I stopped eating around 4 last night.
Pushing on this week. I was going to take an extra day off but that’s just selfish for no real reasons.
Here we go to Friday!
Fast Into FALL
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Might change my mind again, lol.
Really wanting some Tom Kha Gai soup.
Also thinking I need to kick past 5 days.
So, maybe I should treat myself today since the Thai place is open again and just get the soup. Not starving but feel like there is something I’m craving in that soup. Could make my own but will cost me more and will waste a lot of leftover ingredients.
I slept a lot yesterday and last night. Has me wondering if I was doing a lot of healing or if the carbs in the chips I had made me that tired and gave me a food coma. I had a handful of some of my neighbors pringles. I also had a bag of these vidalia onion petals - they look like fries and are a better version imo of a funyons but they do use corn meal I think.
Feeling like perhaps my body is getting too used to the 5 day and I need to push myself a bit back out of a comfort zone.
Maybe a 7 day. Maybe 10. The refeed time extends though and that is almost more annoying.
Hormones are doing some kind of jig too that is messing me up. Time of month feels like it is hovering again.
Makes it difficult to determine if I should eat or not. I have lots of vitamins and supplements but prefer to get nutrients naturally.
Need to really make sure my ego is shut off so I can hear what my body really wants me to do.
One thing that is screaming obvious. I can’t eat nearly as much as I used to. I know it’s a good thing but I miss the variety of flavors. I hate not finishing my plate and tossing left overs.
I have about 6 months to get to goal and just under 50 lbs to go. IDK. Might be time to finally get off my arse and do some kind of regular exercise, even if it’s just a mile or two walk. Florida heat makes it a challenge.
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Figured it out.
Damn full moon.
Today was a bust.
Back on the fast wagon this week.
What I ate tonight I wouldn’t have touched if I’d not already been refed the past few days - will see how I’m feeling tomorrow.
Going in to chain myself to the bed. 
I feel like a puppy, and the grown-ups were out of the house and I chewed a hole in the kibbles bag.
Never got my soup. The place was closed yesterday for potential hurricane and then they are naturally closed on Mondays. 
So I wasn’t terrible, has an avocado and made some creamy spinach mushrooms soup. But then my drunken neighbor ordered cardiac fries and didn’t want to finish, and they stared me down. I proceeded to pour wing sauce on them and the hot spice and starchy potatoes really made me feel content. My stomach took it just fine. As for the rest of my digestive system we will find out.
Dusting off and back on I go!
Clock is ticking.
Started at 10 pm last night and going till Friday at 4pm (90 hours) at least is the plan.
I am so unmotivated right now but reminded myself I have a birthday coming in February and nearly 50 lbs more to go. I won’t get there by tripping up a bunch and tossing in the towel every time I want to.
Scale is back up to 194.5 and that scares me enough to screw my head back on straight today.
Anybody joining back in this week?
So sorry I fell off the turnip truck. Just glad I didn’t let a whole week go by.
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I started yesterday evening - going til Fri morning. Maybe longer if it feels right.
You’ve only got to lose 8 #'s a month. Keep going, girl!
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Miramar, I’m sorry you’re struggling. Just keep your eye on that birthday and stick to the plan. You’ve been so disciplined. You can do this.
Just doing a 36 hour water only fast today and another on Friday this week. As usual, I’m just craving coffee which is silly because I haven’t even had any in about a week. Post-fast, I seem to lose my taste for it.
I had keto pizza yesterday. My local pizza place has a choice of regular, vegan, gluten-free, cauliflower or keto crust. Their experiment with beet crust was not popular. I tried the keto crust with the intent of eating half the pizza (It’s pretty small and half would be a portion size a dietitian would agree is healthy…so about 1/3 what I’d usually eat). I ate the whole thing. Then I had a margarita. I’m up 3 lbs this morning. I am no longer in ketosis. I usually get cauliflower crust. I’d never tried the keto before. It was ok. Tasted more like frozen pizza crust than pizzeria pizza crust so not really worth 3 lbs. I really regret the margarita.
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My “big girl panties” are no where to be found this week .
Some crap erupted with that full moon (psychologically) and I’ve been having a meal a day.
I was back down this morning half a lb, but decided I’m not going to beat myself up too hard this week and I will get back in the loop and find the magical panties.
My neighbor who I’ve been hanging out with during this whole pandemic really ticked me off too.
It’s a crazy story, but to sum it up he over served himself Monday and then thought it appropriate to hang with another neighbor who had a complete stranger guest there - and I have no clue if this person is a carrier - but I’ve now got to quarantine myself from hanging out with him for at least the next couple of weeks. He understands why at least, but his one night of stupidity and I really am left to me myself and I in my apartment.
So yeah, lonely taste buds. Not even hungry. But was craving flavors.
I could be getting ripped on Martini’s but have been sticking to tea and water - so there’s that.
Just a few days of readjustment.
I was unconsciously using my friend as an accountibility partner. He was there as a witness so I didn’t eat.
And another gal friend I talked to on the phone didn’t think it would be a terrible thing if I wanted some soup. And maybe I needed a few days break. IDK.
My head needs to get back in the zone. Lots of memories sifting up.
My taste buds were going nuts. I just wanted to taste things I’ve not had since February.
I have some lettuce to use up tomorrow in a salad and a cup of soup and then there will be no guilt of tossing food.
So I think that is the plan tomorrow, and then kick off from there. Just stick the water in the fridge and take off. Everything else can be frozen and will need to be prepared to actually eat so it’s a good delay system.
I’d like to offer my support. I’m not sure I have any useful advice. I think there’s some difficulty in determining if you’re having trouble fasting for emotional reasons or if you’re having trouble because your body needs some nourishment replenished. I can’t always tell the difference and I’m certain most others can’t either.
It sounds like you’re definitely having an emotional struggle with your close neighbor and with grief over the loss of your family. But maybe your body does need a break and some replenishment, and maybe that would put you in a better frame of mind to deal with the emotional and psychological struggles of fasting and life.
See, I’m no help. You may need tough love with someone ordering your to put on your big girl panties and my advice is to eat.
Or maybe you need someone ordering you to take a break when what you really need is someone telling you to suck it up and deal with it.
I would be so irritated with the neighbor. You kind of get your few people who you know are safe to be around and then someone adds all kinds of outside risks to the mix. As if the current state of quarantine isn’t bad enough, he had to go and make it worse!
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I had a nice lunch today and going clean for the evening. I don’t have any menu plans in place for the weekend and didn’t do any shopping so I’m going to play it by ear the next few days.
It’s maybe a combination of both emotions and body begging for a break - let us not forget the perimenopause .
Feeling much better in my head today.
Got a smidge of motivation today and did some dishes. Hopefully it will keep growing ( not the dirty dishes).
Feeling confident enough to get a couple days under my belt. Still time to work towards that fall goal!
Florida afternoon shower clouds are creeping in and I feel a small fire lighting under my arse to go organize some things. 
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192.5
Getting some momentum building for the next segment of Fast into Fall.
It’s the weekend, but I’m not on a refeed as I only truly fasted one whole day this last week. Haven’t decided if I’m even eating today. Going to play it by ear.
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Good morning!
Today is a great day to be fasting!
Had guests over yesterday. I had quite a bit of food. Ate some chocolate as well. Had cocktails. Tasted macaroni salad - first bite of pasta in over 2 months.
Got on the scale this morning and I actually down to 189.5🤣. Had to jump on several times.
So some weight was hormonal and some was just trying to catch up, and appears just relaxing and not getting stressed over it for the whole week allowed it to go.
I’m elated today.
Only 12.5 lbs to fall goal.
This week I fast.
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Good morning or afternoon or evening!
I fasted most of yesterday and had a salad that needed finishing last night. Feeling good and going to aim for no meals the next couple of days.
I tried on some size 14 shorts this morning and determined another 10-15 lbs will have them fitting comfortably.
So I have a new sticky system going up.
I have another 30 Fasting days I wanted to knock out for this challenge - which goes to September 22nd.
That’s 43 days left to squeeze it in!
30 Fasting days at half a lb loss a day gets me in that end goal sweet spot and comfortably into the 14’s!
So it’s a countdown (or count up) to the shorts.
Here’s what it looks like:
Not sure when breaks may happen, but can pull on the countdown on completion days.
So today I’m hoping to pull that 30 off the wall tonight!
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Love that you hung the shorts up on the wall. That’s a great idea.
Today’s a fast day for me.
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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 .
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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