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!!!

58 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Cash,

You don't see how good you look?!?!? We do...

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LOL thank you, I'm starting to be able to appreciate how I look, dressed anyway.

Not sure if you saw in the other post but... here is the side by side by side. I'm proud of the weight loss, just not super jazzed about how I look naked. Hopefully a full body lift is somewhere in my future, or that this skin will shrink up a bit more over the next year or so.

LOL thank you, I'm starting to be able to appreciate how I look, dressed anyway.
Not sure if you saw in the other post but... here is the side by side by side. I'm proud of the weight loss, just not super jazzed about how I look naked. Hopefully a full body lift is somewhere in my future, or that this skin will shrink up a bit more over the next year or so.

You know I've *stalked* ahem liked these already lol

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3 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

You know I've *stalked* ahem liked these already lol

Sadly with how my access to this page has been restricted during the week due to some super nosey and it seems jealous co-worker, I haven't been able to really keep track of much on this site!

But your attention is very much appreciated *wink*

17 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Sadly with how my access to this page has been restricted during the week due to some super nosey and it seems jealous co-worker, I haven't been able to really keep track of much on this site!

But your attention is very much appreciated *wink*

Bariatric Prayers

... And protect me from the haters that will surely arise ...

Amen.

Brain Food and Water - Preventing Dimentia. Something we should all be concerned about!!! Inflammation = Type3 Diabetes = Disease.

https://www.drperlmutter.com/the-empowering-neurologist-david-perlmutter-md-and-lisa-mosconi-phd/?inf_contact_key=582d77fb5f9936c470716de025855c43842e902fbefb79ab9abae13bfcb46658

Here's another interview with Dr. Perlmutter and Dr. Walter Longo on his book/research on The Longevity Diet which is a fasting mimicking diet. His main bias for me is that he doesn't believe in the use of ketogenic diets and is very much against meat. But it was a very interesting interview.

https://www.drperlmutter.com/the-empowering-neurologist-david-perlmutter-md-and-dr-valter-longo/

Egyptian Breakfast... more elaborate than our previous! Before and after with one tiny tum & one normal tum.

Totally not IF related ... but .. whatever!

Ok, well don't just tease us! Tell us what everything is? Is that hummus, babaganoush, falafel, and omelet? Are those french fries? What an incredible breakfast! Do they eat like that every morning or would that be a feast morning? Beautiful!

Oh North Africa your breakfasts are simply divine. The Moroccans do this egg and tomato dish in the tagine that is delish too. And heaps of everything!

Omgosh, that food was just for 2 people! Yikes! And in the good 'ole days, I probably would have eaten at least half of it!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!! May you all find a "matcha" just for you!!!

Oh, and I did 3 days of 18:6 IF this week and the scale is finally cooperating! I'm down to 145.4lbs this morning. Hoping to stick the landing. I'm only 1/2lb away from my lowest low! Wooohooo!

Today, I could only make it 13hours. Woke up Starvin' Marvin'!!

Edited February 14, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

Happy IF (I had a boyfriend I may worry about to)day ?????????

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"had" or "have" - a very operational distinction. Which is it?