Hi lovelies,

fasting_me .. the Cajun Eggs sound really good!

FD went ok for me yesterday, same weight as last week though. I’ve been exercising more this week, so its probably a mix of muscle/water weight. The jeans I’m wearing today are now borderline too big for me, so I think I may be losing inches rather than numbers going down. That’s good too right??

Hope you all have a lovely weekend, are you up to anything nice?

Work is worryingly quiet at the moment, days are long and drag like crazy. Its Friday though, and two days of relaxation are on the horizon .. I cant wait!

xx

Hello, I live outside Livingston, Tx. and am looking for a buddie close by. Meaning Texas which is funny to me because Texas is so big!
Have read o few of your blogs, vlogs or whatever these are called. My last job was several years ago as a school bus driver. I’m 60 as of June of 2017 and weighed 208 lbs.. Anyway gave up driving due to menopause, my attitude was very bad. I was not in a good place.
Am currently water fasting, this is day 4 for me. Will be trying out the 5:2 diet soon. No exercise as of yet, to dizzy when I attempt anything rigorous. When not fasting I walked my dogs 1-2 times a day about a mile or two. Looking for recipes and how to count calories. Have only done Keto in the past but food is very restricted there and am looking at doing a more normal diet.
Will go back now and read some.

Greetings.
We have been busy getting settled in our vacation cottage. I get all turned around in the kitchen trying to remember which cabinet or drawer contains the thing I want. Discombobulation.

Good luck with your ‘2 good FDs’, Florida1. The Keys are a great place to relax. 10 pounds before holidays? Which holidays: Thanksgiving/Christmas? or Labor Day/Columbus Day? Sounds doable — there are 5 months until Christmas.

Teach, you must be working like a dynamo on that floor. Keeps you out of the cookie jar to have a job like that. I can’t believe that school in Texas starts in early August. In NH it was the middle of the last week before Labor Day, which was still too soon! I found it easy not to eat when I taught, especially if I brown-bagged my lunch and didn’t go to the cafeteria for a cookie during prep block. Plan it out to suit.

Hi, Kat. Welcome to the gang. When you say ‘water fast’, do you mean nothing but water and you’ve done it for 4 days?! I understand wanting to kick-start the diet, but what about your electrolytes? One day, I can see. Be careful. This might explain your dizziness.
Look for blog posts about Fasting Recipes. For counting calories, I like the site CalorieKing. You type in an ingredient and it gives you the food values for 1 oz; or 1 cup and so on. It also gives food values for prepared products and some restaurant chain foods. Figure out the max calories you can eat on a Slow Day to reach your target weight.

My weight has plateaued at a new, lower level. So rather than fight it, I’m letting it happen. Still Fasting 2 days/week, but able to eat more on Slow Days due to lower weight. Tonight we go out for dinner.
Last night we really enjoyed a Salmon and Leek Casserole, containing dill and peas. Really good. Wish I could show photos.

Have a good week, everyone. Stay true to the calorie counts.

Have a lovely vacation Florida 🙂 Can’t wait to hear all about it when you get back! We’ll be here to offer any support/motivation needed xx

Its a FD for me today, can’t WAIT to be able to eat more tomorrow!

Hope everyone else is doing well.

x

It seems that almost everyone is ‘back’ after a hiatus.

Teach, good job on the floor. What a lot of work that must have been. But I love a good project to keep me from eating. Hey! Get rid of all the old Fat Clothes. Pack ’em up and take them to Goodwill so you won’t be tempted to grow into them again. Treat yourself to something new for your new silhouette when you go back to school. You earned it.

Dragon, it is true that as your body gets used to less weight, that it comes off slower. You could decrease the calories or up the exercise a bit…

Flo, HAPPY VACATION!! Have a great time. Eat lots of fresh fruit and stay active in the lovely water of the Keys. Throw a Fast Day in for good measure, so that losing that 10# before Thanksgiving will be easier.

We vacation on Prince Edward Island in Canada, the land of Anne of Green Gables. After renting a cottage for 15 years, we built our own. We are on the North Shore, near the ocean but not waterfront. We can see the ocean from 4 rooms of our 2-story, 6-room, 3 bedroom cottage. Plus we have an observation deck with a spectacular view. Tonight we dined ‘up top’ and watched the sun sink toward the sea. It takes us 12 hours to drive here from NH and after coming up this year, decided to do the trip in 2 parts henceforth. It air is cooler here in the summer than in NH, yet the sea water is 70 degrees. I love swimming at the beach which is 10 minutes from the house. We enjoy lobster, mussels, oysters, and mackerel while we are here, plus a real bounty of berries: straw-; blue-; black-; service-; rasp-. Lots of local friends who are natives, plus 2 couples from NH have gotten cottages here since visiting us. This is a wonderful place to be. Some of the best recipes on my blog were created here.

Hope you all had a good Monday Fast. Our houseguests leave tomorrow, so today was a bust as a FD, but there is always tomorrow.

Hey, Teach. good to hear from you as you go back to school. Keep in mind what your goals are and how you worked to reach them. You CAN do it!! Set a new goal and work toward it. No back-sliding, you hear?

We went away late last week for 3 days to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, known for its wine and its orchards. Bought a lot of fruit which we can’t get on our Island and visited 4 wineries. Good dinners. Good wines. The only bummer was the hotel breakfast buffet: all carbs, no protein except the sugar-laden yogurt. Other than that and the 2 pounds I gained, it was a delightful trip.

One and 1/2 pounds gone and tomorrow is a Fast Day. Our chickens are laying well and the meat-bird flock is getting plumper every day. In 2 weeks, my 50th high school reunion. I plan to be in good shape for that.

Happy Fast Day to you all.

It is so nice to hear from you all 🙂

Our trip to the Keys was wonderful as usual. The weather was very cooperative this year…we brought home lots of lobster and fish.

It is still Very hot in Florida….it’s going to be a while before we are blessed with a little cool front.

I also gained a couple pounds over the past few weeks…I’m trying to get them off before I go on my next trip, in a couple weeks. We will be headed back down south to Key West… my hubby and I will be taking a water cruise down for a couple days.

I had a very good FD on Tuesday, and I am fasting again today…I just haven’t been able to get back to the exercise….hopefully, mid-September, I can get myself going again. I’d like to lose 10 lbs by the end of the year.

Hello, just starting again too – I am from Wisconsin, and also a teacher 🙂

Please let me know your plan and I we can give each other support. I just started the Rapid weight loss plan in the new 800 Fast Diet. My plan is to keep to 800 calories for 2 weeks (with a few planned splurges) and then go back into 5:2. I just started Thursday and down 3.5 lbs. Motivating enough to keep it up…

Our school year is done in 2 weeks, what a crazy year!!

Good morning!

I’d like to lose about 20 pounds as well. I’m 4 lbs. down since starting last week. My hope is to get a really good start going before switching to 5:2 WOL. We are finishing up teaching this week (thank goodness!). I am a special education teacher at a K-8 school, I had students in 1,2,5,6 grades this year. However, most of my career I’ve taught special ed. Middle school. Congrats to you for making it through the year!

Are you fasting today? I’m on Day 5 of of rapid weight loss. I was feeling really good yesterday, but stayed out late hanging with a few friends outdoors. This lead to intense hunger when I got home and a bowl of popcorn happened. Any change in routine can be a challenge. Luckily, it didn’t have an impact on the scale. today.

Let me know how you are making out 🙂

Hello teach! How is you day making out? I had a nice 300 calorie lunch and planning to stick to a 500 calorie dinner. Salt always makes a big difference with the scale for me. I know that rice and soy sauce will stay with me for a while.

Our Covid numbers keep going up here in WI, which is frustrating. I live close to Milwaukee and the city has the worst numbers. Luckily, our county isn’t too bad currently. Everything is opened up, which is fine, but I wish people would be a little more cautious and wear masks. I’d say only 50% are wearing them around here.

Unfortunately, my school is closing down this year. We are a charter and our charter didn’t get renewed – which appears political since our testing numbers are at least the same if not better than the local public schools. I have decided to get my early childhood special education license this year instead of looking for employment. I may work part-time if something comes available. I am lucky to be in the situation where I can take a year to do something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I also have a teenage son and almost teenage daughter.

I did volunteer to help out with our “Covid graduation” ceremony Thursday. I am hoping families stay to the rules and keep to their cars. However, after that I’m all done and that will feel very good!!