The FastDay Forum

@rawkaren No change on tape measure or clothing just a 3 month stalemate plateau. Sue

Sounds like a good plan to me Sue and if this wonderful Spring weather continues you'll hopefully be able to fit a few more walks in.
Well done for sticking at it! x

@Sue.Q just had a Moser Roth in your honour as a good luck wish and to send you on your way

Keep the faith sister @Sue.Q
You have ten months behind you and you will get off that plateau for sure !
We have every faith in you!
I am not doing well but its coz i am being a naughty girl..need my hand slapping...
Will have to call for the wet fish soon if i don't pull my socks up! X

Thanks @CandiceMarie Yes I'm keeping the faith and had a good fast again yesterday we both know this makes us feel so much better by just putting in a good fastday so maybe we could try not to get naughty together pull up your socks and I'll be doing the same because we still need to shed a few more pounds And remember this I'm a lot ccloser distance wise from the wet fish and I can be a nasty piece of work when I need to be OK.
Take care and enjoy your pancakes. Sue

It's funny, but I sometimes catch my brain trying to sabotage my body and my eating ways, especially when there are positive steps being attained. Do the big food companies have some kind of detecter that beams out "Stop this now, eat everything any time" at me? It's bizarre!
I've read so much over the last year that clearly points to real food without grains/sugar and yet to look around any supermarket you'd think surely they've got this wrong, the places are groaning with the weight of processed food.
Mid seventies I bought and ran my own health food shop, at first in ignorance but vegetarian at least, and rapidly read and listened to all I could. Negative circumstances shooed me away to London in the early eighties and life got very busy and very different, and ready meals very handy. It's nice now to have the time to get back to those first principles and try to undo the intervening years results and see that science is at last catching up with what was considered all woo woo back then.
Have a happy day :0)

This week is falling in to 16/8 with daily calories up to 1350 with nothing processed and all delicious. Don't know how long I can keep it up but so far so good. Trying for Lent of course but not going to beat myself up if it strays a little, life is way to short for that! Current trend is down woohoo!
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I pounced on the reduced counter at Tesco today; 2 bacon chops for hub, which he had with 50% mash potato and 50% celeriac, with mushroom garlicky sauce and a lamb shank for me, which was cooked in the slow cooker with pulses, celeriac, swede and celery - oh, and onions. Gorgeous, low carb and cheap.

@Azureblue i echo yr comments re supermarkets! Get past the fruit and veg ( often not that fresh and usually overpackaged) and apart from fresh meat,poultry and fish,( tho again,often processed to some degree) you find so much stuff that has about as much goodness as the cardboard it's wrapped in Yet so often,they tempt us!
I think it was a Liverpool actress called Margi Clarke who called supermarkets " sugar halls"...
She was doing a degree in nutrition at the time,so i guess she knew what she was talking about! X

End of a busy grandchildren day where necessity beat sense on the food front. A weekly blip. One day I'll attain nirvana and 24/7 perfection but until then I'll try for four good days and one or two full fasts a week and the rest can just be. Though next week is shaping up to be madly hectic with kids ...
Om

I look forward to and have fingers crossed for a little grandchild one day! X

Oh dear a bag of amaretti Biscuits seems to have fallen into my mouth ...

Oh dear a bag of amaretti Biscuits seems to have fallen into my mouth ...

Gets out the wet fish treatment....<>< <><.....you naughty thing you!

Oh dear a bag of amaretti Biscuits seems to have fallen into my mouth ...

@Azureblue ! Auriga has taken the words right out of my mouth! And you should have, and could have, taken those amaretti biscuits right out of your mouth! You are a grandma and grandmas should know better!

And don't even mention fried egg sandwiches ...

Well, it's been a very long time since I was such a naughty girl and those wonderful almond biscuits are a very rare treat!

(I ducked the wet fish and after three days of five of the grandchildren today was rather a blessing :0)