31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 1 UK CD

Thanks @penz for hosting July – I’m in!

Brief intro: I’m f57 who put on weight due to health issues limiting mobility/energy, stopping smoking and menopause. I started 5:2 in Dec 2017 weighing 178lb and lost 35lbs over the next 9 months, shrinking 3 clothes sizes but never quite reaching my goal. I stayed fairly steady for a couple of years until I fell off the waggon just before pandemic.

I caught covid in Feb 2020 and have had long covid ever since, inc ME fatigue making me largely housebound, POTS, hypertension, peripheral neuropathy, cognitive impairment and digestive issues. I recovered to about 60% by April 2022 and restarted 5:2 on 27 May weighing 189lb/85.72kg, hosting the Jump In June! challenge for extra motivation. This morning my weight is 180lb/81.65kg: I’ve also lost 1.1 from my BMI and shrunk my fat suit by 2″ bust, 1″waist and 0.5″ hips. This WOL works!

I’ve also started on a supplement routine which was developed by Cambridge University medics to address long covid fatigue and that’s working really well for me. It’s the busiest time I’ve had in years and I’m not falling off the waggon or getting wiped out – win / win / win 🙂

I don’t eat breakfast and try to eat between 12-8pm tho sometimes supper slips. I rarely drink alcohol bc it really doesn’t work with medication, hypertension, fatigue or cognition. I don’t eat gluten or grains bc joint & gut pain. After 30 years vegetarian I had a vegan year but ate too much junk food and lacked key nutrients; now I’m a vegan who eats eggs – or a veggie who doesn’t eat dairy! I love cooking from scratch and find I eat even more veg on 5:2.

My July goals are to get under 80kg /175lb, drink more water and do gently daily stretches for 10 mins every other day. I’m away at a super busy conference for one week then going straight to stay w DD for 2 weeks after her surgery. I’ll switch my FDs to travel days when I’ve got more control and can just have OMAD supper. The challenge will be not to eat insta food or succumb to sugar for energy during long days on campus, nor to comfort eat when with DD.

@lilymartin lovely to see you again – look forward to cheering each other down the road
@linda.b love your post and your quotes always encourage me 🙂
@at thank you for the spreadsheet. And great to have you here again, we missed you x

Time to crack on! I’ve had a lovely lazy morning after a full on week. Now to top up clean spare room for my lovely friend staying tonight, make a gf loaf for Sunday’s community gatherine, wash – maybe colour – hair ahead of big service tomorrow and get a couple of hours’ project work done so I can enjoy lovely gardening time later this afternoon before my friend arrives. So looking forward to journeying with you all in the 31 days of July, one day at a time…

Fat Busting Brits!!

Good morning everyone,a dull day today.No bowling tonight so a rest day but will go for a practice this afternoon.Trying for a low day today, done 2 fast days this week.

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 1 UK NFD

Hi all , I’m a WOCA living in Brighton , south coast of England with DH , Been taking off and putting back on the same 20lbs most of my adult life , with varying degrees of success. 5 2 works for me when I knuckle down .Given myself a stern talking to and I mean business this month , thanks for guiding us @penz . Looking forward to it 💪

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 1 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

Anyone else having problems posting. I’m getting: ‘Error:Duplicate reply detected, it looks as though you’ve already said that!’ But the post isn’t there 🤔

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 30 Ohio, US — NFD

The morning weigh-in gave some good news: 181.6 lb (82.4 kg), definitely not as bad as I feared. On the other hand, the same weight as of Day 10 and higher than at the start of the month. During the last week and a half or so, my diet has had to change rather drastically. I worked at being careful of how I ate and it seems that there’s more latitude possible in my diet than I thought possible. Interesting …

@michelinme Thanks for being a wonderful and supportive host this month! How do you do your eggs & beans? Scrambled eggs mixed with baked beans?

@northgeorgia Fortunately weight loss is not like horseshoes — close does count! Great job on getting to within 2 lbs of your goal.

@goal10kg 2.5 kg loss is great! Kudos!
@funshipfreddie I certainly boil a cup of water in the microwave and then put a tea bag in it for a few minutes. Most Americans love coffee and instead of a kettle, the coffee-pot/coffee-maker is a standard kitchen fixture here. I don’t drink coffee due to an unfortunate childhood incident.

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Good morning everyone,

Going very slowly this morning, I was going to be minding the girls but they are too snotty and coughy, which is probably good for me, but I miss them.

I have had a bit of a tricky, busy week, but what a treat it has been to see posts from more of you. I do hope you are able to post more regularly.

Weightwise, I haven’t been able to fastyfast. I am keeping stable (judging by my clothes) eating lightly and happily…. but still too many days when I eat more than I need: from tiredness or frustration or needing comfort generally.
However my habits are getting so much better. (Touch wood and whistle). So I am overeating on better food and having less of it.
Persistence does pay off!

After a very confusing meeting to get promotion organised for my Healthy Weight Support Group (took 2 hours instead of 10 minutes and I needed a couple of days recovery) I have posters to pin up around the place. The worker accidentally printed lots of A3 posters and put 4 up in the Centre so at least my group will be prominent. 😀
LJoyce, I think you are right that midwinter could be a tricky time. Hopefully, if so, I am not dispirited, but can take this term as a trial run and really get it going next term.

I had my fourth covid vaccine on Wednesday so lovely to have that boosting my immunity.

I’ve also sent off my old car to Kids Under Cover charity (they auction it off) and I am driving around my new lovely one, gradually working out all the amazing electronics.

Thin, good luck with wordle, nailing it in three is always my aim too. Took me four today.
Enjoy those lazy hazy crazy days of summer. How lovely to have that weekend with DD.
I’ve lost track, when is your holiday?
Yay for smaller portions. So key. I am getting better at it.

LJoyce, nice reversal after pizza and cake. I hope the infusion was an easy one, and yay for whittling away that excess weight.

Neil, sympathy for the covid, I hope you are right and you are over the worst, and just need to look after yourself to give yourself the best chance of recovering completely. And the same for the rest of your family! Best wishes all.
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Lindsay, lovely to hear your news. Best wishes to Mr Lindsay. And Rosy!
How tricky to deal with Mr Lindsay’s changing food needs, while looking after your own.
Portion size is such a good strategy. I have been managing it but there is that half hour after eating where my brain is sure I haven’t had enough and I need to really argue with it to wait and see.

Anzac, hooray for that beautiful weekend away! I have been to Mollymook, just before Rick Stein opened his restaurant there, such a beautiful place. I also want to hear about your meals there!
Good work losing weight now.
The only person I know who had a belly bag and a reversal had no problems, so fingers crossed the same is true for Mr Anzac.
Yikes, I have seen the maps of rain coming down from the north! I am glad you are prepared.

Special good wishes for your next job. I really do hope you can find one that pays what you need, and allows WFH, but doesn’t pile on the stress and ridiculous hours and meetings. Your health is most important!

Hello to Maxx too!

Gday, lots of good wishes,

Okay off to write a list of places to put those posters up at. And I had better buy some veggies too, the pantry is bare.

Cheers all

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 1, NFD, Aus

It’s the start of the month, and half way through the year. Time to check in, commit, and say hello.

It’s day one of Dry July for me too and I have to say I’m looking forward to the challenge. This is something I can get my teeth into and throw my won’t power at it.

A question to start off with: what will you achieve this month? For me, it’s successfully doing Dry July. Not a tipple for 31 days!

If your clothes are looser but the scales are the same, read on

Congratulations Grandma!

I hope all went well, amiya. I cannot have anything treat wise in the house, or I will eat it and not as a weekly treat 🙂

Well, that is 3 days solid of cake and chocolate leaving do’s all done. I now have to cope with the final 6 days of school with not much to do. So boring when I love to be busy.

I shall have to see what the numbers are this weekend and then next before the great lard shift. The task ahead does seem rather overwhelming but I have done it before and know that it’s never as bad as I imagine. I will continue with a weekend measure/weigh/clothes try on.

Onwards and downwards fast friends 🙂

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Dear All

Apologies for my absence but June has been a difficult month – despite managing 6 FDs my NFD were mostly well over my TDEE – sadly have definitely gone off the rails…….and need to find my MOJO sooner than later…..

Will brave the scales tomorrow and press my RESET button with the 31 days of July 2022 with @penz

Many thanks to @michelinme for hosting the Jump in June Challenge 💐

“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started, I was desperately wishing to be where I am now”

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 0

I’m a WOCA who lost 50+ pounds in the past year. Wow that sounds like a lot – but was a mostly a steady 4-6 lb a month. 5:2 500 was the key, and now that I’m more or less maintenance I have transitioned to 5:2 800. I also pretty strictly keep to 16:8 ZBC on non fast days, easy for me because I’m almost never hungry in the morning. I loosely watch the calories, pay lots of attention to protein and fiber intake, do not eschew fat, and have tried to eliminate processed carbs unless it is a homemade treat. My somewhat stable current weight is 128.5 – pretty much middle of BMI range for my height.

Exercise has been a key component as I’m working to be as healthy as possible. 20 -30 minutes cardio daily (hula hoop or exercise bike – walk if weather allows, but it doesn’t during the summer) and twice a week strength training.

I’m a photographer, an original geek gal, and have recently learned I very much enjoy cooking. The support of the board members here has been wonderfully helpful and a key part of working toward my healthy goals.

Many thanks to @penz for hosting.

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

@penz – thank you for taking the helm for July! I’ll be here as I am able! Haven’t really missed a challenge since May 2016!

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 30 – 16:8 CD

@funshipfreddie It has been my experience that most Americans don’t have an electric kettle. Some Americans do drink tea and I would guess that tea drinkers would be more likely to have an electric kettle, but it is not unusual for an American to just not drink tea. I’ve never seen anyone microwave tea, people I have seen microwave a cup of water and put the tea bag in when the water is hot out of the microwave. Some but not many (older?) Americans have a stovetop kettle for boiling water. I’ve been on team electric kettle all my adult life as we got used to them living in London. Even converted my DH. I now have (thanks to goodwill store) a stovetop kettle as well for power loss emergencies, of which I endure many times a year.

As I grew up in many different countries I don’t think of myself as particularly American – but what I don’t understand (which does paint me as American) is the practice of dunking cookies into tea! Not an appetizing mix of tastes imo. Dunking a cookie in milk or coffee is a yum to me tho.

@goal10kg Your described workouts do impress me! HIIT training has lots going for it! But even reading descriptions tires me out, lol.

@matpi lol the memories of my mom trying to shoo me outdoors when I’d rather curl up with a good book. She gave up and enrolled me in swimming. But I walked everywhere. Even when we lived in cities with good public transport one often had a good walk to and fro. I certainly wasn’t sedentary but not a high energy child either. More of my childhood was spent in Chicago than any other place and it was not unusual to walk a mile or more to visit friends homes, and at least 1/2 a mile to school. Come to think of it, She never had to shoo me outside in Chicago winters, playing in snow or ice skating was always a treat – I even volunteered for sidewalk shoveling chores (tho, I still do that if I visit my family there in winter.)

@michellinme Good on you! Better fitting clothes is such wonderful progress!

Thanks to hosts past and future, I’m so happy I found these boards – so very helpful for my weight management and FD resolve.

Have a wonderful day all!

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day 0 – USA/GA

I’m in for July, too!

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Good evening everyone.

Anzac, how wonderful that you actually managed to do your pre-booked trip and enjoyed it. You both really needed that little recharge time.
My brother-in-law took years to adjust after his reversal surgery and 6 years on he is still very cautious about his food choices and stresses about being away from home. He is not someone who will reach out for help though, so dealt with it with just my sister trying her best to help. I did wonder whether the support of a dietitian might have helped – there are some that specialise in post surgery issues.
Good luck with the job hunt – it does sound like it’s a job hunters market at the moment, and it does seem that your reputation is well known in your industry, which should also help.

Neil, wishing you and your son a big well soon.

Lindsay, I’m glad you have avoided covid , despite the family members succumbing.
How frustrating with the weight gain, although perfectly understandable in the circumstances. The only thing I can suggest is that you boil/steam some lower cal veg options as part of the meal and select mostly those for yourself and avoid the roast veg.

Thin, it sounds like a lovely time hiking the Yorkshire Dales. It’s probably why your 8 days between FDs was ok.

Cinque, I hope the restart of the healthy weight group goes well. Has the community centre managed to do enough advertising to make it well known?
It has occurred to me mid-winter may be a challenging time for some people to start something like this – there is always more interest in dealing with weight challenges as the summer approaches. Although I’m well aware that we probably need the support more in winter when we are tempted to seek hot comfort foods.

My FDs were difficult but OK and both resulted in weight loss. I’ve lost a total of 1.4kg this week. I have seen avoiding sugar and starch and it is making this easier most days – unless I’m confronted with meals out that have difficult options.

Take care everyone. I hope those of you who are not doing well at present start to find life a little easier.

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 30, NFD, Scotland, start weight 98kg, weight today 95.5kg

Well ive managed to sneak in a wee half kg weight loss this week, HURRAH! I am delighted and buzzing, and im really feeling trimmer and in my eyes looking slimmer!

So all in all 2.5 kg weight loss in June, over the moon with that.Can I do the same again in July? I hope so 🙂

I ended up doing a different class last night and boy it was tough but enjoyable. LES MILLS GRIT™ Strength is a 30-minute high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout, designed to improve strength, cardiovascular fitness and build lean muscle. This workout uses barbell, weight plate and bodyweight exercises to blast all major muscle groups. LES MILLS GRIT Strength takes cutting-edge HIIT and combines it with powerful music and inspirational coaches who will be down on the floor with you, motivating you to go harder to get fit, fast.

And id read somewhere that HIIT classes are good for burning fat on fast days, so think I will stick to this class on a Wednesday.

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 30 – Ireland – NFD ✅ 🚫🚶🏻‍♀️
161 lbs

Good morning everyone. I’ll take my June weigh today as I am out for dinner tonight at a lovely Italian and then curry tomorrow night. 😋 it’s been a while and curry is my favourite 😍

Up 1.5 lbs since start of the month but that’s actually not so bad and not a huge surprise🍦 🍰🍩 🥂 😲

I know what to do to get back to my recent ATL 157.3 and beyond so will do that this month after holidays. It is frustrating to do well and then sabotage yourself… but we do this…. We come back… we go again…

Well done to those who are seeing a maintain or a loss today 👏

Thank you so much @michelinme for being a fantastic host and inspiring those of us who really needed it this month 🫢

And of course @penz thanks for offering to look after us in July – I look forward to it! Thanks @at as always for the spreadsheet! 👏

Very little sleep, very busy day, fun night out planned 🥂 – it’s all good. We are here! That’s the most important.

Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕

31 days of July 2022 – One day at a time monthly challenge

Day-01 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

@penz – thanks again for offering to be our host, & thank you @at for the spreadsheet 🙂

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 30 – Thursday – Gold Coast Queensland Australia – FUN DAY (FD) 🥦🍅🍆🥑🍄🍄🍄🥑🥒🥦🌶🍅🍅🥦🥦

Well this is it…. the last FUN DAY of JUMP IN JUNE! hooray! RING THE BELLS!🔔🔔🔔🔔

Everyone has put in a fabulous effort this month and I’m looking forward to seeing you all on the July challenge!

EOFY today…. so busy tying up loose ends…. see you all tomorrow!

cheerie dearies

Pocket list Day 30
@linda.b

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 29 Ohio, US — FD800

This morning the pants were a little tight around the waist, so after the “new normal” breakfast I decided to see if I could make this a fasting day. And it appears to have worked! This is in contrast to last Saturday when I started the day off fasting and then felt so bad that it became a NFD. Amazingly enough I was able to both do my regular yoga practice and get the daily walk in. This makes the first time in twelve days that I’ve been feeling well enough to do that. Yay!

I suppose that tomorrow I’ll have to weigh-in and see how much damage the infection and medical/dental treatments have done.

@michelinme In one sense, the infection hasn’t been all that bad — certainly not like getting the big C. On the other hand, it has been sapping my energy for a long while. My dentist said that it probably had been going on for some time, so that might explain all the little health stuff going on. It does seem as though it takes me a long time to get over infections, which is why I am so scrupulous about taking precautions to prevent getting Covid. I’m optimistic that this new antibiotic will clear things up completely.

@stitchincarol Of course there’s something that 5 year olds used to do that I’ve not done in a very long time: At that age my mother would send us outside to play for 3 or 4 hours and we’d run all over the woods near by and climb trees or just ride our bicycles up and down the street. Maybe if I did that every day (ha!) weight wouldn’t be a challenge.

Pocket list Day 29
@goal10kg
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim (a late runner 🐎 😂)
@matpi

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Hello all, apologies for the long break in posting

I hope you are ok G’day, my thoughts are with you daily

A few months ago we booked a weekend away for Mr A’s birthday (last Friday) but were not sure we would make it due to his health. It was a great special through Qantas with 2 nights, 2 dinners and 2 breakfasts at Rick Stein’s Bannisters in Mollymook – 3 hours south of Sydney. I’m very pleased to say we went and had a totally awesome time. The weather was spectacular; 23 degrees and sunny on the Saturday so we went for a lovely walk along the beautiful beach (not too far so Mr A didn’t get too tired). Gosh we needed it; a whole weekend of relaxing! We had a hot tub on our balcony so watched the sun go down both nights with two kinds of bubbles 🙂 Soap and champagne!

My weight has jumped up, mostly due to the feasting last weekend so I have been very disciplined this week and so far so good

Sorry to hear about your family’s Covid woes Neil, I hope you are feeling better.

Yorkshire sounds amazing Thin and especially wonderful to spend time with your daughter. I went there the very first time I went overseas when I was 19; the friend I travelled with had family in Barnsley (near Manchester) and I have a vivid memory of sitting in a loungeroom surrounded by people talking a different language. Seriously, I couldn’t understand a word and I was jet-lagged and homesick but I soon got over that

It really is too hard to cook two different meals Linsday and Mr A lost so much weight he too has to eat a lot of calories. It truly doesn’t help but what can you do? I also try to keep my portions small but will-power isn’t a strength of mine (obviously)

We’ve had a lovely dry June as the long winded La Nina has finally been declared over. However there is a dire warning of flooding rains this weekend so sigh…here we go again

Mr A’s next surgery (the reversal) has been booked for mid July. He will have a very long recovery from that as his body needs to be re-trained to tell his brain when it’s ‘time to go’. The Bowel Cancer Australia FB page is full of people saying how difficult this is to get over and many are still suffering years later. Everyone is different so I just hope and pray that Mr A has an easier time

Work continues to be frantic but I have been told that the project is going to wind up soon. This means another job search and sadly I presume I won’t find another one with permanent WFH. Damn! I won’t take a role that is full time in the office but hopefully I can get at least 3 days WFH. There are plenty of jobs around so I have bargaining power on my side (I hope). Wish me luck

Take care all

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Morning all

Thin, I think many members have quite a bit going on in their lives that’s a bit more pressing. Hopefully the silence is just temporary, I enjoy catching up with what people are up to.

Well the Covid finally got me, I was feeling pretty crap on Monday night then Tuesday morning I tested positive for Covid. My symptoms were cough, sore throat and tightness in my chest. I described it as being like a medium sized dog sitting on my chest. I was pretty bad on Tuesday, yesterday I was bad in the morning, ok during the day, then bad in the evening. This morning I woke up feeling crap, but not as bad as yesterday morning, so hopefully that’s a sign that I’m past the worst of it. I was feeling well enough during the day yesterday to get out for some light exercise and fresh air. I was getting fatigued after 30 minutes though so I called it quits (I was just doing some laps on the flat along my street and back down the next street up)

My weigh-in yesterday I was down half a kilo, I’m reasonably pleased with that. At the moment I’m not reducing calories too much, just switching to lower carbs, medium protein and high fats, my goal is 10% carbs, 25% protein and 65% fats, it’s slightly higher protein than regular Atkins style keto, but this way is supposed to be better for people like me who are quite active because it will reduce muscle loss.

Well have a great one everyone, I hope you can all come back and post soon.

Jump in June! – June 2022 Monthly Challenge

Day 29 UK NFD

Late post after another full on day – fencers started at 8am and me zipping round like a headless chicken before that. But yay! I have new fences, my garden is fully enclosed once more after 4 months of open plan living 🙂

I forgot to weigh in this morning but feeling okay if a little puffy after mindfully eating a post-supper bowl of popcorn, making for a very solid CD. I also didn’t have lunch before rushing into town for a meeting, but picked up some olives and sweet chilli peas on the way home. I also then sat at my laptop and mindlessly ate half a packet of grated vegan cheese.

Now looking forward to tomorrow for the last FD of the month and the end of the Jump in June challenge which has helped me jump in with both feet. And I don’t have to be up and cleared/prepped for builders by 8am tomorrow which feels epic

@penz my mouth often waters on FDs reading everyone else’s recipes/menu plans! Thanks again for hosting July 🙂

@matpi glad you are beginning to feel better, this infection sounds really bad

@goal10kg another tasty menu today!

@northgeorgia yay for yesterday’s WFD! I’ve been thinking similarly – it’s really easy to think we have to lose constantly in order to be making progress, but as long as we are eating well and fasting twice a week our bodies are doing something good with it

@fastingnurse Congratulations on a solid FD!

@5413.5 @penz is kindly hosting July and will put up a post tomorrow 🙂

@stitchincarol Well done on your solid FD too. You are definitely moving closer to the eating pattern you’ve chosen to serve your goals. Alas too soon with your congratulations – yesterday’s extra FD went with the popcorn, but it was mindful popcorn and i’m happy with that. Learning my body doesn’t really like popcorn so that will help me avoid it next time

@funshipfreddie o bummer about the house! Fingers crossed for not being back at square one – and for a good FD

@mariaelena i had that lovely feeling again today, wearing a stretch denim tunic dress a size smaller than i started last month – and it fit! AND I didn’t look like a sausage in a skin – result 😀

@jaifaim that’s amazing! Yes, great idea to look back and work out why things are working well to make today a good unplanned FD

Just ONE DAY left of Jump In June! A chance to take a running jump into next month’s challenge….

Hello Southern Hemispherites!!

Neil, how frustrating about covid and the regulations. It’s barely mentioned here. Hope your weigh-in went well.

I had a good FD on Monday but it doesn’t seem right not doing a Sunday fast after all these years.

Is our thread falling apart? This must be the longest silence ever.

Fat Busting Brits!!

762 calories after eating, so room for a cuppa later.

Fat Busting Brits!!

Good afternoon everyone,I lost at bowls to a lady called Irene. The team won by one point so we’re 3rd from the top, might have a chance of going into the top league, not sure how I would feel about that.