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!!!

Never mind...I found a similar post.....I just started IF combined with keto. I’m concerned about my metabolism. I’m doing 18:6 eating 2 meals no snacks. Eating protein first then veggies fills me up quickly. So I’m sure my calories are extremely low. Any advice? Or don’t worry?

never mind

Edited February 5, 20206 yr by AnewAngela

Welcome!!

20 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

I never worry about that anymore, I gave up trying to be perfect

Are you implying here that you don't ingest the 1253.232 kcal a day your plan says you should be eating? ?

Are you implying here that you don't ingest the 1253.232 kcal a day your plan says you should be eating? ?

Lols

On 02/05/2020 at 11:14, summerset said:

Are you implying here that you don't ingest the 1253.232 kcal a day your plan says you should be eating? ?

Pffft.
Everyone knows you only need to take it to the 100th decimal point and round down, not the thousandth.

So.... I’ll be planning 1253.23 thank you very much.

20 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Everyone knows you only need to take it to the 100th decimal point and round down, not the thousandth.

That's only for the non-committed folks!

24 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Pffft.
Everyone knows you only need to take it to the 100th decimal point and round down, not the thousandth.

So.... I’ll be planning 1253.23 thank you very much.

More like 3.14159265359

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Trying for a 20:4 today/ tomorrow. My difficulty is with diet drinks. I crave diet iced tea like there’s no tomorrow. ?

Hi all, everyone seems to be doing really well! I'm down about 6kg or 13lb since I decided to tackle my regain as a New Year resolution.

I have to take a lot of medications with breakfast and with dinner, so I was struggling a bit with IF. I get nauseated and sick if pills aren't accompanied by some food. I had to adjust everything so I'm now doing 14 hour fasting window, with a 10 hour eating window. Unfortunately, due to my long working hours, sometimes it's 12:12 by the time I get around to eating dinner. Hopefully, I'm still getting some benefits from this IF approach. It's early days. My long term goal is to find an approach I can use for the rest of my life. It would be great to lose some more weight and then finally figure out this maintenance business!

Maybe will do a 20 h today. Not really sure though. I'm on late shift today. I had to drive to work late last evening and wasn't back just before midnight.

Fasts after a busy on-call duty are either a breeze and feel really good or I'm nervous and restless as f*ck during the fasting window. Going to try to sleep a little bit more before having to go to work I guess.

19 hours ago, Jolexis said:

Trying for a 20:4 today/ tomorrow. My difficulty is with diet drinks. I crave diet iced tea like there’s no tomorrow. ?

Can you ween off of it by cutting it with fresh brewed iced tea? Or freshed brewed with lemon in it? I drink it all day during a fast, but I drink hot in winter and iced in summer. I use decaf and unsweetened. I especially like a combo of decaf green tea and decaf Earl Grey. Yummeh!!!

Edited February 6, 20206 yr by FluffyChix

02/06/2020 07:36 AM, FluffyChix said:

Can you ween off of it by cutting it with fresh brewed iced tea? Or freshed brewed with lemon in it? I drink it all day during a fast, but I drink hot in winter and iced in summer. I use Decaf and unsweetened. I especially like a combo of Decaf green tea and decaf Earl Grey. Yummeh!!!

Lol, Fluffy.
How many times per hour do you have to dash to the restroom?

I think I’d have to pee 2x/ hour.
You’re awesome.

Seriously though, fasting days= frequent hourly trips to the bathroom once my body realizes no calories are coming and it has to start dumping glycogen

5 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Seriously though, fasting days= frequent hourly trips to the bathroom once my body realizes no calories are coming and it has to start dumping glycogen

Oh I pee like a racehorse! hehehehe

Okay so fasting update:
Monday thru Tuesday was my 18 hr fast, but both Monday and Tuesday were low cal days.
Looks like I got in 500-ish Monday and 750-ish Tuesday.

Yesterday I felt like eating every 3-4 hours, and I did.
Oddly enough, I was also craving alcohol, but didn’t have any cuz i do 5:2 most weeks and it wasn’t the weekend.

Trying to figure out where my intense wine craving from yesterday came from.
Even though I ate every 3-4 hours, my “feasting” was moderate.
I supplemented with extra protein shake and had an extra serving of veggies and hummus for an afternoon snack.

The wine craving was so bad last night that I broke down at 9pm and made myself a chai latte with a dollop of whipped cream on top (only 100 calories, but it shocked me how much I “needed” it)

14 minutes ago, Sheribear68 said:

Okay so fasting update:
Monday thru Tuesday was my 18 hr fast, but both Monday and Tuesday were low cal days.
Looks like I got in 500-ish Monday and 750-ish Tuesday.

Yesterday I felt like eating every 3-4 hours, and I did.
Oddly enough, I was also craving alcohol, but didn’t have any cuz i do 5:2 most weeks and it wasn’t the weekend.

Trying to figure out where my intense wine craving from yesterday came from.
Even though I ate every 3-4 hours, my “feasting” was moderate.
I supplemented with extra Protein Shake and had an extra serving of veggies and hummus for an afternoon snack.

The wine craving was so bad last night that I broke down at 9pm and made myself a chai latte with a dollop of whipped cream on top (only 100 calories, but it shocked me how much I “needed” it)

What a great workaround!

I'm betting you were craving "sugar" from the wine + relaxation from the drug. It may have come from your afternoon hummus. It makes me snacky afterward! But I so heart it!