The FastDay Forum

Oh that's a great idea @Sallyo and it'll be great to see some old faces return for the challenge won't it!
I was sorry to hear about your husband. Sending you my best wishes. Hope he's ok.
I look forward to your progress report and for your daily updates!
All the best to the Wild Winter Ones xx

Hi Sally, ok, since you personally invited me I'd love to join in and the end of the timing is perfect as I go on our 25th anniversary south pacific cruise on 25th September.
My goals are to fast every Monday and Thursday,
Not eat till I'm hungry on normal eating days ( I often dont get hungry till 3 pm)
Walk for a minimum of 20 minutes 3 times a week ( pitiful but more than I'm doing now)
And I'd be happy if I lost 3 kgs in this time.

XXX julianna

Thanks for the invite @Sallyo I'm in please. Hope your OH is ok.

I'm currently staying in my hometown of Adelaide helping my parents into an aged care facility. I have not fasted for several weeks - this will get me back on track. I have been following I Quit Sugar - now four days without sugar or sugary type foods.

Goals

Fasting days Monday and Thursday
Goal to fit into a new dress and one size smaller ?? By December for my sons wedding.
Keep away from all sugar and sugary products as much and as long as possible.
Keep healthy and stay well.


Take care
Cheers
Maggie.

Popping into cheer you all on with your challenges. You guys deserve extra cheers as you make your way through winter. I ate lots of greens last winter, it really helped

Morning all and thanks @SallyO for working hard to get this going. Beautiful Sydney winter day here. Heading out soon to walk around Narrabeen lake with a friend (8.5 k so good for the step goal) then going to the Opera House this evening to hear a friend sing in Chorusoz. Not a bad life! What are you other WW challengers up to today?

@Julianna - WW Challenger #4
@Maggiee - WW Challenger #5
Welcome Julianna and Maggiee. Good goals and I'm pleased we are helping you back to 5:2, Maggiee. I will be interested to hear how you go giving up on sugar which seems a Big Thing to me.
I haven't done too well on the walking front so far. The weather has been dreadful. You get that in winter. So, good for you @Pilchards, getting out around the lake.
OH is still in the local hospital and I will be going in to see him after Meeting for Worship this morning. We are planning to do the Age Saturday General Knowledge cross word. It is our Sunday ritual. He has been taken off some medications and seems a lot better, brighter and less ill. We suspect the whole event is drug related.
Maggiee, your situation with parents is a hard place. I had to put my mother into a nursing home so i know something of the feelings about it. It must be extra hard when you don't live in the same town.
I succumbed and bought the Women's Weekly 5:2 Diet cookbook yesterday. I had pledged to buy no recipe books in 2015 but I couldn't resist. It's not that great, actually. Lots of recipes with zucchini, for example, and i have a problem with that because zucchini is not seasonal and I have a strict rule about eating seasonally, trying to eat what's growing in the garden, reducing food-miles and so on. I'll have to adapt the recipes to my values. I guess if you were a normal person you might find this book useful.
Have a good Sunday everyone.

Thanks @Sallyo. for starting the challenge I am in it too. Best wishes and get well to your OH. I have my OH struggling with a cold and flue for the past 4 weeks. I had to cancel a party which I had organised for the long weekend due to OH condition.
On my fasting front, I have been struggling since Christmas to get back to my goal weight which I managed to keep for 6 months. And the cold Melbourne Winter does not help.
I will keep fasting my two days every week
Will try not to eat much sweets on non fast days and
Hopefully get back to my goal weight or at least closer to it.
Good luck ever one

Sounds like a lovely day @Pariah,
My daughter was upset that we didn't have 'her' milk to make herself a coffee so I remembered my goal and walked up to the local Lawson shops and got her milk and OJ for brunch so my walk was 30 minutes and lovely. Then I came home and did bacon,meatballs, mushrooms and houlomi on the BBQ which we had with mozzarella topped fried tomatoes and an egg on sourdough toast. We couldn't eat it all but its so nice to eat together as a family. We tend to just eat 2 meals on the weekend as my teenagers sleep in till lunchtime and I'm not hungry anyway so it suits us.
@SallyO I respect your need to eat seasonally. Have a peak at YouTube ( our half acre homestead) its about a family trying to live off their land. They raise chooks foe eggs and meat as well as goats and other meat animals. They garden then you watch her canning and dehydrating all the produce then cooking different meals. I love it! She even cans ( in glass jars) cooked minced meat . She'll dehydrated for example 5 kgs of diced carrots then they'll fit into a glass jar. Then you'll watch her make a soup and the dried carrots,celery onion come back as good as new. You know how I love my chicken broth. Well this was the best! She turned the biggest saucepan of broth from her old chooks that had stopped laying into a Jam jar size of dried bouillion powder! Amazing! All organic , full of goodness but taking up hardly any room.
Plans for the rest of the day- sit on back verandah soaking up this unexpected warm sun , read the paper and look at my beautiful valley.
Xxx julianna

Just sticking my head around the door to wish you all the very best of luck with this challenge. @sallyo. I'm sorry to hear about your OH health crisis. Having gone through one of those myself this last year with my OH, I just wanted to say that my thoughts are with you.

@Pariah- Wild Winter Challenger #6
It certainly is a wild winter's night tonight. Welcome Pariah. You did very well to get to your goal weight and stay there for 6 months. Good luck with our winter challenge. I do believe it is a lot harder to fast in winter. So well done, us. Tomorrow will be a fast day for many of us. I did buy a zucchini, some ricotta cheese and some of that, what's it called, not pastrami - the other one, very thinly sliced Italian bacon. It's all called for by the WW (Women's weekly - not Wild Winter - ) 5:2 recipe book. I am going to try to follow one of their menu plans tomorrow. That idea of drying excess veg sounds great, @Julianna. I wonder if it would work with pumpkin. I might give it a try this week. I do have a dehydrator and we dry fruit: prunes, pears and apricots. How did she dehydrate the stock? I wonder if you just boil it away?

Good idea @Sallyo, I am in 2 minds on whether to join you. I got on the scales today and it was a horror show however I am not really fasting anymore, so feel a bit fraudster although I fit part of the description: I am committed to over 10,000 steps daily, I plan to restrict calories 3 days a week and I would like this to continue to at least 21.09 and I KNOW the best way to stay on track is to write here rather than hide away with a piece of cake, feeling a failure! I figure 3 days of minus 1000 to 1200 cals is at least equal to 2 days of minus 1500 cals, so I have just convinced myself to join. so now off to start fasting today thread.

@Pariah- Wild Winter Challenger #6
It certainly is a wild winter's night tonight. Welcome Pariah. You did very well to get to your goal weight and stay there for 6 months. Good luck with our winter challenge. I do believe it is a lot harder to fast in winter. So well done, us. Tomorrow will be a fast day for many of us. I did buy a zucchini, some ricotta cheese and some of that, what's it called, not pastrami - the other one, very thinly sliced Italian bacon. It's all called for by the WW (Women's weekly - not Wild Winter - ) 5:2 recipe book. I am going to try to follow one of their menu plans tomorrow. That idea of drying excess veg sounds great, @Julianna. I wonder if it would work with pumpkin. I might give it a try this week. I do have a dehydrator and we dry fruit: prunes, pears and apricots. How did she dehydrate the stock? I wonder if you just boil it away?

Hi @SallyO with dehydrating stock I think she reduced it down to hardly anything then she put bake paper on her ( I think she called fruit roll up trays- they had tiny holes in them in the dehydrator) then poured the stock on those levels and eventually they turned to powder. Good luck with the pumpkin.
Xxx

@Sallyo I too need to get my head back into that lovely mindful walking tent. Phew, we will get there

@GMH- Wild Winter Challenger #7
Of course you can join, GMH. You will fit right in. We are all at different points on the journey.

This is a call out to some Southern Hemisphere members of the forum who may not have posted before, or not for a long time, to invite you to join our Wild Winter Challenge. You can set any goals you like, mention a goal weight or not, as you can see from the posts above. Unity is strength.
@Ellybelly, @iFaster, @yesac29, @nanajovik, @joseph_p, @Sandcastle, @Aussie_Kaz,@The Fishbaum, @Marie2mil,@AiriR,@BAB69
We'd love to hear from you and for you to join us this winter.