Day 27 NZ NFD 69.3kg

A drop but not a woosh… Tomorrow’s another FD
I took the Mini in this morning for a warrant and brakes so walked back with my UFC weights around my wrist. I must say I probably looked a wee bit of a dick waving my arms around to the motorists going to work but hey, who cares!!
We’re forecast to receive a heat wave from Aussie hot air…
@penz Where are you? Having fun somewhere I hope!
@northgeorgia 😱Get your mojo back double quick!!!💪
You could have a proper FD before Thanksgiving!!!
@brightonbelle Running through the London Underground and train stations brings back so many memories!!!
@missybear You’ll do well when you stand on the scales if you have been following the 5:2 wol.
I hope your DHs results are fine and he’s got a good surgical clearance.
We have so much skin cancer here everyone is quite blasé about it. I’ve had two melanomas plus others removed. I stay out of the sun now but the trouble is it’s all about getting sunburnt as a kid and I played heaps of sport… The pavement has proved to be far more problematic for me than any skin cancer!!
@at Here goes courtesy of spanishsabores.com

SPANISH LEMON OLIVE OIL CAKE

1.5 cups (180g) cake flour
¼ cup (30g) finely ground almonds
¼ tsp salt
2 tsps (10g) baking powder
1 cup 9200g) granulated sugar
Zest from 2 lemons
3 large eggs
¼ cup (60ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice
Scant cup (220ml) full fat Greek yoghurt
2/3 cup Spanish extra virgin olive oil (like Hojiblanca) (or substitute with a lighter oil)
Icing sugar for top of cake

METHOD
Preheat oven 190C
Grease and flour cake pan (or use baking paper)

Medium sized bowl: Mix flour, ground almonds, salt and baking powder

Mixing bowl: Massage lemon zest into sugar to release oil into sugar
Beat sugar and eggs on medium high for about 2 mins until mixture doubles in size and lightens in colour
Whisk in lemon juice and Greek yoghurt on low speed
Finally, drizzle in olive oil while mixing on low speed

Fold in flour mixture by hand using a spatula until just combined (Don’t overmix!)
Pour batter into cake pan
Bake 40 mins (until toothpick comes out with only a few crumbs)

Cool at least 20 mins before removing from the pan
Just before serving cover with icing sugar

@stitchincarol I just read up on Wikipedia’s entry for Omaha, thinking about you looking for a duck with one leg🤣. That’s why this forum is interesting!!
@jaifaim Great way to use the forum! It’s not just about sharing recipes😄 Seriously I do think a few shorter posts more often would help with consistency…
@funshipfreddie Yeees I did forget about no nonsence but this week is all about focus except for maybe Thanksgiving… Like @ccco 😁

STEELY RESOLVE!!!!

Day 27 – Ireland – NFD 🚫  ✅ 🚶🏽‍♀️ 🌾 
157.8 ⬆️

Good morning everyone, well I am very happy to report a good CD which became a OMAD but not happy to see the number up a little today… in my optimistic mind I thought I might have been on a downward trend but nope.. not yet even with a good CD. I have to keep the focus so that the numbers keep dropping and like others it’s really the weekends which are scuppering me.. as I am already looking into this weekend and the events planned..
@funshipfreddie I’m sorry to hear about your struggle with no reward but serious fair play to you for resisting! It just goes to show what a great mind frame you are in. Thank you for putting me on the list today! Yes I’m there and staying there and hope to see the numbers catch up with the effort.

@missybear well done to you on just getting the FDs done without too much thought as you have so much else on your mind right now. I’m sure you’ll be happy with your numbers at the end of the month and you’ll have been oblivious to any fluctuations, there really is a lot to be said for it.. I’m not sure I’ve learned much from mine..

@brightonbelle I couldn’t help but think of Anneka Rice when you mentioned your race across London… except I suppose no helicopter was used for your dash… I’m so glad to hear that you are back on track (how apt…. LOL)

@merryapple I really like the sound of the ginger wine and I have never heard of it…
but apparently it has been around since the 1700s – I may have to seek it out just to have a taste.. maybe over Christmas – yum 😋

@stitchincarol I actually ended up using the same sort of tack yesterday in that I left the office quite late as I think the long evenings have been pushing the limits of my willpower.. I have been tired, so a little lazy, so not doing so much exercise eh voila, more time to think about a snack, a treat, and so on…
@ccco I hope your FD went well ahead of the glorious food you and everyone stateside will have on Thursday!
Missing a lot of the No Nonsense gang and hoping to see you all soon! @penz, @flourbaby, @excelsior12309, @songbirdme (there in the background maybe?), @iona72 I hope you are all out there and making your way back. 💕💕

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Pocket List – Day 27🍏
@jaifaim
@molij
@ccco

Day 27 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 232 lbs. Whoosh! Too bad the holidays are here, but very nice for a soup and salad post-FD weigh-in. Lost a little more than some of my post WFD weigh-ins in January. Now to navigate the holiday season and not “forget myself.” 🙂

Day 27 – Rural Nebraska, USA – FD500 – 154.4

I’ve been reticent about posting my weight daily, but then I suddenly remembered I stopped doing that because it was hovering around 165 for so long that it was pointless and embarrassing. So, now that I’m losing, I’m going to resume. I don’t have high hopes that today’s FD will drop me much further, but it’ll certainly help compensate for the calories I’ll be eating tomorrow. I have hesitated many times over making a cherry pie–one of my favorite foods for Thanksgiving, LOL–since one piece is fine, but then I’ll end up eating the entire rest of the pie. Then a memory of @songbirdme flashed in my memory, so I’m going to take a page from her book, and divide the rest of it into reasonable portions and freeze them. 😇 Whew, now I can enjoy that pie without worry or guilt.

@missybear Well, well done that, despite house and DH concerns, you’re persevering with 5:2; I’m truly impressed. What procedure(s) is your DH facing?

@at I’m always impressed by how casually you throw out mentions of 6-mile walks. You are so very impressive and inspirational!

LOL, @merryapple, a duck with one leg, indeed. And actually, the four I already bought were a leg and thigh, as they’re called for, but all the store had yesterday was a leg. And the price was HALF the price I paid three weeks ago. HALF. I figure I’ll take the leg-only and leave the thigh-leg combination for the four guys, so that’s fine, but HALF??? Can you tell I’m a bit indignant?? 😠😂 Price aside, I’m really looking forward to the duck confit and all the other yummies for Sunday…two big meals in four days is unusual, LOL!

@funshipfreddie Sometimes when I’m fasting, I’ll find myself around cooking aromas, and my immediate instinct is to feel so very sorry for myself that I can’t eat whatever smells so good. Then I roll my eyes, and point out that even if I weren’t fasting, I’d still not eat whatever I was smelling. That helps a bit, and then I’ve tried enjoying the smell, pointing out there are no calories in aromas, LOL! That’s also not entirely successful, but, whatever it takes, right?? Well done, you, for avoiding the temptations!

@jaifaim Well, the uncooperative scale is simply unacceptable. You need a solid, solid, solid FD to force it to cooperate and show you the results you deserve! I have lots of chores planned for over at church (putting away my organ music is always on the list, as I get so much out each week) to keep me busy and away from the house so I can have a true FD500 today: a hamburger patty from the freezer and steamed broccoli. Then we have our Thanksgiving Service (Eve instead of Day), so that’ll keep me away from food so that I’ll be fine by the time we get home. We have to have our tricks, don’t we?

@molij You said two things that caught my attention: You’re “making” Christmas decorations and going to the Tip later. Making? Tip? Do explain! 😁

@northgeorgia Just remember: what you eat is because it’s what you choose to eat, not because you “can’t” eat what you want. You don’t WANT to eat all that food… That, at least, is the thought I work hard to hold on to.

@ccco What a mess of commotion you’re dealing with today; I hope it all sorts itself out in a timely fashion!

Okay, I’m off to be productive, move this body, and avoid food! Have a grand one, everyone!

Pocket List – Day 27🍏
@jaifaim
@molij
@ccco
@stitchincarol

Day 28 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 FD

I had a busy day yesterday which made for a well controlled NFD. I also had a trip to the dentist for a check up, all was good and no work needed…..I found my relieved self thinking about @flourbaby and hoping you’ve been able to visit the dentist and are no longer suffering 🤞

It seems incredible that today is my last FD of No Nonsense November, better make it a good one…..I want to see results!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating and to today’s fasters stay strong!

Pocket List – Day 28 🥚
@merry 🍎
@at
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
@missybear

Day 28 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 235. @stitchincarol My NFD yesterday also didn’t go so well. Anyway, as we head into December, we’ll find our resolve again! Goodness, have I forgotten how to cook? My cakes overflowed into the oven yesterday, and one stuck to the pan even after cooling, so I’m bringing a half cake instead. Then I somehow dump what tasted like a cup of salt into the coleslaw. EGADS! I tried squeezing a lime into it. It’s less like a salt block now, but I don’t know if people will care for a lime tasting slaw… If not, I’ll get some more cabbage when the stores reopen tomorrow and fix it up. I would like it with some ginger and a bit of honey and convert it to an asian-style slaw… hmmm…

Anyway, here’s to Thanksgiving — at least I haven’t burned myself!

DAY 28 – UK – FD

A good FD today with an aerobic class this morning and an evening Pilates – I have brushed my teeth and firmly closed that virtual kitchen door

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American 🇺🇸 friends – hope you all had a fab day

@jaifaim and @funshipfreddie – loved the film – a very interesting version, this was a subdued but absorbing and eventful film and rather different from the extravagant “The Magdalene Sisters” and also from the bittersweet dramedy ‘Philomena” – Cillian Murphy shows us once again his sightless stare of fear and pain, as the witness to something terrible not just in the real world but within himself.
@merryapple – thank you very much for sharing that recipe – it’s on my list to do very soon
@stitchincarol – your comment about my walks 🤣 I do love a good walk and am very lucky to be fit enough and to live somewhere that has amazing scenery and lots of ⛰️ to wander up and around
@funshipfreddie – thank you for adding me to the Pocket List – it certainly motivated me to stick to my planned FD

If no one else has volunteered to set up the December Challenge I’ll put up my hand – suggestions for the name of this last challenge for 2024 would be greatly appreciated…..

Pocket List – Day 28 🥚
@merry 🍎
@at
@brightonbelle
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
@missybear

Thanksgiving third post

I’m proud to report that I stuck to my zero-calorie ginger beer with lime juice until twenty minutes before I served dinner, and I barely ate anything in the process of preparing all. And I did indeed serve it all at three o’clock as planned. And now that we’ve eaten, I’ve had a large piece of cherry pie, but no more than two glasses of wine, and I’m thoroughly done eating and drinking and it’s only 5:30. So, a victorious day, especially since the kitchen is nearly clean thanks to my and DH’s determined efforts all day long.

I made my usual dinner rolls (a recipe from one of my mom’s cookbooks published in the 30s or 40s) and used GF flour. They were fine, and with cranberry sauce on them, they were perfectly lovely, since cranberry sauce makes anything lovely (especially when cooked from berries and not just emptied from a can). But they certainly weren’t like my dinner rolls made with regular flour. We’ll see what my GFson thinks of them before I decide if I’ll ever try that again.

I also made the classic green bean casserole and actually used the french fried onions, but did NOT use the cream of mushroom soup, instead following a recipe that called for sour cream instead. The recipe suffered for the lack. I think I know how to make it work nicely, but I’m thinking that, once a year, is not too often to have a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup. 😂😂 Some recipes just shouldn’t be messed with, huh?

@merryapple “Rubbish tip”?? As in a trash container that’s been fished through and items put into a store? I’m still stumped. OH. It just occurred to me to google it since I had the word “rubbish” to add to it, and it’s a DUMP! A place where you take your trash, LOL! Okay, now I know! 😂😇❤️ And thanks for enough information that it finally became clear. 👍

Okay, back to my knitting; I had a ten minute nap an hour ago, so should be good to knit the evening away. Talk to you tomorrow!

Oh, and thanks @at, for taking on December!

Day 29 – UK – FD

Good morning – Dodgy December 2024 Challenge is set up and ready for you all to join in ❤️

Well I had a great FD500 yesterday – so decidedly having PFDS this morning and have decided to go ahead with a B2B FD – but will be aiming for FD800 to ensure that I don’t fall off the wagon today 🤞

Short post as I have to go get ready to drive for our Friday walking 🥾 group meet up – this time we are trying somewhere away from home, the starting point is about a 45mins drive away.

I hope to have some company 🤗 on today’s pocket list so I have started one

Pocket List – Day 28 🎯
@at

Day 29 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NFD

Last Friday of the month weigh in day and I am 4.4 pounds down from the beginning of November. That’s just a bit more than the weight gained from my holiday in October. So for me it’s a case of easy on and slowly off with a lot of discipline! A timely reminder to be careful over Christmas.

There are 2 more days of this month left and I intend to make them count. A no nonsense end to the month before we begin Dodgy December.

Day 29 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 235 lbs. Actually down a few ounces over yesterday. Go figure 🙂

Day 30 NZ NFD 69.3kg

Up .3 due to discovering frozen jam strawberries in the freezer for jam but they turned into a smoothie… first one now we’re heading into the warmer months…

Next month @at I’ll be dodging food every which way💪😂 It’s the first time I’ve ended up higher than the monthly start for a looong time.
@funshipfreddie Your leadership is as always on point😄
I’m just more relaxed around food which is good but need to exercise more restraint if I want to get to my magic number!

I’m off to a two day weaving course this weekend that I booked pre hand but I figured I’d go anyway.

Lovely to hear everyone’s news and views and I’ll see you in the morrow. Hope you turn up with great numbers!!

STEELY RESOLVE!!

Day 30 – Ireland – NFD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽‍♀️ 🌾
155.6 🤗 Happy – nearly there….

@funshipfreddie thank you so much for hosting us so superbly this month. You did a fantastic job and helped me get back to where I needed to be.
Well done to you on your closing numbers! 👏
The mosaic numbers are so lovely! ⭐️ I’m sure you’ll have more requests.

@stitcincarol of course your son will know good GF flours… the one a lot of people use here is Dove’s Farm but there are others I’ve seen people recommend …I’ll come back with the names tomorrow..can you tell I’m not baking much these days 😂😂

I had a long day yesterday in the most miserable weather, voting, working and travelling – but that all meant that it was a good CD sort of a day. So RESULT! 😂

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you all tomorrow in Dodgy December with @at ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

Day 30 – UK – NFD

Weight this morning is exactly what I started the challenge with……a bit disappointed but not unexpected result as I knew that the FDs helped to make up for the NFD indulgences……must try to gain control of the NFD in Dodgy December……perhaps taking over the baton from @funshipfreddie will give me the required motivation…..

Our group walk 🥾 yesterday was dry if overcast and we managed just under 5miles – good company and lots of chat as usual – friendships to be valued 🤗

Good to hear that our American 🇺🇸friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving

@jaifaim – I agree the book is better and a good read – I loved the cinematography
@missybear – well done you on that drop of 4.4lbs 👏
@ccco – I hope your WFD went well – I struggled with my B2B 2nd FD…..it ended up more like a CD
@stitchincarol – I love duck confit and I have checked the recipe you used – sounds delicious – I would love to cook this but sadly OH does not eat meat and a lot of work of one person…..
@lilymartin – lovely to see you back and hope to have you onboard for Dodgy December
@funshipfreddie – beautiful mosaic numbers – great work! be interesting to hear “Judge Judy’s” reaction!! and Thank You for hosting us so superbly – You did a fantastic job and helped me get back to where I needed to be….FDs back on track…..now to control NFDs

A bit damp here today so going to do some local shopping and catch up with home life

See you all tomorrow for Dodgy December

Day 30
Hello wonderful fasters. I am thoroughly enjoying a fabulous vacation in the Caribbean island of Antigua. I have no doubt I will be back with you for December as I am eating everything I want to on this trip. Our resort has a fabulous restaurant, and apparently hubby booked us for “all inclusive” — whew. Yes, we are walking and swimming a plenty, but probably not enough to offset my intake.

Dodgy December it will be! Happy end of November to you all.

Day 30 – Rural Nebraska, USA – CD – 156.8

Like @northgeorgia I went nuts yesterday. The dressing was far better than Thursday because I cooked it another half hour, so needed (HAH!) two servings at lunch. Then needed some cherry pie for dessert. Then I’d bought already-prepared Lobster Mac and Cheese at Whole Foods, so we had that for supper, and I baked further the Green Bean Casserole (HEY! despite all the french fried onions onit, that’s a veggie, remember!!!) and it was also far better than Thursday. And I had a glass of wine. And then I needed (I don’t use that word loosely) cherry pie.

sigh

So lots and lots of carbs and calories and quantity, so it’s entirely understandable why I shot up so much. Today will be better behaved and I’ll take tomorrow’s weight as the official end of November number.

I’ve skimmed everyone’s posts (Apple and blackberry? A combination I’ve never seen! COOL house numbers, @funshipfreddie It’s wonderful to have you back, @lilymartin and I look forward to seeing you in December @songbirdme!) but am distracted by all there is to do today so tomorrow can be relaxed and pleasant. Oh, and @at, do you have a sous vide?

So I’m off and will be as productive today as I know how and distract myself from eating, and burn off the calories I do eat!

@funshipfreddie I echo everyone’s comments that you’ve been a stellar and unflagging host this month; thanks so much!

Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 30 + 1 UK

Thank you for guiding us through November @funshipfreddie 👏👏💐