Good morning everyone! I do still stop in once in a while!

Yes, I have a plan on how to handle the holiday season! I am absolutely loving the Alternate Day Fasting. I am doing the plan where you eat whatever you want one day (ok, I limit mine to whatever I want in two meals (sometimes that even includes two desserts!). My husband leaves for work at noon so we have a brunch at 11 and then I eat dinner no later than 4). The next day I eat lunch around 1 and its generally a salad or homemade vegetable soup with cheese and crackers. I generally eat about 1800 calories on my UD (up day) and 500 on my DD (down day) and I am losing 3-4 lbs a month. This is after stalling out on OMAD (One meal a day) at just under two years. My 2 year anniversary on intermittent fasting found me at a loss of 85 lbs. I have been losing 3-4 lbs a month on this. I feel wonderful after both the loss and the energy that comes from fasting (once your body gets used to it) I truly hope and plan to do this for the rest of my life.

I hope everyone is doing well and getting ready for a fabulous holiday season!! If you are stalled out on other plans I heartily recommend intermittent fasting!!! Today is an up day for me so I am waiting for a cheesecake to cool!!

Janet King

retirehappy wrote: »

Wow, September already.

This is the start of the feasting season. With a major food oriented holiday each month starting with Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and on to New Year's Day.

Is everyone starting to plan how to handle it?

I did ok for Labor Day, lost almost a lb. I'll take that.

Halloween, no candies, since you can't eat it if you don't buy it. We will be handing out glow in the dark sticks that can be made into bracelets and necklaces. We did that last year and the kids loved them. We had a bit of fun with them as well. Amazon has tons of non food options, we ordered our last year and gave away a lot and still have enough for this year as well.

"Feasting Season" I like that term. I am so locked into my current post hip replacements routine that about the only thing that could knock me off is injury (so far, so good; fingers crossed) and weather! Even then, it won't be much because I have a treadmill and stepper to use if I can't get out. This is the one thing that distinquishes now from any other season. Halloween has changed so much over the years that I don't get any doorbell rings so I don't even buy any candy. I am convinced that in my current mode, I can't partake and enjoy "feasting season"! It would just be a matter of keeping it real and reasonable and staying on track exercise wise.

Reasonable portions, small samples. My family is pretty respectful, they would say something if I took too much as I tended too once upon a time and the bigger key is getting back to exercise right after holiday trips. I went a long time without doing that. The truth is I only expect to be at one such gathering, usually with my sister and her family at Thanksgiving. Since my parents have been deceased our family just doesn't gather in one place often beyond weddings, etc.
As to Halloween, no my doorbell doesn't ring. If it did I might tend nowadays find, buy reduced or sugar free candy. I don't like denying others what they like or that which I don't want. It's up to parents to decide what kids can have. Otherwise, the times and the creepy people still allowed to live among us have ruined Halloween and trick or treating. Folks take their kids to organized events and other percieved safer venues because of that basically killing the "kid at heart" part of me 😥