Day 27 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NFD

Checking in with PFDS after a slightly hungry but successful FD. I’m surprised how quickly this week has gone by……if only the pounds shifted as quickly.

Last night I watched a TV programme about injectable weight loss drugs and the part I thought most interesting was about a woman who participated in a trial taking what she believed to be the drug for many months. She endured all the side effects and lost a huge amount of weight. At the end of the trial she discovered she had been taking a placebo. It was her own belief that the ‘drug’ would work that enabled her to control what she consumed and with that knowledge she continued on her weight loss journey and lost more. A lesson there me thinks 🤔
Personally I’d prefer to do FDs than stick needles in my belly.

@merryapple it seems like you have had good medical care, take it easy when you’re home x

@northgeorgia hope you’re safe and don’t get any storm damage 🤗

I need to get a wriggle on, we have someone viewing the house today so I need to do a tidy up.
Happy Friday everyone!

Day 27 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

I saw a number on the scale this morning that I haven’t seen in two years. Now, keep in mind, it’s not a real number, because I’ve simply emptied out my body of everything on two WF days this week, but it was lovely to see, and I have serious PFDS, motivating me to eat very, very well today so that my number in the morning is far better than last Saturday’s weigh-in.

And I think my comment yesterday was more insightful than I realized. Remember me talking about choosing to take on my 32yo attitude about eating, rather than feeling sorry for myself at how little I could eat and how often I had to exercise restraint? Perhaps that is what is missing for those of us who are struggling to regain younger thinness, and to replicate the success we had the first (and second and third…) time around with this way of life. We’re all struggling to replicate the actions and the successes, but we’re forgetting to replicate the attitudes and thoughts. Who knows, but I feel myself being far stronger about RESOLVE as I work at focusing my thoughts and attitudes to align with how I felt about food when I was 32, when I weighed 132 and had a BMI of 22.7…and a flat stomach, LOL.

@michelinme Yay for clothes being looser! The name of the color of the slacks I want is often called “stone” here in the US–not white, but very light. Is that the same name you have in the UK? I have a pair of capris that work for summer, but as the weather is starting to change, it’s time to find a pair for cold weather. I tried one Goodwill yesterday and didn’t even bother to try on anything; I’ll try a different store today. Your weeks ahead sound crazy busy, which is never good for your health, so hold tight to your determination to focus on self-care and plenty of sleep even as you also focus on caring for your daughter. ❤️ And, I’m slowly getting on board with the notion that when you feel hunger pains, that’s when you’re actually losing weight, so let’s celebrate every moment of feeling hunger! 😂

@merryapple I looked at my hand and tried to imagine 7 long screws fitting anywhere. Amazing, and I am hurting for you. What a dramatic result for a simple stumble and fall!

@flourbaby Oh, no! I’m so sorry about the mess with your roof and in your–decorated!–bedroom, and hope you are able to get it repaired quickly. And I’d entirely forgotten about the apparent link between fasting and effective chemo treatment, but when you mentioned it, bells started ringing.

So, @michelinme, here’s one link of many: https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2021/06/fasting-cancer

@funshipfreddie Oh my. That’s it: oh my. How can someone think they have the right to control what others eat, so that if you are in front of food–at a MOSAICS CLASS, no less–you are somehow required to eat or you’ll be rude? Is this friend who said this overweight? Or is she one of those women who can apparently eat anything and not gain? It seems to me that’s the only explanation, is one of those. Amazing. You stick to your guns, my friend, because she is WRONG.
And, wow, that fish diet. Not willing to go that route, but it’s very impressive and makes me wonder if a tin of sardines–or other fish, for that matter–would make a good lunch, when I want food, but am wanting to eat minimally and save my calories for a lovely dinner.

@missybear I’m impressed by the woman who lost weight on a placebo; goes to prove what I’ve always believed whole-heartedly: our brains and thoughts are far more powerful than we typically credit them with being. Good luck on the house showing today!

I heard on the news that Hurricane Helene is slamming Georgia this morning, so I’m thinking of you, @northgeorgia, and praying you and your family are all safe even though wet. ❤️

Okay, a zoom call with my sisters today (as we do on most Fridays), and it’s time to pull out the tax stuff and finish it up, and I have quite a bit of choir preparation to do as our first rehearsal is next Wednesday, and we’re going to Omaha this evening so DH can visit a youngish man who’s been hospitalized since mid-May with a cancerous tumor, and then we’ll go out to dinner…there’s certainly plenty to do today to keep me out of the kitchen and away from food!

So here’s to RESOLVE, to success, and to thinking the way we did back when we were thin!

Day 28 NZ NFD 70.4 🏃🏼‍♀️

I took my dear furry friend Paisley the Scottie up Mt Eden this morning. My legs work and staying home with one 🖐️ out of commission was tempting fate – I was surely going to find I had to use it for something…
I have realised that FDs will be difficult because of oral antibx hmm. This means modest eating on all 7 days… cooking with one hand and eating with my left hand does slow the process.
@funshipfreddie the trouble was I didn’t stumble I kicked a uneven pavement slab (that should have been all one level) went flying and landed on my face and hand
from memory the placebo effect is 30 % will say they feel better on a placebo so a new drug has to surpass this percentage to have a real effect
Time for Val to hold up a mirror to herself…
@michelinme it’s lovely and inspiring to hear how well you are doing👏
Same goes to @stitchincarol’s new found enthusiasm

@flourbaby can one of your work colleagues put a drone up to look at the roof? I thought you couldn’t sell a house knowing it had a problem like that. Will you have some comeback on the agent and previous owners?

Bedtime for me. It’s day light saving tonight Spring forward…

Day 28 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 238 lbs. The insanity of this week caused me to get back to my weight four years ago. Forget it. I’ll be back on track tomorrow and have to get serious in October.

It was a scary event. The hurricane tracked further east last minute, so the Carolinas fared much worse than we did. We have some small and medium tree limbs down, but no trees, no visible property damage, no flooding, and even the power stayed on (just blinked a bit yesterday morning). But there were those around who had power out for a day or so, trees down across roadways, and some localized flooded roadways and parking lots.