Day 2, London, UK, NFD,

I had an unexpected lunch invitation yesterday ………………. In a pub!!! There’s no guilt about the glasses of Malbec consumed, since I pledged to only drink outside of the house, hopefully that’s it for a while though!!

I’m spending the day with my mum, preparing & freezing some meals for her, I think cooking is in her past now, there was a burnt finger this week which, of course, she doesn’t recall doing. I just need to keep her well stocked to ensure she doesn’t feel the need to cook!!

Looking forward to the rugby this morning, I hope it’s a good one (& a win for England of course!!)

Today should be relatively controlled since I’ll be busy cooking and tomorrow I’m driving to Cambridge to visit family which I’ll make an OMAD day, the key to navigating these NFDs is planning, planning, planning & keeping as busy as possible!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Day 2 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

The rain has stopped and it’s a lovely morning. Having my Dad to visit later so have a lot of driving to do with picking him up and back here so it’s great the weather is better.

Best of luck today both @funshipfreddie and @i-hate-lettuce…..here’s hoping for an exciting final and may the best team win 🍾

Day 2 USA (Illinois) NFD

Up and down a pound or two is where I am. I can live with that.

@funshipfreddie – just looked at the RSA Rugby score! Yeah for you and your country. That is wonderful. Sorry @i-hate-lettuce … I am sure you’re very proud of England.

@missybear and @fatrabbit – so glad to see you back again. No one needs to remind either of you what a great forum this is with fabulous members.

We have a local college gala this evening with wine and food. Will eat judiciously. This is a first for them, and no one knows just how formal it will be, but hubby wants to wear his tuxedo, so we may be some of the more formal people there. We do it so seldom, it will be fun.

Onward and downward.

USA Day 2 (already!!)

I am not sure what today will turn out to be. I ate some chicken I bought yesterday and the grocery store and by evening I felt so sick! It must have been bad! Ugh!! Not sure I will be eating very much today. I was up most of the night!! Anyway, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 🙂

Day 2 UK NFD

Running to catch up with the waggon, jumping in again for November challenge.

I’m F55, 5’6. Weight crept on with health issues restricting mobility & energy, plus stopping smoking. Started 5:2 with December 2017 Challenge, weighing 180lb BMI 28.9 B41 W36 H45.

Lost 30lbs before a 9-month plateau during which I shape-shifted from UK size 16 to size 12, in total losing 6-7″ from the whole of my fat suit! Balanced around 140-145 for 5 months. Slipped off the waggon the last two months after bereavement and work projects overload; currently 149lb and hoping easy on easy off

I’ve been vegetarian for 30 years, gluten-free for the last 5 years and mostly off processed carbs for 2years. I went vegan for Lent back in March and maintained a plant-based diet. But apparently I’m not planning carefully enough for optimum health – complicated by long-term neuro & muscular conditions. So I’m adding eggs back in and seeing how I go.

I need to undo the quick fixes that become habits when tired – carbs, sugar, distraction and what feels like self-care but really isn’t. Going for a gentle November reset, because I need to go gently in order to make it stick. November goals are daily posts for accountability, practicing the good self-care routine of sleep, adapted yoga and daily meditation, plus solid vanilla 500 calorie 5:2 with Monday & Thursday FDs.

Looking forward to being back in the fold and learning alongside this gathered company of lovely people from around the world.
@ciren2 thank you for hosting this month – again! You are a start.
@fatrabbit your journal drew me in when I first stumbled across the forum two years ago – lots to thank you for!

Wishing you all a helpful and hopeful November Challenge. Go gently!

Day 2 Oxfordshire, UK. CD
Good FD yesterday needed it after a long journey on 31st. Ate unwisely to keep myself awake.
Today is a CD because I am out to a book launch tonight. Never been to one before. Both food and drink are promised so I need to be careful. Tomorrow is a family gathering so if I’m careful today I should be ok tomorrow.

Just watched the Dr Fung video recommended by @rabbette back in October. Very interesting, I fully intend to watch some others on YouTube to keep me motivated.

Onward & downward

Post 2 of today on day 2

Well done South Africa on winning the Rugby World Cup Final ….. they were the best team on the day, didn’t give England a chance to play or get into the game.

What a fabulous tournament, a joy to watch, true sportsmanship throughout !

… @funshipfreddie, hope tomorrow’s hangover isn’t too bad my friend!

Day 2- Atlanta, Ga- USA- CD

Good Day to you all. Been under the weather these past few days. I caught strep from one of my students. Feeling much better now. Going to try and get my strength back before going back to work on Monday. So I guess you could say that I’ve had about 4 Fd’s this week due to lack of appetite. LOL!!! I will stay on track this month. The holidays are coming up and I wanna be ready!

Day 2 – UK – CD

A lazy Saturday morning – also a keen follower of Rugby so spent the morning watching – South Africa were brilliant – they came with a game plan and executed perfectly – they stopped England playing their natural game and wore them out with a very physical game before clinching it with to 2 great tries – well deserved win by 20 points @funshipfreddie – hope you are not celebrating too much 😉

After yesterday’s EFS day managed a very good CD today!

Well I had better share a bit about me for those new to these challenges
I am a 61 y.o. female, married, with a grown up daughter. Height = 163cm/5ft 4in and I started this WOL on my own in January 2016 – joined the challenges in November 2016 as I had plateaued for around 3 months and then reached maintenance in early December 2016 and have been in maintenance range of 53-55kg/116.8-121.2lbs and a BMI of just over 20 since then! Total weight loss = 22kg/3st 7lbs

I love a range of exercise, currently doing yoga 🙏 which I discovered in November 2015 and it has just been the best thing for me, both physically and mentally. I also do Broga, Pilates, Aerobics and love hiking on the fells in my beloved Lake District ⛰ (I moved here when I retired in 2013) and I also do some volunteering in my local community

Lovely to see some familiar names joining us and to welcome some newbies too!
@fastingto58kgs @marroni @lindsosa @dahliafan @irenak – I have added you all to the spreadsheet in case you want to use it – lots of support and advice freely given on here
@doctorscience – is your colleague, @Patient1 joining us? 3.5kg loss per month is excellent
@songbirdme – Thank you – you are a star……every challenge since it started!!!! I suspect you are the only one left from that original group apart from Coda of course who pops in periodically to see how we are doing! Great job! I started in November 2016 and have participated in every one since, sometimes only partially but have signed up to every one of them too – It has helped me stay in maintenance!
@snowflake56 @ciren2 – thank you and we did have a fab time celebrating – unfortunately the dinner was not as good as expected but still very enjoyable!
@fatrabbit – I too have found fasting hugely beneficial for my asthma and reducing my cholesterol levels! The support from these challenges are great for motivation
@yo-yo-fletch – you just hang on this wagon – we have got you and you are so right in thinking “I need to do this for me” 🤗
@missybear – lovely to have you back with us and still in maintenance 👍
@therealwil78 – hope you feel better soon – FD due to ill health is not much fun though

Have everyone is having a lovely weekend – You are all capable of amazing things and in the words of Confucius “IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW SLOWLY YOU GO, SO LONG AS YOU DO NOT STOP”

Day 3 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Yesterday ended up being a other horrible rainy day and then when I collected Dad and in the motorway, traffic was at a standstill due to a collision somewhere ahead and what should have been a 45 minute journey took 3 hours…..aaaargh!

Had a good day in the end, my DH and my Dad put the world to rights over the kitchen table and a roast beef dinner, good family time.

Well done @funshipfreddie, what a great match, hope you can stay on that high for a while 😄

Day 3 UK NFD

Wt2goIrena It is sunny in Spain and spent the morning organising my 1st FD tomorrow. What will it feel like on 500 calories. Going to the gym for bike-elliptical training and some weights. Hopefully can squeeze it all in before taking the car for emissions test. Have a lovely Sunday.

Day 3 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NFD

Suddenly lost my voice and have a really sore throat, communicating with DH with notes and the cat looks upset because I can’t talk to her. Made for a very controlled eating day yesterday and looks like soup will be on the menu today.

Day 3, California, USA, FD
@at thanks for adding me to spreadsheet. I want to be apart of it but tech that involves thought repels me and sitting at a computer when thought is necessary triggers my munching reflex. So thank you!

Yesterday’s fast day did not work! Some terrible neighbor dropped off their leftover candy. Considering removing them from my Christmas card list.

@ciren2 second part.

Yes I guessed you were from Cirencester! I ended up here because when I was growing up my Uncle was living in Santa Monica, CA and we came to visit him and I loved it here it seemed so glamorous and everything was so….big compared to England. Came back for a vacation on my own when I was 18 and then a year later decided to take a leave of absence from my job for a year and come over to live. Well as you can see I never went back although my uncle did finally move back to England a few years ago. I doubt I will ever go back because I have 2 kids and a spouse.I never realized what it must be like to have your child move to another country until I had children. Luckily mine don’t seem to want to go anywhere.

Day 3 Florida USA MFD @ciren2 Can I be added to the November Spreadsheet? I found the link but I’m not on it. I’m in this group for good! I always do the spreadsheet even if I miss posting here. I was out of the country in October without my laptop so I missed the Spreadsheet then (and gained weight.) Thanks!

Day 3 Ohio, US — NFD
Day 2 — NFD
Day 1 — NFD

Please count me in for the November challenge!
Halloween was not a wise day to choose as a fast day, and I didn’t make it through the candy giving time without succumbing to the sugar monster. Friday I had a very deep acupuncture treatment and was sort of blotto for most of Saturday. The upswing started today so by tomorrow I should be in pretty good shape. This entry is somewhat brief, because I’m still using a very old and erratically slow desktop computer since I don’t have my laptop back from the shop yet. My goal for the month is to get into the middle of my maintenance range before Thanksgiving, just to have some slack as the holiday time starts. The plan now is for tomorrow to be my first fast day of the month.

Have a great start of the work week everybody!

Day 4 UK MFD

@Ciren we really have to appreciate dry days at the moment don’t we! Although it is rather foggy here and the trees are still dripping because it did rain in the night. Thank you for hosting thhis month, keeping this wonderful challenge going.

I didn’t get a chance to cook yesterday on my NFD because I had so much work to catch up on because of the rain on Saturday and so only ate one cold meal although I also had some fruit and rather a lot of nuts with chocolate pieces and to my surprise I lost another pound, down to 151.2 this morning. I had another bad night with my asthma though and feel less energetic having eaten more. That continues to surprise me, that food takes away energy rather than gives it! Today I need to bath the guinea pigs as the weather looks set to sink under ten degrees tomorrow and then stay there which means today is the last chance to get it done and they are a bit overdue already. They get horrendously itchy and lose their hair if they don’t have it washed every other month. It is a good opportunity for claw cutting and a good health check too. I just hope I don’t find anything nasty. They are almost all old now and at an age when everything stops working.I

@at great to hear it has helped someone else’s asthma too, helps me trust what I am doing

@songbirdme great to see you still using this wonderful resource, I am so pleased it is still going

Pocket list day 4
@dykask
@snowflake56.
@daffodil2010
@fatrabbit

Day 4 UK FD

Managed a very good FD yesterday so going for another today and might do tomorrow also. Feeling very motivated this end of the month so aiming to make the most of it!

Good luck to everyone today.

Day 4 – UK – FD
Day 3 – NFD

A bit too much of celebrations this weekend – mostly unplanned!!!!! leading to well over TDEE eating and drinking but today is the start of a new week and so an early energetic Broga class to start the day and a 500FD planned to try and undo some of the damage!!!

@ciren2 – Thank you – I always try to remember not to let a bad day/week derail me completely and these forums have always found a way to inspire me and keep me motivated!
@funshipfreddie – celebrating that win is not gloating and you forgot to say that this was the first time in winning the World Cup that SA managed to score not 1 but 2 tries – they outplayed England so well done to the team!
@daffodil2010 – a 45min journey taking 3 hrs – how awful but at least you all got home safely
@i-hate-lettuce – Enjoy your 2 weeks holiday – see you for strong second half of the month
@mia139 – October was not such a washout as you still managed to drop 1.6kg! – Join me in trying to stick to a basic 5:2 500FD for November
@betsylee – sounds like we had similar eating pattern over the weekend – I’m adding you to the pocket list for motivation so let us have a strong FD today!
@irenak – I am also adding you to the pocket list for motivation!
@missybear – hope that sore throat settles down soon
@dahliafan – great job in losing that 4lb in your first week – stay strong
@mogaman – You are on the spreadsheet 🤗
@snowflake56 – thank you for starting us on that pocket list – I think a few of us need it…..

POCKET LIST – DAY 4

@dykask WFD #78
@matpi
@snowflake56.
@daffodil2010
@fatrabbit MFD
@funshipfreddie
@mia139
@brightonbelle
@irenak
@betsylee
@at

“Remember your dreams are as hungry as your demons. Make sure you are feeding the right ones!”

Day 4- Atlanta, Ga- USA- FD

Had a good day yesterday. Stuck to a controlled day. Kinda Proud of myself for once. Today is a FD for me. Wanna start the week off right. Good day to you all!