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!!!

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

Yay broth!!! I may join on some long fasts again!!!

Dooooo eeet! We'll support each other! We are gonna do it each week on Mondays and Tuesdays starting after Sunday night dinner at 8pm. And I swear with the cup of bone broth and a few spinach leaves floating in it with a tiny bit of mushrooms, it's VERY do-able. Totally took the angst out of things. Was having a TON of nor-epinephrine/adrenaline spikes last night!

I think we will break our fast tonight just cuz this is the first long one. But next week, now we see we can do it, I think we'll try to go to Wednesday morning. And if I see me losing too much, then I won't do it. But right now, that isn't the issue. I'm only at my posted weight today of 142.4lbs.

5 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Dooooo eeet! We'll support each other! We are gonna do it each week on Mondays and Tuesdays starting after Sunday night dinner at 8pm. And I swear with the cup of Bone Broth and a few spinach leaves floating in it with a tiny bit of mushrooms, it's VERY do-able. Totally took the angst out of things. Was having a TON of nor-epinephrine/adrenaline spikes last night!

I think we will break our fast tonight just cuz this is the first long one. But next week, now we see we can do it, I think we'll try to go to Wednesday morning. And if I see me losing too much, then I won't do it. But right now, that isn't the issue. I'm only at my posted weight today of 142.4lbs.

Congratulations on the longevity of your fast !

I usually only do a 24hr dry fast 1 time a year and a few longer by accident. But looking forward to this after Hell Week (luteal phase)

We're mainly looking at EF (extended fasts) cuz:

1. Mr. F. is trying (and totally on board) with getting off all diabetes meds, keeping his A1c in normal range, and losing 30 pounds to start! Woot! So I want to do it with him as encouragement. I'm so proud of him. He's lost about 65lbs and has brought his blood sugars down from 250mmol/ng to 90-110mmol/ng and is already off his Invokana but also just off his metformin as of yesterday.

2. For autophagy for me cuz of the cancer + since treatment I have a tremor (mom had Parkinson's) and I've noticed it getting worse over the years.

3. To ward off dementia/alzheimers for Mr. F. and me.

4. For the last 12 lbs of fat to preserve muscle sparing while targeting fat. (I'm still taking my supplements and won't stop that even if it disrupts the autophagy.

On 03/12/2019 at 11:30, FluffyChix said:

You are ALREADY in a fasted state by virtue of the lack of calorie intake. LOL. I would rephrase this that if it were ME...I would strongly NOT do IF so soon after surgery. Seriously. WE NEED TO GET OUR PROTEIN intake steady. EAT. Eat enough veggies with your protein. Eat healthy fat. If you want, become keto adapted not only cuz of your calorie intake but by keeping your carbs low and protein adequate. That's gonna take MUCH longer than 2 weeks. Let the surgery do the job it's meant to do and control the QUALITY of your diet more than the quantity right now. At some point quantity will become an issue but not in the early days--maybe not even until the 9-10th month...

At about the 6month mark it would be appropriate to entertain ideas about IF, but even then that may be too soon.

This is just my opinion. I clearly am not an RD or doc. LOL. And I don't play one on the internet.

Thanks so much for the input.
Okay, so I’m going to continue to follow this thread and see what y’all are doing, and when I feel the time is right (once I’ve lost most of my weight and feel as if I’m truly hitting a plateau) I’ll start playing around with IF to maybe get the last 10-15% off that I’m sure won’t come off easily.

49 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Thanks so much for the input.
Okay, so I’m going to continue to follow this thread and see what y’all are doing, and when I feel the time is right (once I’ve lost most of my weight and feel as if I’m truly hitting a plateau) I’ll start playing around with IF to maybe get the last 10-15% off that I’m sure won’t come off easily.

Enjoy your WLS journey ... It may not be as perilous as you think. And enjoy life too ?

Another guy to tune into--he's pretty fun to watch.

Ha! I'm lovin' this guy!

6 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Another guy to tune into--he's pretty fun to watch.

5 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Ha! I'm lovin' this guy!

The thumbnails looks ridiculous...

Obviously I'm going to watch them early in the morning

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They are so funny. But he knows his stuff and I'm learning MORE>>>>>>>>>...lool.

I f-ing knew it!!!! Animal proteins do move super slowly through me.

Agreed!

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Agreed!

Thanks for sharing!

Ahhh ? ? ? ... thanks you guys!

And yes, for the record, my head definitely swells when I'm feeling hot af in an outfit. My naked self helps to regulate my head size!

Oh nekkidity...my frienemy!

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Oh nekkidity...my frienemy!

UGH- nekkidity - after my surgery, the drain was put in a really awkward place, too low on my right side for me to change the dressings. So, hubby had to do it. Only way to do it was bright light and naked from the waist down. aarrrggghhh! That lower-tummy is soooo fugly! I definitely prefer low lights for shenanigans. I can live with whatever he discovers by the Braille method, but lit up like Times Square was so embarrassing. Even after almost 30 years of marriage, a girl'd like to have a little dignity left!