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, I caved last night. In my defense, we are currently undergoing The Tribulation tax prep time *sigh* *bigger sigh* *biggest sigh*.

And it's not that I ate crap, or ate a bunch of carbs...BUT, I did rip into meat and cheese (which stops the FMD diet cuz of the amino acids leucine and methionine which stop autophagy). And...there might have been a gin with grapefruit La Croix and a slice of lime.

My 3 day observation of FMD is that although it's a lot of volume (or can be), it's a lot of meal prep (washing, cutting, cooking), and I end up thinking about food WAY more than if I water fast. So my plan is actually to go back to my water fasts and feasts and do that until my Resetters FB group start the May version of their 15 Day Metabolic Reset plan. It includes fasting for autophagy, FMD, and Ketobiotic fasting. Then you will see more FMD, but only 3 days of it. I think if you did Dr. Longo's Prolon kit, it would be much easier, cuz you just open a package and go--you're still not thinking of food very much.

With Dr. Mindy Pelz's 15DMR, it's a simplified FMD. So still not thinking about food so much.

In the end...it wasn't life that got in my way. It was my poor choices that influenced me. Still a work in progress. So. Far. From. Perfect.

Was 137.0 (PP=pre-poopy). And now...unofficially down 1.2lbs. bahahahahaaha! (shhhhhhh fiber) Making an unofficial weigh in of 135.8lbs...will have to follow up to confirm tomorrow. But we have a business dinner tonight, so not holding my breath. But dang it feels good right now to believe it!

Edited April 11, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

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Well done Fluffy!!! What an achievement!! You must be on Cloud 99!!

I'm going to try a one day water-ish fast soon as I have a party to attend in 2 weeks and I really REALLY want to have lost a bit more before then!!!

Hope your dinner goes well this evening ...

xxx

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39 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Was 137.0 (PP=pre-poopy). And now...unofficially down 1.2lbs. bahahahahaaha! (shhhhhhh fiber) Making an unofficial weigh in of 135.8lbs...will have to follow up to confirm tomorrow. But we have a business dinner tonight, so not holding my breath. But dang it feels good right now to believe it!

??CONGRATS ON BARBIE DREAM WEIGHT GOALS??

2 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

??CONGRATS ON BARBIE DREAM WEIGHT GOALS??

Noooo. Not yet. No jinx's! My Goal #3 is to be 130lbs. Only then can I try to scale Mt. Kilomanjaro for the Barbie Dream Girl Weight Win of 125lbs. That may take another 6 months at this pace. Bahahahaha!

7 minutes ago, Alpaca55 said:

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Well done Fluffy!!! What an achievement!! You must be on Cloud 99!!

I'm going to try a one day water-ish fast soon as I have a party to attend in 2 weeks and I really REALLY want to have lost a bit more before then!!!

Hope your dinner goes well this evening ...

xxx

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Please make sure you are healed and your cardiac surgeon approves you doing this hon!!! It's so soon after surgery. My surgeons after recon would not let me even restrict for the first 2 months...let alone fast. But I know in 2 weeks you will be doing great with the way you are going on your LC/Keto!!! You will be smashing!!

Fluffy that is amazing! Congrats!! ??

3 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Noooo. Not yet. No jinx's! My Goal #3 is to be 130lbs. Only then can I try to scale Mt. Kilomanjaro for the Barbie Dream Girl Weight Win of 125lbs. That may take another 6 months at this pace. Bahahahaha!

OK OK I redact so no jinx ????

So I'm 155 again... IDK whatever. I see now why maintenance is a hot mess. I literally was at Olive Garden having soup salad and bread sticks followed by Halo Top this weekend / week expecting to be up and stay up. Nope I came down.

Oh and had dumping from watermelon in front of my new bf & scared the ? out of him. Watermelon is now on the no fly list. Honestly im going to really strip back my diet again anyway.

Edited April 11, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

On 04/11/2019 at 12:18, GreenTealael said:

So I'm 155 again... IDK whatever. I see now why maintenance is a hot mess. I literally was Olive Garden having Soup salad and bread sticks followed by Halo Top this weekend / week expecting to be up and stay up. Nope I came down.

Oh and had dumping from watermelon in front of my new bf & scared the ? out of him. Watermelon is now on the no fly list. Honestly im going to really strip back my diet again anyway.

Welcome to my world! ??

15 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

22 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

So I'm 155 again... IDK whatever. I see now why maintenance is a hot mess. I literally was Olive Garden having Soup salad and bread sticks followed by Halo Top this weekend / week expecting to be up and stay up. Nope I came down.

Oh and had dumping from watermelon in front of my new bf & scared the ? out of him. Watermelon is now on the no fly list. Honestly im going to really strip back my diet again anyway.

Welcome to my world! ??

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It is suspiciously odd that if I eat some bread I tend to drop a little weight...

This has happened a few times now

Just now, GreenTealael said:

It is suspiciously odd that if I eat some bread I tend to drop a little weight...

This has happened a few times now

Aw man! So sorry to hear about the dumping -- but I'm so excited Boo is still on Fantasy Island after having witnessed it. You might have been tempted to take him out so there'd be no witnesses! ((hugs)) Damn on the watermelon though. That's a tragedy.

And if you AND @sillykitty prove the advice of "when stalled, eat more," I'm gonna have to stab my eyes out with a dull toothpick. Cuz that would suck so bad that it doesn't work round heah. #fuckme But on a brighter note, I'm so happy you are back at 155 after a round of super eating at Olive Garden!!! Wahhhhooooo. Did you eat massive amounts? Or only a little bit?

10 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Aw man! So sorry to hear about the dumping -- but I'm so excited Boo is still on Fantasy Island after having witnessed it. You might have been tempted to take him out so there'd be no witnesses! ((hugs)) Damn on the watermelon though. That's a tragedy.

And if you AND @sillykitty prove the advice of "when stalled, eat more," I'm gonna have to stab my eyes out with a dull toothpick. Cuz that would suck so bad that it doesn't work round heah. #fuckme But on a brighter note, I'm so happy you are back at 155 after a round of super eating at Olive Garden!!! Wahhhhooooo. Did you eat massive amounts? Or only a little bit?

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I really worked the unlimited salad bit. I only had maybe a 1.5 bread sticks. The four baskets... That was all for him. Hehehe. And we split the soup and entree of eggplant. So not crazy but i definitely didn't feel like I held back. And I guess Halo Top isn't exactly breaking anyone's diet ?

But maybe my body teally is trying to maintain around 155...

I can TOTALLY live with that ?

This is pretty brilliant. It's a podcast. And it's about leptin, mTOR, insulin, intermittent fasting and hedonic satisfaction.

https://siimland.com/how-does-mtor-regulate-appetite-through-leptin/?fbclid=IwAR3HF92SX2jVLECqasVDvyNPc_lCPBC8jYrKtrJCyJP24do7282VJy37DN0