Day 25 – Lake district UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Weigh in day today, quite happily maintaining over the last week, not even worrying the 2 lb ‘buffer zone’ 😉

@lilymartin – congratulations, the feelgood factor is brilliant in all sorts of ways, the sense of achievement makes the effort worthwhile. Gives you all the incentive to carry on.

Here all my house jobs are done, on top of the garden jobs, a weekend of nothing but doing whatever we want! Even planning a couple of days our for myself next week while Mrs I-H-L is busy with her group meetings.

Take care all

Day 25 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

@lilymartin – congrats on the 3 year low! 🏆

@flourbaby – no, I wasn’t fussed about the Indian food. I’m happier with Italian or good old British-style fodder any day.

@songbirdme – enjoy Milwaukee! That’s an interesting-sounding word. I guess it has to be pronounced with an American accent – Mil-waa-key; otherwise it just sounds silly – Mil-wore-key. I’m waffling…

Happy Fri-yay y’all! 🍷

Day 25 UK NFD

@songbirdme Milwaukee- just reminds me of watching Wayne’s world with my boys ( many years ago ) I hope Alice Coopers explanation was true

Great to hear about everyone’s trips , things really do seem to be getting back to normal- Shaking hands though @daffodil2010 I don’t know – greeting people seems quite odd now I think I’ll keep my distance with strangers for a while

Anyway off to enjoy the ☀️Have a good one all

@lilymartin – great news 👏

Day 25 — 16:8 CD

Being accountable 😀 and adding walking in to cardio routine so I’m fit for the pedestrian friendly urban locale of Chicago!

@songbirdme what a sweet offer. Thank you. If there is anyplace in the world that seems like home ground to me it is Chicago or London- and Chicago edges London out because I have lived there more of my life than anyplace else. Being able to stay with my brother will give us a familiar home base too! Another thing I am particularly looking forward to is (if weather permits) a ( or many) long leisurely walk along the lakefront. I miss living near a large body of water!

We leave on April 1, and excitingly we will be traveling TO Chicago by train. Our holiday extravagance to ourselves was to get a tiny Private roomette for the 24+ hour journey. Not really an extravagance, I suppose, it seemed the safest way to travel with maximum COVID precautions. Not to mention all the news about unruly aggressive plane travelers had us unnerved about plane and airport situations. We will be flying home, and to be honest I’m not fine with that, but at least I will be more comfortable with pre-plane Ohare airport than I would be with our local airport where bad, aggressive, unsafe behavior makes the news weekly.

@brightonbelle Like you, I’m not yet cool with handshakes but that seems way more doable and safe to me than hugs. But even in nonCovid times I have always been uncomfortable with hugs, so it makes sense now that is a big concern for me. A quick greeting hug amongst family is one thing (and the habit I grew up with) but the longer and more frequent social hugging more common where I currently live is a problem for me, especially now. It seems obvious to me that someone still masked (like me) is asking NOT to be hugged… but that message isn’t getting across.

So much on our weekend to-do list, yikes! Time just doesn’t stop, lol.

Warm thoughts to all.

Day 25 Ohio US — NFD

This morning’s weight: 183 lb, 4 oz (83.1 kg) down from 184 lb, 10 oz (83.7 kg) — not bad for less than a week, but with 2 MFD’s under the belt! Did my yoga this morning, but it was unpleasant enough with ~40 F (4,4 C) and wind and rain that I didn’t get my walk in. Tomorrow looks to be more of the same, and we even might get snow overnight!

@funshipfreddie Most inhabitants say, instead of Milwaukee, “Beer capital of the US”. 🙂

@stitchincarol Congrats on the 7-year low! I’m in awe! I’m also in awe of keeping everything in order and tidying up so easily! For me that’s a real struggle. One difficulty with me keeping things in order is that I had to move into my townhouse without having time to downsize. So tidying up for me right now is just moving things from one pile to another. The pandemic really put the cabosh on me downsizing. Last month I started again, and brought 5 boxes of stuff to Goodwill. The depressing thing was that afterwards I couldn’t tell any difference in how things looked!

@mariaelena I know how you miss living near a large body of water. When I was growing up, my family never lived more than a mile away from the ocean, and even as an adult, most of my life was spent within an hour’s drive from an ocean. Yes, it is something special living near the water.
Have a great start of the weekend everyone!

Day 26 – Gold Coast Queensland Australia – NFD- Saturday

Good afternoon ladies and gents!
I’ve been very busy working and neglected to post since Wednesday (I think).
Nevertheless, late at night, I’ve been reading all your wonderful posts that keep me so connected to my goals and your goals too. (So nice to have your company on this hilly road!)

As far as accountability goes, I’m happy to report that I’ve managed to stay focussed and on track with my 5:2. After a little reduction of half a kilo earlier in the week the ‘evil plateau monster’ re-emerged to tease me some more … it’s a nasty thing that plateau! But thankfully the scales stayed the same and didn’t go up! So I can truly claim that half a kilo as a win! YES!😊😊😊

I see so many of you are having some wins too. @stitchincarol….congratulations, congratulations congratulations! What an achievement! 🏆🥇 @lilymartin, you too! 🏆🥇Now you’ve reached this goal you can reward yourself with that new hairstyle… just lovely!
Gosh, there’s so many of you I want to congratulate personally, but, everyone you are just doing so well, even through life’s ups and downs (covid, visitors, travel, arrogant mechanics(!) work challenges etc). Here’s a trophy for everyone!🏆🏆🏆

Lucky me, I was invited to the theatre last night, and thoroughly enjoyed myself…. and DIDN’T cave into the proffered champagne and hors d’oeuvres! In truth it was, as always, easy to ignore the hors d’oeuvres as I’m a well-behaved coeliac, but was indeed tempted by the champers.. Nevertheless, I had ice & water in a wine glass… can’t be smug about it though as I was really sorely tempted!
The evening out, (apart from Wednesday night trivia with my gal pals) was the first time I’ve actually been out since ‘you know what’ in January. Felt a bit strange dressing up properly and being in a social setting again but this time with couples when I am now a single. But I met the challenge and came home feeling very happy that I had indeed ‘stepped out’into the big world on my own!

The play, I hear you ask? And I’m glad you did ask as so many of you in UK will know it well. CALENDAR GIRLS….. I understand it was a true story, then a movie and now a stage production. Based on the true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research. I must say it took a few moments to tune my ear into the Yorkshire accents. Anyway a fun night with some lovely friends.

So, back to my own calendar, and only two FUN DAYS (FDs) left for MOMENTOUS MARCH. I’m sure we are all going to gallop down the home stretch in fine style to finish off the month on a new low! 😀😉😀😉

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Day 26 – Lake district UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

@stitchincarol – Plans for weekend now all the jobs are complete…. doing nothing at all and doing it to the best of my ability 😉

Not strictly true, will just be a lazy weekend for both of us, maybe a bit of plant collecting around the garden? Just love ‘plants for free’, digging up self seeded plants and potting them up, many of these get passed on to friends/neighbours when I’ve filled any gaps in our borders/rockery.

Blackbirds have gone quiet, found a couple of nests with female sitting on eggs, so the guys are quieter now.

Glad to read of the recent successes amongst our numbers, feelgood factor is brilliant.

Take care all.

Day 26 – Ireland – CD

@lilymartin – go you 👏 and well done @stitchincarol and to anyone losing or maintaining at the moment 👏 or actually just being here… the intention is key 💪

Have been for a little sunny swim – the weather is just so glorious. Hoping I can cajole mum into getting out and about but that’s a harder task these days… if not that’s ok.. I’ve had my lovely start to the day and will do some gardening later.

Loving your reframing of fast days to fun days @linda.b! And it’s the way to go really as I know I for one sometimes can feel sorry for myself on a FD, as if I’m missing out…, but really I shouldn’t as it’s a fantastic day for my body and mind 💕

Wise words @flourbaby! We don’t realise what we have until it’s taken away…

Have a super Saturday all.

Onward and downward again ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 27 country west Australia NFD
I’m finding as some others on this forum are that now I am doing 5:2 sensibly I am not as hungry on NFDs which is good.🤔
In 2017 I used to be very careful on the NFDs as the FDs take care of themselves, but on NFDs… calories hide in the most unexpected places.🥺
@stitchincarol – Congratulations !!!!💐 Isn’t it such a good feeling to see the lower number on old Cruella. As @i-hate-lettuce said ‘ the feel good factor’.
Re migraines – I have suffered shocking migraines all my life.
I drink so much water that I almost slosh when I walk!! Migraines seem to be hereditary – grandmother, mother, sister all suffer the same.
I have tried all the tricks over the years to no avail.😢
5 yearly colonoscopy is a nightmare and last 2 times I have ended up in hospital, last on the list while they try to get my migraines under control before the procedure – and that’s after the required 3+ litres of fluid and water in the 24 hours !😳😳😳
@linda.b the night out sounds lovely. Well done to you. 💐 I am not sure ow you could swerve the champers!. I love a glass of decent bubbles.🍾🥂
I made a delicious cake yesterday with hazelnut meal, coconut flour, chickpea flour ( supposed to be tapioca but I only had chickpea) – the great pantry cleanout of 2022 continues – and it was delicious.
I hope 🤞I will be able to serve it to a dear friend of ours who is really really gluten intolerant.
First coeliac I ever met about 40 years ago.
Cold wet windy day here – and we are shearing.
We NEVER shear on a Sunday but getting shearers since Covid has been very difficult. Unlike me, the sheep need to be shorn within a certain time period and it is already later than we normally shear so it was today or next ( as in 8 days time) Monday. Rain forecast for the next week.💦☔️💦 after the driest summer on record !!!
Enjoy today – you’ll never get it back.

Day 27 – Lake district UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Great success doing not a lot yesterday, called and collected a case of wine, tied some flies for fishing, delivered a parcel to a friend which involved a stroll up the village in the warm sunshine. So yesterdays objective achieved and today’s objective is similar, continuing our relaxing weekend.

Take care all.

Day 27 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

Well done @lilymartin, @stitchincarol & to anyone else making progress this month 🎯

So far my weekend has been anything but controlled, so I’m mixing up my FDs this week – starting today!

Happy S🌞nday!

Pocket List – Day 27 🍇
@funshipfreddie

Day 28 country west Australia FD
Unexpectedly out to dinner last night with lasagne, salad, pavlova and chocolate aplenty so possibly over my TDEE but when I went back for ‘ seconds’ I had another small helping of salad .
A few months ago it would have been a second helping of lasagne so progress is being made.😊
@northgeorgia, I am sure you will leap off the plateau soon.
It’s just tedious when one is on the plateau…🤨 And I am in awe of B2B WFs. 👏
@i-hate-lettuce, your weekend sounded absolutely blissful.
Buoyed by my success so far I am aiming for another kg loss by week’s end if possible.🤞
Off to work on this cold, miserable morning.
Onward and downward.

Day 27 — Ohio, US FD
Day 26 — NFD

A couple of super-busy days. Yesterday, a friend called about some possible spider bites he received and that weren’t going well. He did go to the emergency room and got some antihistamines, but that may not be enough, since the area around one of the bites has turned black-purple. We talked (or mostly he talked) for two and half hours, and then a few hours later he called for another long call. The upshot for the diet was that regular meal times went haywire. I don’t know if it was being hungry after missing meals or being really tense after the telephone calls, but when I did eat, I really ate too much.

So I decided to make today a FD. This morning there was church, and this afternoon there was a community Zoom call and afterwards a reading group meeting that ran for two and a half hours. So another day without time for regular meals. Fortunately, fasting takes care of not eating. 🙂

My plan was to get onto a Monday-Thursday schedule of fast days, but I’m not sure about doing two fast days in a row. I may weigh-in tomorrow morning and if the weight is less than that of the Friday weigh-in, I”ll count today as the first fast day of the week. Otherwise, I’ll see how a second fast will go.

@fastingto58kgs I’m a firm believer in good structure for eating habits! Structure helps me to reduce the number of decisions I make about food every day.

@linda.b That sounds like a wonderful night at the theater! It is so much nicer seeing theater in person than on Zoom or YouTube!

Pocket List – Day 27 🍇
@funshipfreddie
@northgeorgia
@matpi

Day 28 – Lake district UK – FD

Good morning everyone

The old song ‘Busy doing nothing’ summed up our relaxing weekend, although I did spend an hour raking moss out of the lawns yesterday. I didn’t quite go for a lie down afterwards but did spend time out in the sunshine on the decking with a beer and just reading 😉

Great morning, after a long spell of warm and sunny weather, it’s overcast and raining lightly …. Excellent, I’m off for a morning of piscatorial pursuit round one of our trout lakes.

Take care all

Pocket list for Monday
@fastingto58kgs
@i-hate-lettuce

Day 28 – Ireland – FD

Good to be here and this will be a good week. 💪

Onward and downward again ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Pocket List – Day 28
@lilymartin
@linda.b
@i-hate-lettuce
@fastingto58kgs
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim

Day 28 UK FD

Least said about the weekend the better , busy days food choices not to bad but yes @funshipfreddie old James Carville was right

Anyway resetting see what I can do in these last few days of March

Pocket List – Day 28
@lilymartin
@linda.b
@i-hate-lettuce
@fastingto58kgs
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@brightonbelle

Day 28 – USA/GA – FD

Weigh-in: 212 lbs. Nice! I might hit 209 tomorrow. Lots of budget work to do today. Let’s hope there’s more money sitting around for payroll next year than I imagine there to be 🙂

Pocket List – Day 28
@lilymartin
@linda.b
@i-hate-lettuce
@fastingto58kgs
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@brightonbelle
@northgeorgia

Day 28 – FD800

Weekly weigh in 136.5 – accountable and on track.

Today I learned how to make distilled water at home. I need it for a henna treatment I put on my hair and didn’t have a bottle. Turns out I don’t need to buy a gallon plastic jug of the stuff because it is easy to make a small quantity on my stove! YAY! A small frugal win and better for the environment.

Warm wishes to all!

Day28 UK NFD
Realise I haven’t posted for about 7 days although have followed all yours! I think due to having COVID I have lost all momentum for FD’s/TRE’s and posting myself – which was all going well before. I have however, due to not much appetite, lost 2lb for March so I am feeling there has been some positives.
Both DH and myself have not had a lot of energy. Usually I do a yoga and Pilates class every week but apart from the dog walk have had no exercise. Hope to start again this week.
The builder arrived this morning. HOORAY 😄 . I was really geared up for the living room ceiling to be started as the whole room is dire and in real need of decorating and a carpet replace. But no, he has chosen to start the outside job of widening the drive! 😕
The plumber should be starting tomorrow so it’s all progress at last.
Hope everyone has an excellent week with plenty of RESOLVE!

Day 28 Ohio, US — MFD

This morning’s weight was more than that of the last weigh-in, so I decided to do a MFD. It has gone well. I even tried out a new “building block” meal, so now I have two such meals. Right now I think B2B fasts are the most I can reasonaby do. Hopefully I’m now back on track.

@ihatelettuce Your warm weather sounds wonderful! Here it got up to 1 degree above freezing with a steady 20 mph wind that was bitterly cold. Brrr!

@funshipfreddie I watched the Game of Thrones until the Stark family got killed off. Then there was no one left, with the possible exception of Daenerys, that I had the slightest sympathy with. I really don’t like the really dark fantasy that has become popular.

@babs_b Good to see you feel well enough to be back at work! Little by little the fatigue will pass as the body can devote more energy to its usual activities.

@stitchincarol Ha, ha, ha … I bet you’re a lot better at it than me!

@caoimhe I hope your recovery from Covid, especially the fatigue, is quick and complete! As someone what has struggled with chronic fatigue for half my life, I can empathise. I heartily wish that everyone experiencing post-Covid fatigue is able to shake it off very fast!

Pocket List – Day 28
@lilymartin
@linda.b
@i-hate-lettuce
@fastingto58kgs
@daffodil2010
@jaifaim
@brightonbelle
@northgeorgia
@mariaelena FD800
@stitchincarol FD800
@ccco
@matpi

Day 29 – Lake district UK – FD

Good morning everyone

FD on Tuesday? Yup, had a really good day yesterday, off out to one of the fisheries up in the hills, had a great morning, some good fish and a couple for the pot!

Yesterdays FD went really well until late afternoon when we broke something in the lounge and had to sort it out. Fortunately it was a seal on a rather nice bottle of South African white, so food-wise the FD was really good …. but 😉

Advantage of this WOL, will simply move yesterdays FD to today and probably benefit from yesterdays low food intake anyway.

@stitchincarol – What makes you think I’m grown up 🙂 I refuse to grow up, can’t stop growing old though, but that’s a different matter 😉

Take care all

Day 29 UK CD

@daffodil2010 sounds like it might be something I suffer from ETD Eustachian Tube Dysfunction- I got mine under control by learning how to correctly pop my ears and the occasional use of a neti pot

Trying to have a couple of controlled days in between Mon & Thurs fast and looking to set up good habits for April

Day 29 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

@songbirdme – it was the first letter that got me too yesterday. Success today after attempt 5 😃

@flourbaby – 😂 nymph was a stinker, but I eventually got that one too.

@matpi – I couldn’t name one G of T character! I think I persevered through the first 3 episodes & then gave up. I just didn’t like the gloom & the violence.

@daffodil2010 – that sounds very odd, & maybe worth getting checked out, just to put your mind at rest? I hear getting a doctor’s appointment in the UK is a huge hassle though; is it the same in Ireland?

@i-hate-lettuce – “…we broke something in the lounge…” 😂 South African white – excellent choice! And good to have company on the pocket list.

Pocket List – Day 29 🍋
@i-hate-lettuce
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
@funshipfreddie

Day 29 – Wellington, NZ – FD800
Not a planned FD, been very busy today, even went to the gym in my lunch break 😯 my butt hurts so much from gym, feels like when you’ve slipped and landed on your bottom 🤣
Plan to see a gal friend this Friday really looking forward to it, we haven’t seen each other since October last year, we’ve been friends for 11 years 😇 we plan to get a scone and a cuppa at the local Cafe.

Still plan to fast again Thursday.
Keep well 😊

Pocket List – Day 29 😀
@i-hate-lettuce
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
@funshipfreddie