This topic contains 11,642 replies, has 174 voices, and was last updated by Pollypenny 3 weeks, 3 days ago.
Hi gang
Just in from a dinner party (1am here)
I was full after the entree. When the main course was dished up I just pushed it around my plate. Didn’t want any desert. I felt SO full, bloated stomach, and yet everyone else, except my hubby, polished off the lot. The gathering included all sizes and they all happily ate the huge amount of food.
I’m a changed girl. Just couldn’t fit it in, even to be polite. Excellent.
Purple
Hello Purple and gang,
I have been neglecting this thread I am sorry to say but I will take the time to catch up now when hubby is watching the footy. I just had to report that I have been at my Weight Watcher goal for 3 years on the 5th July and with this 5-2 WOE and my still going to my WW meeting every week I feel sure I will be making my way to 4 years, bring it on.
Purple well done with knowing when you have had enough, I seem to still be waiting for this idea to take effect in my weightwatcher brain. LOL
I think even more so now that I know I can have a good fasting day the next day to make up for my over indulgence be it food or alcohol. I even look forward to the fasting day that is something I never thought I would say. Going to read back now. Happy fasting or feasting as the case may be. JIP
Hi JIP. Welcome back to the Mainenance Mates 🙂 Your 4 years of steady weight is marvellous. Mind you, I think you never sits down, do you?
Yes Auriga, we are definitely in uncharted territories. But we know how to do it, don’t we? After last night’s effort, even though it’s a Sunday, I’m fasting. Also, that allows me to have gallettes tomorrow for Bastile Day. 😉 It’s all about balance.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone. ..I’d better go and water again. No rain for ages.
Purple
Congratulations all on continuing maintenance success, however you are achieving it!
My official weigh day (Sat) showed 59.4, despite egg and chips (with white bread for a butty) and wine on Friday night.
Interesting that some of us can no longer overeat and recognise feeling full and stop eating, while some balance out overeating (and less healthy food choices?) with the fasting days. I guess it doesn’t really matter which camp you fall into, but I’m intrigued to know why the difference? Is it all in the mind, or is there a physiological basis?
And I totally agree that this is the place to unashamedly revel in our fasting success!
Chicken and corn vegetable soup
2 Carrots, 1 leek, parsley. Sliced.
2 stalks celery plus a little of leaves. Celery tops add flavour. Sliced.
3 Spring onions (shallots) sliced. Pepper, fresh ginger.
GF vegetable stock powder, water to taste. Simmer for 10 minutes.
1 fresh corn cob, slice off niblets. Feel like a chef 🙂
Add fresh corn niblets or frozen to soup. Simmer 5-10 minutes.
4 chicken tenderloins or 1 chicken breast. Slice thinly.
Return soup to mid boil and add chicken. Cook for 10 minutes. Season to taste.
Note. Good for nonfast days. Can have on fast days if you leave out the corn.
Enjoy 🙂
Hi all
We had a feast day yesterday, as opposed to a normal nonfast day. I learnt a valuable lesson. 🙂
We had friends to lunch, then went out to dinner. Lunch was Chicken and corn soup for which I will post the recipe separately, followed by Roast trout and vegetables and peas. Small helpings plus wine.
Then last night we went to Morks Thai restaurant. Beautiful delicate flavours that we love, chili, lime, basil, prawns, duck, coconut milk. Yummy! The food was lovely and I had two small courses plus a beer. No nibbles.
However, I can no longer digest that amount of food in a day in comfort. I was awake until midnight and had broken sleep. As discussed before, I sleep very well after a fast day. I can now see that too much food badly affects my ability to sleep. O, well. I’m happy to have proven this yet again! 🙂
So, little food today and bring on tomorrow’s fast day. 🙂
Yes. Fascinating isn’t it Auriga and Bayleaf? We have adjusted to the new portion size and REALLY can’t cope with too much food any more.
I found last night’s overeating quite an eyeopener. As a young, skinny, young woman I always got terrible stomach pains if convinced by others (read my darling husband) to eat too much.
It has taken all these years to get back to it. A bit like natural lap banding.!!!!
Cheers Purple
It’s interesting PVE that a lot of us seem to have abandoned our natural eating habits under persuasion by well meaning friends or loved ones or the media etc to follow their lead. Being now older, and wiser, I know exactly my own body and what works for me, I carefully and selectively pick and choose what advice seems credible and no longer succumb to pressure as to what, when and how I should eat and, miraculously, I am slimmer, happier and healthier than ever – know thyself say I!
Auriga, I’d say regular weigh-ins and tackle excess weight gains immediately – it’s quick and easy to lose one or two pounds over a couple of weeks of 5:2, 10 or 12 pounds will take a couple of months to shift. Don’t listen to anybody who says “you’ve lost too much”, they are probably envious! Embrace being slim, life as a slim person is so much more enjoyable, from so many perspectives, than being a fat person.
Hi Auriga et al.,
Re: tips for maintenance.
I’d add that you have to accept that you can never go back to your old eating habits (or at least not for 2 days of the week!).
And if not eating breakfast or lunch suits you, don’t give in to pressure to eat how other people eat. Go with you natural instincts.
And yes, healthy nutritious food, and less processed. I cook from scratch nightly. Yes, it’s time consuming, but it’s all about priorities. Why would feeding you and your family well not be a priority for everyone?
I’ve been wrestling with the idea of losing more weight too. I certainly see fat there, but then so did Karen Carpenter. I am doing a bit of running during my walks to help build core strength (was injured for awhile and had to stop). I think if I build more muscle, I could lose more fat more safely, without losing weight. For me, this is a harder thing to do than simply losing the weight, but harder is usually the best thing.
Hi dl’berry.
I also have more fat that I would like to lose (bum/ thighs mainly) but, on the weight loss so far, suspect that my upper body would become too thin. So I’m going to settle here, and exercise more. I know in the past that cycling and running have toned my lower half nicely, so hopefully the same will happen again.
Interesting reference to Karen C. It has occurred to me that for me at least this is as easy as turning a tap on and off and I know I could go on losing weight. But it was never my aim to look thin, weak and weedy, I want to be slim but healthy, fit and strong.
Hello everyone,
Auriga I hope you are feeling better soon, awful things those awful bugs.
I know what you are saying about the time to know when we have reached that magic time to start enjoying life, while still not forgetting how easy it is to put the weight back on when we may have done this all our lives, I know I have. But I do think I have it under control this time. My advice is keeping in touch like on this thread and for me my Tuesday morning (weight watchers) coffee morning weigh-in. Everyone needs encouragement and with our experiences hopefully it will keep us on the straight road too.
In all of my 3 years at being at or near my WW goal (within 5lb) I have struggled and now that I have found 5-2 WOE I am not so terrified of letting myself enjoy the W/E away that I had the other day and when I have my next 2 week holiday in the sun I know that I can get back on here and this WOE.
I would like to lose another 4 or 5 lbs to get away from the dreaded 10 stone it would be a little wiggle room too. It’s only a pound or two now and I know I would feel much more in control knowing that I will have that little cushion behind me. Keep up the good work everyone. JIP
Hi PVE. I’ve had reading glasses for 2 years now. For the past couple of months I’ve noticed what appears to be a slight improvement in eyesight (can read some things without glasses). I’m due an eyetest, not sure the difference will be measurable though.
I’ve been musing on knowing when to stop, as I had a slight fear that I could just carry on going. And shifting my desk job bum fat would be great!
Is it nature or nurture that means we see what’s wrong and not what’s right when we look at ourselves? There’s always room for improvement, but striving for perfection will not lead to happiness.
When I look at myself naked, I see nicely toned arms and shoulders, chest (enough said!), good waist, flatter stomach, bum bit flabby (and definitely not a peach!), slimmer thighs and no cellulite now (but skin damage from stretch marks). Positive and negative. With my clothes on, which is most of the time, no one can see the negatives.
So when you start obsessing about that problem area, remember to stand back and view it in context and in perspective. Has anyone said to any of us, wow, I would say you look amazing/ you’ve lost enough weight if it wasn’t for your fat bum/ stomach/ legs?!
Yes Happy
We need to look at the positives. I do these days. Even accept the pancakes; )
I’m finding I can watch tv without glasses now. Not crystal clear but I haven’t done this comfortably for years!
I don’t think mine was measurable, but my bloke, the recovered diabetic, has a lower script!
Purple
Morning Auriga glad to hear you’re better, come to think of it, I haven’t been ill once since I started 5:2 in February. I was posting though for another reason; I was surfing this forum looking for FranFit actually, and I wondered if its possible to edit the name of this thread to include “maintaince” as it’s not apparent that’s what this thread is about. It was actually FranFit who introduced me to it in the first place via another link. Just a thought, not sure if its possible though or if the others feel it necessary?
Hi PVE, Greece is great, and our little village that usually consists of around 500 people in the winter now has around 1,500 people – mainly Athenians who have holiday homes here, but also tourists from Germany, Holland, Italy and Russia – not many British find their way here. It’s busy now with lots of festivals mostly religious ones taking place and my other half is a very sociable being and we seem to attend almost everything! Believe it or not we attended a “garlic festival” on Saturday evening, high up on a plateau in a tiny mountain village – its main sauce of income being garlic. It was the 20th anniversary of the village’s first “garlic festival”. There must have been 600 people in the village square which was filled with tables and chairs with a fountain in the middle of the square adorned with ropes of garlic from top to bottom and lit up like fairy lights. Garlic garlans were hanging everywhere like christmas decorations! There was a traditional Greek band playing saxophone and bousouki guitar and a buffet-type food set-up where one could purchase succulent pit-fire roasted whole pork with the crispiest crackling and glistening creamy fat spiting out at us served with large pots of the village’s garlic sauce, which to be honest, consisted mainly of crushed garlic with olive oil complimenting the pork beatifully plus huge loaves of freshly baked village bread and beer. We ate with our fingers trying to mop up with little tiny flimsy napkins – it was magical with the full moon shinning really bright, there was a cool breeze because we were high in the mountain, the music and singing didn’t stop and everybody was dancing traditional Greek dances holding hands in spirals of four and five deep twirling around and around , it was heady and hypnotic, we left at 2am, got home at 3am then slept, the sleep of the contented! Last night of course was the football worldcup – which started here at 10pm, home at 1pm. We haven’t had a night at home since last Tuesday when I did dinner at home for 10. Jeez I’m exhausted and in need of a holiday!!!
You are sweet to have missed me. I can’t quite get down to my target weight due to emotional eating issues. I had a hard time coming off of ADF and going to 6:1.
So, I am not quite done yet.
I am no longer fasting on alternate days and am getting better control on my non fast days.
I have about 5 lbs to go.
Don’t you dare PVE! I’m on my way to yours for breakfast…..
Think you may regret painting such beautiful pictures for us Elaine, when you find a coachload of skinny women tracking you down! Not sure you’ve told us the name of your village, but I’m sure there’s a trail of, if not breadcrumbs, maybe cauliflower rice, for us to follow…. !
Auriga, sorry if you’ve already mentioned this, but if you can’t rename the thread to include a reference to maintenance, you could just start a new one and leave a ‘forwarding address’ on this one? We’d come with you, honest!
Just picked the car up and came straight home. The schools went back today and the after school traffic was terrifying.
Don’t worry Happy. I’m still offering you a spot at my table. And yes. I think we should plan an excursion to Elaine’s for a maintainers meeting. 😉
We would follow you Auriga.
PVE/Purple/P/ call me what you like as long as it’s nice
Ha ha, PVE, Now what could we call a Maintainers Meeting here in Greece – “Slimwomens’ Symposium in the Sun”? I think it would be a bit lively though for this sleepy little village – I think all of us together might make for a bit of a wild bunch! The poor old Greek men in the local kafenion, sipping their little coffees whilst playing with their worry beads might run for the mountains from wence they once came LOL;-)
You must be logged in to reply.
We pay tribute to our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Michael Mosley. Michael was an integral part of our lives, […]
Michael is touring Australia this September! Here's a link to dates and tickets. Hope to see you there.
Michael Mosley gives an update for 2019, current research in the field and announces a tour starting in February.
in Weight loss • updated 17 minutes ago by hemmy
in Welcome to The Fast Diet and Exercise forums • updated 32 minutes ago by stitchincarol
in Welcome to The Fast Diet and Exercise forums • updated 1 hour, 54 minutes ago by Anzac65
2:58 pm
12 Jul 14