Day 4: Pacific NW USA, 16:8 NFD, 2 meals today, eggs with salad at lunch and halibut and leftover veg for dinner as last meal before liquid only 60 hour pocket FD’s!!
My goal to have our largest weekend meals at lunch (Anna6 seems to do that with no sweat!) has already gone astray with these errand filled busy days. OH and I are not together on weekdays until evening and that’s happening this weekend too. 🙄 Still under TDEE, maybe someday we will be able to try out Dr Fung’s suggestion from the research he cited.
NorrieB – I did not take you as patronizing, just helpful. Also I know the feeling of invisibility as I am also the mother of 4 successful adult children with their own families. I especially feel invisible after being called on to help big time (birth of a child, tending the g’children while parents take a much deserved vacation, holiday prep) and then I have a big let down when it feels like I am no longer necessary in their lives. I decided several years ago that it was my problem not theirs and I try to set up little rewards for myself when I can predict I will feel let down just to remind myself that my happiness comes from inside me not from being validated by others.
Happy – yes, I also find fasting around others difficult, it can feel “haughty” or “attention seeking” to not eat when others are. Even OH is still alarmed by my b2b’s because he worries based on the picture he has in his mind about eating disorders and because he’s never missed a meal in his life and has never been over weight. So for him I just say I’m having a “low calorie day” and he likes the results! When out with a few friends I’ve been able to say “I had a big meal earlier so I’ll just have a taste”. For most other occasions I try to schedule my FD around big events like our son’s wedding this summer. No one even noticed that I didn’t eat the potatoes or cake or finish the champagne after the toast to stay under TDEE. That was after a very successful downturn in my weight and I was bound to keep the progress going so others be darned, I was sticking to my plan! At Thanksgiving my Mom and brother just shook their heads but they had already acknowledged the huge difference in my weight!
Bert – keep the faith this Tues AM that many of us have found that the second day of a b2b is easier than the first because somewhere around 24 hours of a fast the body switches from glucose burning to fat burning and that flip does not seem to come with hunger pangs – yah!
Mikeb – good luck!
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4 Dec 16