Brilliant news FGS26!
Isn’t it wonderful to rediscover a waist!! Well done!
Keep keeping on!

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I hope you have all had a good weekend!
My positives for today:
Over the weekend we celebrated our 28th anniversary 🥂🥂🍾🍾🦞🥙
I found butternut squash seeds had germinated in the compost bin, so I planted them up and am nurturing them in the kitchen! 🌱🌱🌱

I had an hour on the phone with a very “long standing” friend who I haven’t seen for over 5 years! 📞📞☎️😄

Just a quick post .

Happy birthday and anniversary Pootle.
Great news FGS!
Hi Julia hope you’re well.
Sunny ‘Bon Voyage’. Enjoy!
S-g ‘Bon Voyage’. Enjoy!

All going in the right direction here. Will post as and when but STAY POSITIVE!

Thank you everyone for your kind comments! What a nice bunch you are! I do like this thread. Been clothes shopping today at lunchtime and I am 2 sizes smaller! Eeeppp! That is an excited squeak if you need a translation. One a more serious note – sad but true – I don’t feel so ashamed when I catch a glimpse of. myself in the mirror. All of this is splendidly motivating! My husband and I will “graduate” in 2 weeks time but I am going straight on.to the 5:2 to continue to lost weight. I do have an ultimate goal in mind but the BSG is such a good way to start! I now have 3 other friends who have embarked on their BSG journey and we are swapping recipies!

Congratulations Pootle …. you guys married the same year as my OH and me, our anniversary isn’t until October though.
Bon voyage to you too V, hope things go well.
Hope you got some lovely new things to wear, FGS.

Couple of positives from me ….
🙂👍🏻 packing pretty much complete, just a few last minute bits to drop in.
🌸🌸 crazy excited that a dahlia I overwintering outdoors in a container wrapped in bubble wrap and horticultural fleece, has put up three lovely green shoots!!

What are your positives today?

Wishing all the travellers wonderful, relaxing holidays! Hope you all enjoy yourselves, indulging when appropriate…and I look forward to seeing you all back from your journeying!

FGS…a fresh wardrobe is so uplifting…and brilliant that you have spread the word. I feel so fortunate to have found the BSD and this ‘community’, it has improved my life so much!

Positives for today;
The long spell of sunny, warm weather is continuing…makes me feel good to be alive! ☀️☀️☀️
My seedlings are growing on…just have to prepare the veg garden soil ready to plant out! 🌱🌱🌱🫛

Hope you all have some positives in your day!

Me too, Pootle. And thank you for your kind words. Everyone has been so supportive and welcoming. Our final week of the diet and I’m a bit nervous about what comes after. I still have more weight to lose so I’m thinking of “graduating” onto the 5:2. Is that what everyone else has done? Grateful for any suggestions based on your experience of what works/what doesn’t work.

Positives for today:
Just like you, Pootle, the sunny weather makes me feel alive! It’s so uplifting!! (Just wish it was a bit warmer)
Have just organised a lovely birding holiday in Wales in May (my jam!!!)
Difficult to put my finger on the exact reasons but generally feeling positive and energised (probably another thing to attribute to the miracle that is the BSD)!

Have a lovely weekend!

Hi FGS, regarding graduation, there are many different possible next steps but the ones that work best and especially if you still have weight to lose are the ones that still involve intermittent fasting. 5:2 is just one option, I have also used 2:5, 3:4, 4:3, and 6:1 variants. (1:6 is a bit close to full Fast 800 to bother with usually). You can also just raise the calories every day, keeping the target below your basal metabolic rate and following the same principles but at 1000 or 1200 calories for example. Whichever you choose, you don’t have to stick with just one, just avoid the temptation to let up the control too soon.

Hi FGS,

I am sure we all do things slightly differently, depending on how much weight we still have to lose, whether we are diabetic, our way of life etc etc.
Mixnmatch has been around on these forums much longer that I have and really knows what suits most people. Personally, I kept to low calories and gradually started to increase portion sizes.

Hope all goes well.
x

Thank you, Pootle and Mixnmatch for your replies. I can see its a process of experimentation and I will monitor and adjust accordingly and, given the flying start, I will feel more confident going forward. Positives for today:
Lovely beach walk with the dog
Successfully tackled the ironing mountain (LOL!)
Bought a wooden egg instead of a chocolate one to celebrate the season!

Just popping in with a few positives. I haven’t been lacking positives lately just not been very active in reporting them.
As everyone has said wonderful weather makes us all feel brighter.

So to my positives ….

☀️☀️☀️ Sunshine has definitely been a bonus.

👩🏻👩🏻 hair cut and coloured. So feeling renewed.
👣💅👣 toes had lovely pedicure yesterday.
🧳🛩️🛳️ now just need to pack! Then we’ll be on our way!

Stay positive!

Have been enjoying everyone’s positives and just popping in with a couple of my own …
🙂🙂 we’ve got as far as Italy, currently dockside waiting to board the ferry to Greece
🚘🚘 journey so far incident free and we’ve met with friends and enjoyed some good food …. and yes, some wine too🤭

Keep posting those positives!

Enjoy your trips SG and V xx

I wrote a long post yesterday… but (somehow) between posting in Advice and uploading my post on here, I had been signed out, so lost it!! 🫣😩🤔
That wasn’t positive!!!!! 🤯
But:
1. We heard the Cuckoo yesterday, loud and clear, (so must have been close) for the first time in about 15 years!! 😄😄🐦🐦🐦
2. The swallows are back! So now have to leave the shed door open for them…and cover everything in pooping risk area!!! 😄😁🪶🪶🪶
Hope you are all having positives today!

Hope everyone has enjoyed a Happy Easter!

The weather has been lovely…
Positives for today;
1. I was treated to an Hotel Chocolat dark chocolate egg…and have been very good about not scoffing it all at once! 🐷 (It wouldn’t have lasted 24 hours in the past!!)
2. British asparagus…with hollandaise sauce….has been my easter special…yummmm!
3. All my seedlings are thriving…so looking forward to home grown Onions, Butternut Squash, Courgette, Celeriac, Leeks to eat and cornflowers, helichrysum, sweet peas and sunflowers for decoration! 🌻🧈🌱🫛🧅