Day 30 – UK – CD
Day 29 – NFD

I’m glad to report that our local flood waters receded as fast it rose but other areas in our region were not as lucky and suffered some damage – one of the pubs that sit near the lake edge flooded once more!

Yesterday was definitely a NFD but I did manage Monday to Thursday as FD800 so very happy with that – aiming for a good CD today and a FD800 tomorrow to finish this October challenge on a positive note with my monthly weigh in on Monday 1st November!

Thank you @northgeorgia for stepping up to host our November Challenge – I’ll set up the spreadsheet for the group.

It’s been fascinating reading the discussion of typical Thanksgiving menu items – not something I’m familiar with but always interesting to hear what is familiar/liked by other nationalities – FOUR pies for Thanksgiving @stitchincarol 😮 think the cherry one might be my favourite

@mariaelena – I too had to look up kamoosh and that sounds right up my street 😋 I hope you manage to save your food in the fridge/freezer during your power cut and hope it’s all sorted now!

Weather is brightening up out there after a wet morning so might go out for a wander up to view our local waterfalls – should be a good sight after all that rain we have had in the past few days….🌧🌧

Tomorrow afternoon I have booked in for a gentle and restorative Yoga afternoon whilst a local singer and songwriter, performs live to us her own music weaving in some soulful mantra – a “me time” to put our comfys on, turn our phone off, and really ‘plug in’ to our true nature.

Wishing all a good weekend

Day 30 UK NFD

Thank you for stepping up for November @northgeorgia I was thinking about it but like parties I enjoy participating much more than hosting and it must be karma to be rewarded with achieving your goal 👏

Looks like I’ll have remained static- which I’m taking as a positive but November will be my turning point

Have a good weekend all

Day 30 – NFD

Didn’t eat very well yesterday, power came back after 24 hours with none. Saved freezer items, but the refrigerated items pretty much was a total loss.

Moving on to good news, I’m wearing a pair of “mom jeans”, purchased pre-pandemic at the thrift shop, which were just a tad too tight to wear when I bought them. I’m certain I weigh about 5lb more than I did when I bought them, but they fit and are not even tight. They are, however, long enough in the legs that I have to roll the cuffs up twice, lol.

Maybe I can save some money up and get them shortened. (My disabilities make any such sewing impossible for me to do myself.). Of course, maybe better wait rather than spend $$ now because I suspect (hope?) at goal weight they will be rather large and might not be worthwhile to do so. Still, they are authentic 80’s or early 90’s with leather features on pockets and belt loops with that 80’s stonewash denim look, so it might still be worthwhile/fun.

Tomorrow is my weigh-in day. I’m hopeful of good news b/c these pants fit. 😀

Sending good wishes to all.

Day 31 – Uk – NFD

Just a quick check in to say that sadly our time with our boy drew to a close on Friday evening and he’s now at peace 🐾. What a month October has been. I’m taking it easy this weekend and will be back on the November thread.

Thank you @high5 for hosting this month and thank you to @northgeorgia for hosting November 💐

DAY 31 – UK – FD800

Yesterday ended up being just below TDEE and not a CD as planned but that’s OK with me.

I did get out and walked up to view the waterfalls and so glad I did – it was a spectacular sight and sound!! the sun even came out to play……met a friend on the way back to the village and ended up having coffee and cake hence not a CD as planned!!!

Dinner was a very healthy red cabbage, carrot and spring onion salad, Tomato, cucumber and avocado salad and griddled Black Garlic, cumin and chilli marinated salmon – love that combination 😋

@babs_b – so sorry to hear about your cat 🤗
@northgeorgia – well done on definitely breaking that 220 barrier and achieving your October goal 👏
@stitchincarol – going from 147.6 a week ago to 140.8 this morning – just WOW!!! Do you mind sharing what you have in your “Ridiculously Big Salad”? 🤞your dining room table top dries properly and is non sticky
@betsylee – 1.4kg is a win and heading you in the right direction👍
@funshipfreddie – maintaining is the aim for us all – well done for October
@high5 – big thank you for hosting us during the October Challenge 💐 my apologies for being AWOL a lot but knowing the challenge was there for me to return to with a vengeance for the last week kept me motivated – weigh in tomorrow morning 🤞 I too will remain within my maintenance range!

See you all tomorrow in the November Challenge and it’s my Wedding Anniversary 41 years!!

I may be on my own today but I’ll start a pocket list to keep me motivated – aiming for a OMAD FD800 this evening after my afternoon yoga workshop 2.30-5.30

Pocket List Day 31 🎯
@at

“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started, I was desperately wishing to be where I am now”

Day 31 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

Weigh-in still 140.8, so not at my Halloween goal of 139–but far closer than it appeared last week I’d be! AND I managed to make my cut-out cookies yesterday with nary a nibble, and haven’t had one yet today. I have one set aside for tonight…but smelling the one my DH had just nibbled smelled so good, perhaps I’ll just settle for smells; I am DETERMINED to get into the 130s.

And thanks for the kudos, everyone; I’ve seldom in my life shown such discipline as I am these days, but–oddly–I’m actually finding it almost mindlessly easy. I can’t say for certain why it’s going so well, except that I think it started in August when I really thought through why I couldn’t always accomplish whatever eating goals I set each day and realized it was because I was “hoping” instead of “resolving.” It’s been a natural progression–thought progression, you realize–since then, fed by more than thirty minutes of contemplation every Tuesday when I’m driving to piano lessons. So, I don’t know if it will all evaporate as abruptly as it appeared, but while I have it, I’m going for an extreme approach so that I can enjoy results: WF Tuesday, sometimes (always?) Wednesdays, RBS Th/Fri/Sat, brunch on Sunday, and whatever on Monday.

Aww, @babs_b, I’m so sorry to hear you’ve lost your fur baby. I know it hurts. ((((((((@babs_b))))))))

@high5 If I were to do only a tiny portion of what I’m doing, I’d cut out as much flour/carbs and sugar as I could: no beer, no bread, no sweets/candy of any sort. Having made the decision to start there, it was easy to simply go the entire distance and do the Eat Like a Bear thing for full keto, but even a small elimination would have helped, I believe. And thanks for hosting October!!

@funshipfreddie Thanks for the article link; everything you post is so helpful and great for building up motivation.

@at I’m happy to share the Ridiculously Big Salad (RBS) ingredients. Here in the States, you can buy hearts of romaine at the grocery store, usually three in a package, so I take one entire heart and cut a second in half (top to bottom, not across) and put every last bit of that into a large bowl for me. Just me, LOL. I can have one (fairly small) tomato (because there are fair number of carbs in them) and onion and cucumber, and other veggies if I want. I bought a rotisserie chicken on Thursday, and DH and I used it up in two days–about 6-8oz of chicken for me each day. The dressing is supposed to be a homemade dressing, but I cheated in this one way in that I used a blue cheese dressing that needed using up; she says the dressing is around 500 calories and is part of achieving the HFLC. I could also add extras, so one day I cut up an avocado, another day I put on shredded carrots (another veg high in carbs), and another day I used a boatload of feta because the chicken was gone and I’d forgotten to thaw shrimp to saute. Simplest, here’s the link showing Amanda Rose making the salad: https://eatlikeabear.com/day1_sncv/?_kx=RC26_KlO3fVa6YqJTPCRSseUlJ2StMQDqQa3_wH-frzIfEhK8suZEIA_tA_OLiWM.WVqqH8

@northgeorgia Well done on achieving your goal yesterday and only being slightly up today!

The dining room table is still sticky, although perhaps not as bad as it was yesterday. Too bad I don’t have $5,000 to pay someone else to refinish it! 😂🤣😂 (I priced it out with several companies, so know I’ve got the right amount for the table, four leaves and six chairs. I should have asked about merely the table top!)

We generally only have about 30, perhaps 40 kids Trick or Treating. How many do the rest of you get? This is a world-wide thing, isn’t it?

Have a grand day!

Thank you for hosting @high5 👏

October wasn’t my best month , see you all in November