WFD #3

I do think that 165 is a very good goal and I’m totally fine not getting lower. But somehow with the fasting I think I can. We’ll see. Maybe being older and saggier it will be impossible.
Think more like Easter Europe-ish.

Gosh, your English is excellent! Dyslexia is just one way of being and processing the information and it does mean that you are a talented, creative thinker. Schools, unfortunately, still make many dyslectic children feel like failures, while in reality, if you approach it right, it is an asset. Academics are overrated as it is, especially with universities going down the drain with their level of education nowadays. I’ve been thinking outside the box about education for years now.

As for Spanish and other languages—look up the Michel Thomas method. It is all done orally (CDs) with no writing and it is an amazing program (if not the best) for achieving fluency. You’ll be speaking basic Spanish within weeks, I’m not kidding you.

Ha ha, I didn’t even look up the price. I just knew it would be way more than I was willing to spend on a scale! I’ll remain loyal to Moody until it dies, or loses its mind entirely.

I do feel full when I eat. I can eat past feeling full when the food is yummy. Yuck! Working on it. An issue is that I always hope the kids and husband will eat more of what I cook, and if it is a “miss” and they don’t eat as much, I end up with a bowl of “good, healthy food” that will otherwise go to waste. I’m learning to cook smaller portions.

Stats on reddit:

F43,6’, WF, SW215 CW 195 GW 155. Something like this, I think. I might have forgotten something. I like when people here add their montly goals and how they are going, how many lbs lost. AND the number of your fast. Which means I need to go through all of my posts and count how many times I said I was fasting! Because I haven’t kept track anywhere else. But when I read other people’s posts, I love being able to easily see their progress.

I ended up extending my fast to 92h! At 91 hours now. I’m not hungry, and honestly I can go until tomorrow. Hm…I might go until tomorrow (the thinking out loud has started lol) This is kind of very interesting. I was about to break it in one hour, but if I fast for another 3 hours, and it will be evening and I normally do well in the evenings. Wow, I’m kinda impressed with myself. I’ll really see how I feel.

I normally end my fasts the following morning–has been easy so far to just go to bed,even if I’m a bit hungry, because I typically feel GREAT the next morning. However I read one’s person experiences, and she was saying that if you break your fast in the evening you will end up eating less—which is potentially true. Her point was that you don’t have the whole day for eating. I feel it is a bit odd to end in the evening, I haven’t tried it yet. So I will either try it today, or will break tomorrow morning.

How is your fasting going?

@ Rabbette

Broke the fast at 94 hours.

This light meal concept is not working out for me. I know this is absoluely the right thinking and the right approach. I want to be doing it. I think I need to start doing a very light meal with shorter fasts first to get used to this idea. I also read that this is more important if the fast is over 7 days? I hope so.

So this is what happened. I felt I could go overnight. I even extended the fast on the app and stared at it for a minute. Then brought the numbers back down. I have a busy day tomorrow, with possibly no time for breakfast, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel tomorrow driving around all day with no breakfast.

This is the first time I broke the fast in the evening. The moment I started eating the quinoa salad with sweet potatoes and beets I became batshit ravenous. Like almost to the point of shakey. I ate the salad with some chicken on top; added a small tin of sardines; an apple that I cut up for the kids in the morning; some cheese and salami; a cup of yogurt with a slice of quinoa and seeds bread. Then I made myself a cup of tea and drank it with 2 no-bake date squares (dates, seeds, nuts, hemp hearts, gogi berries etc) with the melted dark chocolate on top. I made them yesterday and they tasted great out of the freezer! I’m guessing the squares pushed it into over 2000 calories! lol

I think I would have been just FINE if I had a bowl of broth. But my mental prep waasn’t there yet. Small steps.

However, I do not feel stuffed. I feel very content and happy. My stomach doesn’t seem to be offended.

So I fasted Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and most of today, but technically today is my NFD / Eating day. So technically tomorrow is my Fasting Day. Hm… this will be an interesting experiment. On the one hand it feels (emotionally, mentally) like tomorrow should be an eating day, but in reality it is back to Fasting, and I think physically I’d feel like fasting.

So I should turn on the fasting app now, basically and start a new fast? Maybe!

Thank you for trying to keep me in check with the light meal idea! I’ll be working on it.

@rabbette — Thank you!

I am sure it is less than ideal to eat a normal large meal after a 94h fast… In terms of blood sugar and what not. I just need to adjut my thinking about it.

Surprising not feeling deprived, at least not yet. This feels like a normal 36h fast in its beginning. I’ll see how it feels tonight and might have some miso and fruits if feeling deprived.

It did take me a bit longer than usual to fall asleep, but I was also thinking about a bunch of things, so the thoughts kept me awake. I certainly prefer going to bed on an empty stomach.

I’m already trying to figure out the best days for my next 102 hours fast, as I want to make sure my day 5, in the morning of which I’ll break fast, is a day I’m at home in the morning.

You are at 60h! Yay! How is it going?

It is such a treat to share a meal, isn’t it? Especially after fasting and eating on separate schedules. I’m glad you had this experience this morning.

Our bodies are weird this way, aren’t they? Some days we can go for days with no food feeling perfectly fine, and then bam, 2 hours after a meal. I wish I could know when it was “for real” or just in the head. I wish I could be s attuned and aware to know the difference and act or not act on this. I certainly have trigger foods, and for me it is not even the carbs. I used to do low carb and there is this awesome recipe where you combined eggs, veggies, sausage or bacon crumbs, some cheese, sauted onions and put into large muffin forms and bake into “muffins.” They can be frozen and kept for a bit.

Obviously very nutritious, very low carb, and obviously one should be enough for breakfast. Well, if I eat one of those, I eat all 6. Either right away, or 2 hours later, but they trigger insane hunger! And it is the taste, I’m sure, not the carb vs protein content

Your kitties sound sweet! My friend couldn’t keep her cat from becoming obese as the kitty kept overeating. It is a challenge. Good that you are mindful and avoiding the kitchen! Anything helps!

Nuts sounds like a good plan. They are filling and can be eaten one by one (hopefully! Haha) I agree that adding broth and liquids towards the end of the fast. Maybe I’ll call it transition or something like that, as I think this will help me to include it and thus have a more sensible first meal.

This is incredible that you are noticing changes in your health!! Absolutely amazing!!

I also want to get to the regular 36 hour fasts, with longer water fasts every 6 to 8 weeks. Maybe even every 12 weeks. I do want to do a 7 day water fast in the beginning of the summer when it gets warm (could be the middle of the summer!) and then a 14 day fast (omg, this sounds IMPOSSIBLE!!!) in the late fall. Well, 7 days is my goal for this summer for sure, and 14? I don’t know yet ha ha.

I am at the end of the day and I think I’ll continue fasting until tomorrow morning, 36 hours. This makes more sense to me. I’m not very hungry and feeling fine, and going to bed after eating wasn’t as great as after fasting.
Tomorrow, though—feast. I did groceries today and have arugula, baby tomatoes, cucumber, bell peppers etc for salad. Bacon and eggs for breakfast, and I’m making prune bars with dark chocolate.

NFD (just finished a 39h water fast)

@rabbette: Yay for the loss after a feeding day! This used to happen to me when I as doing the regular 5:2 a couple of years ago. I attributed this to the improved metabolism. I would actually lose the most after a an eating day where I ate past my TDEE! But those were very, very rare, and it was all healthy food, no junk. Hasn’t happened in the last 4 months, but my Moody is Moody, so maybe i had this happen to some small extent and it failed to inform me.

My eating day today is going SO WELL! Maybe I found a solution. I woke up all stressed out–had an unpleasant dream of needig to call 911 and forgeting the town name. Which is I guess already an improvement within my 911 dreams–I actually dieled the number, and I remembered my civic address. Right after waking up I turned the phone on and I got a text from my oldest, who is a new driver, that she was stuck in a ditch. I jumped up, all freaked out, but the car was in the driveway and she was still asleep, so I realized that was the text I never got 4 days ago. And back then she wasn’t actually in a ditch, just on a very muddy shoulder, so she figured out how to get out of there, after realizing that I wouldn’t know what to do anyway. She is way more resourcefull than I am!

So…my adrenalin was high. Clue number one. This can be achieved, to some extent, by a cold shower or at least washing my face with very cold water. I already read some time ago that high adrenalin makes us less hungry. This is how I did my first ever fast that was longer than 36 hours–I overslept, jumped up, and started running like crazy, as I was late for an important appointment. Wasnt’ hungry that day at all, even if it was my second water fasting day. Good lesson here.

Second, the first thing I ate was fermented cabbage A large bowl, maybe 15 calories. And a large herbal tea. And half a cup of plain yogurt (probiotics, but also because the kids didn’t finish it yesterday).

Clue number two. Maybe, just maybe, fermented is the key for me. I’ll try this again. It was great for my stomach health, filling and tasty.

After that I was not feeling like I needed to taste everything in the fridge. Was NOT dying for bacon and eggs. Made the family bacon and eggs and didn’t want any myself–I was still planning to have mine later, after the breakfast read aloud. There was no this craziness that I had to have it.

I boiled myself two eggs and had a slice of baked bacon after they were done with the breakfast and reading–which was nice. I have all of those yummies I got yeterday, and I am not craving their immediate consumption! Score!

I do want to let my body feast on the nutrients, though! So I just had a small handful of nuts. I find that salted mixed nuts with coffee or tea satisfy my craving to have tea with a cookie / chocolae. They are crunchy and don’t miss the sweetness, especially as I find most commercially prepared sweets too cloying. Another score–didn’t crave coffee with cream. Enjoyed the fragrant lose leaf black tea.

Also had two small oranges, a banana and an apple all cut up in a salad.

Making black beans, baked sweet potatoes and chicken for dinner. Have a tonne of cherry tomatoes that were on sale and arugula. Not sure where I’ll fit the salad as I’m feeling so full, but I’ll have a salad. I’m focused on veggies, fruits, nuts and protein today.

I’m so glad about not feeling needy with food after my long fast and an immediate 39 h fast (overslept, so extended the fast ha ha).

My weight today was between 95 and 96 lbs, I believe. I think this time I’m firmly under 200, even if I expect it to fluctuate a little. 190 soon!

Oh, and my kids took a photo of me walking my friend’s dog and I was very pleasantly surprised how slim I looked! Granted, I had my new spring jacket on, so you can’t really see my figure, and the jacket is an XL, but it fit me really well and I looked way better than expected. I was both excited and also a little bit frustrated with myself for thinking that 195lb is slim! lol

My Motivational Jeans fit me much better over my legs and thighs, though still not a good “going out fit”, especially when I sit down!

French food! What did you get? Sounds like fun.

Congrats on the mental progress. It is a balance of both boundaries and flexibility and flow, and we are getting to the point of more control. That’s a great feeling.

I certainly don’t want to wake up all frazzled, but I do enjoy cold water on my face when I remember to do it. I don’t enjoy it WHILE doing it, but I feel so refreshed and positive right after.

I think I must have lost more than 20lb. Which is both exciting and terrifying lol. I lost 10 lb this month, and this is my 4th month of IFWF, and usually the weight loss slows down. The first month is usually the biggest loss and in the past when I would switch to low carb, I’d lose about 8lb in the first month. So conservatively speaking I must have lost about 8lb in the first month, and at least 5lb in the next two months. This is practically 30lb total. How on earth I didn’t notice so much weight gain? How do we get this way? Well, I’m glad I caught it in time. You are right—life happens and we somehow deal. And now life happening in a different way and I’m more mindful about what I eat and about myself.

I’m taking better care of myself, which is refreshing. Yes, celebrating progress, and onwards! When it gets warmer and I have to wear shorts and tshirs, I’m sure I won’t look as slimmed down ha ha. So there is quite a way to go. I’ll get there. You’ll get there.

159!!! You are soooooooo close.

I think 7 days is within the realm of healthy and definitely achievable! You went for 5 days already, and I practically did 4 days. I really think it will depend on how we feel. I read many accounts that after day 4 it is way easier, so some decide it is better to continue to 14, instead of restarting and going through the struggle of the first 3-4 days. However, maybe those people are not doing 36-48 hours regularly? I find my first day and the second day relatively easy.

I think slow and steady is the best…though fast is tempting and exciting! However, what is fast is relative. My calculator shows 10lb loss in April and 15lb since March 4th. Objectively speaking this is crazy fast. I didn’t expect more than 4-5lb a month, and it averages to 7.5lb. I’m very happy with this. There was a week in April when I didn’t fast, but also a week where I did my extended fast. It balanced out really well.

I think that as long as I’m not overdoing it, whatever weight loss is happening is natural and healthy. I feel very comfortable with my 36h fasts—they feel good, natural, easy. I just make sure I nourish my body on my eating days. I think today I might have gone slightly over the TDEE again, but boy, today was the best eating day yet. No cravings, no insanity, but lots of good, healthy, nutritious food. I’ve never had a low calorie controlled day, and I probably go to slighlty over TDEE, and yet the weight loss has been amazing. So I think what I’m doing is good for my body, at least for now. I feel more energy, my digestion is great, I sleep better.

Your dance pants certainly must possess some motivation! You’ll fit into them soon enough!

I started the timer for tomorrow’s fast. In a strange way, I look forward both to the fasting days and to the eating days. Adds a bit of spice to my life! I think with the horrid rains I’m a bit overly focused on both fasting and eating as I’m stuck in the house. I hope that in the later spring and summer this will be secondary to my you know, OTHER stuff that I’m doing with my life.

I’m off to a thrift store tomorrow morning to get some clothes for myself and the kids as they are having a sale. I don’t want to get too many summer clothes for me as I truly hope to be at least 8lb lighter by the end of May, and who I’m kidding, we are not having any summer till at least the middle of June. O M G That could mean that I’m in the 180s by then, like 189ish?

I remember the moment how I started gaining weight for the first time after losing it all after baby #3. I realized I was up to 182lb that day, which shocked me because I hadn’t noticed! I told my friend that I gained 12lb. She said, wow, I can’t see this at all, you are lucky to be tall. And truly, I couldn’t see it myself either. So I sort of relaxed. I told myself that I looked fine, felt fine, and after all 182lb was the upper end of healthy weight for my height. Where was the wiser, older me who would tell me not to relax and to spend a couple of months and get back to mid 1960s?

This time I have a different attitude! I want to get to that 182 and down that 12 lbs. It seems so achievable now.

Maybe I’ll buy a pair of motivational shorts! I definitely need t-shirts. All my last summer’s XL t-shirts looks HUGE on me. In some of them I look fine, as I do like lose t-shirts for hiking and just being around the house, but some of them, due to their style, look “too big” and I don’t like that.

Have a great Sunday, Rabbette! Thank you for being there for me. We can do it! We are getting their with an amazing speed and better attitudes.

– Started a 65 h fast on the app but will reassess at 36h, as usual.

– Did 50 squats and felt it all in the right places, so i think this will help with my general lower body strength and thigh appearance. The 30 day challenge is my goal for May.

– took my “before” photos to make comparisons on June 27th.

– feeling positive!

!!!!!!Progress Report!!!!!!!

Starting Weight: 225lb; Current Weight 196lb; Goal Weight: 165lb

– 47 water fasting days in 2019 –

Most of the fasts were 36-40 hours fasts. But also a 60h, 68h, 94h, as my longer fasts. Not a single fast under 36 hours.

On February 13, about the time I started this thread, I was 212 lb. I wasn’t able to zip up my Motivational Jeans–I could barely pull them up over my thighs and butt. On March 1st I could zip them up, but barely. On March 23 I could zip them up, but the fit was awful. On April 8 they fit decent around the waist, but were tight around butt and thighs. On April 28 they were not tight around my thighs anymore and fit around my butt significantly better. I can wear them out without looking like a ridiculous sausage and without the horrible muffin top. Goal Achieved!!! I was hoping to achieve this goal by April 11, but I’m not too far off.

From 212 lb on February 13 to 196lb at the end of April, 16 lb lost and these jeans fit they way they are supposed to.

31lb more to go to my goal of 165lb!!!! My next Realistic Goal is to get to 185lb by June 28. My Super Optimistic Goal is to get to get to 180lb by June 28.

That’s great that you knew to eat yesterday. Some days it is a tough call for me, to distinguish real hunger from “maybe I should eat” hunger. I’m have a challenging day today–I started my fast pretty early in the day yesterday. So while normally I hit 24h of WFD in the evening before going to bed, I’m now almost at 26 hours and I still have about 5 hours before bed! (Actually writing this down helped a bit, as 5 doesn’t seem like a long time.

I’m pretty sure I’m doing broth fasting tomorrow. I want to be always excited about the new energy (emotional and physical) of water fasting, and if I’m not, it is better too augment. I think I might not be excited about water fasting tomorrow. My bone broth smells divine!

I’m not a fan of exercise, and it shows ha ha. I do try, though. I like the 30 day challenges as they keep me on track with one type of exercise for a bit. Not exactly a workout, but definitely better than nothing. I need to tone my thighs! lol I also think that having stronger thighs will help me with knee pain, though apparently the newest theories don’t support this. Hm…I’ll still try!

I’m not anywhere fit enough to do an arm balance. I just can’t imagine. Maybe a year from now! (Goals?)

Sorry to hear about your injuries. I had foot injuries “in my spare time” and hurting one body part affects the entire body and throws me out of alignment. YAY for getting your strength back!!!

My non flatering photos are very motivating! I actually made a collage out of them and look at it from time to time ha ha.

You need to name your scale and then your scale needs to give a talking to my scale via their own ephemeral channels. Cause 2lb up after FASTING is just NOT. DONE.

At GW no more sausaging! We’ll be rocking those skirts!

So I wanted my Birthday Post to be a separate one lol

Now to my brothing update.

I had 2 l of very rich bone broth today. One cup of herbal tea. One cup of cold brew coffee. Quite a lot of sauerkraut. Yum!

I think it is sort of a fast, or at least a lower calorie day.

Went for a mini interrmittent jog. I felt a little bit more stamina than yesterday.

Not hungry. Feeling pretty well. Normal eating day tomorrow. Though the coffee probably killed all the benefits of broth!

I’m super curious what Moody will say tomorrow. Mr. Particular sounds like fun! Myriad is almost like giving too much credit to the scale, such a beautiful and meaninful name. lol

So My Eating Day today was a good Re-start for me. It’s been 4 months, and a couple of days ago I was worried I was loosing steam. Today though I feel re-energized and have motivated to treat the next two months as the Nest Stage.

I did two sets of mini runs today–which is the total of 12 minutes of running over 45 minutes, so it is barely anything, but I could already feel my stamina improving. Plus 3km walking on top of that. I have to be really careful about my oold knee and foot injuries. My “bad” foot is a bit sore. But my body is feeling awesome! My mind is doing great too.

I just started my Water Fast that will last until Saturday morning. I’m feeling refreshed and optimistic.

My next goal is for June 29, which is 9 weeks from now. My goal is to lose at least 13lb by then, but my optimistic goal is 20lb!

MAY 4 / -0.2lb / WFD #2 (b2b)/ GW180 by June 28

My weight loss this morning after 36 hours of Water Fasting was either zero or -0.2lb. I’m choosing to go with -0.2lb.

I went for my Cto5K mini run, and I definitely feel my stamina improving. Did biceps and triceps with free weights and stretches.

I’m aiming for a 58 hour fast–breaking it tomorrow morning. If I don’t think about all the food that I bought yesterday, fasting is going well. I’m not hungry. Though the moment I posted about not being hungry last night, I got really hungry and the chicken baking in the oven was just about killing me.

MAY 3 / CW196lb (-2lb) / GW180 by June 28

Finishedy water fast at 63.5 hours. Definitely not a keto day– cauliflower and cheese patties and lentil burgers, avocado, tomatoes, strawberries, an orange and an apple. Going out for coffee and pastry. No sugar in my coffee, but the pastry is supposed to be very good at that place, so i will definitely try.

@rabbette: It is great that you were able to flow into a new fasting routine while travelling!

Wow, awesome progress on your steps! I used to have a flex, and it stopped working after 8 months, and after that it would break every couple of months and then I gave up on the quality. I loved having it though.

I think Mr Particular chatted via his channels with Moody. Several days in a row Moody gives me only one weight, no matter how many times I hop on and off. Weird!!

WOW WOW WOW about your jeans slipping off!

It was late after we got home for the show and I had my jeans on and went to change out of them to hop into the shower. And I took them down without undoing the button (I had forgotten I was wearing the jeans) the rest of my pants I have with me

I hope you are home by now with your kitties.

I had a great day yesterday–met up with a good friend and it was finally sunny and warm. However it was my wake up call about carbs. I need a break. I’m going low carb for 8 weeks and then re-introducing carbs back. At dinner with the friend we ended up sharing a meal, even if I had already eaten. Then we shared a dessert–I loved the texture, but it was too sweet.

When I came home I felt sluggish and my joints were achy. I’m not impressed!

So doing a carb re-start. I don’t want to be low carb forever (I want to have a fasting life style forever!) but I think it will do me some good.

I don’t even want to step on the scale today–I still feel bloated and off, and I probably lost my fasting loss. But hopefully the trend is still going down!

MAY 6 / Water fasting / At almost 30h tonight

Today I started the day with my C25K and then cold brewed coffee. It was an easy day, with no hunger.

Unfortunately I somehow hurt my back! It hasn’t bothered me in months, and today as I was stretching after the run I moved awkwardly. The last 30 minutes of the drive home tonight were a struggle. I hope it is better tomoorrow, or at least that it wont’ affect my run.

I want to try the same game plan tomorrow and see whether my appetie will be suppressed again: run and coffee! haha

I also made plans and bought groceries so that I could sustain a low carb diet for the next week. I’m kina excited about it. I love LOVE fruits, but I can take a little break and enjoy more fats and proteins! Yum!

MAY 7 / 196.4 /-1.5lb from the beginning of the month/ 45h into my water fast, aiming at 62-66hours.

Yay at the Mr. Particular’s assessment! I’m glad you had a great time and OMAD fell nicely into your rhythm. Perfect!

So funny about Keto! Well, I haven’t looked into Keto specifically, I’m just calling it Keto, but the first time I gained weight (ha ha) I lost it with the South Beach diet, which is LCHF. There are too many “fake spiritual / “omg life coaches” ” people around me doing Keto lol, so I have a bad association with the name. BUT…I know what I am to do from my previous low carb experiences. I won’t count carbs, but I’m very familiar with this way of eating.

So today was an interesting day. I had to be near a hiking trail this morning, so instead of C25K I decided to go for a walk, at a brisk pace. I had 2 hours before I needed to pick up a friend nearby and my goal was a 1.5h walk.

Long story short, and some trails being unmarked and some marked trails being not finished, and I walked briskly for 3 hours until I finally made it back to the car. I had no water with me even! All the while on adrenalin, and some of it half-jogging because I knew I’d be late!

By the last 15 minutes I could feel I needed hydration. I only had iced coffee in the thermos in the car, and only drank black coffee in the morning. I stopped at a coffe place on the drive home and begged for a large cup of water! lol

This has been the most physical activity while fasting so far, and I’m feeling a bit like a super human. I felt great and energetic (but need to have water with me on a regular basis now as the weather is getting warmer). I am not hungry now either and definitely continuing the fast until tomorrow.

MAY 9/ 196.7 /-1.2lb from the beginning of the month/ 17h into my 40hwater fast

Well, it is good that I like fasting! Because the weight is not going down. Mind you, I haven’t given LCHF enough chance, but would be nice to see a drop again. My only guess is that I gained some meager amounts of muscle.

So this is the last two weeks. I typed it up in hopes to see something positive, but all I see that I really didn’t lose any weight in the last 13 days!

If I look at the weight on the day after a longer fast, I lost .8 lb.
Conversely, If I look on the in-between weights, possibly 1.3 lb? With fasting almost every other day, and eating sensibly on all except one of those days, and doing cardio and free weights. No noticeable change in my Motivational Jeans either. I’ve been feeling energetic and great most of the time, so that’s good.

April 27 195.8 ended 39h fast
April 29, 196.1 ended 40h fast
April 30, 198
May 1st, 197 ended 43h fast
May 2nd, 197
May 3rd 198
May 4th 197.8
May 5th 196.2 ended 63h fast
May 7, 196.4
May 8, 195 ended 63h fst
May 9, 196.7

So my immediate goals right now is to be eating LCHF and tracking calories to make sure I’m at my TDEE on my eating days.

At this rate my goal of 10lb by end of June is not going anywhere lol

@rabbette: 161.8!!! Congratulations!!! You inspire me!!

Thank you for your post and the suppoort, Rabbette. I should be recording my meals better. But while reading yours, I remembered (doh!) that I had 2 very high Carb days which were also high calories! One of them was me deciding to try a high carb day, to see if it would help. Ha ha, it didn’t! But now I have an explanation for not losing much weight. I feel a bit like an idiot. But I guess it was a good experiment to try.

I’ve been thinking about OMAD, and it has been helpful hearing your experiences and success.

I don’t think I’m mentally ready yet. Yes, I’m worried about overeating during the transition. I’m also still loving the fasts. I would like to give LCHF a bit more chance before declaring that my body needs an adjustment from fasting.

I was feeling a bit frustrated today, and also hungry, and thouht to break the fast tonight at 24h. But then I read your post, remembered the pink salt and water, and I am encouraged to continue. Feeling much better now, actually.

The last 2 fasts were ridiculously easy, so I should not give up when it is a little bit harder, like today. Hm. I should make a cup of coffee.

Look at you steadily moving into the 150’s zone!

Thank you so much for the encouragement and support last night, it helped a lot. It was a hard evening, but I was rewarded this morning with 193.8!!

Super interesting about an egg fast! It sounds like a variation of LCHF. I go through phases when it feels like a restriction would help and make it more fun, so I get where you are coming from. I did a cabbage fast / diet for a 3-4 days at some point. Cabbage soups, mainly.

I had a really nice keto breakfast at 10am (eggs, bacon, cauliflower and cheese patties, coffee with cream) and when I got home at 5 I wasn’t hungry. Not even a little bit. However…strawberries and blueberries were on a huge sale (99 cents per box vs the usual $4-6 and I did buy lots! Told the kids the next too days are berry days. We live in the boonies, over an hour from a grocery store, so when you have berries, you eat berries. I ate quite a lot, with ricotta. Yum. Then I had some cheese and salami. So definitely not light day, but a rather low carb day. I do expect my weight tomorrow to be up, but hopefully I will be seeing 194 more often in the next week or so.

Tomatoes were 47c/lb instead of $2.99 so I got a lot too. I’m going to make eggs, cheese, ham, sauted onion / tomato/ bell pepper morning “muffins” and freeze them. They ARE my LCHF weakness, but having a bunch frozen will simplify meals.

Also since I saved so much on the berries lol I got expensive cocoa nibs, stevia, more coconut oil, and organic almond butter and more coconut flakes to make coconut butter–my “fat bombs” supplies.

Fasting tomorrow (while making my breakfast “muffins” and the fat bombs! lol)

YOU MADE IT!! It doesn’t matter that it will go up, the important thing you are steadily reducing and this is exceptionally motivating! Isn’t it insane how those pounds crept up without us noticing or doing anything about it? I go through the same thinking sometimes. Why didn’t we do anything at 5lb? Well, the important thing is that we are on the right track and practically half way, and already feeling and looking significantly better.

It was supposed to be ricotta and berries, which is way more keto than berries with ricotta.

Those Keto PB tagalong bars look amazing! I might try them next time. Or later today lol.

I’m very excited about your Egg Experiment. Can’t wait to hear about it, and might try it myself when I feel like a restriction will be fun and beneficial. I LOVE eggs. And even more so that now I’m buying our neighbour’s free run eggs.

How’s that beer going? Peach cobbler? Wow. I’m so behind in beer. Maybe that will be my summer seduction.

So yesterday I ended up overeating again, and I think that’s the last time, because NOT FUN. I ate too late in the day, and when I wasn’t hungry. I think I’m actually within my TDEE, but the whole experience has started teaching me a lesson of not doing it. All of those natural consequences are the most impressive one (as in they are finally getting impressed on my brain.) So all is good.

I’m at 17h water/ coffee fast today. Just finished my W2D1 C25K and some upper body free weights. The running was way easier than I thought, I just hope my knees keep on behaving. Didn’t even step on the scale, I hope Moody is not upset. I don’t want to see my weight going up from that 193.8 ha ha. Hopefully tomorrow, fasted, it will settle at 195lb. That would make me happy.

I’m going to engage in the little challenge of cooking and backing my favourite keto foods…while fasted. I think I can do this. Coffee to the rescue. THe keto bombs don’t sound tempting, but the cheese egg muffins–oy.

I would really like to extend my fast until Monday morning, as it is easier if Monday is my eating day, but I’ll see how it goes. I actually have a busy day tomorrow, but not celebrating just yet, so no food involved. Might be easy to fast while busy and outdoors.

195 today! Looking forward to that 193…I am optimistic and excited.

I had my very keto breakfast to break ny 36 h fast–3 eggs, small slice bacon, some ham (yay, only ate half of the piece!!), one egg/cheese muffin (had to tryy yesterday’s creation!) half a bell pepper, coffee with cream and a small fat bomb.

Feeling awesome and immediately started the next fast on the app. It will most likely be an OMAD /30h.

My knees aren’t sore at all (touch wood), so i am looking forward for the run tomorrow. Most likely will repeat W1D3 as my kids need a bit more time to adjust to W2. They didn’t finish yesterday. While their 43 yo mom did, and didn’t really get out of breath! Ha!