Day 10 – Ireland – CD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽♀️ 🌾
Morning all
Well done @stitchincarol on achieving so much. It’s a wonderful feeling!
Well done @penz – so glad being back with us is helping with the mojo ⭐️ and for you too @michelinme ⭐️. I am so sorry for your loss 💕 there has been so much sadness this year. Thank you for your lovely kind words. And so very wise 💕💕
And bravo @davinac 👏
@funshipfreddie it’s weird for sure and when you stop collecting I’m sure it’s like any breaking any other habit. So liberating! I’ve never collected ornaments etc but did have a bit of an issue with shoes 👠😂
@flourbaby how are you settling in?
Off to get a good days work in 🙏
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Good morning I was up early but lazy bones Chloe stayed on the bed and didn’t come down. Got to be up at 3am tomorrow morning 🤯🥺🤪. Very windy outside I’ll need my hat on, just shaved my head so bald as a coote , Easier to put suncream on my nogin😂. I’ll take Chloe out now she’s up then so the weekly shop at Sainsbury’s.
Day 10 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
I set my alarm for 6:45 am, but the fuzzy four-legged alarm woke me at 6:15 am. Thanks Boo Boo. A lovely & sunny day, but so cold! 🥶️
@davinac – well done! 5 down, 5 to go! 💪🎯
@stitchincarol – isn’t it crazy, the stuff we hold onto? I used to buy souvenir shot glasses when I was working on the ships. For 15 years, every time I visited a new port I’d buy one. I had them lined up on the window sills of EVERY room in my apartment. Dust magnets, that’s all they were. When I sold that place I could’ve kicked myself whilst I was packing them all up. I donated virtually all of them to a charity shop & just kept my favourite six – from Florida, Ireland, Montreal, New Zealand & New York, + one with the Holland America logo.
“You will NEVER eat sugar again after watching this video…” Or maybe you will; but it won’t kill you to watch this 7 minute clip. Interesting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpo_Iv4EN98
Day 10 already?! Gotta dash, mosaic/laundry day 🧺️
Pocket List – Day 10 🥦
@stitchincarol WFD
Hello everyone. I finally have a quiet afternoon where I can catch up on posts (and laundry). I haven’t even looked at posts for a week.
My diet has been erratic in recent weeks. FDs were good, but far too many of my NFDs were a hot mess, so I was only losing 1-200g a week. I decided to try something more drastic. I’m still doing 2 FD dinners each week. But I’m only eating a solid meal once a day (mostly at dinner time, unless there’s a social lunch event). For the rest of the day I’m allowing myself up to 2 low cal (100-150cal) liquid meals daily – smoothie, iced coffee or a cup of soup. I don’t add sugar and am adding fibre (psyllium or oat bran) and protein (soy or pea protein powder) which helps me feel satisfied. I’m almost a week in and it’s been working very well. I’m losing a little weight on the NFDs too. Pleasingly I’m not struggling with wanting to snack throughout the day.
Because I’ve put no restrictions on my NFD dinners I’m not feeling rebellious – although in reality there is a distinct limit to how much I can eat at one meal, which imposes a hidden control. The weather has been helping as it’s been mostly mild – makes it much easier to have a smoothie for lunch and enjoy it.
Neil, there a 1980s song “Safety Dance”, which started: you can dance if you want to. I agree, dance if it makes you happy, it’s good exercise. For me it’s while I’m doing housework as I put dance/techno music on the ipod while I’m cleaning. No one to see me, only the cat.
I’m glad you have found snacking strategies that are working. Snacks can really be my undoing too.
GDSA, Doesn’t the warmer weather bring out the lizards. I get them in my back yard – especially when the strawberry plants are fruiting.
Yes to the weather fluctuations – there have been some unseasonably warm days here too with nothing that feels like winter except for a little early morning chill.
I found your results interesting – that seems like a lot of cms off for only one kilo on the scales.
Quacka, hope that tick bite heals quickly. I’ve thankfully never encountered a tick – it’s not the right climate for them where I live.
Thin, thankyou for posting your daughter’s compilation video. It was lovely to watch – she certainly found plenty of animals along the way. Wonderful memories for her. I felt a bit of panic with the hitchhiking, then remembered your youthful travel stories which seemed full of risky behaviour.
Anzac, I know you were planning a trip to Europe – is that happening soon? You are right about the fitness – if you want to make the most of the sightseeing, being able to walk a lot and climb stairs is a must.
Cali, I hope the delayed FD did the trick and rewarded you with a decent loss.
Cinque, I really giggled at your attempts to apologise to your cup of tea for calling it second best.
SuzyQ72, glad to hear your slow and steady weight loss is continuing and that you are content to stick with that pace.
I hope I have gotten back to all the posts I missed. If I forgot to mention someone, sorry and hello.
Take care everyone – time for me to hang up some washing.
Afternoon all
Well I tried the tip from the health advisor with regards to movie snacks, and it worked well this time. I had some scrambled egg and salad for dinner, then portioned myself 50g of chips into a bowl and ate just that during the movies along with my regular Friday drink. I managed to keep my Friday calories from spiking like normal. I’ve continued my cycling the last week, even though the weather has been a bit up and down recently. I came off my bike on one of the mountain bike tracks I was riding on Sunday though and ended up in the middle of a puddle, I had to ride home afterwards absolutely covered head to toe in mud. I kept my calories to 1600 yesterday, and I’m hoping to have around 1200 today and see how that, plus my weekend efforts shows on the scales tomorrow. Even if my weight isn’t coming down quick, I realised the other day that I’m down a couple of notches on my belt from where I was a month ago, so something must be happening. My legs are certainly getting a lot firmer too, with all of the cycling.
Gday, While I agree it’s lifestyle that does lead to weight gain, the article suggests that some people are always going to work harder for the same results, that some people have a genetic mutation that affects the satiety triggers in the brain, which means they get less pleasure from food, so need to eat more to get the same dopamine hit other people do, and get the satiety trigger later than others, so will keep eating after they are full because the brain hasn’t told them they’ve eaten enough in time. The ultra processed food altering your brain chemistry so that you crave more and don’t get pleasure from healthy food is disturbing, but there are people whose whole careers are based around getting us addicted to their products. In the “Sugar” documentary they had a segment about the guy who was working to find the “bliss point” of sugar in soft drinks. Putting more sugar in something makes us want more, up to a point where it becomes too much, then our enjoyment diminishes.
Quacka, the tick sounds annoying. We don’t tend to get many of them over here, but our cat has been getting fleas at the moment, and filling our bed with them. We’ve treated her, but then you have to wash everything else to get rid of them.
Great to hear you’re able to get out walking more Anzac, I know I get stir crazy if I can’t get out for a while. I actually twinged my back helping my wife’s aunt to clear out her mother-in-law’s house after she had passed away, I was lying on the couch feeling sorry for myself, but still felt like riding on Sunday, weirdly I actually felt better after getting out and riding.
Thin, if you don’t care what other people think about you, you don’t need a dance partner. I used to walk listening to music and I would dance while I walked. I got weird looks from some people, but it made me feel good. It made me laugh when this Molenberg bread ad came out over here, I probably got similar looks from people https://www.facebook.com/MolenbergBread/videos/feedyourawesome/286812916254384/
Cali, I hope the scales were good to you this week.
Cinque, I hope you managed to find a good coffee. We have a local roastery that blends and roasts their own beans. I grab a bag of them every few weeks for my coffee machine at home, it’s the best way to start off my weekends.
Well weight in tomorrow. Hopefully the scales are kinder to me this week than they have been the past few weeks.
catch you all later.
Day 9, second post
I laughed out loud at your post, @michelinme, and grinned at yours, @penz. Yup, he’s a keeper!
DH mowed the lawn today while I did an hour of weeding, then we drove the hour again to help clean out my MIL’s apartment, then brought home the “treasures” we collected and have been sorting them out and putting them away…it’s been a LONG day and I’m rather weary.
Everything is moving at warp speed right now, and I’d rather be able to relax a bit, but it’s also lovely to accomplish so much. I’ve not eaten like a crazy woman, but I certainly allowed food to be my comfort and reward–so, in other words, not a lot of discipline for me…but I’m pretty much okay with that, given all we’ve tackled today and the huge level of emotions involved.
In the morning, I may post, but if I don’t, I thought I’d post tonight. I’ll be WFing tomorrow!
Day 10, NFD, Aus
Another successful FD makes me wonder why I stop this WOL for so many months this year. It’s odd; I am not at my heaviest weight, but my fat seems to have shifted and relocated to new parts so that I *look* fatter than ever. Another reason I don’t like going by the scales!
A gorgeous spring day here – with very very light wind! I’m trying to work out where to take the dogs – I’m lucky there are so many possible walking options out my front door, but I am scared of coming across snakes which excludes some of the narrow bush trails.
Then I really should channel @stichincarol and her son’s efforts and clean out some cupboards. I know I won’t, but I’ll think about it!
My friends on the bowling all grow runner beans and all hash a bad crop this year. I’ll go to bed at 1am and try to get up early so I will get some sleep tomorrow. Got to be up around 3am Wednesday morning.
Dat 8 UK FD
Loooong day number 3 now done- phew. Desk time, church friend’s funeral/reception, recorded interview/conversation for upcoming online conference, helped to host an evening lecture. Despite serving coffee at lunch and pouring wine this evening, I resisted all temptation xc two small glasses of orange juice. I’ve had a late supper of dahl from the freezer and dried mango – result!
Already I can feel my energy and focus increasing especially on FD; I’m sleeping better and not quite so wiped out, even after 3 long days. Cutting out sugar and most carbs is rebalancing something that needs it…
Tomorrow is a mix of rest and desk tho sadly with a 3 hour evening meeting! Depending on energy in the morning I may pull another FD tomorrow and hold off until evening soup/fruit supper…
@jaifaim good luck with the pre-holiday concertina! it is hard leaving elderly parents behind and going away – but you’ve done what you can, she’s in good hands, and if you really needed to you could come straight back
@stitchincarol I’m envying your tidying – and your DS27! Does he hire out? 😀
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
@brightonbelle
@jaifaim
@michelinme
Neil are you okay? It’s been quite a few days without a post which is not like you.
Cinque, part of my cutting back on coffee strategy last Xmas was to replace my first morning coffee, which I always had immediately after waking, with a pot of organic green tea. Now I can’t go without my pot of green tea first thing. Then I’ll have a small Moka pot (stovetop coffee maker) of organic coffee. I only have an instant coffee now if I’m going out early and don’t have time to fuss about with a moka pot. Two coffees a day is my limit, always before noon. I could very easily drink more because I absolutely love a good coffee but I keep to my limit.
Oh Quacka, hope the tick wound is healing, nasty little critters. With the warm weather our garden is a hive of reptile and bird activity. Miss GDay had a jump scare yesterday, she saw that Master Oliver (Ollie, our 18 month old Koolie) was fixated buy something along the fence line in the backyard. She fossicked around and couldn’t find anything and then out of nowhere a baby sleepy lizard dashed out. He was so adorable but gave Miss a fright at first, always mindful of snakes where we live. There have been numerous sightings in our area the last few weeks, even in the centre of our neighbouring town.
Sleep has been good, struggling to stay awake past 8pm and waking at 4.30-5am. Love being up early, especially as the sun is rising just before 6am but that will all change next month when daylight savings kicks in.
Yes Thin always very mindful when I read ‘studies’ to find out who conducted the study, who funded it, the type of study and have many people participated. Sadly the vast majority are manipulated to ensure the end results favour a specific outcome rather than the true outcome. None more prevalent than the biggest study manipulation of all time in my opinion, Ancel Keys Seven country study in 1958. It a bit like politicians and governments when they pay consulting firms to provide them with data, the parimeters are all specially set to ensure the outcome is exactly what the government wants it to be so it suits their agenda – very rarely does the truth come into it.
Must dash have a busy day ahead
Evening!
Dave, it went close to us, decided not to go & watch in the end as I’d have had to drive there the same route & might’ve got caught in the road closures – other years I could find out exact timings, but couldn’t see anything online, only that there might be delays for several hours! I missed it all on TV too…
A wet start today, gave Xena a long walk, did some inside jobs & we repaired one of our raised beds, runner beans all finished now so took them down, they were very poor this year…bacon & eggs for dinner 😋
Today I cycled to my favourite bicycle shop,I know the owner as he always services my bicycle. I hadn’t been there for 5 weeks (before I started 5/2).
The first thing he said to me was “hello, how are you. You have lost weight, your stomach and face much smaller”. I was in cloud 9 to hear this, as I could never loose weight. I have lost 5kg and have the weight I had in 2017. Another 5 to go.
Day 9 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
Despite attending a party last night, I ate quite reasonably and entirely skipped the desserts (partly aided by them not looking in the least interesting to me…why do people bother baking such dull desserts??? 🤣) and was 161.0 this morning when I was up way early, and again when I was up an hour later. Then I weighed once more, just because I was so pleased…and was 161.6! LOL, you just never know what your body is going to do, and fickle scales don’t help! Regardless, I’m not back up at 163, so I’m delighted.
I’ve gone down to admire the basement multiple times since yesterday. @funshipfreddie, I used to buy cooking magazines multiple times each month, and I never got rid of any of them. They’re almost all gone now, and piled all on top of each other, they’d have been as tall as I am! We also got rid of a piece of furniture, assembled a wire shelving unit I bought two years ago but couldn’t figure out where to put it, and put it where the donated piece went. Then all that had been on the floor, finally had a shelf to live on. There’s still much to sort through– most of it to toss, I imagine–but it’s a vast improvement. Beyond looking better and feeling better, the granddaughters won’t find nearly so many things to touch and explore when they go downstairs to the bedroom they’ll be sharing with their parents, LOL!
Today’s a busy day, so must scoot. @ccco I echo what @funshipfreddie says! ❤️ Your body needs nutrition to heal, and FDs help us lose weight, but part of your recovery process requires excellent nutrition, which is not possible on FDs.
Have a grand one, everyone!
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline wieghs ounces while regret weighs tons. –Jim Rohn
I’m planning on the pain of discipline today.
Day 9 Wales 🏴 FD
My weekend discipline wasn’t perfect, but good enough 😉
I’m having some twinges of back pain today which is probably my body telling me I have been sitting around too much over the weekend. So much heavy rain I haven’t been out walking enough, but today is brighter so I must get out and hopefully walk away the pain 🤞
Happy Monday everyone 🤗
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
@brightonbelle
@jaifaim
Day 9 – Ireland – NFD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽♀️ 🌾
Hi all, my weekend was busy as had lovely times spent with mum before I head off on holidays. It is great to have the holiday to look forward to, and I am very excited (and need it) but I worry as I’ll be so far away but I can get back if I need to 🙏
@stitchincarol I am so very sorry for your loss 💕 and glad that you had some lovely moments recently with your MIL. Dementia is such a heartbreaking disease for everyone. 💕💕 we are here for you!
@merryapple how sad for your poor friend… and such a shame that the tech failed… it’s so easy to get it right these days… 😢 Have a fabulous holiday! We aimed to drive the length of both islands many years ago but ran out of time! I never did get to Milford Sound, Dunedin and that beautiful part of the country but I loved all that I saw there ♥️ one day I’ll make it back…
I’m going to apologise now for patchy posts over the coming weeks… I’m leaving Thursday but know how it goes before getting away from work/life and then will be busy having holiday fun so will check in from time to time but not posting regularly.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
@brightonbelle
@jaifaim
Day 9 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 236 lbs. Man, I remember the 216 lb days… got to get back.
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
@brightonbelle
Good morning everyone does the tour of Britain pass by your HH and Nana? The sun is out but it’s chilly today, looking forward to seeing the sun soon and warmer weather. Bowling this afternoon a cup match as the league is over on Mondays.
Day 9 UK f800
Well done Sunday fasters , that’s what I call commitment 💪
Week 2 , I’m happy with most of my week , as usual relaxed too much at the weekend but with a few tweaks I’d be happy , and luckily I have this week to try again
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
@brightonbelle
Day 9 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 70.2 kg
Had an easy, mostly hunger-free FD. But I was way too sedentary & only managed 3500 steps. So it’s a minimum 9000 for the next few days to make amends 💪
@stitchincarol – well done on that marathon, 3 hour clean-up! What are you stashing down there in your basement?! 😅 Did you manage to get rid of anything, or did you just rearrange it? I know how hard it is to let go of stuff, after all my recent moves. But it feels so good once it’s done.
@ccco – thanks for joining me on that very short list 😅 Exercise isn’t the best way to lose weight, although it helps with maintaining. If you can get out to walk & stick to your regular FDs you’re doing plenty. You need to enjoy your NFDs too 🤗
Pocket List – Day – 9 🍓
@penz
@at
@merry🍎
@missybear
@northgeorgia
@snowflake56
Good afternoon everyone
It’s Monday FD today. Work has continued to be crazy busy so it’s been an easy FD again. I’m so grateful. Weight loss back up 1kg after weekend of eating and drinking anything I wanted. We will see how I go tomorrow!
Neil, sorry to hear you were hit by a car!! I know how frustrating it can be when you just want to be active again but are unable to. I had surgery on my nose in May and was not allowed to do anything strenuous for 2 months. I have had a hard time healing so it stretched to more like 3 months but it has made me appreciate being able to move my body now. You have the tools to get that weight back off and I know you will be able to do it. Just keep going.
Well it’s after 5pm now so I better go prepare my dinner. Something with lots of protein and within my fasting limits.
Oh and I got a tick over the weekend so I have a nasty lump with a big bright red patch around it that is still spreading. I’ve just taken an antihistamine so I hope that helps. My goodness the itch is driving me batty!
Hope everyone had a good weekend and a lovely start to the week. Chat soon 🙂
Xx
Day 9, FD, Aus
Another windy day and just back from a relatively shortish 4km walk with the dogs. I’ll have to take them back out this evening to make up for it!
It’s a FD and I am staying busy, so must rush off!
Day 8 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
I weighed 160.6 this morning, which again was only about a 1 pound loss overnight–for years, it’s always been 2 pounds overnight, so I don’t know why my body is being weird. Regardless, both 160.6 or a pound lower are equally good numbers, and I’m not shooting up in weight, so I decided this morning to shrug and be happy about it.
After church, DS27 helped me in the basement to do the tidying I’d asked him to help me sort out. But he was home an hour before I was, and got started the way he thought we should do it…which was THOROUGHLY. Poor boy: I was devastated when I got home and saw how much he’d pulled out and how deep he was sorting, and only barely managed not to sob as I fretted about how much time it was going to take to sort through everything. There was lots of hugging and soothing on his part, and reassuring he’d do most of the work, and he DID. So instead of the 30-40 minutes I was planning on, we spent three HOURS (or more?) and certainly got a lot done. I didn’t cook our noon meal until 2:30, and now DH and I are waiting for the Cowboy Casserole to come out of the oven so we can take it to a party of colleagues. We’ll be late there, but oh well, eh? The basement is in AMAZING shape, so I’m glad he pushed me to be so in-depth.
And so goes my life these days. Tomorrow we meet to clean out my MIL’s room and bring home an atique dresser no one else wants. We don’t actually have room for it, but I’m hoping it will work in our retirement home, so we’ll find a way to fit it in now.
Thanks for being my friends, everyone.
Talk to you tomorrow!
Day 7 UK CD
Day 8 UK NFD
Dropping in to catch up with posts and post. I’ve had two Loooooong days; last night i came home so tired that just ate and went to bed tout de suite!
yesterday day out at E Sussex coast with a gang of women friends. We were ladies who lunch then went to visit resident friend who was at home with a bad cold – she was feeling better but we kept the door open, and I kept my distance! I had resisted breafast and train snacks then plumped for gf sandwich of goat’s cheese and red onion marmalade with salad – the only gf veggie thing on the menu. After a longish walk around the natural harbour we had tea and mini cakes (or mini twix, in my case) and put the world to rights before heading home. Train delays meant it was scrambled eggs and bed for me – not the most balanced day, but I woke up weighing the same as Saturday morning!
This morning left early for full day of church/workshop/party, celebrating 10 years of one group’s work. Although I ate lots of salad lunch inc three thin slices of my homemade gf oat/pumpkin seed/linseed/apricot/cardamom loaf and a small piece of gf vegan chocolate cake. I’m about to have late supper of baked sweet potato/mozzarella/spinach and a baby apple, then bath and bed.
@stitchincarol I’m sorry for the loss of your mother-in-law and all she was to your family; and sad that she didn’t know and love you. I just love the story of her face lighting up to see you once dementia had taken hold: I had a similar experience with a very angry woman colleague who had barely tolerated me, but occasionally lit up to see me during her dementia years.
@at @funshipfreddie glad it’s not just me googling hushpuppies! And I first thought of bassett hounds…
Onwards and downwards to Monday morning.. @merryapple wishing you travelling mercies and good adventures
Afternoon!
Dave- well done resisting the chocolate, & brilliant you have found new stuff to fit into! I have a fat wardrobe & a slim wardrobe of clothes- in the fat one still 😂
Jean- hope the bug spray works, we had a huge 🕷️ on the wall yesterday, hubby woke me up (& put it outside!) I’m the same- okay if they don’t run …
Hemmy- well done keeping your weight the same, wish I could do that, maybe with keto if I don’t relax on holidays I might manage it!
Nana- great you have extra help with your bike now! I’m sure you’ll soon get the 2lbs off…do you pen & paper write down what you eat or log it on an app?
Went to a farmers market nearby yesterday for cheese & olives- doesn’t look like the company are about now that did my favourite smoked ones. Funny I love them when doing keto but wasn’t bothered afterwards, too busy eating sugary stuff probably! Saw mum in the afternoon, it was a lovely day but she wanted to stay in & play a game as usual, so I beat her! Today started off nice, have been going to a new place on Sundays as the road there is quieter but they’ve got stuff ready to do some felling, it makes it too muddy so won’t be going there for a while 😕 having a lazy day…
Day 8 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 233 lbs. Tomorrow will be a FD for me 🙂
Day 8 UK CD
Well that our first week done , let get ready for week 2
Pocket List – Day 8 🥚
@funshipfreddie
@ccco
Afternoon All..
Drizzle start but dry since.. went to Goole 4 miles away shopping and some horrendous puddles in the road they obviously got the lot….
Weighed my case nearly 21 kg so just 2kg to go… bought my packing up for the flight, lots of nibbles also I will make ham with mustard in bread cakes. Might make them before bed on Tuesday and put in fridge.
The food is awful not my taste at all.
Cleaned up downstairs ready to bug spray before bed tonight send Charlie up first..
Hemmy…
You are very stable with your weight, I am still 4 lbs up for me.. I put 7 lbs on when I was on my cruise I can’t move it.. well 3 lbs has gone.
Marmalade is very tasty , Phil was pleased with his 5 jars.
Dave…
Chloe is such a good girl you have been so lucky with her. Charlie doesn’t mind the rain. I must get him a thin coat for the summer..like a cagoule type material.
Well sat sitting ..floor is wet so taking a rest..
I have got some cooked mince out of the freezer for tonight might do a jacket to go with it.
Jean x
USA. Day 8. FD
I am, FUNSHIPFREDDIE. I am still unable to do much exercise, so I am trying to find ways to lose and not gain weight!
Pocket List – Day 8 🥚
@funshipfreddie
@ccco
Hope everyone is enjoying a lovely weekend! 🙂
Day 8 – UK – TDEE
Our meal last night was delicious 😋 and it was lovely to catch up with old friends from the south who are visiting the area – I have to admit that I did not have any of the desert and tried to keep to small servings so even though I most certainly was well above TDEE…….it was not as disastrous a day, food wise, as it could have been and my walk of around 6miles/9.6km made me feel a bit better about the overindulgence 🤣
Out early today for a 5.5miles/8.8km walk with another friend and coffee in her garden afterwards – made it back home before the predicted rain arrives this afternoon!!
@merryapple – enjoy your holiday – something lovely to look forward to after that emotional week for you
@stitchincarol – my thoughts are with you and your OH and family about the loss of your MIL – sounds like it might be a blessed release
@penz – my exact thoughts about the calories in that meal……🤣 but I made sure that I had small serves of each to minimise the damage 🤣
@funshipfreddie – dry roasted peanuts here!!!!
Going to find something healthy for a light lunch and we have mackerel for dinner tonight – doing Jamie Oliver’s crispy-skinned mackerel with asian-inspired dressing for dinner and we have the left over of that Tarta de Santiago with orange cream from last night
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Good afternoon,Hemmy are you having the odd drop of cider? In hoping to be having some on my holidays,I like the kopparberg cider.Very refreshing.Raining here thankfully Chloe doesn’t mind it,some greyhounds won’t go out in it. A girl a few house’s down from me always says that she wishes her dog was well trained like Chloe😁 I’ve not trained her at all she just walks by my side or behind me even if she’s off the lead. I love dogs so much,if only all humans were as good. She’s looking at me so better take her out.
Day 8 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
@ccco – you seem to be doing a lot of fasting?!
@merryapple – bon voyage! I hope you have a lovely time. But, you’re not driving the whole way, are you?
@stitchincarol – a nice number! It sounds like you have an eventful week ahead; I hope everything goes as planned. I’m sure every family has similar tales of complicated relationships with family members, both immediate & extended. I could write a book about my two sisters-in-law & their completely different relationships with my parents. One was as close to them as a real daughter could’ve been. And the other, well, I could only describe her as a sociopathic whack-job.
@penz – salted peanuts! 😅 My kryptonite. I bought a 400 g bag a few days ago. The giant variety. They talk to me every time I open the cupboard where they’re stashed. So far the bag is still sealed 😇
I’m going nowhere today. Very blustery out there, & rain expected a bit later. So a spot of cleaning, & then a lazy, solitary afternoon with just my cat & my Kindle.
Happy S🌞nday y’all! Hop on the list, plenty of room 😉
Pocket List – Day 8 🥚
@funshipfreddie
Day 8, NFD, Aus
Had a fun mini-vacay in Newcastle over the weekend. Lovely city, and great wine lunch at the nearby Hunter Valley vineyards. A FD tomorrow is very much needed.
School shootings; so very very sad.
@brightonbelle – NDS – such a typo!! That should have been NFD. (My fingers appear to have been one key to the right!)
Great resolve @michelinme. And as you say, it’s so easy to quickly build up the calories. I had no idea that 50g of salted peanuts (which I could devour by the handful) was 300 calories until @funshipfreddie (who just took the fun out of it) pointed it out.
Despite your work challenges, and the sad news of the school shooting, you’re doing well @northgeorgia! Keep it up!
Oh yum, @at. I think I just ingested a thousand calories just reading about your Spanish feast!
I’ve lived in the States and still had to google-remind myself what are hush puppies. I also think of footwear first.
@stitchincarol – my condolences. Your posts have such beautiful pathos. It must be hard to lose someone you’ve never had a close relationship with, but still be able to recognise the close connection and importance your MIL had with the rest of your family. I’m sure the family catch up will be lovely.
It’s been a big week for you too @merryapple but your positivity is shining through.
Good morning everyone XXXX
It looks to be a sunny day again after overnight rain … some rain forecast this evening again. .
I am hoping enough rain so not much watering needed at my neighbours today.
Weight very stable.. strange that after all these years I seem to be exactly the same weight within 2 lbs permanently.
I expect I eat similar things .. eating more for necessity now and feeling healthier as no sugar cravings at all. Wine was definitely the trigger..lol
I need to do a shop today Sunday seems a good day for me. Tesco I think.
Nana .. You will soon lose the 2 lbs on Geraldine .
Dave.. What a lovely boost for you finding the shirts and going down sizes.
H H… Its good to see the dogs enjoying them selves… Pips not bothered about other dogs .. all he wants is for me to be throwing for him.
So lovely your son lives nearby does the other one too.
Sym.. I bet that marmalade is so tasty being homemade and all natural..
Enjoy your Sunday everyone.. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. xxxx
Day 8 NZ NFD 70.7kg
I’m in preparation mode for my South Island holiday. I leave the house at 6am tomorrow morning.😎
I’m not sure where y’day went but here I am today!!
Y’day I visited Billy’s gallery then went to see a sad exhibition of Derek Jarman’s paintings and photographs of him. He was a beautiful English film maker who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986. His father was born in NZ and moved the family back to England before he was born. His paintings were full of the frustration of being ill and dying young…
I had my Texan friend over for dinner. His older sister died from what sounded like, to me, an inter-operative stroke while having heart bypass surgery. He tried to watch her funeral but they didn’t turn the sound on and the camera was focused the whole time on the Southern Baptist pastor standing at his lecturn so he couldn’t see her coffin, flowers or people… I guess they don’t really understand what it is to be live away from family at times like this… Someone would have done better using an iPhone…
@stitchincarol That’s tough being a DIL who doesn’t measure up… My mother was a wee bit like that towards my little bro’s wife initially but she got over herself after a few years once there were grandchildren!! I think It’s about them and how they view their precious sons, not the DIL (if they’re good humans!!).
I don’t know about being a media star @brightonbelle! It’s more like business as usual installing exhibitions and doing interviews. But now I have to be “Billy Apple”. Luckily I worked closely with him so I think to myself “What would Billy do or say?” and go forward from there.
I have to get going!! I’m juggling washing, tidying and packing…
Steely RESOLVE to everyone esp ME😀
Hello friends
The weather has been crazy here too; we had 30 degrees on the 2nd last day of winter!
I despair of friends who eat so much processed food and think that frozen dinners from the supermarket are ‘healthy’. It isn’t hard to put a lovely meal together quickly with fresh ingredients. Today is Sunday and my DD (Dad) is coming for lunch as usual. Mr A found a leg of lamb on special so we are having roast lamb with lots of different roast veges and fresh greens. Yum! I have to stand there and watch Mr A do my portion because he is a feeder and likes to pile the plate high so I just say ‘that’s enough thanks’ for each element
I wish I could drink tea Cinque, but it makes me dry-retch. No idea why
I am back walking as my back and knee are doing well. I am taking it a bit easy to start with (physio’s orders) but have increased from 2km to 3km after just one week. I need to get some fitness up for the trip
Congratulations on the loss Quacka and it is so great to have you back with us
Did you have professional dance training Thin? What type of dancing do/did you do?
What is your favourite dance? I can’t dance to save myself but I can sing a bit and play the piano
I hear your frustration Neil, my weight loss is so slow and then one slip and it jumps up like a gymnast doing a flying leap. Only 70 days until the holiday and I am still struggling to get back under 92
I have so much admiration for your will power and determination G’day. I wish I had a quarter of it
Must go and do some house work before Dad arrives. Take care all
USA. Day 7. FD
I haven’t weighed myself yet, so I hope my FDs are working!
Afternoon All..
A lovely 4 hours with Jacqui and Phil, I shared my marmalade we got 5 jars each.
Two good walks and that’s my day…..
Hemmy..
Roast beef baguette sounds good nice and easy. I don’t mind mice, I can cope with spiders if they don’t run.
I will be spraying downstairs tomorrow…
Hedgehog…
Xena seemed to have a good busy day. Love to see them run and have fun.
Dave…
You have worked hard to go down your sizes… you are beach ready 😊
Nana..
Glad Geraldine is making life easier for you. Your 2lbs on will soon move. I must get focused next month.
Jean x
Day 7 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 232 lbs. Have a great weekend!
Day 7 – Ireland – NFD 🚫 ✅ 🚶🏽♀️ 🌾
Day 6 – 153 lbs
Hello everyone – just a quick check in from me… I’m busy this weekend as will be away for the next two so lots to do. I didn’t get much done yesterday or get to check in as our weather was just glorious..😁
I’ve just skimmed through posts as time is being eaten up here for me but will relax later and have a read…
Welcome back @bert1802!
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 7 – UK – NFD
A lovely 6mile walk today – met with a friend and her lovely dog Nell at Wray Castle to explore the area a bit more followed by a 😋 Berry smoothie in the sunshine and I decided to accept a lift back home instead of walking back (another 3.5miles)
@stitchincarol – no we don’t have the fried cornmeal balls that you call hush puppies 🤣
I’m looking forward to our friends visiting and enjoying our mini Spanish feast this evening…..I always love having lots of small plates to sample an we have some lovely English Sparking wine cooling in the fridge to enjoy on this lovely late summer’s evening……
Hope everyone is also having a good weekend
Well done Nana, we’ll get you in the velodrome, it’s less than 2 miles from where I live. I’m lucky where I live because football is a mile and a half away speedway is under a mile and cycling is 1.75 miles.Cricket is 5 miles so plenty of choice. American football and basketball is under a mile away, rugby is the furthest about 9 miles. I’ve had a beef butty for dinner so I’ll be a wee bit over today, was going to buy a bar of chocolate but thought better of it. Denise is packing and found some new shirts in my wardrobe that I’ve never worn, couldn’t get in them, now they got fine so I’ll take there off then. Pierre Cardin ones. I gave 5 of them to the charity shop didn’t think I’d ever get in them. I could probably get in trousers 2 sizes small now🤪🤯.
Thanks for posting that article Neil.
Regardless of the studies, and data can be manipulated to show just about anything, I see it as the food manufacturers’ job to persuade me to buy, and become addicted to, rubbish and my job to fight back and resist it. Governments could certainly do a lot more but what I put in my mouth is my responsibility. Unfortunately, it took most of my adulthood to get where I am with my relationship to food. Lucky you, those in your forties and fifties with enough time to make lasting changes.
Cinque, I’d forgotten that ‘studies show’ that fasting during cancer treatments can reduce or eliminate the nasty side effects. I hope that your sister benefitted from that even though, sadly, it didn’t prevent her cancer from spreading.
Cinque, I’m so pleased that you watched the 1SE video – and, yes, a modern day slide show! The person you saw frequently might have been a former colleague who joined DD for a few weeks in Galápagos. They are both always smiling but the one doing the little hoola hoop dance while stirring is not DD.
I watched the last episode of a new Michael Moseley doco series the other night. Wonders Of The Human Body. In it, he was saying that ‘studies show’ that dancing is the best way to stave off dementia, better than doing crosswords. As I don’t have anyone that will dance with me, I have to stick to cryptic crosswords. Funny that my relatives can act, sing and play musical instruments but I am the only one that can dance (and not do any of the other things mentioned).
We have just completed the first leg of the tidal Trent. We exited the lock in dense fog at 7.20am which made it more challenging but we arrived at the destination lock four hours later. There were several huge tree trunks to dodge but it was uneventful.
Someone was asking about the price of olive oil. I did take a photo in the supermarket soon afterwards but forgot to report in. Olive oil costs £7.29 a litre.
Day 7 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD – 158.8
Well. All my whining and fretting yesterday was for naught, as I’m down further than I was yesterday morning! I managed to stay the course through the day and didn’t eat until we got to the restaurant, and I stuck to the planned side salad (huge and yummy), a dozen oysters on the half shell, and two and a half of the five hush puppies–DH insisted on splitting them exactly, LOL. I stretched it a bit by having two glasses of white wine instead of one…but they seemed to be VERY small glasses, LOL! Today, the two black dresses I ordered from Amazon arrive, since what I otherwise would have worn for the funeral is still too snug on me to feel acceptable, and the other option I have feels a bit too much like a party dress, although it’ll be acceptable if neither of the dresses I ordered work out.
And later this morning, I’ll know when I’ll be wearing one of those dresses, as my MIL quietly passed away at 8:40 last night. We mourn her passing but are glad the vigil is over.
Today is a Caesar salad for lunch and a BLT for supper, so not super low in calories, but yummy enough to stave off snacking on anything else, and not wild enough in calories and still small enough in quantity not to make too huge an impact on the scales tomorrow.
@missybear Clothes that feel less snug are one the great rewards of this lifestyle, so well done!
@at I chuckled when you mentioned shoes–we have the same brand in the States, and it didn’t even hit me to specify. Does the UK have the fried cornmeal balls we call hush puppies?
@ccco Are you fasting every single day??
@funshipfreddie My kids always felt loved by their grandma, so my daughter wants to come. Plus, she gets three days Bereavement by her school, as does her firefighter husband, so the only hardship is the last minute issue, which is now resolved since the funeral will be later in the week. Plus, once you’re past the funeral part, which can be painful, we’ll be at the luncheon part and Maggie hasn’t seen her cousins in five or more years, and her kids are the same age as some of the other kids, so it will be such fun–fun she doesn’t want to miss. But kind of you to ask. 😉
@excelsior12309 That your mother liked you was indeed a blessing, and how odd, indeed, that she recognized you and your son, but not your daughter and her son; there’s no rhyme or reason, is there? I was so excited to have “parents” close by (literally: they were a mile away at first and then a block away when we bought a different house a few years later) when DH and I married, and so broken hearted when they were so indifferent to me, and later became clear in their dislike of me. When my MIL first started experiencing dementia, DH and I were visiting her one day, and when she saw me, her face lit up. DH was not yet in sight, so I eventually decided it was because she recognized that she knew me, but didn’t remember precisely who I was, so gave me that response. I actually looked behind me to see if someone there was who she was so pleased to see, LOL. It was a lovely moment…
And in the middle of all this, the tax bookkeeping is nearly complete, whoop-whoop!!
Have a grand one, everyone!
Afternoon everyone,a fairly busy week again.
I tried not logging my daily calorie intake this week and as a result I’d gained two pounds when I weighed myself yesterday morning, despite me thinking I’d eaten carefully so it’s back to logging everything.
My other half has installed pedal assisted battery on Geraldine as I was finding it very hard to pedal due to it being a bit heavy. We went out for a trial ride yesterday morning and ended up doing ten miles, other half was exhausted and I was fine with just a slight twinge in my knee that’s affected by osteoarthritis.
Another lovely day here again.
Hope everyone is keeping alright and that you enjoy the weekend.
Nana xxx
Day 7-No. VA USA-FD 800
Weight is stable, no real loss. Not awfully compliant with calorie limits, but no serious gorging, either!
The excessive carbs cause the problem for me–I feel like it causes “water retention.” I might be making up science there.
@stichincarol, I have to say I am a bit in @funshipfreddie‘s camp when it comes to funeral travel…my mother used to say, “Funerals are for the living” and I believe that is true. So I guess it comes down to the messages we need to give others about the departed. And since it is your husband’s mother, maybe your daughter feels the need to give support to him? I was fortunate that my mother-in-law always liked me, though we could not have been more different. We lived far away and rarely saw her. (was that the secret??) It was interesting that toward the end of her life, when she had dementia, she clearly recognized me and my young adult son, but did not appear to recognize my husband (her son) or my daughter. We couldn’t figure that one out.
The cats have now established that they live in our upstairs bathroom, and only venture out for a rare excursion into our bedroom. We spent some time readying the “cat barn” the other day, which is a very large shed near the house with a “cat door”, lots of shelves, air conditioning, etc. I will be happy to move them there soon…
Have a good day, all!
Good morning everyone not as hot as yesterday, it was hotter than Benidorm here yesterday, hoping it will be sunny there when we go. We lost at bowls yesterday 6-2,I didn’t enjoy my game.I won 21-2 but prefer closer games.Getting the holiday feeling but trying to resist it.Chilli for tea tonight with rice. How you all doing? Can be very quiet on here at weekend.
Day 7 Wales 🏴 NFD
Well controlled food day yesterday but wine servings on the generous side so not much left in the bottle for this evening. Today’s challenge will be not to open another bottle!
Quacka, congrats on the weight loss. What a great way start back up on the program again!
Neil, thanks for posting that article. I read just a bit, but will finish it tomorrow.
Thursday was busy with someone visiting and having to do some quick cleanup. For the first time ever, I forgot that it was supposed to be a FD until late afternoon. So Friday was my second FD this week. I hope the scales are kind to me in the morning. I keep jumping between the 65 and 66’s. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out why.
Day 7 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
@michelinme – thanks! I found a sample of that book that I downloaded ages ago, but then never got around to reading, duh?
@at, @brightonbelle – I agree, you can’t rush a mosaic anyway. When I heard the class was 4 hours long, I thought, ‘what am I going to do for 4 hours?!’ Those 4 hours fly by, & it totally absorbs you. But not a lot gets done. @at – I also thought, ‘edible Hush Puppies?!’ 😂
@stitchincarol – um, you’re right. The extra driving & expense of a Saturday lesson puts me off anyway. So I might just bring home a smaller project to work on. There’s someone else at the class working on a snowman & I’d like to make one as a Christmas gift/decoration. I don’t think I’ll run out of ideas anytime soon though. There are about 70 houses in this village, & I think they all deserve a mosaic 😂 I can understand your inner conflict re your MIL. But your DD, unless she was particularly close to her grandmother – does she feel obliged to make such a long trip at a moment’s notice, with small children & her job to take into account? Or maybe it’s insensitive for me to even think that..?
It’s a lovely sunny day here, so I’m off to make the most of it before the wintery rain returns tomorrow.
Have a good weekend everyone 🌤🌈
Back again with a cuppa.
It is cup of tea since I am out of coffee. It is a bit hurt that I called it second best so I will try to make up to it by enjoying every sip. Tea is quite marvelous really.
Thin, good on your brother for being such a good friend. My sister fasted along with her cancer treatment when she was going through it a couple of years ago. I did do more research then and the hypothesis hasn’t been proved or even strengthened with latest research but, as you said, if the patient is strong enough it is worth a try.
Gday, I am another one who completely agrees with what you say about the big food companies investing millions into research to entice us to eat more and more ultra processed food made from cheap nutritionless ingredients. And then add in a couple of nutrients so they can put it on the packet.
Neil, I have a feeling the howling winds you mentioned had come through Melbourne on their way to you. We have had 100km winds, hail, a 25c day, an 18c night.
(Interruption, my cup of tea is very good).
Anyway I am glad you have got some gardening and cycling in.
It is frustrating that re-losing that weight is such a long difficult drawn out job. It is all to do with the stuff in the article I think.
And yes the bottom line is that if you weren’t doing all the work, your weight would still be going up. Stress eating did not seem much of a deal at all when we were younger, but it becomes more and more an issue. Hooray that you are putting in such good work with strategies etc. I hope that by the time you are my age you have got everything in place for easy maintenance.
Hi Quacka, I hope you have had a good week with fasts and gym and your busy life. All power to you.
Gday, yes, the poor weather systems are being buffeted like crazy by this global warming. I am glad your garden is happy though! I have nasturtium leaves with holes and scars from the hail but everything else looks fine and I think I might get a bumper crop of broad beans. Lots of flowers.
Okay, tea is finished (thankyou tea, you were lovely) and now I am going to get ready to go shopping (for coffee!).
Sending best wishes to everyone for fasty fasts and results on the scales.
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