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!!!

10 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

As a transplanted Yankee, I never understood the appeal of Luby's. I didn't like their food at all. That said, Kitty may claim to be from SoCal, but she seems to have a strong affinity to deep south eating! I think she's got some Southern roots in her family tree!

Yeah, you had to catch Luby's in its heyday. And it's also cultural. We grew up eating the LuAnn platter. LOL. We were so little, we literally would split a LuAnn!

40 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Yeah, you had to catch Luby's in its heyday. And it's also cultural. We grew up eating the LuAnn platter. LOL. We were so little, we literally would split a LuAnn!

We moved to Texas in '72, so I was here for the heyday. It's just that southern home-cooking is nothing like northern home-cooking

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Not judging here (super envy)--but um, it does kinda "read" like a meal from Luby's aka "Song of the South". We pretty much believe if it "ain't carby or fatty" it has no use. And rice and gravy + mac and cheese + corn would be part of any last meal I could plan. It would probably also have fried okra and Salsbury or smothered steak. There. I said it.

Yes! Totally the same ... it's Paschal's, an Atlanta institution!

I've never been to a Luby's but every time I drive by one, I want to go in! I'm just usually with customers or colleagues, who don't necessarily share my love for meat & 3!

1 hour ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

As a transplanted Yankee, I never understood the appeal of Luby's. I didn't like their food at all. That said, Kitty may claim to be from SoCal, but she seems to have a strong affinity to deep south eating! I think she's got some Southern roots in her family tree!

Totally true!

So couple of things at play

I love me some carbs, and fat and carbs together, even better

I also love novel, different, local food. Anything that is local and I can't get readily at home, I'm all about. So if it's meat & 3, or Cincinnati Chili, or White Castle or blue crab or regional BBQ, I'm all over it!

Oh, third thing, I travel to the south quite a bit, so that is probably over represented in my food pics!

Edited December 17, 20187 yr by sillykitty

1 hour ago, sillykitty said:

Yes! Totally the same ... it's Paschal's, an Atlanta institution!

I've never been to a Luby's but every time I drive by one, I want to go in! I'm just usually with customers or colleagues, who don't necessarily share my love for meat & 3!

Don't be tempted by Luby's any longer. They've gone downhill so so so badly. *sniff* But your Paschal's plate...hold me. And yes, love mes some meat & 3!!!! And carbs + gravy or carbs + fat almost equal the holy trinity. The blessed triumvirate of fatdom!

1 hour ago, sillykitty said:

Yes! Totally the same ... it's Paschal's, an Atlanta institution!

I've never been to a Luby's but every time I drive by one, I want to go in! I'm just usually with customers or colleagues, who don't necessarily share my love for meat & 3!

Don't be tempted by Luby's any longer. They've gone downhill so so so badly. *sniff* But your Paschal's plate...hold me. And yes, love mes some meat & 3!!!! And carbs + gravy or carbs + fat almost equal the holy trinity. The blessed triumvirate of fatdom!

Am I the only one who doesn't love food?

Sniff sniff

I feel left out...

Edited December 17, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

4 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Am I the only one who doesn't love food?

Sniff sniff

I feel left out...

I wish I didn't love food!

5 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Am I the only one who doesn't love food?

Sniff sniff

I feel left out...

Yeah, I think you got the long straw on that one. You should celebrate. LOL.

Me=Food Lover

11 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Yeah, I think you got the long straw on that one. You should Celebrate. LOL.

Me=Food Lover

I mean I like it...

Not as good eye candy as @GreenTealael's dude! But this is interesting! More on water fasting.

Adventures adventures!!!

So no IF per se. I have a little gastritis that I'm working on healing and the gastro dude advised: frequent small meals.

And that was it.

No details. No definition of what a "small meal" looks like, etc. LOLOL.

I'm like, "Dude! If I was capable of stopping myself at "small" meals, I woulda never gotten morbidly obese in the first place. LOL. The trouble is, that having discomfort after eating is apparently not enough negative reinforcement to make me curtail my eating. LOL. I'm like, "Homey don't play that sh*t! Now gimme my food bi*ch before I cut you."

I see the surgeon tomorrow where I bet she's gonna tell me I'm a hypochondriac and to get over myself and quit botherin' her. But I will ask her definition of food volume too.

So today (yeah it's taken me a while to get my bad self to behave) I'm actively trying to re-introduce the concept of eating only 1/2c of volume at a meal. And only eating when hungry--not just cuz it's been 2 hours since my last mini meal. *snort*

So I might be doing IF from the standpoint of caloric restriction, but not time restriction.

Anyone trying to do any kind of IF during the holidays?

On 12/7/2018 at 10:31 AM, FluffyChix said:

Wooohoooooo!!! Cardio! Cardio! Cardio! Cardio!

Cardio wins the night again!

Shhhh--he may decide we don't need to walk anymore???

Just now, MIZ60 said:

Shhhh--he may decide we don't need to walk anymore???

How bout multi tasking? Cardio while walking? Merry Christmas!

2 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

How bout multi tasking? Cardio while walking? Merry Christmas!

OK, not only are you waaaay more uninhibited than I, but majorly coordinated as well!