Well, I appreciate your smiling keyboard whenever it's around . Xx

omg ... your things sounds SO delicious, Springer. Good for you on Day 8 of ditching artificial sweeteners ✨.

Cold still up here as well, single digits lows, that should continue until Saturday, when it warms all the way up to the teens, F (for lows). 🥶. Great week for soups! 🍲

Wednesday checkin! Day 3 Prolon 5-day FMD today. I peed out 2.2 lbs yesterday, and another 1 lb the day before 😂. One thing I love about Prolon is, usually on Day 3 my arthritic/injured knee is so much looser! Not as painful, and I can move so much easier. I asked my Sports Med doc if fasting had a beneficial effect on arthritis. He said he hadn't heard anything to that effect, but there was evidence that a plant-based diet had beneficial effects on arthritis. I asked him if it was the extra fiber, or the lack of meat, he said they didn't know, but it was an interesting question. Another woman that did Rounds 1-4 (last May-Aug) at the same time as me, in the FaceBook FASTination Group, did say she had experienced the same phenomenon - she said her Baker's Cyst completely disappeared during her fasts 😍.

I slept only 3 hrs again last night. 🙃 Prolon is great, I love the reset, but man, I don't sleep during fasting week!

Usually by D8 it evens out (fast is over on D5 (today!), D6 is Transition Day Diet, and D7 is back to normal. I usually still do Transition-ish at least for breakfast (love the avocado toast, olive-oil fried diced tomato & egg, and greens with chopped dates, walnuts, & coconut vinegar!) on D7, but by dinner it's back to normal.

This is this week - today is Day 5 (woop!), (no data for Mon, but it was just under 4 hrs in bed, not sure how much asleep/awake, tho. Thank goodness I got a full sleep on Sunday! 😴🤐

Happy Weekend, Green Team 😎🐍 !

Got my first Conqueror Virtual Postcard heh so excited. Heading in to the kitchen to break my fast (woop!) Gym later. History Challenge, 2000 yrs ago, Caesars & Emperors, Day #1 ~

Oooooooo that looks so GOOD !! Good for you, topping it with GREENS!! Did hubby like it?

And ... ty 🤗. Happy to see you again. I miss you when you're absent, and busy having a real life 🤍,

Ohhhhh .... bummer, Springer!

Sunday checkin! Avo toast again@ (yummmmmm) Leaving this afternoon for our mini spa getaway . Looking forward to a delicious dinner at the Sea Glass Restaurant - will make sure to order veggies, ofc !!
Back on Tuesday afternoon, tho I'm sure I"ll probably check in.

Six feet of snow, Danny!! wowwwwwww

Just back from the spa getaway with hubby (we planned several mini-Maine-getaways for this yr, as our 35th wedding anniversary celebration), and I'm buzzing with good vibes and positive energy. The lady at the deli counter, where I was picking up sliced sharp cheddar and sliced aged provolone last night even noticed it! lol she said I love your energy, come and visit me again! heh

I had some DELICIOUS veggie dishes, while we were there, including a Roasted Carrots starter that I would have been fine with as my full meal on our first night. It was remarkable! I wish I could remember exactly what was in it, the menu card (I took a pic) just mentioned the roasted carrots, pistachios, and mascarpone. The main that night was fish (beer batter fried fresh haddock) and chips (old bay seasoned crisped up fries). The Fish was like, REALLY fresh, but unflavored. The flavor was all in the batter, and it was dinner on my Day 6/Transition Day after my 5-day fast, so ... yea, too heavy. I ate about a third of one of the fish filets and maybe a quarter of the fries (which were also REALLY good ... you really can't go wrong with Old Bay Seasoning, can you? ) Hubby had The Good Table's Fish Chowder, Mussels, and an Austin Street Brewery Walcott Smoked Brown Ale. He finished all of his things . I tried the Chowder and the Ale, yup, they were good!.



And a Mushroom dish that sounded amazing on the menu, but I hesitated b/c of the mushrooms. I don't love mushrooms ;-). I was vacillating between the Mushrooms entrée (Asian inspired: Roasted Mushrooms, Jeow Som Sauce, Crispy Sticky Rice, Bok Choy, Spicy Ginger Mayo) and the Cauliflower entrée (Middle Eastern inspired: Vadouvan Spiced Cauliflower, Borani Banjan, Panisse, Avocado Yogurt), but in the end went with the Mushrooms b/c the Cauliflower dish included Panisse, which my google said was kinda like a deep fried polenta - the fried fish and chips from the night before weren't a fantastic memory (not the taste, but the feel in my belly), so ... even tho I thought I'd prefer cauliflower to mushrooms, man I'm glad I went with the mushrooms! I did ask the server about the two dishes, she said they were each very different, but the Mushroom was incredible. She was right!! I was very glad I went with the mushrooms. Did better on this dish, as far as finishing, I ate 2/3 of it, instead of less than 1/4 heh. Hubby had a Lobster Roll w/ Crispy Fries, a Bissell Brothers Substance, and I had a dessert wine after (Royal Tokaji)



We did have heavy breakfasts on the 2nd and 3rd days, tho, so it wasn't all virtuous ;-) (I won't post those pix ). A lovely charcuterie board lunch, with fresh fruits, and homemade brownies made Monday delightful. Monday was the Mushroom dish day . And I did drink lots of water the whole weekend; the workouts, the walks, and the tub soaks left me feeling parched and thirsty a lot of the time.



We also had a long winter beach walk that morning, where we saw clams digging into the sand (!), experienced a rare earthquake in Maine (!) during breakfast (I thought it was a convoy of trucks, lol). We did also go on a nighttime winter beach walk, but those pix are on hubby's phone .



We had a long soak in the air jet oversized tub, then a movie, during the afternoon, while the wind picked up significantly outside; it howled and blew all afternoon, evening, and night (felt like we were in a cozy mystery story, in an old Inn, where a murder took place! heh),



Plus a workout in the gym after dinner. (Actually, there were after dinner workout in the gym on both nights; they had a Pelaton bike which was very fun, really liked the classes.).



On our last morning, we again had breakfast at the on-site Sea Glass Restaurant, skipped a third workout in the fitness room ;-), had a second tub soak and relax in the air jet tub and loft bedroom, then had a couples Swedish Massage and a late check-out before heading home. Loved the spa getaway - recommend! We'd never done a spa weekend before. We stayed active the whole time, had great food, amazing relaxing tub soaks, and a massage. What's not to love!

Roasted, or fried? I love roasted Brussel sprouts, when they crisp up and brown and stuff. But that looks like it might be pan-fried? and with the same results!

PS next time we visit, I’m asking the manager at the local grocery to have the bakery make up a couple dozen extra laugenecker the morning we leave and am bringing them home to freeze. Apparently they’re a very regional thing. They reheat beautifully, and are worth a couple hundred extra calories. I can cut elsewhere.