Day 24 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 210 lbs – a ten lb drop over last Tuesday! I last hit this weight nearly a month ago. More amazingly — this happened after an OMAD day. And a unique one. I thought if I did do OMAD yesterday, it would be at the reception last night. But instead, my boss invited me to lunch, and we only “dropped in” at the reception and headed back. I think an OMAD lunch always works better for me than an OMAD supper, and I forget that. The only “unfortunate” thing was that it was a greasy fast food diner lunch, and if I don’t break my fast with some light proteins and fiber, such as nuts and seeds, then my digestive system revolts within a few hours. I barely made it through the reception LOL

@stitchincarol Take care of yourself; plenty of time to get on track after your body heals. If you do decide to fast, maybe a FD500 with plenty of soup and broth could help?

USA. day 24. FD

Pocket List – Day 24 🍒
@funshipfreddie
@5413.5
@ccco

Hurray! one and a half pounds down today! Eating one meal a day, plus no wine during the week is working! 🙂 Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

2nd post

what @stitchincarol said today resonates with me:

‘my overeating has far more to do with taste and pleasure than with actual body requirements’

My work on this issue has been mainly to make substitutions in my meals. Like this weekend I made a delicious hamburger hash. Husband put it in a wrap as I would have done before, but I put it in a bowl with several servings of steamed veggies. Got in my veggies, ate less potatoes and red meat and no empty carbs but got ALL the flavour and a stomach filling portion. Because savory and salty flavour is my weakness it has been a fun challenge to make changes to satisfy my tastebuds while making better food choices.

Maybe someone else will find this approach helpful.

USA. Day 24. FD

I feel for everyone’s ruts and difficulties. I keep falling into that mode, too. and then wind up putting back on some of the weight I lost. Sometimes I feel like I am on a roller coaster. Realistically I should have lost all the weight by now! If nothing else, though, I am tenacious! I am with you all! 🙂

Day 25, FD, Aus

Your statement “my overeating has far more to do with taste and pleasure than with actual body requirements” resonated with a few of us, @stitchincarol. So true, and after the brief joy of eating, what’s left? A feeling of overfullness and regret. Not worth it!! (I need to remind myself of this often.)

Your joy at the lovely wedding, FD and your scales is shining through @linda_b.

Yay for your post-travel results @daffodil2010 – a perfect holiday! (Except maybe for the extreme heat.)

Day 25 – Wednesday -Gold Coast Queensland Australia – NFD 🦘🦘🦘

Good morning everyone….late today; things are very busy here this morning with painter come to paint the water-stained ceiling in the walk-in-robe after the roofer fixed the cracked tile that created the leak from the YOU KNOW WHAT! 🌧🌧🌧🌧☔☔☔☔☔

But GOOD NEWS! The sun came out today; first time in weeks! Hallelujah! At first wasn’t quite sure what that strange yellow ball in sky was but it was the 🌞☀🌞

Now the BAD NEWS! Weather report is that tomorrow will be VERY HEAVY RAIN…. AGAIN! Good grief. My daughter says it’s only rained twice this year …once for 69 days and now for 52 days and counting! ha ha!😜😝😜😜😜

@funshipfreddie really liked that link to the LITTLE EXERCISES, thank you. Now I only have to apply myself to doing them! I’m thinking about it though… the first step.

I can’t chat today but happy to report scale stayed the same…. very happy with that. Tomorrow is (for me) second last FUN DAY (FD) for NURTURING MAY.

cheerie dearies

Possibility and opportunity exist on the other side of your comfort zone 😍🥰😍

Day 25 – Lake District UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Full mornings work in the garden yesterday, a work out in itself! Lots of pruning done, some of the shrubs were getting very bushy indeed, so set to and had a good workout.

@funshipfreddie – Interesting about exercise and not necessarily needing to do a lot, just little and often. I’ve found, like yesterday, if you’re busy and go about things enthusiastically or with purpose, it’s surprising how many steps you put in or the number of calories used. Which is why I’m not dumping my fitbit either, it’s good to see just how busy you’ve been. As for exercise, we haven’t been doing as many long walks this last year or so, but if we feel the need for exercise just head out on a short MOAM walk. Also taken up planking again a while ago, great for bad weather days and ‘sea days’, between 5:2 and regular exercise been maintaining quite easily with the occasional pound lost.

Mindfulness and willpower also helps, but have particularly found I like where I am nowadays, which makes it easier, no longer have to feed the ‘Inner warthog’, I am in control at last!

Take care all

Day 25 UK Liverpool
Rainy here today- not as much as poor old Queensland
Sorry re your weather- it’s tough with the flooding
Lost weight down to 89.55
Thanks for your help re dinner- you are right re choices

Day 25 – Wednesday -Gold Coast Queensland Australia – NFD 🦘🦘🦘 2nd post

It’s after 9.00pm and did a quick chick check in to the osprey live cam and, at last, she wasn’t sitting on the chicks………… she (assuming it was she) was feeding the chicks…. three of them and still another egg to hatch. Melts ya’ heart 💙💚💛🧡❤

Day 25 – Rural Nebraska, USA – FD, perhaps

weight: 150.0

Yup. Ugly number, huh? Yesterday’s FD most emphatically was not. @i-hate-lettuce, I’ve begun to wonder if the reason you’re no longer troubled by your inner warthog is because that demon somehow traveled across the Atlantic and has taken up residence with me.

So I’m going to try (yup, I’m using the forbidden word) a FD today, but mostly I’m going to focus on getting ready for the hymn fest tomorrow. DH and I host an after glow for the choir, so today I’m making a smoked salmon cheesecake and a Tarte au soleil with pesto (it will just sit in the fridge and get baked tomorrow). Then I’m cleaning up the kitchen’s mess–not the dirt, just the mess–and tidying the rest of the house (so my cleaning lady has cleared surfaces to clean). And all that has to be accomplished in five hours.

After that, I’ll go to church and do several hours of practice, and that’s why a FD has a chance of success, because I’ll be gone during the tough hours of the afternoon. But I’ve much to do, so must scoot. Hugs to you all!

Day 26, FD, Aus

Argh. Yesterday’s planned FD didn’t. My fault for changing my usual routine and kidding myself that a day working from home could be temptation-free. So, it’s Thursday today, I’m in the office, and a FD it shall be.

Day 26 – Thursday – Gold Coast Queensland Australia FUN DAY (FD)🌤🌤🌤🌞☀🌞🌞

Didn’t set the alarm this morning… what was the point because weather report had predicted very heavy rain, again. Obviously not good walking weather. But woke up to blue sky and sunshine! Urhhh? But was too late to go plodding as busy day with work.
It’s now midday and still no rain, a few clouds building. Maybe at the end of the day, if it is still not raining, I will find time to go for a walk. I’m really missing my walking.
However, new weather report says rain will be here again tomorrow… what to believe? Just wait and see, hey?

Nevertheless, very happily have opened every window and door while the sun is shining to air the house at last but keeping an eagle-eye on the sky in case it closes in quickly again.

Today? Another FUN DAY… second last for me for NURTURING MAY… am sticking to the plan with loads of veg ie mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, capsicum, lettuce and salad veg etc etc with spritz of balsalmic and olive oil. yum yum yum.😁😍🤩

@matpi I’m with you on this, mini-meals of about 130 calories on fast days keep me on track and avert me from going off track. Easy if you have it all to hand and ready to eat. I think @stitchincarol called it ‘ridiculously big salad’ and it definitely works for me on FUN DAYS and other days as well. I just couldn’t contemplate OMADs or WFDs or LFDs… this gal has to eat! Consistency and “poco a poco” – little by little, bit by bit, slowly, gradually has paid off for me.
Deprivation would only lead me down the rabbit hole of going off track and EFS – Epic Face Stuffing! So I eat every day and often! 😃😁🥰

@ccco re the wine…. was an issue for me too as, at the end of the day, I really looked forward to a glass of wine as a ritual to welcome in the evening and then more as we cooked dinner, ate dinner etc. Truly, an ingrained habit in my life with my ex. I’m single again now so don’t have that need to share those moments with the other. So, my answer to this was to resolve that I would stop drinking, at least, during my Intermittent Fasting regime until I arrive at my goal weight and then review my relationship with alcohol then. So, I have actually been able to commit to that. It was difficult at first as was such an entrenched habit. What did I do? Every early evening at the end of work, I fill a large crystal wine glass with ice to the brim, add a slice of lime or lemon, then fill with water. So as the day is closing, I am still sipping on my lovely wine glass and, do you know that after a few weeks, I found I didn’t miss the actual wine at all. Who’d a thought? Ok, there were certainly moments as with all old habits that I would have liked to have a wine but a promise is a promise (to myself) and I’ve stuck to it without any real dramas. They say it takes two weeks to make a habit and two days to break it. I’m happy to say I haven’t broken it. The benefits have been obvious. Less calories every day, clearer skin, feeling fitter and more energy to do stuff as when you settle down with a glass of wine you tend to stop doing other things. When I go out, I follow the same ie wine glass topped with ice, lime and water and, funny thing, no-one has even noticed I’m not drinking wine with them. Extraordinary!
Ok, it was hard but not impossible! Like our FDs, as we often need to decide not to have some food or other as we know we can simply defer and have it another day. Same, for me, with the wine. I know when I reach my goal I can decide whether to have it or not…. truly a new healthier relationship with wine is evolving for me.

@i hate lettuce – she was off the nest in the (your) night and I could see the chicks all huddled up together and the last egg is broken. the chicks are so close together I can’t count their heads more than three. I hope the (4th) last one just hatched hasn’t been thrown out or eaten.

Hope all your FDs are going well.

cheerie dearies

As @stichincarol said “You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.”

Day 26 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Such a busy day in work and was tempted to buy a bottle of wine on the way home, but didn’t. So ended up following my FD plan and feeling the better for it today. Will be a CD today, and tomorrow I can have that wine if I like. 😄

@ccco my sister and her two kids are coming back to Ireland this summer from the states for the first time in three years. I didn’t know Ireland was at a high level in the US, sure at this stage it’s hard to know what it’s like in different parts of the world. In Ireland we are practically restriction free, when we flew to Spain we had to wear masks on the plane going over, but that rule had been dropped when flying home (I still wore mine).

My scales are playing up in the bathroom, one minute it’s a nice figure, the next it’s an oh dear figure…guess I will need to change the batteries.

Has anybody noticed the amount of swallows and swifts and martins there seem to be already? Much more than recent years. So good to see this summer sight.

Have a great Thursday. I won’t be fasting per se but I will be mindful.

Day 26 UK NFD

Missed posting yesterday as been wallowing in self absorbed pity/disgust , but it’s a new day and I’ve pulled up my big girl pants and have a new determination to stop moaning and DO something about it , going to be tricky as I go on holiday at the weekend but I’m going to set some new – long term goals and when I go on my holidays next summer , it will be the lighter version

Day26 a grey overcast Manchester
FD

Lost some – 89.35kg 14stone 1
Funshipfreddie you did so well with avoiding booze for 7 months- you can do it again.
Thanks to all for this forum it really is a blessing

Day 26 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

The day has come, those tricky measures that have so been troubling me have been conquered, and my weight was 148.8 this morning. It’s so sad when an ugly number is lovely because it’s not as ugly as yesterday’s!! 🤣🤣

My usual concert-day routine is to fast–this is a concert thing, not a 5:2 thing–and then eat a small amount of protein around 3 or 4. DH and I have an afterglow party for the singers, however, and then I’ll finally get to taste that smoked salmon cheesecake and the tarte du soleil with pesto…I’m looking forward to them!

And tomorrow? Tomorrow I start my 5:2 routine again, doing it faithfully, and work at getting the scale back down the 8lbs I’ve gained and then down a few more.

Is someone planning to host May? We’re getting close!

USA. Day 26. FD

Again, my FD went well, except for the wine! FUNSHIPFREDDIE, when you find the answer to the wine, please share! LOL

Adding myself to today’s pocket list,

Pocket list – Day 26
@penz
@linda.b
@snowflake56
@i-hate-lettuce
@ccco

Have a great day, everyone! 🙂

USA. Day 26. FD

Welcome back, Michelinme. I remember you back in 2017! Seems a long time ago, now. Good luck! 🙂

Day 27, NFD, Aus

A little bit of PFDS this morning. Again, not my usual LFD but I’m confident it was under 500 calories. Very slowly staying on that wagon I’ve clambered back on to.

Hang in there, @brightonbelle. We’ve all been there and you CAN do it!

Oh no @funshipfreddie!! The loss of a Kindle is definitely something to mourn. Mine died years ago but I know have an 8” tablet with the Kindle app which is much easier (tho I have to admit the Kindle ‘page’ was easier on the eye than the tablet, but I like having everything else available to me on the same device). Cross fingers yours is just sulking and will be right as rain in time for the weekend.

@funshipfreddie, @ccco – I’m with you in the daily battle with the demon drink. I do feel so much better the morning after a FD when I’ve abstained and I need to remind myself that wonderful feeling could be there every morning if I chose!

Where is @flourbaby?!

@stitchincarol, I can’t quite get my head around the concept of a smoked salmon cheesecake. To my mind, a cheesecake is a sweet dessert! With salmon!?

Nice to see you back @michelinme.

Happy anniversary weekend @mariaelena – did you tell us how many years you’re celebrating?

Have a great weekend everyone.

Day 27 – Friday– Gold Coast Queensland Australia -(NFD) 🌸🌹🌼🌻🌺

Good morning gals and pals!

Gosh, here we are again nearly at the end of the month with only days to go. Up to now there are 339 posts for NURTURING MAY which demonstrates the strength we receive from each other as we navigate the path to healthier, happier us. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆🏆 Medals to each of you for staying the course!
So we are on the homeward run with, for me, one more FUN DAY (FD) on Monday. How about you?

Just a little ‘shout out’to a few of you (so many of us making it impossible to respond to everyone every day!)

@brightonbelle – please go on your much awaited holiday and enjoy it without giving the IF another thought! Don’t be so hard on yourself; we’ll all be here to support you when you return refreshed and motivated with lovely tales of your holiday! Life is too short, so don’t spoil your holiday with regrets. The nice thing about IF is that you can defer and then come back again. Enjoy enjoy enjoy! 💐💐🌸🌺🌼🌻

@stitchincarol – hope the concert was just sensational and the afterglow party a success too with the tart and smoked salmon cheesecake. It’s just amazing you recovered so quickly from C…d to perform… You’re a star⭐⭐ You’re always so busy and with so many interesting social events happening; I want live in your village!💐💐💐

@michelinme – welcome back from the wilderness🌼. I think most of us have also been here before (recidivists all!😵🥴😵) and now learnt the hard lesson that, once we achieve our goals, the only way to sustain is to continue with the WOL maintenance. Obviously easier said than done as we all know!😡😝😫😪. Life certainly has been throwing a lot of very unfair curveballs at you and yours…… and it must be taking a high toll on your inner strength and emotional eating is absolutely very understandable. You’ll find the support you need here!

@mariaelena – anniversary this weekend! Congratulations to you both! Hope you have the best time ever! 🤩🌟⭐⭐🌞🌟

@penz – under 500 cals? You just rock on Lady! Fantastic effort!🥇🏆💐

@matpi – “Graveyard of Ghostly Electronics”? Hilarious! I definitely have that box in my office too! One day (ha ha) I will wipe out their memories… just when that day is I don’t know! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Have a great weekend folks!

cheerie dearies

“poco a poco” – little by little, bit by bit, slowly, gradually

Day 27 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Happy anniversary weekend @mariaelena
Enjoy Sicily @brightonbelle, this WOL is always here after a good holiday.

@funshipfreddie, @penz, and @ccco…with you guys on the wine…I have not taken any since I came back from my holiday on Tuesday BUT every night the dragon has been whispering in my ear to gave a drop….luckily all we have us spirits in the house (dozens of bottles of various brands, hues, and strengths), plus Guinness and other beers….so none have tempted me. If there had been wine lurking I might have cracked 😆😆

It’s a beautiful day. DH has booked a Hot Box session for us tomorrow morning….it’s a wooden “box” by the local River Boyne where you use the plunge pool and the sauna then straight into the River Boyne to cool down. Very Scandinavian, should be good for muscles and shock therapy in the Boyne 😄

Have a lovely weekend.

Day 27 – Lake District UK – NFD

Good morning everyone

Weigh in day today and bang on maintenance weight! Despite holiday munchies last week, got home, 2 FD’s this week, no EFS day, zero alcohol and any holiday damage done has been undone.

Re wine etc, we just stopped buying things that were a temptation for quite some time, I knew I needed to stop feeding my Inner Warthog (food or wine dragon for some) It took some while, but a lot of willpower, that thing that some days has all the strength of a tread of knotted cotton!
It’s taken some time to get my habits/brain cells to be in control, but am there now. We’ve been away a few times this year and discovered on holiday some fabulous wines, so we risked buying a few. We limit ourselves to a bottle a week when at home and it works for us, just have to get the head round it.

@funshipfreddie – Re kindle, mine ‘died’ a few weeks ago, didn’t want to charge up met by a blank screen a few times. Turned it off, got the original charger and left it charging overnight and it’s sorted! Seems that using different chargers is not a good idea? They may provide reduced similar voltage but the amps can differ a lot and affects the battery memory, might be worth a shot, I was going to replace mine but it’s ‘back to normal’ since I use the original charger.

@daffodil2010 – I finish off a shower with the water turned onto coldest setting for a minute, doesn’t half refresh 😉

Take care all

Day 27 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 214 lbs. Yesterday’s luncheon went very well; had a good send-off for our retiree! I’m thinking Sunday may be my next FD.

Got to run.

Day 27 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Weigh in: 147.0

That number startled me! I ate enough last night at the afterglow that I was sure it was going to be much higher, so it was a thoroughly pleasant surprise. And the hymn fest went well, and I’m so delighted to have done it, and more delighted to be done with it, LOL. No more practicing for two-plus hours every day!

@michelinme What a joy to have back with us! And how is your DD doing? Is she done with her chemo yet?

@mariaelena Happy anniversary, and I do hope your sinus headache and muscle knot have gone away as quickly as they appeared!

@penz Yeah, a savory cheesecake sounds odd…but everyone was equally surprised and thrilled by it. Google it sometime; it’s an Emeril Lagasse recipe, and while it took some fussing to put it together, the advantage is that it’s made the day ahead.

@linda.b Yeah, when I tested positive last week, my first thought was how it was going to affect the hymn fest, so I was deeply thankful I had it mildly.

@daffodil2010 Your hot box session tomorrow sounds so wonderful!

@funshipfreddie As someone who reads daily on my Kindle, you have my deep sympathy!! For the record, however, I still miss my Nook. The advantage is that you simply click on the edge–either edge, right or left, high to go back a page and low to go forward a page–so when my fingers wander onto the screen, I don’t accidentally change my page. I wish the click feature was an option on Kindles.

@brightonbelle Have a grand time!

I’ll ask again: anyone willing to host June?

Okay, I’m off to play. I’m going to weed in my garden, I’m going to wander into my sewing room, and I’m going to run a few errands. Sounds dull, but is exactly what I haven’t had time–or the freedom, because of Covid–to do for several weeks, so it sounds great fun to me! Have a grand one, everyone!

Day 27 Jamaica!! NFD

Just checking in to say I am alive and well, trying not to overeat but whew… it is hard! The restaurants all have wonderful food with meals that include appetizers and dessert. How do you say no to most interesting sounding concoctions??! Also, the wine and alcohol flow very freely here. I am avoiding the sweet “Bob Marley” and “Miami Vice” types of drinks mostly because I don’t care for the sweetness of them. But other mixed beverages and wine are just as available.

Our room even has a scale! Lucky me, so far only up 2 pounds. Will see how it ompared with our home scale, but it seems pretty much the same.

Weather has been amazing, I am only slightly sun burned, but feeling great. We fly back to Chicago on Monday.

Hugs to you all!

onward and downward.