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!!!

Ok, so yesterday turned out to be a craptastic day for me as well. What I intended to be a medium day 750cals -- so i could switch out my UD/DD rotation (MD=average of an UD and DD=(UD+DD)/2) ended up being an UD over 1000cals. Gah! I have so much difficulty from Friday night through Saturday and then Sunday I finally return to the flock. Well flock me!!!

I should also mention that I had tons of fatty cheese and even butter as well as pita chips and got so sick again. Ugh. Honestly, it's crazy that I know by now I will feel very bad after eating stuff like this, so why do I still do it, knowing what will happen? I feel as if I'm rebelling and that began about the end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th month. (Oh I hear all you "I told you so-ers out there." But I'm still in adjustment mode about this. It has not vanquished me by a long shot. I WILL succeed over these urges and reign supreme in my own shell. LOL.)

So in the spirit of honesty and openness, I will post my craptastic UD as well as the good DDs and perfect UDs. LOL. At least I walked like cray yesterday!

Here are the foods I photo'd: my cobbled together lunch on Friday of l/o grilled chickie boob + 1/4 of the egg foo young (HM). And then my l/o grilled chicken avo tom lettuce wrap with carrots.

Craptastic UD Food Log 090818 (click to enlarge)

46 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Ok, so yesterday turned out to be a craptastic day for me as well. What I intended to be a medium day 750cals -- so i could switch out my UD/DD rotation (MD=average of an UD and DD=(UD+DD)/2) ended up being an UD over 1000cals. Gah! I have so much difficulty from Friday night through Saturday and then Sunday I finally return to the flock. Well flock me!!!

I should also mention that I had tons of fatty cheese and even butter as well as pita chips and got so sick again. Ugh. Honestly, it's crazy that I know by now I will feel very bad after eating stuff like this, so why do I still do it, knowing what will happen? I feel as if I'm rebelling and that began about the end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th month. (Oh I hear all you "I told you so-ers out there." But I'm still in adjustment mode about this. It has not vanquished me by a long shot. I WILL succeed over these urges and reign supreme in my own shell. LOL.)

So in the spirit of honesty and openness, I will post my craptastic UD as well as the good DDs and perfect UDs. LOL. At least I walked like cray yesterday!

Here are the foods I photo'd: my cobbled together lunch on Friday of l/o grilled chickie boob + 1/4 of the egg foo young (HM). And then my l/o grilled chicken avo tom lettuce wrap with carrots.

Craptastic UD food Log 090818 (click to enlarge)

I think as long as you have more good days than craptastic days, it balances out...

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

@GreenTealael OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! I'm so happy I know how to ping you! Thank you @sillykitty for showing me!

Feel better sweetie!!! I will say, dayum, you sure cook purty food when you're sick!! I would so eat ALL of that! What's your Soup and chicken?

@sillykitty Your day sounds delish! Love Korean/Vietnamese/many diff Chinese regional cuisines/Japanese/allthingsAsian #gimmealltheasianfood! Wow on the $30. No doggie bags I guess with AYCE I guess I would have had to stay all dayum day and focus on the expensive items--crab, lobster, shrimp, sea scallops, tenderloin, etc. Good that you met all your protein/fluid goals! Yeeehawww!

@mattz I really admire your resolve and fortitude about not eating after 6pm. I'd love to be able to work toward that--especially since I do get up early like you. But Mr. F. is rarely home before 6 and def isn't ready to eat at that time. I'll have to talk to him about that schedule and see if we can work towards it. I know eating at 8pm is slowing me down.

Where are all our other peeps who are working IF plans??? Come out, come out wherever you are!!!

Thanks! @FluffyChix the chicken was meal prepped a week ago and frozen( BBQ style on food before and after thread), I blanched broccoli normandy and that's all. For the soup I just added the chicken, vegetables and water. Instant soup! @sillykitty I can't imagine spending that much and not sneaking food out in a Ziploc in my purse ?????

Edited September 9, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

I think as long as you have more good days than craptastic days, it balances out...

That's what I'm hoping! So far I'm down 3.6lbs from last Monday weigh in but it's unofficial. Of course, most if not all of that is probably just water weight-cuz I'm still 0.4lbs up from my low weight of 262.6lbs. Today I'm doing a DD! And so far am still semi-fasting. I've had 4.5oz of PP in decaff over 4 hours. So very slow addition of those cals. I'm hoping tomorrow will bring a new low!

Meh, your craptastic day is amateur hour compared to some of mine @FluffyChix

I mean you made good choices for half he day before it all went to hell and the craving monster took over. But you still only had 1100 cals, and got a good amount of protein. Could have been a lot worse!

I know that my goal is to eat much healthier, on the whole, not necessarily every day, I also keep in mind that 1 day or 2 or 12 isn't going to wreck anything. I'm still marching towards my goal, just sometime I take a detour. I just know I have to get back on track.

5 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

Meh, your craptastic day is amateur hour compared to some of mine @FluffyChix

I mean you made good choices for half he day before it all went to hell and the craving monster took over. But you still only had 1100 cals, and got a good amount of Protein. Could have been a lot worse!

I know that my goal is to eat much healthier, on the whole, not necessarily every day, I also keep in mind that 1 day or 2 or 12 isn't going to wreck anything. I'm still marching towards my goal, just sometime I take a detour. I just know I have to get back on track.

True dat. Marchin' toward the finish! Oh and thank you for the re-assurance!!!

(Oh and also, not every entry is totally accurate. For instance the place where we had the flatbread pizza doesn't have the nutrition listed in MFP and I'm too lazy to go manually make a flatbread and save it. So to be simple, I just think the PH flatbread is probably pretty close to things and probably over. So I just find foods that are as close to the composite meal that I can and if I have to add extra items, to that listing then I do--and it's way easier than inputting it from scratch. LOL. Pizza Hut and I broke up many many many moons ago!

And like the spinach dip, I've no idea if I actually ate 6Tbsp--probably not, cuz the serving was only like a 1/2c serving and I didn't eat 1/2 of that...so I'm trying to over-estimate rather than "think" I'm eating less. You know?

Edited September 9, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

@sillykitty I can't imagine spending that much and not sneaking food out in a Ziploc in my purse ?????

3 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Your day sounds delish! Love Korean/Vietnamese/many diff Chinese regional cuisines/Japanese/allthingsAsian #gimmealltheasianfood! Wow on the $30. No doggie bags I guess with AYCE I guess I would have had to stay all dayum day and focus on the expensive items--crab, lobster, shrimp, sea scallops, tenderloin, etc.

Ha ha, I know, my dining partner and I just gulped when we realized the price, especially considering she doesn't eat much either. But I got as much for my money as possible, eating wagyu (or so they said ), ribeye, lamb and shrimp. My dining partner ate mostly chicken and carrots

But yeah, paper thin sliced raw meat and head on raw shrimp isn't the most bag it and sneak it out friendly food

@FluffyChix I'm with you on the inaccuracy and overestimating. I do the exact same thing. I'd rather err on he side of over estimating calories and serving sizes, than lying to myself that I did better than I actually did.

Today I will most likely be able to do IF. I'm golfing this afternoon, and then have late lunch plans after, so that will be my first meal. We'll see how the rest of the day goes after that

09.03.18 | 09.10.10 Weight:
166.4lbs | 161.4lbs (-5lbs Wk 1 IF)

08.20.18 Measurements | New Measurements Due 9.20.18

Chest 40.5
Waist 32.5
Hips 41.5
Neck 13.5
Right Thigh 22
Left Thigh 22
Right Arm 11
Left Arm (Lymphedema from cancer) 12.5

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Woohooo! Despite some less-than-great choices, this was a pretty good week for IF from a weight perspective. Won't know the true value until I measure in about another week+ because I believe the measuring tape more accurately tracks fat loss or fat/muscle equilibrium. I'm very satisfied with these results and look forward to doing more of it. (Of course, I think most of this is water weight, but I'd be happy with a couple of those pounds being actual fat loss!)

Yesterday was fairly on-track despite the cravings! Damn! I wanted serious shenanigans in the form of pita chips and cheese! Gosh is that monster strong-willed. I thought I'd perhaps snuffed him out over the past few months--but I think once a carb monkey, always a carb monkey and the only way to keep it at bay is to stay low carb (and keep the mother trucker out of my house)!! I would have liked better macros (more protein to meet my 74g goal and less fat grams).

Yesterdays food was yummy. Two meals + PP Coffee + Bacon (1/4 piece)

B1/B2: Protein Coffee

L: shrimp and chicken taco salad sans chips

D: l/o blackened salmon, broccoli with Molly McB, sliced tomatoes (Big Brother night so pardon the flash and TV tray. What you can't see is me in my flannel PJs in my recliner and BB on in the background. LOLOLOLOL!)

Here's yesterdays (09.09.18) Food Log: (click to enlarge)

Oh, I forgot to add, it's going to be a crazy week with quite a few networking demands for business which means nights out with dinner/drinks. Then my birthday celebration Sunday night and next Monday. Whanh whanh whanh...it's easy to be good in a vacuum. Not so easy to be good when living life out with others. Super duper nervous about this!

So I'm gonna do as many DDs as possible on the "off days". The JUDDDD research shows that you can go about 3 days without tanking your metabolism being calorie restricted. So I'm going to go for back-to-back DDs again and another one on Wednesday--then will try to have a Saturday DD. (that will be a challenge for sure).

DD/UD Rotation for the week:
Sun-M-W-Sat - DDs (500 cals)

Tue-Thur-F - UD (1000+ cals)

Edited September 10, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

Tried to keep it up this weekend... but didn't do all that great. Long, stressful, emotionally trying weekend. Ate like an a*****e... but, I'm still down .5 lbs this morning so... yay? Back on the horse we go!

9 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Tried to keep it up this weekend... but didn't do all that great. Long, stressful, emotionally trying weekend. Ate like an a*****e... but, I'm still down .5 lbs this morning so... yay? Back on the horse we go!

I completely understand! ((hugs)) Congrats on still being down 0.5lbs today! I don't get how we can be totally rational hbs, sticking to our plan during the week--then completely lose it by Friday night. Or at least that seems to be my pattern. I gotta get more boring peeps--it's all their fault. Right? hehe. Anyways. Today is a brand new day!!! Have a good one Matt!

BTW. I'm sorry you had a stressful and emotionally trying weekend. We're here if you want/need to vent!

@Matt Z One of the things about IF is you don't need to do it everyday. I like that if I can't do it a day, or 2 or 3, that' ok, and it's not a failure

@FluffyChix Whoo hoo! Congrats on the 5 lb loss. That's HUGE at the point, so close to goal! Good job controlling the craving monster, that always feels like a victory to me, no matter what the scale says.

2 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Oh, I forgot to add, it's going to be a crazy week with quite a few networking demands for business which means nights out with dinner/drinks. Then my birthday celebration Sunday night and next Monday. Whanh whanh whanh...it's easy to be good in a vacuum. Not so easy to be good when living life out with others. Super duper nervous about this!

Ugh, I feel you on this. This is my life. At home it's easier to behave. But put me in front of a menu and I'm ordering a pimento cheese sandwich instead of the grilled chicken salad every time.

2 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

The JUDDDD research shows that you can go about 3 days without tanking your metabolism being calorie restricted. So I'm going to go for back-to-back DDs again and another one on Wednesday--then will try to have a Saturday DD. (that will be a challenge for sure).

I'm so hoping that's not true!

Yesterday was ok for IF. I didn't have my first meal until 5 pm, so a loooong fast. But dumba$$ me forgot to bring my water on to the golf course, so I had to drink some of my partners G2, so had a few calories there, starting at 1pm. Had dinner, protein shake, all was good until I was hungry again and the hummus was calling my name from the fridge. Ate with in a 4 hr window (not including G2), but could have been better.

This week I'm home, so should be able to eat better and do IF better. But I woke up early and am already hungry, very unusual for me. So it's not starting out great. What did I just say about it being easier to behave at home?