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!!!

Thanks girl! So how do you do it with your vids of the cheering people? Is that from YT too?

8 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Thanks girl! So how do you do it with your vids of the cheering people? Is that from YT too?

No, those are gifs

An animated gif is an image that's been encoded using the graphics interchange format where it has multiple frames encoded into a single image file and a web browser or other software will play those images back in animated sequence automatically. ... An animated GIF is a digital version of that.

Edited January 22, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

"For a lot of y'all, food is a control issue..." (BRILLIANT!)

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

CONSPIRACY THEORY

So it's awefully quiet round here this week. My Spidey senses detect a subtle shift in the space-time continuum that I can't explain.

I'm wondering if @sillykitty, @GreenTealael, and @sideeye are meeting somewhere and are also contributing to the melting of the polar ice caps?

I think @sideeye & @GreenTealael would welcome a little polar melting right about now

I'm here, just busy with this little annoyance called work. Then there is spending time with "I think he's finally officially my bf". Final time suck is finalization of an upcoming vacation ... two weeks to go!

3 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

I think @sideeye & @GreenTealael would welcome a little polar melting right about now

I'm here, just busy with this little annoyance called work. Then there is spending time with "I think he's finally officially my bf". Final time suck is finalization of an upcoming vacation ... two weeks to go!

Congrats on evolving to BF status! (Maybe even bigger congrats on planning another vaca that begins in 2 freaking weeks! ROFLMAO!!! How's the car?

Edited January 22, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

1 minute ago, FluffyChix said:

Congrats on evolving to BF status! (Maybe even bigger congrats on planning another vaca that begins in 2 freaking weeks! ROFLMAO!!!

Boyfriends may come and go but vacation selfies are for life!

Just now, sillykitty said:

Boyfriends may come and go but vacation selfies are for life!

Who is the lucky vaca-mate? And where are you goin? DEETS please?

Oh I was recovering from my homecoming... Frozen pipes but very fiery late night

Just now, GreenTealael said:

Oh I was recovering from my homecoming... Frozen pipes but very fiery late night

pipes schmipes ... this fiery late night is what we need deets on!

2 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

pipes schmipes ... this fiery late night is what we need deets on!

Girl

DEETS! DEETS!!!

kserrynotserry about the pipes...well, of course, I AM, it's just the other...the other!

Just now, FluffyChix said:

DEETS! DEETS!!!

kserrynotserry about the pipes...well, of course, I AM, it's just the other...the other!

Chix

Absence apparently makes the heart grow fonder, and leaving to create distance/space for him to think didn't help any. I was pretty much bum rushed.

4 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Who is the lucky vaca-mate? And where are you goin? DEETS please?

Vacay mate is a long time friend and travel partner. All my travels are with 3 different travel buddies.

Adventure TB - We go on the trips that are a little more out of the box (for Americans at least). We got our feet wet over a decade ago with Barcelona and Paris, and since then have done Honduras, Turkey, Colombia, Vietnam/Cambodia, Ireland (self drive, which was the adventure aspect )

Bucket List TB - Started traveling with this TB a few years back, more traditional bucket list trips, Venice, Oktoberfest, Rome, Greece in 2020

Maternal TB - Also started traveling with my mom a decade ago. We do more traditional and more relaxing type trips, especially if they are focused on nature and natural beauty. We've done Tuscany, Scotland, Caribbean, Mexico. We also did Rome and Israel/Jordan, but plan on more relaxing type vacations going forward. We have Iceland later this year, and a Safari planned for 2020.

This upcoming vacay is with Adventure TB ... here's a hint ...