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 lurking, speed reading like 4 pages of posts. In hotel in Paducah KY for Quilt Week. Hubs is grilling salmon, I stir-fried veggies. Will post what I eat but here is my handy-dandy Wee Skillet that I hope never gets me kicked out of the hotel for cooking in the room. I don't have my IF schedule quite worked out yet.

5 hours ago, sillykitty said:

Too funny ... that is the one place on my "must repeat" list! Only spent 3 days there and it wasn't enough.

Did you not enjoy Paris?

I did but I spent too much time there and ultimately for me being from NYC ( y'all know how much I love it -not) it's like NYC with french subtitles... I'd rather take it down the coast next time...

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

Yes, I am having wine. I need wine, trust me.... white muscadine from Frogtown Cellars, N GA winery mmmmm

@Sosewsue61 Yummy dinner!!! LOL on the wine! What happens at Quilt Week? Very inventive use of the hotel girlie. WTG! Do they have "suites" where you are? They are hotels that have a little sitting area/kitchenette with a stove top and sink--even an apartment sized fridge and dishwasher! Many come with the plates, forks, and glasses you need too. They are less expensive that "nice hotels" even. $80-$119/night? We love staying in those types of places cuz of being able to cook.

Your food looks and sounds delish!!!

16 hours ago, sillykitty said:

Don't hate me

Oh, I don't hate you, but I will confess to profound jealousy! I knew we had similar tastes!

Ok, well yesterday I had zero. Count them. Zero problems doing an UD. LOLOLOLOL. I had over 1200 cals I think? Most of it was good-for-you-stuff, then there was the budgeted cheese popcorn and peanuts at the ball game. I'm not hatin' it. This morning, I woke up and did my core strengthening exercises and weighed. After yesterday's UD, I'm only up 0.4lbs. Hells I will take that as a ginormous win!!!

Today I'm gonna do a DD of 500cals. I am gonna delay eating as late as a I can. I ate until 11:30pm last night (last night had a late night snack of cherries and almonds--unplanned but enjoyed). We lost thank you very much. Playoffs start next week. So we will be going. Think it's a Thursday night game?

We had dinner at Beck's Prime (a burger place) and I had one of their dinners: Robert's Chicken and Veggies. I ate half the breast and 1/3 of the veggies. Very good stuff. Sorry no pics. We were with friends and I didn't want to be a tool and take pics of my food. They don't know about my surgery and I want to keep it that way. I did well, but I did have one french fry and one sweet potato fry. Meh...they weren't in the budget. But I still count it as a win.

L-l/o chicken saltimbocca

AS-Asian salad with l/o grilled salmon (photo taken while having my rest and watching a Hallmark Movie wrapped up in my fake fur Blankley.

Here's yesterday's Ugly Food Log (click to enlarge)

Still trucking along this week. No major "violations" or slip ups... it's getting much easier to extend past the 6pm - 8am fasting hours at this point. Stall broke, weight's starting to slide off again. I've got 27 lbs to shed in the next 61 days to meet my dream goal of being the weight I was when I was 20, when I turn 40 (and being the same weight I was when I was married 20 years ago)

14 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Still trucking along this week. No major "violations" or slip ups... it's getting much easier to extend past the 6pm - 8am fasting hours at this point. Stall broke, weight's starting to slide off again. I've got 27 lbs to shed in the next 61 days to meet my dream goal of being the weight I was when I was 20, when I turn 40 (and being the same weight I was when I was married 20 years ago)

WTG! I think you will hit goal way before 61 days! Congrats!!

Just now, FluffyChix said:

WTG! I think you will hit goal way before 61 days! Congrats!!

I sure do hope so! Thank you!

@FluffyChix, @sillykitty, @GreenTealael, May I ask how often do you weigh yourselves now versus when you first had WLS? And at what point did you decide IF was the way to go or try? I'm impressed, but also wondering why so soon post surgery did you decide to try IF? BTW, you ladies and Matt are doing great! Super impressed. I tried IF with Keto and it worked but I think I had other obstacles that were in my way (hence the wls).

Thanks in advance?

15 minutes ago, MargoCL said:

@FluffyChix, @sillykitty, @GreenTealael, May I ask how often do you weigh yourselves now versus when you first had WLS? And at what point did you decide IF was the way to go or try? I'm impressed, but also wondering why so soon post surgery did you decide to try IF? BTW, you ladies and Matt are doing great! Super impressed. I tried IF with Keto and it worked but I think I had other obstacles that were in my way (hence the wls).

Thanks in advance?

Hey! I don't own a scale, I'm a rebel lol, so I weigh at doctor's appointments. I decided to try IF to focus on water/fluid consumption and slow down hunger, not weight loss.

So far so good, it does seem to work the longer you do it (for me anyway). Also apparently it has a lot of benefits I was unaware of at the time I began. My weight is the same, my body is different. I think I'm losing fat.

But I really really love the fact that it broke me out of this horrible feeding pattern I created for myself after surgery, now I'm hydrating most of the day.

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

Can I just share that...

yesterday, while still sick, I placed 26 oz of water w/ceremonial grade matcha ($) in the freezer to get cold while I showered. Got dressed, I was cute too, opened the freezer, it spilled

ALL. OVER. ME.

This was the day I almost gave up IF.

LOL. but I cleaned it , showered again, drank tea. Went about my day.

I finally feel better.

2 hours ago, MargoCL said:

@FluffyChix, @sillykitty, @GreenTealael, May I ask how often do you weigh yourselves now versus when you first had WLS? And at what point did you decide IF was the way to go or try? I'm impressed, but also wondering why so soon post surgery did you decide to try IF? BTW, you ladies and Matt are doing great! Super impressed. I tried IF with Keto and it worked but I think I had other obstacles that were in my way (hence the wls).

Thanks in advance?

I started IF cuz I'm a follower of @GreenTealael and @sillykitty hehe.

Seriously though, I used to do IF a long time ago and it helped my insulin resistance tremendously and helped me lose weight in addition to my low carb lifestyle. FF to today and even though I've had surgery and am losing, every pound lost is hard won. I was eating between 600-800 (about) and if I went up closer to 800/day for an extended period, I either stalled or gained. I also know my insulin is still higher than I'm comfortable with. I am on a wonderful anti-cancer drug that shuts down my hormones and puts me in super menopause. It works, but the side effect is no hormones and weight gain. So I decided to try IF again.

I do know of the great metabolic and health benefits of IF from reading many books/studies about the subject. But even more importantly, I've experienced these improved health benefits in myself: improved asthma, better/deeper uninterrupted sleep, less pain/inflammation and fewer lymphedema events, lower bp, lower A1c, lower bgs, weight loss. And in the past couple of years it has gained momentum and popularity.

I want to have days where I can eat 1200 calories without gaining 2-6lbs! I want to have days where I can eat 1200 cals and not stall. I want to speed up my loses. Recently I've gone down to losing about 4-6lbs per month. That makes weight loss very difficult for me from a compliance stand point because one meal could conceivably wipe out an entire month of effort and so it really reduces my motivation levels!

So I just chose to go back to the kind of IF I'm used to doing and that is Dr. Johnson's regimine of alternating DDs and UDs.

Edited to Add: I weight daily--sometimes thrice daily. hehe. I was crazy long before I started this practice, but it keeps me honest. I am recording my weight here weekly on Mondays cuz it's gonna happen that the day after an UD I will be up on the scale and the day after a DD, I will or should usually be down or the same...

Edited September 12, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Can I just share that...

yesterday, while still sick, I placed 26 oz of Water w/ceremonial grade matcha ($) in the freezer to get cold while I showered. Got dressed, I was cute too, opened the freezer, it spilled

ALL. OVER. ME.

This was the day I almost gave up IF.

LOL. but I cleaned it , showered again, drank tea. Went about my day.

I finally feel better.

Way to be resilient girlie! Wooohooo! Now go do that same thing with egg whites. You talk about some potty mouth goin' down in the hizzouse! ROFLMAO!

Can I just say that eating at 11:30pm was not the brightest decision last night? Damn and no alcohol was involved in that decision--just a poor habit of a lifetime following going out to have fun--late night eating! At least I made a healthy-ish choice with Bing cherries (5) and 1/2oz almonds. But still. It's majorly FUBAR'd my schedule today!

It's 11:15am. I'm hungry and I'm JUST NOW at 12 hours (coming in 15 minutes). Then I need to go 2 more hours to my first meal. It can be done. One of those hours will be spent walking, the other will be spent working and hydrating. But still. GAH! le sigh.