Day 20: Pacific NW USA, NFD, this day came and went while I was traveling. Safely below TDEE. I have time to catch up reading and I will check back in after.
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Day 21: Pacific NW USA (traveling), FD
Can’t believe I was able to read 2 1/2 pages before anyone else chimed in. I did mostly scan as I do need to get back on task. Traveling makes a FD somewhat easier because food options are not so great anyway but somewhat harder too because of all the old habits around quick snacks and accepting the junk food when it seemed like the easiest/only option. Now because of 5:2 I’m not afraid that I “might get hungry” if I pass up the opportunity to eat when it’s available.
therealwil – Happy Birthday! I assume there is less of you this year than last so you have that to celebrate.
Someone asked about advise for managing a FD. My only advise is probably not for everyone but if I try to count calories and eat a 1/4 of TDEE it just wakes up some food-lust dragon inside my head. So not eating anything, drinking a lot of liquid which sometimes includes a miso soup packet and a little cream in my coffee is my way to manage a FD. That and having had enough sleep, no anxiety, no special events, no depression, no twisted people in my path, that’s all I need!
Norrie – I’m sure the emotions around all your legal issues would definitely be having an impact on your hunger. I hope you can fend off those entities who seem to have exerted some pressure on you so you don’t have to let them rule or ruin your health.
Moth – tic-tac-toe is such a great visualization for our personal power grid! Thanks for sharing that.
Coda – it sounds like you’re rounding the emotional corner. “Letting go” – one of life’s biggies. Often it’s time that helps the most.
Strength and success to everyone today with your plans, your relationships, challenges and for your teams (I’ve got to find a sports page)!
NZ, Day 22, NFD
Weigh in day – 64.2 (up .2)
Bit disappointed as both FDs I extended for longer than normal, but then on the other hand I know my NFDs are too heavy & need to find moderation.
Not much water yesterday so making sure plenty today.
Off out to start mowing & gardening & move this body!!
Take care all. Xxx
Lany36, havent seen you past day or 2 – all ok? I prob have just missed your posts when quickly reading through. Have a great Labour Weekend!
Day 21 TGIF!! NFD South Florida
Very successful FD yesterday:
workout = 273 cals
food consumed = 295 cals
I slept like a baby and felt like a million bucks when i woke up!!
SOOOO much better than the bloated, regretful, self loathing that sometimes hits me first thing in the morning!!
I have even been better on NFDs so not to undo all of the effort of the FD.
I did step on the scale just because but will report from my real weight in on tuesday. It was down and i almost cried for Joy… but i would like to wait until tuesday before counting it as a real loss.
Have an awesome Afternoon, Evening, Morning, Day everyone!!!
Hi all uk day 21
Hmmm just what I needed thanks HT x
Happy birthday therealwil hope you had a fab day.
Thanks B2F yeah probably right, it will take time and only time will tell. Coping better each day tho I still swing from saddness to anger in the space of 5 mins. Moth thank you for my power grid may be useful to note for lots of life’s situations.
Where is Goldensun I wonder, as she was having difficulties too. Hope all is well.
Tomorrow is new day make it a good one!
Australia, day 22, FD
Hi to all you lvely people all over the world!
Day 20 was an aborted FD. Surprise party with a difference for a very special person – last minute surprise for the guests!. If I’d known ahead I would have swapped FD’s but it threw me a bit being such short notice, and was heavily catered as well. Aborted my FD but didn’t go over the top. I was feeling guilty about aborting my FD but realised this morning that I would have just rearranged FD anyway, so doing my FD today instead. Feels a bit weird doing it out of my usual Mon Thurs schedule.
Onwards and Downwards,
Merry
Portugal day 21 NFD (after midnight so guess it should be day 22) so I will just check in for tomorrow too, day 22 NFD
Great start to today but out this evening and had to eat some things at a cookery demo…but I didn’t eat as much as I could have.
Weight this morning. 67.1. Pleased with that for this week.
Tomorrow (day 22) I hope to be well within the tdee.
Perth, Australia, Day 22, NFD
Is there any better feeling than fitting into previously tight jeans, with no muffin top? Today, I’m not thinking so! Weighed in for the first time in 5 days. I was a little concerned at how I would go as I hadn’t done any exercise this week, but I need not have worried. Weighed in at 87.7kg, which is 4.8kg down since the challenge and 5.1kg since I started on Sep 28th. So happy.
It has taken me a while to get in the rhythm of the fasts (I liquid fast only, and usually my only calories come from a splash of milk and a breath mint or chewing gum) but I think I’m mastering it. I was able to meet a friend at a cafe and only had a cup of tea. Had the willpower to not stay for dinner although I was tempted and as this came on a full, boring day of research and study, I am especially proud of it. I do know however, from previous experience, that pride comes before a fall, and I will need to remain on guard and not get too complacent.
Happy Saturday people!
NZ Day 22 NFD and yesterday NFD
Don’t think I posted yesterday. Had a quick read in the morning then a frantic day at work and out to the movies with my son later so apologies for the slip.
Today has been good, weight yesterday was down 400g but this is still 200g up on two weeks ago so it’s motivated me to cut out the junk.
I’m not counting cals on NFDs, obsessive calorie counting has done bad things to my mental state previously and im not willing to go there.
Due to extreme counting and obsessing in the past I’m pretty good at knowing cal count in just about anything I eat so I know I’m not going overboard but as someone pointed out to me in an earlier post I won’t get anywhere by overdoing NFDs and thinking my FD will undo any damage. I know this but the reminder and gentle push here is just what I needed so Thank you very much.
I really need to reach my goal and baking /lollies and chocolate aren’t going to get my there no matter how well I fast.
I’m lucky that these are my real vices, they are definite treat foods and not necessary to try that hard to avoid. Unlike some poor souls here I have no affection for starchy carbs, pizza, pasta, bread, chips etc etc can sit in my kitchen and go stale without me ever wanting to touch them. I should be grateful for small mercies I guess
Second post
@lany36 – I also don’t calorie count on NFDs. I’m aware of how destructive, not to mention obsessive, my mind can be when I do that, and for me, that does more harm than good.
@frida – Well done on reaching your goal weight for the challenge, with still 9 days to go (here in Oz anyway). You should be very proud of what you’ve achieved.
Right, enough procrastinating by me, back to my assignment I go (last one this year!)
Hi uk day 22 nfd
Congratulations Baygirl and Frida great feeling great achievement.
Scales show a gain but I expected that after the emotional wreck that was this week. But that doesn’t help anyone least of all me. Need to eat my friendly foods that will support me. Mindful eating this weekend and into the last full week of challenge.
Can someone remind me who volunteered to lead November? Are you still able to do so?
Day 22, Essex uk.
It’s going to have to be a NFD today & tomorrow. I will not eat past 5pm and keep calories to a sensible amount. I did weigh in this am as it was a NFD yesterday as I had a lunch whereby it would have been rude to hold back on menu choices. I weighed in at 139lb again so no harm done so far…
Happy weekend all xx
Day 22 : NFD : Cheshire, UK
Weight – stayed the same.
Hi Everyone,
Sorry for not posting for a couple of days but I have been staying with my partner and with work and supporting him and his daughter, I have not had chance.
@coda Sending you a big hug. I remember feeling something similiar years ago when my brother broke up with his long-term girlfriend. She felt part of the family and I expected them to marry and have children. He now has a wonderful wife and a beautiful daughter (they live in Australia) and they are perfect for each other. They are still very much in love as when they first met after 18 years.
I’m still going through some difficulties with my partner. He brought up his daughter (20) on his own and recently she has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. It has all been very intense when she was at home being very manic and it’s still difficult now whilst she is in hospital – heartbreaking for him and his ex-wife. On top of that we have some unresolved issues which I tried to forget because of the situation with his daughter but because they were unresolved, they have raised themselves a couple of times hence our added difficulty. It was unfortunate that we reconciled just before his daughter became unwell so I really haven’t had time to heal and build my trust again from past hurts.
His daughter seems to be making a recovery but she has a lot of anger, which seems to be directed towards him which is breaking his heart. He cried deeply last night for a long time and hopefully that has helped him release some of the pain of seeing his daughter this way. She is able to leave the hospital for upto 8 hours a day so I’ve been cooking dinner for us and we’ve been trying to find fun and interesting things for her to do whilst on leave.
I’m at home just for a couple of hours then going back. I will take my IPad so I can log on and read/post postings.
Have a lovely weekend.
xoxo
Day 22 NJUSA NFD had a great day with my daughter. Mani-pedi’s and a back & shoulder massage and my daughter treated !!! So wonderful to spend the day playing and bonding- don’t get to see her enough!
Family wedding today then flying back yo Florida tomorrow afternoon – get my life back on tract.
have an easy weekend.
Day 22 USA (Utah)
NFD
Travel yesterday went okay, probably a few more carbs than I usually eat, but I had quite a bit of exercise. My Android phone app (S-Health, Samsung produced) was happy with my expertise at least. I still ought to get better on calorie counting with an app for that.
Staying with our daughter here, and she says she wants to lose a few pounds. I don’t know if she will try 5:2, but she has seen my success with it!
GoldenSun – I feel so much for you and your partner. His daughter is right at the age most bipolar manifests itself. We have bipolar in our family, and the biggest help will be to get her on the right medication and into therapy. You have my hugs and prayers.
Still hoping maintenance will work for me while I am here for a week visiting daughter and granddaughters. It’s hard while traveling, but I will do my best!
Day 22: Pacific NW USA (traveling), NFD today but yesterday with liquid only FD, and today’s working brunch later this morning means I will have made this a 40 hour fast. It was hardest last night when I opted out of dinner and got back to my room and the snacks on the mini-fridge kept their eye on me. You know, like one of those portraits, no matter where I was in the room they were looking at me. Darn these hotels that arrange those “baddies” so neatly in the little basket!
Coda – it was me who volunteered to track us during a “30 Day November Challenge”. Sometime toward the end of my current trip I expect a new grandchild to be born so it will be hectic for me at the end of the Oct challenge but I know I want to keep my 5:2 planning and progress going forward and what better way than to get home and ask a secretary how those spread sheet things work!! I use them all the time but usually someone else has set it all up. Just teasing, actually it will be easy. I will post the new challenge on Tuesday when I get home. And I can offer to track and follow our team’s progress but I’m hoping everyone knows I still feel like a novice and I depend on you all for guidance more than I feel qualified to actually lead! So here’s hoping many of you will continue (I’m looking at you, our past leaders, Coda and DebbieQ and Fuvvie and Merry for those wise words)!
Hannah – like I just said others will have the right words to help you back on the horse but I wonder if you already know what you need to do, if you wrote those things down you believe added up to the extra kilo and chose the ones you would strike off this week if it would add some sort of extra power to your resolve to see it in black and white on paper?
Baygirl – I say go ahead and bask! I’m getting compliments from people I haven’t seen in a while and my first self-message is fear of what the future will hold and that this all might be a fluke. What if we re-framed it and accept that the road ahead will have ups and downs but we know we can stay the course, and pride may not be the reason for a fall but we won’t let pride keep us from getting right back on the horse!
Frida – I feel so happy for you reaching your goal this month!
GoldenSun – please remember that your needs are important too and take care of yourself!
Day 22: Gloucestershire, UK: Non-fast day (and weekend).
Stuck to my fast day yesterday, just a bowl of porridge. I can’t seem to get back into my famous 36-hour water-only fasts at the moment.
My fasting book (Jason Fung’s new one out) came today…..so some motivational reading coming up.
Pissupoosa: I think you ordered it too. Did you get yours?
Frida: Well done on your success!
Day 22, E. Canada, NFD
First, to those struggling: As merryme says, every day is a lesson. Try to enjoy the learning as well as worrying about passing the exam. 😉 And beware the perfectionist gnome.
Back2thefuture – I wasn’t imagining it. Candy treats DO watch us, sing to us, like mermaids luring us to the rocks. Slam that mini-fridge door in the hotel room and if necessary, block your ears. 😉 Just keep telling yourself “I’ve had lots of food today, lots, no worries, I will not die of starvation…”
As for me: I double checked using the medical scales and they register 131 (59.4 kg for you metric fans). So my averaging out of the home scale readings was a fairly good reading. I’m reasonably optimistic that I’ll meet my goal for October in 9 days time. The hard part is not letting my having lost 10.4 kg since July go to my head, or should that be, back to my belly and butt. And I’m still not at a healthy BMI (body mass index) yet, so I’m not done.
Yesterday’s FD I didn’t follow rigourously, but I did eat as little as I felt I could manage given I’m still coming to grips with my hearing problem. Breakfast of bran flakes and 1/2 a banana, 240; at a Starbucks for a late lunch (after a lot of walking) I bought a small latte and a package of almonds for 390 calories, subtotal 630; supper was 1/2 a small cabbage roll, maybe 120, st 750; a handful of salad with some cheese and bacon bits in it, 80 for st 830, berries and 1 T. light whipped cream, 80 for total 910. As my TDEE is 1470, I was still down 560 cals for the day – and I went for a swim.
Today I’ve had about 800 cals so far; the usual bran flakes (1/2 the portion this time, 90 cals); a raisin tea biscuit with 1 t butter, about 300 cals/st 390; 1/3 of a bagel with avocado, 180 st 570, 1/3 of a bagel with peanut butter and jam 180 st 750, a few berries 25 st 775. The thing is, if I eat as I did yesterday, that’s (910 * 2) = 1820 calories over 2 days, or the same as one day eating to 1470 (TDEE) plus one day eating to 1/4 of a TDEE. There’s more than one way to skin a cat in the cutting calorie thing.
That said, almost all of my calories today are from carbs, although they are not intrinsically bad (and as one who lives in a country that raises wheat and potatoes and the like, I’m quite prepared to defend those foodstuffs!) I’m a tad behind on the protein though and well behind, as usual, on the veggies. I think I’ll make a ratatouille, which should make several servings for 2 people. Easiest to find time on the weekends for this.
USA Hawaii day 22 NFD
Maybe doing the 16:8 this week will help because I’ve yet to get in a true 24 hour fast during this trip. We only have coffee in the morning and lunch has been 1pm or later everyday.. healthy low carb foods 95% of the time. Dessert bar at a prepaid buffet dinner and one other night we split a small slice of carrot cake that had been calling my name when I walked past it the hotel deli shop. Another positive..a number of walks on the beach. That said.. I’m planning on a good liquid FD when I get home – before my weigh in. It’s been great reading all the posts.. several of you having already reached your October goal – wow! I’m hoping to add a success story of my own.
FYI as to those tempting treats in the mini frig… I called ahead and made sure the mini frig was left empty in our room. But maybe that’s cheating – no resistance required. LOL
Back2thefuture:
Hey, I was just thinking, while on my evening walk just now…will anyone be doing a 30-day November challenge? And what do you know! I get back and catch up on the latest posts….and find that very subject cropped up a few posts back and I hadn’t noticed!! I was even thinking of offering, even though I’d be very poor at admim….(notepad only, spreadsheets etc being a total mystery to me). However, I see that you are doing one! That’s great news….I’ll be there. And thanks!
Gozo, Malta
Day 22
NFD
Today I weighed myself and I’m the same weight as last week ie 64.5 kilos. I’m happy to have stayed the same though I would have loved a loss. I need to step up my exercise as I only walked for twenty minutes once this week and did hit exercise once ie went running up the stairs five times and came slowly down. The only other exercise is running after my grand children whom I babysit everyday except Sunday.
Anyway I lost 14.7 kilos since the start of 5:2 or 4:3 on 6 th June and need only to lose half a kilo more to reach my target weight of 64 kilos. Today two different people commented on how good I looked.
Today I stayed below TDEE. Enjoy the rest of the weekend dear lovely people.
Day 22|NFD|Bucks UK
This week I lost 1lb and for rest of the month I need to motivate myself more. Apart from walking to and from work I don’t really do much else. However I am pleased with my weight loss so far.
This coming week I know is going to be a hard one as it’s the school holidays and I will be on leave for a few days which = lazy mode. But I’ve voluteered to look after my great-nieces both 2yrs old so we’ll see…
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend x
Georgia/USA/Day 22/ NFD:
Thank you all for the B-day wishes! I had a great day of pampering and relaxation. But best of all… I went shopping. Bought a new pair of jeans that were my target size and guess what?! They fit better than I could have imagined. I wore them out to dinner last night! I couldn’t stop there, so I treated myself to another pair today. I’m going to be better to myself this new year in my life. I’v always felt that my birthday is truly my new year. My resolution this year is to be better to myself than I was last year. Have a great day you all!!
Morning All (afternoon really but my morning post disappear again, I do believe).
USA – Missouri Ozarks – Day 22 – Non Fasting
Had a great day yesterday, only ate one meal – at the Mexican restaurant. Didn’t overdo it at all, drank two glasses of ice water.
Ate two waffles for breakfast, working like a crazy woman today straightening closets and getting stuff ready to donate to a local women’s shelter thrift shop. Getting fall/winter clothes, shoes, boots, socks, coats, jammies and houseshoes, etc., all organized. Eating a sandwich and chips right now, will eat a salad and one slice of pizza later tonight.
Cannot believe how energized I have felt since starting this fasting three days a week plan.
Hope everybody is having a great day/night.
Perth, Australia, Day 23, NFD
Thanks for the kind words everyone. It is lovely to be a part of such a warm group. Managed to go for a walk yesterday, anything to procrastinate and not do this assignment.
@back2thefuture – yes, knowing that there will be highs and lows ahead and having the confidence in yourself to be able to weather them is what I’m striving for. Thank you for illustrating it so well.
@anna6 – nice work! I’m hoping to emulate your success. Have another 20-25 kg to lose so it may take a while. Enjoy those compliments, you’ve earned them.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend folks 😊
USA (Minnesota) Day 22 NFD
Go Cubbies! In memory of my Dad, who was owned by the Cubs, and played for their “farm team” system (minor leagues) as a pitcher for many years, the World Series is all I will be watching this week.
Songbirdme, I think you can appreciate my bittersweet feelings watching the Cubs this week. Also, that I put away an entire bag of bacon-cheese flavored popcorn today. 😋 I enjoyed it, so no regrets. It’s been months since I’ve done that, so I think I’m doing pretty good. Still within 2.5 pounds of goal.
Good luck to all of you focusing on your 5:2 way of life. Stay strong. Stay positive, no matter what.
Gozo, Malta
Day 23
NFD
Fuvvie thanks for the encouragement. I hope you’re right and I lose the last half a kilo by the end of this challenge.
Baygirl you’ll get to your target soon enough. Just concentrate on your fast days and be sensible in what you eat on non fast days. Sometimes the weight just remains the same for a week or so and then it goes down again. If you continue fasting success is guaranteed.
Today is a nfd for me. I usually have a dessert in the form of cake or gateaux and a glass or two of wine. I’ll try staying below my TDEE by eating very lightly in the evening.
Onwards and downwards. Happy Sunday everyone.
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