[Magdalen] 5:2 weight loss / was -->Re: Prayer Request

[Lynn Ronkainen]

have read about this Sally and ordered several books on Abe Books (online 
discount bookseller), one for recipes, the other which discusses 'the 
plan'...
Lynn

My email has changed to: houstonKLR at gmail.com

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

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From: <sally.davies at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 7:40 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Prayer Request

> It's also called the Fast Diet, popularised by Michael Mosley in his
> documentary "Eat, Fast, Live longer". In theory it is a pro-longevity diet
> aimed at improving various aspects of general health but if correctly
> managed is also an effective weight loss tool.
>
> Not likely to work for everyone but it works brilliantly for me as a 
> person
> who simply can't and won't stick to a daily eating plan.
>
> I fast two days a week, contiguously on Wednesday and Thursdays. Most
> people do two separate days. On those days you cut right down to 500
> calories, in whatever way you like. On other days, eat what you like if
> simply maintaining - though for weight loss you would have to keep 
> calories
> below a specified level.
>
> It tends to change your tastes and entire relationship with food which 
> also
> helps. Lots of good advice on the website and in the e-book.
>
> I also follow "Mark's Daily Apple" which is a Paleo site, though I'm not
> disciplined enough to eat Paleo. That's the diet I would follow if I were
> :-)
>
> Sally D
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 1:22 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Sally,
>> What is the 5:2 plan for weight loss?
>>
>> > On Apr 27, 2015, at 1:48 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Paise God for laparoscopic cholecystectomy! I had mine done in 2007 and
>> > although I did stay in hospital overnight and had about 24 hours of
>> taking
>> > pain relief (though not needed thereafter) it was so easy. When I think
>> of
>> > the huge ops my grandparents had for the same thing I am so grateful!
>> >
>> > And the other bonus,, I realised that I was far better off without my
>> gall
>> > bladder. It had been spotted during my first pregnancy eight years 
>> > before
>> > that as having "gravel" in it according to our antenatal scan doctor 
>> > and
>> by
>> > 2007 the gravel had turned into a couple of stones. I had a lot of
>> > epigastric discomfort and took it for normal. After the op, I could eat
>> > what I liked and still can - though I also realised I would have to do
>> > something about the extra weight I was carrying. It took a while to 
>> > find
>> a
>> > way of doing that but with being (a little) more active and reducing
>> > calories with the 5:2 plan the weight has stayed off.
>> >
>> > All round, a blessed and successful intervention that not only solved a
>> > problem but helped improve my overall health in unexpected ways.
>> >
>> > Sally D
>> >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 4:31 AM Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Echoing Susan--same experience, similar results.
>> >>
>> >> May you have the same. It's way better than gb problems.
>> >>
>> >> Prayers for similar blessings,
>> >>
>> >> Georgia+
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Praying you will have an experience like mine.  Went in Thursday
>> morning,
>> >>> good drugs.  Friends gently led me home in the afternoon.  I was high
>> on
>> >>> said drugs, pottered around cutting and arranging flowers (it was
>> >> spring),
>> >>> ate supper and fell sound asleep.  Wandered over to visit the 
>> >>> neighbors
>> >>> Friday.  Loafed around that weekend and went back to work Monday.
>> Later
>> >>> told the surgeon I couldn't understand how he could go in and suck 
>> >>> out
>> an
>> >>> internal organ and cause so little discomfort.  He grinned and said 
>> >>> it
>> >> was
>> >>> magic.  It is the least distressing surgical experience I have ever
>> had.
>> >>>
>> >>> I had asked ahead of time how long I would be off work.  The doc said
>> >> they
>> >>> usually told people a week but found most people defied them so now
>> said
>> >> to
>> >>> do as they pleased.
>> >>>
>> >>> Wishing you all good outcomes.
>> >>>
>> >>> Susan
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen <
>> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ok, 8 days and counting.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (meaning she's yanking my gall bladder
>> out
>> >>>> through a little hole in my belly) on Monday May 4.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I will be glad to be rid of the killer heartburn, but nonetheless am
>> >>>> freaked out.  The only real surgeries I have had were a 
>> >>>> tonsillectomy
>> in
>> >>>> 1959 and a C-section in 1985.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In the realm of life, this is little.  But big to me.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Prayers and good juju requested.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Renee
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
>> >> bills,
>> >>> do laundry.
>> >>
>>