4-1 April
Today’s Date:

Todays Plan: Mini Fast

Weight Goal for the Month: 160 Reach

Today’s Weight: Friday

Today’s Water Consumed: 100 oz

Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired):spinning 25 mins

Hours slept: 8ish

Description/Photo of Meals consumed along with times and calorie count (if desired, not necessary)Kinda a mini fast day, some salad, greek yogurt, and an apple less than 500 cals.

Your thoughts/comments on the day: Not really a planned mini fast day but wasn't feeling that great thanks to all the pollen crap we have now so just wasn't hungry......

Me toooooooooo..... hubby and I had the worst hayfever during spring and summer. This year, the pollen was really really bad Feel better soon and hope that the medicine works

NICE BABE! I love the downward trend! A pound a night if you're tight on your OMAD/Mini Fasts is totes doable!

Just a suggestion because I love giving them LOL - I'd have a normal fufilling omad tonight and then fast Thursday for your weigh in if it were me! That was I'd have a nice full meal tonight and have no glycogen or bloat variables in my weigh in Friday

ALSO - If I read correctly, you only had like 800 cals yesterday, so how was your deficit only 500? That'd be a TDEE of like 1300 cals, which is less than my BMR!

I think your deficits are higher than you think, my dear :flowerforyou:

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok that's the plan SF jollies are low carb too so shouldn't F you up if you need a few to get through Fasts all around! (Except @LadyBlanks she fasted earlier this week LOL)

Ok here's how I do mine and it's almost always spot-on accurate.

I set my MFP for Maintenance first of all - and I do that once a month, because it doesn't reset your BMR with your updated weights that you inputted unless you "reboot" it LOL

SO mine right now gives me 1900 to start...I'd burn that if I sat around all day and did nothing LOL

THEN I have my fitbit synced...my fitbit gives me cals throughout the day as I trend toward a number higher than 1900 (usually mine ends up around 2200 on a work day)...so in that case it'd show on MFP as

1900 - #cals +300 = DEFICIT/Surplus

Here's mine from Monday:


So I started with 1900 (my BMR, MFP sets that automatically when you put "maintain" as your goal) - earned 447 in cals from exercise (I was up late Sunday LOL) so my TDEE was 2347. I ate 1335 so my deficit was 1012

Hope that makes sense! Ask questions if you'd like

YAY!!!

LadyBlanks wrote: »

Steph, do you have a minimum/maximum number of calories that you try to be below your TDEE?

Nahhhhhhhhh - I just know my mini fast days SHOULD be under 500 (you see how well that worked the last 2 days LMAO) and my weekend days I don't really care if it gets too high...I mean subconsciously I'm sure I try not to go crazy but I've had 3500 cal weekend days

I theorize that THAT is where the fasting comes in - I don't gain any more on a 3500 cal day than an 1800 cal day...if I eat more than a mini fast, I show a gain *shrug* I've also had plenty of days where I ate above TDEE and showed no gain or a LOSS the next day.

I say all that to summarize that I think for me the calories are more an average over time, but the fasting is the "REAL punch" that aids me

All hypothesis of course, but my theory nonetheless

Yeah I am beginning to become a fan of the "mini fasts" for sure.....it is super easy and I still feel satisfied......planning on a meal tonight and a water fast tomorrow for sure...….continue to go down mr. scale......way down...…..

@mistymeadows2005 - My apologies if I am troubling you..I too am interested in your MFP charting. You mentioned this - "I set my MFP for Maintenance first of all" and I am wondering if that's the GW? Hmm...maybe I should try that too and start on mini fasts to see if I can get my weight down. Thank you

Congrats on your loss, @volgirl1322

Ok I'm DYING to try this! I'm about to creep on the website and I know I'll want it...but to be fair I'd want it on an eating day and ALSO not be able to get it One more day til weigh in babe, we've got this!!!

@jadepearl

It's no problem!

Go into MFP on your phone.
Enter your current weight (make it as accurate as possible)
Enter your goal weight
At this point it'll set your loss rate according to both (last night mine defaulted to 1 lb/wk)
Change it to maintenance

Go back to your diary and it'll adjust your cals to your BMR and then your fitbit will add your activity

OMG Steph ---I am a grit snob (being from the south ya know) so I wasn't expecting it to taste as amazing as it did ---it was awesome......maybe some of the best grits I have ever had...….and I've had a lot ………