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!!!

13 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

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.

Ok, so hit it with MOM. Most of us need extra magnesium anyway and it will bust the clog free. I will tell you, when the trains back up for me, I get SO uncomfy eating it's very apparent that something isn't "right." You know? Like some Spidey-sense or something. I think it's my super power. Just see if that is it? If it is, you'll know in 6-12 hours. If not, then no harm, no foul--you'll get a little whimpy activity and boom, clean as a whistle! Or you can go nuclear on it with a glycerin supposity, cuz you know, come on, doesn't "everyone love a good glycerin suppository light show?" Forty-Five Minutes of rock ya mama fun. Hahahaha

1 hour ago, Matt Z said:

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.

Smooth Move tea over the weekend, (like early Friday night) 4 tea bags in 12oz of water. Nothing stays in you.

Thank me later ?

Edited October 25, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

@FluffyChix I'm also getting an ultrasound for gallbladder issues just to rule it out, I want to make sure my Dumping is just Dumping... Which it likely is with my luck ... And it probably from Fats.

Sigh

I just want to spend my days in bed with cannisters of Brazil nuts...

15 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Smooth Move tea over the weekend, (like early Friday night) 4 tea bags in 12oz of Water. Nothing stays in you.

Thank me later ?

I take colace daily, I've got smooth moves tea as well as miralax... might have to take them all at once and just go Vesuvius on the watershed.

2 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

I take colace daily, I've got smooth moves tea as well as miralax... might have to take them all at once and just go Vesuvius on the watershed.

Hahahaha, I've found this number of tea bags in this amount of water to be some magic key to unlocking problems relatively quickly...

You guys are too funny. I've never been regular in my whole life, and never even thought anything about it, until I joined this site

I'm actually grateful, can you imagine with my travel and time zone changes? Those poor people on my 6 am flight

@FluffyChix ... so sorry to hear about your gallbladder! What's the plan for it, meds, removal, tbd?

19 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

I just want to spend my days in bed with cannisters of Brazil nuts... chocolate covered macadamia nuts

FTFY

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

@FluffyChix I'm also getting an ultrasound for gallbladder issues just to rule it out, I want to make sure my Dumping is just Dumping... Which it likely is with my luck ... And it probably from Fats.

Sigh

I just want to spend my days in bed with cannisters of Brazil nuts...

Aw man!!! But I am so glad you're getting the dumping stuff figured out so you can jump back into bed with Brazil!! In a way I'd like it to be an easy elegant fix for you! GB is so easy to make right! ?

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

@FluffyChix

I just want to spend my days in bed with cannisters of Brazil nuts...

I just want to spend my days in bed with Mr F ??and some Ferrerrrrrrrerrr Rerrererssssss! A jug of wine, and a binge series on Netflix (and a can of Pringles...ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

3 hours ago, sillykitty said:

@FluffyChix ... so sorry to hear about your gallbladder! What's the plan for it, meds, removal, tbd?

Ok just out of doc. She said we just watch it til you have an big issue. So that's a big ass YAYBABY!!! But she wants 3 more tests to see about why my esophagus has low motility. And a HIDA of my gb. Whatever that is. EGD again. I'm sure there is nothin wrong other than scratching it with a pill a couple of weeks ago. ??

Edited October 25, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

Careful with your Fluffy Chix feed, you are not supposed to be scratching your innards. Don't want your gizzard to go BAD!??

No worries this is gonna be nothing and she's just very good and thorough!

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Aw man!!! But I am so glad you're getting the dumping stuff figured out so you can jump back into bed with Brazil!! In a way I'd like it to be an easy elegant fix for you! GB is so easy to make right! ?

But it's been around since the beginning so that why we don't think it's going to be the GB but I like to make sure

IF amazes me every time. I only consumed a total of 630 calories since 6pm Tuesday... and I'm not hungry at all. Not tired. Not "hangry". Just... Fine. I feel like I could go another day without any notice at all.