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!!!

18 hours ago, Sosewsue61 said:

So nearly peeing myself laughing ???? 49 miles from the nearest rest area while catching up reading 11+ pages of posts - Quilt Week done heading home!!!

Hmm no IF for me until I get home. I was naughty with wine, hotel sex (rope involved), and those damn warm oatmeal raisin Cookies EVERY night at the hotel. (Hotel makes 4 kinds of cookies nightly at 8pm).

But here are pictures...(none w ropes lol)

So fluff, @FluffyChix, quilt week is a big azz quilt show with classes, vendors, show quilts, exhibitions of quilts, etc etc Paducah has 2 a year, although the spring show is absolutely nuckingfutts azzhole to elbow with people as just more everything, has a cult following lol

Agreed! All kinds of beautiful (the quilt and you)!!! I just gotta ask, what was in those oatmeal raisin cookies hehe! Congrats on lots of kinky hotel sex! The Best!!! And for sharing your pics!!!

Just a fly by to everyone. Fixin to leave to go into town (Houston) to spend the day with sissies doing girlie stuff for birthday, then having dinner. We may end up doing nothing more than playing Mah Jong (hope I can play it better than I can spell it.)

Will touch base either tonight or tomorrow!! Hugs to all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @FluffyChix

(I hope I didn't miss it! Post pics of the Festivities!)

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Edited September 17, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

@Sosewsue61 You look great and those quilts you posted are absolutely amazing. I can't imagine being that artistic!

23 hours ago, Sosewsue61 said:

I was naughty with wine, hotel sex (rope involved), and those

Oh man ... my dates are now so dull in comparison!

Beautiful quilts! Quilt shows seem so midwesternly wholesome. Like it should be paired with casseroles, not ropes!

5 hours ago, Matt Z said:

So after a weekend of beer, cake, cupcakes, scratch Cookies, I'm still down from Friday... Damn I love this IF crap LOL

I kinda hate you!

Congrats on the new car. I'm a little sad for you about the Dart too though

I actually went car shopping last week, but there were no more of the car I want with the options I want left within 100 miles of me, at least. So I'll be waiting and watching for when the new model year starts arriving, and they start discounting them.

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

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I'll just watch on the plane, on mute

5 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Just a fly by to everyone. Fixin to leave to go into town (Houston) to spend the day with sissies doing girlie stuff for birthday, then having dinner. We may end up doing nothing more than playing Mah Jong (hope I can play it better than I can spell it.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

So yesterday was not good for eating well, or IF. In a stall, not sure if the poor eating is to blame, or just the timing.

Traveling today. Managed to avoid the surprisingly delicious breakfast sandwich on the plane by sleeping through the meal service, lol. So that is one way to do IF.

I realize I have some traveling food triggers. For instance if I'm flying out of a certain terminal that has Shake Shack, then I am hungry, where I may not have been hungry otherwise. Another airport, I always have PF Changs, so knowing I'm going to be in that airport makes me hungry. (And I'm usually all about local authentic ethnic restaurants!). I'm not sure what I can do about it, other than white knuckle it, or make good choices, neither are really my strong points.

So today will probably be an IF day, assuming my dinner plans aren't too late. Now IF + good choices, ugh, that's tougher!

20 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

I kinda hate you!

Congrats on the new car. I'm a little sad for you about the Dart too though

I actually went car shopping last week, but there were no more of the car I want with the options I want left within 100 miles of me, at least. So I'll be waiting and watching for when the new model year starts arriving, and they start discounting them.

So I shouldn't say that Friday I was 226.5 and today after a weekend of all that crap I'm 224.2? (I was actually down to 223.9 on Saturday... but you know... beer and cake and all the shi tty foods LOL)

18 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

So yesterday was not good for eating well, or IF. In a stall, not sure if the poor eating is to blame, or just the timing.

Traveling today. Managed to avoid the surprisingly delicious Breakfast sandwich on the plane by sleeping through the meal service, lol. So that is one way to do IF.

I realize I have some traveling food triggers. For instance if I'm flying out of a certain terminal that has shake Shack, then I am hungry, where I may not have been hungry otherwise. Another airport, I always have PF Changs, so knowing I'm going to be in that airport makes me hungry. (And I'm usually all about local authentic ethnic restaurants!). I'm not sure what I can do about it, other than white knuckle it, or make good choices, neither are really my strong points.

So today will probably be an IF day, assuming my dinner plans aren't too late. Now IF + good choices, ugh, that's tougher!

While you wait for your flight, brush your teeth. Nothing tastes good mixed with toothpaste. It's worth a try

I get wanting to eat from places that represent the local cuisine/restaurants -- it is interesting and fun. But, the good thing, though it is really hard to convince yourself to do--some of the places now sell hummus and veggies, hard boiled eggs, things like that. I never sounds appealing but afterwards, I'm always really happy that I did. IF I can convince myself to buy those. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. lol

Yeah i got cocky... so Smooth Move declared war on me... But I only had one cup! I guess It was really needed? Sigh...

No real IF until Tuesday. Just pushing whichever liquids and binding foods I can.

Edited September 17, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

Spoke too soon or maybe Karma for bragging... Up to 225.8 today, 1.6 lbs increase... BUT my BF% dropped 0.4% so... IDK

2 hours ago, Matt Z said:

Spoke too soon or maybe Karma for bragging... Up to 225.8 today, 1.6 lbs increase... BUT my BF% dropped 0.4% so... IDK

Oh don't worry too much about it, apparently it takes time/effort to convert energy and store it as fat, the IF body would rather hold it as glycogen for quick release when you're in this pattern long enough. So you'll lose it again, the beauty of all of this is the end game

take a look at some of the studies, IF is super effective especially for men...

Edited September 18, 20187 yr by GreenTealael