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Cathy – just wanted to wish you all the best for your cruise – the Northern Lights, wow! So sorry that you’ve been having such a tough time lately, I went through a very similar experience with my mother in law, and now my father has terminal cancer and dementia, it’s so hard when our parents get older. I hope Monty is on the mend soon, it’s great you have a neighbour you can rely on to look after him.

Arctic Fox – I hope you are doing a bit better now too, I can only imagine how hurt and disappointed you have been feeling.

I’ve been MIA (once again!) as despite my best intentions I fell completely off the wagon in September and early October. I did have my birthday, wedding anniversary and a couple of family events going on. So I’ve kept my Fast 800 online subscription going and am planning to try and stick with it at least for a few weeks. On the plus side I have only gained just under a kilo over the last month, so it could be worse. I have a specialist appointment at the hospital on 8 November so my first goal is to shed 3-4kg by then.
And now I have a new incentive for longer term – some school friends are planning a reunion next September (in the UK). I’m going to try and attend in person, not just for that but I haven’t been ‘back home’ for over 20 years. So my goal for that is to shed about 12kg,
Which will bring me down to a weight and dress size I feel comfortable at 🙂

Hope everyone else is having a good week! I have been reading all of your posts and start to compose replies in my head but then get distracted and forget!
Vinted launched here recently and I’ve been selling items on there which has been taking up quite a bit of time lately. It’s a good way of getting rid of my bigger clothes though, and also decluttering my house!

Sunshine-girl I can see why cancelling Austria has turned out to be a positive and good news about no drones although not about the flu. I love that you can find ‘positives’ despite adversity!

Yesterday I was unwell, today, positive, I’m fine.
Yesterday ate very little, today, positive , I dropped some weight!
Yesterday, my out of town cousin called to say hello, no positive, I was in bed!

Such are the ups and downs in life. We can only hope to have more ups!

Positives today

Good thing I cancelled our driving trip to Austria. Can went in for repair yesterday due to rattling and smell. Guy said we wouldnt have made it back without breaking down. That is called serendipity (my favourite word).
Daughter on flight back from a business trip to Lithuania – good news, no Russian drones but she has come back with the flu.
House now on market with 3 agents – just waiting for them all to list at reduced price. Noticed our neighbours house has just dropped its price by €50,000, so the market is bad.

Life goes on and we keep on keeping on…..

CATHY just jumping on here quickly to wish you a wonderful holiday despite the current circumstances. As your husband says, your MIL is being well cared for whether or not you are there. And I hope that Monty improves before you go, just to put your mind at rest.

Easier said than done I know, but I hope you do manage to relax. And enjoy those Northern Lights!

See you on the other side. And everyone else, let’s all set a small but achievable target for ourselves while Cathy’s away so she has some good news to come back to and feels inspired to get back into it X

Hello everyone
Sorry I’ve not been on for a little while- a lot going on here. My MIL is gravely Ill and we have been expecting the call for the last couple of weeks so it’s been difficult. She has advanced dementia but she seems to he hanging on despite being unresponsive on a couple of occasions two weeks ago. We are due to go on our cruise on Friday and my now cat is really poorly! I took him to the vet yesterday and he had two antibiotics and a steroid injection. The worst timing ever! I’m so stressed and sad. However, I’ve recovered from my fall. My ankle is still sore but I can strap it up. The diet has gone to pot! I weighed at the beginning of the week and I was 144 lb. I never got to my pre holiday 138 lb goal but in the big scheme of things I don’t care!
My neighbour who is cat owner and a cat lover is looking after Monty. We have a reciprocal cat sitting arrangement and I am hoping and praying that Monty will pick up in the next 24 hours! He is due to go back to the vet again tomorrow- he isn’t eating!! It’s not like him at all. Anyway, I’m going to have to try and relax and accept the situation and I can’t do any more. Hopefully I’ll see an improvement tomorrow.
I am ready for my holiday and I will try my hardest to relax and enjoy it – we are going despite the whole situation regarding my MIL. She is in care and my husband feels it’s the right thing to go away. We can’t do any more. What a week.
I’ll be back here when I get home and it won’t be a shock to see the scales but I will work hard when we come home to get it off before Christmas and that is a fact!!! In the meantime I hope everyone is doing OK . See you all soon – 🚢 🌊 excited to see the Northern Lights! 🤞
…. And relax

Verano, it is weight loss. When I feel down I look at my earlier charts and see I have lost 16lbs since starting. It is not great that I cannot seem to lose any more but I can say I have maintained that weight loss for 10 years.

Weigh in and I am up half a kilo. Only to be expected after 2 meals and 2 evenings with wine. Back to being strict, although strict for me is my normal.

I did 20 mins strength exercises yesterday, 10 mins of pilates this morning and doing TRE so not eating after 8pm or before 1pm – around 16 or 17 hrs fasting. Still not getting enough protein.

Looking forward to hearing more goals and tips from others who want to join us.

Sounds like a good plan s-g. I’m still using Tuesday as my weigh-in day. I just can’t get used to other days after years of Tuesdays! So yesterday’s starting weight is in my book.
So far this year I’ve lost the grand total of 2.6lbs! Note to self: must do better in the last quarter of the year!

Didnt get weighed this morning as Chatbot said I would have put on weight after a meal and drinks at our quiz night and not to disappoint myself and make a thing about it. So I will do it tomorrow. We won the quiz again, getting a bit boring as it is either us or one other team so people are not turning up and our numbers are dwindling.

Back tomorrow after my weigh in. Definitely wont be the 1.5kg down I was last week.

I’ve reported the last post. These advertising search bots are getting just a bit too clever!

Anyway while I’m here I watched a really interesting YouTube podcast today. Dr Alex, he’s from the UK, explaining why most people quit a diet after 90 days. It’s titled ‘Why dieting is so hard’. He has other stuff worth watching too and it’s a breath of fresh air to have a UK doctor talking instead of the ever increasing number of American doctors! No offence meant to our US friends!

S-g glad you got your money back for the Restelle. Just shows how careful we should all be with supplements etc. when taking medications and/or have health issues.

AI can be really helpful and that was interesting about fluid weight which, in reality, we all know is true but that ‘number’ still keeps making us unhappy! A1 has just helped me make my first wholemeal loaf! I must admit it’s far better than just following a recipe. It might seem odd that I’m baking bread and bagels, which I only have one a week of. I was listening to a YouTube podcast this morning and the doctor was talking about complex and simple carbs. I think I’ve definitely lost track of the good bits about complex carbs which is why I made the wholemeal bread. I know it’s made with very good high protein flour with all its bits still intact unlike lots of supermarket bread. In saying all that I will probably only have a slice or two on a rare occasion, maybe to make ‘soldiers’ for my dippy eggs! Also I had porridge oats with some oat bran and seeds, nuts, dried cranberries and blueberries this morning and late afternoon and I’m still not hungry! So maybe there is something to be said about introducing more complex carbs, we’ll see.

Arcticfox I did a bit more research about lupini beans but they are hard to source here so I may stay with endame beans which I love. I buy them frozen and just throw a few in with other vegetables.

Have a good week.

Hi Sunny good to hear from you and glad you’re safely back in your ‘other home’! Happy anniversary! It’s ours on the 12th but I’m not saying how many years… too many to count!!!

Just one positive while I’m here….
👍🍞🥯 After the success with my bagels today I baked my first 100% wholemeal loaf. It’s not been out of the oven long and has to rest for two to three hours. It’s looking very rustic but at least I know exactly what’s in it. Made with very strong Canadian wholemeal flour!

That’s it for today.

Hi V, thank you for setting up this thread. I will be with you. I have set myself a goal of losing 4kgs as I want to be 71kgs. Will post here and try to keep on topic – food and diet.

See you tomorrow with my new starting weight after my night out. Looks like I will be back on a Tuesday weigh in.

Hi all, will be joining you on the XMAS thread. Does that mean this one will lapse.

It is always very hard to sell houses in France. Mortgages are almost impossible to get and most people start with inheriting their parents houses – in French law you must leave your assets to your children (in various amounts). The usual second home owners are not buying as there are now higher what you would call council tax on 2nd homes. Even higher than before. Brits arent buying holiday homes because they are restricted to how many days they can spend here and also because of the extra taxes. I had a friend who had her house for sale for 13 years. We still love it here and there is no real rush. It just gets boring sitting around waiting, not being able to plan ahead. For example, we are going on a cruise in April but we cannot dare book a housesitter in case we have to cancel on them. We cant book our crossings as we might not even be living here and lose the money – 3 months is about the amount of time we can plan for as it would take at least 3 months for a sale to go through. We just have to be patient. It took us a year to sell our house in the UK.

Real shame about the Restelle sleep patches as they really did work. I have already received my money back and a nice email from them. I am sure they were the problem as just one night without them and my BG was down to 88 this morning. I am checking twice a day and also my BP as I want to reduce some of my meds that might be causing my night cramps – i.e. I am on 2 fluid tablets which flush out all the good chemicals like potassium, so might be too much. Keeping a record to show doctot. AI has also written a short note in French to show my doctor, outlining my concerns with all the different meds.

Weight is a bit up after a few drinks last night and we are out again tonight for our quiz. When I told AI that I hated that I could gain 1kg just with one meal and wine he said – you know you cant gain that much weight or you would have eaten 7700 calories extra. Then he said something insightful – you know you will have gained and it is fluid and will go in a couple of days, so dont get weighed for 2 days. Simple, stops the despair and guilt.

Have a great week everyone.

A good while since I have posted positives and awhile since the thread was pushed to the top of the list, so thought I’d offer up a few positives to remind people to look out for theirs too.

😍💐 our wedding anniversary today, a relaxing start before we pop out for a little retail therapy. Will go to a fav restaurant for dinner this evening.
😃😃 have been catching up with friends here in Turkiye … always good to reconnect.
🌞🌞 plenty of sunny days and R&R … OH is settling into a more relaxed routine than back in the UK, where he still takes on too much work.

What have been your recent positives? Do tell!

Thank you Arcticfox. They are not very common in the UK but I’ll check them out.

Hi Verano, I use the lupini beans in salads as a substitute for chickpeas, or they are also nice roasted in place of lentils in my broccoli tray bake. They are a bit firmer than chickpeas and take a bit of getting used to but they are much higher in protein and fibre and lower in the starchy carbs. I use them in place of edamame too because I can’t have soy.

So next Thursday we will be 11 weeks from Christmas Eve. Still plenty of time to lose that extra inch or so or even just drop a couple of pounds.

Also, we are very near to the end of the year but we still have a quarter to go. So much time, we can end the year with an overall loss. The loss doesn’t have to be huge, a pound or so will do for us to be able to say “I lost weight in 2026!”

Please travel with us towards Christmas and the New Year.

Hi Arcticfox. Amazing, 87g in one day! I don’t think I’d ever reach that. Must say I’ve never had lupine beans can you give a comparison maybe…. chickpeas??? Yes 30 a week should be easy but I just name it each week and that’s with various seeds and nuts. I always start my week by adding tea, coffee, 70%+ chocolate and now I add my oat cakes which also count apparently. I think maybe I should spend a few days weighing my food to check how much fibre I’m actually getting on an average day.

S-g so sorry to hear your ‘sleeping remedy’ isn’t suitable especially after you’ve had such wonderful sleeps! Maybe there is another product on the market that ‘natural’ but also compliant with insulin.

OK. A new thread…. I’ll set one up now. ‘The goose might be getting fat for Christmas but not us!’

Hi All, I would be happy to join you Verano, are you setting up a new thread.

I have some news. Did I tell you I had ordered some Restelle patches to help me sleep and oh my did they work. It seemed like a blessing – 5 nights in a row, head on pillow, sleep and not waking until around 7am for the toilet. However, I still had to go back to bed and was very groggy. Then I noticed my BG has been in the 140 to 160 range over the last 4 readings. I asked AI if there was a correlation and he said YES, it makes your body think it is daytime so doesnt do the night-time things it should like pump insulin and get rid of glucose. It is also interferring with my insulin and other diabetes meds. This is just a warning as it is advertised as the natural sleep aid. I am so disappointed as I have had the best sleeps in years but cannot use it. Hopefully there is a 30 money back guarantee so I should get my money back. But that is not the point, they dont say anything about not taking it if this that or the other, no medical information. Just be careful of ‘Natural’ remedies if you have a health problem or on medications.

Weight still steady and will do a proper Renpho weigh in tomorrow which includes all the body numbers like fat, muscle etc. For my chart.

Hi all,
DCT – thank you for your warm welcome back to this group and for the advice re-eating out/special events. I managed to choose some good options on the menu at the Thai restaurant and ignored (but LONGED for) the bread and rice!!
ClarinetCathy – thanks for your welcome too. I’m an “all or nothing” person too, so I’ll stick with the 800 until I reach my goal of losing 15com off my stomach.
ArcticFox – you are having a tough time at the moment. I’m so impressed that you’re also trying to stay committed to a healthy lifestyle. Well done!

After my first 2 weeks on the Fast 800 I’ve lost almost 3kg and (most importantly) 5cm off my stomach. I’ve found it quite challenging – had awful “keto-flu” in the first week, but hope to keep going for the next 10cm!!

Just popping onto this thread to say, well done Verano on regularly hitting your 30+ plants a week. It can be a struggle, can’t it? I have been trying that lately and the only way I can do it is to add lots of seeds and nuts into my morning yogurt, and then have mixed veg for dinner. And yes, fibre is important. I am meeting the recommended amount each day but trying to push it a bit further. Adding legumes helps but I don’t have them everyday. I did manage 87g one day last week! I don’t really understand how I did that. It may have been because I had lupini beans twice. This week has not been as good for me, but on the good days I have been hitting around 35g, so not too bad.

Thanks for the support DCT. We had a good hash it out talk on Wed night. He still wants to be friends. I told him I would think about it.
So anyway, pulling back from the relationship is giving me more time to concentrate on myself. I have been walk/running and then went for an hour long walk yesterday. This resulted in my joints being rather sore, so I switched things up today and pulled my bike out of the garage. First time riding it in over 6 years! It felt a wee bit odd at first, but then just felt great. I rode along a new trail into town so I didn’t have to be on the road. I didn’t run into a bear, luckily, although there was lots of scat on the trail. It took just over 20 minutes to get into town and I thought when I got there that it will actually be quite easy to use it to do the shopping, so my weekly activity may be getting a boost that way. At least until the snow flies. But I have a friend that wants to go x-country skiing in winter, so that will be a substitute and gives me motivation to get fit.
I have been looking into extra supports for my fatty liver and came across hibiscus tea. I found some yesterday at the little tea shop in town, so I have added that into my daily regimen. I don’t know if it will help, but likely won’t do any harm.
Eating wise, I am back on track too. Lots of veggies as they are in good supply this time of year in my garden and at the farm markets. Pairing them with duck eggs, soy free tofu, Greek yogurt and fish as my protein sources. Adding in seeds and herbs and spices as well to bump my plant count up. The AI gave me a score of 82/100 today, so edging up slowly.

Wendy sorry to hear you woes with your toes … and ankles and knees! Hioefully you won’t have to wait too long for your other surgery.
Really 0.75 of a pound isn’t worth worrying about it’s just normal weight gain/loss on a daily basis. I’m guessing your most difficult part of the week is the weekend and then you are probably ‘really good’ for the first part of the following week so maybe move your weighing day to Wednesday. I don’t know about you but for me when the scales go up I get disheartened and tend to be a bit slack. Do you have specific long/short term goals?

S-g sorry you are having problems selling your house. I guess some parts of the year are more difficult than others when it comes to selling. In saying that we had a viewing on Christmas Eve on our last home and then the second on New Years Eve! So who knows when the right person comes along they will buy it. Just as a matter of interest do you do the viewing of your house yourself or do you let the agent do it? My OH always says only you know the house best…. good bits and the unmentionables! I have to honest we have been to viewings where the ‘agent’ opened the front door and just let us wander! Definitely no hard sell!

So to a new thread. Last Thursday it was 12 weeks to Christmas Eve. We could have the “Just 12 weeks to Christmas; and my true love bought for me …” That’s probably naff but struggling to find something else. “Countdown begins: 12 weeks could mean for me (fill in your own goal)….” Help here would be really great. Or… we could just keep chatting here???

So I have got myself into ‘autumn’ mood. I’ve made a couple of pans of soup one with green lentils which I’ve not used before and I must admit I prefer my red split lentil soup. Tonight I’ve made slow cooked brisket and I’m making roast potatoes, which are a real treat for me. I can’t actually remember when I last had a potato! I’ve started to try to eat more legumes for the fibre content and have just bought some oat bran to add to yogurt or soup or whatever. I’m sure most of us don’t get enough fibre. On the plus side I’m still keeping track of my 30 a week. I have to admit some weeks it’s a struggle which I’m guessing is because I’m a creature of habit! But I do make my 30 and if I get more than that I’m elated! Sad really!

Hope all is well. Have a good weekend.

I have just weighed & gained 0.75lbs despite recording & decreasing my calories & I suppose still being fairly sedentary because of my knee affecting me. I do feel disappointed & unsure what is best to do now. I suspect that with the shorter days & dark evenings & feeling colder that I am getting a return of SAD so need to get my lamp out plus I am sleeping badly with sore toes & ankles no doubt with my arthritis spreading & still walking unevenly with my worsening left knee. My GP yesterday said he can’t short circuit & avoid my being referred back to the Musculoskeletal Service for referral back to my surgeon with all that ensuing delay although he will send them my surgeons letter requesting that I urgently be referred to him for surgery because of the adverse impact my left knee is now having on the recovery of my right knee. Oh well it is what it is & I suppose I have to dredge up more motivation to lose weight to help myself🤔.
Keep on going everyone & I hope you have a good week 👍🍀🍀
Margaret xx

Hello & I do feel rather guilty not messaging more because I do appreciate being able to read your posts. I think it would be a shame to stop contact & I am wondering if perhaps a Christmas Challenge title might attract others but also focus my mind & motivation. I have been recently been playing around with eating differently & increasing then lowering my calorie intake to try to shake up my body a little. I will weigh tomorrow & shall see the effect.
S-G I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble selling your house & hope it will get better with your new agent.
Let’s keep going with a thread?
Margaret xx

Good afternoon.

Well done s-g and you still have plenty of time to reach your 4k goal.

A new thread????? I really don’t know if it’s worth it as we seem to be so few on the ground now. But…… if anybody fancies we could take the last quarter as a separate challenge.
Anybody really interested?
Do we have any motivation?
Suggested titles please?

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ARCTICFOX I’m so sorry to hear about your big let down. I’d been wondering about how things were going there. What a disappointment. No particular words of wisdom to add, other that you deserve much better (in my opinion) – and am so glad you have friends around to help. And good luck with getting back on the wagon again. Hope it’s of some comfort to know that we’re all here for you X

POOTLE lovely to see you posting again and good luck with your meal planning. I’m so glad your cancer scare is behind you now.

All the best to everyone and do keep us all posted as to how you’re getting on. I’ll report back on Friday as to how my week has been.

Hi everyone,
I had a big fall off the wagon yesterday. I had been doing so well, so I am disappointed in myself. However, it was precipitated by the guy I have been seeing long distance telling me on Sunday night that he is moving even further away – all the way across the country – so instead of a 5.5-6 hour drive he will be a 6 hour flight away. And then he told me that because he is moving he just doesn’t see our relationship going anywhere. This after saying when we first met that he wanted to move away from where he was and didn’t mind where he ended up but that my area looked nice if only he could find work here. I knew things were going wrong when I found him a job opening in his field that pays better than what he earns now and even comes with a pension. He wouldn’t even look at it, never mind apply. And then after that he was starting to pull away and not even text me anymore, so I called him out about it on Sunday and that is what he told me. So I didn’t eat or drink much of anything on Monday or Tuesday morning and I had to take my car into town for noon on Tuesday to get the tires changed and I was at the pharmacy while I was waiting and saw bags of crisps on special at the checkout and grabbed 2 and ate them on the drive home. I don’t even think it was comfort eating so much as it was just the fact that I was completely starving, as I had worked really hard on the farm on Saturday and Sunday and I often need a day or two after to catch up on my calories, so not eating Monday really threw me off. It certainly wasn’t comforting. Anyway, I talked to a friend yesterday evening who has known about my relationship since the beginning and that helped, so I then forced myself to get back on the wagon last night with a broccoli and lupini bean tray bake.
So I am hoping that I can keep going and stay focused now. I am just so sad. To make it worse, his family owns a soup company and I have several tins of it in my store cupboard as they are a fairly healthy option for a quick meal or when the power goes out in winter, but his last name is plastered across the label so I will see it every time I go to use one. And he was so good about encouraging me on the healthy eating and exercise front.
So sorry for venting here. My mind is just in turmoil from this!

Hi everyone. It seems to be quiet all around or maybe a new title might attract a new group trying to lose weight for Christmas. I will leave it up to you. (so a cop out from me 🙂 ) It is not as if we are selling anything or making a profit – unlike some – but it would be nice to attract more people.

Been back on plan for less than a week and have lost 1.5 kgs. Well within my goal for 4kgs for Xmas. Not much to say, doing TRE, the exercise is intermittent as yesterday it was too warm at 32 degrees. At least we are saving on heating bills.

Cleaner came in and did her job on Monday which has saved me a massive job as we have signed up with a new estate agent today. Had to reduce the price again as the market is terrible. That is it, no more reductions, especially as people will make a below asking price offer anyway. We dont need the money, have no mortgage to pay off and not having to buy another house as daughter is giving us one (on loan until we die) but we are not giving it away. Just want to get back to the UK.

Good evening!

S-g accountability is a wonderful thing. If I have taken away one thing away from the first 12 weeks of my course it’s been ‘accountability’ ….. to myself! I have filled in my food diary every one of those days, bar one or two, over 12 weeks, and it really feels like an achievement. I can look back and see which trends led to weight loss and which didn’t!

I’ve got back into a routine of meditating which I find really sets my day up ‘peacefully’. Mind you I do still get agitated and angry!

I can’t quite explain it but I just feel more ‘grounded’, more in ‘control’ and more balanced. For example if I put on a weight even a pound I just ‘take it on the chin’ and say tomorrow is another day!

At the end of the day I’m an ‘old’ woman and I’m really pleased that my overall health and my mental health are pretty good. OK my mobility isn’t but I’ve lived with that for nearly 20 years (the alternative wasn’t good!) No, I can’t wear a bikini, mind you I probably never really looked good in one anyway! No, I can’t ….. you know what I can’t think of anything that I could do that I ‘can’t’ that really alters my life!

Maybe that’s the answer…. acceptance of ourselves as we are. Unless of course there are real issues affected by weight etc. maybe we just have to practice a little ‘acceptance’ and stop chasing the ‘impossible dream’!

S-g yes quite happy to set up a new thread for the last three months of the year if anybody/everybody wants a new thread. Or just happy to carry on here? We don’t really have a ‘thriving’ community anymore but I’m quite happy to go with the flow!

Hi, just popping in to keep myself accountable and focused. Only for myself as I am not looking for plaudits. Although everyone on this site – not just this thread, are kind and welcoming. On that note have we still got felicity and cops around and do they want to jump in. It can seem intimidating when all you see are the same 4 or 5 names posting and we all seem to know what we are talking about. The reason for that is we are those who have been here a long time and know that this site keeps us motivated and accountable.

Had a couple of glasses of wine last night, which is okay as I didnt finish the bottle and didnt gain any weight. Although I am doing well I am not totally on the diet – that starts tomorrow. Just been easing myself back in. I have been doing TRE and strength training so been trying to establish some good habits – just like Verano said – it takes a while but then they stick.

Verano, any more thoughts about setting up and October to Christmas thread.

Hi all, still losing weight. Managed to get 85g protein so far today (that includes dinner tonight) so making improvements. If I had my boiled eggs at breakfast and then a proper lunch of say chicken or tuna salad I would be getting more but missing breakfast for TRE loses about 12g. Today I supplemented it with a Greek yoghurt with seeds and berries – added around 4g.

Verano, they say it takes quite a lot of doing things for them to become a habit but once it is set in place it is almost automatic. Every night I stand on one leg to brush my teeth – 30 seconds each leg and the toothbrush times it for me. Another habit I am forming is doing 15 mins Pilates before I get up. Obviously I have to get on top of the bedding. This morning I was dying for a wee but went back and did the exercises.

Margaret, 0.6lb is not even a wee. It will soon be gone. You say it is nice and warm where you are. We are having what we would call normal summer weather, it varies between 25 and 30 but it is not too hot, not after being in the 40s. Unfortunately, the nights have been around 10 degrees so the pool has dropped to 20 so it is too cold to swim. Never mind I will just have to continue with my other exercises.

Have a good weekend.

Good morning everyone & I have just weighed & have gained 0.6lb I am sure caused by lunch up in a London restaurant with friends on Thursday which was very enjoyable. I did try to compensate with an 800 calorie day yesterday that might have helped but not enough 🤔. Oh well I will have to be extra strict next week to get back on track.
My orthopaedic surgeon has now written to my GP surgery & I am seeing my GP on Friday to see if he can directly refer me back to him rather than having to go through another lengthy triaging process 🤞🤞
It is still lovely warm sunny weather here in Sussex & I hope you all have a lovely weekend 👍😀
Margaret xx
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Good evening.
S-g great to hear you have re-employed your cleaner. Sometimes we just have to take a ‘view’ and often, as we get older, help with cleaning is not a luxury! Must have been lovely to have time just for you and your daughter instead of the whole family , although that was lovely too!
Not much going on here. Hopefully son will be home next week for a few days which is lovely …. what can I cook that he loves!!!
I have been surprised that I now indeed do have a new ‘habit’. I looked back in my ‘little black book’ and I’ve actually been logging my ‘30 a week’ for 14 weeks so I’m guessing that this really is a ‘habit’ now as I no longer give it any thought. Now I just have yo work on all the others! I think my next will be meditation as I’m managing most days so just need to be slightly more vigilant.
Hope you are all well. Have a good weekend.

Hi everyone,
Pootle, good to see you again! Sorry to hear of your cancer scare but good that you’ve managed to keep out of diabetic range.
My visit with the gp was good. He thinks the lesion is too small to be causing symptoms and that the one ‘polyp’ that they found in my gallbladder may in fact be a gallstone that was sitting up against the wall when they did the scan. So he has referred me to a surgeon and for the MRI to confirm. I have already heard from the surgeon’s office and I have an appointment for the 3rd week of October. So I am feeling a bit better about most things. The only thing is that he scolded me about the fatty liver and told me that it was because of being overweight. I said I know, and I have been trying really, really hard to lose it, and he said, ‘well hopefully this gives you more motivation’. What?!? Anyway, I had a counselling appointment right after where we walked around the lake outside the gp’s office, and she was furious that he got after me about my weight and said that they just don’t know what they are talking about as doctors get so little training in nutrition, whereas I have a minor from uni in animal nutrition and have now completed the human nutrition course (with 95%!) and that she knows that I am active and eat well.
Anyway, because I have so many restrictions now with the food allergies, intolerances and the fact that I have to eat low carb and low fat right now, I have put AI to work at doing my meal plans and keeping me on track. My counsellor approves of this as she says that with ADHD, meal planning and cooking tend to take up a huge amount of our executive functioning and that is why it is so hard. So far it is working. I am telling it that I want to follow Zoe principles of eating at least 30 plants a week, and that I need to follow the latest research for dealing with a fatty liver and insulin resistance while maintaining energy and muscle mass. I check in at the end of the day with it and log what I’ve eaten, and it gives me a score and tells me what to tweak for tomorrow and then gives me the plan for the next day based on what I have in my fridge and store cupboard. So it is working at the moment. Zoe isn’t available in Canada yet and even if it comes here, I expect it will be quite expensive, so this is my next best thing, I think.
Keep on keeping on, everyone!

Hi all, I am back with some motivation. I have already lost 0.5 kg or 1.102 lbs. Started my new routine of strength training with 20 mins of mainly arms. This morning I dared to look at the stats on my Renpho scales and it tells me I have excellent muscle mass. Doesnt feel like it. Anyway it was a starting point and I will register Renpho once a week to chart improvements. Daughter has shown me I can click on each specific area i.e. muscle mass and it will tell me what my results mean and what I need to do to improve. Always learning. I nearly registered with a food app that you point your camera at and it calculates. Costs €3.99 a month but AI warned me away from it as the calculations are just that, a calculation and the €3.99 is per month for a year so it takes your money in one go. It is still cheap but we all know we have the knowledge and skills to do most of the hard work ourselves and there are plenty of free resources to help us.

I have rebooked my cleaner and she will be doing a big clean including all windows on Monday then revert to a regular clean once a month. My house doesnt get dirty or even untidy but it doesnt take long for a fine layer of dust to appear or spiders webs (cleaner wont touch them). At least my whole house will be spotless for one day then I can just keep up with it a room at a time between cleans.

Weekend here already as it has been a strange week with daughter going back on Wednesday. Have a great weekend.

Hi all, I am back. Daughter went home yesterday and we caught up on shopping and cleaning. I am going to re-employ my cleaner as I am finding keeping on top of it is not easy.

Daughter is a vegan and I did quite well to make her some meals, then we took her to the health food store where she bought tofu and seitan (whatever) and did some of her own cooking. The worst day was Sunday when we went to a beautiful chateau and they had a restaurant. Me not thinking it is patrimone weekend in France and all monuments are open at reduced pricing that things would be packed and the restaurant was ‘complet’ or in English FULL, next restaurant in village ‘complet’ and the next and the next. Eventually found a little bistro but they had a limited menu due to high demand and a vide grenier in the village – thats like a car boot sale with stalls and I was limited to either potato and bacon quiche or croque monsieur. Daughter did great as the owner was vegan and had lots of pates available, unfortunately it came with bread and that is not good for her stomach. We survived.

The spa was weird, we went into a sauna for 15 minutes to ‘open’ our pores then we were put in a large wooden bath with things floating in it (supposedly wine extracts). There was a plank across the bath between us with cold meats and cheeses for me and fruit and veg batons for D. With a large glass of wine each and a mini keg with a tap to top up our wine. We could have had too much to drink but at 11 am it was not the right time. An experience but wont be doing it again. Would rather pay for a decent massage or manicure.

All that is now finished and over the week I have gained 1.3kgs or 2.85lbs. Not too bad really as we were having wine most (every) evening. Back on the diet and doing TRE or IF, not sure which it is, nothing after 8pm and trying to go 16 hours. D has left me a routine of strength training that I have to do 3 times a week – she is really bossy and very much into weight training. She did the Ozempic (monjaro) route and lost around 16kgs but was worried about putting the weight back on now she is off it, or muscle loss so she is working very hard and expects me to do the same – at my age.

Wendy, great you are doing well with your weight at health checks. Also, a shame for cancelling your cruise. With us it was just a lot of money for 3 days in Vienna and not sure our 11 year old car would have made it.
Verana, sorry you had to cancel Portugal. We had worries about the airport problems for daughter coming but it all worked out in the end. Sounds like the course helped focus the mind. I have been watching videos by Bikman, Fung and a lady called Dr Mindy Peltz. Also FutureLearn have sent a new list of free courses that I am going to look at.

Seems strange that it is the end of the week with everything out of kilter but hope you all have a good weekend.

Good morning all,
Sorry I haven’t posted for some time, but I have been reading your posts via email.

I had a cancer scare earlier in the year, which has now been resolved. 🥳

My weight has crept back up 9lb to 10st 2lb but my fasting BS has been pretty good! However, I have been tempted a few times by the chocolate bars husband keeps in the cupboard as well as crusty bread and toast! Once in a while wasn’t a problem, but it has become too often, hence the weight gain and rise in BS.
So it is back to it! I am determined not to let the slide go as far as the 15 1/2 Stone of 2024 and to keep the diabetes at bay! But it is hard! 🥴
I still record my food intake as well as the fasting BS readings and occasional 2hours after food readings. (Only once been in the diabetic range in 6 months)
I find that being in pain (arthritis) has an impact on my self control and readings!
So pleased this forum exists!
You are all brilliant! 👏

CATHY I’m so sorry to read about your fall. How awful! But, like you, I’m so pleased that nothing was broken – it could have been so much worse 🙀. And I’m delighted that you don’t have to cancel your cruise. Hopefully you’ll be fully recovered by the time you go with no black eye in sight. Please take care of yourself over the next few days as a fall can leave you feeling very shaken and vulnerable. So give yourself plenty of tlc.

Hope everyone else is doing ok?

Good evening, well late afternoon!

Sorry I’ve not posted for a while. We should be sunning ourselves in Portugal now but plans change! A threatened cabin crew strike was enough to make us change plans. No fun in spending everyday waiting for the ‘doom’ email ‘your flight is cancelled’! Been there done that. No fun. So we decided to take the stress free route and not go!

So I definitely need positives:

🫑🍅🫒 Just in the last week of my 12 week course. Can’t believe it’s almost three months. Has it worked….. sort of. It’s made more more accountable. I don’t think my weight loss is any greater than it would have been on my own but my blood sugars have remained lower than they had been earlier this year.

🌴🌲🪵 Looking to redesign our from garden so just filled in lots of enquiry forms online. Will be interesting to see how many responses I get!

🍄‍🟫🧅🥕 First ‘winter’ casserole in the oven and oh! it smells lovely. I must admit I’m less ‘scared’ about carrots and parsnips than I used to be. In fact I had quite a carby day yesterday but when I tested this morning I was only 5.7 a definite positive!

Hope you all have some positives and I’m sorry if I’ve lost track with your ‘journeys’!

Hello everyone
Welcome back to the group shoegirl and good luck with your fast 800. When I did my 12 week fast 800 reset in February this year I made sure to stick 100% to the programme until I achieved my goal. Now I am at goal I allow myself to have days off for events such as birthdays, festivities, holidays and then get straight back on again. We have to live our lives and we have to navigate social events. I am able to do all or nothing. I also think with the fast 800 we can adapt it around social events by perhaps fasting around the event.
ArcticFox- lovely to hear from you but sorry to read about your worrying liver lesion. Hopefully the scan will clarify the issue and it won’t be anything serious. Keep us posted.
DCT- glad to see you are close to your weekly target this week and make sure your scales are in the optimum weighing position!
I had a fall this week- my ankle gave way and twisted as I was going out the back door with a cup of tea for my husband who was chain sawing some trees in our garden! I fell head first out of the back door and landed face down on the concrete patio! I’ve now got a sprained ankle and a beautiful black eye! I ache all over and have had to cancel choir and Oxfam this week whilst I recuperate. I am so so lucky not to have broken anything more than the mug! It’s two weeks to my cruise! I have osteoporosis so how I’ve not broken a bone is a miracle! I haven’t weighed this week but when I can stand on the scales I’ll see how I’m doing. To be honest, I’m just so glad I haven’t had to cancel my cruise.
Hope everyone is having a better week and let’s see how well we can do over the next three months before we come to the end of this thread. We’ve got this!

SHOEGIRL welcome back! Good luck on your next round. You will probably recognise many of the names on here who are keeping going with varying degrees of success!

Your question raises a dilemma we all regularly face, and I’ll just give you my views – others may disagree and/or have much better ideas 😉. I think a lot of it depends on your willpower and personal discipline too. But I see it as two choices for days like these. Either stay on plan as best you can. Most eating environments have reasonably healthy choices available. So even if you can’t be 100% Fast 800, you can at least stick to proteins, veg, fruit etc as much as you can and stay reasonably on track. The other option is to press Pause and go completely off piste for the occasion, eating whatever you would like. Bottom line is it’s only one day, so it will set you back a bit but not have a major impact. However (this is where the discipline comes in!) . . . I find that if I do go off piste for a day it can then take me a while to get back on track again which then can start to have a major impact. So I think it all depends on how well you think you would be at getting straight back on Fast800 the day after!

ARCTICFOX lovely to hear from you and I hope your GP appointment goes well tomorrow and that your fatty liver is the least complicated it can be. I’m sure going back on Fast 800 will help and it sounds like you are getting back on track. Well done with the exercise too, and the farm. Busy times for you, but keep in touch so we know how you’re doing X

DAWN how is your week going? I hope that things are calming down for you and that you are managing to get back into meal planning and exercise etc. My meal planning has not been as meticulous as last week as it’s been one of those weeks with lots happening. But I’ve had a slight loss so far so hope to get close to my weekly target this week 🤞. Though having said that, I realise how fickle the scales are. I experimented the other morning moving them to different locations on the bathroom floor and got three different readings! So I’m keeping them firmly in the same place now and even if the numbers are inaccurate, as long as they are relevant to each other that’t the main thing!

Hope everyone else is having a good week? Do drop by to say hello! X

Hi all. I was part of this group a few years ago and did the Fast 800 with some success. I just started my first week (this time around!) of Fast 800 yesterday. I have a few things coming up that I’m wondering how to work my way around – mainly social lunches, and a birthday dinner for my father-in-law. What tips does anyone have for eating at events when you don’t know what the food will be?
arcticfox2 – I’m sorry to hear that you have some health issues, you sound like such a positive strong person in your post. Hang in there!