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!!!

8 minutes ago, sideeye said:

Okay, I'm going to give this a go... Starting off with a morning coffee, then starting at noon an 8-hour window, then shut it down until the next morning (~8am) and coffee again. Or maybe peppermint tea.

It's not so much for weight loss or plateau-busting or anything, more that I'm looking back on my eating patterns and I think I kind of do this IF thing already? Sort of? But with some Snacks on the fringes that I probably don't need, like a 10pm handful of cashews or a 10am string cheese.

I've spent enough of my life being guilt-tripped about not wanting to eat Breakfast ("most important meal of the day" my ass, it makes me feel queasy)! I'll keep the AM coffee for a while and see if I want to phase it out later.

Welcome!

Sounds like a plan!

I guess there are benefits from coming from a non breakfast eating family, no guilt trips!

15 minutes ago, sideeye said:

Okay, I'm going to give this a go... Starting off with a morning coffee, then starting at noon an 8-hour window, then shut it down until the next morning (~8am) and coffee again. Or maybe peppermint tea.

It's not so much for weight loss or plateau-busting or anything, more that I'm looking back on my eating patterns and I think I kind of do this IF thing already? Sort of? But with some Snacks on the fringes that I probably don't need, like a 10pm handful of cashews or a 10am string cheese.

I've spent enough of my life being guilt-tripped about not wanting to eat Breakfast ("most important meal of the day" my ass, it makes me feel queasy)! I'll keep the AM coffee for a while and see if I want to phase it out later.

Wooohoooo Wilkommen! Bienvenute! Welcome! Aloha!

Never underestimate the power of hot black coffee/tea to curb appetite! I'm dryin' out after the holidays and these will be my go to salvation friends after dinner! hehehe For some reason, they have the power to turn off my cravings--even for snacky food. But I agree with @sillykitty, if you are legit hungry, then have a legit snack--something of low pleasure value but high nutrient value and calories if you can. For me, if I'm legit hungry, then a hard boiled egg satisfies. If I don't want that and instead want something shenanigany--then yeah--we're talking illegitimate head hunger cravings rather than true body hunger.

16:8 is a great place to start with IF!! You'll do great! Never really bought into the breakfast thingy...I don't usually get hungry til around noonish-ish. I am however a late dinner eater. It's hard to get dinner in before 8pm. Don't know why...probably cuz that's what we did growing up. So we try for between 7-8pm and try to finish by 8pm or earlier. But we're a raging work in progress!

Had my first day of Ramadan makeup fasting today (I have some days to makeup that I hadn't fasted in Ramadan due to period, illness & travel). This is the first time I fasted post-op and it wasn't toooooooo bad. I got an almighty headache but I wasn't really hungry at all. It definitely made dinner plans easier as I hadn't had a lot of calories for breakfast.

How did everyone do yesterday??? Spill it!!!

I had a great 16:8 day yesterday. Didn't make it to 18:6, but hey, that's how I roll. I was fairly compliant but tangled with some smokehouse almonds around 8pm last night. Gotta get a better plan! Will try for 18:6 today though which will be first meal at 2pm--totally do-able!

Had good but not super macros. And won't report my weight cuz I think it has to be a fluke and won't hold. If it holds through tomorrow, will report it.

No clue what my actual weight is as usual, but I'm roaming with teens in tow. Apparently I walk too much, too far, too fast (my reply - too bad) I think I did a 14/10 yesterday but I wasn't really watching the clock too hard.

I MADE IT. Slightly feral but only slightly. A very impressed coworker then took me out for barbecue, though he was disappointed in how little I could still eat and made dark comments about coming back from a business trip and finding a husk shaped like me.

Seriously though, this wasn’t a big deal at all. My biggest issue is going to be closing the gates at 8pm - I am going to miss my tiny wind-down cup of milky chai or cocoa.

1 minute ago, sideeye said:

I MADE IT. Slightly feral but only slightly. A very impressed coworker then took me out for barbecue, though he was disappointed in how little I could still eat and made dark comments about coming back from a business trip and finding a husk shaped like me.

Seriously though, this wasn’t a big deal at all. My biggest issue is going to be closing the gates at 8pm - I am going to miss my tiny wind-down cup of milky chai or cocoa.

Hilarious! What's a husk?

One thing about the wind down milky chai or cocoa? Go with the milky chai, and each night over the next week, you simply put a little less and a little less in the tea. Ditch the cocoa if you can, but you could have decaff coffee and put a couple ounces of chocolate Premier Protein. Similar taste, less cals/carbs. AND then you start cutting it back til eventually you are satisfied with a black drink.

56 minutes ago, sideeye said:

I MADE IT. Slightly feral but only slightly. A very impressed coworker then took me out for barbecue, though he was disappointed in how little I could still eat and made dark comments about coming back from a business trip and finding a husk shaped like me.

Seriously though, this wasn’t a big deal at all. My biggest issue is going to be closing the gates at 8pm - I am going to miss my tiny wind-down cup of milky chai or cocoa.

CONGRATS ?

I feel like we need team shirts or something...

Hey! Let's do shots everyone!!!

Cheers!!!

51 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Hey! Let's do shots everyone!!!

Cheers!!!

WTF is that?

Just now, GreenTealael said:

WTF is that?

Creamsickle "semi-homemade" MOM. (I didn't make the MOM, just flavored it up from unflavored zero carb version...) ?

(so so so sick of having interruptions to the #2 train schedule...just sayin'...)

21 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Creamsickle "semi-homemade" MOM. (I didn't make the MOM, just flavored it up from unflavored zero carb version...) ?

(so so so sick of having interruptions to the #2 train schedule...just sayin'...)

Ohhhhh,

Tea for me ...

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Ohhhhh,

Tea for me ...

A lot of beer works as well