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!!!

Right now I still get full off of 2.5oz of chicken or beef (always grilled no fat or sauce added) so if I eat veggies it’s usually between meals. An example of a “snack” would be 4 raw broccoli bite size pieces dipped I 1 T of hummus OR 1/2 a large pickle. I’ve done so well since I had my sleeve and it’s so scary bc really this is my first “stall” I’ve had. It’s like my body doesn’t want to get into the 160s at all despite eating the same foods I’ve always eaten ?

I swear it's gonna happen!! Your meals sound great!! But I would maybe only do TRE (time restricted eating, as long as you make sure you can get enough meals in!!!). Like a 16:8...

Your stall will break. You are doing so great!!!

On 5/15/2019 at 12:47 PM, FluffyChix said:

Also you are doing WONDERFULLY!!!!! It's ok to take a week off. Just keep flexing and building your fasting muscle hon!!!

Aw, many thanks! But I think an 8 day binge takes away all brownie points ?

didnt make my 48 hours. Ate after 20 and turned it into an OMAD day (redundancies...). 23 hours in today. Hopefully I make it to 36. Being a bit smarter about my BP this time around and taking 50 calories of solid non carby food with my BP pills to avoid me having to quit because of spikes. That rules out autophagy but it’s better than not fasting.

The resetters always seem so complicated!! I don’t know if I have the discipline and focus for it with my schedule. But I will take a look. Btw, don’t know if this is Keto/IF related but my period stopped. I am 37 so while possible, I doubt it’s menopause. I am sure to get an earful if I bring fasting up with the obgyn.

And the damage done by an 8 day binge....10 pounds??? my body sucks. Scientifically that means I consumed 35,000 calories in 8 days (which I didn’t even come close to). Ah, the wondrously broken biochemistry of the formally obese....

On 5/15/2019 at 12:55 PM, Sheribear68 said:

Still here and still observing and learning.
I’m now >3 months post-surgery so not quite ready to jump on the IF train just yet


Question: when did most of y’all feel like you were far enough out from surgery to start IF?
My sleeve is usually so tight in the morning that I’m basically doing 14:10 or 15:9 every day because about the only thing besides Water I can take in before 11am is coffee with a couple ounces milk.

Once midday to early evening hits, I can hold about 1-1.25 cups of food in my sleeve before the pain hits

I didn’t start IF until month 11. I gained 8 pounds in March from eating off plan. I was able to take it off plus three with IF & EF.

Its a good thing to have in the arsenal but not this early out in the battle plan. I still have issues getting in my nutrients on IF.

I'm planning on completing a couple extended fasts soon: Water fasts and dry fast

Likely towards the end of the month but I'll keep y'all posted

On 05/16/2019 at 15:08, FluffyChix said:

I swear it's gonna happen!! Your meals sound great!! But I would maybe only do TRE (time restricted eating, as long as you make sure you can get enough meals in!!!). Like a 16:8...

Your stall will break. You are doing so great!!!

Thank you fluffy! I hope to be as successful as you one day ?

Ok, it's been a minute.

Want to learn some brainiac stuff? LOL. How bout a little Siim with your autophagy?

Powerful stuff. Dang am I learning new things...

Hello everybody! I am very new to this fasting, doing it for 9 days now, it helps me be more aware of what I eat (if I eat all day there is space for crap eating too :p if I have to eat my Proteins within a given window I have to chose what I eat more carefully!) I try to do low carbs high fat at this time and it is working wonders so far. Overall I am happy with my decision to start this.
I had my surgery in October, I am 7 months out. I was logging all my foods now religiously (could not bother before because they were wider spread :p)
Well that’s all for now, will be lurking around here too from now on :)

1 hour ago, RoRoKitty said:

Hello everybody! I am very new to this fasting, doing it for 9 days now, it helps me be more aware of what I eat (if I eat all day there is space for crap eating too ? if I have to eat my Proteins within a given window I have to chose what I eat more carefully!) I try to do low carbs high fat at this time and it is working wonders so far. Overall I am happy with my decision to start this.
I had my surgery in October, I am 7 months out. I was logging all my foods now religiously (could not bother before because they were wider spread :p)
Well that’s all for now, will be lurking around here too from now on

Yay! Welcome and glad you're here and beginning to develop a "forever" plan!!! Wooohooo. I swear by logging, but others do not feel a similar need. That's ok! If it helps you, then that's a keeper tool for you! Be sure to browse each page cuz there are awesome vids attached to many of them, and very deep info givin' by many pros in our group! We are all happily either losing or maintaining with IF and our own disciplined plans!

How tall are you? I see your goal is 110. That should make you around 5'1" perhaps?

That is my first goal, it is in kilos no pounds, so it is a big goal, it is about 240 pounds. I am 5’7” (1,70m)
I think my ultimate goal will be anything between 180-220 I will be happy with anything over that range :p although everybody keeps saying that the more you lose the more you wanna keep losing! At the moment I won’t mind being chubby as long as I am healthy. (I started at 452 so all these numbers seem tiny to me atm hehe )

1 minute ago, RoRoKitty said:

That is my first goal, it is in kilos no pounds, so it is a big goal, it is about 240 pounds. I am 5’7” (1,70m)
I think my ultimate goal will be anything between 180-220 I will be happy with anything over that range ? although everybody keeps saying that the more you lose the more you wanna keep losing! At the moment I won’t mind being chubby as long as I am healthy. (I started at 452 so all these numbers seem tiny to me atm hehe )

Ohhh! LOL. Totally missed your kg! I saw that you were 140 on your ticker and immediately thought 140lbs. TY for sharing that!

Huge props and congrats on your major accomplishments btw!!

Thank you so much sweetie :))) I finished another successful day today ! Have a great one all too!!

5 minutes ago, RoRoKitty said:

Thank you so much sweetie :))) I finished another successful day today ! Have a great one all too!!

Yay!!!! Congrats! And it won't be long before you ARE at 140lbs...(if that's where you want to be.)

Long time lurker...First time poster on this thread.

I am only six months out but have always been interested in IF - before wls I could never quite get in the groove.

Is six months to early to give IF a whirl?

I will ask my RD in July when I have my next appointment. I'm just impatient by nature and thought you all might have started before your year-aversary.

I will just research and follow this thread for the time being.