Day 24, Barendrecht Netherlands, FD

@debster251, @matpi, @northerndawn, @dingping, @annemarilyn, @at thak you all so much for thinking of my friend and her OH. Surgery went well, without any complication, unfortunately she felt really sick in the evening but the nurse gave her something against the nausea. When everything goes as planned she can go home in the late afternoon. It’s weird, she’s in a 4-bed room with 3 men, all there for prostate surgery. One of the man went to the toilet and we got the full Jack Nicholson. Just weird. The husband has no intention to get out of bed but was able to complain about the temperature of the soup, grrr! He doesn’t have much pain anymore but enjoys the attention, he can have it as long as my friend’s not at home, then she’s the one that deserves it.

@daffodil2010 nice to have you back, what a pity it rained all the time. You do have a very bright stepdaughter, you and your OH must be so proud of her.

@debster and @at Planks are the only thing I’m good at, I can’t do any sit ups and I’m struggling with push ups.

@dykask I was able to hold the frog stand for 3 whole seconds! It took me a while to find out how to do it. I don’t think I can ever do a planche, but I’m pleased with the frog stand, I’m satisfied if I can do a few seconds more. Keeping the balance is the problem.

@dingping I think I forgot to response to one of your posts. I think the hardest phase with dementia or Alzheimer’s is the one where the ones suffering from it, realize the state they are in and know it’s just getting worse. I don’t have any scales here and I must say it’s a relief, you can get a little obsessed by weighing every day. I also decided not to weigh anymore this year, I used to weigh once a month in the past and went by the fitting of my clothes, I liked it a lot more and I did better on this. Are you with me today?

I’m using my friend’s Fitbit, yesterday I managed to do 28k steps, 19 km in 291 minutes!!! I spent most of the day with my friend’s 26 y.o. daughter, when walking the dog we did 100 lunges and had a lot of fun. Unfortunately I have 4 blisters now, one of them is under a toe, very inconvenient. My friend had the same shoe size but her feet a a tad shorter but wider so her shoes don’t fit well. Let’s see how it goes today, I’m waiting for more daylight to go for a walk with the dog after I made the friend’s husband a can of hot! tea.

Pocket list day 24

@snowflake56

Have a nice day everyone!

Day 24 UK FD

Not a perfect FD yesterday, but ok for me at the mo, going to bag another today.
Can’t believe December is nearly here and 2019 is just around the corner – WOW!
Dipping into posts and trying to keep up with you all but feel very much like I’m half over hearing stuff.

@snowflake56 – yep with you today.
Sounds like you’re doing a great job with you’re friends. Even with blisters you’re outpacing me on Fitbit, I shall have to get a dog!
Poor uncle we visited fell over and broke his hip, surgery yesterday, very confused and a being a handful for the nursing staff. Poor chap.

Wishing all a wonderful w’end, enjoy whatever you do.

Day 24 Picket List
@snowflake56
@dingping

Day 24
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@snowflake56 – Rotten bad luck for uncle, he lost his wife in the summer and has now gone into a home. Stressful for his 3 kids who live in USA, Australia and one in London. His daughter in the USA luckily can get free flights as her OH works for an airline so she’s planning on coming over next week.
You’ll have to explain the ‘full Jack Nicholson’ didn’t quite understand what you meant?
Any news as to when your friend can come home? Hope her OH feels a lot better by then so he can be the rock of support she needs. Relationship dynamics are fascinating!
Good luck with your FD, is it harder to do whilst out of your normal routine?
Good luck

Day 24 Canada NFD

I see my post from yesterday vanished, that’s so annoying!

@snowflake56 I can’t imagine walking for 28K, no wonder you had a blister
@fatfingers thanks for the advice on maintenance, I’m not there yet but am starting to think about how it will work best. I totally agree with your comparison between fasting and exercising. Sometime it all seems a bit much and too much effort, but if you push yourself forward rather than avoiding it you feel so much better afterwards.

I have a busy weekend and am going to spend it as if I am in maintenance and planning how I can have great FD’s next week to finish off the challenge. All the best everyone!

Day 24 UK CD

Mostly lazy day today, my first quiet saturday in a month or so. Slept till really late and listened to audiobooks until early afternoon. Had to work hard to keep the day quiet and not just answer the phone or emails – trying to relearn good boundaries.

I’ve made a lazy loaf and just finishing up some rosehip syrup – the hips had been sitting in the fridge for 10 days so needed attention! Now for yoga and meditation, then potter through some chores and return phone calls. My DD and a couple of my friends have had tough week Inc funerals, bereavement and a police case, and its always easier for me to be a listening ear if I’m pottering.

Had toast and marmalade for brunch so feeling very full and not tempted by the fresh loaf. Carefully weighed the ingredients this time to recheck calories. 1kg loaf has 400g oats, 500g ff Greek yogurt and 100g seeds, just under 250calories per 100g. Cool, slice and freeze to make resistant starch, and Bob’s your uncle.

I’ll set up December challenge early next week – as soon as new laptop up and running. Would someone else be willing to set up the spreadsheet please?

@annemarilyn thank you for your bread recipe
@snowflake56 hope your friend is home and well soon
@anna6 hope you feel better
@suresh3101 welcome back!
@daffodil2010 hope you have had a good transition back to New normal routine
@dykask 84 water fasts! Thank you for posting about muscle strengthening, it’s always encouraging to read.
@jaifaim sounds like an excellent bike ride!

Onward….

Day 24, UK, NFD

After a couple of successful FDs I’m down 0.5kg 🐢 . At least its a small move in the right direction, even though I suspect that’s just my range and I’m plateauing 😐 . Onwards we go ….

@metatauta this is the valid link for the spread sheet, it’s been changed a while ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sm19V6MpRZxaWSg4rd8fdqbvpgt_L89L1RTiu5dpUDc/edit#gid=710521371
Happy editing 😀

@michelinme I don’t mind helping with the spread sheet, I can set it up tomorrow 🙂

Enjoy your weekend everyone 🌹

Day 24: Gloucestershire, UK: NFD
Daughter passed by today for a flying visit on the way to spend time in Bristol visiting a friend. Had to drop her off at Swindon railway station….what a nightmare.
Google satnav sent us to the wrong side of the tracks and the footbridge was closed! Dark and lonely area. Found another young girl equally lost in the dark…so got them both into the car (they turned out to be after the same train) and followed some vague directions round goodness knows where, time being short, and no-where to park, and a busy one-way system taking us further away, we dropped them off on double yellow lines and they went running through some side streets to find the (un-signposted station)They made it.
Awful! Don’t go there!!

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My friend is at home again and not doing too bad, not too much pain, just very tired. We made her a bed on the couch so she could be with us, she was very pleased with that. Her husband had to get out of bed and come down if he wanted to be with her so he decided to do so. So everything is fine. The pathology results will come in in a fortnight.

@ciren2 navigation systems can lead you to scary, lonely places. Glad it turned out well.

@dingping this is really sad, your uncle has had so many changes in a short period of time. It’s always hard when a parent is not doing well and you’re far away. I hope the hipfracture heals well. The Jack Nicholson thing comes from the film “Something’s Gotta Give” where he’s in a hospital walking around wearing just this kind of nightgown without a back you have to wear when having surgery. An old bum is not what you want to see when you just had a surgery. When in hospital some men often lose decorum. I’m good at fasting when I’m not at home. At home I have the food I like, I mostly don’t like the food at other people’s houses. I’m a bit difficult when it comes to food. I hope your FD went as well as mine.

@michelinme I love a lazy day now and then.

@bellyblast I don’t think I’ll ever walk this distance again, the weather was lovely and we were in a great area for dog walking. Today I managed to do 13k, more than enough with blisters.

@at isn’t it strange we’re all good at different things when it comes to exercise. My abs are not bad but I try to do sit ups I have the feeling I tore them apart.

Have a nice evening and sleep well everyone!

Day 24 Minnesota, USA CD
Day 23 NFD

7:15 pm my time. Quick check in. I had hoped for a FD today but it just wasn’t possible. I may try tomorrow. I hope to come on forum early and catch up on posts from last two days.
Best of luck to everyone! Stay strong and carry on.

Day 25:Gloucestershire, UK: NFD….strill running behind the wagon…

After the traumas of yesterday evening; a restful Sunday. Why can we no longer get decent up-to-date town maps? Call me old fashioned but map reading seems so much more dependable then Sat Navs.

Tomorrow, at the Royal Mail, we start what is known in the trade as “Christmas-Pressure”. Work patterns are adjusted to take account of the increased load, all annual leave is cancelled and sickness frowned upon even more than usual!
Just as my long-awaited hospital appointment to have my arthritic wrists injected come up on Tuesday.

Now, without saying more, I’m going to submit this….because I lost my last post.

Day 25 NFD USA

Still carrying on eating leftover Thanksgiving food! LOL As soon as we finish this, it will be Christmas food, and the celebration of the new year to contend with! Here in America in the Fall starting with Halloween we have way to many reasons to eat what we shouldn’t, even when it’s healthy food! Anyway, there are still the quiet days of January to come!!

Day 25 USA (Utah visiting) NFD

Trying to eat smart, but there continues to be lots of carb-laden food in our daughter’s house! Oh so tempting… indulging just some.

I took youngest granddaughter to “Ralph Wrecks the Internet” movie last night and had buttered popcorn for our supper. The rest of the family went to the Utah vs. BYU (big rivalry) football game. 🏈 Our SIL played at the Utes, so big fans there.

I hope to catch up on news and posts when the family all goes to work & school on Monday.

Onward and downward.

Day 25, UK, NFD

Today I don’t count calories but just enjoy my Sunday. Tomorrow is an FD 🙂

@michelinme I created a spread sheet for December, should I post it here for you so you can add it to your December OP post? 🙂

Enjoy your weekend everyone 😊

Day 25 UK CD

Today was a Go-with-the-flow day, and all the better for it. I had lunchtime coffee with DD while she ate her lunch, then peppermint tea when we went out for coffee – was more about keeping her company & catching up than eating. We’ve sorted out a plan to reset my wardrobe…starting with me going over to help sort thru her clothes, incl looking for those too big for her/ might work for me. Then we’ll fix a trip round our favourite charity shops – much more fun than buying new clothes 🙂

Realised I hadn’t eaten so had a banana and an apple on the way home, and resisted bread (yay!) in favour of a quick salad with mozzarella. Almost an unexpected FD but after road closures, railworks and bus diversions I feel the call for warming up and filling up 🙂 But mindful of looking after Future Me,

I’m going to start Monday with meditation and gentle adapted yoga – time to reset that habit to frame my days. It would be good to wake feeling I have energy for the day, and prep for an easier FD. SO this evening will be a light supper of wild rice with spinach and some protein, a hot bath with epsom salts and essential oils and an early night. Aiming for 9 hrs sleep and 7am yoga & meditation – not hugely early, but hopefully well-rested 🙂

@shinything thank you so much for doing the spreadsheet, that’s really kind of you! Yes please, if you could post it here I’ll copy it onto a December thread – hopefully set up tomorrow, if I can make the borrowed laptop work 🙂 x

@ciren2 stations, satnavs, closed roads, trains… aagh! So glad they caught their train. Best of luck with your Busy Time, and with your hospital appt – hope it’s helpful

@annemarilyn congratulations on your new low – and during Thanksgiving 🙂

@jaifaim well done with the To Do list triumph – and 90km in the rain!

@anna6 glad you are beginning to feel better, and thank you for sharing your lovely menus 🙂

@rainbowsmile hope you are doing ok despite all the home & health issues x

Here’s to restful Sunday evenings and hopeful Monday mornings. It’s never to late to begin again …

Day 25, Barendrecht Netherlands, FD

decided to do another FD, went fine.

@annemarilyn at home I only walk when I have a goal, I don’t like just walking. With a dog it’s different, he has to get his walk so I have a goal, today I had 21k, not bad. When I come home my legs will be in great shape (I hope).

DAY 25 – UK – NFD

Tomorrow is a FD. With that in mind I’ve had protein at each meal today to keep my appetite low tomorrow. Fingers crossed it works.

Day 26. London Uk. FD tomorrow.
BLEEEEEURGH! Just been away to Hastings for the weekend and seem to have eaten non stop, including tons of bread, which was ok but now I feel bleeeeeeurgh. And DH decided to press for a curry on the way home, even though we had a Sunday lunch as well. It seems like ages since I’ve got down about food. Probably since I joined this forum at the end of last year. I’ve always just done what everybody here encourages us to do, put it behind me and look forward. But I just feel horrid. Bloated and podgy. WHY eat when you’re not even slightly hungry? I should have said no to the curry but I was being acquiescent. I could kick myself. Sorry. Moan over. H

Day 26, Barendrecht Netherlands, FD

going for another FD and lots of walking with the dog, I want to reach 30k steps, if my feet allow it. I’m a bit bored so need a new challenge.

@dykask I’m still with the 3 seconds, balance is not my thing, I keep falling to the right side. I’m terrible at bike riding, my balance and reaction time were always poor. I have a bike and we live in the flattest part of Germany but if I can’t reach my goal walking, I don’t need to go there. Don’t have a driver’s licence either, never needed one.

@matpi how is your dog? Any news about the endoscopy?

@emma-taylor I still go overboard with the amount of food I put in my mouth sometimes. I don’t really know what’s causung this, I can go overboard with things I don’t even really like, I just feel the need to eat a lot then. Perhaps there’s something missing in my food although I try to balance it. I try to even out on the days after, it mostly works.

Pocket list day 26

@snowflake56
@dykask

Have a nice day everyone!

Day 26 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

I didn’t post this weekend. I was very poorly yesterday, slept until 14:00 hours, could not get out of bed to go visiting my granddaughter with DH, aches and pains, no appetite, pain in my abdomen. Was back in bed by 20:00 and slept through until alarm woke me (I am always awake before the alarm) at 6am.

BUT I do feel better today. Still achy but the exhaustion does not seem to be there. I am off to work soon so will take care.

Thanks everyone for your kind remarks re stepdaughters graduation. We are really proud of her. And this Friday another proud day as we go to middle stepdaughter’s passing out parade from the police force. ☺️

Joining you on an FD but maybe this viral thingy might scupper it

Pocket list Day 26
@snowflake56
@dykask

Day 26 Wales ??

Unscheduled FD yesterday owing to an upset tummy and not sure what today will be….

Hang in there pocket fasters!

Day 26
@snowflake56
@dykask
@jaifaim
@emma-taylor

10pm here … I should make it just fine to breakfast!

Also I been able to hold a frog-stand for a few seconds twice today. A very long ways to go to holding for 60 seconds, and that is supposed to be the easiest skill to master on the way to a planche. 2019 might be tough year. I probably wouldn’t have made as much progress today, but Snowflake56’s success spurred me on to try harder.

Day 26 Belfast FD

Having just completed a not very sensible weekend, I always look forward to a FD on a Monday. I was talking to my neighbour yesterday who has been to Slimming World and lost lots of weight. She was complaining that she went out for lunch last week and put on 2lbs, lamenting that she will have to watch everything that goes in her mouth for the rest of her life. It made me so aware again, that this WOL is so flexible and successful.
@daffodil2010 you must be on cloud 9. Well done to your other step daughter.
Adding myself to the list

Day 26 Pocket List
@snowflake
@dykask
@jaifaim
@emma-taylor
@daffodil2010
@judyjudes
@michelinme
@basyjames
@bellyblast
@debster251

Let’s make these last few days really count!

Day 26, London, UK, NFD

Very late check-in today, Ive had a run in with a CARTON of wine gums!!! They were on special in Tesco’s for a ridiculously low price & I just couldn’t walk on by!!!

Anyway, it is what it is, tomorrows FD is much needed and of course I’m really looking forward to it.

Today has been a really lazy day, I could kick myself for getting so little done, I’ll do my nails later and at least that’ll be one achievement!!!

Onward & downwards folks!!!

Still day 26.

Just wanted to share something from a friend:

“Let’s talk about discipline. Are you haphazardly going through this process hoping that you are going to get results? Some days you are on target, other days you are in the fridge cutting a wedge of leftover pumpkin pie?
When it feels overwhelming to get back on track I have a suggestion. BREAK IT DOWN. One day at a time….one meal (or fast) at a time. RIGHT NOW you can make the right choice for your meal. That’s all you have to do. Make a good choice. Then relax, have some hot tea, coffee or water. BREATHE. RELAX. REPEAT. This is how you get back on track. We see so many of you saying “I am going to do a 7 or 10 day fast”. You don’t need to go extreme. Just focus on TODAY. You got this!”

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