The FastDay Forum

Good morning everyone!

I am aiming for a slightly different fasting regime today. The almost liquid fasts have worked well, but as I am at mum's, I don't think I should attempt this. She already thinks my arms are scrawny...(it's all relative... pun not intended).

We are bringing dad home from the nursing home for lunch, and his request is bacon and fried eggs - he doesn't get that in the home! So I will join them with a small serve of that at lunchtime (200 cals), then have tuna salad for dinner (200 cals) and berries and yoghurt (100 cals). That's the plan anyway.

Managed a within TDEE day yesterday, even with going out to lunch - didn't eat after dinner. Yeah! Major achievement for me.

Best wishes to all fasters today

Hi Sassy, well done. I'm back from a 5 day trip to Melbourne, no way I could fast at my MIL when she cook quail and polenta for us - yum. Then there's the eating while travelling -eeek - I'm certainly not weighing in until I get at least one fast done.
It's nice to see so many new members and some oldies returning hi everyone (waves)
Happy fasting.

Hi Sassy and Wineo! Waves back. I'm in. Just having my black coffee at work. I don't even know what's for dinner which is unusual for me. I might buy some fish. It's just tea and coffee until then. Lovely sunny spring day here and it's my last working before the holidays.

Hi Saasy1 and Wineoclock! Waves back from bed. Woke up with a cold so I've popped an easeacold and a codral and hopefully I can knock it on the head. Looking forward to 3 nights away with hubbie next week ( im feeling a bit guilty that were going for 3 nights instead of 2 with DS studying for final exams but the kids are 20,18 and nearly 16 and they are all fine with it and we'll only be 20 minutes away . OK have I justified myself enough?lol)
Anyhoo we can all forage in my bountiful freezer- fennel soup for me. What are you all eating? Melbourne sounded nice wineoclock. Did you fly or drive down?
Xxx julianna

I'm in but with a 1000 cal 'fast'. Good luck all

@Sassy1 thanks for leading us out today. I cooked a mixed grill for my parents when I visited last week (300 miles away), they loved it as Mum can't manage it anymore - too complicated.@Sallyo - hey you have not planned and shared your menu, but we rely on you!
Happy spring time you lucky people! We will be relying on you as we fall ............ Bed and then fast.

Wishing you all a happy Thursday fast ....... I'll be back later.

@julianna I hope you feel better soon, nice rainy day to stay in bed. Don't feel guilty about going away, both of mine just wanted to be left alone when they were studying. Where are you going?
We drove to Melbourne, first to MIL in Shepparton, then a four hour drive over the Ranges to the Yarra Valley to stay at Chateau Yering (lovely). Then into Melbourne to stay at SIL lovely new home, then back to MIL then home. So I sat on my butt a lot
Dinner tonight ????? Can't decide but I have lots of fresh food so I'll figure it out later.

Lets say fish and salad.

Waves from me too.

@julianna, wishing you a speedy recovery but enjoy some quiet time while you do. And definitely no guilty feelings about leaving the kids - OH and I went overseas for 7 weeks when our sons were 18 and 16, leaving them in charge of house and dogs. All survived!!

@Sallyo, I assume you are looking forward to school hols? Ours started this week, tho now the boys are at uni, I tend not to know when the hols are anymore.

We aren't far from the Yarra Valley @Wineoclock, would be very happy to meet up on any future visits if you have time - tho sounds like you have packed agendas on your travels. Chateau Yering is very nice.

@Lizbean, mixed grill sounds lovely. Once upon a time dad would have loved that, but nowadays his appetite is much reduced. So is mum's, tho she managed a steak when we went out yesterday!

@GMH, is today the start of your new maintenance regime, or did that start earlier in the week?

Am writing this while I have my first black coffee. Have collected dad, done his washing and now will hang it out. (Tho the nursing home will of course do it, he likes it done at home... Gets done more frequently.)

Happy fasting!

Thanks everyone. @Sassy1 and wineoclock i do feel better about leaving the kids now thanks to you both! Still in bed, its raining,I'm getting paid for today and I don't have to teach preschoolers on a rainy day _ woohoo!
Were just popping up to lawson @wineoclock. 23 minutes door to door. We are lucky to have a weekender there. Its a nice story of how that came to be.
My in laws bought this sweet little quiet house overlooking lawson valley and mount tomah 27 years ago to enjoy as a holiday place. All of there 5 adult kids and their growing families were lucky enough to use it for free w/es and holidays whenever we liked for 17 years.Such happy memories. Then they wanted to sell. A year before we'd paid off our house and one day realized that we'd had lots of lovely prawns and champagne over that year but no savings. So we realized that we needed the forced savings of a mortgage. So we bought the laswon house off in laws with the hope of one day using it as a holidays place and also retiring there at 60. So we have rented it to a Tennant for 10 years. We wanted to do some improvements and put it back on the rental market after 6 weeks last summer of doing renovations so our Tennant moved out and last summer it took 12 weeks to fix it up. It looked so fresh and beautiful and we put it back on the market. We had prospective renters come for a few weeks then 2 things happened. We paid off the loan for our extensions on our original home and the monthly payments for 2 sons braces were completed. Hubs said " you know what this means font you?" And I blondely said " no.what?" And he said this means we can afford to keep the lawson house and not rent it out" I just did not see that coming! Wow. So were up there every weekend , hub works from there 1 or 2 days a week instead of traveling up to 2 hours to the city. Youngest son loves coming up as he has 4 friends close by and the other 2 kids prefer to stay at home. I feel so blessed and am grateful every day. All that work we did in the end was for us! ( I really felt that the first time I used the pristine oven that I'd spent 4 hours cleaning for some stranger) so that's my happy story.
Xxx Julianna

How lovely @julianna sounds very well deserved too. Hope you and your family get many years of pleasure from your holiday/retirement home - certainly the signs are good that you will.

[Debs]

Hi all
Sort of fasting today! Wino, I hope you had a lovely time in our old stomping grounds nd, did you see our old property? @Wineclock. And how can you possibly fast when visiting Melbourne!!
Sassy, it sounds as though you are going great guns there too.
Hope you feel better soon Julianna, love your cottage story!

@Sassy1 have started maintenance last week, but flirting with calorie amounts e.g. today 2 flat whites (at home so less milk!) porridge (pink lady & flame raisin...Be Well? Is that the brand? Delicious and only 128 cals) with Gippsland Greek yoghurt, so 200 to 250, plus say 100 in milk today, so far 350. This is my quiet day so on train home, will have late lunch of veg/lentil curry...300 cals...so only 650 for the day. Leaves me heaps for a mini protein bar snack later if I fancy, 8 cal hot choc. @julianna I have no human children but I remember when my parents were away...YESSSS! And I notice my friends kids are the same get well soon!

[janeg]

lovely thread today
I'm in 3rd of 3.
No lovely stories or things to look forward to , so thanks for sharing.
Good fasts and days to all

@Sassy1 I'll keep you in mind next time we are your way. Hubby's family was living in Yarra Glen when I first met him.
@julianna your Lawson house sounds lovely and just up the road.
@Debs only drove past Upotipotpon this time hoping to visit there over Christmas