Everyday Systems

Graham

12st 3 3/4lb, 43 1/4", BMI 26.6,WHtR 64.1%, Body Fat 39% Hi Oolala53, thanks for the tip. Recently I've been finding yoghurt too acid and less appealing. I'm stressed from all sorts of directions and my stomach is where it shows: indigestion, comfort eating, etc. Some foods I've liked now seem to di...

Graham

Saturday: 12st 3 1/4lb, 43", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 38.4% Today I haven't weighed or measured myself. I am getting back into some of my healthy routines, but not all. My rower is in London, I'm in Southport, so that's off the menu for the moment, though I attempt a daily hour's walk or bike ...

Graham

12st 4lb, 43", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 38.3%

No fast today, on the road again.

Graham

Hi ~reneew, thanks for your kind thoughts. No, I didn't go back to smoking, it stayed as a thought impulse, didn't get beyond that. My fasts currently last around 20 hours, and, when circumstances permit, I fast twice a week. I'm not managing that most weeks at the moment, too many other issues grab...

Graham

12st 4 3/4lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.7, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 36.9%, Fasting Weight and waist drop, explained by poor appetite yesterday, plus a visit to green/raw food friends in the evening? (oh they are so thin... if I could eat as they do, would I be slim too?) And they have energy, plenty of it, and joy ...

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 42 7/8", BMI 27, WHtR 63.5%, Body Fat 37.3%

Graham

12st 6lb, 43", BMI 26.9, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 37.8% No fasts this week, no weighing either. I have had a couple of goes on my rower. Depleted after my cold last week I've managed only short stints: e.g. 5 minutes for about 0.7K then 7 minutes for 1K yesterday. So, slowly building up again, again. Im...

Graham

12st 5lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.8, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 36.9%, # As I still have a cold I can't fail No S strictly speaking. Not fasting, it's probably sensible not to. Good heavens! I just noticed, I haven't filled in my HabiCal since Sunday! How will I remember what I did and didn't do for so many days?

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.6%, #

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.6%, #

Didn't fast, over the worst of the cold now, better night, less pain.

Graham

12st 4 3/4lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.7, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.2%

I have a cold. Didn't eat to excess, did have plenty of fluids. In bed.

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 38.1%, #

The waist measurement is greater than I hoped. It is early, a short night's sleep.

Graham

No numbers, but I fasted and then ate a well-prepared, balanced meal, without stuffing myself. If I can be bothered I'll weigh and measure myself tomorrow morning. It will be interesting, I think I might be a little slimmer.

Graham

12st 3lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.4%, # Rather a good result considering that a demanding fast was followed by a poorly organised meal which became a 2-plater, then on into "what the hell" mode which saw me eat most of a giant pot of yoghurt. In theory yoghurt is good stuff, but I c...

Graham

12st 4 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.7, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 37.5% Fasting

Hi Lori. I'm not always able to manage 2 fasts a week at the moment, I'm getting back into it when I can, like today.

Graham

12st 5 1/2lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.8, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 36.7%, # , Fasting So, a second fast in a week, it's been a while since I could manage that. Hungry. It will be short, I'll want to be over it before tonight's church choir rehearsal. 1:30pm How can I be so fat AND so hungry? Why don't those "resou...

Graham

12st 6lb, 43", BMI 26.9, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 37.8%, #

Graham

12st 5 1/4lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.8, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 36.8%, # Fasted yesterday. Not easy, back home, disorganised. My fast ending meal was unusually successful at staunching hunger: avocado vinaigrette preceding (!) steak with onions, mushrooms and chips (fries). Didn't even need any bread with it to...

Graham

12st 3 1/4lb, 42 7/8", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63.5%, Body Fat 38.2%, #

Southport to London drive today, not fasting. Driving and snacking go together in my life. Avoidable? Worth avoiding? I do it to combat stressed feelings.

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.8%, #

Graham

12st 5 1/4lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.8, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.1%,#

Stress, decent regular meals, coupled with patchy exercise habits lead to gently ascending weight, but I'm overall pleased with more green days.

Graham

12st 5lb, 42 5/8", BMI 26.8, WHtR 63.1%, Body Fat 37.2% #

No idea what I weighed before yesterdays fast, I didn't care enough to find out.

Graham

12st 4 1/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63/3%, Body Fat 37.7% # What of yesterday? Switching away from fried breakfasts as my stomach is unsettled. Hence more starch, SO's choices play a part in that too. Will I return to fasting at some point? As a positive experience, as a rest from digestion? Emoti...

Graham

12st 3 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 37.8% #

I am not fasting today, prefer to emphasise No S, 3 meals, calmness.

Graham

12st 3 1/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 37.9% # I accidentally had something like a fast yesterday - and then a big meal, and found not having dessert a bit challenging, I'm hoping dessert &/or sweet eating is a habit I can overcome, now the chocolates are all gone. No S compliant days...

Graham

12st 4 1/4lb, 42 7/8" BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.5%, Body Fat 38%

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 43 1/8", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63.9%, Body Fat 38.8% # I didn't fast, did manage to comply with No S (though I felt like eating more) and here I am: 1/4lb heavier, 5/8" fatter, and my stomach feels distended and tense. That feeling is the worst bit, the discomfort of a body in disarray. I did...

Graham

12st 3 1/4lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.3% bizarre fail: what was I thinking/feeling? Very peculiar behaviour yesterday. My rhythm disturbed waiting for a workman to keep his appointment led to ramshackle starch-eating. At that point I still considered myself to be having a No S succe...

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 38.1% #

Moderate eating meant I missed my 5 a day, thought I might see something on the scale or the tape measure, but I had a lot of bread yesterday, I suspect it expands my waistline.

Graham

12st 2 1/2lb, can't find tape measure # Yesterday was such a relief, the crazy eating impulse gone. I don't know what turns that impulse on or off, but I feel food-sane again. Long may it continue. Can't say which comes first, but yesterday was a very emotional day too - I listened to a lot of my fa...

Graham

12st 3lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 38% # The fast was challenging. I was quite active for a good part of it, but the fast ending meal felt more like a binge, my distended stomach ached. Despite being full, my meal didn't satisfy me - and I had half a bar of chocolate to follow. I need...

Graham

12st 4 1/4lb, 43", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 38.3% Fasting

Graham

12st 4 3/4lbs, 42 3/8", BMI 26.7, WHtR 62.8%, Body Fat 36.6% Didn't bother with 5-a-day. In fact, though I bought fruit and vegetables, I didn't eat any all day, save for the onion I used to stuff the chicken. Had buttered toasted muffins, scrambled egg, roast chicken, uninspiring eating, late cheap...

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.4,WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 38.1% # Reverse effect from a fast that felt effective, followed by a late-ish meal that wasn't no s compliant because I had dessert. And lemonade. I could have had a beer, but I wanted lemonade. Didn't get a walk either. Overall I'm not discourag...

Graham

12st 2 1/4lbs, 42 7/16", BMI 26.3, WHtR 62.9%, Body Fat 37.4%, Fasting

Graham

12st 2 1/2lbs, 42 7/8", BMI 26.4, WHtR 65%, Body Fat 40.9% #

2 meals but dessert and snacking happened after meal #2. Overall eating feels less driven.

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 38.1% # I almost had a successful No S day yesterday. I'm in an odd situation: two big meals a day isn't enough, but 3 meals would be too much. Just now it's 2 meals plus a little bit extra after the evening meal. I have to let go of my 5-a-day g...

Graham

12st 4lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.1%

Fast went OK, finished with fish and chips and no snacking. A rare No S success these days.

I'm walking an hour a day, finding there are places with charm - marshlands with wading birds and the wind blowing in off the sea.

Graham

12st 6lb, 43", BMI 26.9, WHtR 63.7%, Body Fat 37.8% Fasting Weekend wanting and eating ad lib seems to be a disaster. I feel appetite, I respond to it, and I'm ballooning. I witness this, concerned and with no sense of the power to change it. Like I'm pitted against bigger powers than I can see or b...

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.3% # Right. Monday's fast put me back to where I was on Saturday morning, after my Friday fast. I am a bit stuck. Environmental factors are playing a part here, and I hope I can turn that fact in my favour by identifying and changing them. My po...

Graham

12st 4 1/4lb, 42 3/4", BMI 26.6, WHtR 63.3%, Body Fat 37.7% Fasting

I hadn't felt inclined to fast today, but then I saw the scales and tape measure and I saw no way out...

Graham

NoSRocks, thanks for the kind thoughts. Strange to think of myself as an inspiration, but I'm happy to be one for you.

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.5, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.3% Back to Friday's figure. How? Limited exercise, crappy food: biscuits abound here, I find it difficult to think of just throwing things away. The stuff here is not what I would ever buy, I wouldn't have it in the house, I know I just eat it m...

Graham

12st 2lb, 42", BMI 26.3, WHtR 62.2%, Body Fat 36.4% Fast endured, managed not to snack or eat sweets - which is not so easy here (my dad's place - caches of sweets abound). Now 2 S days, can't fail S days.. I have neither rowing machine nor bike here. I can go for walks but the immediate vicinity do...

Graham

12st 3lb, 42 1/2", BMI 26.4, WHtR 63%, Body Fat 37.4% Fasting

Dreading the fast, yet so needing the benefit. I'm adrift in many ways, including my use of food. Staying at my dad's place trying to sort things out - but not getting to grips with anything.

Graham

Hi Lori, thanks for the kind thought. I've kept away from this forum for a while, haven't been in the right frame of mind. I'm aiming to re-engage with No S, and fasting, I'm not looking or feeling good just now.

Graham

12st 3lb, 41", BMI 26.4, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 33.7%

Finally near a scale (old dodgy spring scale) and tape measure at the same time. No surprise though, not feeling too brilliant altogether. And its Christmas...

Graham

Thank you milliem, idontknow, oolala53 for your kind thoughts. My emotional state is muddled - sometimes I'm in tune with Christmas, sometimes it seems an irrelevance. I did decide to sing in my choir's Christmas concert and I'm glad I did, now I'm studying to sing at my other choir's midnight mass ...

Graham

12 stone. Mislaid tape measure - but I'm fat, I know it. I haven't cared much about No S nor done any fasting for the past month. On November 14th my dad died. That I'm 61 and he was 91 didn't stop it being a massive upheaval. I couldn't bring myself to care about what I ate or how fat I got - I eve...

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Graham

11st 9 1/2lb, 40 3/4"

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40", BMI 25.2, WHtR 59.3%, Body Fat 33.3% I accidentally ate more protein and less starch yesterday - does that explain the effortless shrinkage? I had a vague yen for some sugary treat but didn't get round to having one. (menu was 4X cheese on toast for breakfast, later I ate 1/2 a ro...

Graham

11st 11lb, 40 7/8", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.6%, Body Fat 35% #
rower 29min 45sec 5K

Not fasting leaves me a bit heavier and fatter - and no fitter, it seems. Irritable too. No sense to it, on the surface at least.

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.5%, # Rower 27min 50sec, 5K I won't fast today. I want to change the pattern. A year ago No S plus fasting was quite effective for weight-loss, but I have changed, and my life has changed. A year ago, when I did use my rower, I was much quick...

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.7%
rowing 22min 40sec, 4K.

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35% #
rowing 22min 4K

Up till 4am at post choir get-together - I like to socialise but the after-effects are wearing.

Graham

11st 11lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.6% Rower 25min 4.33K The post fast meal was generous. There is no weight or waist-loss to show for the effort of fasting. The day itself was less productive than it might have been. The fasting feels OK, but then the re-entry to strict No S leads...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 3/4" BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.7% Fasting
Rowing 24min 4K

Graham

11st 10 1/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.8%
Rower 25min, 4K. Wanted to row but not feeling too vigorous. Took it gently. It was fine - but enough, for today.

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.7% #
rower 18min 6sec, 3.19K

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.7% # fasting
Rower 18min 10sec, 3K

Graham

11st 10lb, 40 7/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.6%, Body Fat 35.5% #
Rower 16min 2.7K

Graham

11st 10 1/4lb, 40 13/16", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.5%, Body Fat 35% #
rower 13min, 2.1K

Graham

11st 11 1/4lb, 41", BMI 25.6, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.2% #
Rower 11 1/2min, 2K

Graham

It seems likely the way the caloric deficit is created influences how the body responds - both the manner and the rapidity with which the deficit are produced may be crucial. Wansink's work suggests dietary adjustments creating a consistent but small caloric deficit may cause long-term weight loss w...

Graham

11st 11 1/4lb, 41 1/16" BMI 25.6, WHtR 60.8%, Body Fat 35.4% Fasting If I'd done rowing these last 2 days, would the figures be different? Rowing 11min 14sec 2K. It is odd but I get the impression that it is doing it "right" that makes me feel queasy. When I'm sloppy (maybe using the arms too much, ...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 3/4" BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.7%

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.2. WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.2% # I had a little trouble getting my fast-ending meal right - putting enough on the plate to stop myself drifting into snacking. I might have managed that if I'd had more protein, the scales say I did well enough. I think the rower is helpin...

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.8% Fasting Very odd eating yesterday. No fruit or veg: just starch, protein and fat. Though I'm conflicted about it's impact on me, (general tiredness and tired eyes in particular) I will fast anyway. I have a busy weekend ahead, if my singin...

Graham

11st 10lb, 41", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.5% # Minor No S slip: a biscuit at tango class. Day dominated by getting over the effects of Tuesday's party, not all bad. Rower: 11min, 1.8K. A bit slower, I think I'm pacing myself better and easing off at signs of strain. I hope, in time, to becom...

Graham

11st 11 1/2lb, 41 1/4", BMI 25.6, WHtR 61.1%, Body Fat 35.8%

I went to a post-choir party last night - with nibbles, pizza and drink aplenty. Up late, I thought I'd better make it an S day.

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.5% Did I say an easy fast? Yet, this odd thing: I ate a second meal, around 11pm. Cheese on toast. It was this way: post fast breaking meal, I felt drowsy, de-motivated, but obliged to prepare for Tuesday choir. In the end more food lifted me...

Graham

11st 11 1/4lb, 40 7/8", BMI 25.6, WHtR 60.6%, Body Fat 34.9% Fasting Rower 11min 1.9K. Again, the effort made me feel queasy. I will not rush to increase my effort level, I feel some benefit inwardly, something feels improved, but I can't specify what - sort of inwardly polished. Yesterday's biscuit...

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 41 1/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 61.1, Body Fat 36% (weighed late - after coffee, light-ish breakfast, a bike ride, choir, bike ride) Rower 11min 1.9K. It seems, strangely, as I place greater emphasis on good form that my shoulders develop this unpleasant ache that obliges me to take a break a...

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 41 1/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.9%, Body Fat 35.7%

I had 3 meals yesterday, one was just a salad. I am aiming at well-being differently, will fasting figure?

Rower 11 min 1.95K, Again shoulder ache and faint nausea but milder around 6 minutes.

Graham

11st 11 3/4lb, 41 3/8", BMI 25.6, WHtR 61.3%, Body Fat 36% # Waking too early, chilly wintry morning, "decided" not to fast (i.e. I had milk in my coffee) and now feel some regret. I'm not happy not to fast, nor would I have been comfortable fasting. Neither option pleases me today. The fast/eat/rus...

Graham

11st 11 1/2lb, 41 1/4", BMI 25.6, WHtR 61.1%, Body Fat 35.8% # Suddenly it's getting colder. The No S fail early in the day opened the door to a bit of "what the hell" excess later on. Time forbade use of the rower, maybe today? I feel reluctant. I believe I would need to build up to something like ...

Graham

11st 10 3/4l.b, 41 1/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 61.1%, Body Fat 36% #

So - through the 41" barrier. Damn. I will consider a different tack. I hear my rower calling.

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 41", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.4%

Graham

11st 11 1/4lb, 40 3/4" BMI 25.6, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.6% Fasting 11:35am The weather is noticeably colder, and my fast makes the chill bite harder. Still a gain of 2 1/2lbs over the weekend leaves me feeling obliged to endure it, unless it becomes horribly uncomfortable or otherwise seriously inc...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.7% 2lb extra in 24 hours. I hope it's mostly the temporary effect of an overnight at Samaritans, a transient, infrequent disruption. 2:22pm, used my wrist BP monitor, it says: 87/63 53bpm But, I then used my biceps cuff monitor and it says: 1...

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.2%

Graham

11st 9lb, 41", BMI 25.2. WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.8% Fasting

I ate late, I'll finish this fast early - I had a choice of sorts but ?couldn't? exercise restraint. Conflicted, for sure.

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.3, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35% 6pm Digestion more or less back to normal. It may not be convenient to eat the same food as I ate yesterday, a second fried meal may not fit. I am virtually free of the discomfort that dogged me yesterday, despite eating a fried breakfast onc...

Graham

11st 10lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.3%, # Bad indigestion today. It kept me from snacking - is it my cast iron frying pan? I used it twice today. how does that work? Anyway, tomorrow I will eat similar food (sausage with onion, apple, egg and pita for breakfast, salad, fried fish and...

Graham

11st 10lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.3% A bearable fast, ended with a meal that looked no bigger than usual - though I wonder if it may have contained more calories. No snacking afterwards, yet a negative result. I didn't have a beer even, or drink milk. Fatter by 1/4", heavier by 1/4...

Graham

11st 9 3/4lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.3, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.7% Fasting

Graham

11st 10lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.3% @idon'tknow: thanks for the good wishes. Re ginger tea: I make it using fresh ginger. You finely divide it (very finely slicing and dicing, or grating) - I use 2 tablespoons of it - then you can simmer it in a pan or steep it in a teapot - for a...

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11st 10 1/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.8% # A choir birthday, cakes and wine - undermined my intention not to eat a second time. Now: a little lighter, a little fatter, and that annoying stinging at the back of my mouth that seems like a bug trying to take hold. I don't understand...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 1/2", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60%, Body Fat 34.1% Fasting I considered not fasting today, to avoid conflict with this evening's church choir rehearsal, but then, I saw the scales, knew I had nothing else to put in its place. Short, it will have to be kept short. I could swap to another day,...

Graham

11st 10lb, 41", BMI 25.4, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.5%

Wine, cake etc - now the birthday excess is behind me.

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 35.2% # Yesterday's eating was untidy. Tango class shifted to Tuesday afternoon, then straight on to choir with no time for a meal anywhere - led to two separate biscuit eating episodes, plus missing my 5 a day - I just couldn't be bothered to fi...

Graham

11st 8 3/4lb, 40 5/8", BMI 25.2, WHtR 60.2%, Body Fat 34.9%

Staying out of the kitchen after eating is a good strategy. I'm surprised at the apparent degree of weight loss, though the fast felt demanding. And, if weight is down, why is waist up? Ah the mystery of it all....

Graham

11st 10 1/2lb, 40 1/4", BMI 25.4, WHtR 59.6%, Body Fat 33.5% fasting The church choir went passably well - well enough to continue. If I can master my music, it could be a very satisfying experience. Combining a fast with an evening rehearsal is more questionable. I may have to re-shape my week. Not...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 3/4" BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.7% # The fast/choir thing is doable, but not easy. More challenging is learning 2 pieces of music between a Friday night and a Sunday morning when I can't sight-sing. I recorded what I could, now I'll have to put a few hours into studying it t...

Graham

11st 10 1/4lb, 40 3/8", BMI 25.4, WHtR 59.8%, Body Fat 33.9% Fasting

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11st 10 3/4lb, can't find the tape measure. Tomorrow will be different: I have decided to try singing with a second choir. It's a bit of a commitment, it's a church choir - so not only a regular rehearsal on a Friday evening, but also church 3 Sundays out of 4 from around 11am to 1pm. I'm just givin...

Graham

11st 10 3/4lb, 40 3/4", BMI 25.5, WHtR 60.4%, Body Fat 34.7% # Was it a fail or a mini-meal last night? After my big meal around 7pm I was ok for a while, then a craving for something led to buttered toast with jam around 11pm. I really wanted something, felt hungry. Yet, waking today, awash with in...

Graham

11st 11 3/4lb, 41", BMI 25.6, WHtR 60.7%, Body Fat 35.1% Fasting A dreadful day rescued, somewhat, by fasting. After a break of two weeks (3 fasts skipped), fasting feels very right. Not easy, requires some effort - but not major effort, and I feel relief, resting my digestion. I've had weak black c...

Graham

I just came across some new research on what is required to lose weight. A little deflating, but I thought you'd all want to know, seems a good fit with No S.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882832

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