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!!!

12 minutes ago, clsumrall said:

I just found out about Dr Berg. Thanks Matt!! so as soon as my team says I can do veggies (hopefully at Friday appt) I can’t wait to add the greens back in. Tired of MiraLAX

So excited for you!!! You will be so happy!

16 minutes ago, clsumrall said:

I just found out about Dr Berg. Thanks Matt!! so as soon as my team says I can do veggies (hopefully at Friday appt) I can’t wait to add the greens back in. Tired of MiraLAX

I tried to like this twice!!! Congrats!!!

Now everyone knows my secret obsession with total health lol

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

Love that face omg

Following!

Same

3 minutes ago, joycie4smiles said:

Same

Welcome welcome!

Ok y'all I think 5 more lbs max is what I can stand to lose, but obviously IF 4 ever (IF Warriors)

Hear me out...

I need fat left over for fat transfer possibility in plastics, anyone else considering plastics yet?

I need it. Like last Thursday. When will I actually have it done? No clue yet...

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

Ok y'all I think 5 more lbs max is what I can stand to lose, but obviously IF 4 ever (IF Warriors)

Hear me out...

I need fat left over for fat transfer possibility in plastics, anyone else considering plastics yet?

I need it. Like last Thursday. When will I actually have it done? No clue yet...

Me! Me! Me!

I knew I would have plastics from day one. I always saw this as a two step process, WLS & plastics.

I had originally planned for plastics this Fall. But that's not an option now due to my work travel schedule. In looking at my schedule next year, there is no way I can plan enough down time for recovery, until Mid November. I confirmed that next Fall my schedule should be more flexible than this one. I even gave my boss a heads up and got his support on the non-travel time. I figure I will need a week or less of actual sick time, considering I work from home. Funny, my boss does not know about my WLS, but I have no issue telling him about plastics . I HATE having to wait a year, because I'm not a patient person, but it is what it is.

Knowing I'm not having plastics for a year has led me to being more relaxed about my weight loss. I'm not in a mad rush to get to goal. I like the way I look in clothes. In a few more pounds I'll get to a normal BMI. I think I'll be happy at around 140, once plastics tightens everything up. I don't want to go lower, I don't think, because I don't want to lose my a$$ Additionally, I'm dating someone right now, who seems pretty ok with how I look naked . So that also takes some of the pressure off to get "fixed" right away.

Procedures

Breast augmentation & lift - gummy bear tear drop implants, natural looking D-DD

Tummy tuck - may not need muscle repair, since I've never been pregnant

Lipo - back, flanks, thighs

Inner thigh lift - I don't want the long thigh lift scars. This surgery is the most daunting for recovery, and risks associated.

Arm lift - crescent or modified T, again, I don't want the long scars

Neck lift - this is secondary after the plastics above, maybe in a few years

I'd really really love to get all of the body procedures done at once. But I'm not sure if that is possible. It's just so hard to get the time to recover with my job, I'd like to only have to do it once, IYKWIM? The good thing is I have tons of great plastic surgeons local to me, so I'm spoiled in that respect.

Ok, what procedures does everyone else want??

@FluffyChix Good luck with your long medical procedure day ... no fun!

1 hour ago, sillykitty said:

Ok, what procedures does everyone else want??

Im going to start doing my part to see what I can forgo... but

Necessities

Breast lift (idk maybe anchor large C-D, no implants)

TT lots of muscle repair

Wish list:

fat transfers for a BBL

Thigh lift

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

No MFP everyday will not be a chicken tenders yogurt protein candy bar kind of day... ?

So I've been IF'ing since 6pm on Tuesday (sort of, minus the 50 calories or so for my coffee, and the 2 servings of candy corn and 2/3 wings I ate last night.... I know I know)... not doing too bad overall, dropped a pound since yesterday thankfully (without the typical morning download), hopefully I'll be back on track come tomorrow. I think I'm going to switch to just liquids for a little while, something is off with my stomach/intestines that's mildly uncomfortable, so I want to make sure I get a good flush to make sure nothing is getting hung up in there.

I want everything done from the eyebrows to my toes. That’s no too much is it? :)

Dang!!! Where to start? I'm sorry to miss all of yesterday! Mr. F. couldn't get back to pick me up from the doc's until 6:30pm last night. Then we made an evil plan to take over the world while navigating traffic--one where I didn't cook that night and we would go to our little neighborhood Italian place. And I had my usual. And I got the usual result. Flat in the recliner, eye cover over my eyes, upset tummy to the max. *sigh* Fell asleep by 8:30pm. Dayum! And here's all I eat!

1 stack Caprese (1oz mozz, 1 slice tomatoe, 1 basil leaf, 1/2oz rbp roasted, capers, drizzle balsamic glaze)

2oz grilled chicken

2oz sauteed broccoli with olive oil, parmesan, rbp roasted, capers

Uggggggghhhh! Didn't even have my glass of red wine (despite my liver looking "highly photogenic" and gorgeous) nor my 3 small bites of their homemade rolls with dipping sauce.

It is my gallbladder. There are stones and sludge in it. Doc appt this morning to discuss what she thinks we should do. Also they saw my pill getting stuck in my esophagus, so don't know what that's about or what she will want to do. I bet she will want to stick a scope down to find out. *big sigh*.

My scale is broken at 152.fill-in-the-blank!!!! UGH!!! FU*KING scale! (am I yelling? cuz it feels like I am)

This morning after MAJOR morning potty adventures (hell hath no fury like a woman deprived of her morning constitutional because she had to endure public potties all day yesterday...) the scale only whimpered at me at 152.4lbs. GAH!!!!! It eludes me from getting back to my previous low, and teases me with 1st Goal. The bi*ch.

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Ok, so now plastics. Hells. I would totes love having them just pull all excess skin up to the top of my head and then throw a rubber band around it to give my hair a bit of volume up top. And pull all the excess up! And since that's unlikely, and it is equally unlikely I will rob a bank to fund my plastics, I'm just gonna be one of the old peeps, with that creepy crepy loose skin folds puddling around my feet and everywhere else skin droops and puddles.

In a perfect world I would like:

more boob recon where they replace the damaged radiation skin again with new skin, a newly shaped rt boob, real nips

lt arm lymph node transplant to get rid of lymphedema + bil brachioplasty

tummy and FUPA tuck

thigh lift

brazilian butt lift (LOL, I've no idea what that is, but it sounds like I want need it.)

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I will cheer each of you on to victory during your PS!! But I'm afraid I will need lots and lots of piccys!

@GreenTealael I think 5lbs will look great on you and totally understand needing fat graft material.

@sillykitty Your schedule is nuts.

@Matt Z You just need to drop a power train on the #2 track.

@clsumrall Hope you get your salad veg soon and can also move on to al dente veg!!! And glad you're here playing with us!!!!

@Orchids&Dragons Loved your food, now post like a ho. We know you want to!

Welcome to all the newbies!!!! Wish all of you Silent Bob's out there would post more and get involved with the shenanigans here!!! Woooohoooooooo!

Edited October 25, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

20 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

@Matt Z You just need to drop a power train on the #2 track.

Man if that was only it! My morning routine is to wake up, drink a cup of coffee then pound 8 oz of water or so, then evacuate. Like clockwork. However yesterday was a "light" day... today was almost non-existent. Not sure if it's due to lack of intake... or a blockage or some nature. Things don't feel right, not painful or anything really, just, off and uncomfortable. Hopefully everything sorts itself out... really trying to hit that 200 be the 13th... getting tight now.