FD today, thank goodness, sigh of relief, etc etc………. The 2nd of my 1 off b2b FDs. Yesterday’s FD was probably a 600-700 cal, so a bit over the 500, but it was a challenging day for me energy wise (I have a debilitating chronic health condition) and I’m satisfied that I did well for the day it was.

Friday will be a nonFD
Sat a FD, New Year’s Eve
Sunday non FD and Silly Season weigh in day.
Monday, my personal weigh in and graphing day. Also back to my normal routine of Monday and Thursday FDs. I’m prepared to postpone Monday’s FD to Tuesday so I have 2 nonFDs before the next FD after the extra FDs as my body may not tolerate alternate day fasting, especially after the b2bs on Wed and today. I’ll see if I’m symptom free before I do Monday as a FD.

The travel scales remain broken but not as badly broken as they were 2 days ago , lol. Still up 1.5kgs on my pre Christmas weight after FD yesterdayWorking on repairing them each day by various means. Some of our family did a ‘making or regifting’ Christmas, and the children and dad made rocky road with maccas and turkish delight and good quality choc as their gifts for everyone, all packaged individually so that was another sugar dilemma for me. The grandmother in me said ‘What the heck” threw up her hands and gave in! At least if I’m gunna eat rocky road the only sort I’ll eat is the sort made by my little grandchildren and given to me with shining smiley faces full of love and joy.

Back on the horse,
Onwards and downwards,
Merry

The scales are repairing themselves day by day now! The overindulgence in type and quantity is finished, back home, and after FD yesterday 63.8kgs this morning. Still a kg over my pre Christmas weight. Non FD today and FD again tomorrow. Today will be getting back to my usual nonFD pattern of 1st meal after 12noon. It has been a definite relief to be getting back to my normal FD and nonFD pattern.

It was an interesting experience of seeing how my body felt eating from early in the morning each non FD, my FDs finishing at 4pm, so a bit of a fast but not full FDs, and eating foods I no longer normally eat at all. I think my body is much happier doing 5:2 than when it was eating 3 meals a day 7days a week. Not only my body is happier on 5:2 as a WOL but my mind is too. Whoever would have thought, when we started 5:2, that it came with it’s own surprising psychological gifts. I also read somewhere that weight put on quickly comes off quickly, and that has certainly been my experience. Looking forward to New Year’s Day weigh in now, and I might just forgive the scales for breaking, eventually.

Onwards and Downwards,
Back on the horse,
Merry

Well the iced water helped will be doing another FD Monday I didn’t lose the kilo i gained but didn’t gain anymore so happy with that Happy New Year everyone.

Happy New Year Thin and your disciples!
I, too, hit the sack at 11:30 after a degustation dinner overlooking a beach and 9pm fireworks. 6 super tasty protein based, small courses and 1/2 bottle of Clare Valley riesling. ☺☺
58.4kg this morning. Very proud of myself. I aimed to still be in the 58s and to do 2 fasts a week. I only managed 1 last week, but with mindful eating I still made it.
Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow over the silly season, Thin.
All the best for 2017 to all of you. P 😊😊

Happy 2017 fellow Silly Season Challengers! I feel the buoyancy in the efforts of those who are starting out the New Year by fasting!! Woohoo! I did an extended New Years Eve fast by not eating today until 1 pm today.

The good news is that I was over goal weight at the start of this thread and weighing in this morning I’m now considerably under goal weight and feeling so good energetically at this weight that I’m reconsidering what ‘goal’ weight is for me. I’m actually enjoying the feeling of lightness at this new low.

Ha! Thin, you are so kind!

I wish… with the Rodney Clark pants! For whatever reason, I’m not shedding any centimeters from my belly at the moment! And interestingly enough, I just checked measurements from October and November when I weighed 1 kg. + more than I do now and see that back then the measurement around my belly button was 2 cm smaller than it was when I measured it at my all time low. Now, I’m going to give myself some leeway here since I don’t think measurements are always that precise. Measurements at the belly button point have a lot to do with how straight I’m standing, whether breathing in or out and how tight I pull the tape measure! However, it still points to the fact that I’m still not losing there! I am continuing to shed at the narrowest part of my waist, which is 1 cm down from October/November, so I’m happy about that!

I was happy taking the inulin and then didn’t feel like packing and taking it to Melbourne and having to incorporate that into what I ate down there. I can’t say I really gave it a proper ‘go’ to test it out because it took a couple months to slowly build up to the serving sizes required to dissolve visceral fat and I was only on that dose for a few weeks before we went away. The way it works, I can’t actually just pick up where I left off either! I have to start over and slowly build up serving sizes again and at this point I’m going to give it a rest till the weather cools.

Eek, I just had a look at one of those belly measurement charts and for my height, I’m still ‘obese’ at the point of belly, even though my BMI is down to 19.3! What do they call that? Thin on outside and fat on inside or something like that? I trust that as I continue this WOL though, that fat will continue to shift. I haven’t even been on 5:2 for a year. Early days! Of course, this chart does say ‘waist line’ not belly line, so if this chart truly relates to the narrowest part, then I’m not obese! I find these charts and which place to measure somewhat confusing!

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Measure the narrowest part, Lael and pull it in tight.😁😂 That way you will feel good 😉😉
After nearly 4 years on 5:2, I am very bony on most of my body, but still have a tummy. I don’t feel it is visceral fat, much more likely to be the result of 5 pregnancies and my laziness with regard to abs strengthening. 😑😶🙄 P

Hi Thin,

Well it isn’t really 23/1 as it doesn’t take me an hour to eat…! It’s just a 24 hour fast (which is what I do on 5:2 fast days too) but not necessarily strictly 500 cals. Loss doesn’t necessarily show up the next day on the scales, but it does seem to have an effect over the next few days.

And re: the belly button as a reference point… I use my narrowest part (my waist!) as my point of reference 😁

I’m relieved to be back to normal i.e. going to work, being busy and having a really good easy FD today. I tried a couple of FDs at home but they ended up sort of half hearted – too hot to be busy cleaning out cupboards/gardening etc. One big silly season mistake I made was running out of almonds – my OH is a big almond eater so I’m blaming him but I ended up having to eat my dark chocolate covered hazelnuts instead. Don’t think they did much damage thanks to a few good pre festive fasts prompted by this forum 🙂 Great idea Thin

Back in Perth and hopefully back to a routine – today is a fast day for me so hopefully after a week of over indulging I will be able to manage it.
The damage wasn’t awful but I unfortunately did put back on a kilo.
Lael I have only just started using measurements and I use my belly button as a reference point – I think my tape measure is also broken!
Purple vegie eater I used to use my clothes to measure but since a lot of those don’t fit anymore I have started using ‘broken’ scales and tape measure! I’m still aiming for my ‘goal pants’ which fitted me 4 years ago ☺
Thanks Thin – I’ll move over to the other thread. ☺☺