Well done and heaps of congrats tochat2u.
Day 4 and fast day for me.
looking forward to my weigh in tomorrow morning.Hope my loss is as good as yours.
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Thank you Countrygal , of all the diets I have tried and 4 days into this with excellent results .
I’m not a lover of miso soup unfortunately , I have a lettuce wrap if I feel the need to eat , with only 64 cals total and is very enjoyable . When this fast is over I am going for the white egg omelet with some spring onion mixed , my 20 yo son made one for me the other night and it was very enjoyable .
Would love a recipe Countrygal of your vege soup if you don’t mind , am looking for some menu changes , any recommendations ?
Not a problem, I made just enough for 4 meals and went by My Fitness Pal for cals
1 cup each of grated carrot and zucchini
1 cup of sliced leek
1/4 cheek of red capsicum
1 stick sliced celery
Stock cubes to taste (I used the ones from Aldi and needed 5) beef flavour
1 large tin of Homebrand champignons cut into large bite six pieces (the other vegs dissolve so they give you something the chew)
Cover all in a saucepan with water but cover the veg so the soup is thickish.
Salt and pepper to taste, (you can add so many more veg of course or try different each time for the different flavour)
Bring to boil then simmer till cooked to your liking.
I got 4 meals at 75.cals each out of this so put some in the freezer for Monday, it’s so cold here in Gippsland at the moment, the soup really hit the spot.
I hope you enjoy
Welcome Sam.
I’m a 29 year old stay at home mum, also with a 2 year old! And i think we have the about the same amount of weight to lose (although i lost the ability to think in stones and pounds when i left the UK lol) i want to lose 32kg with a goal weight of 70kg which i think is around 11 stone.
Hi pingpongpom and welcome to our little group!
Countrygal sahm = stay at home mum lol
I think we’re all agreed to a Friday weigh in. Looking forward to seeing everyones progress tomorrow, including my own lol I’m expecting to have lost quite a bit but then i typically carry around 5kg in retained water so i normally lose 2/3 kg on the first week of any diet.
This weekend is going to be difficult for me as it’s a local ‘fiesta’ in the village i live in (the spanish love to celebrate thier saints :/) so that means lots of parties and family get togethers. I’ll need an iron will to get through it all!
Just reading all these posts is keeping me motivated. I’m into my 4 th week and stayed the same weight last week which has deflated me a little. I’ve lost 4lbs so far but have to say my usual bloated ness has gone. I’m 5 ft , 157 pounds and bmi of 31. Want to lose 24 ish pounds to feel good. I also live in Spain, Costa Blanca .
I’m usually a quick fix person so this is torture for me waiting on my body to adjust to my new 5;2 regime after many years of yoyo dieting! Oh I’m 53 btw. I’m Scottish too so very nervous about today’s vote. !!!!!! Hope we stay United!!!!
Morning all! Thanks for the welcome. So I weigh 84.1kg today, checked my dates and I started at 85.8kg on 5th August so you might say my progress is slow at 1.7kg in 7 weeks! I’ve been lower but it’s gainlosegainlose. My first two weeks I lost 1.4kg! I actually stuck more or less to the 500 yesterday, I’m breastfeedingso findit very hard! Weighing in just once a week is a good idea! So while I’m disappointed weight wise I did wear some new jeans this week That I bought 2 years ago..I couldn’t get into at the start of this so I’m shrinking my waist which is good!
SSMM:
Initial research in longer term water fasts (4/5 days or more) have been shown to have some interesting results. However, despite the apparent belief in some that Dr. M supports them, if you actually saw the original program you know he rejected them as undoable for the average person, especially on a periodic basis, which seems to be necessary to get more than temporary beneficial results. This is all given today’s research results – who knows what new research will reveal?
If you are interested, I would start with doing water fasts on your diet days and see how it goes. For many people, they take awhile to get used to. If you find water fasting bearable, you can then do back to back (2 day) water fasts and still be within the 5:2 frame work. After that, go where you want to go.
When you are talking periodic longer term water fasts, you take the discussion past just weight loss and into the area of life extension – an area that is just being explored and for obvious reasons has not been proven. How do you do a clinical study with control groups to investigate whether fasting extends life? It would have to be a very long term study that wouldn’t end until most of us are dead!
Good Luck!
Ok so just done the Friday morning weigh-in and have lost 0.8kg since my last weigh on Tuesday morning. So guess thats pretty good. I wasn’t as diligent with the fasting yesterday but still would have consumed a hell of a lot less than normal. I have 2 perfectly slim teenage girls and don’t want to “diet” in front of them – so got a bit tricky around dinner and supper time.
Hope everyone else went well.
Good morning girls first fasting day yesterday, I weighed myself before starting and as my digital scales only weight in .5 increments it hovered between 93.5– 94k’s so I guess-timated about 93.7, this morning it sat very steady on 93.0k’s, wow to me, very surprised only after one day, really looking forward to next Friday to weigh in. HINTS; i made a large jug of cucumber mint and watermelon water, which I kept in the fridge and used all day, didn’t miss my lunchtime glass of wine or evening whiskey and dry, I used a wine glass to drink the flavoured water with a slice of cucumber in it and a few mint leaves and loved every mouthfull. I know whatever weight I lost was fluid as I spent so much time running to the loo! My day consisted of a morning smoothie and soup all day so a lot of fluid intake but very happy. Thankyou Eluminadia for the explanation of SAHM, at 64 our language is changing so often, I need to go back to school. Good luck gurls I hope you all have good news.P.S. New scales coming in .1 increments, so easier to guage my loss.
You are all so inspiring. I’ve just started, this is my first week and today my second fast day….going ok so far. Great to rad your stories, particularly a couple that I could really relate to, being short in height and having trouble moving that weight around the middle…..looking for inspiration and motivation
Hi SaideeC welcome to our group, you will find most of the posts will give you inspiration and the biggest motivation is the positive outcome for everyone, and all so very easy, we all know what foods are good for us so it’s basically just sticking to them on fasting days and watching portion sizes but more impirtantly drink plenty of water, you will surprise yourself, we weigh in each Friday so good luck for next week
My Country girl buddy ,you still achieved a loss so well done! My 2.2ks was because I was very motivated (As we all are). I think I almost staved my self yesterday because I was not hungry,though I paid for it last night could not sleep and had a headache. Most dietitians advise that a weight loss of 1kg a week is healthy. Also the 1st week of any change in an eating plan is you will lose fluid first.Onwards to week 2xxxx
I did a really bad thing! I’m a Nurse, Friday was very busy so busy that my NUM needed me to work Saturday. Come home, had 2 glasses of low alchole and calorie wine,3 choc biscuts and Milo on skim milk.
I put on 1kg! will be sensible today and fast tomrrow Monday stupid girl!
Catch up with you all during the week….sorry to let the side down!
No apologies necessary, you sound like you have the same wine as me, yummy and refreshing, buton feast days you may have whatever you want to eat. I watched the show on Foxtel AGAIN last night and don’t understand all the confusion on the different threads. Fast on Monday and Thursday at 500k’s and upto 2000k’s on feast days, I try for 1200k’s…so you Go girl, enjoy life and food
Welcome Earthangel 01. (Love the name) if you download My FitnessPal it calculates all your food on a daily basis, makes life very easy, you will be surprised how many calories we consume in even just simple foods ( like parsley) EVERYTHING has calories, doesn’t seem fair!
go gal I’m on Skype (one retired nurse to another)
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