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You did great! We've been doing this longer than you have, hon! Thanks for giving it a shot. How many hours did you go today? At some point you will feel ready to try it again. And also, it's much easier once you've been 16:8 for a while and also if you are low carb/keto. WTG girlie!!

chicken salad, tuna salad (used 2% cottage cheese + dijon to replace the mayo in it) green bean casserole (healthier) with canned chicken canned chicken or stewed dark meat chicken with jarred brown gravy and mashed cauliflower and green beans chili (bland) made with turkey canned refried pumpkin with stewed chicken in gravy baked fish (foil packet fish -- very soft) soft scrambled eggs with Grk yogurt stirred in at the end with chives and herbs yogurt/2% cottage cheese mixed with pb powder and topped with Walden Farm Zero Cal Blueberry Syrup or with applesauce or canned splenda peaches broccoli casserole made with caulirice pretty much repeated those same ones till i moved on.

I think I tried to have 4oz/15 minutes but can't really remember? Welcome!!

I think it sounds like your doing well? But see if sipping a little more slowly makes that pain or discomfort go away? Hard to say? Are you taking liquid tylenol? I think I was still doing that at day 4?

Can you get up and do something different? Also, pound down about 8oz of water or more. Drink till "filled almost", then sip sip sip to the full line. I know what it takes for me, but you have to learn it. We all do. So do that and keep full up with water. It takes all hunger from me when I do this?

Ok @redhead_che how are you doing now? Did the hunger pass?

Then add unflavored protein powder to your broth. I use the Isopure unflavored (think you can get it at GNC)? I mix it into a slurry with just a bit of broth and do that when it's cold. Then stir out the slurry with added broth. Then I warm it just to about 150 degrees and drink it tepid. If it gets too hot it will curdle. I think it curdles somewhere around 160? But I can't remember--cuz I don't do that any more. I just get my protein from food. And broth is broth. Hope that helps!

can you get up and walk around?

Quit bein' a wienie and drink some water and decaff! hahaha Ok, seriously girl, the only way I make it is to drink decaff black coffee and also decaff tea all day in addition to my water. I don't know why this helps me but it really quenches my hunger when it hits? Also, know that when hunger hits, it will go away in about 20 minutes or less and each time you get through breakthrough hunger it makes you stronger and the hunger more wimpy. Does that help at all? And at the worse, have a cup of regular bouillon. Sometimes salt (Pink Himalayan) sea salt and the salt in bouillon will help cravings and hunger go away. (Also, no way could I do this if I wasn't already keto/low carb...if I was a sugar burner, this would be torture.

What is notoriously high?

Yay! Congrats! And piccys! hehehe I know you won't but we can always dream. Hey so when you DO extended fasts post WLS, I know you don't take vitamins but what would you be inclined to do if you did?

*sigh* Just when you think something is good and you've found a good something...LOL.

Congrats! Doing great!!

Here you go! Welcome to the boards!

Sure it's normal. Switch things up. Switch up temps. Experiment. Get an action plan of "hacks" for those days. It's an evolution of continual experimentation. If all you can handle is water for that day, then fully hydrate and try a different "thinner" protein for that day. I kept Isopure clear on hand and diluted it by 50% with plain water. Took longer to get my protein in, but I would still get the minimum in on those days. I liked the Green Tea, Grape, and Fruit Punch flavors the best. I also used Premier Protein Clear (Fruit Punch and Orange Mango). I'd also dilute the fruit punch flavor with water and would dilute the Orange Mango with tea and have it chilled or room temp. You can also make popsicles with them or make slushies, or have them room temp, or even warm in tea. Thin your thick protein drinks with decaff coffee or tea--make frappacinos, have them iced or warm...whatevs. Have warm broth with a spoon of unflavored protein isolate in it.

So. Many. Questions. 1. Are you fully hydrated with water? 2. Do you get these feelings with liquids as well as solids? 3. When was the last time you actually pooped and pooped BIG so you know that you are fully evacuated? At 3 weeks, I was "pooping daily"--just small, thin flat "ribbons" of stool. I fully "thought" that I was TCB. I was taking my Miralax and my Colace daily, getting 64+oz of liquids in and getting my 60-74g of protein in each day from a combo of foods and some small amount of Premier Protein. Thought I was good to go, no issues. But suddenly, nothing else would go down. It all came back up and I was cramping badly, projectile vomiting, nauseated big time, and couldn't even keep water or ice chips down. Turns out after a visit to the ER and costly diagnostic tests, that I was constipated and badly backed up with a "semi-blockage." They game me some anti-cramping and nausea meds and told me to go home and start dosing with either MOM or Fleet's Enemas or glycerin suppositories. I did glycerin suppositories and broke things loose and it was Rosemary's baby god-awful! The worse almost-monster-blockage ever. The only other time I get nauseated is in a meal with either too much fat, or too much carbohydrate. I now closely monitor my poop schedule and make sure I'm having real poops, not imposter poops and always stay fully hydrated. Cuz being dehydrated can also cause obscene nausea.

My longest "run" time is 16minutes so far. Then I do a 2min walk, then do like 5min intervals with 1 min walk between.

Congrats! I'm trying to do that. I'm running inside now that it's so cold!

What are your thoughts on taking our supplements during an extended fast of 48hours? I am currently taking the following, but wonder, if I should only be taking my mult-vitamin? What I take daily: 2 Centrum Silvers 6 Petite Calcium Citrates (1500mg) 3 Mag Citrate Gell Caps (600mg) 1 Iron Chewable Vit (18mg) 1 Thiamine (100mg) 1 Vit D3 (2000mg) What I take every other day: 1 B12 Sublingual (1000mg) 1 Potassium Pill (10meq for low potassium) ************************************ What are y'all taking and what do you think we should do when fasting?

Here's Dr. Bosworth's Facebook Page. I want to get her books. https://www.facebook.com/Dr.AnnetteBosworth/ Here's her Kindle book on sale for the next couple of days for $0.99! Woot! I'm getting it! https://www.amazon.com/ANYWAY-YOU-CAN-Bosworth-Beginners-ebook/dp/B079RLTKS9/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&ref_=tmm_kin_title_0&sr=

Ok, this started yesterday! I'm now 12 hours into IF. Having black coffee

I want to be sure you properly manage expectations. I don't know how much research you newbies have done re:weight loss, and surely don't want to be the voice of gloom. But realistically, there is NO way you should ever portray this surgical choice as "being easy" at any time. LOL. In the early months, you STILL (most of us) fight head hunger, maybe even real hunger, plus all the emotional side effects of having one of our chief "drug" ripped from our bodies. LOL. Our relationship with food gets broken and we are forced to "deal" with our feelings. Plus there's the whole recovery from surgery/anesthesia, healing, and hormonal whackamole fluctuations that make us cry at the drop of a hat or make us feel flashpoint irrational and unexplainable anger at a given moment. Glad you're working on counseling before surgery. Good luck!

Grew up with it and our moms calling it “sheeth” cake.

Sure. Why not? It’s still the same very basic recipe from the jr league and the 60s.

Please note the bolder sentence. We are not the same peeps, so I wouldn’t expect that to work. I’m sure you have something that works for u while disgusting me? Maybe vegemite and celery? ????