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:

LOL, I have to share this with you guys here cuz you will appreciate this. This was on FB this morning from A DOCTOR, and MD...now granted, this doctor is MO by anyone's scale. And has no business preaching "healthy dietary improvements" until he fixes his own issues. But man. He termed this his HEALTHY GREEN DETOX SMOOTHY and gave the recipe for it. So I plugged it into MFP. And this is for 1 smoothy. LOL. Dear god. In what universe is it "healthy" to blend 1 tiny cup of spinach up with all this other gut bomb? 87g of carbs and 53g of sugar in 1 SMOOTY!!! And he's calling it "healthy". No wonder we are all having weight issues! 'merica. Come on. Use your brain!

Yup that was me at Wholefoods. Being super duper heathy. And granted it is by some standard because its not soda but i realize from experience that you can't/don't quite see it until you diligently need to track everything.

53g of sugar! *snort*

2 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

53g of sugar! *snort*

Yeah decided to stripdown/modify my green drinks after surgery

Wow! Beauty! Thanks for the recipe!!!

Usually when people realize I have teenagers, they're like huh?!?

You have teenagers???? Huh??[emoji15] Wow!!!
IF it is!! As soon as I can!

On 08/05/2019 at 11:52, FluffyChix said:

@GreenTealael has been doing the PP in her coffee the whole time and has had no probs! She's super successful! So I see no reason for you to change it up. Who cares about hardcore. And don't put that pressure on yourself to have 2lbs / week consistent. Cuz weight loss is never linear. It's a great "target" but if you don't make it, meh, it's not the end of the world.

You are doing great!!!

Lol. Yeah I was basically meaning as an average for August.
Should’ve said goal for August is to ditch 8 pounds. ??

Yeah, I’m still too soon out from surgery to be purist or to even think about going >18 hrs fasting.
Besides, even though the pounds come off slower than I’d like, I’m still doing great considering my BMI started just below 40% on surgery day (exactly 6 months ago as of today) and I had VGS. I mean, I’ve dropped 72 pounds since February 6th.


That being said, I’ve come off of a couple of sluggish months and the blame can be squarely placed on me with eating later/earlier, snacking more between meals, and letting wine back into my routine 2-3 times weekly. Also, not being able to work out as much didn’t help.

Those things have to stop and going back to more of a structured routine is what works best for me.

On 08/06/2019 at 08:41, FluffyChix said:

LOL, I have to share this with you guys here cuz you will appreciate this. This was on FB this morning from A DOCTOR, and MD...now granted, this doctor is MO by anyone's scale. And has no business preaching "healthy dietary improvements" until he fixes his own issues. But man. He termed this his HEALTHY GREEN DETOX SMOOTHY and gave the recipe for it. So I plugged it into MFP. And this is for 1 smoothy. LOL. Dear god. In what universe is it "healthy" to blend 1 tiny cup of spinach up with all this other gut bomb? 87g of carbs and 53g of sugar in 1 SMOOTY!!! And he's calling it "healthy". No wonder we are all having weight issues! 'merica. Come on. Use your brain!

What the......????

That’s CRAZY

On 8/4/2019 at 5:42 PM, AZhiker said:

My only issue right now is too MUCH energy. I am too wound up and can't shut down. I get to sleep OK (when I finally DO go to bed) but then wake up every 2 hours thinking it is time to get up. Midnight, 2 am, 4 am, etc. When I finally get up at 5 am I am wide awake and ready to go, even if I only got 4-5 hours of sleep. I got labs drawn last week and will have my 6 month follow up this week, so will see if everything is normal. I am especially interesting in the TSH level. I will also be seeing my sleep doctor in a couple of weeks to see if I can go off the C-pap and will ask her about it as well. But it is very strange. I'm not complaining - I get a lot done - but I feel a bit like a manic energizer bunny. Anyone else have this with IF or with weight loss in a short time? I've lost 100 lbs in 6 months, so I am a bit of an outlier, for which I am thankful, but wonder if the rapid change has something to do with either my hormones or brain chemistry, and if IF is a contributing factor.

I am a bit like this - except I do feel tired at times (but being sleepy and tired are two different things). Yet, i will still only sleep 5 hours a night. I feel restless and can get into manic mode. I have hypothyroidism. Im not doing IF. I told my pa at my 3 month check up a few weeks ago - she said it was probably hormonal. I have lost about 74 pounds and i am almost 16 weeks out.

We can be up all night buddies.

16 hours ago, Deedee12 said:

You have teenagers???? Huh?? Wow!!!
IF it is!! As soon as I can!

I have 2 teens 1 tween

Its crazy...

20 hours ago, Sheribear68 said:

What the......????

That’s CRAZY

Yeah. I called him out on it. I stopped short of talking about his cognitive dissonance with his own health. Cuz that's not my worry...

Ok, so yesterday was more of an UP day without much IF about a 16:8 TRE. Today I'm going to try for a 16:8 or 18:6. No promises though. I'll just do what I can and go as far as I can. I am gonna do a 500 VCLD Down Day today though.

Who's IFing today? Let's be IF buds!!

I If'd yesterday. It started out as unintentional, I was just busy and not particularly hungry. Once it got to afternoon and still not particularly hungry I decided to do OMAD, since I had a dinner date planned.

I'm thinking I might start playing around with IF again. My goal is to keep my weight below 130 before ps. (After ps all bets are off, I want to find where I like my body, I wouldn't mind some additional ass ?) But after staying 127-128 easily for months I popped over 130 a few times recently. So I'm thinking I might do some IF to counteract that, probably just a couple of days a week.

On 8/4/2019 at 8:58 AM, summerset said:

While your mother's success is definitely a great thing it makes me a bit sad that IF is basically broken down to being a weight loss diet all too often.

I'm not sure why this would make you sad.

I know IF reduces my hunger. I know IF makes it easier for me to eat fewer calories in a day. I know that being at a healthy BMI is greatly beneficial to my overall health.

There has been some research that has shown a plethora of other benefits from IF, including reducing insulin resistence, reducing inflamation, increases autophagy, etc.. But this research is still relatively new and studies haven't been definitive as of yet.

So I'll take the benefits I know. If there are additional, as of yet unproven benefits, I'll take those as well. It's a pretty clear win-win IMO.

53 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

After ps all bets are off, I want to find where I like my body, I wouldn't mind some additional ass ?

Me too! ?

55 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

I'm not sure why this would make you sad.

I know IF reduces my hunger. I know IF makes it easier for me to eat fewer calories in a day. I know that being at a healthy BMI is greatly beneficial to my overall health.

There has been some research that has shown a plethora of other benefits from IF, including reducing insulin resistence, reducing inflamation, increases autophagy, etc.. But this research is still relatively new and studies haven't been definitive as of yet.

So I'll take the benefits I know. If there are additional, as of yet unproven benefits, I'll take those as well. It's a pretty clear win-win IMO.

To quote @GreenTealael:

"Yasssssssss!!!!"

This is a very well-thought and awesome response. TY! Cuz it really makes it clear for everyone who even stumbles into this thread. It's exactly that...regardless of motivation or even initial motivation...it's not like the "possible health benes" are with held from you if you have a motivation of "weight loss only." Even if you do it "wrong" by some person's definition...I don't think the benes are withheld. JMO. IF is too fluid.

Edited August 7, 20197 yr by FluffyChix