Frump to Fab 2024

sheilavw

Happy Birthday Helen, enjoy your celebrations. How time goes on, it was 5 years for my Husband 3/7 , cruelly taken by MND. He is always in all our thoughts. Still working but have dropped a day. Love a 4 day week!. take care everyone x

Wednesday2000

Happy Birthday Helen!

FreetodoasIlike

Belated belated happy birthday Helen. Hope you enjoyed your time with your family. 

OpalGirl

Happy birthday Helen, hope you have a wonderful time with your family

artistlifestyle

happy birthday @helensbiggestfan , you’re doing so well. Widowhood can be challenging at times. Be kind to yourself xxx 

@Makingabobor2 I just try to be sensible, I tried benecol but then discovered, for me, too much UPF in it. So now I have occasional scrapes of grass fed butter, Kerry gold. Always whole grains for everything, lots of nuts and seeds. Loads of fruit and veg, swopped Greek yog for 0% fat variety. Porridge or soaked oats. Almond butter, peanut butter. Reduced sugar (never sweeteners) although when on holiday I‘m exempt. 80/20 idea to reduce stress as socialising so important, especially when we live alone. 

Lots of fish and chicken, pulses and lentils. 

Currently reading a very interesting book called a statin free life, only on chapter 1. I always had a clean, cook my own food diet, so in reality there’s not a lot to change. 

@thepurplepixie get well soon 

helensbiggestfan

Home sweet home.  

Had a lovely birthday and really enjoyed staying with family for a few days but oh so nice to be home, even if it's chucking down with rain.  Time to just catch my breath and chill.  I can get cracking tomorrow. 

Interesting chat about statins. I guess it's like anything else,  if you can find a way of avoiding meds by making a few simple lifestyle adjustments then all to the good.  

Now that my birthday celebrations are over I really must get serious about losing some weight,  I think I'm at my heaviest weight ever and I really don't feel very comfortable.  My own stupid fault,  

  No more excuses.......Lol. 

Hope you are all well and keeping up with the fabbing.  

Makingabobor2

ooh, I must look up that book @artistlifestyle , sounds interesting. 

Hope you had a great birthday and time away Helen. 

I'm slowly starting to regain energy after having covid in June, so will start to feel more Fab now. I seemed to have stopped exercising so much, so really need to get into that again.  Onwards and upwards again 

Makingabobor2

@artistlifestyle, which book is it you have. I see there are 2....one called A Statin Free Life, and the other A Statin-Free Life. Also another just called Statin Free

artistlifestyle

Makingabobor2 said:

@artistlifestyle, which book is it you have. I see there are 2....one called A Statin Free Life, and the other A Statin-Free Life. Also another just called Statin Free

The one with the hyphen appears to be the one I have. I didn’t know there were more, or if they compliment each other or contradict??? 😂😂😂 Hope this helps. 

Makingabobor2

artistlifestyle said:

Makingabobor2 said:

@artistlifestyle, which book is it you have. I see there are 2....one called A Statin Free Life, and the other A Statin-Free Life. Also another just called Statin Free

The one with the hyphen appears to be the one I have. I didn’t know there were more, or if they compliment each other or contradict??? 😂😂😂 Hope this helps. 

Thanks. They are all by different authors, so would be interesting to see if their opinions are the same