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!!!

11 hours ago, sideeye said:

Oof. Yeah, I’m eating probably half again what you are and that’s eating when I’m NOT hungry but am in the non-fasting zone.

This is not an easy balance. Factors involved: capacity, hunger, protein’s ability to stave off hunger while making you feel full, then add the IF timeframe. Today I deliberately upped carbs so I wouldn’t feel like I was overeating (protein+time) if I ate more during the 8 hours. Realistically, if I want to get in spinach, I HAVE to cut down on IF Protein because otherwise there’s just not enough time.

Would it be better to do the whole-day IF schedule, the 5/2 or whatever?

Congrats on figuring out the weight fluctuation!! Woohooo on shark week! (NOT) LOL.

It is NOT an easy balance at all! The time frame does make it more difficult to be sure! I'm toying with the idea of doing 5:2. If things don't start feeling easier with the 16:8 where I'm SURE I'm getting in all the food I need without overeating, I may look at 5:2. But the thing with 5:2 is that 2 of the days your cals need to be 500 or under. And it's still really difficult to get all your nutrient needs met on 500cals. It can be done, but it's still difficult. For peeps with little tummies, it's better cuz you can eat your 6 small meals. But you still have to maneuver how to fill the tool with the best most nutrient dense, calorically lite food on earth. LOL. Ugh!

1 minute ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Holy cow, Fluff! How much Salad Dressing can you put on 1/4 cup of salad?

Well you could have it look like this which is about 3/4cup of salad unless you mush it down really well, then it "could" make about 1/2cup.

That's a hefty little caloric salad.

24 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Well you could have it look like this which is about 3/4cup of salad unless you mush it down really well, then it "could" make about 1/2cup.

That's a hefty little caloric salad.

That's not a salad, it's a fat bomb! Why don't you sprinkle on a few walnuts while you're at it? ?

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by Orchids&Dragons

Then she might get accused of being "nuts" with the walnuts.

19 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

That's not a salad, it's a fat bomb! Why don't you sprinkle on a few walnuts while you're at it? ?

Yes. You are absolutely correct. But. In a world where we have to keep the quantities low, you have 2 options to increase calories. You can either add carbs (which kitty loves) or fat (which kitty also loves). But the recipe of death is to add them at the same time.

So if it was me trying to increase my calories to maintain when I can't increase my food (or at least shouldn't). I would choose to add fat to my meal cuz it's so calorically dense (and nutritionally dense) and has the smaller impact on my blood sugar and insulin over time. LOL. Hence the fat bomb salad. But hey, it will get those calories in. And btw, walnuts would be perfect on that salad and would add very heart healthy omega threes as well as more calories. Good call!

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

25 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Then she might get accused of being "nuts" with the walnuts.

Oh trust me, I'm not the cracked nut in this conversation. And I said it before, will say it again...if you don't post pics, you don't exist and at this point...I'm thinking you are probably just a BP zombie out to eat our brains (oddly enough...ALSO fat bombs).

(and continual props to @GreenTealael for teaching me the importance of "if no pics it didn't happen" concept! Woot!)

Edited January 6, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

Teach me how to "paper-clip pix" into a Bariatric Pal submission from an Android phone cause I have nary a clue. I finally sent one to Orchids and Dragons to prove I exist, that's through e-mail, I know how that is done.

@sillykitty Found this for you!

53 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Teach me how to "paper-clip pix" into a Bariatric Pal submission from an Android phone cause I have nary a clue. I finally sent one to Orchids and Dragons to prove I exist, that's through e-mail, I know how that is done.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJluCl0dnfAhUxnq0KHdUoA-IQFjAOegQIBhAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.plunderpirates.com%2Findex.php%3Fthreads%2Fhow-to-upload-pictures-to-forum-from-your-mobile-device-with-pictures.3935%2F&usg=AOvVaw0Eh2XafIvAEL1ccz3rd2Wj

Cross posting from the B/A Food thread.

No IF for me today--just straight up Atkins Induction. I woke up like a hungry heifer and wanted Sunday breakfast. I grabbed leftovers from dinner last night. I wasn't "hatin". #embracetheleftovers

No afters on account of the clean plate club.

Oooh, I like your plates!

I went out for brunch like a grown-ass single adult and had half a modest croque madam and maybe three slices of potato and I am FULL. It was delightful but relatively heavy and now I’m going to take a nap while my robot vacuum chases my dog around the house.

I love Sundays. Well, Sunday mornings.

Sooooo.... does IF change the smell of your perspiration? Because I am not usually smelly but over the past day or two, I’ve noted a very sharp smell. I haven’t been doing any wild exercise, some of this is just me in the morning getting out of bed. It’s not unmanageable, but...eh?

36 minutes ago, sideeye said:

Sooooo.... does IF change the smell of your perspiration? Because I am not usually smelly but over the past day or two, I’ve noted a very sharp smell. I haven’t been doing any wild exercise, some of this is just me in the morning getting out of bed. It’s not unmanageable, but...eh?

Maybe, you will begin to break down fats exclusively...kind of like how people may smell differently while in ketogenesis I'll look into it and get back to you.

1 hour ago, sideeye said:

Sooooo.... does IF change the smell of your perspiration? Because I am not usually smelly but over the past day or two, I’ve noted a very sharp smell. I haven’t been doing any wild exercise, some of this is just me in the morning getting out of bed. It’s not unmanageable, but...eh?

Yep! Ketosis BO, but it will get better. It's something like acetoacetoacetate (sharp pungent smell)--a byproduct of fat breakdown that causes it.

Ok, no IF this weekend, and today is 19th anniversary! Woot!

So today I'm gonna hit IF hard! I'm trying not to eat anything until about 4pm which will be about 20 hours! Hopefully I can make it! Then going to our little Italian place for dinner where I will eat ALL the calories!

Don't know if this weight will hold but I'm at a new low today after 1 week of being "mostly" a good girl. I'm at 145.8lbs this morning and I'm about 2lbs shy of being in "normal weight range" which was one of my big targets when I began this journey. I was NOT gonna stop until I was in at minimum--normal weight range. And about half way to my Goal #2 of 140lbs. I'm feeling more positive that I can do this thing than I did right after Thanksgiving Fatsgiving when I bloated up to 158lbs! Gah!

How are y'all doing? Anyone IFing the crap outta Monday?