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The other day I was brushing my hair (which is almost to my waist) to brush out the tangles prior to getting in the shower. I was naked and not quite awake. I caught a glimpse of myself out of the corner of my eye and thought "I'm getting smaller." Which lead me to actually look in the mirror and start paying attention. Sure there are still many overly padded spots on my frame. But progress is happening too. And it was just waiting for me to notice. I was delighted.

Last weekend we had a long holiday weekend. We also had house guests (my parents and sister). The house was full of food including pies, cookies, etc which I don't usually buy. I ate protein, salads, etc but also had a fair amount of the sugary stuff. By Tuesday when they left the scale had climbed quite drastically. I was discouraged.

Normally I fast Mondays and Thursdays. But with the holiday and guests I did Tuesday and Thursday this week. I found those fasts harder. I was definitely hungrier...

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So, I am fat and growing. Not quite back to where I started but working towards it. My life has been turned upside down.
After two years of battling with social services to get a care package for my father, I finally won. It was due to start on June 9th. On 3rd June dad was rushed into hospital with pneumonia. On the 4th I was told to go to over. We dropped everything in the lap of a good friend and caught the 1.25am train from Calais. By 2am we were in England but the hospital said to leave visiting until later as dad was sleeping comfortably. We arrived at the hospital on Friday 5th and one look told me it was the end. I stayed with him most of that day. I met the consultant and agreed no heroics. We had to return home on the night ferry as we had people arriving in our Gite on Saturday. We had just arrived home when the call came tomsay he died on the Saturday. So ends 30 years of looking after him and fighting his battles. It took three weeks to sort out the funeral. It was very quiet,...

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I just had to jump on the scales again. I know I shouldn't because I can be very obsessive about my weight lol.
To my great surprise I am back to 13 and 1/2 stone! I find this yo yo-ing weight quite interesting. Back in the day when i was a yo yo dieter the gaining of weight would send me spiraling into a depression. I know it's very early days but I feel happy that if I trust in the process I have no need to worry about gaining a few pounds.
I am still struggling with eating enough calories on my 'normal' days lol. Yesterday I felt I was forcing food down me! But I balked at eating a whole (small) trifle because it was 700 calories! I ate half, but you know, it wasn't as fabulous as I thought it would be! I'd rather have fruit and low fat ice cream.
This evening I had pizza...well half. I was full! I am looking forward to fasting tomorrow. I am thinking my dogs might put on weight at this rate if I keep giving then the food I can't eat lol.
I spent a really happy hour this morning finding...

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Have you read "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength"?
It was in the new quite a bit when it first came out; the basic premise (of course, there's much more to it in the book!) is that "willpower" is finite and can be depleted by the routine decisions we make every day (as well as strengthened by "exercising" it). So, if you can set up your life to reduce the number of decisions (choices) you need to make--such as what to eat--you can "save" your willpower for more important things. This is one reason I seldom vary my light days; doesn't give my little voice a chance to talk me out of fasting, I "just do it!" on Mondays and Thursdays, no discussion, thank you very much! Also, planning what you will eat ahead of time (even on normal days; maybe especially on normal days, since it's easy to go overboard if you don't have a plan) makes a big difference too. Research found that something as simple as not having an offered pastry...

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Well the third day is upon me and it doesn't seem so daunting . A bit hungry already but going to drink some water to suppress it. A pt friend of mine once told me the brain cannot distinguish between thirst and hunger so always have a drink first if feeling hungry and it might work! My non fasting days this past few days have not been to good unfortunatley the devil biscuit inside me decided to rear his ugly head yesterday and to my shame throughout the day I devoured a fair few . These bad boys are definatly my down fall with my coffees :( going to stay on the weetabix method as per day 2 however on a 15 hour shift tonight from 6 so I will see how that goes! As I stopped eating at 10pm last night maybe I could start at 10pm tonight ( I'm telling myself).. But will try and go through to 9am Friday morning if I can when I finish my shift.this weekend is hoing to be tough have a retirement party on Saturday...

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