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, GreenTealael said:

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

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

Oh snap! That's forkin brilliant girl!!! I was thinking of just adding the carton egg whites, but if I use real eggs and separate them then whip them to stiff peaks and fold in the pb powder...hold me. I might "win" the weekend with them and be a rockstar for him!

Edited November 9, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

10 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Oh snap! That's forkin brilliant girl!!! I was thinking of just adding the carton egg whites, but if I use real eggs and separate them then fold in the pb powder...hold me. I might "win" the weekend with them and be a rockstar for him!

Have you seen your latest photos, you're already his Rockstar!

Awwwwww! TY! Like you though, I don't actually see or feel that. It feels embarrassing to get a compliment. It's like I feel like I will always be the girl with the "great personality" who gets put into the friend zone. me=dork

But in my secret garden heart, I want to be smokin' hot and Miss Behavin' with him all the time and I want people to look at us and think...what on earth is she up to now? I bet he never gets bored! (haha--of course in reality, last night we had salad and watched a Hallmark Christmas movie in jammies)

LOL.

Edited November 9, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

22 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

But in my secret garden heart, I want to be smokin' hot and Miss Behavin' with him all the time and I want people to look at us and think...what on earth is she up to now? I bet he never gets bored! (haha--of course in reality, last night we had salad and watched a Hallmark Christmas movie in jammies)

I think we are the same person

Yay! Let's switch! I'll go to Italy next month for you. You can make dinner for himself and watch a HMCM in jammies! Deal?

3 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!

Yay! Hopefully the worst is behind you!

Just now, FluffyChix said:

Yay! Let's switch! I'll go to Italy next month for you. You can make dinner for himself and watch a HMCM in jammies! Deal?

Cold in Italy next month lol

17 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Yay! Let's switch! I'll go to Italy next month for you. You can make dinner for himself and watch a HMCM in jammies! Deal?

Bad news ... next month I'm going to be in terrible places like Tennesse and Ohio ... jammies and HMCM is the better end of the deal!

You're right! hehe

Hugs (or Jazz Hands)

Edited November 9, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

I've been doing some mild IF, just basically going to bed early, and then I've never been much of a morning eater. Other than that I haven't been very mindful about what I'm actually eating. Nothing gluttonous, but nothing virtuous either.

I'm hoping maybe I've found where I can maintain? Maybe it won't be such a battle to do so? I'm afraid to say it too loud to jinx it

Don't jinx it! Shhh! That's wonderful news!! And GORGEOUS weight on your ticker btw! Congrats girlie!!!

OMG guys. I seriously can't make myself concentrate and work this week! I've procrastinated on a project that is due first thing in the morning. I do NOT want to nut up and do it. Ugggh! It taxes my spirit and soul to do this kind of creative writing. Someone give me a ginormous shame-filled spanking and tell me to adult. I don't want to adult. I want to retire. LOL--like that's happening in my lifetime. LOL.

15 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

OMG guys. I seriously can't make myself concentrate and work this week! I've procrastinated on a project that is due first thing in the morning. I do NOT want to nut up and do it. Ugggh! It taxes my spirit and soul to do this kind of creative writing. Someone give me a ginormous shame-filled spanking and tell me to adult. I don't want to adult. I want to retire. LOL--like that's happening in my lifetime. LOL.

Seems like "creative writing" and "taxes my spirit and soul" do not belong in the same sentence. It must be about something you have absolutely no passion for.

Just now, Orchids&Dragons said:

Seems like "creative writing" and "taxes my spirit and soul" do not belong in the same sentence. It must be about something you have absolutely no passion for.

Ugh yes!!! I have to make sense of this woman's resume and craft a dynamic version of it. It needs to conform to a certain style and tone that her peers are using and ughhhh. I can't be tagged for inadvertent plagiarism, so can't really copy. And "in my own words" is just not coming to me.

Her draft is soooooooo bad, so verbose, so dry as old bones, it's like trying to spin and do a complete rewrite of how the facts are presented. I got nothin' left. I'm spent. LOL.

5 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Ugh yes!!! I have to make sense of this woman's resume and craft a dynamic version of it. It needs to conform to a certain style and tone that her peers are using and ughhhh. I can't be tagged for inadvertent plagiarism, so can't really copy. And "in my own words" is just not coming to me.

Her draft is soooooooo bad, so verbose, so dry as old bones, it's like trying to spin and do a complete rewrite of how the facts are presented. I got nothin' left. I'm spent. LOL.

Sounds like a nightmare. Creative thinking doesn't have an on/off switch. That's one reason I'm an accountant. We can go to jail for being creative ?