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Hi @Breadandwine if only I could have been there with you we could have danced the night away. I love dancing, hence my name, but hubs has more left feet than a centipede after a stroke so the best we manage is some sort of nerve wracking version of a jive around the kitchen, but still good fun.

Ballerina x

I have to report my weight is going up instead of down again. :0(
I may have to give fasting/dieting a break until after Christmas so that I can have a fresh start with it in the new year. I started all this on January 4th and my body appears to be very bored by it all now. I am trying to be gluten free mostly and after Christmas I'll have a proper crack at sugar free too. It's become too hard just now.
Sorry to be a useless damp squid. C'est la vie.

Hi there SS- ers!
First of all wd like to say...@Azureblue. You are no damp squib,lady!
Youre not even a damp squid but we might have to slap you with a damp squid!
I see you have lost many kilos over the year..that wasnt magic,that was down to your own hard work..and if you feel ready to have a break,well a break you shall have.... * waving my fairy wand*....and give yr body a fright so it gets back to business in the New Year! X
Secondly,i have to report that today i woke feeling soooo welll..and as anyone knows who isnt in great good health, its a fab feeling to wake feeling " Normal" ..
trouble with this sort of day is,i get so excited and can just wear myself out thru the euphoric feelings of wellbeing!
Didnt have a specially exciting day..just to asda for shopping..but even that was nice, coz feeling well meant i could have a good long browse ..then home for a cuppa..Brilliant.
Third ( sorry to go on but we elders have earned the right to drone on about ourselves) and finally,i have done three fasts this week.mon,wed and fri..and found them easyish..and even went round said supermarket not even wanting any of the edible crimbo goodies on display!
Happy weekend all x 19 sleeps til christmas! X

Great news @CandiceMarie that you've had a brill day and are beginning to feel better. Not only that but three fast this week too! Well done you! So pleased for you! xx

Good evening to all SSS members

Well done Candicemarie glad you're feeling a little better,

I've pulled up my socks the last 2weeks so I'm well chuffed also and still aiming for my xmas goal still have 2*75kgs to go but today I realised that I've now lost 50lbs
I really can't put into words how I feel right now Sue

Thats fabulous Sue ! Well done ! X

Michael Mosley's Christmas blog :-

Like Mimi and many others I spent the run up to Christmas and then into the New Year feasting, rather than fasting. It is so strange; I know that I shouldn’t and that I will feel bad afterwards, but I still couldn’t resist eating far too much chocolate, cake and mince pies. It is because it is there, right in front of me, all the time.
Normally I try to ban such things from our house as I have a sweet tooth and know that when I am feeling peckish they will be hard to resist. As Oscar Wilde once famously put it, “I can resist anything but temptation”.
There’s a book I’m reading at the moment called The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt that helps explain why we sabotage our own best interests. As he points out, we can probably muster the willpower to resist ordering a dessert but not the willpower to resist it if one is put in front of us.
Or, as the poet Ovid wrote “Desire and feeling pull in different directions. I feel the right way and approve it, but I follow the wrong”.
We are like riders on the back of an elephant. We hold the reins and think we are in control; we can steer the elephant as long as the elephant has no desires of its own. But in the end the elephant does what the elephant wants to do and we are left helplessly raging at our own apparent weakness.
But is it really weak will or is it mainly about context and opportunity?

Just about how I currently feel :0/

Yup! Last year I was OK during the run up to Christmas and, although my weight swung a bit over the fortnight, I finished up a pound under my pre-Christmas weight by 5th Jan. This year I am really aware of all the food adverts and the cookery programs and all that chocolate piling up in the shops. I really don't know how to even start to muster up the will power to be sensible. My elephant is certainly going exactly where it wants!

Well done SueQ! Feels great doesn't it?

Hi Sassy Seniors, Hope all is well in your worlds. I am one and a bit weeks into this way of eating and inspired so far. I feel such an achievement when I successfully complete a day of fasting. Time will tell whether I can keep it up or not. I have fallen off the wagon many many times on all other programmes over the years. I am not doing too well on the other five days though, should be eating more sensibly but the time of year is making it more difficult than otherwise. I go linedancing at least twice a week, and even though I had a Chinese meal and supper at a Christmas linedance function yesterday, I sure danced my feet (and hopefully some kilojoules) off as well. I have two more such functions to go to and will make sure I am on the floor for every dance:)

Dancing's a great way to stay fit and have fun at the same time @SoTellMe.Glad you're enjoying losing the weight

Keep up the good work@SoTellMe and like Cally said,the dancing will really help as well as being fun! X

I walked into the cookery school at the Welsh foodcentre, where I was today with my stall (I am running a course there on wednesday) and was handed a large portion of freshly baked chocolate swiss roll! What could one do, other than eat it!!

It would be churlish to refuse,Penny! :0)

Please can I come in to your sanctuary too. I definitely qualify at 67 - so says my birth certificate and my bus pass - in my head I am 21.

I'm retired, I'm happy with my older self, I don't much care any more whether people 'approve' of what I wear etc. I intend to enjoy the years I have left.

I am also 43lbs lighter than I was this time last year. 35lbs lost calorie counting till I reached a plateau and started 5:2 which got me off the plateau and down another 8lbs in 5 weeks.

Hello SSS buddies

Planning my Christmas Day cooking and other than taking very large and healthy platter of veggies and salad, my dessert am afraid will be black Forrest trifle. Lots of chocolate cake crumbed through layers of mascarpone and soaked fresh cherries. Saw it last night by Luke Mangan Aussie Chef and the recipe will be in our Australian Women's Weekly December Edition. I can always get back on the wagon after the festive season but probable not the scales post some respectable fasts under my tighter belt I expect

Touched @Sue.Qwell done and congratulations. Lovely thread here glad I also qualify as a member. Must away have a busy day ... It's work still