Hey all! It's so quiet here....where's everyone gone Fast day for me to day and it was a killer...I was running all morning and didn't have anything. Over indulged yesterday so feeling extra tired today. Just had my dinner and am happy now, but still tired...want to crawl into bed.

Next Monday marks 6 weeks til my birthday (big 35) and I will be starting a 6 week 5:2 challenge for myself. I will begin with weigh-in next Sunday. I will make a thread and note my progress to really just try and push and modivate myself. If anyone wants to join along with me I will welcome the support.

Love to all you 5:2ers

FD #1 and first fast day/exercise day in about 1 1/2 months. Glad to be back. Glad to have caught up on the 5:2 posts. Move forward, one minute at a time.

Food is such a hard addiction. Unlike alcohol or cigarettes, we can't just quit eating. We have to face it everyday, three times a day (unless we are fasting ). And what what causes us to stumble can be different. Chocolate is a big one for me too. Kills me to say no to chocolate. I totally get the statement "Chocolate is the answer and I don't care what the question is". I would love a world where I could live on chocolate! Yet, I feel emptiness and remorse (not to mention feeling physically sick) every time I binge on it (or pretty much anything I binge on). I know we are all fighting the same battle because we are here. Some will be on the front lines, some will be in the back looking for their place. No matter where we stand, we need each other. That is how we will get through. That is what makes this group work.

Ack...I am still around from time to time. Still hovering at about 35 lbs lost, I've been halfheartedly fasting...got some good 50 hour ones in there over the past few weeks. I think once I get back to my 52 lbs lost mark it'll be on like toasted pecans again.

Foamroller wrote: »

iwannabeonthebeach wrote: »

Chocolate is the answer and I don't care what the question is

If YOU, have no trouble eating chocolate, good for you! You are lucky. I only shared my experience. For ME sweet desserts are trigger food that easily lead to bingeing stuffing to the gills. I don't like myself when I do that because it's overstepping MY healthy boundaries. So I have to be extra careful eating those foods. Please respect we are all different and can react differently to food items.

Woah! lighten up. It was meant as a joke. Sorry if you were offended.

Bye bye folks, I'm off. Good luck on your journeys, ALL of you.

FD #2. Just learned that we our having our Little League team party tonight @ Chuck E. Cheese (basically a kids place where they have bad food and arcade games for kids to play). They do have a salad bar but I think I will go online and see if I can find calorie counts.

@flumi_f - you look fantastic! Not just the weight loss, but also that you look very healthy. What a great motivational pic for 5:2 Fasting.

@flumi_f you look amazing - thank you for the inspiration
@orlcam - glad you are doing a few fasts. You obviously know what you are doing, but do you think starting back with 24 hours fasts might be easier than doing the 50 hours? anyways at least you caught yourself before you gained back ALL of the weight you lost.

@jknight001 - chuck e cheese is hard - can you try to be active - chase the kids around?

@Foamroller - no problem, just wondered how adding more fasting worked for you.

I have been trying to do 2 days of 500 calorie fasting and once a week, i will skip lunch to have a medium calorie day. I found skipping lunch is easiest for me.

I still am trying to get back down to starting weight from last year!!! UGGG

angela

jknight001 wrote: »

orlcam wrote: »

...it'll be on like toasted pecans again.

Is that like some New Orleans hipster phrase?

Glad you're down 35. It's still a net loss.

No...it just rhymes with "Donkey Kong" ...and you can eat them.

angela233Z wrote: »

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@orlcam - glad you are doing a few fasts. You obviously know what you are doing, but do you think starting back with 24 hours fasts might be easier than doing the 50 hours? anyways at least you caught yourself before you gained back ALL of the weight you lost.

Nope...I've come to realize I never know what I am doing, even when I'm sure I do (warning: this statement may even be incorrect).

Fasting doesn't seem to be my nemesis...I've done it so many different ways I can handle that aspect of it. Recently I have even found it much easier to just not eat 600 calories. If I need to eat I'll grab something small... strawberries/grapes/wasabi peas/pickles. Usually winding up around 300 cal or so.

I have gotten out of the habit of logging, that's the biggie...the second is not cooking, been so busy lately that I've gone down the forbidden road of convenience.

I need to hurry up and make a few million so I can relax and just concentrate on my eating...alas!

orlcam wrote: »

jknight001 wrote: »

Survived Chuck E. Cheese. Only had one slice of pizza. Someone else ordered a platter to share that included celery! So I had some celery. When I came back I filled in the rest of my calories with nuts and a carrot. I think the fasting really helps calm the desire for junk food. Back to TDEE today. Wishing you all the best on whatever day you are on.

You're a trooper...I always find an excuse when pizza is involved...it's so hard to rationalize when you have a bevy of Italian meats and cheeses flooding your senses.

It's also why I don't go to strip clubs....the phrase "don't touch" just totally defies all reason and logic.

Thanks for the encouragement. I am trying to embrace the idea that like "you can't have it all", you can't eat it all. Would love to reach my GW this time around.