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!!!

Checking in ..

Continue to have a craptastic week. I technically did a 14 hr fast, but I don't think it counts since I broke the fast with a Totinos pizza roll.

Trade show is over, but will be wine-ing and dining tomorrow, so no real improvement in either my diet nor motivation in the forecast.

Was funny this week, saw lots of people I haven't seen in the last year. I can't tell you how many people straight up didn't recognize me. Good thing I had a name badge on.

Glad everyone here is having so much success, I'm so happy for y'all!

1 hour ago, sillykitty said:

Checking in ..

Continue to have a craptastic week. I technically did a 14 hr fast, but I don't think it counts since I broke the fast with a Totinos pizza roll.

Trade show is over, but will be wine-ing and dining tomorrow, so no real improvement in either my diet nor motivation in the forecast.

Was funny this week, saw lots of people I haven't seen in the last year. I can't tell you how many people straight up didn't recognize me. Good thing I had a name badge on.

Glad everyone here is having so much success, I'm so happy for y'all!

That must have felt amazing to shock them! You should totally start Catfishing people lol

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17 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Thanks for this study!!! IMO the reason for such a small change in lipids are because the carbs in both diets were still too high to demonstrate the superior lipid profiles from low carb/keto dieting. I'm sure we can expect a visit from the Coven, erp, I mean Summerset or Creek to vilify me and hound one of my posts where I mention ketogenic or low carb diets or restricting carbs as a means of controlling lipids and improving weight loss. LOL. Geeze, you'd think I'm the one making up these dietary findings...*snort*

From a personal perspective, I have no issues w blood sugar, seemingly no diabetes risk, etc. My interest in "diets" is purely from a weight loss perspective.

The support for low carb = greater weight loss is not at all universal.

For instance, this recent study http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/02/low-fat-or-low-carb-its-a-draw-study-finds.html

And this article cites a few different studies https://www.vox.com/2018/2/21/17036004/do-low-carb-diets-work

I'm not a member of any coven, just someone for whom a long term low carb diet is unsustainable.

4 hours ago, sillykitty said:

From a personal perspective, I have no issues w blood sugar, seemingly no diabetes risk, etc. My interest in "diets" is purely from a weight loss perspective.

The support for low carb = greater weight loss is not at all universal.

For instance, this recent study http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/02/low-fat-or-low-carb-its-a-draw-study-finds.html

And this article cites a few different studies https://www.vox.com/2018/2/21/17036004/do-low-carb-diets-work

I'm not a member of any coven, just someone for whom a long term low carb diet is unsustainable.

Thanks for these studies as well

And its completely untrue...

You're apart of our coven now

Thin witches LOL

Edited October 11, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

13 hours ago, sillykitty said:

From a personal perspective, I have no issues w blood sugar, seemingly no diabetes risk, etc. My interest in "diets" is purely from a weight loss perspective.

The support for low carb = greater weight loss is not at all universal.

For instance, this recent study http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/02/low-fat-or-low-carb-its-a-draw-study-finds.html

And this article cites a few different studies https://www.vox.com/2018/2/21/17036004/do-low-carb-diets-work

I'm not a member of any coven, just someone for whom a long term low carb diet is unsustainable.

Girlfriend, bahahahaha! You are not a member of that coven but as @GreenTealael says, you ARE a member of our coven!

I don't disagree with you btw. If I didn't have the level of deep doodoo in my metabolism, and neither did Mr. F., I don't know if I would be doing low carb/keto-ish. I would likely be doing Mediterranean or something like that--cuz I love eating that way. And I adore beans and legumes. But my insulin numbers tell me differently and if I eat those things, then my insulin does shoot up and so does my bgs...and so does Mr. F.

But I've said it all along, there are Many, Many, Many paths to the finish. And the best path for you is the one that you can do forever without feeling discontent. I will go out there and say "some carbs are evil" and very unhealthy for us...no one in their right mind needs Cheerios, unless it's to use as their emotional support animal. LOL. But hey, if you do well with wheat berries, or oatmeal, or the rustic oats (forget the name), or fill-in-the-blank of your favorite unprocessed, whole grain, potato, brown rice, wild rice, basmati, etc...and I will hop on that train with you to cheer you on.

I do envy those people. I just know I cannot do it, even if my will power holds out and let's me "eat in moderation." Sadly, magic for me always comes with a price--and that price is gonna be either higher bgs, or higher insulin.

(And that's not to say I'm a saint either...we all know I have had and do have my fair share of cheats with bread, contraband, crappy carbs, etc, etc, etc! hahahaha--I can only hope to keep it to a very, very minimum and hope like hell it doesn't fu*k me or Mr. F. up down the road. I'd hate to lose a kidney cuz of my cheesy poof addiction.

8 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Thanks for these studies as well

And its completely untrue...

You're apart of our coven now

Thin witches LOL

Word.

7 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

there are Many, Many, Many paths to the finish. And the best path for you is the one that you can do forever without feeling discontent. I will go out there and say "some carbs are evil" and very unhealthy for us...no one in their right mind needs Cheerios,

I agree with this.

I might not need Cheerios ... but Cheetos ... maybe

Edited October 12, 20187 yr by sillykitty

Went to support group and someone asked again about carbs and apparently my group wants you to get 50% of your 1000 cals from carbs but no more. Thats around 125g carbs if I remember correctly.

That's a lot of carbs someone said, and the NUT said not really They are leaning towards the Mediterranean type diet and allow flexibility.

I have been getting like 70g and below , sometimes a little higher with alot of beans. I still don't think bread and grains as a regular occurrence is in my future. They just don't work well for me so I am limiting giving them up , mostly.

I was told to use these:

Protein 60-80 grams

Carbs 100 grams

Fats 30 grams

However, note that this is for gastric bypass.

1 minute ago, esskay77 said:

I was told to use these:

Protein 60-80 grams

Carbs 100 grams

Fats 30 grams

However, note that this is for gastric bypass.

Roughly the same , but definitely not low carb

Boy, we ARE a fun group, best one on this forum.?????

But I suck at my program right now. Leg and mainly excruciating foot cramps 3x/night are making me an absolute broom riding witch ?????? And then the carb monster has me by the balls at the moment. I consume around 70gr, and then 'that dog won't hunt' (scale movement up).

So now that there are no oatmeal cookies, or cashews, or triscuits w cojack cheese in the house....I might have a snowball's chance of behaving. And I don't have any travel plans, birthday parties, or extra babysitting on the horizon. I stocked some cottage cheese, baked chicken, eggs, etc in the fridge. My surgiversary is in two weeks. I would hate to have that weigh-in show a reverse weight loss!!!

10 minutes ago, Sosewsue61 said:

Boy, we ARE a fun group, best one on this forum.?????

But I suck at my program right now. Leg and mainly excruciating foot cramps 3x/night are making me an absolute broom riding witch ?????? And then the carb monster has me by the balls at the moment. I consume around 70gr, and then 'that dog won't hunt' (scale movement up).

So now that there are no oatmeal Cookies, or cashews, or triscuits w cojack cheese in the house....I might have a snowball's chance of behaving. And I don't have any travel plans, birthday parties, or extra babysitting on the horizon. I stocked some cottage cheese, baked chicken, eggs, etc in the fridge. My surgiversary is in two weeks. I would hate to have that weigh-in show a reverse weight loss!!!

Wow!! Almost a year already!!! Me too I guess... The time does fly. You will totally drop lbs by then.

And I concur, we are big fun.

Cheesy poofs should be considered a protein. If the world was perfect. Just saying.