Fat Busting Brits!!

Evening!
Jean- nice you’ve seen lots of Jacqui…well done doing more decorating!
Dave- enjoy your chocolate!
Hemmy- same, hope the sugar doesn’t set you back craving more!
Nana & Steve, hope you’re enjoying the weekend…
Had a lovely evening with Mum, she was in a good mood & laughing at her memory so we did have some jokes…ate too much sugary stuff, reminded me why I need to do keto, I have no will power with sweet stuff! back on keto today. Youngest son came round this morning & went to Mum’s for a game this afternoon. She’s started the Easter egg I gave her last night already 😱

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Afternoon All..
Walked out and then had breakfast..

Cleared my kitchen of blind, pictures and nick knacks… painted my ceiling and one coat on the walls. It’s very fiddly lots of cutting in. Took 4 hours another wall coat tomorrow.. I feel tired.

Going out for afternoon tea on Monday as it’s my birthday.. our favourite place had closed down so it’s booked at a garden centre always lovely food there so should be nice. Jacqui and Philip are taking me.

Hedgehog..
Enjoy your mum this afternoon hope she enjoys your dinner, possibly play some games?
A good catch up with son on a beach walk sounds good. A bite in the wind here today.

Dave..
Who won our rugby? Jacqui sailed through to me roads were really quiet. Everybody watching the match.
Depends on where the cows are.. sometimes you can avoid them..I am walking a different route at the moment.

Hemmy..
I bought a couple of bars of almond chocolate from Aldi my favourite. I will be glad when my decorating is done.. I am really feeling it this time round…. but I do enjoy doing it… hope you got in the garden with your book, Charlie has been sat in his bed outside so it must have been warm earlier.

Steve..
Enjoy all your celebrations.. don’t eat to much 😂

Jean x

Astro April ⭐️

Day 19 = Rural Nebraska, USA – some sort of control 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yesterday’s eating wasn’t at all bad, but I’m up a full pound this morning…oh well. I’ll behave today, and that’s all I can do.

@merryapple We had severe storms pass through on Maundy Thursday, and our little village escaped them entirely, but a mere 12 miles north of us was SEVERE damage–a hotel in the path had every single window broken by the huge hail. And then last night, a plane with three men crashed in the Platte River. Lots of tragedy in these days. How about your storm: beyond the debris and dirt and etc., was there severe damage for people? So sad when that happens, so I’m hopeful it was just a mess but no loss of life…And we too are supposed to have a full day of rain tomorrow. I’m thankful I don’t have little kids who are expecting an Easter Egg hunt!
Fun Easter Egg Hunt story: I was once watching the area where the 2- and 3-year olds were, and one kid had three eggs within a few inches of his feet, but when the bell sounded to start, he hurried right past them to an egg four feet away! I laughed and laughed that he thought THAT egg mattered most!

@funshipfreddie and @merryapple, nope ne’er a one! I’m thinking that’s on my list for next year. When I was in high school, I spent all four Good Fridays baking sweet rolls for our youth group’s Easter breakfast at church, and often miss that tradition that I actually carried on a few years into my 20s. I was just thinking that in retirement, it will be time to revive that tradition, and I think I’ll include hot cross buns!

Happy Easter to all! Today I’ll put away the Lent decorations and pull out the Easter stuff, set the table for tomorrow, get the prep work done for the food I’m in charge of, practice for the services…it’s a good list, but there’s plenty of time to get it all done, and it’s a day I always enjoy, anticipating the music and the meal. I hope your weekend is delightful for you all!

Astro April ⭐️

Day 19 UK NFD

Just looking at my weight and I see I’ve slipped back to my yo-yoing routine , really going to try and work on correcting that

Have a good day all ☀️

Astro April ⭐️

Day 19 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

@merryapple – I am having fun, but not too much. That’s a nice drop – & after a NFD too! 🎯

@stitchincarol – those ladies aren’t usually in our Tuesday morning group. They were just there to finish their project before Easter. I’m not sure if they usually go to the evening class. I think it’s a one-off project though, & the cross will be used during an Easter weekend service at St Mark’s Congregational Church, which is close to the studio. You’ve never had a Hot Cross Bun?! 😧

Have a good Easter weekend everyone 🌤🌈

Tired of feeling uncomfortable in my own skin

update:

I am still not quite reaching my goal, even with just one day of ‘normal’ eating left. The main issue is the snacking in between meals. I struggle to say no when food is offered and often find myself nibbling/snacking/picking while cooking. Additionally, even though I was making progress in cutting down on sugar, the Easter break celebrations is a challenge. The fundamental principle of the 5:2 plan is to avoid overeating. During this second attempt and over the 2 day ‘fasting’ period, I managed to lose 5 lbs, but my biggest hurdle has been my tendency to over eat during the five days of ‘normal eating’.

I have now gone back up to 10 stone 3 lbs, and the little success I achieved has ebbed away. I intend to continue my journey, and Sunday marks the beginning of my two ‘fasting’ days.

I’ll give it another week, and I will consider trying one of the intermittent fasting options like 16:8, 18:6, or 20:4 since they allow for no snacking or eating before a certain time (maybe that is the boundary I can be consistent with), a possible viable alternative for me.

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Denise as been having hot cross buns. Still not had any eggs yet but getting very weak. Speedway was ok no rain so lucky because it as rained for a good few hours. So the rugby is between Hull and Hull K R Jean. Had fish and chips for tea, think that’s all their were selling, when I got there they queue was at least 20 yards long but it’s a great chippy they’re are 3 cooking and 5 serving so dosent take long.

Astro April ⭐️

USA. Day 18. FD

So busy lately!! I wanted to check in anyway. I will have to read the posts later. Happy Easter, everyone!

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

I had an extremely strict upbringing and as well as having bad food experiences growing up, I also suffered other very traumatic experiences/incidences which I won’t go into here.

Mum was a good basic cook and exceptional at cakes and baking and I have fond memories of her baking, although I was never allowed to help, just watch, as things had to be done a certain way when mum baked, but of course I was expected to help with the dishes.

My Dad was a very strict man, who believed a womans place was in the home so my mum never worked, she was not allowed to have a drivers license, we had to ask permission to use the tv or radio (which was usually denied), everything had to revolve around my father and how he expected the household to be which was quiet, spick and span tidy, everything laid out for him etc. He never lifted a finger inside the house – he demanded to be waited on hand and foot – and he was.

I was the youngest and the four siblings and mealtimes with my father filled me with fear. Strict table manners were always upheld and we had to ask permission to leave the table once we’d finished eating and had a spotless plate with ‘Please Dad may I leave the table please’ – don’t ask my why we had to say please twice but we did.

He expected the plate to be clean, and by clean, I mean not a spec of food or a mark anywhere to be seen. I can still see and hear him scraping and cleaning his plate spotless with his own ‘special’ cutlery which no one else was allowed to use – a bone handled set. The knife would bend as he pushed it around the plate getting every single spec of food off the plate.

When I was younger, I could only eat small portions, I got full easily. And I really disliked meat, I hated the taste and the texture, Dad liked his meat cooked until it became as tough a leather which made it even worse.

So, like others on this forum, I was made to sit there until I had cleared my plate, and it was spotlessly clean. I could be sitting there for hours putting minute pieces of food in my mouth trying to get it down when I was full – I wasn’t refusing the food I was simply full because I was given a portion that was far greater than what I could possibly eat. But Dad saw this as food waste and we must never waste food – giving me a smaller portion just wasn’t an option in his world.

While sitting for hours eating minute pieces of cold food wasn’t pleasant, the worst experience for me was when I was served meat. No matter how smaller piece I cut and put into my mouth and how much I chewed it, I just couldn’t swallow it. It would go around and around in my mouth until it became a disgusting ball of hard mush. This angered my father to no end and made him irate when I had no option but to take the ball out of my mouth and put it back on the plate. And the fat made me gag. Dad relished eating the fat from meat and expected everyone else to eat it too.

When the meat eating, or non-meat eating episodes would occur, Dad would rise from his chair and walk slowly to the kitchen pantry where he kept a jockeys crop horse whip hanging behind the pantry door. I’d get a whack across the back with the whip and then of course I would cry, which would make him more irate so he’d hit me again. Then he would make me put more food in my mouth, by which point I would be sobbing uncontrollably, and my only options were to either choke or spit out the food. Of course, the latter always occurred because I couldn’t swallow, so I would then be given several more cracks with the whip and sent straight to bed. Mum was forbidden to comfort me and I’d be left on my own until the following morning when nothing would be said about the night before.

This was a regular occurrence from about the age of 5 until late primary school. Every day when I got home from school, I’d ask mum what was for tea, if it was something like spaghetti bog or soup, I would jump for joy but if it was a meal that contained a piece of meat the terror would set in and I’d be a bag of nerves waiting for 5pm tea time. None of my sibling received this treatment as they had no issues clearing their plate.

About 7 years ago I sought help from a psychologist to help me work through my childhood trauma which I had held inside for almost 45 years. I had what I can only describe as a breakdown one morning, so I finally reached out for help – best thing I ever did and I should have done it a lot sooner, it would have saved me quite a few decades of being totally screwed up that’s for sure.

It was discovered during those sessions, which had never occurred to me before, that I have absolutely no memories at all of my siblings being at home when I was younger. I remember me being at home growing up but no memory of them being there with me. Of course they were there, but I cannot remember anything at all about us being together, doing anything together. I can only remember them as adults, after their school years. Strange.

I haven’t had any contact with any of my siblings for years now. Even when Mr GDay passed away I didn’t hear from any of them. For them I guess it’s easier to shut me out and pretend I don’t exist rather than believe and accept the actions of the past. Hence the story I told recently about seeing my brother for the first time in years where he just grunted at me and kept on walking as well as his removal of photos of me and Miss GDay from mums nursing home room.

But I don’t stress about them or the past anymore, I just let them be how they choose to be, and I think I’m better off without them in my life anyway. When Mum passes the funeral is going to be an interesting event, won’t it.

Anyway, probably more said than what I should have on here but I do find it therapeutic to put pen to paper so to speak. A big part of my healing was, and still is, journaling, I do it most days and it can be quite interesting to go back and read my thoughts from the past as well as a great way to track how far I’ve come.

Way past my bedtime, so good night all.

Astro April ⭐️

Day 18 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 237 lbs. OK, even more amazing than that 4 lb drop post-FD is that I’m still the same weight today. I really wanted to grab lunch at work yesterday, so I decided to go for tacos and a burrito instead of deep fried chicken and french fries. I ate a later lunch, and just had a few cheese, crackers and fruit in the evening. I said no to the pizza my brother’s family brought in at 9 pm (say no to acid reflux, but also no to calories that have no where to go but to my waistline). This is one thing I had forgotten, that for some reason, my body is better with the largest meal at mid-day with very little if anything in the evening.

Of course, now it’s a crazy holiday weekend in regards to food, but I’m going to remember that on my regular NFDs and see if it helps out.

Astro April ⭐️

Day 18 UK NFD

If I can just stay the same over this looooong weekend I’ll be happy , DH has just arrived with some delicious hot cross buns so it’s going to be a challenge

Wow impressive work at the mosaic class @funshipfreddie

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Quacka I think going fairy free for a few weeks helped with the weight loss due to consuming lesser amounts of diary fats which has led me to think that while I always maintain ketosis, my fat to protein ratio hasn’t been correct so while I’m back to consuming dairy, I’ve upped my protein intake and reduced my good fat intake. My fat intake was all good fats such as organic full fat yoghurt, quark, white cheese, avocados, olive and MCT oil, nuts, olives etc but perhaps I was consuming too much.

I’ve just spent a few days in Adelaide and had the opportunity to eat out twice on my own so I went hunting for restaurants that I wouldn’t normally be able to go to if Miss GDay was with me. One meal was at a Middle Eastern restaurant and the other at a French-Vietnamese restaurant – both were absolutely delicious, and I enjoyed them immensely. I also indulged in a few cakes/sweets at coffee shops and of course icecream, although this time I opted for a double gelato. I certainly over indulged so a few extended fasts for me in the coming weeks.

Oh the weather has been so hot, high 30’s, we’ve had the air conditioner on most days for the last 2 weeks. Hot again tomorrow then heading down to the low 20’s which will be nice.

The larger town closest to where we live is full of fast food/takeaway outlets – one kfc, one maccas, one hungry jacks, two subway, one moe & shake (I think that’s what it’s called), one krispy crème, one wok in a box, five pizza, four Indian, 4 Chinese/Indonesian, two fish and chips, one chicken and chips – I think I’ve recalled them all. That’s a lot of takeaway/fast food for a town of 13,000 people.

We never had takeaway or went out for meals growing up and I never gave Miss GDay fast food, junk food, soft drink, fruit juice etc and I’m happy to say she still won’t eat or drink them, except every once in a while she will have a small milkshake and small fries from maccas but she wouldn’t eat anything else from there or from the other fast food/takeaway places.

Miss GDay was bullied at primary school because the other kids had lunchboxes full of junk food such as chips, chocolate, cup noodles etc while Miss GDay had healthy home-made food. Being the odd one out when you’re a kid isn’t fun, but she didn’t want junk food, she wanted to eat real food.

My family didn’t do Easter when I was growing up so there were no Easter eggs in our house. For Christmas day we had a few bottles of Loys soft drinks – an orange fanta type drink, snowdrop and lemonade and that was the only time we had soft drink. Thin, I can recall having Tang but only one jar, perhaps mum bought it because it was a new thing at the time. I’m sure I would be very disgusted with the taste if I had it now.

Cinque, I listened to the Dr VT brothers podcast a few weeks ago and it’s really good, have you listed to the others yet? I also highly recommend Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s podcasts. He does one with Dr Chris VT about UPF’s which might interest you.

Will post my childhood food experiences in a separate post – warning it’s not a pleasant story.

Fat Busting Brits!!

Evening All..
A meet up with Natalie and a good walk, back on the only riverbank with no cows.

Then a busy day, a bit of shopping. Bargain veggies at stupid prices, I have been cooking Charlie’s food for his holidays to freeze, I have a few more to do. Made a trifle for tomorrow for after dinner, when Jacqui’s coming up. Scones to make in the morning.

Hemmy..
Busy buying your plants, they sound lovely. Are you painting your pots this year?
I like the idea of a work day and a off day..
Jacqui is coming up tomorrow, then on Monday with SIL we are going to afternoon tea at the garden centre for my birthday.

Dave..
Freezing yesterday but much warmer today. I couldn’t play in the cold like you do.

Steve..
You sound like my household, expensive April.
My birthday, then grandson born 5 mins past midnight just to have his own birthday, daughters birthday, a nephew too, and daughters wedding anniversary.
Definitely start fasting in May..

Bed time. Night

Jean x

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 NE England CD

Happy Birthday @merry🍎 sounds like you have a good time planned.

I’ve been trying hard this week to get the scale down a little. Missing breakfast, portion control bulked out with salad, no eating after 7pm, no wine etc etc we all know the drill!! Alas nothing but half a pound has gone. I will wait a week before I weigh again what with Easter, family gatherings, youngest birthday. It doesn’t really bode well🤔

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 – Rural Nebraska, USA – FD500

Didn’t go up at all since I ate so little yesterday, and a FD should be easy today since I’ll be gone so much of it, and busy when I’m here–I already spent 40 minutes in my yard, cleaning up the herb bed, and am wishing I could just putz out there all day long!

Well done, @northgeorgia, to have had such a lovely result from yesterday’s FD. You can DO this–it’s just food. 🤷🏻‍♀️🥰 I’ll keep those thoughts in mind for myself as well!

Happy, happy birthday, @merryapple!! Your cake sounds absolutely glorious; enjoy it and the time with your friends!

Have a grand one, everyone!

Pocket List – Day 17 🥚
@anicecupoftea
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle
@excelsior12309 FD800
@stitchincarol

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 – USA/GA – NFD

Weigh-in: 237 lbs. Great FD, and it was a FD500, not a WFD! Hope you all have a great day.

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Oh Quacka, I’m so sorry, I wasn’t trying to make anyone feel sorry for me. I just told those stories for your amusement more than anything. They are just so absurd. These are not things I would really divulge outside this forum. I assume we’re all here because we have some kind of ‘issues’ with food.

No, my brother has no food issues but he did practice 5:2 for quite a while as he was worried about our paternal family history of diabetes. We discovered in our forties that we both essentially eat anything except beetroot which makes both of us gag. Quite interesting considering we have lived most of our lives in different continents; could that be genetic?

I carried that food baggage around for decades. I still have an urge to reach over to another table in a restaurant and finish their wasted food (obviously I would never do it but how can anyone order a muffin and then just leave the whole thing behind? – at least take it for later!). I always say I’m still the same person I always was wrt food was but I now have the tools to deal with it. And, exactly as you said in your previous post, 5:2 has taught me about portion control and that hunger is OK. Good, even. It seems I will always need IF as a crutch as I’m obviously unable to maintain this low weight on a daily basis without it. But it seems a small price to pay to be a healthy weight for the rest of my days.

Your grandparents had a tough time surviving in Greece and Australia in those early days. Eeew, those fish eyes! Good thing Turn’s sister wasn’t their child. My parents grew up in the war and, although they came from very different socio-economic backgrounds, not wasting things was a common theme. In my later years, I did ask my mother why they made me sit there for hours staring at that awful cabbage instead of simply substituting something I would eat like peas and she explained that they just didn’t know any better – they only knew it was ‘good for me’ and were worried about my skinny little frame and finicky eating habits.

Anyway, enough about me but I’d love to continue this theme if there are any more stories out there ….

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 UK f800

Wow great progress @daffodil2010 💪

Happy birthday 🎈 @merry🍎 that cake sounds delicious

Hoping to stay on track today before the long weekend

Pocket List – Day 17 🥚
@anicecupoftea
@molij
@funshipfreddie
@brightonbelle

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD

Oops?! It was Monday; & now it’s suddenly Thursday 🥴

@merryapple – 🎶Happy Birthday to You!🎵 🥳🎂 🎈🥂 What is BAD? 😅 “my bad” is just another example of how the English language is being butchered. Easier to say, I suppose, than saying, “my mistake” or “I’m sorry” 🤷

@penz – I Googled it, & you’re right?! ‘My bad’ has been around since the ’80’s! – ‘It seems to have arisen out of urban American culture. Some bloggers have attributed the expression to Manut Bol, an NBA star in the ’80’s who immigrated from Africa and whose native tongue was Dinka.’ I first heard it in the early 2000’s though. I was dealing Blackjack, & there was a young American guy playing, who had no idea what he was doing. After every losing hand he’d mumble ‘my bad’, as an apology to the other players, I guess. At first I thought he was saying ‘my bed’! 😂 Anyway, it still makes me cringe on the rare occasion I hear it here.

@daffodil2010 – 4.5 lb down already?! 🥳 💪 🎯 Enjoy your trip! 🚐

Oh, I nearly forgot – Canopy-Gate?! I’m off the hook. I got this email from Judge Judy on Monday:-
“Further to the email below, please note that it has been brought to our attention that there is another unit in the complex with a canopy/awning at their back door that is the same as yours. This was apparently installed by the Rental Agent on behalf of the owner. We are currently investigating this as our records do not show any request and/or approval for the same. Kindly ignore the email below until we provide further feedback on this matter.”
I spoke to our chairperson yesterday, & she said as far as she’s concerned, the matter is closed. In fact she said that in future, anyone wanting to replace their canopies will be asked to use my style of canopy, as the metal ones are no longer made in this province 🥳

” I burned 20 lb of fat without trying…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14618603/burned-20lbs-fat-adopting-european-habits.html

Aiming for a good FD today. And for my usual FD on Sunday – unless my card-playing friends get really stroppy & force-feed me Easter Eggs & Hot Cross Buns 😧 🐣

Pocket List – Day 17 🥚
@anicecupoftea
@molij
@funshipfreddie

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD

Another notch lower on the scale, now 4.5lbs down since start of month. Slowly goes but it’s going

We are off for the weekend this afternoon in our van, weather not forecast to be good but looking forward to the great outdoors, walks, bracing weather.

@merryapple the happiest of birthdays. Enjoy. 💃

Happy Easter all as I won’t be bringing the iPad with me so won’t be logging. Best health to you all. Xxxx

Astro April ⭐️

Day 17 NZ FD Yeah Right! It’s my birthday!! 70.4kg🔺

This is an appalling fun long weekend… I was trying desperately to get into 60s beforehand. Despite modest consumption I haven’t dropped so I might have to throw in extra FDs regularly… O me miserum!!
I have made myself an apple &ginger cake accompanied by Calvados cream (sour cream, yoghurt and apple calvados) and Ginger Praline. My friends are coming over for 🥂&🍰 then we’re going out to dinner… No chocolate on Good Friday if I can possibly help it!! I have arty people coming for dinner on Sunday. I wonder if I can serve them bean soup🤣
Have a great day!!

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Good Morning everyone

74.4kg so I didn’t make the 73’s this week. I had two good FD’s so I just say whatever. Enough said

Thin, I didn’t grow up with those sort of “bad” food experiences like some of you did. I was never made to eat all my dinner or anything like that, though I do remember Dad forcing me to try fried chicken livers and they were disgusting and I will never eat any kind of offal again! This was a a one off though. What I did have in my family was a huge focus on food, and this means my immediate and extended family. It’s sort of hard to explain but I come from a big Greek family and love is shown with food. Mum is an excellent cook, even my Dad could cook really well. My grandmother and all my aunties are also excellent cooks. We always had plenty of food around and biggest problem it was always so yummy, and is still so yummy! Every family gathering involved a lot of food and a huge variety of it and even if you have a little bit of everything you end up completely stuffed. So I guess what I’m trying to say is my weight/food issues comes from eating too much (really) good food not eating crap. Portion control is everything, but have you ever seen a portion of food that Greeks serve? It is massive ha ha.
One of the main things that doing 5:2 has taught me is that it is ok to be hungry. It won’t kill you. I still struggle with it, the being hungry part and also the portion control. If something tastes yummy I just want to keep eating it. I’m pretty chuffed when I can actually say yes this is amazing but now I have had enough, and stop eating. It’s a work in progress.
I hope your FD went well thin, i know you will have done it but just I hope that it was nice and easy. Your Easter egg tradition sounds like fun and ohhhhh the Crunchie egg! Crunchie’s are my favourite chocolate bar, followed closely by Violet Crumble. Yep, teeth rot here we come lol.

Cinque, nice to read your post. The deaf cats sound cool. OH and I had a deaf dog called Maya who was also white. Did you know there is a correlation between white coats and deafness apparently? We taught Maya sign language and she was the best dog. I still miss her and her mate Brandy who we got from the pound to be Maya’s ears. Pets are so wonderful while they are around but so heartbreaking when they go. Too sad.
Your gardening sounds good. I’ve never had Warrigal greens but my grandmother used to make this stuff called “Horta” which translates to “weeds” in English. It was dandelion greens that she would cook up and then dress with olive oil, maybe some lemon juice as well. Super healthy but disgusting to us as children although I’m sure I would love it now.
Asian greens are always good in anything. How do you control all the pests the get on them though? I’ve tried growing them before and ending up with more holes and pests than actual leaves lol.

Well I better go and do some work. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I am determined that my one will be active and eating nice healthy food (with portions controlled!)

Take care all and Happy Easter XX

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Good morning everyone,

It is the end of next week! (Time flown since I last caught up!).

I am happily sipping my morning coffee. Sympathy to LJoyce and Gday suffering a SA Autumn heatwave. Here it is just as much worry about climate change, but a much nicer experience. A week of weather in the late twenties so I can wear my summer clothes one last time.

Lots of agreement with things said over the week: aagh the fast food places and the way childhood eating and relationships mould our brains, yes, I am another terrible sleeper and doesn’t it make everything more difficult, woot the belt buckle beats the scales again, oh no people talking and toddlers screaming and ooh doesn’t chocolate in the shape of eggs taste enhanced! (They say it is because biting the thin shape means it is in our mouth tasting and smelling for longer).

I found a new podcast series my twin doctors are doing and they spoke to a clinical psychologist about willpower and they broke it down into two main things (if I got it right), one is planning what to do when the unexpected happens, and the other is being able to sit with stress discomfort. (Thin, I think these might be your superpowers).
They talked about the difficulty of making new habits and that the fails always happen and are important to learn from. Not that new and surprising to me, but I notice I have been thinking about it since, so I thought I would share it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00298p6

I have pretty well recovered from my busy week and it was a good one. This week my daughter’s family are away and I have just had to occasionally visit their two gorgeous cats (who don’t seem to have been missing them at all). They are brother and sister cats, both deaf, both white with amazing blue eyes. Meg is small and short haired, Murphy is huge and super fluffy. So gorgeous.

Thin, yay for your stubbornness. It was an awful mindset in those times that children needed to be ‘broken’ to never win an argument with an adult. My sister suffered terribly the same. I went all numb and compliant (broken).

I have been doing some gardening, lovely autumn things in: Japanese greens, coriander and lettuce, lots of self sown parsley and warrigal greens.

Proper fast day coming soon.

Cheers aLL

Fat Busting Brits!!

Good afternoon everyone Xxxx

Brr its back to winter.. Just back from doing a shop at Brackley Tesco .. already building up busy for Easter

I never went overboard with Easter treats ..Just a box of small Cadbury caramel eggs .I am not mad on hot cross buns so not bothering this year just for me.

Bought some petunias and pink geraniums for pots but wont put them out yet. Some Levingston’s compost at a good price.

I have had the salmon the last two days so its just going to be boiled eggs this evening as a later Tesco ham sandwich lunch..

Steve.. welcome to the Brits section … I think we have all been here for years lol..it really does help though chatting to like minded peeps and we are all different in how we handle losing the weight. Its good to pick up tips. and share your highs and lows. Good luck.

Nana Have a lovely Easter and away time.

Dave …Well done on your loss that’s brilliant

H H … its about another hour and a half added to Kristy’s current journey here but not so manic as it is coming from London area. She is used to driving all over so it isn’t a problem for her.
I hope you had an enjoyable coffee meetup with your friend.

Sym.. You are having a busy week have you anything planned for the weekend, I am just sitting needing to put shopping away then must go out in the garden and play with Pip and it feels freezing cold again. lolol

Enjoy your afternoon everyone.. “Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” Xxxx

Astro April ⭐️

Day 16 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD

I turned yesterday into a regular FD, and then went a little overboard, but don’t think I exceeded 800, so that’s all good. I’m still not done with getting all the paperwork to our banker, but am so very close, and that plus finishing the taxes put me in a celebratory mood that did not mesh with the retriction of a WFD, LOL. I won’t teach on Thursday, so won’t do a WF, but will do a regular fast; Friday will be another fast of sorts simply because it’s Good Friday. I’m very much looking forward to the meal we’re having on Easter; there will be 8 of us, and I’m only doing a portion of the cooking, so it should be very relaxing as well as yummy.

@jaifaim Yes, I’m lower than you, and OUCH at your post-vacation weight…but that’s entirely normal and reasonable. I’m certain you’ll get back down (you are, too, right?), and you at 154 are distinctly thinner than I am, so you can still feel virtuous even about your 161! I used to have to hit 145 to be in the acceptable BMI range, but because I’m mmore than an inch shorter now, I have to be 137 for the acceptable BMI range, so I have a long way to go before I match you for BMI!

@iona72 Wow–two weeks? Amazing. I bet that will be tough for your daughter, but doable because she’ll be so thankful to be healing?

@penz Thanks!

@daffodil2010 Well done on 4lbs so far this week, and if I’m entirely honest, part of what makes it so all-consuming is that I do very little bookkeeping during the year, so when it’s time for taxes, I first have to finish a year’s worth of bookkeeping. As @penz says, “My bad!” 😂😂

@northgeorgia I think you’re right that you need to start food journaling. And what I know for certain is that I will always regret that, when I was on my way back up from 140, I didn’t MAKE myself find the power to stop the gain. Could I have? Well, I didn’t find success then, but perhaps if I’d known how far I would go, I would have succeeded? Remember, as @funshipfreddie say, “It’s only food.” 👍💪❤️

Today, I sort and file away all the piles of paper, make a grocery list for Sunday, start practicing…etc., etc., etc. Have a grand one, everyone!

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