I was gifted some avocados and starfruits last week.
Going to attempt making some kind of starfruit wine with them. 
Intermittent Fasting kind'a fits the Bill
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Star fruit wine sounds good.
About a week or so ago, I fell flat on my face.
I began snacking and eating during the day,
Luckily much if not most was fruit.
The OMaD kept me close to the straight and narrow during the day.
But, I was waking up every 1-1/2 to 2 hrs each night stuffing my face from the fridge.
I was very worried about beginning to gain weight again.
I did bounce around between 150 and 152, but never hit 153.
Although, my watch band has tightened up a bit.
I may need to loosen it again.
I finally got it back under control.
I was back down to 149 this morning, hoping for 148 tonight.
EDIT:
Been looking at the height - weight ratio index, canāt remember what itās called [stroke symptom].
Oh, yeah, BMI.
I wasnāt all that high at 165#.
At 150 Iām actually pretty good.
But, I still have a soft thin flab on my belly.
I am going to try for 145# to see what it looks and feels like.
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Cooked up dinner last night.
Got the hungries from it.
I moved my mealtime up to 6pm and ate, ā¦gorged myself 2xās.
Not so bad because it was a soup, ā¦well, OK almost a stew it was so thick.
I fell of my regimen with a thud.
Because of the high water content though, it wasnāt all that bad.
I only weighed 149 this morning, thought it would be higher than that after eating that evening.
Last few days Iāve been eating a lot of tangerines.
As many as 10 a day.
But, Iāve also been working in the yard.
Been using them as my water source instead of drinking.
One thing has become obvious.
My physical activity has a huge impact on how much I need to eat and how much weight I put on.
We had a good stretch of nice weather, spent a lot of time working and eating, and still lost some weight.
I got down to 147.
Then, the rains started up.
I jumped up to 153 thru a couple of days, but dropped back down to 149 when the rains dried up for a couple of days.
Iām beginning to think that food binging may be a steady apart of my life.
OMD, or very near to it, is not all that difficult for me.
It may be the only way I can control it, keeping thing reasonable.
But, I havenāt given up yet.
Weāve got 2 black cats.
Theyāre siblings, but have only their color in common.
Tubby, is a fat cat.
Doodle, is skinnier, but, is bulimic.
He gorges himself then throws up, holding his weight down.
He constantly prods us to fill his food bowl even when its already full.
Even if all we do is put a finger into the bowl and stir it, heās happy for a while.
I thought I was bad.
I wonāt be using him as a roll model.
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*Itās been a while since Iāve been by.
My weight seems to have stabilized at about 150 lbs.
But then, I am not as rigidly on my OMD .
Iāve been good during the day, not eating, and active around the yard.
Then, I began getting up during the night and snacking.
I might get up 1,2 or 3 times a night to munch, then go back to sleep.
I had been worrying about my eating late at night after reading that eating before sleeping was bad due to being easily turned into fat because the food was digested and assimilated while at rest sleeping.
So far, since going onto the OMD, it doesnāt seem too bad.
I was down to 148# this morning, mostly because of working in the yard and on my car, probably be back up to 150 again tomorrow evening.
I have eaten almost all the tangerines, not many left now, but the juice oranges are beginning to ripen.
Iāll be starting on OJ in quantity soon with a few tangerines left to be picked.
Iām worried about what will happen after Iāve finally stripped the trees of fruit.
The longan wonāt be in fruit until Aug or Sept, Oct or Nov for the avos and Dec or Jan for the citrus again.
Iāll need to find a way to survive until I can pick longan fruit in Aug or Sept, 7 or 8 months away.
By the 2nd summer away, I may have some summer ripening avos again.
It seems that I can eat the fruit without worrying too much about putting on weight, until Iām proven wrong.
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Itās been a while since Iāve been back.
I had begun to snack and munch through the night.
The quantity I ate had gone way up.
My weight was still fairtly stable near 150#.
But, it did reach 152.
I slowed down my eating at night.
I was able to drop to 149 fairly quickly.
I am 15# lighter.
Most of my belly is reduced.
I still do have some left.
So far, It seems that I can quickly lose any increase I put on over 150#.
I am having trouble with keeping my intake as low as Iād like to lose more.
And, Iām losing interest in getting lower.
I have little interest in eating again during the day.
It isnāt much of a temptation.
I now eat sometime between 6 and 7 pm.
Then Iāll snack until about midnight.
I still have very bad eating habits, but I have reduced my intake tremendously.
That has allowed me to lose what I have.
Iāll wander on, but be back if my weght goes up or down substancialy making it necessary to work on it again.
Can you tell me how you have lost your weight Iām needing to lost weight so bad thankx!!!
Itās all here in this thread.
I did one meal a day (OMD).
This thread covers almost 5 months.
This thread was begun simply to document my experience.
I started (OMD) a couple weeks, or so, before beginning this thread, and am still on a modified version now thatās holding me at about 150# +/- a couple #s.
One meal a day is easy for me, if I do it right.
I have no problem not easting during the day, if I am active.
The less active I am, the more I am drawn to eating.
For me, most activity is working in the yard, mowing lawn, pruning trees, picking fruit (and eating it), planting fruit (in the middle of planting 75 pineapples), cutting weeds (we live in jungle), and anything else I can find to do.
What follows is little more than a recap of my prior posts here.
Activity is easy for me.
I have been a somewhat venturesome hyperactive all my life.
I paddled kayak and canoe; bicycled and hiked mountain trails; did multi day pack trips across glaciers, and so on for my summers,
I worked construction year around.
Winters, I climbed mountains on skis and skins, to ski back down with free heeled telemark gear; hiked mountain trails breaking trail through sometimes very deep snow to pack in to do winter camping.
Again the list goes on.
But, I have obviously not been sedentary, until reaching my '60s and '70s.
I have always eaten like a high energy hyperactive.
Now, Iāve reached my '70s.
I still eat like a high energy hyperactive, as I have all my life, but now, my energy levels have dropped.
I am no longer as active as I used to be.
In my '50s health problems caused me to change my diet to quality foods.
I still follow that closely.
I used to weigh 135#s and kept myself burned down to that until it began to climb gradually as I aged.
I went up to 185# for a short period in my '60s but got it back down to 165#, barely able to hold it there for almost 20 years.
It was a lost cause until I tried (OMD).
The necessary things for me are:
activity and intake.
They have to be balanced.
If I east too much, I have to get more active.
If Iām too active, I have to eat more, plain and simple.
This may not work easily for many people.
lets face it, I consider most people to be lazy, they arenāt active enough, and donāt want to be.
They also donāt want to restrict their intake, and give it up too.
I do not believe in that new attitudes that deny the need for one to want something bad enough to make themselves break their ingrained habit patterns to get it.
I do not believe in the B.S. they try to sell you to make you feel it can be easier than it will be.
Iāve said it before, but I smoked for 40 years or so, from 14 to 55, no one is better at quitting than I am.
I quit at least 2 X a year for 20 years,before succeeding at it.
Losing this weight has only taken 10 to 15 years.
Iām getting better.
I just deleted a few paragraphs.
This had turned into a sermon.
I donāt think this is the right place for one.
Nor do I think itāll do any good.
Your post aroused much sympathy in me.
I still believe only you can accomplish it, no one else.
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