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!!!

4 minutes ago, AEdoesRnY said:

Maybe I will also see if I can finally get into broccoli/cauliflower - they’ve never been my jam but I feel like with the right seasoning/sauce/preparation maybe I’ll like them!

I have baby carrots and bell pepper as Snacks right now which I love, but it’s time for me to start branching out more with veggies!

All great ideas! Great choices. Look at you go! I also do well with unpeeled (has to be unpeeled) cucumbers dowsed in unfiltered ACV (drink the ACV after the cukes are gone)--also celery with the strings and radishes with a tiny bit of Kerrygold butter (think about 1/2tsp).

Also, once you start roasting veggies at 450degrees with olive oil, pepper, kosher salt, and granulated garlic you never go back! 25 minutes, toss with spatula, cook another 10 minutes or longer if you like browner veg. So dang good. Green beans and brussels sprouts and cabbage planks/steaks are great like this as well. Super dry. Super filling stick to your ribs kind of food.

7 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

All great ideas! Great choices. Look at you go! I also do well with unpeeled (has to be unpeeled) cucumbers dowsed in unfiltered ACV (drink the ACV after the cukes are gone)--also celery with the strings and radishes with a tiny bit of Kerrygold butter (think about 1/2tsp).

Also, once you start roasting veggies at 450degrees with olive oil, pepper, Kosher salt, and granulated garlic you never go back! 25 minutes, toss with spatula, cook another 10 minutes or longer if you like browner veg. So dang good. Green Beans and brussels sprouts and cabbage planks/steaks are great like this as well. Super dry. Super filling stick to your ribs kind of food.

I second the roasted veggies! Love cauliflower, carrots, and asparagus that way!

22 minutes ago, AEdoesRnY said:

Maybe I will also see if I can finally get into broccoli/cauliflower - they’ve never been my jam but I feel like with the right seasoning/sauce/preparation maybe I’ll like them!

I have baby carrots and bell pepper as Snacks right now which I love, but it’s time for me to start branching out more with veggies!

15 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

All great ideas! Great choices. Look at you go! I also do well with unpeeled (has to be unpeeled) cucumbers dowsed in unfiltered ACV (drink the ACV after the cukes are gone)--also celery with the strings and radishes with a tiny bit of Kerrygold butter (think about 1/2tsp).

Also, once you start roasting veggies at 450degrees with olive oil, pepper, Kosher salt, and granulated garlic you never go back! 25 minutes, toss with spatula, cook another 10 minutes or longer if you like browner veg. So dang good. Green Beans and brussels sprouts and cabbage planks/steaks are great like this as well. Super dry. Super filling stick to your ribs kind of food.

7 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

I second the roasted veggies! Love cauliflower, carrots, and asparagus that way!

?Agreed?

I also ? riced cauliflower made like stir fried rice.

Can I just confess that I'm not trolling for funds, but in my tiny evil heart, I want to go start a go-fund-me page to buy this apparatus so that all will be well in my world and the entire world in general--or at least 'merica? Let's make America great again? Why don't we?

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

?Agreed?

I also ? riced cauliflower made like stir fried rice.

Oooooohhhhhh hoooooo...cauli fried rice. The GREATEST!!!

18 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

?Agreed?

I also ? riced cauliflower made like stir fried rice.

I still haven't tried that ?

Thank you for all the veggie suggestions! I love asparagus and green beans but don’t make them enough, and when I do make them and other veggies I don’t put much effort/thought into how I prep them which probably contributes to me not being excited by them! Looking forward to messing around in the kitchen a bit!

8 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Dang! Smart AND eye candy! Happy Sunday!!!

April Challenge for anyone interested !

Thanks for the Challenge invite. I'll try to participate in part! Cuz they are so uplifting and motivational.

I'm starting a 42-48 hour fast today (last night after dinner) if anyone wants to jump on the fasting train with me? Had a stellar weekend and got to visit with our little nephew (in from Germany for an art show he's having out in LA). He's getting his masters in fine arts in Frankfurt and came through Houston on his way from NY to LA. He's so enormously talented and it was great being with the fam.

But now it's Monday and I'm ready to rumble!!!!! IF style!

(Oh and I'm 2% BF down since starting these longer fasts. I no longer show as 30% BF on my Tanita! Wooohooo!)

So what the heck is that thing!!!@FluffyChix and exactly how are your feathers? Mine are still uber thin (translation still looks like horse poop) but some hairs are coming in, NOT fast enough to suit me of course!

Thanks @GreenTealael for the offer but I can't do challenges, gives me too much anxiety.....

I am struggling but trying.

Fluffy, I admire your perseverance I swear I don't know how you can subsist on these long fasts.... I also worry how maintenance will look when you (we) get there. I already worry that 1200 cals a day will be forever and is that going to work long term???

57 minutes ago, Sosewsue61 said:

So what the heck is that thing!!!@FluffyChix and exactly how are your feathers? Mine are still uber thin (translation still looks like horse poop) but some hairs are coming in, NOT fast enough to suit me of course!

Thanks @GreenTealael for the offer but I can't do challenges, gives me too much anxiety.....

I am struggling but trying.

Fluffy, I admire your perseverance I swear I don't know how you can subsist on these long fasts.... I also worry how maintenance will look when you (we) get there. I already worry that 1200 cals a day will be forever and is that going to work long term???

I swear I owe this to autophagy. I'm not kidding. I can see less hanging skin and my hair is finally growing in. I have Audrey Hepburn bangs now! LOL.

Month 13 at 137lbs:

And here's the comparison B/A:

And here is the whole story.

As you can see, I'm not exactly wasting away to nothing. My thighs are still large and in charge and although I still have my Gibbs fanny, it's become an old lady booty (flat like a pancake, wide, and droops to my knees. ROFL)

Edited April 1, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

So, I'm just over the 1 year mark, and I'm down well over 100 lbs. Been floating in the upper 180's now. Still IF pretty much every day. Dealing with some really crazy hormonal / anxiety junk, plus my back is super screwed up. 3 busted vertebrate, 6 bulging discs, yay.

That said... I'd rather be dealing with some crippling anxiety and back pain than deal with being overweight!

Here is a shot of the wife and I from a Mardi Gras party. I was 194 in this photo.

1 hour ago, Sosewsue61 said:

So what the heck is that thing!!!@FluffyChix and exactly how are your feathers? Mine are still uber thin (translation still looks like horse poop) but some hairs are coming in, NOT fast enough to suit me of course!

Thanks @GreenTealael for the offer but I can't do challenges, gives me too much anxiety.....

I am struggling but trying.

Fluffy, I admire your perseverance I swear I don't know how you can subsist on these long fasts.... I also worry how maintenance will look when you (we) get there. I already worry that 1200 cals a day will be forever and is that going to work long term???

I understand completely. Check this one out ... Not anxiety inducing at all. Very low key. Its designed. As self directed for the participants and you only have to do what keeps you happy and motivated ?

Edited April 1, 20197 yr by GreenTealael