to maintain or bounce back from your vacation indulgences easier than me, you lucky lady! Yep, I don’t get the hunting thing either, especially if you’ve already got a full freezer! I’m sure if my husband still lived where it was easy to hunt, he’d be out there too. It’s in their blood. Oh, and I currently do NOT have a huge kitchen. The one I want to create when and if we remodel will be pretty big. The one I have now is definitely not a “cook’s kitchen” and is very awkward in it’s lay out.

Hey Elizabeth, glad to hear you’re finding a mix of the plan that’s working for you! In years past I would have just given up from Thanksgiving till after the new year so the fact we are still trying this time of the year is a great achievement! I do the warm lemon water thing too whenever I think of it. I like to add a bit of stevia drops to make it like hot lemonade. While on the cleanse, I have it first thing in the morning with 1/4 tsp. each of turmeric and ginger powder and a sprinkle of cinnamon (with some stevia). Supposed to be very healing/anti-inflammatory. I read once that Sophia Loren always drinks warm water with lemon first thing in the morning to clean out the digestive system.

Well, I’ve got a bunch of things to get to today and it’s starting to stress me out. The holidays always do. As if there isn’t enough to do already with a family of six! I’ve got to get going!

Hi Cinque, Salma and all our other friends out there!

Good Evening!

No…bad weather doesn’t mess up my boot camp as we do it inside, in a studio. If the roads are icy, I don’t go, but otherwise weather is not an obstacle. We didn’t get much snow, just a bit of slushy accumulation.

I started off today planning to have a FD, but by 10AM I had given up. Sigh…I haven’t managed a good FD in a long time. I keep trying.

I’ve been getting Christmas packages in the mail each day. I look at them and put them on a pile. One of these days, I’ll have to start sorting and wrapping. When the packages arrive, I write on the outside who it is for before adding it to the pile. 😉 Not exactly an organized system!

I went and had a nice, relaxing pedicure this afternoon. I also had a glass of wine which has relaxed me so much. It’s only 6PM and I could go to bed! I’ll be lucky to make it until 9 tonight. I’m planning to go to boot camp tomorrow again, so I’ll be up by 4:30.

Hope you all have a good night and day tomorrow.

Good Morning!

Sherry…you are a busy bee as usual! You do so many fun things with your kids….awesome!

Cinque….what is happening on your side of the world? Hope your daughter and her family are doing well. Those 2 precious granddaughters…lovely.

Salma…missing you! I hope we all get into the habit of posting here in the new year. I know this time of year we are all pulled in a million directions.

As for me, I am concentrating on my low carb/high fat plan. I have eliminated the chunks of Swiss cheese that made up a big part of my diet. I have to do something to get the last of this weight off. I hope you all don’t mind if I still post here even though I’m not technically doing 5:2. When I finally get to maintenance, I may indeed move to 5:2 for that phase.

Thinking of you all…….Winter is here along with the doldrums. Sigh…..trying hard to keep a positive outlook!

Hugs!

Happy evening all!

I’ve had a sick kid home for two days…so far mostly a high fever and some little sniffles. Just waiting for it to make it’s way through the whole household just in time for Christmas! 🙁 I also got a lousy bladder infection. I’d been trying to fend it off with natural remedies but ended up having to go the antibiotic route (which I can’t tell you how much I hate to do to my body). I’m taking lots of probiotics to try to minimize the damage.

Because of my daughter being sick, I had to miss our company gift wrapping party for the presents purchased for the needy seniors. She started to feel a tad better later in the day so I took her with me to get a little teacher/school friend Christmas shopping accomplished.

Weight is still in the mid 118’s. I know, it’s not bad (thanks Elizabeth!) but irritates me nonetheless. If I can maintain that till Christmas and then get to work on getting it back down, I’ll be happy!

Elizabeth, I hope you were able to stick to your fast! Hey, maybe you could take walks in your local mall to avoid the weather (and get a little window shopping for Christmas in to boot!). I do that sometimes when it’s rainy here.

Lori, you shouldn’t worry about posting here while you’re shaking things up with your diet. We ALL do it! 😉 I hope it works for you! At least like I said before, we are all still “trying” this time of year which for many of us (me!) wouldn’t normally be the case!

Ok Cinque and Salma, we are missing you two and the others who post here! Drop in quickly and just let us that you are doing ok if possible!

It’s getting late and I have to do the dinner clean up and wrap some presents.
Good night!

Hey, chickies! Where is everyone??? Hope you’re all okay!

I had a decent fast day Tuesday but then it’s been downhill!! My daughter had the endoscopy Wednesday and also had a probe put in for 24 hours so I was dealing with anxiety and later trying to get her to eat so the probe would be somewhat representative! The endoscopy showed healthy tissue, so that is good except for the fact that we still don’t know what is causing her issues. At least I don’t have to worry about causing cancer later in life! All these guilt trips moms can face. The doctor took biopsies and we’ll hear in a week or so on that but he didn’t think it would show anything since it looked healthy. We’ll also hear about the probe in a week. Anyway, she was very nervous about the IV but they were able to give her gas and basically knock her out before they did it. Big relief! She does not get along with needles!!!

I let her have gluten afterward since we had planned to try it again once the test was done. So we’ll see how it goes. Maybe she’ll grow out of it, haha.

And now the holidays will be upon us–she gets out of school at noon and my son will be home tomorrow evening. I hope to keep the sugar to a reasonable amount. It’s such a destructive tradition. I did catch myself last night–I had had something sweet already and saw the chocolates my neighbor brought and almost got one and then I did a self check and realized my stomach was already feeling icky from sugar. So I stopped!! Small victories. I need to learn to throw it out. Maybe I’ll do some of that this morning….

I think I may make today a fast day also. At least until dinner….

Have a great weekend, Elizabeth

Hi my lovely ladies!

A quick hello before I head out to my two niece’s play. I’m not getting the email alerts when you guys post as before…why, I don’t know. So I checked in and sure enough, there’s posts to be read!

Ahhh, Christmas music is playing in the background and it would be wonderful if it weren’t competing with kids fighting (over who’s Kleenex box it is!) Apparently really important when you’ve got a bunch of sickies at home! And, btw, we do have more than one Kleenex box in the house.

So, I’m still in the middle of the craziness of shopping, wrapping, going to innumerable Christmas plays, choir performances, Xmas parties, etc. Why does everyone pack in so much at this already busy time of the year?

I haven’t weighed in a few days, but last weigh-in still sticking in 118’s. Just reporting here to keep myself in check!

I took a walk with my hubby this evening and we “got into it” about how I kill myself/get stressed out every year making WAY too much in the way of Christmas goodies that no one seems to eat as much of anymore because everyone is trying to watch it. Everyone loves to see that table of desserts right when they walk in…there’s a lot of ooo-ing and ahhh-ing but not as much eating. I have to learn to reign it in…I’m Italian…it’s hard…we have a passion to feed everyone way to much of everything. God forbid someone go away not feeling stuffed! Does anyone else share my problem? If it were up to me, I’d just make my healthy-ish goodies but I don’t think most people would be into it like me/my family is. I am going to make a few of those things and see what the reception is.

Lori, good job on continuing with the boot camp during this busy time of year. Did you get all those packages that were coming in unpacked and wrapped for Christmas? I have a bunch from Amazon sitting in my closet staring at me! 🙁

Elizabeth, I sure hope they figure things out soon for your poor daughter. The worst is not knowing what’s going on so you can just deal with it. Yay for your victory over the sweets! It’s the small victory upon small victories that build upon each other that eventually equal success!

Cinque, good seeing you back here! I’m sorry that the project may not go on as planned! 🙁 I hope the new proposal works for all involved. What a fun Christmas you will have with the little ones. I imagine Christmas in Australia as being a picnic on the beach in the warm, sunny weather!

Ok, I need to get ready for the play. I’ll try to check in over the next week but times are getting busy! busy! busy!

Good Morning!

Nice to see a few posts here…..it’s been too quiet!

I’ve had a quiet few days. I’m sort of hibernating in this cold weather. Today I’m going to work on wrapping some Christmas gifts. I’m not sure how much paper I have left from last year. I may not get very far with my wrapping until I make a trip to the store for supplies.

I had a couple over-eating days this week, but reigned it in yesterday. I’m hoping to do ok over the weekend so Monday’s weigh-in is not too shocking. I really need to get a better exercise regime in place. I have a treadmill upstairs that I really need to make use of. Even on boot camp days, I need to do a half hour(at least)on the treadmill. I’m spending WAY too much time sitting. I’m glad to be content at home, but I really need to get moving! The cold weather always does this to me. I just want to be under my warm fuzzy blanket!

Cinque…I have no doubt that you’re enjoying your grandbabies. They are lovely. Sorry things are not working out with Yam Daisy. Hope things turn around. You’ve worked so hard on this project.

Sherry…you are SO busy! I don’t bake cookies or make treats very often. Of course, I don’t have kids around that really love that stuff. My husband likes cookies etc, but doesn’t eat a lot of them and I simply cannot eat that kind of thing. I have to come up with some kind of dessert to take to our daughter’s next weekend. She’s making a big Christmas eve dinner and we’ll be staying overnight to be there Christmas morning. Should be fun.

Well, one cup of coffee down and I’m contemplating another. Hope you all have a nice weekend!

Hello, Sue! Congrats on the progress!!! I need to do better although I am happy that I lose a little and mainly don’t gain!!! I just had a cookie from a batch we made to welcome my son home. I’m glad I only had one but I realize that the sugar hits me about five minutes later and makes me feel disgusting!!!! Hopefully the lesson is learned!!

My challenge is cooking for the kids. I feel bad that I don’t make a lot of goodies for my daughter. She is eight years younger than my son and with him we did a decent amount of baking. I was 40 when she was born and just can’t do it, haha. Also, when my son is home from college I feel I should make homemade healthy food for him so I’m in the kitchen a lot more and that’s when I slip up!! If it were just me I think I might be skinny!!!

Sherry, I think you’re experiencing something of the same!! My philosophy on doing Christmas stuff is to do it if it brings you joy, not if you just feel you should….so for me, I do Christmas cards because they’re something I enjoy and some years I even do something creative like an I spy based on our Christmas decorations or a Wordle instead of a letter. It’s hard to pare down because my daughter is super enthusiastic. I’m trying to tell her that thinking something has to be perfect is a good way to ruin something that is already good….

Cinque, sorry about the misunderstanding. Is this something bothering you a lot? I can see how it would bother me but maybe there is a silver lining.

Lori, my son said he left he snow in PA! Hope you are staying cozy! It was bitter and windy here earlier but really warmed up yesterday.

Tilly, is leurgies a real term or was that a typo? It’s always interesting to learn new phrases….sounds like a thing!

Okay, so now that I’ve reinforced the idea that sugar is evil I am prepared to do better!! Take care, all!!!

Hi all. Sherry, I heard California got s lot of rain after a long drought. Finally! We have bitter cold here. But warming up later in the week and at least it’s sunny. We’ll have snow on the ground for Christmas which is always nice. But none flying to interfere with Christmas visits!
Argh surrounded by temptation on all sides! Co worker brought in caramels. Former co-worker brought in fancy cookies. It’s my fast day and it’s gonna be a tough one lol. Sitting in the break room just had breakfast of two eggs and an orange. Food a teensy bit less tempting lol.
Caught up in panic over last minute gifts I haven’t bought! Was awake at 4:30am over this lol. Going to take Wednesday afternoon off to finish it up. Hard to get motivated at night to go out when it’s so cold. I’m trying to get in two yoga classes this week and my son has two tae kwon do. Husband owns a restaurant so is busy and very crabby. Leaves all his shopping until December 23rs then gets annoyed that I’ve bought all the gifts for our son. If you leave it too long things get sold out!!
Anyway that’s my rant. Back to the unsafe environment of caramels and cookies lol.
Determined to stick to the two FDs this week then relax over the holidays.
Enjoy your day!! Australia ladies, I hear it’s crazy hot there?
Sue

Hi girls,

8 pm here. Just finished a long day which started with pilates in the morning, one of our office parties about 45 minute’s drive away and then Christmas shopping. I’ve still not managed to wrap that many of the gifts and I’ve not been able to get to the market to get my supplies to make cookies and for Christmas Eve dinner. Everyone being sick over here and taking care of them has kind of thrown me off schedule. I will have to do the shopping after our closer office Christmas party tomorrow. Then hopefully I can start in on some baking tomorrow night. Baking is hard for me! I’m a sampler of some of the ingredients, the dough, the finished cookies, you name it! I’m praying for the resolve to stay strong! How are those of you that are baking handling it?

I put on the ‘ol skinny jeans today and they didn’t make me look all that skinny any more! Switched to straight leg black pants…a more slimming choice for me right now (sigh). I managed a fast yesterday and actually didn’t eat any of the sweets at the office party so that’s a victory. I did get into the tortilla chips(kips for Cinque!) though!

Sue, so funny! I also was wide awake around 4am in the morning with a vague sense of anxiety about all that’s needing getting done/bought! Here’s hoping you can stay strong with all the temptations

Tilly, I’ll be baking along with you! I have about six variety of cookies I’m making and a pineapple upside down cake (we’re doing a Hawaiian theme for Christmas Eve dinner at our house, including kalua pig and huli huli chicken!).

Hi Cinque, Lori, Elizabeth and long lost Salma!