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!!!

9 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

CONGRATS in the trip's successes and troubleshooting for the next one!!! When's Everest???

LOL That'll be the next life. I don't have the time, money or skill to scale that beast! But thanks for the vote of confidence! Would really like to scale Katahdin during my 40th year... fingers crossed it all works out!

And the Magic of IF.... I'm back down to 214.7.... I'm sure it'll be 213 tomorrow given I've got an upper endo, so it's mainly fluids only for me today. So glad I found this...

1 hour ago, Sosewsue61 said:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/903163

The things you read at 4AM, lol

I couldn't even see the abstract. No account at MedScape. Can you screen shot it?

9 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

And the Magic of IF.... I'm back down to 214.7.... I'm sure it'll be 213 tomorrow given I've got an upper endo, so it's mainly fluids only for me today. So glad I found this...

Good luck on the endo tomorrow!! Yah, IF makes clears only a proverbial POC. Congrats on hitting back at 214.7!!! You're so close to 200!!!

50 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Good luck on the endo tomorrow!! Yah, IF makes clears only a proverbial POC. Congrats on hitting back at 214.7!!! You're so close to 200!!!

Thanks... I have 34 days to meet / break 200. To meet my all time dream goal of being the same weight I was when I was married almost 20 years ago (Friday, Nov 13th, 1998) and to be the same weight I was when I turned 20, when I turn 40 (Nov 15th). So... fingers crossed!

16 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Thanks... I have 34 days to meet / break 200. To meet my all time dream goal of being the same weight I was when I was married almost 20 years ago (Friday, Nov 13th, 1998) and to be the same weight I was when I turned 20, when I turn 40 (Nov 15th). So... fingers crossed!

*chants 36 hour fasts, 36 hour fasts*

I think you should push it, really hard and doooooo eeeeettttt! You've got the powah!!! Go Matt, Go! Go Matt, Go! Eat meat, don't cheat! hehehe

1 minute ago, FluffyChix said:

*chants 36 hour fasts, 36 hour fasts*

I think you should push it, really hard and doooooo eeeeettttt! You've got the powah!!! Go Matt, Go! Go Matt, Go! Eat meat, don't cheat! hehehe

Jesus... 36 hours no calories... I think I'd die.

Just now, Matt Z said:

Jesus... 36 hours no calories... I think I'd die.

I'm not sure it would be that bad after doing 24 hour fasts. You would theoretically eat your last meal (normal size--good protein) at 8pm, then the next day just drink water, black coffee, black or green tea, no sweeteners, and by 8pm that night you're already at 24 hours! I did that yesterday and it was only a "tiny" bit challenging at around 3:30-4pm, then the hunger disappeared. Then you stay busy, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate and go to bed. Wake up, have coffee, go to work, and eat your first meal at 8am. 36 hours. Done baby!!!!!

2 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

I'm not sure it would be that bad after doing 24 hour fasts. You would theoretically eat your last meal (normal size--good protein) at 8pm, then the next day just drink Water, black coffee, black or green tea, no sweeteners, and by 8pm that night you're already at 24 hours! I did that yesterday and it was only a "tiny" bit challenging at around 3:30-4pm, then the hunger disappeared. Then you stay busy, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate and go to bed. Wake up, have coffee, go to work, and eat your first meal at 8am. 36 hours. Done baby!!!!!

I'll have to see if I can try this at some point next week maybe. With the endo tomorrow and more than likely being called as a witness on Friday (or Monday)... the stress / anxiety is on high. Making my stomach less than receptive to long bouts of emptiness.

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

I couldn't even see the abstract. No account at MedScape. Can you screen shot it?

Same ?

6 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

I'll have to see if I can try this at some point next week maybe. With the endo tomorrow and more than likely being called as a witness on Friday (or Monday)... the stress / anxiety is on high. Making my stomach less than receptive to long bouts of emptiness.

Gosh sounds so stressful! Going 24hours (and I bet 36 hours) can be a mind fu*k, especially at first! So you def. have to get your head in the game and mentally prep for it, but once you do it a couple of times, it suddenly becomes pretty easy (24 hour fast I mean--I'm gonna start a 36 hour on Monday).

1 hour ago, Matt Z said:

And the Magic of IF.... I'm back down to 214.7.... I'm sure it'll be 213 tomorrow given I've got an upper endo, so it's mainly fluids only for me today. So glad I found this...

Yasssssssss

With your sexy thin self

?????????

2 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Yasssssssss

With your sexy thin self

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I'll admit... I blushed.


Thanks!

12 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Gosh sounds so stressful! Going 24hours (and I bet 36 hours) can be a mind fu*k, especially at first! So you def. have to get your head in the game and mentally prep for it, but once you do it a couple of times, it suddenly becomes pretty easy (24 hour fast I mean--I'm gonna start a 36 hour on Monday).

20 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

I'll have to see if I can try this at some point next week maybe. With the endo tomorrow and more than likely being called as a witness on Friday (or Monday)... the stress / anxiety is on high. Making my stomach less than receptive to long bouts of emptiness.

I think maybe just the 20:4 but strictly done will get you there, but your biwel movements have to be on point... Why am I always talking about bowel movements lol...

2 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

I'll admit... I blushed.


Thanks!

Blush more, stress less

Your wife is already salivating over you, guaranteed...