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 minute ago, sillykitty said:

Definitely lucky!

The only downside is I definitely don't get my money out of AYCE, even though we stretched it out to a 2 hr meal and went during lunch so it was cheaper!

Is the Argentinian restaurant also AYCE? Cuz dang, double whammy! LOL.

1 minute ago, FluffyChix said:

Is the Argentinian restaurant also AYCE? Cuz dang, double whammy! LOL.

Lol ... no, not AYCE.

I've narrowed it down to two restaurants I think he has in mind.. One has ceviche, so that is a good option. The other has great steaks, but such a waste, considering I don't like left over steak. I don't think my date eats steak at the same temp as I do, so sharing is probably out .... hmmm ...

14 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

Lol ... no, not AYCE.

I've narrowed it down to two restaurants I think he has in mind.. One has ceviche, so that is a good option. The other has great steaks, but such a waste, considering I don't like left over steak. I don't think my date eats steak at the same temp as I do, so sharing is probably out .... hmmm ...

Love ceviche if it's fresh and from a reputable place that serves a crap ton of it so it moves fast!

Petite filets? Carpaccio appetizers?

Is this your main squeeze/cardio partner of the "meet the fam" persuasion or a new one?

Nice celebratory lunch @sillykitty

You deserve it!

7 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Love ceviche if it's fresh and from a reputable place that serves a crap ton of it so it moves fast!

Petite filets? Carpaccio appetizers?

Is this your main squeeze/cardio partner of the "meet the fam" persuasion or a new one?

Huge ceviche fan myself!

Funny carpaccio is my go to when I go to steakhouses for work. I don't feel left out of the beef binge, but the portion is manageable. There is a 8 oz flat iron calling my name on one of the menus (filet's are booooring ), but that is still a lot of food if neither me nor the boo will eat the leftovers.

Same boo ... the one of the pass code dilemma, lol

BTW ... at what point do you start calling someone bf/gf? We've been dating exclusively since our 4th date, which was September. I'm meeting him at his work place tonight, and he's showing me around (showing me off?). Did the first family meet (light) last weekend, everyone seemed to like each other. He would have come to my family's Thanksgiving if he didn't have his own commitments. We took our first pics together this weekend and he said "So, we finally get pics together!" All good, but I don't want to push. He said the issue he had with the last two women he dated is they wanted to move too fast, so that makes me hesitant.

12 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

Huge ceviche fan myself!

Funny carpaccio is my go to when I go to steakhouses for work. I don't feel left out of the beef binge, but the portion is manageable. There is a 8 oz flat Iron calling my name on one of the menus (filet's are booooring ), but that is still a lot of food if neither me nor the boo will eat the leftovers.

Same boo ... the one of the pass code dilemma, lol

BTW ... at what point do you start calling someone bf/gf? We've been dating exclusively since our 4th date, which was September. I'm meeting him at his work place tonight, and he's showing me around (showing me off?). Did the first family meet (light) last weekend, everyone seemed to like each other. He would have come to my family's Thanksgiving if he didn't have his own commitments. We took our first pics together this weekend and he said "So, we finally get pics together!" All good, but I don't want to push. He said the issue he had with the last two women he dated is they wanted to move too fast, so that makes me hesitant.

Wooohoooo! Yeah, I don't really like the texture of filet unless it is charred rare (Pittsburgh). Or in carpaccio. I will even eat it blue, if it has awesome flavor-flave...but yeah, much prefer a different cut. I actually get something like an appetizer then talk himself into splitting a cup of soup and salad and then letting me have 2oz of the spinalis muscle of his ribeye. haha. It's a win-win cuz he gets to legit order a bigger cut which means better thickness and a better chance they will actually cook them correctly. Then leftovers are minimal and I get to have bites of everything.

I'd be calling him BF now. My rule of thumb is if you're intimate enough for his weiner to be anywhere near the bun and condiments, then the BF is on like Donky Kong. But I'm old fashioned that way. And I'd kinda like let him do the BF/GF thing first.

Don't move fast, Flash! hehe (It's all really semantics anyway. Right? A rose by any other name will still smell as sweet...yes?)

Edited November 29, 20187 yr by FluffyChix

It's kinda like this...

It's ok to be laidback, chill, and cool as long as he's doing things the way you want him to be doing them...right? Until such time that he challenges the nature of life, he simply does not have the proper "Need to know clearance" in order to be given a glimpse of crazy eyes/face that awaits underneath for him should he ever be dumb enough to move your cheese inappropriately.

But I never said that...

So, I feel comfortable enough to post this here. I know it's really not all that impressive... But from what I've come from... The mass gains I'm seeing are freaking cool. It looks Photoshop, it's not. Yay saggy titties and wrinkle skin!

8 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

So, I feel comfortable enough to post this here. I know it's really not all that impressive... But from what I've come from... The mass gains I'm seeing are freaking cool. It looks Photoshop, it's not. Yay saggy titties and wrinkle skin!

I'm still so confused. Why do you keep posting pics of Ed Burns?

But serious proppahs dude!!!!! Congrats and so happy you shared! Can you believe you are the same guy that started your journey or even your revision journey? And don't you think IF has been a game changer on the loose skin front?

(and yet, part of me is still saying...and STILL no di*k pics all up in heah for us...I just don't get it...)

@Matt Z You look seriously, no joke, FANTASTIC!

I've seen a few naked torso's in my day, and I would never guess you've had had massive weight loss. I've seen way more sagging on average non WLS guys!

22 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

So, I feel comfortable enough to post this here. I know it's really not all that impressive... But from what I've come from... The mass gains I'm seeing are freaking cool. It looks Photoshop, it's not. Yay saggy titties and wrinkle skin!

14 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

I'm still so confused. Why do you keep posting pics of Ed Burns?

But serious proppahs dude!!!!! Congrats and so happy you shared! Can you believe you are the same guy that started your journey or even your revision journey? And don't you think IF has been a game changer on the loose skin front?

(and yet, part of me is still saying...and STILL no di*k pics all up in heah for us...I just don't get it...)

LOL Thanks... And that last part... LOL pretty proud of what I've got, now that it's not all hidden by the worlds worst turtleneck LOL!

18 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

(and yet, part of me is still saying...and STILL no di*k pics all up in heah for us...I just don't get it...)

And here I thought that DP's were like... Major NO NO's and girls didn't want to see that stuff. Or is it more a "didn't ask, didn't want" over just a "don't want"?

1 hour ago, FluffyChix said:

I'd be calling him BF now. My rule of thumb is if you're intimate enough for his weiner to be anywhere near the bun and Condiments, then the BF is on like Donky Kong. But I'm old fashioned that way. And I'd kinda like let him do the BF/GF thing first.

Don't move fast, Flash! hehe (It's all really semantics anyway. Right? A rose by any other name will still smell as sweet...yes?)

I'm not very old fashioned at all. So I definitely use my Costco shopping passes, fill up the cart a few times before I buy the membership . And sometimes I have no intention of ever even joining.

It totally is semantics. Things are going great. It just feels like an awkward stage between, he's the guy I'm dating and he's my boyfriend.

Omgosh, Matt! You look amazing! I'd never guess you'd been overweight! Congratulations!