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!!!

23 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

?? Wow! Sounds like you're saying I get plenty of all 3 kinds of "exercise?"

We all do!

5 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

We all do!

Seriously perplexed at that bit of snarky to me from you.

Just sayin. Things that make you go "Hmmm."

SMH

41 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Seriously perplexed at that bit of snarky to me from you.

Just sayin. Things that make you go "Hmmm."

SMH

Sorry, no offense meant. Just a joke that fell flat

5 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

But running down rabbit holes counts as exercise, right? Just like jumping to conclusions and running your mouth!

Jumping to conclusions is my fav exercise ?...

Edited April 25, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

Almost to 60 hours! Around 40 hours I started to feel weird but I took a walk and got some smart water and made it through. Salt has definitely been my buddy this fast.

Wow! Look at you go girl!!! You're a rockstar!!! Go go gadget!

13 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Sorry, no offense meant. Just a joke that fell flat

Stay in your lane, Orchids. ??

Jokes that bomb on this forum are usually my job. ?

Yeah Okay, I prefer shocked silence to derisive laughter in the first place, don't you?

3 hours ago, YeahOkay31 said:

Almost to 60 hours! Around 40 hours I started to feel weird but I took a walk and got some smart Water and made it through. Salt has definitely been my buddy this fast.

Damn girl... Meanwhile tempting the dumping fates ?

3 hours ago, YeahOkay31 said:

Stay in your lane, Orchids. ??

Jokes that bomb on this forum are usually my job. ?

Oh no y'all didn't...

I'm the Corny Meme King

??????

Touché @GreenTealael You are meme queen in these parts.

I made it to 60 hours (happy dance). Will do my normal 18:6 tomorrow. Still hiding from the scale since Easter---I was a bad bunny. But I will get on tomorrow and see if I am lower than 187.

On 04/25/2019 at 06:54, YeahOkay31 said:

Almost to 60 hours! Around 40 hours I started to feel weird but I took a walk and got some smart Water and made it through. Salt has definitely been my buddy this fast.

Wow!
Okay so I’m still not ready to start this as my sleeve is too new to have feast days, but I can’t wait to start.
What app is that if you don’t mind me asking?

Does running late count?

15 hours ago, Sheribear68 said:

Wow!
Okay so I’m still not ready to start this as my sleeve is too new to have feast days, but I can’t wait to start.
What app is that if you don’t mind me asking?

It is called the Life app.

Sorry in advance for the long post. But had a revelation I want to share and hope you can take encouragement from it.

One of the many things I love about IF, is that it's helping me forge a new trusting relationship with my "dragon," the inner 2 year old who still tries to surface and throw hedonic ("rewards" originating from the lizard brain = pre-brain = hypothalmus = brain stem) tempertantrums in order to get my "fix," whatever that fix happens to be. (Name your poison.) For us MO people (even skinny MOs), chances are we've dueled with our lizard aka dragon more times than we can know or even remember. It's part of what got us a lifetime ticket to the Obesity Ball, and means that forever until eternity, we have a different set of "road rules" for eating than naturally skinny people or people who've never experienced an excess weight or metabolic problem.

For the longest time, I had no trust in my hedonic bad self. In fact I often refered to myself as a mid-hedonist. But since words have meaning and can cue intent, maybe I need to rethink that title. Maybe I should claim "Recovering Mid Hedonist"? LOL! RMH! Yeah, that has a nice ring.

Anyway, IF has taught me, and @sillykitty has talked about this many times in her journey, most excellently and succinctly, but it's taught me to trust myself on Feast meals. Last night I had a feast "meal" or rather, experience. And I lived it up. But it was SO different than in days past. Very limited off-plan foods in very small servings (some no more than a taste), and portion controlled regular size healthy foods. And only 2 very small glasses of dark dry red wine.

This morning, I woke up and was 3 lbs up on the scale after a very nutrient dense 3 days of fasting mimicking diet. At first that might have sent me into a tailspin of depression and defeat which would have led to me feeding my dragon wildly inappropriate hedonistic "rewards" punishments. But instead, I actively made my choices for that one "meal". I KNEW and accepted the consequences of my choices/action and even knew ahead of time how badly the scale would reflect the near-Bacchanalia. And when I saw the 3lbs, I knew it was fluid. I knew I just needed to write the number down and get started with my day. And btw, I KNOW I need a good solid visit to the throne. hehe but TMI.

So now, I'm back to my fasting day and am doing a KetoBiotic fast for the next few days filled with deeply nutritious veggies, blueberries, pecans, spirulina, and other rich polyphenols and fibers and filled with brain food: salmon, sardines, liver, eggs and I know I will be back to my posted weight of 133lbs by Monday. No sweat. No tears. No recriminations. No beatings. No lie.

It's just another day in paradise working my plan on my way to Goal #3.

I could not have claimed that when I started this journey or even in my early honeymoon with WLS. Life is an evolution. Evolve my friends.