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I have written about my light weight gain on Azureblue's post so won't go on too much here. I have now decided to weigh daily (and this for fear of stepping on the scales but I am feeling the fear and going for it) so I can hopefully see a trend. Plus I started 16:8 today to see if that helps. I love my breakfast so it isn't easy cutting it out so on my first day I had a bacon and egg muffin at midday, oh it was delicious though :smile:
I will continue with two 36 hour liquid fasts next week as per normal with at least two 16:8 days.
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WARNING: I'm about to talk about bowels!

Thank you to everyone who looks in on my ramblings from time to time. I am sure that you will have noticed that I have quite a battle with "hostages" and indeed this has been my problem most of my life. I have never, in my living memory, been regular and it drives me crazy because it can have a profound effect on weight loss and can sometimes put the total kybosh on the whole thing - I have been disappointed on many occasions. Sadly I have resorted to laxatives etc and while they have an effect they also have side effects including water retention - not helpful either on the weight loss front - so with the image of that advert with the women emptying her food into her handbag and wandering around with it to spur me on (sometimes my handbag has ten days worth of dinners in it I kid you not!) I decided to see what I could do about it. A scour of G**gle and I came up with this supplement, one of the Magnesium group, Magnesium Citrate....

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Had my weigh in today (a day later than normal) and no loss - this is the first week with no loss and I ma trying not to feel dispondant. When I look back at this last week I can see that on my feast days I over did it - damn Pringles - and also I am due on so I always have water retention and get the munchies. So trying not to be too hard on myself - but my aim is to get to 70kg by the time i set off on the bike ride - which is less than 3 weeks to go.

Fingers crossed I can achieve that - so going off on my bike now! :curse:
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A bit of background

Hubby and I watched the Horizon program in late May and I was interested. My husband follows a sporadic fasting routine when we travel and it seems to help him reset his weight to a new set point. I begin to wonder if that would work for me too. But we've got a big vacation planned June so I put off starting.

Home from vacation my weight is 229.5 pounds. Highest number in years. We celebrate the Canada Day holiday on July 1st with friends and have a typical holiday BBQ feast.

Tuesday July 2nd I do my first fast day. It was OK. I also go out to invest in new scales (digital, body fat). Weight on the new scales is 227.2. Fasted again on Thursday and found that hard. After reading the forum I learned that many people do their fast days further apart so resolve to try Mon and Thur moving forward.

Hubby starts fasting as well, which certainly helps make things a bit easier. I'm finding the scale not as friendly as I like. It stays stuck at the same weight...

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I hopped on the scales this morning and they read 71.9! I'm under 72kg - I've always gained weight again when I get to this point unless I'm really killing myself with dieting. :grin:

The program seems to be working for me and I am really enjoying it. I'm living a socially acceptable life rather than being that boring dieter who won't eat anything. Fast days seem to be working well with my soup and small main meal strategy. I find a cup of tea with skimmed milk starts me off and keeps me going until lunch or a small piece of fruit mid morning if I'm feeling challenged. I'm loving mandarins - sweet, juicy and enough body to feel like food.

I've been maintaining 10000 steps a day, even if it means doing circuits of the house and pacing while I clean my teeth to get my step count up to the goal. I use a fitbit flex so I can keep an eye on how I'm doing via my phone. I've also been doing tabata on the...

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