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redofromstart

Financials -
Randomly acquired £4 odd of interest into my current account by standing order from me. No indication of where it came from. Eventually tracked it down to the savings account that had had the car replacement savings in. Frustrating when they don't show you the sort code/account number of the funding account. Anyway while I was looking for the mysterious source of money I found another £12.51 in an old savings account which I have now closed.

The tiny pension pot is managing 4% growth currently. I ought to put more in, or put it in via the business. I am another one who is late 20s in head with years to go and nothing to worry about.

No more bricks coloured in, but will split the remaining contents of the current accounts between savings and mortgage once we have been paid.

Spending
Two bargain merino jumpers arrived, and I exited two old/tatty ones under the one in one out rule
Booked and paid for a short break, somewhere we have been before so one to look forward too in the happy knowledge that it works for us
A soup maker, finally cracked and invested in one after many recommendations to do so

Eating
Lots of soup? Sweet potato and chilli yesterday. Carrot and ginger today.
Trying to do the Fast 800 thing to see if it helps my stomach.

Reading
A Town Like Alice, in the bath
and soup making ones on the Kindle :rotfl:

HairyHandofDartmoor

I'm tempted by a soup maker. Is the soup easy to make?

doingitanyway

Also intrigued about the soup maker. How does it work exactly? what make do you have?

I love soup.

Oh, and I also do the 'one in, one out' rule...

Karmacat

I've been reading/ watching a lot from Michael Mosley recently, about the 800calories a day for 2 days a week - it feels like it makes sense to me. I'd be interested to hear how you got on with it

greenbee

KC - I've been doing the Fast 800 for a while. I did 2 weeks initially, then went on holiday. I'm now doing 800 on the days I have control and using time restricted eating and an attempt to avoid the most obvious carbs to get through the days I can't control (when away from work). I stick to the principles of low carb, med protein, high fat where I can, but I don't want it to impact on my colleagues and friends. So I have eaten cake, and ice cream, and had the odd beer. But overall it works - I lost 6kg in 6 weeks and it hasn't really involved much effort.

redofromstart

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

I'm tempted by a soup maker. Is the soup easy to make?

doingitanyway wrote: »

Also intrigued about the soup maker. How does it work exactly? what make do you have?

I love soup.

Oh, and I also do the 'one in, one out' rule...

Simple enough, I went with a MR saute and soup model from Argus. Chop the onion give it a few minutes in oil on the saute setting, chuck in some water, then the rest of the chopped veg, then more stock. Lid on, 23 minutes and you have nice smooth soup. It boils and then blends. Does a better job than a pan and the stick blender and I can leave it to get on with it. Has a chunky setting but I haven't tried it. Worth noting that you cant make raw meat soups in it, but if you like smooth veg/lentil soups then it is good. Given my time pressures it was a good buy.

redofromstart

KC, Greenbee knows a lot more about it than I do in that she has actually read the book. I've re-read the fast 500 instead as I already own it.

DebtFreeMonkey

Oh, interesting. I actually do intermittent fasting everyday where from about 8pm until anywhere between 11am-1pm, I don't eat and then I have two big meals and a snack because that works for me. Granted, I don't need to lose weight or anything but it's how my body functions best. I even work out fasted and my body does better for it! Haha. But I would ease into it and listen to your body. For some people it doesn't work and I absolutely have to make sure I eat enough or else I drop weight like it's nothing.

...Just be careful and listen to your body but I'd be interested in how it goes.

greenbee

The Fast 800 is working for me. Generally time restricted eating of 14-16 hours with two meals a day. 800 calories on days when I'm home and have control, just the TRE and attempts to minimise refined carbs when I'm away (but TBH sometimes when I'm away for work this is almost impossible as dishes come with carbs mixed in). I do need to get more exercise (and like Alicia, exercising fasted is fine). I'm trying to get my head round understanding portion sizes (and feeing OK about leaving stuff when I'm served a meal in a restaurant or hotel), and also around carb portions.

I'm currently reading Megan Rossi's book 'Eat Yourself Healthy' which I think is a good option for people who have gut issues (like redo...) as it's got some good tools for helping work out what the causes and solutions might be.

There's some useful stuff in there for me on fibre (which reducing carbs obviously has an impact on if you're not careful), and also on how to manage air travel and jet lag (mostly don't eat too much before/during flying and bear in mind that your gut takes a long time to catch up with your timezone change - and unlike your brain, it can't be fooled). I think it'll be particularly useful when I've lost the last 3 or so kgs (I'm fluctuating in a zone of around 1kg at the moment, so really need to shift it) and need to maintain.

What I do know, is that I'm unusual in terms of the variety of foods - particularly fruit and veg - that I eat, and that this is a good thing. I'd definitely recommend it, as like the Fast 800/BSD etc. it is science based and advocates real food rather than supplements, restrictive or faddy eating.

Sun_Addict

Hope the new diet helps your stomach, worth a try anyway. I love my MR soup maker, I live on soup for work lunches and it just makes it so much easier. I think it makes the soup seem creamier too.