Love that you hung the shorts up on the wall. That’s a great idea.
Today’s a fast day for me.
Fast Into FALL
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Why do they call it a fast when it feels like slow motion?
Sometimes I feel like time has slowed down like when I was a kid. I’m waiting and waiting for Christmas morning and everyone to get up so I can open the dang presents.
Good morning! I’m still here. Thanks for joining me for coffee hour.
Good news! 187.
Strange news! I bought a new scale and there’s a discrepency. My old scale that was my mom’s makes me 4-5 pounds lighter. It’s digital. It also says “thinner” on it. It’s going nowhere. 
About the new scale.
It’s a very fancy scale. It was on sale at Walmart. Only 15 dollars. It tells me BMI and and how much fat percentage - and let me put a goal weight in and told me how long to get there. It said 51 weeks:rofl: . It tells me calories to consume. Like I have time to sit and crunch calories all day. 
I can program up to 4 different profiles in it. It’s pretty swanky. I can just ignore the weight and use it for all the other stuff.
I’m sticking to my 187 story. That story only makes me 10 lbs to fall goal! I like that story better.
I pulled a sticky off the wall! Only 29 more fasting days to get done. I was sweating bullets when I put those stickies up yesterday. It is really warm here now in Florida. And no ventilation in my bathroom. And I refuse to run the AC all day.
I got a ton of green and black teas yesterday. I also bought 1 avocado. Going to call it my lifeline for the week. It’s the only tempting thing I have.
Today is laundry day. Not excited about it. Could push it off a couple more days. Hmmm.
Just remembered why 177 is important. It slips me back down to just overweight and not obese according to man’s laws. I need to focus on this. It’s a good “why” to get me through the next 42 days. Going to meditate on this today and imagine how good 177 will make me feel. It’s about more than just the shorts.
Speaking of shorts, I want to find a brand that is cut right for me and feels good as the ones I wear daily now are not going to be usable 4 months from now. I know I have a pair in the bathroom but it’s only one😂. And it’s from a different year so I can’t just go get more. I’m not big on clothes shopping.
I’m going to need another pedicure soon too. That needs to be a reward for something. A weight goal. I will ponder on that today and assign it to a sticky.
Hope you are all doing well!
Please share your gifts you are giving yourselves for your goals to give me ideas 
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So, you’re a kid waiting for Christmas and the avocado is the gift you’re looking forward to?
I think my scale tends toward the higher side. Every time my sister comes to visit, she gets mad at me when she gets on my scale and tells me it is lying to her. It’s just a tiny little digital scale with no frills. I might think about buying one of the fancy ones that give so much more information, but I’m always afraid if I get a new one, it’ll show me at a higher weight and I don’t want that.
I like Nordstrom Wit & Wisdom Ab-solution shorts (and jeans). They cost more than I’d usually spend on shorts, but they go on sale a couple times a year so I buy them then. I’m more pear shaped and it looks from your photos that you’re more apple shaped so they might not fit you well. They do run a little big, too.
I haven’t had a pedicure, or a manicure or haircut, since February. Things opened up only briefly here and I didn’t get in for a haircut in time. Now we’re mostly still closed down again. I’ve seen a couple nail shops doing business outside on the sidewalk, but none of my regular places are open at all. My neighbor’s hair salon is open in secret for people who know them.
I haven’t been giving myself rewards. I usually do when I lose weight. I suppose my reward has been wearing some clothes I haven’t fit into in a while. I do have one pair of my favorite jeans I bought 2 years ago online and was too lazy to return. They’re the same brand and size I usually buy, but must have been mismarked because they’re 2 sizes too small. I’m really looking forward to wearing them. They’ll be my reward. They still have the tags on. I have some supplies for facials and manicures that I can give myself. It’s not as fun as a salon, but it’ll have to do for now.
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LOL, sort of I guess. More like waiting for a fasting time to get accomplished. But I don’t even know how long I’m going right now.
I’m hoping to rip another number down at 7pm.
4 more hours. YaY me go!
I just took a ride over to the grocery store and that scale puts me 4lbs higher like the new scale.
It says my blood pressure is high too. Meany machine.
I put some stickies up on the wall, finally. And I just bought a bunch of new clothes online at the big Nordstrom sale. They were fall and winter clothing in a smaller size than I am right now. That might have been really stupid, but it gives me a big incentive to stick to this fasting.
I am not feeling very motivated right now, but I’m hoping the stickies, the clothes and watching Yasemin’s youtube videos will keep me on track. I’m not hungry or feeling unhealthy; I’m just bored and I eat when I’m bored. Maybe I’ll actually go over to Nordstrom later today and remind myself of one of the reason’s I’m losing weight. I want to look good in clothes. I think Nordstrom is open again. I can’t keep track of what is allowed to be open and what isn’t.
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https://www.waterfastingforum.com/t/ill-just-take-a-seat-here-for-a-while/3806/202?u=miramar
I’m wearing shorts today that probably should be tossed. They almost fell completely off me at Walmart yesterday.going to wear them today until they fall off the too many times.
@Sky I hear you on the bored thing. I like to cook sometimes. If I cook now I have no where to store it for later when I can enjoy.
I really should motivate to wash my coffee mugs and get laundry going today. Its been hot!
Need to put some music on or something. Maybe some Dr Fung rambling in the background.
He has a LOT of content swimming around on YouTube.
Miramar, it sounds like you should have been shopping for new shorts at Walmart.
I love to cook. I tend to spend way too much time on the computer reading recipe websites when I’m fasting. I do not know why I do that.
I’m 164.6 today. I’ll end my fast tomorrow evening. It’s going to be a quiet day for me as I feel the need to rest.
I’ve started wondering how I change my brain to prepare less food. Now that I’ve been fasting, my appetite is smaller yet when I’m hungry, I keep making larger meals. I can’t finish them, but still my mind is saying, “I’m starving this morning; let’s make a nice big breakfast.” I need to learn to cook half portions, but then I’m concerned I won’t have enough food to fill up on. My eyes are bigger than my stomach, as my mom used to say. I wonder how long it will take me to adapt to putting much smaller portions on my plate.
I know there were a bunch of people who accepted this Fast Into FALL Challenge. Where’d everyone go? Is everyone still fasting? Intermittent fasting? OMAD? What’s going on?
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I think I have a new plan!
Had to figure out how many eat days I have left in the bank. It’s 12.
I’m not feeling like I need to have two feed days in a row right now, so experiment for the next two weeks at least will be a slight variation on the rolling 72’s. I’ll also be able to inform my neighbor on what days I may participate in cooking 
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Eat days will now be Tuesdays and Saturdays. Ready to dig my heels back in with an actual schedule.
If I can continue this plan through September 22nd I technically should be 13 lbs of fat down and around 173 which gives me 4lbs of water discrepancy back to 177.
Not going to fret over calories but will focus more on keeping low carb. Will also keep the eating window moderated.
IDK.
Maybe they are all skinny and look 20 years younger already. I’m a bit slower I guess.
I broke early tonight.
I had the same issue as you today. Got excited about eating so started googling away at the recipes. next thing you know there’s a grocery list. I wasn’t going to break till tomorrow but rotisserie chicken had it’s way with me and I with it.
Looking at keto pasta and bread recipes and just thinking I’m not going to be pleased with results. But need to try still.
Will start Fasting tomorrow afternoon again.
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I’ve made some super yummy keto gnocchi with mozzarella and eggs. I then cook in brown butter and sage and OMG soooo yummy. I know transitioning away from carbs can be really hard. You won’t find anything like pasta, that’s true, but after awhile zucchini noodles etc can be quite yummy in moderation
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I was making a lot of low carb things back in 2007. I even did a video about oopsie rolls.
So many more recipes and ingredients are available now it’s overwhelming at times.
Today I’ll be attempting some eggplant rollatini (breading with coconut and almond flour) and yesterday found black soy bean noodles which have half the carbs of regular pasta.
I have no plans for permanent low carb but I do think it’s instrumental while weight loss fasting.
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I LOVE the edamame noodles! Yeah there is an insane amount of new products available. I am a chef/pastry chef and learning how to make GF and other specialty diet foods was really fun- even if extremely complicated.
Take a photo of the eggplant rollatini- it sounds amazing!
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Yes, they had the edamame pasta too. Aldi’s.
They are a little more pricy those noodles but I’m curious to try.
The ricotta (for the rollatini) isn’t the best low carb cheese and perhaps could be thinned out with something like riced cauliflower? But I’m not going to concern myself with that much caution at the moment. But worth experimenting with in the future.
I have enough kitchen equipment for a cooking show but I’m in a 450ish square foot apartment. I have 5 crockpots that I actually used all of at the same time to prepare one full meal.
I worked in restaurants (service and bartender) for over 25 years - some with certified Master Chefs.
I am a foodie at heart and love trying and tasting new things. And recreation of things I find particularly good.
ATM though I wanted this to be an eat day and I have no appetite .
Need to motivate myself soon if I’m going to eat today as I don’t want to be eating late.
Happy New Week!
I’m down to 25 fasting days left to accomplish.
Not hungry. Wasn’t hungry yesterday but almost thought of snacking out of boredom. That and some neighbor was cooking chicken curry and the smell was outrageous. I may go scold him and tell him he’s not allowed to cook like that on my fasting days.
Carcass from the rotisserie chicken I think is going in the crock this afternoon so I have some nice fresh broth tomorrow.
Not sure how long it’ll last, but so far with breaking up the refeed days it seems to not let the scale go up too high. I’m liking that. I don’t mind it going up after eating but it goes back down quicker when it’s just one day I’m up against.
The new “fat” scale has finally shot me into the 180’s as well!
So funny. People will tell you not to look at the scale every day so I got two:joy:
The numbers stick in my head better as a reminder so it just works for me.
5 weeks to go. 12 more lbs to strive for. It’s so hot already today I may wind up sweating it all out by tonight at this rate.
I ate on Saturday and Sunday. Today’s a fasting day.
I made a chicken in the Instant Pot on Saturday, then made a whole lot of broth after I took the meat off the bones.
I gained 4 lbs yesterday…except I know I didn’t because I ate very little. It was just so hot here I’m retaining a lot of water. It’s a little cooler today so maybe tomorrow will be better. I did go to the bathroom about 15 times this morning so I’m thinking some of the water must be gone now. I live at the beach in L.A. My body thinks that the temperature is supposed to vary between 68 and 74 degrees year round. When it goes outside those parameters, I get all bloated.
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You’re hilarious
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Skinny scale vs. the new heavy weight
Now whose side would you be on?
That 184 is looking very correct to me😉.
Also at 9am I’m ending this fast. I’ll be 2.5 days. So new rule - we’re going to cut the stickie in half.
Good morning!
So pleased! 184 is back! Over 190 is not coming back! Today is Tuesday and it’s an Eat day!
I won’t have any actual appetite until later. Nothing spectacular planned.
I always believe the skinny scale.
However, my scale said I was 151.6 this morning. As much as I’d like to believe that, I’m pretty sure it just needs new batteries. Or maybe I lost 15 lbs overnight. It could happen, right?
I’m eating today, fasting tomorrow. I’m still trying to decide how many carbs to eat today. Should I stay low carb? Or should I take advantage of $2 Tuesday at the ice cream store. And if I do, is ice cream really a nutritious, well-balanced dinner? Decisions…
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Hmmmm. You have some choices.
Maybe change the batteries in your scale before deciding. It’s taco Tuesday and $2 margaritas here but I don’t dare right now. Need to be kind to my tummy. It’ll be there in another month when this challenge ends.
Neighbor picked up Chinese and I’m going to do Chinese style on my broth soup. Getting some kimchi and cashews and playing it safe.
I had weird cramping a ways back and that is all gone now. I think it was something healing or detoxing. So grateful it resolved itself.
So fatty and low carb for me today!
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So far my evil plan is working! Today I’m banging out day 23. Wearing a t-shirt from my mom’s closet I confiscated after she passed away. It’s an XL with wiggle room. It was snug a couple months ago.
Really feeling my rib cage these past couple of days. I think the muffin top handles are receeding as well.
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