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!!!

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Weight going back down ....

No thanks to this b@$+@rd. Ugh. Never again.

Did you eat it multiple times or did it just take that long for your weight to start coming off? LOL

2 hours ago, FluffyChix said:

Did you eat it multiple times or did it just take that long for your weight to start coming off? LOL

Just the once and only 1/4-1/3 of it...

Evil foods

@Matt Z weight lost was probably all that anniversary and birthday sex... lol Glad you had mega fun!

Rest of you peeps - hello -

I am watching skinny hubs stress eat chips, nacho cheese, chocolate, can I just get out the duct tape now - makes me crazy......

18 minutes ago, Sosewsue61 said:

@Matt Z weight lost was probably all that anniversary and birthday sex... lol Glad you had mega fun!

Rest of you peeps - hello -

I am watching skinny hubs stress eat chips, nacho cheese, chocolate, can I just get out the duct tape now - makes me crazy......

Depends on what the duct tape is for...?

8 hours ago, Sosewsue61 said:

@Matt Z weight lost was probably all that anniversary and birthday sex... lol Glad you had mega fun!

Rest of you peeps - hello -

I am watching skinny hubs stress eat chips, nacho cheese, chocolate, can I just get out the duct tape now - makes me crazy......

Sadly, there was zero "birthday or anniversary anything" of that nature... Someone's monthly "friend" decided it was going to make an appearance early just to screw with our weekend. I think it was all the flights of stairs honestly.

22 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Depends on what the duct tape is for...?

Man, I am so boring! The most awesome use I ever made of duct tape (well, packing tape, really) was to duct tape the twins into their car seats. I got so d@mn tired of them crawling out of their car seats and hanging upside down from the Jesus handles on the van! (They were about 20 months old)

Morning folks. Sorry - gone all day with my 6month check-ups! Good news is that I have another 6 months under my belt of "dating NED" and am good for another 6months. Yippee! Interesting news is that I have to wear an "event monitor" to see why I'm having skipped beats, and we're trying to figure out how to get rid of my last bp med.

More scary news...we went to a new restaurant for lunch yesterday and I split a cup of chili and burger balls and came home, fell asleep, and woke with a 36bg! I have my first reactive hypoglycemia attack and it was so so so scary. Sweating profusely, heart racing and skipping, shaking so much I could barely navigate or use my arms/hands, could barely coordinate a thought to speak. And had to forceably make myself go get a can of pineapple juice (only juice in the house) that I keep for making a marinade and some unsweetened applesauce to try to get my bg back up to normal. I was successful in doing that (thank you God). But holy whackadoodle! It was scary larry for a while.

Also before saying BS, you'd be dead at 36bg, we use a Fora brand bg meter which I "think" may read low by 10-15points from bgs measured with drawn blood. But it was still very dangerously low, I'd say at least in the mid-40s to low 50s judging on how discombobulated I was and how bad I felt the rest of the day.

I also got my fasting insulin back and it's awesome! It went down from 14 to 2!!! So my IR is in remission right now it looks like! IF appears to really be working metabollically for me. My bg this morning was 76. I am planning on doing an 18-6 today but will watch it.

@GreenTealael so MAN! I can relate to your posts now about your RH or dumping. I think it may be very similar?

How are all of you doing?

So it's the big 4-0 today. And whereas I did not meet my dream goal of 200, today did show another small drop in weight. I'm now at 208.3, which is cool to see another little drop. Maybe I'll be able to hit my dream goal before christmas.

So it's the big 4-0 today. And whereas I did not meet my dream goal of 200, today did show another small drop in weight. I'm now at 208.3, which is cool to see another little drop. Maybe I'll be able to hit my dream goal before christmas.

Happy birthday.

5 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

So it's the big 4-0 today. And whereas I did not meet my dream goal of 200, today did show another small drop in weight. I'm now at 208.3, which is cool to see another little drop. Maybe I'll be able to hit my dream goal before christmas.

Woooohoooo!!!! Congrats Matt! Happy Happy Happy Birthday to you! Have a fun day and be blessed this year with pure abundance in all things!!! ??????

20 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

So it's the big 4-0 today. And whereas I did not meet my dream goal of 200, today did show another small drop in weight. I'm now at 208.3, which is cool to see another little drop. Maybe I'll be able to hit my dream goal before christmas.

?? ??Happy Birthday Mr.Z????

Edited November 15, 20187 yr by GreenTealael

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

Morning folks. Sorry - gone all day with my 6month check-ups! Good news is that I have another 6 months under my belt of "dating NED" and am good for another 6months. Yippee! Interesting news is that I have to wear an "event monitor" to see why I'm having skipped beats, and we're trying to figure out how to get rid of my last bp med.

More scary news...we went to a new restaurant for lunch yesterday and I split a cup of chili and burger balls and came home, fell asleep, and woke with a 36bg! I have my first reactive hypoglycemia attack and it was so so so scary. Sweating profusely, heart racing and skipping, shaking so much I could barely navigate or use my arms/hands, could barely coordinate a thought to speak. And had to forceably make myself go get a can of pineapple juice (only juice in the house) that I keep for making a marinade and some unsweetened applesauce to try to get my bg back up to normal. I was successful in doing that (thank you God). But holy whackadoodle! It was scary larry for a while.

Also before saying BS, you'd be dead at 36bg, we use a Fora brand bg meter which I "think" may read low by 10-15points from bgs measured with drawn blood. But it was still very dangerously low, I'd say at least in the mid-40s to low 50s judging on how discombobulated I was and how bad I felt the rest of the day.

I also got my fasting insulin back and it's awesome! It went down from 14 to 2!!! So my IR is in remission right now it looks like! IF appears to really be working metabollically for me. My bg this morning was 76. I am planning on doing an 18-6 today but will watch it.

@GreenTealael so MAN! I can relate to your posts now about your RH or dumping. I think it may be very similar?

How are all of you doing?

Woah, scary! And yes it feels like I'm dying when it happens, but because it happens so often, since France, I know I should technically survive it.

Crazy stuff. Hope it was an isolated event for you!

I'm away for a funeral so IF didn't happen for 2 days and the scale will definitely reflect it because eating all day is tragic.

Plus hell week ( week before RedDeath lol) so I'm legitimately hungrier.

Hope everyone is doing well and tell those you love how you feel while you can.

*But If you hate someone just say bless your heart ???

3 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

*But If you hate someone just say bless your heart ???

Hahaahaha! True!

In the South, it all subs for the "aka" that you'd use in response to someone who is dumb as a box of rocks..."Well bless your heart!" (sometimes accompanied by the lean forward upper body insincere hug)

4 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Woah, scary! And yes it feels like I'm dying when it happens, but because it happens so often, since France, I know I should technically survive it.

Crazy stuff. Hope it was an isolated event for you!

I'm away for a funeral so IF didn't happen for 2 days and the scale will definitely reflect it because eating all day is tragic.

Plus hell week ( week before RedDeath lol) so I'm legitimately hungrier.

Hope everyone is doing well and tell those you love how you feel while you can.

*But If you hate someone just say bless your heart ???

Don't know which to give you a bigger hug for:

1. The funeral. So sorry for your loss!

2. Having to tragically eat and snack of great contraband all day.

3. Hell week...no words. Just. No. Words!

You will get back and get back on it! We'll miss you!

5 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Don't know which to give you a bigger hug for:

1. The funeral. So sorry for your loss!

2. Having to tragically eat and snack of great contraband all day.

3. Hell week...no words. Just. No. Words!

You will get back and get back on it! We'll miss you!

#2

Lol the food timing is horrible, not even bad things but I think this proves IF is life long for me

Why do people want to eat all day long!?!?, and take you along for the ride... I even skipped some meals and just had a drink. I guess that's the nature of funerals

And thank you.

Edited November 15, 20187 yr by GreenTealael