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Bris Fastmas calendar
tonight I made a keto mug cake that I actually liked.
Theres a lot of cool things about it.
- I already had all the ingredients at home-- I feel like this is some kind of personal milestone with keto diet food and the a nod to the effort I have put in so far, the fact that I already had the ingredients on hand.
- it was a simple recipe with like 5 ingredients that will also make it easy to continue to modify
- it only involved one dirty dish â the mug!
also, not really a resolution, but I have been putting more of an effort to wear my makeup and nicer clothes to work. Being more presentable makes me feel better about myself and more confident. This is me from this morning. Happy Wednesday.
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Says it all, I think
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Both the mug cake and you look amazing! 
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So, this is really cool. I got interviewed by the Associated Press a few weeks ago about my experience with intermittent fasting, specifically about how I eased into an alternate day fasting challenge by first giving up snacking. I got a mention in the article they did about it!
So the crazy thing about getting an interview with the AP is those news pieces are syndicated to other news papers, so this article got picked up by 300+ news papers since then, including the New York Times, Yahoo Health, and the Washington Post. My name is forever associated with intermittent fasting now 
Heres the link to the article
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Yayy! 
thatâs really cool! Motivating!
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yes Im famous now guys 
LMAO
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Hahahah!!! 
AWESOME!
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16:8 day 1
I wish I could change my journal name now that I am not doing fastmas anymore. I already changed it once and I guess it will only let me do it every so often now? lol? oh well
So day is January 10th and omg, my next alternate day fasting challenge starts in just 10 days.
so up until then, starting today, I am going to be doing at least 16:8, but next week I will most likely start doing 18:6 and maybe will do an omad next Wednesday and Friday to kind of lightly mock the alternate days I will be fasting (I will be doing the 4:3 schedule like I did last time, so I will always be doing M,W,F fasting days for at least 36 hours)
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I think one the system upgrades you to the next level âREGULARâ then you can edit your journal multiple times. I can and Anna did daily to mark her progress on her 30 day.
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I donât have much to say, but I am currently fasting, a bit over 7 hours in and wanted to check in here.
I am waiting to get sleepy and watching tv.
I had a strong urge to get some kind of McDonaldâs something or other dinner tonight but I didnât!
Even though my alternate day fasting cycle hasnât started up quite yet, I am in training! training is so important. Holding up this promise to myself. I need to do everything I can to prepare for this state of mind. Its such a mental game.
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16:8 day 2
To follow up on yesterdays post, I did not go in for any extra food during my fasting time⊠no Mcdonaldâs, not nothing yesterday. I fell asleep as I always do, theres no good reason for food before bed!
I actually fasted 17 hours, and got a grocery trip and some cleaning out of my fasting time.
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still day 2 of 16:8, starting on my 3rd fast now
I had some egg drop soup for dinner. I am a little bit more nervous for this fast because the last two fasts I felt noticeably more fuller when it started. That fullness only lasts about an hour or two, but I wonder if not feeling as full will make me feel more like running on "E ", or empty, towards the end of the fasting time tomorrow morning. Only time will tell. I also started my fast a bit later in the day.
One thing I remember about the last alternate day challenge I had, was when I would do a fasting day, the next morning was the time when I felt least hungry, and maybe thats in contrast to the night before when I was having more cravings. I hope that feeling comes back again
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16:8 day 3
I broke my fast last night with a snack that I now regret. It just got the better of me in the moment. For me giving in is less about âeating the yummy foodsâ and it is more about getting the voices in my head that tell me to give in to go away. The voices in my head were telling me to have one last ra-ra before seriously starting my fasting. pizza pizza pizza! At least I didnât do the pizza. I had some chicken and cheese 
I still have 4 hours of the fast to go and I donât feel hunger at all. Even though I technically broke it last night, I am going to try to honor the rest of it, as I always do when I fail with fasting. I guess thats the fail forward part of it for me!
Today I am going out of town to Kentucky for a doctor appointment on Monday morning. I have plans to get ramen with a friend tonight for dinner. Iâm not very social these days because of the food/drink thing so its nice to have weekend plans.
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Yeah, I get its harder to be social until you find locally-based similar minded new friends.
I just had a belated birthday dinner with a friend last Friday night and my birthday was in November because it was during the tail end of my long fast.
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I am back from my long weekend and ready to make some changes!
So, its around 2 in the morning right now, and I am up because a very very very loud thunderstorm has woken me up. But Iâm also about 6 hours shy of a 36 hour fast! go me! I am back in the 4:3 fasting game it seems although I had set out to make it start next Monday. Allowing myself a buffer window this week to kind of re-familiarize myself with the alternate day fasts I think has been a good strategy: if I fail this week, it doesnât matter to me as much. But I am really training myself for success.
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Go you! 
That sounds like a good focus and game plan!
Weâre allowing ourselves to practice and learn so itâs sustainable long term! Much better than falling back to old habits after being too overwhelmed by changes! 
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**4:3 schedule â week 1, day two/ TUESDAY of my unofficial prepping for real 30 day challenge starting next week/ priming/ grooming/ etc **
what a day.
so today was day 2 of ADF and it was my âfeed dayâ , as every Tuesday will be.
My mom and I texted about fasting all day today. She seems really on board. I am cautiously optimistic for her, but I also want to be selfish. Because I canât pour from an empty glass, I need to be able to work on myself before helping others, etc. Plus I am already resolved about this, with or without her.
One thing of note that she did bring up was she said she wanted to not weigh herself for the next month. I havenât given this much thought before, I have probably weighed myself each morning for the past 8 months or so, I even blocked off the 2nd door in my bathroom so I would have enough wall space to display the scale.
Anyway, I am really trying to figure out if there may be something to it, the not weighing myself for month, or x amount of time, intentionally not every dayâŠ
Something unexpected that I actually experienced during my first 4:3 cycle/ challenge was that I lost a crazy amount of weight very quickly, and it kinda f***ed with my head.
I lost about 10-11 lbs in the first two weeks, which I have never been able to do ever ever ever. I remember actually gasping at the scale a couple of the times LOL. I know at the time kinda patting myself on the back because I thought I was being objective and data-driven, but I know also that my reaction to the weight each day could have influenced how I approached the diet that day.
I didnât last very long in my last 4:3 challenge, I didnât even make it the full 30 days, but from what I know from othersâ stories, your weight comes off maybe like 9 lbs in two weeks, but after about week 2-3 you start seeing less dramatic weight loss, although still very consistent.
just rambling now but it seems to me, the more I think about removing the scale for a bit, the more I like the idea. Even if I was expecting something good on the scale, and then I got on the scale and it confirmed my hopes, that can lead to bad behavior too, you know what I mean? I could feel entitled and start cheating a bit, I could start trying to do something more extreme that Im not ready for, who knows.
Consistency is my theme of this 4:3 cycle
I crave stability, I want consistency.
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