Looks like my eating window is going to be 5 hrs apart for my 2MAD. As long as it works that is all that matters. I ended up doing 10 minutes on the vibration machine this morning and 5 this evening.

Carol Sue, I'm still reading the Reversible book a little at a time. I don't read as fast as you do. I've read some of this in other books and I found his info on mindful eating very similar to what I read in the Intuitive Eating books. Quite interesting.

Weight is still 187.0 today. Calories were high yesterday but carbs were only 43.

I think your 5 hours apart will be good. I do 4-6 depending on when I eat brunch. Black coffee curbs my appetite. It can be caffeine or decaf, no difference. I do caffeine because DH makes a big pot so I won't make decaf just for me. I only drink it in the am then I switch to water. I never liked coffee in the afternoon or evening. DH says caffeine doesn't keep him awake but he watches tv for 3 hours after he goes to bed so I think it keeps him up until it starts to wear off. If he watches tv in the living room he continues to drink coffee.

Trish, I often skim through when I'm reading, skipping over things that don't really interest me. Then I often go back and reread the parts I skip over. I also read while I'm watching tv, during commercials. I want to reread Reversible.

Today I slept until 10:15 but I was up late. DH made pancakes so I cooked 1 fried egg to eat on a pancake. So my brunch was very small. I might freeze the 2 remaining pancakes so I can do that again sometime. He only makes pancakes about once a month because he knows I don't eat them.

My pain is intermittent and only slight. I can live with that but hope it goes away. I'm still not taking pain meds but carry them with me when I go out, just in case. They take 30 minutes to kick in, though.

I don't like the big Wal-Mart if I only need a few things. It helps that DH takes his own cart and gets the things he wants. It is very far to walk from pharmacy over to grocery, and it was 5 pm so it was crowded. It was also hard to park. I go to our Wal-Mart at 10am so it is not crowded.

Down 1.2 lbs since Sept 1st. Today is my usual WI day so that gives me a good start for this month. Continuing with the IE woe that I'm doing. Not giving up all the foods he talks about giving up in this book but just working on healthy eating and balancing high carbs with lower carbs. Most IE people wouldn't call this IE but it is as far as I'm concerned because this is my own "Personal" plan. I think this book probably calls it mindful eating. However, for it to mindful, I need to work at implementing slowing down when eating and take time to really taste my food.

Carol Sue hope you are feeling alright without pain today.

Mad hope you are having fun with all you activities and athe plays you went to were good.

Today is a carby day and I'm trying to decide if I want to eat the chipped beef like we usually do or if I want to eat mine on brown rice which will be much healthier than the biscuits DH likes it own. Which ever I decide, I will add lots of veggies along with my salad to it.

Have a nice Labor Day Weekend everybody.
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Carol Sue. we must have been posting at the same time. Glad your weight stayed the same.

I read something in the Reversible book that I remember reading in that book was it Fat Head where the guy's roommate shared the fridge and she would take a few bites of ice cream and put it back in the fridge. He couldn't understand it. This doc tells about a thin friend of his. Doc was extremely obese and said they went out and ate the same fast food meal of burger, fries and he would get a diet drink but his friend wasn't worried about weight and drank full sugar drink. He finally asked his friend how he stayed thin The guy didn't know. So he asked him what he had eaten the day before. Amazingly the thin guy had to really think about it, but finally said that he had gotten up late so didn't have time to eat breakfast. Later he got busy wanting to get everything done at work because it was Friday so he forgot to eat anything. When he got home he was tired so he had an apple and went to bed. Doc couldn't believe anyone could just eat an apple and nothing else in a day.

This reminds me of when I asked DH DD what she ate in a day. She said she ate only when she was hungry and ate what she wanted. She told me there were days that she just didn't get hungry or was too busy to eat. Doc realized and I did to at one time after taling to DD that thin people not only don't count calories but they don't even think about food until they get hungry. I don't think they even think about weighing on even given day. I was like that at one time and would love to be like that again.

Trish, a very thin woman at work was like that. She didn't own a scale and only got weighed when she went to the doctor once a year. She couldn't stand the thought of eating in the morning. She was starving at lunch and ate a big fast food lunch. Her husband always worked second shift so she would fix dinner for her kids but didn't eat. She was full from lunch. One time she noticed her pants were getting baggy and had to go buy smaller ones. She said that was because she started bringing lunch instead of fast food. She just stopped eating when she got full. She only ate dinner when her husband was home on weekends.

I can tell you how much I weigh on any day. I've been like that for years, and usually can tell you how many calories I've eaten. When I was going through my gaining period I think I was weighing but I was not tracking my food. I only started tracking in the past couple years and have done it on MFP for over 900 days in a row. Its just part of my life now and I think it keeps me from overeating most days because I always eat in the same calorie range. There are very few exceptions. I eat between 1000 to 1400 calories daily.

I ate a much smaller brunch today and I think I will continue that. I had 1 egg and one 4" pancake. I want to do 1 egg daily and 1 slice of SL toast. I don't buy bacon anymore. I was not hungry again until dinner. I always ate a big breakfast because I thought eggs and bacon were needed protein and fat but I don't need that much.

I want to have a small cook-in on Monday, as opposed to a cook out.

Carol Sue, Talthough I did track when doing WW, but other than that I didn't track again until SC doc told me that he used MFP and I've used it ever since. I can look back and show you what I weighed on any given day since then because once I started checking FBG, I have tracked weight and BP and HR that I take once a day.

Although I don't count any calories or carbs, I know my carbs have been higher today. I did a small snack for brunch and another one to close out my day within 6 hr window. Knowing how I am after eating chipped beef, I thought that would be better to have the 1 meal and 2 snacks to keep from messing things up too much. Tomorrow, I will go back to regular plan of 2 meals.

I'm not planning anything for the holiday. Are you having family over or just you and DH. I do have the other half of pork ribs that I bought a couple months ago. I plan to cook it tomorrow.

Scale up to 188 this morning. I guess I'm overeating the wrong foods but I have been closing my eating window by 4-5 pm and not eating til noon or later. Just eating too much in between. So much for "eat more to lose weight."

Today DH brought Egg McMuffin. You can't buy them after 10:30. I don't plan on eating mine until after 12. I really like them. I understand the English muffin is not good but I like them. I want to fit certain foods in my diet. I really enjoy my extended overnight fast. I am truly not hungry and the black coffee sustains me. Without that I would be eating. I am going to figure this out if it kills me! I want to eat something I really like when I'm hungry, in proper portions to keep my weight low, so I guess portions is the key.

I have been craving meatloaf recently so maybe this week. The only problem is using the oven when the air condition is running. I could bake it early in the morning before it gets hot. I don't know if DH will eat it heated up. Or maybe cook it on the grill with the lid closed.

I told DH I won't go to the casino but I will go. I eat less on casino day and so does he. But I will let him sulk for a while before I tell him I will go.

I need to make sure I have a good book to read.

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I got The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jimmy Moore and Dr Fung for Kindle. Its $2.99 for a limited time. I could have sworn I have it but its not on my Kindle. I doubt if I paid for the actual book.

We are not having people over for Labor Day. They would not come. That will be a big drinking day for them so they will stay home. We have some wine and beer but not much as we hardly ever drink. Whatever we have will only be for us. I don't want to eat a lot.

I ate my Egg McMuffin at noon heated in the microwave oven. I get it with no cheese. I looked online and they only use .5 oz of cheese and their sausage patty is 1.5 oz. This is less than I would use if I made it at home. I am very satisfied that I waited to eat it and got my overnight/morning fast completed. I might not be dropping weight left and right but I am learning to control my eating. That is a big goal for me.

I am going downstairs to start sorting my clothes to get some together to donate to Goodwill. There are so many that I probably will never wear again.

Weight is up to 183.2 lbs and FBG 99. FBG was 96 yesterday. In the Reversible book, he says to never think of this as failure. Instead look at the lesson you can learn from it. The lesson I learned is that I cannot eat all that simple carbs that I had with that meal. I should have taken the time to cook the brown rice and had it with it for 2 reasons. One is that by using the brown rice is that besides it being a complex carb, it would not have been pre-processed and I would not have added salt to it. I ate 2 foods that were processed foods. I'm not 100% sure that all processed foods are bad for us once in a while. I don't think that normal weight people like I talked about yesterday, but I do know that most processed foods are usually very high in sodium and that is a problem for me. So lesson is that I cannot eat 2 processed foods at the same time which is what I did yesterday and lose weight because there will be a temporary weight gain. I love this new way of looking at it because today I start over and have no feelings of guilt and I don't feel like a failure because my weight is up 1.8 lbs today. A good lesson learned and today is a new day.

Carol Sue, I got a chuckle at you telling your DH you aren't going to the casino. You are too funny because we both know better.

I am working on a OMD today. Not sure how it will go, but this is "my plan" so I can follow the lead of IE. After all, I'm not following any one plan just learning how to use IE wisely. Right now my goal isn't the weight as much as it is to learn how to come to the place that I am at peace with food so that it doesn't rule my life. I want to be like those normal thin eaters who just eat if they are really hungry and they enjoy what they eat because it is something they really like or want . They do not have or follow a list of foods allowed or avoid.

I remember in the original IE book they asked a lady what her favorite foods were that she liked because she just couldn't follow another list of foods listed good/bad. They told her to write down the foods she really liked. She could only think of 10 foods. They told her to plan her eating around those foods. I wonder if I set down and wrote down what my favorite foods are just what they would be. I may do that in my little book I'm writing in as I learn new habits.

I have the ribs out to barbecue so our Labor Day meal will be today. I cook mine in the airfryer which makes it so much easier to clean up instead of using a grill. Might cook a beef roast for tomorrow.

Carol Sue, do you still have your small toaster oven? You could use that to cook your meatloaf without worrying about the air conditioner. I use mine when I don't use the airfryer.

Have a nice day everybody.

The scale said 187.8 when I weighed a couple hours later, but that is stupid. .2 does not make a difference. I weigh what I weigh. I am just obsessed with the number. Trish, its the same with your fasting blood sugar. Your A1c is below 5. Do you realize what that means? A few points of fasting blood sugar is really insignificant here. I know it matters to you, but like weight, it is effected by fluids, hormones, sleep, exercise, etc. As long as you are not stuffing yourself with processed foods daily, you are fine.

I love rice. White, brown, it doesn't matter. They both spike my blood sugar. I use very small amounts when I make stuffed cabbage or stuffed peppers. Both of us like them with more meat than rice. But I can go overboard with any meal served over rice. I used to love chicken stir fry over rice. Yum.

I still didn't tell him that I agree to go to the casino. He put all my electronics on charger and he is being very nice to me. In his heart he knows I will go.

I actually made it with eating only One meal today. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I will go back to 2 meals tomorrow. But it is nice to know that I can still do it. I slept like a baby last night all the way through till morning and hope to be able to do that again tonight.

Good job on OMAD, Trish! I haven't done that in a very long time.

We had a great night at the casino but we stayed too late and I'm really tired!

Hi friends. I have not been visiting because for some reason the site is really slow. Each be part takes forever to to load and I get impatient. I read 5 pages of my novel getting through to here from initial log in. It's worse on my laptop, often stalls and won't load. This is my only site that does this, so not sure why.
DH leaves today for the camp. I'm staying home until late September. Things are starting up here and I'm not willing to be away for now.
However, I did quit my little part time position. There was some bullying going on from the organization that oversees us, and I just had no heart for the infighting. So I resigned. Feeling much less stressed, but it will have a bit of an impact on finances, as I was planning on that but of income for the next 18 months. But not worth the stress.
Weight is still in the high 160s so be I plan to do some 22 hr fasts in the next few days, and stick to low carb. Should be easier with DH away.
Happy Labour Day.
Not sure when I will check in again with the difficulties with the site.
Take care everyone

Carol Sue Glad your casino trip was good. Hope you get some more rest before your day actually starts.

Fatmad Sorry you had to leave the position you had, but I agree not worth the stress. Yes, I noticed that it takes a while to get on 3fc these days so I only come here most of the time. I have to be sure I have time to wait.

Weight coming back down and was 182.6. Not sure what wll happen after our main meal of pizza since that is what DH wants to eat today. I'm not in the mood for it but he seldom requests anything and it is Labor Day so I decided to make it. I will probably make a big salad and just make mine a veggie pizza. Today will be a 2 meal day because tomorrow will ba a OMD since we will be going shopping and then I go for a perm Friday and I am planning a OMD that day too.

I was thrilled to see my FBG was 92 today. So overall everything is good.

Hope everybody has a nice Labor Day.

I agree the site is slow and very annoying.

Scale is back down to 186.6 today, so a bit of improvement. I slept til 10. At 11 I had 2 eggs and 1 slice of toast. We went to the local store for ground beef and hot dogs, and we will have baked beans with it. Then I made a salad of just lettuce, tuna , tomato and dressing. Then I dumped it on the kitchen floor. I was so angry!! I wanted that salad!! I guess we will eat around 4. Its not a really big holiday here. Most just consider it to be the end of summer. Summer was too hot and humid to enjoy, but warmer weather usually means our winter will be milder.

sorry friends: I have been trying to PM with Carol but it doesn't look like they go through. I just come here to connect with the two of you, but I have not been able to sign on from the cottage with the site problems. the LC site won't let me register either.
I will stick with my fasting group on FB for now. But if you have my email Carol sue, feel free to contact me. It has taken me all day to try to work this through, so this will be my last time here, sadly.
Thanks for all your support through the years. best wishes

Fatg mad Sorry about the problems you are having getting on. I'm sure Carol Sue will get in touch with you if she has you email address.

Carol Sue Sorry about your salad. I hate it when things like that happen. I've done that before with coffee.

I ate within 6 1/2 hr eating window today and all my exercises in.

Going to Sam's and Walmart tomorrow and DH will want KFC tomorrow. Therefore, I will do 1 meal tomorrow.

Good night.