Hey y'all! Anyone and everyone is welcome to jump in and join us.

This is the Intermittent Fasting DAily Menu/Results/Accountability Thread. It's where a few of us (or many) are going to log in and encourage each other while we experiment with our own IF plans. You can list or talk about anything--not just your food. I look forward to adding in HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and core exercises to my walking plan while practicing IF. So expect to hear about that too. hehe I expect some of us will talk about the known IF side-effects like insomnia, circadian rhythm disturbance, etc. It's all good! Let's hack this IF mofo! mkay?

There is not any 1 specific IF plan--there are so many to choose from, so this is a BYOIFP (bring-your-own-IF-plan) and join the fun! This is the thread where we'll post our daily menus and maybe some piccys at times! We can discuss progress, issues we might notice, look at how we may want to refine our own personal plans. I do think you should be healed from surgery and have your doctor's and RD's blessings to try something like this and you should do a ton of research and reading about Intermittent Fasting.

IF isn't only about weight loss, it's about taking specific measures to limit either quantities, calories, macros, or sometimes only consciously altering eating windows/schedules in order to effect metabolic change and reduce inflammation and improve health markers.

Ok, let's do this thang!!!

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CONGRATS:100pgs of IF fu¢×€π¥

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On 12/1/2018 at 12:06 PM, Sosewsue61 said:

Beautiful! Too precious to eat lol

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

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CONGRATS:100pgs of IF fu¢×€π¥

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Like Seinfeld, it's a hellavuahlotta nothin' right? ha! Good times!!! ?

Starting 7 days of MACAW (Meat and Cheese and Wholefoood).

Plus three runs to total 15 miles, and three strength sessions with a weight step up in one each of leg, arm and core exercises. Monday (tomorrow) disappears into the magical ether of international flights so that can’t be a strength training day - but I will count it for zero carbs ???

Health week!

Edited December 2, 20187 yr by Biddy zz

1 minute ago, Biddy zz said:

Starting 7 days of MACAW (Meat and cheese and Wholefoood).

Plus three runs to total 15 miles, and three strength sessions with a weight step up in one each of leg, one arm and one core exercise. Monday (tomorrow) disappears into the magical ether of international flights so that can’t be a strength training day - but I will count it for zero carbs ???

Health week!

Wooohooooo girlie!!!! You go!!!

OK, going for a 16:8 today! Wooohooooo! Anyone IFing the fork out of Monday?

It's Day 2 of AMAW/CAMAW. Barely made it by the skin of my teeth. LOL. I have one more coffee before I have to engage my aspirin bottle in constructive endeavors. Will one of you (or many) entertain me? Subjects sure to make me laugh: anything potty related, nose humor, innocent stuff about sex (d**k pics with d**k Van Dyke and Oscar Meyer), updates on your bad selves or good selves, kids antics, dating/singles antics, cardio chat, food chat, the Guys' Room, I wanta say the Ladies Room, but that just makes me sad and want to shake my head...SO. MUCH. droopy boobs. PCOS. period chatter!

Hello ...

Nothing new in Sillykitty's world. I'm not traveling this week, but am at my home office, all bundled up because it's 52 degrees, which is the equivalent to below zero for SoCal people.

I'm only doing some minor IF right now, really just not eating breakfast, and not doing any late night eating. Haven't jumped on the scale this morning. That requires being naked, and it's too cold for that right now! I was up 1 lb from my low on my profile as of yesterday. Not worried about that unless it creeps up further

All is well in the dating/cardio world with not sure if I can call him my bf yet. We will have a long period of not seeing each other starting the weekend before Xmas, through the weekend after New Years, due to him traveling to see family and me potentially going out of town for New Years. His mom is coming to town for a few days before they leave together to see family. Should I be bothered I won't be meeting her? For some context he's an only child, they're close and she lives on the east coast.

Sorry @FluffyChix, I won't be joining you with AMAW/CAMAW, because, I love me some carbs.

@Sosewsue61 that pie is gorgeous! I'm queen of the crumble, cause I don't have your kind of skills! I admire you and @FluffyChix for the baking extravaganza this month, and trying to stay on plan while doing it. I haven't had the time or energy to do a lot of baking in years!

@Sosewsue61, your weekend away sounds fab, but what's junking?

3 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

Hello ...

Nothing new in Sillykitty's world. I'm not traveling this week, but am at my home office, all bundled up because it's 52 degrees, which is the equivalent to below zero for SoCal people.

I'm only doing some minor IF right now, really just not eating Breakfast, and not doing any late night eating. Haven't jumped on the scale this morning. That requires being naked, and it's too cold for that right now! I was up 1 lb from my low on my profile as of yesterday. Not worried about that unless it creeps up further

All is well in the dating/cardio world with not sure if I can call him my bf yet. We will have a long period of not seeing each other starting the weekend before Xmas, through the weekend after New Years, due to him traveling to see family and me potentially going out of town for New Years. His mom is coming to town for a few days before they leave together to see family. Should I be bothered I won't be meeting her? For some context he's an only child, they're close and she lives on the east coast.

Sorry @FluffyChix, I won't be joining you with AMAW/CAMAW, because, I love me some carbs.

@Sosewsue61 that pie is gorgeous! I'm queen of the crumble, cause I don't have your kind of skills! I admire you and @FluffyChix for the baking extravaganza this month, and trying to stay on plan while doing it. I haven't had the time or energy to do a lot of baking in years!

@Sosewsue61, your weekend away sounds fab, but what's junking?

I honestly wouldn't worry about not meeting mom right now. That's BIG BIG stuff--especially if he's an only child and has been burned before with women trying to get close too fast. Or alternately, he could be Chandler Bing with intimacy issues. Maybe HE's the crazy one and the other chicks are just normal? Only you will know when/if he hits your personal limits for following the plan. You know? I think there's no harm right now in just being FBs or FWBs. But if you are just FB/FWB status, I'd probably have bigger boundaries/hoops he has to jump through and greater cool-factor going down. Cuz I def wouldn't want to be putting it on the line begging him to love me and being unprotected. I def wouldn't want to appear desperate.

And, not saying you appear that way cuz I've no idea how cool you are being nor what your boundaries are. I just think dating today is forking difficult and my hat's off to you!

(And I'm seriously asking myself right now WTF was I thinking doing AMAW/CAMAW right now? ROFLMBO! Serious second thoughts. I want to sacrifice a 5oz box of baby spinach to the gastro gods right now. LOL)

Good Day All.
I think my time here is going to get a bit of a decrease. BariatricPal is moving from PatchMD Patches to PatchAID patches. No reason given. I was posting here to help offset the cost with the points, as a secondary, I'll still try to help folks out where I can, but it just seems like my time is coming.

I'm still floating between 207 and 213, been working out a lot more, still doing the IF most days. My body fat has been decreasing again even if my overall weight is still bobbing up and down. My body fat is down to 23.1% today leaving me with a reported 48.6 lbs of fat left hanging on.

Guess we'll see how it all goes.
Just wanted to let you all know here, as it seems most of those that I interact with on a normal basis are all right here in this thread.

Well either my new scale is defective or I'm dropping weight rapidly and I don't think that's a good thing. I haven't been feeling great lately (prior med issues I think) but I'm 154 this morning? Um no. That's 4lbs in 4 days without trying. I hate to sound ungrateful but usually when people start dropping weight really quickly without trying it's a problem...

3 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Good Day All.
I think my time here is going to get a bit of a decrease. BariatricPal is moving from PatchMD Patches to PatchAID patches. No reason given. I was posting here to help offset the cost with the points, as a secondary, I'll still try to help folks out where I can, but it just seems like my time is coming.

I'm still floating between 207 and 213, been working out a lot more, still doing the IF most days. My body fat has been decreasing again even if my overall weight is still bobbing up and down. My body fat is down to 23.1% today leaving me with a reported 48.6 lbs of fat left hanging on.

Guess we'll see how it all goes.
Just wanted to let you all know here, as it seems most of those that I interact with on a normal basis are all right here in this thread.

Awwwww crap Matt! Don't go! Remember, nobody will EVER love you like WE can! Can't we just avoid a total break-up and just become good Di*k (van Dyke) friends?

5 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Good Day All.
I think my time here is going to get a bit of a decrease. BariatricPal is moving from PatchMD Patches to PatchAID patches. No reason given. I was posting here to help offset the cost with the points, as a secondary, I'll still try to help folks out where I can, but it just seems like my time is coming.

I'm still floating between 207 and 213, been working out a lot more, still doing the IF most days. My body fat has been decreasing again even if my overall weight is still bobbing up and down. My body fat is down to 23.1% today leaving me with a reported 48.6 lbs of fat left hanging on.

Guess we'll see how it all goes.
Just wanted to let you all know here, as it seems most of those that I interact with on a normal basis are all right here in this thread.

Noooooo

2 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Well either my new scale is defective or I'm dropping weight rapidly and I don't think that's a good thing. I haven't been feeling great lately (prior med issues I think) but I'm 154 this morning? Um no. That's 4lbs in 4 days without trying. I hate to sound ungrateful but usually when people start dropping weight really quickly without trying it's a problem...

Dayum!!!! Maybe you're just really on track with the schedule in the #2 station??? Or, maybe it's just a whoosh, that happens you know, when you're body finally figures out that you really aren't at risk of starvation, it finally dumps the water out of the empty fat cells and you have an overnight woosh of like 2-4 lbs?

2 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Awwwww crap Matt! Don't go! Remember, nobody will EVER love you like WE can! Can't we just avoid a total break-up and just become good Di*k (van Dyke) friends?

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

Noooooo

Let me just state that, I'm not "leaving" out right... just, my time here is going to decrease some, it has already to an extent... just going to let that trend continue out. But, I'll still be around and will still check in daily and answer anything I can.

Thank you all for your abundance of caring!

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Well either my new scale is defective or I'm dropping weight rapidly and I don't think that's a good thing. I haven't been feeling great lately (prior med issues I think) but I'm 154 this morning? Um no. That's 4lbs in 4 days without trying. I hate to sound ungrateful but usually when people start dropping weight really quickly without trying it's a problem...

Are you picking up the scale and moving it every time you weigh? That can make the calibration on some scales wonky.

Edited December 3, 20187 yr by Orchids&Dragons