Great photo @HoneyBadger302. Looking good and thanks for sharing! Don’t stress the ankle.

Down 1.5 for the week. Will try to post my status weekly - even if it’s a sort of accountability. I’m adjusting to the IF and it’s getting easier. It’s the evening snacking that sets me off but I’ve been disciplined. Relying prob too much on shakes to hit my protein goal of about 100g per day.

Everyone sticking to their goals so far?! 💪💪

@HoneyBadger302 great pics! Love the floof!

On Thursday I was 106.5#
On Sat and Sunday we travelled and sat a lot... ? maybe that plays into it? or perhaps its a hormonal thing or something.... Why do we try to justify these things?

Today its 108.6
Okay, I didn't eat 7000 extra calories. so, this number should reduce well. I'm guessing some of the travel and then, eating out is some of it. Definitely wasn't my standard veggie load or water intake (had soda a few times).
Also, my movement was way down by 7000 steps.

Looking forward to weighing in Thursday and seeing what number I can get to appear.

COUNTING MY WINS: DO you have any WINS Recently?
+ I lifted heavier today for Chest moves and for my 1 arm rows! So, gaining some strength, and I thought I could have went up another 2# or 5#. So, That's A Win.
+ Meal planned while I was away from home and I think I stuck to it fairly well.

I really *think* I would love to know how much of my body is muscle and how much is other stuff. Perhaps some of what is in our heads, is actually more muscle, or is more water......

Today I will try to add another foundation from the BECK book.

@HoneyBadger302 that looks beautiful, and its nice to put a face with a name.

@Antiopelle I love your goals. And the calories, making sure you were in a deficit. Do you do much tracking? I had one gal that I worked with on her nutrition and she would always be up 1-2# and then a few days later a WHOOSH and be down like 2-3#. She finally synced up the numbers with what she did the 1-2 days before weigh in and, she realized, she goes UP when she does a LEG routine. and the day after YOGA is always her lowest scale weight day. She trended downward but it was a bunch of up and down. fingers crossed that this is you too!


@Ceebeeslim Funny you should mention protein shakes being used to hit the 100g protein. ME TOO. I need to work on that being more whole foods probably. I get so tired of cooking meat though. Today, instead of having a shake for breakfast, I made an egg/turkey sausage and veggie bowl. I'm waiting a bit before eating it. What hours are you IF from?

@SherryRueter I agree with your comment on protein and meat. I generally try to stick with unprocessed foods, but I just don't feel like eating the amount of meat/fish that it would take to hit my current protein goals. So I rely on protein shakes and protein powder to up my numbers. I've also added a lot more eggs to my diet. I'm wondering how sustainable it will be in the long run for me.

Got everything in yesterday - did a very low impact resistance band workout in the backyard for my outdoor workout, and then the elliptical and some stretching for my second workout. Keeping the ankle moving but not beating on it - feeling pretty good today.

Day 8 today, trucking along! Body seems to be adjusting, now the mental side just needs to make it normal rather than something "special" or with an end date in mind....although that may just take time.

It’s 8:50pm. I was feeling very bad about the food choices I made today. And I’m not saying it was horrible but, I did have about 600-700 calories of dessert….. so I decided to retroactively log it all into my app. Ya know what….. I’m at 1600 calories . So I’m not that far off …. And even if I’m a little low in my calculations….. if I’m at 2000 calories….. that’s still not horrible.

I’m also at 77g protein. So…. What I have learned is that I was likely hungry at 3pm. I was trying to sit thru an urge but in all actuality I maybe needed a protein snack of some sort. I maybe needed 300-500 calories.

So, here to planning better for tomorrow.

I’ve been hearing a lot of tumbling on social media about “don’t track” just go with your hungry queues. But, I don’t know my hunger queues … what’s wrong with having data and knowing your under eating and could use a healthy snack.


Oh, by the way, I should have also grabbed an Apple. I was short 1 fruit, but I got in 4-5 servings of veggies! It’s just I over did the sweets. Okay. Thanks for listening . Hoping this helps more than just me, I like this group, I feel safer here than I do in social media land.

@Ceebeeslim : 14:10 ... I've done that before, but normally 9am - 7pm
I'm not technically trying to do that but, most days I'm in a 10 hour window. I think they also mentioned it was recommended for hypothyroid people too (I'm hypo). Congrats on being the EXACT weight 4 days in a row! That's impressive.

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@honeybadger302 do you do anything special for your nutrition?

I keep it simple - my "diet" is to stay below 150 net carbs, no sugary snacks/treats, no alcohol. Other than that, it's free rein, although I clearly have to track everything to get the net carbs, but that is the only category I watch. I find my calories stay well within range most days if I do that, and my vegg intake pretty much explodes lol. In fact it is fairly common to have days where I'm pretty low on calories - but stuffed! It's the one way of eating that I have found where I can effectively stay in my calorie range without being hungry all the dang time.