Omg. I am super ecstatic and excited for you. Looking forward to seeing this week’s result of fasting!!!
I'll just take a seat here for a while
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Good morning!
I’m up early. 189.5.
There it is.
12 more hours. This week dragged out the past few days. Friggin head battling all night. Like a spoiled 2 year old nagging to break the fast early. I won. I put my foot down and said no you little whiny brat. Not sure why this was an issue last night.
Going to attempt to get some chores done and then maybe take a nap later.
“Fasting can also cause heartburn ; lack of food leads to a reduction in stomach acid, which digests food and destroys bacteria. But smelling food or even thinking about it during fasting periods can trigger the brain into telling the stomach to produce more acid, leading to heartburn .Jul 27, 2015”
This is killing me this morning. Just took a heartburn pill. Might disrupt the autophagy early but just need to get to 4:30 on the fast.
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For the heartburn, try some ACV…I know, it tastes gagola…But it really, really works. I had heartburn 1 time and that was the last fast. I used 2 tsp. and it was gone within minutes.
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@schmidtsmia I tried this at about day 16 of my long fast and wound up in the bathroom tossing my water cookies for about 20 minutes.
I really think this happens when I start hitting into visceral fats - which I think is going to be the new norm- was feeling queezy early Friday morning.
This is all speculation of course.
Refeed weekend and back to feeling fine. I’ll let you know if the encounters happen again next Friday.
Did I mention I lost another half pound today after last night refeed?
189! Woot!
Next week Friday goal needs to be 186.5. 
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Good morning!
190.5 and Fasting will resume at 3:30.
I had cocktails last night.
Have been feeling really good this refeed weekend.
Off to coffee.
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Winding down tonight. Still full from the refeed and started the fast at 3:30.
Need to focus on seeing that 186 number this week. And keep focus on the summer end goal of 177. And propel my brain to 145.
Starting a new battle with myself this week to get some other things done around my apartment. I get small spurts done and then get distracted. Things that should be done. Locking myself in tomorrow. Been too cushy with myself.
Want to feel like tomorrow is a very productive day!
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Good Morning!
Full weight gain from refeed brought me to 193. Goal this week is 186.5, which is about right with 4lbs water weight gain. Gives me my 2.5 lbs to lose this week. 
Got some head games telling me to have a bite kicking in already this morning and shooing them off like flies.
Woke up at 7, and put myself back to sleep. Just got up about an hour ago watching some TV and finally pushed myself into the shower and got a load of laundry going. Sweaty sheets again. I dislike waking in damp sheets. They are cotton. Don’t know what else to do at this time to alleviate that. I don’t feel hot at all. Hopefully it’s a good thing happening. Body cleansing or something.
Ok, off to getting more done today.
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Finally! I’d washed the rugs in my bathroom about 3 weeks ago and was waiting till I actually have the bathroom a good scrub down before putting them back in. Got the bathroom cleaned up! 
It’s a shabby chic disco vs grandma’s curtain with the pompoms on it theme, complete with the crochet TP dolls on the beach.
I have one of those disco light shower heads too.
But the pompom shower curtain paired with prismatic liner curtain will beat every decor competition.
My bathtub and toilet are purple. It used to be an old hotel.
I typically just shower but ordered some tub liners so I could take a bath and wanted to give the tub a good scrub before hand. It’s a very old tub. But I appreciate the color.
I feel accomplished. It gets hot in that room and steamy which is annoying when trying to clean.
The insufferable Fasting brat was pulling on my t-shirt every half hour or so telling me to eat something. I’m not hungry. Really wanting this mental creation to go away. It’s terrible. Had to plant my arse on the couch and sleep it off.
Not having any keto/carb hangover which would have been hitting by now. Very pleased for that!
Broke down and had black tea on ice this evening. Just 4 more days!
Cable Guy is coming tomorrow and I need to get my apartment tidy enough for him to walk through. My signal is not working right.
I napped enough today, debating staying up late to start the job or just wake up stupid early to do it. Not feeling motivated to move and think right now.
Ok, really hope to see any kind of scale drop tomorrow morning.
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Purple bathtub and toilet??? OMG, I honestly do not think I could handle that. You are really strong. Today, a guy is coming to fix my broken dryer. I had to clean up, too, LOL!! I am not the only one.
I have only until Sunday night to fast, and really, I want it to HURRY UP!
I saw in LIDL that they had frozen in water, lobster! OMG, I use to love eating lobster. My dad would go down to the piers, in Manhattan, and bring us live lobsters, that were very blackish, and then he would cook them in boiling water. I would cry. But my dad promised me that the lobsters were “shocked into death”! and did not hurt. He also said, lobsters do not have a backbone, so they did not feel pain, like we do. I did enjoy how they tasted. So, should I take a chance, send 10 Euros, and get a LIDL frozen lobster? I live too far south to get fresh, besides, I could not bring myself to kill the poor creature.
Well done with cleaning…I have a room I have to tackle, and well, I am putting it off…
Happy Fasting.
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190.5 woot!
Will be back in the 180’s probably tomorrow.
The caffeine in the tea helped with a small BM today. Having a morning ice tea and then heading up to get the cable visible for the cable guy. I have a mask ready for whoever it is. I’ve not had anyone in my apartment other than my neighbor who I hang with since the beginning of lockdown.
Feeling great today! No keto hangovers and no sweaty sheets this morning! Actually felt cool last night and needed to cover up with a sheet.
Wild and crazy dreams last night.
I was eating all kinds of things. Forgot I was fasting and then remembered but the story line of the dream immediately changed.
My Grandma Bertha who passed away decades ago was there. She had a huge home and offered to rent me a giant room to rent which was actually a giant apartment with fireplace and a dance studio in it. And my college friend Sarah came to visit me. I still see her in real life. There was a wicked rain storm and Sarah had piles of red file folders she kept dropping in the rain and I ran out to help her gather them. I may have to call her about that.
Ok, going to launch some disco music and get to work!
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Internet seems to be fixed for now. Apparently I’ve got too much signal coming in and they put a splitter on it.
Hustled my butt to clear the path to the cable. Need to really figure out some better organization.
Having green tea now. Found some camera batteries I was looking for over a month ago.
Found some garden seeds.
Would need to set up a greenhouse but there appears to be a hurricane that might swipe us.
Pleased with my progress. Setting up my shelf rack either later today or tomorrow morning.
Undecided where to go next.
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Good morning!
189!
Woohoo!
No sweats. No pains. No troubles. Let’s keep it that way.
Furniture assembly, dirt buying, bill paying, and water drinking are on today agenda.
Morning tea time.
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Good morning!
188!
Gotta love the daily drop. Not sure how much longer this ride is.
Need to enforce some discipline on myself today. Would really like to get some organizing done. I don’t know what has been my mental block with this. Been easier to fast then to talk myself into organizing.
Have a book on the matter. Will try reading that today.
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21 hours to go!
I have 2 avocados ripe and ready. Very excited for those.
May try to up the protein this weekend. Time to revisit tuna egg muffins.
Ok, 3:30 here I come!
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Good morning!
186.5!
Much to do.
Hurricane on the way. Yard plants need to be tied down. Gas in the car. Air in the tires.
Any last minute goods need to be picked up.
Lucky my freezer is most filled with flours and baking things to keep the bugs out so that’s good. But there’s ice cream in my downstairs neighbor freezer which is mine and if the power goes for over a day I will have to eat it. I feel terrible saying that. Been wanting the neighbor to eat it. I won’t eat it all but let’s just have positive thoughts that the power will stay on and I won’t torture myself .
Arguing with myself about slipping cream in some hot coffee this morning. You know, I allow one slip and before you know it I’m having the grand slam at Denny’s and it’s 8 weeks later and I’m back up 30 lbs.
10 hours. Evil gremlin whispering in my ear. Hurricane is coming. Have your cream.
Fasting muscle punching and punching. Tomorrow is morning coffee with cream. Today is black coffee only day. Plus warm up refeed before jumping on the cream will reduce issues.
Just talked that out. Phew!
Ordered a new mini solar generator but it won’t arrive until after the weekend.
Maybe get some dry ice today before it’s gone.
My head might explode.
Been through a couple other hurricanes. They are loud and messy.
Just felt my belly. I don’t need cream this morning.
See how that little gremlin starts up again?
Ok. Time to wake the neighbor up and bug him. 
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I’m trying to figure out the logic in the above - WHY do you have to eat it???
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Because if the power goes out beyond 6 hours or so everything begins to melt. It’s 90+ degrees in Florida during the day now. No power means no ac, no fridge no freezer.
Meats come out of the freezer and things start going on the grill outside.
If it’s not canned or dried it will go to waste.
We’ve had no power for a week before.
It’s a crap shoot when the hurricane comes.
If there’s flooding the water gets turned off. We fill buckets in the tub with water, and use some so we can flush the toilets.
It’s like prepping for Corona virus with no power or water.
It’s partly why I think the virus was delayed in hitting Florida so hard. We all prepped like a hurricane, but after a month peoples supplies started to dwindle and they all went back into the stores. Just my theory.
I am right on the east coast with ocean view. You never know what a hurricane is going to do last minute.
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And it’s really good icecream. Been saving for special occasion and hot with no AC or power fits the bill.
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Ok, this I understand
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