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!!!

Weighed at doctor's office 159lbs

Why- Pizookie lol at least I know for sure how carb sensitive I really am. IF here we come!

22 hours ago, Sosewsue61 said:

Ok. You guys are THE BEST!

@Matt Z I feel for you dude, I have had shingles 3 effing times. Hang in there

What the hell? I'm repulsed and amused at the same time. Where's the pee hole?

See I got a different thought***I thought F U ?, the insolence I stifled in MY YOUTH! Now I had a thought similar to YOURS with Oscar the Grouch' s pet worm? Slimey, I always looked for an orifice on the little critter!?

Good morning! How is everyone? Let's start some hijinx! I'm going for a 20/4 fast today--or maybe a 22/2. I want to eat 2x to get in 60g of protein--or maybe eat 1x with 1 protein drink to make up the difference.

@Matt Z How you feeling today? Any improvement?

Hi there. Today is my first day. I did a little research and figured I’d try the plan where I eat for 8 hours and fast for 16. Hoping to learn from you guys.

16 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Good morning! How is everyone? Let's start some hijinx! I'm going for a 20/4 fast today--or maybe a 22/2. I want to eat 2x to get in 60g of protein--or maybe eat 1x with 1 Protein Drink to make up the difference.

@Matt Z How you feeling today? Any improvement?

Yesterday seems to hopefully have been the worst... which should mean things will get better over the next week or 2. Being back at work doesn't really seem to help though.

Thanks for checking in!

7 minutes ago, Brassapple said:

Hi there. Today is my first day. I did a little research and figured I’d try the plan where I eat for 8 hours and fast for 16. Hoping to learn from you guys.

Welcome to the group! Post often, ask questions, read the thread it is loaded with vids from YouTube and articles that discuss the fine points of IF. You can also search YouTube for a ton of vids! Good luck! Make sure you are easily getting in your protein needs for the day from REAL food before trying this. And also it sure helps to run this by your doc for approval.

5 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

Yesterday seems to hopefully have been the worst... which should mean things will get better over the next week or 2. Being back at work doesn't really seem to help though.

Thanks for checking in!

I'm so glad to hear this!!!!! Yay for crossing the threshhold!!!! Woootttt!!!! You're a beast! A handsome beast, but a beast!!! Errrrraaaaaaaahhhh! (That's the extent of my pisspoor cheerleading ability. )

Glad you are back at work--even though I'm sure it sucks--you know the whole need to wear clothes on a burning body thing.

You got this!!! You're weight is gonna start falling off!

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Dang! I haven't had peanut butter in a while. I usually grind my own or do Laura Scudders, but before surgery I bought a jar of creamy Skippy to make a low carb pb cookie recipe for my sissy and it's been hanging out in the pantry lurking and looking miserable. I also have peanut butter powder from Vitacost lurking around that I still add to green smoothies and yogurt.

So yesterday I made up some Peanut Butter Slim (Vitacost pb powder) and added 12g of Skippy to it to make it "stickier" and had it with part of a Granny Smith apple (2oz). The apple was lovely and tart. But dang!!!! The peanut butter is so stinking sweet. I started laughing about how my taste perceptions have changed. I rarely if ever ate sweets before. Sometimes I will have a piece of 85% or 90% Lindt, or will have some stevia sweetened something. But this really gobsmacked me how sweet peanut butter tasted!

Have y'all noticed anything like that with other foods?

26 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Dang! I haven't had Peanut Butter in a while. I usually grind my own or do Laura Scudders, but before surgery I bought a jar of creamy Skippy to make a low carb pb cookie recipe for my sissy and it's been hanging out in the pantry lurking and looking miserable. I also have peanut butter powder from vitacost lurking around that I still add to green smoothies and yogurt.

So yesterday I made up some Peanut Butter Slim (Vitacost pb powder) and added 12g of Skippy to it to make it "stickier" and had it with part of a Granny Smith apple (2oz). The apple was lovely and tart. But dang!!!! The peanut butter is so stinking sweet. I started laughing about how my taste perceptions have changed. I rarely if ever ate sweets before. Sometimes I will have a piece of 85% or 90% Lindt, or will have some stevia sweetened something. But this really gobsmacked me how sweet peanut butter tasted!

Have y'all noticed anything like that with other foods?

All I crave are nuts, seeds and dark chocolate. Not even fruit anymore. I will have fruit occasionally because I work it into recipes but I realized I bought watermelon and gave it away because I had Brazil nuts I wanted instead. Save me.

1 minute ago, GreenTealael said:

All I crave are nuts, seeds and dark chocolate. Not even fruit anymore. I will have fruit occasionally because I work it into recipes but I realized I bought watermelon and gave it away because I had Brazil nuts I wanted instead. Save me.

Hey sweetie do you think you are deficient in magnesium? The cravings for dark chocolate and dried fruit really call that up in my mind. Do you ever take magnesium salt baths? Like 1-2 times per week? Safest way to absorb it...

2 hours ago, Matt Z said:

Yesterday seems to hopefully have been the worst... which should mean things will get better over the next week or 2. Being back at work doesn't really seem to help though.

Thanks for checking in!

Get well soon Cash ...

5 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Hey sweetie do you think you are deficient in magnesium? The cravings for dark chocolate and dried fruit really call that up in my mind. Do you ever take magnesium salt baths? Like 1-2 times per week? Safest way to absorb it...

No magnesium deficiency in fact my deodorant is made from magnesium so I absorb it that way too

I think it's the fat... I want fat. I can take or leave the chocolate depending on the lunar cycle but I need nuts.

Edited November 9, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

Just now, GreenTealael said:

No magnesium deficiency in fact my deodorant is made from magnesium so I absorb it that way too

I think it's the fat... I want fat.

Cool! I'm gonna make the PB cookies for Mr. F. this weekend. I'll freeze them to have on hand for him. Sometimes he will get a sweet tooth and want a little bite of something.

I'm gonna try making it with the PB Slim powder and maybe egg whites (to see how low I can get em in cals!--cuz we don't need the extra fat around here). Might add a bit of WF Marshmallow Dip for the sweetener. I know...eek!!!

I bet it is the fat...but magnesium tests are sometimes false. And the dried fruit thing just seems like...hmmm. Maybe magnesium? Why not try an epsom salt bath. Very relaxing.

And you should totes get more fat, cuz of the vegetarian thing. Since we eat meat and avocados I think we have a diff situation.

So funny we were posting about peanut butter at the same time this morning! Get out of mah head!!!! LOL.

14 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Cool! I'm gonna make the PB Cookies for Mr. F. this weekend. I'll freeze them to have on hand for him. Sometimes he will get a sweet tooth and want a little bite of something.

I'm gonna try making it with the PB Slim powder and maybe egg whites (to see how low I can get em in cals!--cuz we don't need the extra fat around here). Might add a bit of WF Marshmallow Dip for the sweetener. I know...eek!!!

I bet it is the fat...but magnesium tests are sometimes false. And the dried fruit thing just seems like...hmmm. Maybe magnesium? Why not try an epsom salt bath. Very relaxing.

And you should totes get more fat, cuz of the vegetarian thing. Since we eat meat and avocados I think we have a diff situation.

So funny we were posting about Peanut Butter at the same time this morning! Get out of mah head!!!! LOL.

I bet the egg whites will make it a little more like meringue. Nice!

True on the magnesium, it's still a possibility.