Weekly Post: 11/2/2014-11/8/2014
thecarbmonster
Posts: 411 Member
Happy new weekly post 
You're doing awesome! You keep coming back, you keep putting in the work, you keep learning and listening to your body, you keep making positive changes to make your body feel good and it's definitely showing on the outside, too 
As the crazy, busy holiday season approaches, use your new finely tuned and honed fasting skills to change your mindset about food. Food can be enjoyed, holidays don't have to be a season of voluntary weight gain before NYE resolutions, look forward to maintenance and feeling in control!
You can dooooo it!
You're doing awesome! You keep coming back, you keep putting in the work, you keep learning and listening to your body, you keep making positive changes to make your body feel good and it's definitely showing on the outside, too As the crazy, busy holiday season approaches, use your new finely tuned and honed fasting skills to change your mindset about food. Food can be enjoyed, holidays don't have to be a season of voluntary weight gain before NYE resolutions, look forward to maintenance and feeling in control!
You can dooooo it!
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Oh...you just gettin' cocky now! Starting to sound like a motivational speaker....I'm luvin' your confidence.
Something tells me you're gonna be writing a book about this one day...or something along those lines. By the time you've hit your final goal you'll be an expert...hope I'm still here to see it.0 -
on my final week of Whole30. and 1/2 thru week 4 of 5:2. As I said yesterday, the combination of of the 2 (essentially the same at carbonmonster low carb regimen) Its been very successful for me. Also throwing 16:8 for good measure. Am at my lowest wt since the mid '90s!!0
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I think my other post to you got eaten @mwhite61451- GREAT JOB
Updating my progress:
Highest (July 2014)- 339
Start (8/4/14): 331.6
Week 1- 5.2
Week 2- 2.8
Week 3- 1.8
Week 4- 1.8
Week 5- 1.8
Week 6- 1.8
Week 7- 2.8
Week 8- 2
Week 9- 1.4
Week 10- 2.2
Week 11- 1.6
Week 12- 1.4
Week 13- 2.2
As of 10/31/2014: 302.8
Total Down: 36.2
Since August- 28.8
I can almost taste the 200's again...ahhhh!
I am fasting today since I will have a crazy week with a family member's surgery/day at hospital...who knows what comfort eating will be happening lol. But I will try to keep it in check
Thinking of you @orlcam because I am doing a "real" fast today lol...waiting to eat until dinner. Regular fast days for me I have starting having at least a little bit during the day, but today is just green tea wooooo how do you make it during all your experiements lol????0 -
Awesome progress! Wow!0
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Oh yeah!thecarbmonster wrote: »I can almost taste the 200's again...ahhhh!
Hope everything turns out ok.I am fasting today since I will have a crazy week with a family member's surgery/day at hospital...who knows what comfort eating will be happening lol. But I will try to keep it in check
That is definitely where working at home can help the situation. Sometimes if I get hungry I just take a short nap till it passes. Also it allows me the added structure to eat (including preparing/cooking) what I want exactly when I want.Thinking of you @orlcam because I am doing a "real" fast today lol...waiting to eat until dinner. Regular fast days for me I have starting having at least a little bit during the day, but today is just green tea wooooo how do you make it during all your experiements lol????
I've found that hunger passes, even the severe pangs (within an hour...or so), but I know that if I start getting dizzy (very rare) it's time to end it. I suspect at this point I could probably do 3 days on 600 calories if I needed to. I would break it up into 100, 200, and 300 cals each day. Remember (if you watched the documentary) the first fast Mosley did was 4.5 days on 50 calories (miso soup) a day.
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I hope this link works, I want it to inspire everyone doing 5:2
https://www.fastday.com/how-it-works/success-stories/0 -
here's another link I hope you like
https://www.fastday.com/buzz/7-essential-videos-for-every-52-faster/0 -
I've really been struggling this last couple of weeks. The fast days and easy, however I'm eating a lot more on non-fast days, so I've made the decision to do 4:3 for the next 4 weeks to see if I can get myself past this hiccup and move on.
I think I'm sabotaging myself, as everyone is telling me I'm looking great now, but I'm still not where I want to be. I'm fighting with myself, so I'm hoping if I do 3 fast days, it will tip me over this wall and I'll get back to eating normally, or as I have been doing for the last 18 weeks.0 -
Good morning all! I have been struggling too - it's likely all in my mind but my non-fast days have not been pretty. I even stopped measuring my food which is crazy..I've been doing that for years now! I got on the scale this morning and am not happy with myself at all! So...fasting today and I'll likely do 4:30 this week as a kick start. I need to figure out the non-fast days and get them back under control!0
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Success Success!!!
October 27 was my official start on the 5:2 and acted swiftly and did the 4:3 fast.
October 27, October 29 and Nov 2:
Start weight 163lbs (10/27) - 158.7lbs (11/02) = 4.3 pounds lost (11/03)!.
I have 18.7 lbs to go to reach my healthy BMI of 24.8 or 140 lbs.
This week I am doing the 4:3: Tuesday (11/4), Thursday (11/6) and Saturday. (11/8)
Then I am back on: Monday, Wednesday and Friday/Saturday. I am going to do this until Nov 21.
My cruise is from Nov 23 to Nov 30.
5:2 resumes Dec 1, may be do a 4:3 then see how it goes.
Thanks for your patience.
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Good luck! I'm sure it will work wonders for you!I've really been struggling this last couple of weeks. The fast days and easy, however I'm eating a lot more on non-fast days, so I've made the decision to do 4:3 for the next 4 weeks to see if I can get myself past this hiccup and move on.
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loveswalking wrote: »I hope this link works, I want it to inspire everyone doing 5:2
https://www.fastday.com/how-it-works/success-stories/
Thanks!!! Going to check it out this morning!
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thecarbmonster wrote: »
I can almost taste the 200's again...ahhhh!
YAY!!!!! You are doing so well!!!
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thecarbmonster wrote: »I can almost taste the 200's again...ahhhh!
Great Job! And fantastic about the jeans, I love it when we surprise ourselves by fitting into smaller sizes! Your an inspiration and a great motivationalist (I know that not a word, but it should be or maybe it is a word and I don't know it![:\](https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
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I needed to hear your words of wisdom today. The past three days have been rough for me...eating what I want and not tracking, but like you said, I shouldn't feel bad...just keep going! It's not like I messed up my fast days. (Now... if I had those kinds of days and was not fasting then I could worry)0 -
I've really been struggling this last couple of weeks. The fast days and easy, however I'm eating a lot more on non-fast days, so I've made the decision to do 4:3 for the next 4 weeks to see if I can get myself past this hiccup and move on.
I think I'm sabotaging myself, as everyone is telling me I'm looking great now, but I'm still not where I want to be. I'm fighting with myself, so I'm hoping if I do 3 fast days, it will tip me over this wall and I'll get back to eating normally, or as I have been doing for the last 18 weeks.
I think I was doing what you were doing...sabotaging myself. As a kid I was constantly being rewarded with food and sweets! So now, like you were saying, I am getting complements and seeing my weigh lower than it has been for 5 years and the little kid inside says, "I deserve a treat!" And that is exactly what I have done...for three days
Well (as I brush myself off!!) back to business. And coming up with better ways to reward myself!0 -
Fast day for me today. Treated myself to a fancy coffee (Venti Americano with sugar-free Vanilla). I love going to
... sorry I know how some people feel about 'that place', but am an ex-Seattle-ite and it's like home to me. So I had a treat and it was only 25cals...and I'm still drinking it and it's almost 2pm! (I added a bit of Almond milk for an extra 12cals when I got home).
Wasn't the best idea to go to Ikea today (like I said fasting turns me into a bear)...had to tell myself to keep breathing and counting to ten
Practicing keeping myself calm on fast days. Although I am sure pushing my two kids around the store helped me burn a few calories. (why is it that there is no way to just pop in and pop out of ikea 
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Thanks so much everyone in this group!! You all have helped me tremendously to stick with 5:2ing.0 -
Hi all, I'm new to this group.. Started 5:2 about a month ago... I really, really love it, but find myself "splurging" on my feast days... Must. stop. that.! My daughter is getting married in 19 days... checking in here to try and be accountable. Thanks! Tammy0
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yay, yay, yay...dinner time! Today I am ending my fast day with 400g green beans 104 cals, rump steak tomato soup 135 cals and 67g rice noodles 240 cals = Totalling 479 cals
Todays Fasting total: 516 cals
Felt a bit light headed at around 3pm, after picking the kids (like I was going to faint). I think I might have to try and incorporate a low cal snack right before I pick the kids up.0 -
@debbie389 @carlsoda @snaps27 bummed to hear you're having tough days! when i feel that fear creeping in that it's going to get harder, I have to remember to take it one day at a time. When I struggling with my depression at it's worst, the thought of another day, another week, another anything was suffocating. my therapist had me focus on today, and today only. not just "I only have to worry about getting through today", but that I only need to worry about things when they come along. I don't have to brace myself and prepare for everything and worry so much ahead of time (does that make sense??). Anyways, how's it's translated to this diet and why it's fitting in for me is that SHIZ HAPPENS. Bad eating days, over-enjoying, bingeing, etc...none of that matters NOW. In a weird way, I almost use NOW proactively to prepare for the things that could come up instead of needlessly worrying or sabotaging myself. If I'm going to look forward at the possible stumbling blocks, instead of using them as reasons to stop or "why bother" or "I'll just gain it back then, so I might as well eat now, too", I just use them to plan. I'll do more now, when I do feel in control and can, and then those things that pop are like rewards or cashing in on the hard work.
Not sure this really helps...but just wanted to share what has been clicking for me. I feel empowered adding more fast days, so maybe it'll help you, too. But you don't have to do it all the time, like @christine's plan (who is doing amaaaazing!!!) where you just fit it around you schedule.
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carbmonster - that is great advice. I get so caught up in the past and future that i mess up the present. I messed up a fast day about a month ago and since then, I have had a hard time with them. I keep thinking that "oh last time, I fasted all day until 5 and then ate 1200 calories, what is the point of fasting during the day if I am going to blow it tonight"
but today is a fast day and I am going to see if I can stick with it just for today. I remember when I first started 5:2, I would not even think of the whole day, I would measure my success in hours. Like can I fast for one more hour? and by the end of the day, I was successful.
thank you for the reminder and todays fast day is dedicated to you
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thecarbmonster wrote: »@debbie389 @carlsoda @snaps27 bummed to hear you're having tough days! when i feel that fear creeping in that it's going to get harder, I have to remember to take it one day at a time. When I struggling with my depression at it's worst, the thought of another day, another week, another anything was suffocating. my therapist had me focus on today, and today only. not just "I only have to worry about getting through today", but that I only need to worry about things when they come along. I don't have to brace myself and prepare for everything and worry so much ahead of time (does that make sense??). Anyways, how's it's translated to this diet and why it's fitting in for me is that SHIZ HAPPENS. Bad eating days, over-enjoying, bingeing, etc...none of that matters NOW. In a weird way, I almost use NOW proactively to prepare for the things that could come up instead of needlessly worrying or sabotaging myself. If I'm going to look forward at the possible stumbling blocks, instead of using them as reasons to stop or "why bother" or "I'll just gain it back then, so I might as well eat now, too", I just use them to plan. I'll do more now, when I do feel in control and can, and then those things that pop are like rewards or cashing in on the hard work.
Not sure this really helps...but just wanted to share what has been clicking for me. I feel empowered adding more fast days, so maybe it'll help you, too. But you don't have to do it all the time, like @christine's plan (who is doing amaaaazing!!!) where you just fit it around you schedule.
GO GO TEAM!!!
thank you so much, this life style is very doable and has been very encouraging for me.
We can do this!! Take care
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thecarbmonster wrote: »Happy new weekly post You're doing awesome! You keep coming back, you keep putting in the work, you keep learning and listening to your body, you keep making positive changes to make your body feel good and it's definitely showing on the outside, too
As the crazy, busy holiday season approaches, use your new finely tuned and honed fasting skills to change your mindset about food. Food can be enjoyed, holidays don't have to be a season of voluntary weight gain before NYE resolutions, look forward to maintenance and feeling in control!
You can dooooo it!
@thecarbmonster So great to be greeted by your post today! Thx for the encouragement.
Today and tomorrow are fast days. Trying to keep busy, trying to just stick to the plan. Thinking of all of you encourages me to keep at it!
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Ang, you should have just had a "bing" go off in your brain...you just hit the nail on the head. I have done some ridiculous fasts and when I look back at them and try to remember how I did it, that's how I did it (what you just said). You already have your answer.angela233Z wrote: »...I remember when I first started 5:2, I would not even think of the whole day, I would measure my success in hours. Like can I fast for one more hour? and by the end of the day, I was successful...
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You're all remarkable women...let's all move to Utah and get married!
Wait, let me make sure it's ok with my wife first...I'll get back to yall on this.0 -
thecarbmonster wrote: »@debbie389 @carlsoda @snaps27 bummed to hear you're having tough days! when i feel that fear creeping in that it's going to get harder, I have to remember to take it one day at a time. When I struggling with my depression at it's worst, the thought of another day, another week, another anything was suffocating. my therapist had me focus on today, and today only. not just "I only have to worry about getting through today", but that I only need to worry about things when they come along. I don't have to brace myself and prepare for everything and worry so much ahead of time (does that make sense??). Anyways, how's it's translated to this diet and why it's fitting in for me is that SHIZ HAPPENS. Bad eating days, over-enjoying, bingeing, etc...none of that matters NOW. In a weird way, I almost use NOW proactively to prepare for the things that could come up instead of needlessly worrying or sabotaging myself. If I'm going to look forward at the possible stumbling blocks, instead of using them as reasons to stop or "why bother" or "I'll just gain it back then, so I might as well eat now, too", I just use them to plan. I'll do more now, when I do feel in control and can, and then those things that pop are like rewards or cashing in on the hard work.
Not sure this really helps...but just wanted to share what has been clicking for me. I feel empowered adding more fast days, so maybe it'll help you, too. But you don't have to do it all the time, like @christine's plan (who is doing amaaaazing!!!) where you just fit it around you schedule.
GO GO TEAM!!!
Thanks @carbmonster, that's great advice and I'm going to take it and just work on 1 day at a time again.
@orlcam, you crack me up.0 -
2nd fast today. Going to concentrate on today and no further. Already logged what I'm having and when. Though fast days aren't a problem for me.
Maybe I should use the same philosophy for feast days that I use for fast days, and plan them. Or at least for a few days.0 -
some great motivation and tipps here! I am on my second week, first fast day and feel good. Lots of tea beside me. Yesterday I didn´t have breakfast and lunch due to work and not really being hungry. Since we planned to go out for dinner In thought, hm, then I could fast until then.
Exactly the testing thing you described above. But then I did the "mistake" (only for me) to eat some raspberries and that was it. I wanted more and started eating small things, an egg, some cookies that we made on the weekend...you get the idea. I am clearly not made for just having a bite or a little bit.
So fasting until dinner is best for me and now I have my proof :-D0 -
All these comments about being in the now, being present, thinking in terms of hours...sounds like a 12 step program! The most important thing is right now and the choices you make right now. Once you do something, it's done...you can't take it back. You can change, so you don't do it, or do do it again, but you can't undo it. So, if you blow an FD, change. If you succeed, understand why, so you can do it again. If you binge on a NFD, accept it and figure out what you can do to change it. The point is, don't beat yourself up...learn.
Today is my FD, and it will be difficult because I will be with a bunch of people fixing houses in Crisfield, MD. It's also the last 4 days of Whole30, which gives me the motivation to stick with it. It's all about choice and my willingness to exercise that choice to my benefit. Will let you know how it goes.0 -
Good morning everyone!
Yesterday's fast turned out pretty well..I ended up having a small amount of ice cream before bed as I was pretty hungry..but my calories did come in under 700 and I did burn 250 calories biking. Even though you are not supposed to eat back your exercise calories on a fast day I made an except since I'm detoxing off sugar
But..on the positive side I'm challenging myself to reduce added sugar in my diet...a weak version on Whole30! I've been eating far too much sugar which has resulted in the scale going in the wrong direction. I can come up with a million excuses why I'm craving sugar..but ultimately it's not helping me in any which way. It certainly doesn't reduce the stress at work! I need some reprogramming of the brain here!
Today plan is:
1. Eat to TDEE (1,620 calories)
2. Walk 12,000 steps
3. Lift weights after work
4. IF I'm craving sugar, I need to wait until after dinner and only have a serving size (ie: ice cream) if I have enough calories left. No mindlessly eating anything sugar laden at work anymore!
Hope everyone has a great day!!0
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