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!!!

Hello everyone! I’m trying out intermittent fasting to get past no/slow weight loss I’ve come into now that I’m close to 9mo post op and weigh much less. Sooooo I hope you don’t mind it if I join you guys here and ask questions! While fasting what do you use to sweeten coffee and tea? Also, how bad is a splash of fair life milk in the coffee? I want to get all the benefits of fasting that I’ve read about so if need be I will just stick to water if those things will indeed get in the way.

15 minutes ago, alioolala said:

Hello everyone! I’m trying out intermittent fasting to get past no/slow weight loss I’ve come into now that I’m close to 9mo post op and weigh much less. Sooooo I hope you don’t mind it if I join you guys here and ask questions! While fasting what do you use to sweeten coffee and tea? Also, how bad is a splash of fair life milk in the coffee? I want to get all the benefits of fasting that I’ve read about so if need be I will just stick to Water if those things will indeed get in the way.

What do you use as sweeteners?

Helpful videos attached

Liquid stevia or Splenda. I also use mio in my water. I will check out those links, thank you!

On 4/14/2019 at 1:35 PM, alioolala said:

Hello everyone! I’m trying out intermittent fasting to get past no/slow weight loss I’ve come into now that I’m close to 9mo post op and weigh much less. Sooooo I hope you don’t mind it if I join you guys here and ask questions! While fasting what do you use to sweeten coffee and tea? Also, how bad is a splash of fair life milk in the coffee? I want to get all the benefits of fasting that I’ve read about so if need be I will just stick to Water if those things will indeed get in the way.

Welcome! Glad you're here. Please post often! We heart new playmates!

Just watched this YouTube with Dr. Longo and Dr. Hyman. Fascinating absolutively fascinating!!

(The bottom line is that there is no "one size fits all diet from a perspective of macros." It's all based on your nutritional status, metabolic health, age, etc..

Cool stuff.

Edited April 15, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

On 04/15/2019 at 17:44, FluffyChix said:

Welcome! Glad you're here. Please post often! We heart new playmates!

Thank you fluffy! I hope to be as successful as you guys over here.

Ok experimented again with Olive Garden 2 more times. Hehehehe

Ate everything I wanted LOL- endless salad and like 3 bread sticks each time. 1 time I had 1/3 of a tiramisu ?

Each time my weight bounced up for a night and went right back down after a mega BM (TMI but that's how we roll ?)

155lbs is where my body likes to play. But I was in Hell Week (luteal) so i did need more cals as well ????

Edited April 16, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

18 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Ok experimented again with Olive Garden 2 more times. Hehehehe

Ate everything I wanted LOL- endless salad and like 3 bread sticks each time. 1 time I had 1/3 of a tiramisu ?

Each time my weight bounced up for a night and went right back down after a mega BM (TMI but that's how we roll ?)

155lbs is where my body likes to play. But I was in Hell Week (luteal) so i did need more cals as well ????

Whooooohooooo! Love success!!! AND love

wait for it...

Mega BMs!!!!!!

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4 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Whooooohooooo! Love success!!! AND love

wait for it...

Mega BMs!!!!!!

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? Thank you Thank you Thank you ?

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Hello IF gang!

Has anyone managed to get to 48 hours? I just finished the Obesity Code (great book) and I have managed a two 20 fasts and just finished a 33 hour fast. I could have went longer since I didn't feel any adverse effects or hunger but I dunno--I freaked out. Like I am terrified I am going to suddenly pass out from an electrolyte imbalance or something will go amiss with my BP (I have hypertension). I need some IF balls, people!!!

6 minutes ago, YeahOkay31 said:

Hello IF gang!

Has anyone managed to get to 48 hours? I just finished the Obesity Code (great book) and I have managed a two 20 fasts and just finished a 33 hour fast. I could have went longer since I didn't feel any adverse effects or hunger but I dunno--I freaked out. Like I am terrified I am going to suddenly pass out from an electrolyte imbalance or something will go amiss with my BP (I have hypertension). I need some IF balls, people!!!

Congrats!!! IKR? The longest I've been able to do was 42hours and I didn't feel so great. I kept worrying about my blood pressure and maybe being malnourished? My bp went very high.

But I'm losing, so I just keep working on building my fasting muscle.

How do you feel? Welcome back btw!!

Edited April 18, 20197 yr by FluffyChix

Lol, okay so @FluffyChix wisely talked me down from a true IF since I’m only 10 weeks post-sleeve, but I still follow this thread.
I love Dr Fungs style and will so totally be trying some actual IF once I hit 6-8 months post.
What I pretty much do every single day is a 16:8. My sleeve is soooooo tight in the morning that only water (and more recently coffee) will sit well in the morning and I usually have zero food of any kind till 11am-ish. I try to make sure I have nothing after 7pm and I take an 800mcg Chromium supplement with my evening meal.
I have to admit that the only reason I start eating at 11am is that it freaks me out to not have protein coming in after 15-16 hours of fasting and I know my sleeve is only going to be able to hold so much this early so I don’t (and shouldn’t) go longer.
However, have gone a couple occasions where the fast has been longer and I felt great.

Can’t wait to play around with a 24 then 48 hour fast in a few months

15 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Lol, okay so @FluffyChix wisely talked me down from a true IF since I’m only 10 weeks post-sleeve, but I still follow this thread.
I love Dr Fungs style and will so totally be trying some actual IF once I hit 6-8 months post.
What I pretty much do every single day is a 16:8. My sleeve is soooooo tight in the morning that only Water (and more recently coffee) will sit well in the morning and I usually have zero food of any kind till 11am-ish. I try to make sure I have nothing after 7pm and I take an 800mcg Chromium supplement with my evening meal.
I have to admit that the only reason I start eating at 11am is that it freaks me out to not have Protein coming in after 15-16 hours of fasting and I know my sleeve is only going to be able to hold so much this early so I don’t (and shouldn’t) go longer.
However, have gone a couple occasions where the fast has been longer and I felt great.

Can’t wait to play around with a 24 then 48 hour fast in a few months

I think TRE is a good thing for most of us as long as we're meeting our protein needs on average each day whatever that definition is? One thing you might do is use some Premier Protein in coffee-just try 1 ounce or 1 1/2 oz. That way you are still drinking a thin liquid, but it's helping meet your protein needs! For the longest time I would do that in the early morning and then wouldn't eat until 11.

Please feel free to jump in here even if you can't IF yet.