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Just checking in with you lovely ladies. I completed my 10 day fast with only one day that was a bit rough. I lost a total of 13 lbs over the whole fasting protocol I was doing and 6lbs over the last 10 days. So results wise it has been super productive. I hit the 150s so that's super exciting and uncharted territory. I've…

Happy weekend everyone! Glad to see everyone is doing well! I'm on day 4 of my 4 day fast, I should be breaking in the morning, but have decided to continue open ended. I've been feeling really well during this fast. No hunger, no headaches (meaning I'm keeping my electrolytes in check) and I've had an amazing amount of…

Congratulations @Meghan509, nice loss posted this week! How far away are you from your goal weight now? @KateNkognito sounds like a great plan hopefully your reset, helps you move things along. @cgcrutch have you tried a longer fast than OMAD? A great way to add a few hours is to eat your OMAD meal at noon, then go to…

Exciting times @meghan509 now that things are opening back up. We're in the opening stages here in Alberta too, but my city isn't yet because we were still seeing cases of community transmission. The current plan is things will start opening on Monday. Here in Canada, most places are opening a lot slower than in the…

Hey ladies :) I'm still kicking around. Happy birthday @Meghan509 happy to hear your job is safe. @KateNkognito hope your "wagon ride" is smooth ;) lol Weight loss for me has been pretty slow now for the last few months, but my weight is still creeping down. When doing 18:6 or OMAD I seem to maintain even with less than…

So I thought I'd check in with you ladies. Glad to see everyone is doing as well as can be expected in these times. I've been maintaining for almost two months which is better than gaining but decided last week to get back into fasting and start moving a few more pounds in the right direction. I'm still struggling with my…

I can't imagine how much work it's going to be to transition a class to online @KateNkognito. What grade(s) do you teach? And amazing loss @Meghan509! That's so encouraging, you'll be through the 160s in no time at this rate. I'm in my first fast longer than 24's in probably close to a month. I'll break tonight with dinner…

@mamainthekitchen and @KateNkognito thanks so much for your kind words, it seems if I keep my activity levels low, the kidney stone doesn't cause too much pain. So I'm keeping my exercise to a minimum, but I will try to get in a daily walk as sunshine and fresh air is good for body and mind. I found a new low on the scale…

Hello lovely ladies! It's been a while since I checked in with you all. I'm still alive and kicking...barely! LOL So it's been an interesting month, I had what was I thought was a kidney infection, was on antibiotics, went to Las Vegas for a work conference, came home, found out I actually have a kidney stone big enough it…

Blonde moment here, I totally didn't realize there was a whole page of comments I missed! Huge congratulations to @Meghan509 on hitting the 160's! I'm hoping to be there in a month or so myself! :smiley: However I've some significant numbers to pass in the 170's yet, you know those plateaus I never could ever pass in the…

Welcome, @loulouowens! As the other ladies here have mentioned, make fasting work for your life, there is no "single" way to fast. For me personally the key thing that I try to achieve is keeping my insulin as low as possible as frequently as possible. Insulin is your fat-storage hormone, and keeping it low really aids in…

Thanks, @Meghan509 and @KateNkognito I'm sure I'll be feeling great in no time. So jealous of a vacation, though I do get to go to Las Vegas in two weeks for "work," I'm sure I'll be enjoying a bit more than a typical week of work. LOL. This will be my first time being away since starting fasting. I've told myself that if…

Yikes, been a bit since I checked in with you all. Glad to see you all making progress. I've been a bit under the weather, I've a kidney infection (I've chronic kidney infection due to a irregularity in my one kidney) so last week I just did OMAD (one meal a day) all week. I still have been losing so I can can't complain…

@Meghan509 LOL yes I'm 5'4" too! Welcome, @cgcrutch and @originalslicey! There is a really nice group of supportive people here. :) So it has been a bit since I posted. Last week I had some social commitments so I did a bit of alternate-day fasting, then struggled with my usual weekend fast. While what I was eating was on…

So doing my weekly fast(s) a bit different this week, have some social things to do so did a 42 hour fast, yesterday/today, and then going to eat lunch and dinner, then jump into two to three day fast for the rest of the weekend. Hopefully, I get some decent progress breaking up my fasting days, as it seems like my social…

Wooohooo February will be my second full month fasting! If I keep losing on my current pace I should be hitting lows I haven't seen in a decade! Fast on my lovelies!

Things have been going well here :) I completed my second 95 hour fast last weekend. I've been struggling on my last fast day making it until dinner, so adjusting things a bit and I'm going to break my fast at lunch instead. I'm knee deep in my current fast as well. So hoping my adjustments to my feasting/fasting times…

So I finished my 4-day fast this week. I'm not going to say it was easy, but it was more mental than physical, other than trying to get my salt content right so that I wasn't getting massive headaches from being dehydrated. I lost about 5lbs this week with some of that before my fasting window. I have to say 5lbs lost in a…

@flossyruby1 ah yes I agree it's much easier to skip breakfast and lunch unnoticed. I've a kiddo around myself, and while she knows I fast, I too try to do most of my fasting in her absence. Going to bed hungry was one of my biggest hurdles when I started fasting, but it gets easier thankfully. I've come a long way, in my…

@flossyruby1 when you do a full day fast is that a from dinner one day to dinner the next? If you're especially hungry in the morning you could do breakfast to breakfast instead. In fact when we eat in the morning our insulin response to that meal is less than if we eat the exact same meal in the evening. Since the point…

So lesson learned about fasting and salt. My first few extended fasts were decent but the last few I've been getting a really bad headache and really tired. I don't really like salt and so day-to-day I don't use much. I knew when fasting I needed to supplement with salt or you'll end up dehydrated. I had been taking a bit…

@mamainthekitchen re: Height - LOL at your sister. I always say 5'3" I knew I was a bit taller than 5'3" but had forgotten exactly how much, but my 12-year-old just reached 5'3" and so she's very anxious to get taller than me and so we measured and I was like geez why haven't I been saying 5'4" all this time? re: Body…

@KateNkognito Good luck with the job offer!

I haven't really talked about my weight yet.. I'm 5'3" (I'm actually closer to 5'4" but saying I'm 5'4" seems like lying LOL) Here's my progress since the beginning of December. This is just a mini-goal which will take me to 190lbs. Ideally, I probably should be 150lbs, however, I historically I know anything under 180 is…

Thanks, everyone for the welcome :) @mamainthekitchen PCOS - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which is, in essence, a hormonal imbalance. There's a strong correlation between this hormonal imbalance, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance. The medication I'm on Victoza is a GLP-1 agonist, it basically replicates a hormone…

@Meghan509 & @KateNkognito thanks for the warm welcome :smile: Day two of my planned four day fast is almost in the books. I'm feeling tired, though not hungry. I don't have too much planned for the weekend so I'm hopeful the next two days go reasonably well. As long as I make it at least partway through the day tomorrow…

Good Morning! I'm new here though I've been adding fasting to my life for almost a month now. I've had an ongoing weight issue my whole life. I've also known for a long time that my weight issues were hormonal more than lifestyle-induced as I have PCOS, and already eat low carb, and a calorie-restricted diet. Over the last…

Leptin resistance is a real issue... However the link you posted has a lot of red flags. 1. Click bank - always seems to be scammy type products. 2. The marketing of expensive single bottle, vs cheap multi-bottle packaging says they don't expect repeat purchases, so not a quality product. 3. At least from what I can tell…

What I find with my food intolerances is I need to eat clean about 95 percent of the time I don't need 100 percent compliance. While you're in the elimination phase 100 percent compliance is probably required, but once you have that sorted out, for me at least I was able to do on occasion :) I'm not sure what your budget…

~waves~ I've been pretty successful with controlling my PsA through Diet and Exercise. For me, I had success by reducing the amount inflammatory food I ate. Typical inflammatory foods are gluten and nightshades for PsA sufferers. You can also look up Inflammation Factor (IF) tables for all foods and eat a low inflammatory…