Tough weekend but basically I stuck with plan, give or take a half-hour.

I broke the fast early today. It's going to sound weird, but yesterday I had one ONE 1 smoked salmon tortilla and cream cheese roll... Like, an inch thick. Couldn't figure out how to log it, didn't worry about it particularly.
Today I was ravenous. And ate ham, cream cheese tortilla roll up slices.
Like, 4 or 5 of them.
Ah, well. Carbs lead to carbs. And while a beer might be okay once in a while, bread type stuff just leaves me with cravings for MOAR.
SO, no 16/8 today. I'll start again tomorrow.
And every day I still do way better (weigh better

I'm doing an unscheduled 26hr fast today. Feel great. I had to atone for my bad Sunday night. I was watching BattleBots with my friend and out came the buffalo wings... I ate too many, went WAY over on my calories, had a salad. My carb level was the highest in months (45g). I checked ketones with Ketonix this afternoon, and I was still in Ketosis. I may have slipped out, earlier in the day, IDK and I was afraid to check. My fasting got me back on track...

Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary

I'm late checking in and starting but here goes....

Your current weight (or clothing size, or whatever you use if you don't weigh): 16stone 5lbs
Your Fast/Feed Schedule: Include how many days per week you plan to do this Fast from 8pm to 12 pm 5 most days, with the odd day off because it's the end of term and there's a load of staff do's coming up where I can't eat before 8pm.
Do you take supplements?: I take magnesium
Do you plan to exercise? If so, how do you expect that to impact your fasting?: I do quite a bit of walking but no real exercise
How you'll fast: Water only? Water/BPC only? Water
What you hope to achieve by participating: Including how you'll measure it More control over my appetite, loss of weight
Any previous experience with fasting: off and on, nothing serious

Any other comments you'd like to make:
Looking forward to this

Start of week two, made it through week 1 pretty well, ended up eating late into the night on Friday and didn't fast Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, plus ate a ton of carbs those three days.

Stopped eating at 10 last night, hoping to make it to 10 pm tonight, but suspect I will eat a bit sooner, should still be able to do 20-22 hours before eating. I'm thinking I should try to break it at 7 so that I can stop eating at 8 and get back on my original schedule. I guess we will see how the day goes.

Hope everyone is doing well with this. It's a fun challenge to see how far you can take it. I'm looking forward to comparing how I feel by the end of the month.

The first few days were rough, as expected. But I didn't kill anyone. I'm very frickin grouchy around noon. So I've started being a "bad mommy" and making part of my lunch first so I can have food in my belly so I may continue to not kill people.
One day I just did a 14:10, due to a kid appt interfering with our normal schedule, so that I won't kill people I don't know in public.
I'm starting to get used to not eating in the morning. Finally. Don't get in my way at noon though.


Weight is up 1lb. Which means nothing I can figure in particular. I think I'm moving into another stall pattern again like in April. So I bounce all around some weight for awhile. I'm beginning to question whether or not pursuing my goal weight is worth all the aggravation. I want to be 150. Being tall, I carry weight well, but the chub still on my thighs and belly bugs me. But it's probably going to take me another 6mo just to lose 10lb, unless I want to slash my calories big time. Who the heck wants to do that? I like to eat.

On the positive side, having the bulk of my cals available toward the end of the day is nice and is helping me keep from blowing out the calories. I eliminated the CO in my BPC, which gives me over 100 extra calories I can use elsewhere in the day. Even though I love it, it had to go again for the time being. It didn't help the wanting to kill during the end of the fasting window any, and I'd really rather eat an oz of cheese or have some meat for those cals. I'm starting to adjust, so I have no irrational growling bottomless monster in my tummy as I try to sleep. Which is good. Definitely another positive tally mark.

While I wait for my scale-gnome to shake off his bender, I'll keep IFing-either 16:8 or 14:10 (if life intervenes as it is wont to do), and working out. I've been having trouble with muscle recovery lately, and I'm not sure why. I can't tell if it's just a flare of the dumb ol' Chronic Fatigue or something else. But I need an extra day to recover from the bodyweight workouts. I still get the same number of them in, I just have to spread them out more. But that has nothing to do with IF. I've been having issues with that for 2 months. Which coincidentally coincides with the amount of time I've been using an every-10-days refeed. Hmmm...things to think about...

Anyway...the nonsensical blabber will cease now, much to your relief.
Happy IFing everyone.

I'm not down anything from IF though I didn't expect to be. I am pondering whether I am going to stick with this after last night's blunder of eating a burger followed by a pretzel bun followed by the crust of a pizza followed by some steak. I didn't eat this morning until lunch so I fasted again and felt fine. I'm just not seeing what the benefits are and quite frankly can't remember what they are supposed to be. Then I read this today and really started questioning the purpose. "I am reminding myself that life is not an exercise in maintaining control."

So kind people, please remind me. Why are we doing this? More fat burning? More weight loss? To prove we feel hunger and can tolerate it? Enlighten me again. #YoureADivaWhenYoureHungry

My problem is not that I feel hunger during the fast. It's that I feel an insatiable hunger during the eating portion. I don't need to feel hunger to know I get hungry. Like you, I've done that before - unsuccessfully, I will add. Thanks for filling me on the fat burning thoughts!

I'm having some trouble. I feel good and after a longer fast yesterday I waited till noon to eat today. My appetite is subsiding but by the time I ate dinner it was almost eight which is the end of my window. Now I'm low on calories, fat and protein, I'm not really hungry but I don't want to continually under eat by this much. We just have weird schedules so we are used to eating later in the day but my lunch at work is at noon so if I don't eat then I won't have a chance til I'm out of work.

I don't know what to do