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!!!

6 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

CBD oil?

Get well soon and you're still Sexy AF on any side of 200 lbs...

I've got some dronabinol that I take for sleep that helps a tiny bit, it's just THC though. I don't have any CBD oil sadly. SWIM reports that cannabis helps out quite a bit and nightly use helps with pain. I'm a federal employee though so, *I* can't partake in anything not legal at the federal level (thank heavens the FDA approved a THC medication even though they claim THC doesn't do anything worthwhile... *eyeroll*) but SWIM reports positive effects on pain.

6 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

you're still Sexy AF on any side of 200 lbs...

I don't even know what being sexy feels like. I'm still dealing with some bizarre body dysmorphia. I still see myself and feel very fat. But thank you.

40 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Thank you!
(I've also admired her bikini pic, she looks fan-fukin-tastic,I'd love to see before and after photos from her, I'm sure the transition was impressive!)

Ask and you shall receive! This is from 225 and 127. I’m going for 115-120 now with IF. ?

I do 99% of my progress photos in that silly little bikini just to track where work still needs to be done. I promise I do wear clothes ?

1 minute ago, redhead_che said:

Ask and you shall receive! This is from 225 and 127. I’m going for 115-120 now with IF. ?

I do 99% of my progress photos in that silly little bikini just to track where work still needs to be done. I promise I do wear clothes ?

Seriously amazing. Like, speechless levels of amazing.

3 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Seriously amazing. Like, speechless levels of amazing.

Thank you much ? but it’s you guys I owe for helping me at this end stretch. Like I said yesterday I’ve just been reading the thread for months never actually trying and wala! Next time trust the regular posters faster ?

1 minute ago, redhead_che said:

Thank you much ? but it’s you guys I owe for helping me at this end stretch. Like I said yesterday I’ve just been reading the thread for months never actually trying and wala! Next time trust the regular posters faster ?

I did the same, I read everything, watched the videos, did my own research... really is an amazing "diet" method that has so much factual science behind it, I just couldn't not do it. Feels more like this is how we are supposed to eat (how are bodies are designed to work), from a purely physiological standpoint.

1 hour ago, Matt Z said:

I've got some dronabinol that I take for sleep that helps a tiny bit, it's just THC though. I don't have any CBD oil sadly. SWIM reports that cannabis helps out quite a bit and nightly use helps with pain. I'm a federal employee though so, *I* can't partake in anything not legal at the federal level (thank heavens the FDA approved a THC medication even though they claim THC doesn't do anything worthwhile... *eyeroll*) but SWIM reports positive effects on pain.

Ok, here's some stuff:

I have this cream called Pennsaid. https://www.pennsaid.com/

Then also:

Emla Cream https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-2358-8170/emla-topical/lidocaine-prilocaine-cream-topical/details

Aloe Vera with Lidocain (Walgreens/CVS)

Oatmeal Baths (colloidal oatmeal) - Aveeno (Walgreens/CVS)

Cold Baths

Cold Compresses

No tight clothing

Then the big guns:

Gabapentin (Neurontin)

Amytriptiline (nerve pain, tri-cyclic anti-depressant)

Norco (hydrocodone + acetominophen) - 10/325 (I take this when I can't stand the pain anymore.)

Also the combo of muscle relaxants and Norco works awesome when the neuralgia is at a 8-10.

Hope those help you hon!

34 minutes ago, redhead_che said:

Ask and you shall receive! This is from 225 and 127. I’m going for 115-120 now with IF. ?

I do 99% of my progress photos in that silly little bikini just to track where work still needs to be done. I promise I do wear clothes ?

Girl ... Wear that bikini Everywhere!!!!

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

Girl ... Wear that bikini Everywhere!!!!

I would wear it to work, to play, to restaurants and plays! To Walmart. I'd have 7 of them and wear 1 per day.

Oh and I would also have a boom box with me playing this repetitively...

Edited November 7, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

????❤12 months ❤????

31 minutes ago, redhead_che said:

Thank you much ? but it’s you guys I owe for helping me at this end stretch. Like I said yesterday I’ve just been reading the thread for months never actually trying and wala! Next time trust the regular posters faster ?

ALL I do is research ways to outsmart death and fat ...

oh and build tiny houses

????

Edited November 7, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

I love IF. I'm back down to my published weight after this weekend's hedonistic bacchanalia. (Just sayin', Johan Sebastian...man everyone should party with that dude!)

If he was living now and not back then, somebody would surely say.
Man That Sure is some RIGHTEOUS music!???

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

I'd have 7 of them and wear 1 per day.

I wouldn't limit myself to 7, I'd have one in every color imaginable .... kelly green, lime green, forest green, lemon yellow, mustard yellow, coral, safety vest orange ......

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

I love IF. I'm back down to my published weight after this weekend's hedonistic bacchanalia. (Just sayin', Johan Sebastian...man everyone should party with that dude!)

Man, isn't the feeling of being in control amazing .... we can splurge and then turn it back around!