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!!!

Goya powder="white people" powder hehehehe

Noooooooooo hahahahahahah

Well I learned something new today: http://savvytokyo.com/japanese-superfoods-matcha/

4 hours ago, ummyasmin said:

Goya powder, halp - is that the right stuff? 

I could be wrong! “Goya” is just “고야” phonetically. “분말” means powder, but sometimes I screw up compound words, my vocabulary isn’t extensive.

If you’re looking for different-but-good teas, barley tea (boricha/보리차) is really nice iced.

Woooooohhhhooooo green tea rules!!! So coinkydink or not? I notice weight loss on days after I drink a teapot (Chinese size) full of green tea! ?

@FluffyChix remember when you said you were losing better with green tea added to your days, you were likely right!

Jinx!

Haha! Jinx! You owe me a cuppa! ? we were posting at same time!

Rochambeaux!!! ?

In GI doc waiting room! ? laughing what’s left of my booty off!

Y'all know I just want to live forever...

#Autophagy ?

Seriously I woke up and did the squats I forgot ,????????

https://savvytokyo.com/japanese-superfoods-goya/ Just found this article while researching matcha which I am going to get asap. May have to go to Austin but going to try the Asian market here. Have to avoid my beloved Korean pears while there. Sadly, my Korean friend is in the throes of chemo and not leaving the house since I am really intimidated going in there...

@GreenTealael So funny about the green tea! I'm drinking a cup of matcha right now. "Mid-morning" break!

@MIZ60 I'm so sad to hear about your sweet friend! Prayers for a full recovery. Chemo SUX!!! LOL on being intimidated - me too! Maybe you should come here and we go together with our boys!?! We have TONS of gorgeous and very authentically intimidating Asian markets complete with fish swimming and crabs, crabbing! Bitter melon...well hells! I'm gonna have to go read more. TY for the link!!!

Ok! Tell me somepin! Where y'all be? Let's play for the next 30 minutes!!!

Go!

Quick question for Fluffy and GT--in reading about matcha the consensus seems to be ceremonial grade from Japan packed in a tin or jar. Is there a certain brand that is best or just any that meets the above criteria. There are a LOT of different ones and one that I saw at HEB also had some brown rice fiber or something in it. I just want to get the best one available since it is pretty pricey.