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!!!

33 minutes ago, ummyasmin said:

Congratulations!!

I did, accidently. Didn't eat until about 4.30pm coz I was so busy. It gave me lots of lovely calories to play with for dinner but I kept it light. It meant I had to purposely eat some cheese to just up my Protein this evening (a first for me).

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Is 4:30 late enough to be a make-up day for Ramadan?

Is 4:30 late enough to be a make-up day for Ramadan?

At the moment yes (gotta love winter in the northern hemisphere) but I'd already drunk water past dawn so it wouldn't count. I think doing me ramadan catchups has accidentally put my body into natural IF mode even when I'm not purposely doing it. Which is way cool!

2 minutes ago, ummyasmin said:

At the moment yes (gotta love winter in the northern hemisphere) but I'd already drunk Water past dawn so it wouldn't count. I think doing me ramadan catchups has accidentally put my body into natural IF mode even when I'm not purposely doing it. Which is way cool!

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That's pretty much what a lot of the IF videos said, how fasting has been part of religious traditions forever. Just one of the perks of being religious.

That's pretty much what a lot of the IF videos said, how fasting has been part of religious traditions forever. Just one of the perks of being religious.

Definitely! Probably a lot of health wisdom there that we ate only just waking up to.

I actually made it to dinner without eating. So 5:30 was about 21 hours. But, had LOTs of cals for dinner. Am up 0.6lbs and I ate 1/9th of a piece (think 1 bite or 2 small bites of tirimisu--so not worth it--tasted like crap).

Back on IF today but ate late 10pm with protein shake cuz needed to get protein in. So it's gonna be a 16:8 kinda day.

3 hours ago, ummyasmin said:

Definitely! Probably a lot of health wisdom there that we ate only just waking up to.

13 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

That's pretty much what a lot of the IF videos said, how fasting has been part of religious traditions forever. Just one of the perks of being religious.

Spiritual purification and apparently other purifying properties too. I just feel sooo stupid. I fasted all the time, saw the research on mortality & longevity a decade ago and never put the pieces together

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I want my money back (college)

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157 lbs this morning, so all superficial gainz lol

thanks to IF, I now know how my body will handle glycogen... We've been officially doing this since August/September y'all!!!!

14 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

157 lbs this morning, so all superficial gainz lol

thanks to IF, I now know how my body will handle glycogen... We've been officially doing this since August/September y'all!!!!

Some of us just spent that long lurking!

Because... You know why

Today did IF for a lot longer than intended then didn't eat much (500 cals) so I caught up in the end (added 400 more) turns out waiting longer between eating and drinking is doing something good. But I added the extra cals because I did not want to wake up at night...

Today did IF for a lot longer than intended then didn't eat much (500 cals) so I caught up in the end (added 400 more) turns out waiting longer between eating and drinking is doing something good. But I added the extra cals because I did not want to wake up at night...

BaaaHhahahahaha

10 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Today did IF for a lot longer than intended then didn't eat much (500 cals) so I caught up in the end (added 400 more) turns out waiting longer between eating and drinking is doing something good. But I added the extra cals because I did not want to wake up at night...

Hilarious!!! How'd you do late nite? Any nite eating?

32 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Hilarious!!! How'd you do late nite? Any nite eating?

Fell asleep early, woke up in the middle of the night but did not eat anything... Glad I added those cals in!

Placing this here ,can't find the sophomoric thread atm, I didn't watch yet .. want to discuss soon because... He's hilarious

44 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Placing this here ,can't find the sophomoric thread atm, I didn't watch yet .. want to discuss soon because... He's hilarious

Uh-oh, guess my video is over before it starts ?