Day 10 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 238 lbs. Yesterday’s FD went well — I don’t recall feeling ill at all; I had a salad, a cucumber, and instead of soup, some pasta dish my mom made — it was a few calories more than the soup I planned, but even if I didn’t stay under 500, I stayed under 800. I think I may start training myself to eat smaller portions again on NFDs. It’s odd how bad habits creep in from multiple directions. This has been a rough week with the headaches and nausea, but I think I’m through it or almost through it all.
Good morning everyone,nice sunny day again here. Bowling today so I’ll put some sun cream on now. Just been out with Chloe. Debating whether to have some Weetabix. Might just have a cuppa.
Day 10 country west Australia NFD
Apologie for being AWOL but unexpected and rushed tip to the city where I am staying for a few days with intermittent wifi Internet so will se how I go whilst ‘herding cats’ for the group.
It sounds as though some people re doing quite well with weight loss- Weldon @northgeorgia and Daffodil2010.
@stchincarol, I am glad to hear you are slowly getting on top of your paperwork! Technology (I feel for you @funshipfreddie) and @cccco last beer! is so frustrating when it does not work . 😱
@northgeorgia, sorry to hear about your possible reaction to the injection. I hope yoo feel better soon.💐
@merryapple, as with the others, I feel for you having ants in your ceiling!!
@daffodil2010 the numbers are looking good – well done.👏
Will do a second post later, have to go and meet someone.
Happy day everyone.
Day after FD and feeling a lot better for it. Hope everyone else is doing well.
CalifD, did you like Gene Hackman? He was my favourite actor. What a sad ending for him, his wife and the dog. One of OH’s friends lives in that community. He didn’t know them but he said he’d been told off more than once by Mrs H for incorrect rubbish bin alignment!
Day 10 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD
Goid day yesterday, it was an NFD but stuck to 16:8, and it seems to be working. Just 2 ounces this morning from slipping into the next lower number in the lower decade (cannot admit my weight as I used to be 130 and NOWHERE near that now) but it’s motivating to see it tick downwards.
FD today. DH warned. No goodies. Strict FD for me with bone broth veg soup for dinner.
@anicecupoftea…feeling cold is one of the side effects of fasting that I dont like, as I am a cold creature body temp anyway. Not a typical WOCA in that way 😄
@stitchincarol so funny re the reasons you not biking (not of course the injuries ) but the Stay Out Of My Way reason !
Funny! I don’t like to cycle much as I hate when dogs chase the wheels, and that scares me on the open road. I don’t even mind dogs, just not chasing after me barking while I try to cycle away 😆
Have a great day
Pocket list Day 10 -Together we are stronger
@daffodil2010
Day 10, NFD, Aus
Good FD yesterday but no extra weight loss for a few weeks. It’s the NFDs that are to blame! Well I am to blame really.
Congrats on the new weight decade, @daffodil2010. I once dated a motorbike … (the bloke that came with it was no good) – great fun but never had the urge to learn to ride myself. Glad you survived the experience!
I had to laugh about your one chip/fry request @stitchincarol. So glad they were able to fulfil your wish!
Yes, @anicecupoftea – feeling cold on a FD is quite common! Terrible in winter time when I just feel like stodgy winter food to combat it!
Families (both sides) are visiting next week so will be tough to squeeze in a FD. Will have to be very disciplined!
Day 10 NZ FD 70.2kg🔻🏃🏼♀️
At last I am coming down but it is taking lots of discipline and effort and feeling hungry. I’ve had plantar fasciitis from arch supports in a pair of shoes (which are now going to be binned) over the last two days so have been off my feet… I love and mainly wear Church’s shoes particularly because they don’t have arch supports.
@daffodil2010 I’m pleased to hear you weren’t hurt v much when you crashed. I had a a 125 trail bike, then a 350cc Honda plus a ten speed and now e-bike. I’ve had a few close calls but managed to stay upright!!
@anicecupoftea I often feel v cold on FDs… much more so than people around me. I’ll run up and down the steps in our wee Reserve to warm up in winter.
@brightonbelle Great Resolve!! I checked the spreadsheet and all is fine with access. Here’s the address again to try
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9eR2mSJzeKJWh5sqlGwWIapepR6QRnNtuz2xE0-z7I/edit?usp=drivesdk
@stitchincarol We’ll done on the numbers game!! I s your tax done and dusted?!
@northgeorgia I love the sound of your emergency kit!!
@ccco Enjoy your cocktail party. That sounds like a dress up event!! And after golf. You’re living the life!!
@funshipfreddie Are you in a power outage again???
Hope all is well with y’all!!
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@funshipfreddie
@molij
@merry🍎
Evening All..
We walked the river bank the cows in the next village so make the most of it while they are not moving.
I joined Barbara for lunch, nice catch up. I went out in a summer dress and sandals I was absolutely freezing!!!
Decorating has started ..downstairs cloakroom first, so fiddly and tight to get the steps in I have to be careful. Ceiling painted, tiles taken off and wall filled, new tiles on and grouted today. Hopefully walls painted tomorrow, 2 coats will be needed.
Nana..
Lovely to get out on your bike.. hope the hearing aids are settling in…
Dave..
A long time to wait at the hospital nice she can do them herself now. A couple of lovely days ahead.
Hemmy..
Enjoy your day out with Pam tomorrow, hope you can find some bargains. I need a bit of a shop in between decorating!
Hedgehog..
A very long fast I hope you get some good results. Hope to get in the garden for a couple of hours at least.
Jean x
Been lovely and sunny here again supposed to be even better tomorrow. Will have to dig out the sun cream tomorrow. Jean well done on the decorating I can’t get motivated, no news from trading standards yet.I have got some Weetabix to help the country out, not enough being eaten you know. Chicken teriyaki for tea tomorrow so may have Weetabix in the morning.
Afternoon!
Hemmy- there’s alot of rubbish info & recipes online for keto, if your neighbour is seriously wanting to do keto you need to keep under 20g carbs every day to get into ketosis, & stick to that for 6-8 weeks to adjust properly, alot of recipes online are low carb & not proper keto, even Michael Moseley’s ones… There’s a forum called The 2 Keto Dudes which is really informative. Hope you have had a nice day out today!
Dave- you’ve done well too with long fast!
Finished fasting now, 72 hours, had some avocado which is supposed to be good to break with, bacon & egg shortly. Not so nice here today, cloudy & very chilly! Done our food shopping, saw Mum & have done some cleaning as I’ve done more in the garden with the nice weather .
Have a good evening everyone!
Day 9 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD – 153.4
Lovely scale number; with control today, Friday morning’s post-WF weight should be even slightly lovelier, so that’s motivating me to be truly disciplined today with my choices.
@merryapple What lots of fussing you had in order to sort out what was causing the issues with your sweater! Looking forward to the photo!
@daffodil2010 I have a similar story with bicycles (broke my arm when I fell biking on gravel when I was 11, got hit in the front wheel by a motorcycle when I was 14), and now I’ll only bike on a solid and hard surface, and people have to STAY AWAY from me, LOL. Which is to say, I have given up biking, as the stress is not comfortable!
@anicecupoftea Yup, FREEZING cold. It’s a great side-effect on hot summer days, but more miserable on cold days, so in addition to my sparkling water, I drink lots of herbal teas for the warmth. But they don’t help with the hunger the way the sparkling water does, so…
@brightonbelle Impressive RESOLVE that you’re sticking to 800 calories, despite the tiny glitch in yesterday’s consumption. 😏🥰💪
@northgeorgia Let’s hope for no ugly side-effects today!
@ccco Enjoy your golfing, lunch, and cocktail party tonight; sounds like a lovely day!
Two days without David; wherefore art thou, our friend???
Still mostly stuck, waiting for things from other people. I have a list of things to do, however, so should feel like I’ve accomplished something by tonight.
Have a grand one, everyone!
USA. Day 9
I am not sure whether I will be on a FD or not today. I am playing golf with my daughter (despite how cold it is) and following it with lunch together. Tonight I have a cocktail party. I plan to stay under control. As spring approaches, my physical activity substantially increases, which is always good for my weight!
When I was young, I enjoyed riding on the back of a motorcycle. It was even quite thrilling but I never had a desire to own or drive one myself.
I guess I had better move on and get ready for my golf game.👍🏻 I hope everyone is having a great day!
Day 9 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 241 lbs. Going to try another FD today. I have my emergency “kit” of nuts and a few wheat crackers at work, but I think I may take a few saltine crackers, too, just in case I have to alter or abort mission.
Pocket list Day 9 🎢
@brightonbelle
@northgeorgia
Day 9 UK f800
Minor slip up yesterday , had a mini crunchie for dessert but hey still only slightly over 800 cals and I’m back on it today
Wow that all sounds incredibly complicated @merry🍎but I’m sure it’s fab
Happy 🐫 day all
I suspect there may be more for the pocket list but I can’t access the spreadsheet
Pocket list Day 9 🎢
Good morning everyone, yes another beautiful day.Prescription sunglasses on.Bowling practice today no game,but playing tomorrow and Friday. Just took Chloe out it’s sunny but cool, my hand is cold.The beauty of Chloe is she dosent pull like the other dogs I’ve had. Trouble is I have to pull her to get her moving.Butter beans Hemmy 😁. Denise is expert at changing bandages now. HH that’s a long time without food, don’t think I could do it that long. Not sure what I’ll do now MoreLife is over.I did ask to update my calorie intake so will see what happens this month.
It’s a FD for me as I woke to 100g over my trigger weight. I thought I was having a good Sunday FD as I was SO hungry all day but it yielded a miserable 300g loss, my worst result ever. I did drink a lot of water but using water weight as an excuse seems so lame so I’ve kicked in an extra FD. OH has a sad look on his face but it never hurts him to forego the little extras despite his FOMO. (Wednesday night is steak night at the pub that’s a shortish walk across two fields).
Quacka, hats off to you with the B2B fasting. I never wake up hungry after a FD so it’s only a mental barrier that I feel I couldn’t do it. Frustrating results for you, me and Neil this week but we have to consider where we’d be on the scales had we NOT fasted. I did also briefly try to blame the scales’ batteries but my weight is what it is, no excuses, I just have to do what has to be done and tomorrow will be a happy day.
Cinque, did you have a fun overnight stay with your friend? And then another lovely day with little Miss 8?
Years ago, I drank 6-8 cups of instant or filtered coffee (mostly mindless drinking between patients at work). Once I invested in my Italian Rancilio coffee maker and could savour the entire process from the grinding of good quality beans, tamping, milk frothing, etc, I only required two cups per day. I miss my machine on the boat but I still keep to two cups of cafetière ground coffee a day and I can’t handle instant coffee at all. I dislike the commercial pod machine things and I rarely buy a coffee while out and about as I never know how many calories it might deliver and whether it will meet my standards. I recently saw a cup of coffee advertised at £3.80. That’s about AUD7.60, good grief.
We spent the entire day travelling on country buses to get to a larger city for a ten minute appointment for OH yesterday. It started off so pleasantly with passengers greeting and acknowledging each other as they boarded at small villages. As we reached the towns, I was again struck by how generally unhealthy people looked. There were so many people using mobility devices and a number of people on the city buses displaying obvious mental health issues. And the obesity issue ever present – on both sides of the hospital counter. Receptionists, nurses, technicians – many morbidly obese. It’s hard to accept health advice from people who present like this.
I remember in the Southern California hospitals where I worked in the eighties, staff fitness and health was a very high priority; we had a gym, staff showers, an exercise track around the hospital perimeter, regular 10km team running events, and so on.
I wanted to know if poverty and ignorance are a valid defence for poor nutrition given that, in England anyway, a) education is free and b) education is compulsory. And, if this is the accepted line of defence, then why are there people in my own friendship and socio-economic circles who are morbidly obese? I wondered whether what we knew in the seventies as ‘domestic science’ was taught in schools today. Well, it turns out it is.
Primarily a subject for girls, it was essentially scrapped in the early nineties in favour of ‘design and technology’ which left a generation of pupils unable to follow a basic recipe. But in 2008, practical cooking classes were re-introduced in the hope of combating obesity. It became compulsory for every child aged between 11 and 14, both sexes, to be taught practical cooking, learning to make traditional ‘English’ dishes such as fish pie, spag bol, along with (in a reflection of changing times) Indian and Thai curries.
There were many teething problems when it was re-introduced. Some new schools hadn’t been built with kitchens. Teachers had to be re-trained. Home economics now includes personal and family finances, consumer issues, housing and interior design, nutrition and food preparation, as well as textiles and apparel.
Critics, of course, moan that governments shouldn’t force teenagers into any subject that they don’t want to take. Given that there are so many influencing factors on their decision-making when it comes to nutrition (poor habits handed down from the generation of parents and teachers who apparently knew no better, cultural norms surrounding food, internet misinformation, social media influencers, poor understanding of how to manage personal finances, etc, etc), school seems to me to be a very good place to start.
Day 9, SE England. NFD (CD)… 🍵
@merryapple – I just drink hot/cold drinks on FDs, if I ate anything, that would be the end, can’t imagine being able to stick to 500 or 800.
@daffodil2010 – I’ve never been on a motorbike, maybe it should go on a bucket list or something….
Anyone else get absolutely freezing cold on a FD? – thought I had covid again
Here’s to a good day all – ☺️
Good morning everyone. xxxx
It looks like another lovely day .. I am getting used to these beautiful days.. lovely in the garden.
Today I definitely need to go and do a big shop as I am going to Leamington Spa tomorrow charity shopping and lunch with Pam . Needing some summer bits as I always seem to have more winter stuff.
Yesterday my neighbour said she was doing the Keto diet she doesnt have much to lose it will be interesting to see how she gets on with it.
11 weeks 2 days no Alc
Nana.. I bet you are missing your daughter it will be lovely visiting. Its been glorious weather for Geraldine outings.
Dave.. I really feel for Denise.. It doesnt sound like she is getting much help from NHS .. Unfortunately it seems to be a sign of the times.
have to say I rarely reverse these days.. I don’t like it
HH .. The cars do seem to be getting very dusty at the moment it makes you wonder what really is in the air.
Well done on your fasting .. I do think its good for the body to have that break from food and have a rest .
Sym.. It sounds like you are all set for your decorating .. wish I could get motivated.
The only dress making I did lol was when we had shift dresses.. just straight up and down oh and they were very short minis lolol Big patterned material .
Have a lovely day what ever you are doing. Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” Xxxx
Day 9 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – NFD
A nice FD and mooching further into next decade. Normal day today but will do 16:8 and fast until lunchtime.
Back to the office today as car is fixed and looking forward to that as WFH is not for me long term, the isolation, the shouting at the laptop 😆……
@merryapple I did have a motorcycle licence years ago but was still very much a novice. One day out for a spin on my little Suzuki 250 Gn, with DH travelling behind me on his BMW, I got spooked by a car coming quickly out of a junction (always a problem on a motorcycle when car drivers don’t see you) and to avoid I mistakenly increased the revs, did a spectacular wheelie travelling down the country road and fell into the verge with the bike on top of me. Only soft tissue damage and pride was hurt, I got back on the bike and drove her apace, but then suddenly the fear came over me. We left the bike, I hopped on the back of DH’s bike and he brought me home……and I have never ridden a bike again. It’s pillion all the way now and we bought feel comfortable with that 😍
Wow long story re my woes ha ha b
Have a great day all. Together we are stronger. 💃
Day 9 NZ NFD 70.5kg🔻
Yeah! I’m down a wee bit!! Although not back in the decade below…
Congratulations @daffodil 2010 Getting into your next decade!! 💪Wow, do you not have a motorcycle license?! I love riding bikes on my own!! But then you are hanging onto your DH❤️
@nicecupoftea Well done on even attempting a WF! I have never done one but others are quite good at them!!
@stitchincarol Well done on the WF!!
My mohair/wool jersey has been knitted several times over… I started knitting a 4 row 7 stitch lace pattern in the round. It parallelogrammed sideways and the pattern became diagonal rather than vertical… It dawned on me that I needed to knit front and back pieces with a pearl row to keep the pattern straight. I did the ribbing with shaker stitch (1/2 fisherman’s rib) and bottom up so the seams stabilised the garment. I’ll take a photo!!
Have a great day everyone!!
Hi Neil, our posts crossed.
Focus on the belt notches. Maybe your batteries in your scale do need changing. I remember it happened to G’day a while ago when she had a big jump in her weight one day and it was all to do with the batteries. It could also come back to all the exercise you have been doing, the extra muscle you are building and also your body holding onto calories to provide energy for working out.
You have the right idea, just keep keeping on. And don’t pig out on nachos, pasta and snitzels like me!! lol 🙂
Good Morning everyone
Hi Cinque, hope you are having a nice time with your friend staying over and also tonight with Ms 8.
Your sort of fast days are good training for the body for when you get to do your proper FD’s again. I know you will get there soon x
Weight today is 73.9kg, yes that is 100g up from last week. I’m not too worried about the 100g more the fact that I didn’t lose any weight this week! That is what pasta, snitzels and nachos on the weekend will do and also yesterday I had a FD failure (***sad face***). Well, I’m calling it a failure. I was still under 800 cals but it should have been more like 600 cals, I was just so hungry when I got home that I had a little pig out on tasty cheese corn thins. Now if they were just plain corn thins I would have stopped at a couple but as they were tasty cheese (some addictive additive in them, I’m sure) I ended up eating 5 of them which added 135 calories that were not needed. Oh well, today is an eating day, and dentist day, and then tomorrow I might do a sort of fast (cheers Cinque) depending on how I feel. I guess it will be more like an IF, maybe an 18:6 or something like that. AND healthy eating for the rest of the week including the weekend, Quacka!
No use beating myself up about it, next week will be two proper fasts and I should see a bit more weight down.
Take care all xx
Morning all,
Frustration abounds. I feel thinner, my belt is looser on the notch I’ve been using than it was, but my weight was up half a kilo. Total of 800 grams up over the last 2 weeks.
My boy went to the Minecraft movie, and he and all his friends dressed up in suits to go to the movie. Apparently, it’s a trend amongst the youngsters these days to dress up to go to the movies.
I guess I can just keep on keeping on and hope that eventually my weight reflects what my belt is telling me.
Cinque, the coffee did indeed taste very good, I’m trying to stick to one coffee every two days just to keep the amount of caffeine down. I’m having herbal tea in the morning, having my coffee at 11am on days I drink it, and having a chai from our work’s drinks machine in the afternoon.
Well have a good one everyone
Good morning everyone,
I am in the middle of a busy week. I have a friend staying overnight so this is just a quick morning post with my first cup of tea, before she wakes.
Tonight I have Ms 8 staying overnight, so I will probably need a week recovery time after that.
Quacka, aren’t you rocking those back to back fast days. Yay for veggies! I hope you are feeling wonderfully light and empty.
Neil, I bet that first coffee tasted SO GOOD after 10 days without.
Gday, I am so glad your sleep has improved, doesn’t it make a difference!
My grandchilden (10 and 8) went to the Minecraft movie with their mum and just LOVED the whole theatre clapping and laughing and cheering together. It was a school holidays kid daytime crowd so maybe more fun than you had to get through.
I did another sort of fast day yesterday, haha. Well, I fasted until my friend arrived and then had a yummy samosa in yoghurt sauce with her for dinner, that was yummy but might have been 700 calories all on its own. It does mean I feel good this morning (without the stick of thinking I had LTR, I keep pushing the eating boundaries that suit me, sigh. My tummy is getting bigger.) I’ll do a proper fast day soon.
USA. Day 8 FD
Yesterday turned into a CD. I needed a break. Today I am back in business. Adding myself to the pocket list (even if my day is already half over).
Pocket list day 8 ☘
@daffodil2010
@brightonbelle
@stitchincarol WFD
@ccco
Just read all the posts for today. Looks like everyone is doing well. That’s good news.
2nd post, day 8
Hi @stitchincarol – thanks for the tip, I got through it by drinking hot blackcurrant juice. I’ll get some sparkling water for next time. 18hrs seems to be “the wall”…
Evening!
Jean- nice to be able to walk with Natalie & Oreo when she’s home, & her Mum! Mum did have a spell of making dresses for us, I was not happy! Hopefully you were better at it! What job will William do when he gets back?
Nana- that’s amazing, making your own wedding dress! Did you get NHS hearing aids or see grandson at Specsavers? You must miss Karen lots, hope you get to visit soon 🤗
Hemmy- what have you been up to today?
Still fasting, been okay today. We went to Aldeburgh, to see the sea, resisted fish & chips, or any cake, hubby resisted too…Washed my car when we got back, looks much better, but now hubby’s one looks all dusty, I only did it a couple of weeks ago!
second post
@anicecupoftea Drinking sparkling water (no calories, just sparkling) often helps; when it’s not helpful enough, I resort to gum. Did you make it through the hunger pangs okay?
Day 8 – Rural Nebraska, USA – WFD
I went to bed only a little over a pound heavier than I’d started the day, so I was pleased to anticipate this morning’s weight. But, like @merryapple, I was astonished at my weight–only 2 ounces down from last night! I typically lose two or three POUNDS overnight. So, who knows, but today’s WF will certainly dispatch some of it.
@daffodil2010 Wow, you are not only back in fact, but you’re back in success; well done to be steadily losing from the get-go!!
@merryapple Tell more of that mohair sweater; did you knit it and not mention it until done and ready to sew up?
@northgeorgia Bummer on the reaction, and glad you’re improved today.
@anicecupoftea EXCELLENT progress!
@funshipfreddie How odd to encounter silence from you; where are you??
Yesterday, I finally got my “Christmas stocking stuffer” from DH, and my car got detailed; I’m looking forward to driving to lessons today in such a clean car! The sad news is that all my paperwork came to a screeching halt yesterday because DH’s W-2 (this is familiar to the Americans) has wrong numbers on it, so the church treasurer is taking it to be fixed to the bookkeeping business that always fills it out. I’m disappointed because I would have come VERY close to finishing last night, but now I’m at the same point I was at noon. Oh well, a break is good, too, right? Or so I keep assuring myself! 😏
Have a grand one, everyone!
Pocket list day 8 ☘
@daffodil2010
@brightonbelle
@stitchincarol WFD
Good afternoon everyone, Denise was at the walk-in for 3 hours then they told her that don’t change bandages. They did put clean ones on her though and because she did a good job of changing her own bandage they said do it again and don’t come back to the hospitaly next door neighbour as got a car so now I have to reverse in between two cars. Not done that since I passed my driving test.
Day 8 – SE UK, NFD (CD)
Aiming for a TDEE type day today, last few NFDs have been way over TDEE….
Week 1 check in – down 1.6lb over the week. Aim is -5lb over the month.
Day 1: 164
Day 5: 161.5
Day 8: 162.4
Isn’t it amazing the difference a bit of sunshine makes to the day? – hoping it’ll motivate me to get out and about a bit more for walks – default setting being “couch potato”….
Have a good day all
Day 8 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 238 lbs. Not so successful yesterday. By the time I was heading home, I had the beginning of a fasting headache. Within ten minutes of driving, it was pounding, I was feeling nauseous and a little dizzy. Too bad my emergency “kit” was back in the office. I tried some cucumber with salt and a bit of vinegar — nope. I gave in and broke fast with saltines. I drank water and took a Tylenol. I still ate very lightly, but probably went above 800, not sure, with the carrots, small turkey wrap and crackers I ate later that evening.
It was an odd reaction, but then I remembered I got the 2nd Shringix vaccine on Saturday afternoon, and I have heard that some people feel nauseous a few days later. I thought other than soreness, I had survived. But I guess the fasting strengthened the side effect that I hadn’t noticed. Still, I was down two pounds, and I’m feeling better this morning.
Morning everyone x Stayed the same last week when I weighed Friday morning. See what happens this week.
Went and got hearing aids fitted on Friday morning, never realised how bad my hearing was and as it was such a lovely day OH and I enjoyed a lovely long bike ride afterwards.
Hedgehogs sounds like a lovely family time for you at the weekend. Miss my daughter being to far away to just pop and visit like we used to be able to do. Facetime with heris good though and she’s really settled in well. We’ll go to visit her soon.
Dave hope Denise is starting to feel a little better now. Hope you get sorted out with the roofers.
Hemmy well done on your lowest weight after the weekend.
Jean I used to love sewing and used to make all of my own clothes, I even made my own wedding dress 👰.
Off to St Ives shortly as OH has a dental appointment that has been booked and cancelled by them since February, think its because we’re NHS and not private.
Geraldine has had a lot of outings recently.
Enjoy your day everyone.
Nana xxx
Day 8 UK f800
Up early as have a hair appointment, so lovely to see the ☀️Have a good day all
Pocket list day 8 ☘
Day 8 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD
I am happily in the new lower decade of weight, saw it there Saturday, the usual weekend blip, but back down today. And it’s only Tuesday. Yay!
Have to catch up on everyone’s post and will do so at lunchtime. Stuck WFH as my car needs to be fixed and I cannot drive any of the motorbikes we have so I am without transport 😆
Fab sunny weather we have. Hoping you have a great holiday in the UK @jaifaim. Will catch up with ye all later today
Pocket list day 8 ☘
Day 8 NZ NFD 71.2kg🔺 ☔️
How I wonder did I go up?? Unless I had too salty drinks (miso). Time will tell… I have been eating when hungry, having lots of vegetable soups and hardly any sourdough bread! I’m making sure I eat enough protein too. I just need to keep going with good habits and something will happen…
Thanks for your concern about ants!! I didn’t know this would arouse such passion!!
I’m off to my textile group now 7-9pm.
Cheers!!
Good Morning everyone
B2B fast days for me today. I’m feeling pretty good about it but I am prepared for lunch today with a whole lot of veggies from last night’s dinner. It’s amazing how many veggies work out to around 100 calories.I have 175g cauliflower, 50g broccoli, 50g potatoes and 10g carrots (I know, but that’s all that was leftover lol), all for 93 calories! If I have miso soup with it that will be about 130 cals although very little protein. Figured it’s worth it to make up for my high cal eating on the weekend!
You’re doing great with cutting down the coffee Neil and you too G’day. I was supposed to go for coffee with my gym buddy this morning but as I changed to a B2B fd I had a pot of tea instead. It was great to catch up with her outside of the gym.
Hope you all have a lovely day xx
Afternoon All..
Walk with Natalie a bit nippy but came better as we walked.. seeing her tomorrow too.
I have had a ride out to Doncaster to buy paint and tiles. I bought two tins and got one free so worth it. I got lost coming back I took the wrong turning. Sat nav took me over my nightmare bridge I always avoid it.. about 4” both sides of the car it was bleeping at me it didn’t like it!!!
Trying to get a bikini, no luck, stay with my tankini and cozzy possibly better for my age 😂
Sat in the garden with a cuppa with my shorts on.
A good fast day I really must try harder my tummy is expanding.. 8 weeks to holiday.
Dave..
Hoping Denise wasn’t too long at the clinic, you would think they would think of something better than sat waiting.
Good luck on the footy. The roofers are naughty you will have to chase them up.
Hemmy..
I do like messing, all set up for decorating just waiting for this warm weather to pass. Shame not to get outside while we can.
I did a lot of dress making when I was younger, changed and altered patterns to suit and for both the girls… I remember buying a dress cutting a pattern from it and then returning the dress to the shop 😂. I suppose we did a lot then not so much money.
Well done on the 18 hour fast and getting to your low weight.. I am still 3 lbs up.
Hedgehog..
Lovely to be near the beach to have a good walk, I must go again this year it’s about a hour to drive there. Nice to have everyone around yesterday.
William’s last day starts his holiday tomorrow and then makes his way home… back the 9th May.. Jacqui is excited but don’t tell him 😊
Have a good evening..
Jean x
Day 7 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
Weighed 2oz less than yesterday morning, so am thrilled at the restraint that indicates for yesterday. Haven’t figured out today’s menu, but it should be easy enough to well-behaved.
Slowly, slowly, s.l.o.w.l.y. all my paperwork is getting completed, but DH just found some receipts this morning that we need to include…LOL, it just never ends! I keep assuring myself that, eventually, my days will be boring. Boring looks excellent at the moment! 😏😂
@merryapple EWWWW!!! Good luck that your spraying solved the problem!
@funshipfreddie UGH!!! I hope there’s a fast and cheap solution for you as well, both because you need it, and also because posting on my phone is abhorant to me as well!!!
Okay, back to all my paperwork. The garden is calling me, but both because I have taxes/paperwork, and because it’s only a bit above freezing, I’m ignoring the call, but that will be my reward soon, that I get to go play in the dirt for a bit!
Have a grand one, everyone!
Afternoon!
Dave- did you get to play? Poor Denise having to go & wait at the clinic…What are you going to do to lose weight now MoreLife has finished, will you go back to fasting?
Hemmy- well done with your weight, although it’s not surprising as it doesn’t sound like you’re eating much! Enjoy the good weather & the garden.
Jean- back to fasting today? Have you kept busy as usual?
Nana- are you doing okay?
Had a lovely day yesterday with the boys, & a nice long walk together with Xena afterwards. Haven’t eaten since lunchtime, took Xena to the beach this morning, blowy but lovely, have pottered about catching up on a few jobs outside & inside, enough to keep busy but not working too hard!
2nd post – day 7
Struggling today – FD. Got to 18hr mark and have been wanting to dive into the fridge/cupboard. Any tips? – hoping when I get to the 24hr mark and can see “bedtime”, it’ll be ok.
Also, forgot to mention earlier @merryapple – I hope you are able to get rid of the ants, I would not sleep until they were gone – at least though they’re not bed bugs, that’s a much harder issue to resolve…..
USA. Day 7. FD
Wow, Merryapple! Ants in your ceiling! That definitely would have horrified me! Good luck with your ant removal. It sounds like you might need a professional pest removal service.
Jaifaim, I am glad you are having such a wonderful time! 👍🏻
FUNSHIPFREDDIE, I am sorry about your Chromebook. Last year, I had problems with my Mac. Among other things, it could no longer update, so had become vulnerable to hackers and scammers. I took it to Best Buy, where I belong to a special Geek Squad program, so they were able to force an update. That worked but I was told I really needed to buy a new computer. I had to change all my passwords to get the hackers and scammers out of my computer. Cleaning that mess up took months but I succeeded. I didn’t want to buy a new computer when I was about to do all those renovations. I was lucky I didn’t have to pay anything for the repair work thanks to the program I belong to. Maybe I wil get a new one after this tariff situation is resolved. 5 Million people marched yesterday, with my sister and her husband among them in D.C.
Excelsior12309, thank you. It’s all done and I wish I could share it, too. It really puts a smile on my face.
NorthGeorgia, I agree with you about controlled OMADs. I think they are helpful, too.
Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle FD800
@excelsior12309
@ccco
Yesterday went well, even though I had some white wine. I only do that on weekends but I am joining the pocket list for some encouragement. Since spring has sprung, I am very busy gardening, which keeps me very busy and my mind off food!
Hope everyone is having a lovely day. It’s raining here but we need that!🤗
Day 7, SE England – FD
Weigh in on day 5 was 2.5lb down from day 1 of this month, that was after a b2b 2 day fast though so not expecting it to stay off…. feel good, still figuring out how to control NFDs so they don’t undo all of the FD goodness!
Didn’t log in over the w/e as lots on, catching up now.
Here’s to a good week for everyone 🙂
2nd Post – Day 7
Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle FD800
@excelsior12309 FD800
Day 7 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 240 lbs. I want to get back to doing a few OMADS during my NFDs. I think those were helpful.
Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle
Day 7-No. VA USA-FD 800
I had a successful FD yesterday, so I will try for a repeat today. I find the 800 calorie reset for a week is not hard for me. Provided I dodge bread, sweets, etc !
@lilymartin, thank you for the support. I like the expression “won’t power”. It seems to be stronger than “will power” at times!
@merryapple, I am distressed for you regarding the ants. EWWWW. You are very brave, I would be in a hotel at this point, waiting for the exterminator!
@stitchincarol, loved the single fry moment!
@ccco, I wish we could all see your lovely renovation when it is completed.
@northgeorgia, hang in there; “baby steps” will carry us forward to the goal. Or carry us downwards, perhaps.
@funshipfreddie, good luck with your technology problem. Too frustrating.
So good they do it twice😁. Dropped Denise off at hospital they have changed the road once your in the hospital so had to reverse a little down a one way street to get out otherwise I would have ended up in a multi storey car park. Sun is out again but was only 2°C when I got up this morning. It’s the first Monday league game of bowls.I was named as first reserve for the game so not sure if I’ll play or not. Difficult to get in the teams Monday and Wednesday.Much easier Thursday and Friday.I think Chloe was in shock going for a walk before 8am, bet she though she was back in training. Have a good day everyone I’ll be back.
Day 7 UK f800
Reset day for me. Had a great time last week but back to serious business now 💪
Oh dear I don’t like the sound of those pesky ants @merry🍎 hope you can get rid of them promptly
Technology – great when it works very annoying ( and expensive) when it doesn’t @funshipfreddie hope you are back online soon
Pocket List – Day 7 🍏
@merry🍎
@molij
@anicecupoftea
@northgeorgia
@brightonbelle
Not sure why I keep getting double posts .. going to report it.
Good morning everyone. Xxxx
Its another beautiful day its lovely to get up and see pure blue sky and sunshine after all the winters rain. looks to be another beautiful week Temps upping to 21deg here. I am staying around the house and garden this week I have no timing to be anywhere … thank goodness.
I was ssoo pleased this morning to see I have come out of the weekend at my lowest weight. Yesterday I only had breakfast and lunch nothing from 2pm till this morning.
After a good lunch I never felt hungry in the evening so decided for once to give it a go fasting till breakfast..
Well surprisingly I slept the best sleep for a while so will do that again. I never thought going 18 hrs would suit me but it obviously does.
Nana hope you had a good weekend in the lovely weather.
Dave.. I hope you get some result this week re the roofers .. Oh and I have just read Tesco are apologising for no canned beans Butter beans etc .. So problem solved maybe they will get some now peeps are complaining.
H H .. I dont blame you staying at home re the roadworks its everywhere plus added to that there seems to be so many accidents at the moment.
Sym.. You are so clever with your needlework ..lovely you can alter things.. plus being a dab hand at DIY .. I am in envy lol.
Enjoy your day everyone. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Xxxx
