Day 29 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
The AGM/special meeting went on & on & on; three hours + 10 minutes?! 🤯 I finally sat down to eat at 2 pm, but didn’t really enjoy lunch because I wasn’t in the best mood. Neither was the cat by the time I got home 😅
Busy day today. Mosaic class as usual, but I’ll have to leave early. I’ve got a two hour stint at the dentist, but they said I must eat first. Then I need to take Boo Boo to the cat prison 😈. Then collect laundry, come home & then pack, phew? And it’s forecast to rain all day
@stitchincarol – oysters, snails, & now frogs legs?! I know it’s almost Halloween, but I’m having nightmares already! 🦇🕸🎃 🐸
@at – I see you’ve updated the spreadsheet. Not a lot of FDs for you this month? 😜 Never mind, a new month is around the corner. Would you please set up a spreadsheet for No-Nonsense November? 🙏 I’ll post the new Challenge later today.
Have a good day everyone
Day 29, NFD, Aus
The thing I enjoy most about agility, @excelsior, is if that if things go wrong, it’s never the dog’s fault. Dog’s know how to jump things and go through tunnels etc so if they do something in the wrong order, it’s the handler’s fault for not providing clear signals. My old dog would literally stop and bark at me if he did not understand what ever I was poorly trying to convey to him. It was nice to get such clear communication from him that I was doing a bad job!
I keep forgetting to look up that vino app, @stichincarol. Must do that soon!
I got new glasses today. My (distance) prescription is increasing, and it now means I am struggling to see this computer screen clearly. I need to work out my new focal length for up close work. I am too stubborn to get bi-focals or reading glasses!
I’ve made cauliflower soup with walnuts, but never tried it with curry powder. And all this talk of citrus desserts makes me want to do my grandmother’s lemon delicious pudding Right Now!!
Morning all,
I’ve had an absolutely disastrous weekend. I was heading off on my trip on Friday, I was all packed up and on my way. I’d driven around three hours, when all the engine warning lights came on in my car. I stopped at the nearest town to check what I could, but there wasn’t anything I could see. I couldn’t find anyone to look at it because it was the beginning of a long weekend over here. I wasn’t keen to drive the rest of the 7 hours up to Nelson and then the 10 hours back again, so I cancelled my trip and limped back home in the car, stopping every 70km or so to let the car cool off and settle down.
I lost $200 in accommodation through non-refundable deposits, the car is booked in today to find out what is wrong, but that’s likely to be expensive, and to top it off we had heavy rain, and we discovered we have a leak in the roof as we had water staining showing up on our ceiling. I’ve got a guy coming around to look at that as well, and that’s also likely to be expensive. I was so depressed I went on a binge-a-thon, just ate crap for 4 straight days. I’m guessing I’ve probably undone about a month of weight loss in 4 days.
Today is my birthday and I’ve just cancelled my leave for this week and gone back to work, because the weather forecast here is looking pretty grim for the rest of the week. I’m really feeling pretty depressed and ashamed of myself for eating so much in response to the stress.
I hope everyone else had a better weekend than I did.
Thin, the principle called to admit that they had not done the right thing and they have altered all their regulations to say that if something similar happens in the future, they should seek professional medical assistance rather than relying on first aiders in the group. He’s still suffering from it, and he’s got a dispensation to get out of sitting upcoming exams as he has trouble concentrating for large periods of time. His results will instead be taken from an average of his years assignments.
Day 29 NZ CD and ZBC 69.8kg
Back in the 69s just!! Time to🤐How easy it is to stray…
@funshipfreddie Your back up Satan remark is hilarious, however it was me myself and I acting as😈 this weekend!! And I do hate to not make my monthly target 🎯 of 1kg down… two days to go…
@stitchincarol I take it you won’t be going to the big snail festival in Catalonia, Spain!!
NZ has the biggest and best oysters from the deep, cold Southern Ocean… I’m drooling thinking about them… There is a seafood festival I keep trying to attend but will make it someday…. Lobster, blue cod, oysters straight out of the ocean…
I’d take knitting over tidying any day😅
@michelinme Big congrats on your BMI!!! You going to Worcestershire reminds me of my cauliflower soup recipe…
@flourbaby I add mustard and Worcestershire Sauce rather than curry powder!! And semi steam a whole cauliflower then add the flavoured water to the milk, cheese for the roux.
@ccco Remember one pound of butter is the same volume as a 1lb loss!! It all adds up😊
@excelsior12309 I spent the evening talking to my Dunedin friend last night about a dish we had in a restaurant there named Fromaggio al Forno… We were trying to work out which stretchy Italian cheese they used – cut into cubes and melted in the oven to form a brown crust in a wee cast iron pan, topped with truffle oil and served with slices of crusty sourdough… to die for!!!
@penz I’m pleased that Someone is taking FDs seriously 🤣
Well done you!!
Afternoon!
Hemmy- I think I saw that story too, or a similar one…I do notice with keto the aches & pains have eased alot, except for my neck. Don’t eat any processed food now as it all has too many carbs but didn’t have that much before. I think it is different for each of us what our bodies are sensitive to, alot of people are sensitive to dairy but I can’t give that up on keto…No problem for me not eating beef, I never liked it! hope you had a good day out today!
Jean- your chicken sounded nice yesterday! Still quite mild here too…have a good FD!
Dave- you seem to enjoy cooking so would be much healthier for you if you did more from scratch…
Nana- hope you’re okay, still doing IF?
Took mum out today to get her hearing aids sorted, run out of tips for them & I was having trouble changing them, was worried I’d broken one, they’re so fiddly, but all okay. Are yours like that Dave? She needs her ears syringing again & a hearing test as well so a few appointments, she didn’t want to go because it was raining, made her go as things have to be done! Saw son this afternoon, he’s still waiting to hear after his fire service interview, they said it might take a few weeks, it’s been 2. Still doing 2 meals a day & IF, doing okay with that.
Day 28 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
Well, yesterday was lovely, in that I did exactly what I wanted, no more, no less–well, after worship service, of course, LOL–but it was ugly in that what I wanted to do was watch an entire day of Netflix, while working on DH’s sweater and eating Halloween candy. Amazingly, the scale didn’t change at all, but today must be disciplined to balance out yesterday’s massive excess. 🤷🏻♀️
The fair isle’s neck ribbing is done completely, and I dealt with many of the loose beginning and ending yarns inside, but there is still half of them to go–probably two hours worth if not three–and then the other sleeve. And I’m sick to death of it. I’m not doing anything but knitting, and that’s just not who I am–I am, after all STITCHIN Carol, not KNITTIN Carol. So, both in the interest of boredom and in keeping me moving, I’m going to ignore the sweater today and work on tidying my sewing room. I have four baby quilts that need sewing, and zero room in there to work, so enough is enough: it’s time, and DH is patient.
Oh, and report on the French restaurant: they were serving brunch, so DH and I both had two eggs/bacon/potatoes/toast/homemade raspberry jam, while DS33 had the lamb sausage; we were all pleased, and it wasn’t so much food that I was stuffed–and it was also not conducive to wine, so I swerved that at noon on a Saturday! What was glorious, however, was the escargot appetizer that we shared that we all deemed blissful. They were served on a bed of pureed pumpkin mixed with lots of butter and comte cheese, with some greens dressed in a basil oil, and some seed cakes propped up on everything. Oh. My. Word. SOOOOO good! (So was the escargot, but they were peripheral to the pumpkin puree, LOL!) The ambiance is gorgeous there, and DH and I are likely to go back again to this restaurant we didn’t even know existed.
@brightonbelle Frog legs is another thing I’ve never managed to try; someday I will!
@excelsior12309 Yup, and I adore oysters, so there’s likely good hope for frog legs for me, even though your judgment is clearly not quite as excellent as I’d assumed! 🤣😂😂🤣🥰
@northgeorgia What “little bite” are you taking that causes the hunger dragon to roar an hour later? Protein and raw veggies don’t generally do that…
@ccco You know, in my world, in my clothes, being up a pound is the equivalent of my weight not changing, so I’m thinking you’re doing terrifically. Do your clothes fit the same??
@merryapple You know, the escargo/snails were simply oddly shaped chunks of…nothing. There was chew to them, but they weren’t rubbery. There wasn’t much flavor. It truly was about the texture they added to the pumpkin puree. But I will not be going snail hunting, either in your back yard on in my own, LOL (And yes: lemon meringue pie and lemon tart? YUM!!! And the tarter, the better!
Okay, I’m sitting with my laptop while DH is all over the place accomplishing things, so it’s time for me to get off the sofa and tackle my sewing room. Have a grand one, everyone, whether that’s day or sleep!
Day 28 UK NFD
Day 27 NFD
On Saturday night I blipped with a forgotten box of ice creams in the freezer. But the sugar/gluten combo had me regretting it very quickly. Yesterday was a much healthier omad late lunch/early supper of green pea pasta with broccoli and fresh mozzarella balls followed by vegan yogurt
I’m on a train to retreat in Worcestershire, having successfully crossed London on borrowed wheelchair/power add on combo. Resisted the vegan wrap that caused so much joint pain last week, in favour of hardboiled eggs with fresh spinach followed by dried mango and an apple.
Miraculously this morning my weight was down by the required 1lb to just hit my October BMI goal of 29.9. I’ll take that! Now to use that milestone as fuel for healthy choices this week.
Sorry not to be with you at end of the challenge/start of the new one but I am really looking forward to a week’s silent retreat and space to rest, recover and reflect. Wishing you all a happy healthy end to Outstanding October and a strong start to No No November!
USA. Day 28. FD
I don’t know what happened! My first and second email arrived together in the same email! Wow! I really don’t have a good grasp on technology!
USA. Day 28. FD
Today I will do better. Yesterday wasn’t too bad but today I will make it better.
Pocket List – Day 28 🥝
@merry🍎
@penz
@flourbaby FD800
@brightonbelle
@ccco
Wow! I wrote a nice email to everyone but I got the strangest message back. It said “slow down; you move too fast”! Now I don’t remember what I wrote! LOL
Me, too, Brightonbelle! I have only lost 1 lb. this month because I put a few back on before I began to lose. Ever since my brain surgery, I haven’t been able to do much in the way of exercise, plus I have been in physical therapy for frozen shoulder. It really hasn’t been my year! ☹️
FlourBaby, I love your recipe! Too bad I can’t eat curry anymore. Since I decided to get older, there are too many things I can’t enjoy anymore!
@penz, I am cheering for you. You can do that 500 or less calories, even if you have a growling stomach. When I want to do that, I stay very busy and then I don’t even realize I am hungry.
@merryapple, I wouldn’t have been able to stay away from all those goodies, either. They sound incredible. Lately, I have been having a similar problem, too. I am going out to eat too much! Also, I buy snacks for grandchildren an then I eat them! 🙃
It’s freezing here! 🥶. I am really very much a summer person! For all those experiencing Halloween, have fun! And have a great day today!
USA. Day 28. FD
Today I will do better. Yesterday wasn’t too bad but today I will make it better.
Pocket List – Day 28 🥝
@merry🍎
@penz
@flourbaby FD800
@brightonbelle
@ccco
Me, too, Brightonbelle! I have only lost 1 lb. this month because I put a few back on before I began to lose. Ever since my brain surgery, I haven’t been able to do much in the way of exercise, plus I have been in physical therapy for frozen shoulder. It really hasn’t been my year! ☹️
FlourBaby, I love your recipe! Too bad I can’t eat curry anymore. Since I decided to get older, there are too many things I can’t enjoy anymore!
@penz, I am cheering for you. You can do that 500 or less calories, even if you have a growling stomach. When I want to do that, I stay very busy and then I don’t even realize I am hungry.
@merryapple, I wouldn’t have been able to stay away from all those goodies, either. They sound incredible. Lately, I have been having a similar problem, too. I am going out to eat too much! Also, I buy snacks for grandchildren an then I eat them! 🙃
It’s freezing here! 🥶. I am really very much a summer person! For all those experiencing Halloween, have fun! And have a great day today!
Morning All..
So warm out today a big too warm walking.. a different river bank a nice change…
I am fasting anyone else?
Dave..
I never think of buying ready meals the nearest is a stone baked pizza, I have found a good one from Aldi.
I would look at a good cook book..
Jean x
Day 28 UK FD
3lbs is no mean feat @flourbaby but I’m with you in wanting to finish the month strong 💪
Fasting today , planning the rest of the weeks food as want to see a month end result
👹great response @funshipfreddie
Pocket List – Day 28 🥝
@merry🍎
@penz
@flourbaby FD800
@brightonbelle
Day 28 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 237 lbs. Thanks, @flourbaby for that recipe! Sounds delicious 🙂
ZBC this morning. Not planning on a FD until Wednesday, but we’ll see what happens today.
Day 28-No. VA USA-NFD
Everyone sounds focused and busy. Here is hoping we keep our group focus until our November challenge!
@merryapple, I have been to the Chrysler Museum, though not recently. It has a lovely collection.
I am glad to hear your survived and enjoyed your biking adventure.
@flourbaby, the cauliflower soup sounds delicious. I think I will try it. I bet you could make a soup similar to that using a butternut squash. My dairy weakness is cheese, I find. I should only buy varieties I don’t like. But there are not many…
@penz, I watched a program on TV (from last year’s Westminster Dog Show) of dog agility competition. It was impressive. Of course, like children’s dance recitals, there is always one who tries hard and kind of messes up and you mustn’t laugh, but it is a bit hard sometimes….
Well, must get going, busy morning today. Down we go all!
Day 28, London, UK, FD800
It’s definitely the dairy that’s stalling my progress, November will be a month of limited dairy! I’m stuck at -3lbs with 4 days to shed another 7 to make my (optimistic) October goal!🤭
@michelinme, “I slept until 11am and didn’t get dressed until midday” ……………………spoken like a true Non-Cat lady!!! I’m soooo jealous!!
@merryapple, Michēle certainly went all-out citrus for dessert!!!🤢 Yep, this emoji might be better, winky face was at the word ‘disgusting’ which I know only applies to me as 99.9% of people love that awful citrus sweet combo!!
@stitchincarol, what a menu!!🤤🤤🤤 Your kids will start their own traditions or continue yours and you’ll form a big part of that …………………without having to do ALL the work!!🙏🏼
@northgeorgia, this is my favourite low carb, low calorie cauliflower soup, it’s so simple ………….3 ingredients, but really tasty!! Courtesy of James Martin (I usually skip the cream & olive oil, it really doesn’t need it!)
1 Small cauliflower chopped into small florets
1 tbsp curry powder
1L Full fat milk
To serve 2 tbs double cream (optional)
1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
Method
1. Pop the cauliflower florets, curry powder and milk into a pan and bring to the boil. Then simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Blitz in a food processor until smooth pour into a clean pan and warm through
3. To serve, spoon the soup into bowls, drizzle in cream and a little olive oil
@penz, I’m having one of those hungry mornings, 5hrs until I break my fast with cheesy cauliflower jalapeno soup!!! I ….. Cannot ……. Wait!!🤤🤤🤤
“Your body can stand almost anything; it’s your mind that you have to convince”. ~ Vince Lombardi
Pocket List – Day 28 🥝
@merry🍎
@penz
@flourbaby FD800
2nd Post – Day 28
Day 28, FD, Aus
Unusually for me I woke up hungry with my tummy growling. Grrr. So today has been a challenge, but I’m sitting below 500 calories so I’ll take it.
Day 28 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 70.5 kg
Yay! Mission accomplished. I spent over 3 hours playing cards with neighbours too, surrounded by food 🥴️ Someone actually waved a plate of biscuits in my face at one point. I think she was a bit taken aback when I snapped, ‘get behind me, Satan!’. 😅 Well, I did tell them.. 🤷♂️
@merryapple – you were doing so well?! Not too late though. I’m sure after today’s FD you won’t be far off your October goal. I’m not on the pocket list today though. So far it’s just you, as @michelinme & missybear are both away. Snails?! No way, not in a million years. Even if a gun was held to my head, there’s no way I could put one of those things in my mouth 😱
@excelsior12309 – I’m glad you liked the video. Some of the comments were quite funny too e.g. “Now trump will brag that he was on an episode of star trek (some say the best episode ever )” & “I saw Klingons eating Tribbles. You can trust me on this one”. 😂
We’ve got a Body Corporate meeting this morning; hoping it’ll be brief & painless, but they seldom are. At least I can look forward to lunch when it’s over
Have a good week everyone! 🎯💪
Pocket List – Day 28 🥝
@merry🍎
Day 28 NZ FD 70kg 🏃🏼♀️Takapuna Beach
Hurrumph!!!
Oh dear!! Too many cheese scones, almonds and dinners with friends over the weekend. Michēle made a delicious double dessert of lemon meringue pie and lemon tart.
How can you not like citrus desserts @flourbaby!!
Hopefully by the end of the month I’ll drop back a wee bit…
@ccco Snap!! Same problem 😁
@excelsior12309 Billy has work in the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. Have you been there? There is an documentary about Walter J Chrysler’s extraordinary life narrated by the ex director on YouTube.
@stitchincarol Garlic and butter is a great start but then the snails to me are more about their texture than flavour which is rather rubbery… You could catch🤣garden snails (same breed here) and feed them white bread for two weeks then cook them… 🤣🤣 That’s all you need to do!!!
@jaifaim Enjoy your 🚴♀️ride. It’ll get you going for sure!!!
I went for my first ride y’day in 5 weeks probably AMA (against medical advice) but it did stretch the tendons out in my arm!! I’ve been riding since I was 5, have a motorbike license so am not fazed by biking. It’s the car drivers that are my potential problem😬But a holiday weekend means less of them so off I went!!
@northgeorgia Good thinking Batman!!!!
@brightonbelle Don’t you hate those disappeared posts… so frustrating!!
Pocket List
@funshipfreddie
Mary🍎
I do have ready meals usually chilli and rice.I must try and make my own. I also have teriyaki chicken ready meals, not sure if I could make that. Will have to have a look on YouTube and I have some cookery books.Other then them 2 I mostly do my own.
Dave…
A couple of weeks for weigh in… rice pudding not for me…
Hedgehog…
I love the river bank on these lovely days so quiet and peaceful…
Hemmy…
Chicken, stuffing and lots of small roast potatoes for me with cranberry sauce.. tasty
I never eat ready made meals from supermarket I always cook my own.
Jean x
Good afternoon /evening Xxxx
Its been a lovely sunny day but at 4pm was already getting darker .. Oh I don’t fancy winter at all
A lazy day here just got my outfit together for Stratford tomorrow ..
At the moment not looking forward to it as my arthritis in my legs has started already with the dampness . they feel achy.
Sooo I have been researching and come up with a woman that really made a difference to her life by changing her diet. At first I thought it was selling something but it is not.This is what she said…
” The diet had an almost immediate response. Within two weeks I’d gone from severe pain, taking Ibuprofen every day, to a slight ache that I could manage without painkillers. I have lived without wheat, sugar, and alcohol ever since and now focus on eating fresh, unprocessed foods – meat, fish, vegetables, pulses and dairy.
When I eat out, I know if dishes contain a hidden trace of sugar or gluten as my back will be on fire with pain. If I cook meatballs, I’ll do some pasta for Mark but just have more meat and veg myself. Although it’s easy to avoid sugar itself, it’s also produced in the body by eating too much potato and rice, so I’ve had to drastically limit how much I have. Intermittent fasting is meant to be good for beating inflammation, so I’ve introduced that too, and while I’ve not lost any weight, I’m fitter and healthier, and crucially, I’m not in pain. Nothing would tempt me back to my old ways. If I’m offered a slice of cake, I just see pain.”
I thought it interesting.. so I am going to try it in stages..I am just drinking my last wine this evening… a ready meal from the freezer macoroni cheese .. and some mini apple pies..
So from tomorrow no alcohol at all .. and will gradually get myself off processed stuff completely .. Really as I have said before its eating the old way. ..
Will be interesting to see if it helps my aches. Anyone else fancy it?
Nana … hope all is well in your world
Dave… Ohh rice pudding .. yummy my Gran made wonderful rice puddings she put nutmeg in them.. Do you think you have lost weight this time weigh in.
HH Ohh roast beef dinner for hubby how can you resist lolol. Bless Xena for being well behaved today..
Sym.. What are you having today for dinner.. I am dreaming of Roast beef and all the trimmings.like I made when Andrew was here.
Take care everyone…. Sunday was Granny’s day of rest .. although she cooked a big lunch and had made Jelly and blancmange for tea Xxxx
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮hate cheese,yet my favourite crisps are cheese and onion 🤪😂.Having lamb steaks for tea so done Chloe chicken breasts for her tea, she will have mash and peas with it. Lamb is my favourite.
Afternoon!
Jean- very hard for you at the moment 🤗 we had a lovely river bank walk today too, quite early so not many people out…
Dave- rice pudding, yuk! I hope you have a good weigh in, should be fine if you’re fitting into smaller clothes & your bowling friends have noticed!
Hemmy- hope you’ve had the good weather today too…
Out for a couple of hours with Xena, she was much better behaved today! Just a lazy afternoon reading after Church, doing roast beef for hubby tonight, I’m trying a new keto recipe for roast cabbage steaks, they have cheese on top, Dave’s favourite! Xena will enjoy some beef, & my dinner too probably!
2nd Post – Day 27
Pocket List – Day 27 🥑
@funshipfreddie
@excelsior12309
@ccco
USA. Day 27. FD
Good morning, everyone (or whatever time of the day it is where you are!👍🏻).
I los 1 lb. this morning but I am still up 1 lb. from where I started but at least I am heading in the right direction direction. I just have had too many dining out opportunities lately! Well, it’s a new week! Have at it, everyone!😊
Day 27 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 236 lbs. Next FDs will probably be Wednesday and Thursday. My mom invited me to a church lunch today; tomorrow I’m on the road and is likely to be a NFD, and Tuesday is a business luncheon. Still, none of these should be plate overloading, gut busting meals. The bigger danger for me is to take a little bite, then the hunger dragon appears an hour later, wanting constant snack add-ons throughout the day. Low calorie homemade soups might help me through the winters ahead. Recipes? My mom’s homemade chicken noodle soup was very tasty — yeah, I know it has some noodles, but it’s not like eating a huge double portion of spaghetti. I like to make a nice rich chili, too.
The cottage pie was nice, Denise dosent like salt or pepper, I think that put her off.My weigh-in is the 6th of November so it will be a month without going near the scales. Having rice pudding tonight so that will be the chocolate substitute.
Day 27-No. VA, USA-FD 800
We had a lovely day yesterday at the museum, and had a late lunch there (2:30), so it ended up being a OMAD day. Weight was in a good range this morning. If I lose a pound by the end of the month, it will be great!
@funshipfreddie, I enjoyed the Star Trek video very much. So sad and so true!
@stitchincarol, I have had escargot and frog legs; ate them, didn’t make a scene, but not sure I would eat them again, given the choice. I feel the same way about oysters, which people around here are devoted to.
@jaifaim, I admire your early-morning energy and determination!
@iona72, I hope you and I will be on the same downward trend toward the end of the month.
@michelinme, I think you will also join us in the last downward slide toward November!
Have a good day, all.
Morning All…
What a beautiful day had a really long walk on the river bank, a few dog walkers about having a chat as we go. Beautiful blue sky and not cold…
Just had breakfast and I am going to finish with toast and marmalade.
Hedgehog..
I might have a go at doing the to do list thing..
I am not doing boules or reading at the moment. I struggle with the phone too. It’s strange with a few people around the table, I feel odd. I am only driving local at the moment. No fun at all.
I have fits and starts having heel walking, it’s good to remind him. What annoys me the most is swapping sides all the time!
Dave..
It’s nice to have a few treats sometimes…when is your weigh in day?
Shame on the cottage pie.
Hemmy..
Good you got your trees trimmed, it will look tidy and smart.
The 2lbs will soon come off.. I think as long as you know were the problem is, it’s not a problem..
Nice to have a treat.
Nothing much planned for today..a bit of a hoover I have walked mudd in !!
Jean x
Day 27 UK CD
I’m sure I logged in yesterday, must have forgot to hit the submit button?
No bank holiday for us @funshipfreddie but I’m not complaining the suns shining and an extra hour in bed thanks to the clocks going back
Ooh la la @stitchincarol escargot- not for me , frogs legs that’s another matter
See you on the list tomorrow for my penultimate fast of October
Day 27 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
I was NOT very controlled yesterday, although I did stick to my eating window, which is never a problem for me. Lunch was a disaster; we couldn’t even get down the road to Mike’s Kitchen because of the traffic/road closures. Everywhere was packed with people wearing pink because of the charity walk. So we went to the one place that didn’t look busy. Won’t be going there again! 🤯
My last FD for Outstanding October. I’ve got a busy couple of days ahead (busy for me anyway) & I’m going away for a few days on Wednesday, but I’ll definitely get the ball rolling for the November Challenge before then.
@michelinme – it sounds to me like you had a very successful Outstanding October! Enjoy the retreat, & see 👀 you in No-Nonsense November 🎯
@jaifaim – enjoy the spin & the holiday tomorrow. UK & Ireland? 🚴
@excelsior12309 – I think you’ll appreciate the humour in this brief video. First posted 4 years ago, & it’s still funny; sort of. For me anyway, as a Trekkie 😏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1DM8Chsr_0
Happy S🌞nday!
Pocket List – Day 27 🥑
@funshipfreddie
Day 27 – Ireland – NFD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽♀️ 🌾
Early call for me as it is a bank holiday and I’m off on a big spin and leaving early… our clocks changed overnight so an extra hour in bed. 🚴
Finding it very difficult to stay away from sugar at the moment and it’s making me feel creaky and lazy so only one thing for it 😄🚴
Will be back on later or tomorrow 😄
Have a great Sunday everyone!
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 26 – NE England
Quick check in before bed. Scale down a pound, even after my disastrous day yesterday. As you told me -today was better. I feel quite pleased with my Saturday when I’m usually less strict.
Hoping to get another pound off by Thursday.
Downwards Fast Friends ~Stay Strong. 💪
I may go for a bar of chocolate or cake tomorrow, been fancying cake for weeks. Not got weighed for a couple of weeks, another two to go before I do.Watching D I Ray at the moment, on the third episode.
Evening!
Hemmy- good getting the conifers done! I agree you should have some treats if you fancy them, I’m sure you’ll soon get those 2lbs off!
Dave- watching sport today?
Jean- hope you can find enough to do if you can’t read…are you playing boules at all?
Xena was a pain when we walked today, she nearly pulled me off my feet so we had a walking to heel lesson, she’s just so excited so took ages to just go a short way til it was safe to let her off! Then realised a man was sitting in his car watching us the whole time, quite embarrassing! Saw mum this afternoon, she’s getting worse again, trying to sort things out, insisting that she likes clearing out but then getting stressed & muddled up, so quite hard work…Hope tomorrow is better 😂
Sorry to hear about the funeral Iona. Was it someone important to you?
I am thoroughly fed up with the lack of movement on the scales or tape measure. There is just 3 lb to shift to get to the one stone loss. Its been weeks of bouncing around the same numbers despite IF and making good choices. There has been cake this afternoon for a birthday celebration but I just had one piece and didn’t have much for lunch.
Tomorrow I am skipping breakfast, out walking in the morning and keeping busy before a roast dinner in the evening. I am at a bit of a loss quite what to do to shift these resistant pounds apart from keeping going with IF. I am certainly not going to meet the goal of 14lb by the end of the year.
How is everyone getting on?
Good evening everyone.. Xxxx
Its been a dry dull day here. and very busy for me..
Walked early then went shopping… came back and the guy rang and said he could trim my big conifers today as he had had a cancellation.
Soo went out in the garden helping with the trimmings.. all looking lovely .. Thank goodness they only have to be done once a year.
I had put on 2 lbs this week on todays weigh in. .. I have had a fair bit of sweet stuff..so not really suprised lolol… .. From Monday sweet things are banned i wont buy any.. If I havnt got it in I cant eat it lol.
Actually though its good to just eat what you fancy sometimes..
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Whats everyone been doing today.. enjoy your evening..Xxxx Saturday evening is time to relax .. Xxxx
Day 26 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD – 157.0
That weight may not be correct. An hour after the scale said that, I got on for the joy of seeing it again–and it was 157.8. Grr. So I tried again. 157.6. Eventually it landed on 157.4, but a la @funshipfreddie, I’ve decided to claim the lowest number as my actual Saturday morning weigh-in, LOL. I have DUMB scales!
However, if I’m brutally honest, I not only snacked quite a bit before supper last night (while I was cooking, my biggest challenge to overcome) but then found two little bottles–individual servings–of “Mexican Mudslide” in my fridge and drank them BOTH as a dessert. This is after wine with dinner. Thus, I’m not feeling as if I deserve a low weight at all, LOL! I did, however, swerve the wine until I served dinner, and did that by making two of my mocktails, this time with pineapple-ginger juice. I finally figured out how to describe the ginger beer involved: it smells like a Christmas tree! Total calories for two is around 200 calories, or even less, so I am delighted with this alternative to sipping on wine.
@michelinme Well now I understand why you have so many friends helping with things, the gardening things in particular, perhaps, because those would be terribly difficult (impossible?) to do from a wheelchair! I’ve always just thought they helped so you didn’t have to expend so much energy, LOL! And well done for starting the planning already for Christmas; I too have begun thinking through Thanksgiving, my 12/10 birthday, and Christmas Eve/Day and the days after…my absolute favorite time of year, centered as it is around family and feeding them. Oh, and excellent job that you’ve reached a BMI of 30!!
@lona72 Oh bummer on that day gone to pot. We’ve all had those days; you’ll do better today!
@merryapple The only problem with the restaurant’s menu? I’m not all that interested in a truly lovely meal this early in the day. 🤷🏻♀️ It would be a different thing if we were going there for dinner, but neither DS33’s schedule nor DH’s allow that, so we’re going there for lunch. I’ve never had escargot, so if my men will share them with me, that’s one thing for certain I want to order.
@penz I will, indeed, let you all know!
@funshipfreddie Yeah, that’s another thing about this meal at lunchtime: those are not lunchtime prices, LOL! We’ll be eating leftovers for several days, so that will help soothe our sense of shock at the prices!
@excelsior12309 Oh, fun! Have a grand time!
I continue to be astonished by how international our American election is, that so many of you are equally interested in having it over and knowing the results. Amazing how “small” the world has become, you know?
And…perhaps you remember that every year I justify having enchiladas for Halloween and baking cutout cookies shaped like pumpkins and frosted with orange frosting with a green stem. I’ve done the enchiladas every single year since our first Halloween in 1989, and the cookies started in 1991 or 1992. When the kids left home for college, I’d mail them cookies. These are both a huge deal in our family. Well. Halloween is a Thursday this year. I’m not much happy at the idea of giving up a WFD, and I won’t even be home until 5:45 at the very earliest to make them. Plus, DD makes her own cookies, and DS33 is gluten-intolerant and neither son is likely to be around anyway…so I’m almost committed to the idea I’ll skip both of those traditions this year. I’m speechless that I’m giving them up, lol, but think it’s the right decision for 2024.
Astonishing.
Okay, time to change my hair from bed-head to acceptable-in-public! We’ll leave at 10:30 our time (4:30 London time) and I’ll let you all know tomorrow about the French restaurant!
Have a grand one, everyone!
Day 26 UK CD
A good FD800 yesterday, feeling less puffy and carbtastic stomach is a bit smaller but scales are the same. That’s prob it for FDs this month as I’m away from Monday.
Today’s food is about to be a very late brunch of eggs, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, spinach. If I need supper in a few hours it will be stir-fried tofu with pak choi and broccoli. That still leaves cottage cheese, green salad, clementines and cabbage to be consumed before going away. Thank goodness the apple mountain will keep, even if I don’t have time/energy to make chutney this weekend!
My goal for Outstanding October was to consolidate September’s speedy start by losing a few more pounds to get BMI under 30, moving from the ‘obese’ category to the ‘overweight’. Today it’s 30.1 which may have to be close enough! In the great scheme of things I think that restarting 5:2, making sustained progress despite exhausting schedule, DD’s illness and several crises, and breaking the cycle of emotional eating/ resetting my relationship with food are all good foundations for future success!
Day 26 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 235 lbs. I’ll catch up later!
Day 26-No. VA USA-NFD
Spending the day in Richmond visiting with son and going to museum and to lunch. Perhaps at the museum! Will give more details tomorrow.
Have a good weekend, all!
Day 26 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
Today is Algoa FM’s (local radio station) Big Walk for Cancer, an annual event for the last 26 years. I can hear the racket from here, as it kicks off from Pollock Beach, just a few hundred metres from where I live. It should be all done in a few hours. So I’m off to Mike’s Kitchen for lunch again – at the other end of town – to avoid the mayhem.
@iona72 – oops?! We’ve all been there. At least you swerved the booze 😅
@merryapple – you’re so right, self-knowledge is a funny business; & accepting what we learn isn’t always so straightforward.
@stitchincarol – I also checked out the menu. What did you have? I can’t help converting the prices to rands though?! 😲
@michelinme – a lie-in til 11 am?! Sounds like just what I need. Happy packing & pottering 🤗
Have a good weekend everyone 🌤🌈
Day 26, NFD, Aus
Checking in.
I also drooled at the menu @stitchincarol – do let us know what you ended up having!
Day 26 NZ NFD 69kg 🏃♀️
It’s a long weekend here – Labour Day. The weather feels like we’re waiting for something to happen – the sky is grey and very low, 45km wind and thunderstorms soon… More to come on Sunday/Monday. That’s holidays for you!! Not that I’m away but I am going out to dinner tonight to play board games…
I had the Texan over last night to help me eat the last of my wild venison steaks. Next time I’ll cut them up into sensible portions and freeze them. It’s the first time I have cooked for anyone since I did my hand in and it was a v simple meal… Haven’t done any baking and did the vacuuming for the first time in 5 weeks… These are big milestones, not…😅
@funshipfreddie I hope your epiphany proves positive for you in the long run and helps resolve things for you… Getting to know thyself is a funny old business…
@flourbaby I thought that wink at the end of your list of lemon desserts meant you loved them but avoid them… I think I am completely wrong… Hope you’re able to sleep and relax this weekend. What time do you go to bed before your 4am catcall…
@excelsior12309 I wish everyone could live with differences of opinion like you do… We, the world, are waiting with bated breath for the election outcome. It has so many consequences here for our primary produce industries, esp meat and wine.
@stitchincarol Well done for plowing on through the cluster headaches. Not easy but at least its not related to fasting… I like @excelsior12309‘s Napoleonic troubled sleep solution. We, as a young country, count🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
I read the restaurant’s delicious menu and found myself licking my lips and selecting what I’m going to have!!!
@michelinme You’re amazing with what you accomplish!! Enjoy your Retreat. It sounds like great timing for you.
@iona72 Sorry to hear about your friend’s funeral. Never an easy time and it does make one think about one’s own life…
You are doing so well – you’ll rebalance and get to your personal goal!! I too have never been much good at journaling and counting calories. That’s why I love 5:2 because I don’t have to!! If you eat too much one day you can throw in an extra FD the next day!!
@penz Agility training sounds great fun. My friends had a Scottie whose mother was a national American agility champion. She was so bouncy!! Our dog club has all the gear for agility which we get out from time to time. Mac wasn’t very interested in going through the tunnel until I went and laid a Hansel and Gretel trail of ham and cheese through it! Then there was a queue!!
@northgeorgia Well done!! Think what you could acheive if you repeated your last couple of weeks over and over!!
@brightonbelle Hope the yoga session went well along with your solo time.
This also reminds me of our good friend @at who has been very quiet of late…
@jaifaim I’m looking forward to hearing titbits from your trip over the next few weeks!! Interesting that the portions are smaller. When I travelled around with a friend in the 80s we only ever ordered one meal and split it. We weren’t exactly in the high value tourist market!!
All the best for the weekend everyone!!
Be a WARRIOR!!
Thin I’ve been using Duolingo for about 2 months learning French. I do one lesson per day over my morning coffee. My other ‘learning new things’ is the piano which I’ve been doing on and off for awhile now but I need to commit more time and consistency and practice every day instead of just ad hoc.
Day 25 – NE England NFD
Today has gone to pot! I started well skipping breakfast and a light lunch but it went downhill from there. Snacking mid afternoon, which I haven’t done in months, bread with my meal, ice cream, cookie with coffee, Eek I cannot let this happen again. The only bonus, I resisted the alcohol.
Will step on the scale tomorrow to see the damage.
Back on track from here….
I’ve been away for a few days to attend a funeral and I am struggling to get back on track, I know I have eaten too much today but at least I have not touched the alcohol. I will step on the scale over the weekend to see the damage!
Day 25 UK FD800
Throwing in a Friday FD800 to give my week a good end. This morning’s weekly weigh day showed I’m somehow down 0.5lb and around 0.3″ from my fat suit. I’ll take it – and see what i can do to enhance it, ahead of next week free from FDs.
I slept until 11am and didn’t get dressed until midday – that’s the beauty of a day off! I had a couple of friends round to help with various things, including setting up of my donor wheelchair – all now sorted to get out and about, so I’m good to go to church on Sunday and away on Monday. I peeked at and cleared a few emails to reduce the mountain I come back to, but feel really good about letting go of it all for the next 10 days 🙂
Tomorrow is about gently packing and enjoying the day, perhaps think about making some of my homegrown berries into fruit vinegars or chutneys for Christmas presents. I’ll be staying with DD this year – my first without my mother, and my first not hosting – and we’ll be doing some gentle visiting with her wider family and partner’s parents, if she’s well enough. We never normally think about Christmas until mid-November so this feels really organised!
@stitchincarol I’ve used a chair since 2002, previously fulltime but now a bit of walking around indoors with a crutch. I don’t generally talk about it because it’s my normal. It’s only since getting e-wheels via a generous fundraiser that I’ve been able to get out and about independently, but when it’s broken I go right back to feeling and being stuck. Hence I’m delighted to have been able to get mobile again, thanks to a lot of juggling/planning and support from lovely people. I guess I always talk about what I do rather than what I don’t do, which may be why I seem so busy!
@northgeorgia – well done on yesterday’s FD -and good luck with swerving your Mum’s cookies!!
@excelsior12309 I can’t believe there are only 6 days left of Outstanding October! Thank you for your gracious hosting. Joining you on today’s FD pocket list 🙂
@brightonbelle i hope your solo weekend is fun / restful /relaxing/indulgent (delete as applicable)
@funshipfreddie yes I’m looking forward to seeing DD again next week – tho the retreat is from Mon-Sunday, so I’ll miss the end of this month and join November on the 3rd or 4th. Great idea to being jotting down notes ahead of your appointment – I hope that goes really well
@penz I love the idea of you training people to be good with their dogs, rather than training the dogs! What a great way to spend your time 🙂
@iona72 sorry for your loss. I’m glad the funeral went well as a celebration of their life, and a chance to rethink what’s important for you right now
I’m thinking of absent friends today – @bert1802 @at @daffodil2010 – and hope they are doing well
Pocket List Day 25
@excelsior12309 FD800
@michelinme FD800
Evening!
The Atomic Habits book sounds good … I started a new list today with a few jobs carried over, & few I knew I could get done today 😂
Shame Denise doesn’t like the cottage pie Dave.
Went out for lunch today, warm enough to sit outside by the river. Had smoked fish platter, no bread, & no dessert.
Have a good weekend everyone 😊
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