Hi Ladies, I'm sorry I've been lame at posting lately. I'm glad to see you're still here, though! This past week was stressful, so fasting didn't go wonderfully, although not terribly, but the past few days I've just avoided the scale altogether. I think it's PMS week (that seems to be coming around too often!) so overall I just feel bloated. And not motivated. I didn't end up doing the 36-hr fast last Thursday as I had planned, mostly because my work schedule got screwed up and completely fasting on Friday just doesn't work for me. So this week I will plan a 24-hr fast tomorrow and possibly a 36-hr fast Thursday. At least when I plan them this way, if I cheat a little it still ends up being a good fast day
I wish I could get back into Fast 5, but I can't do it everyday, and I don't think 2-3 days is enough. So anyway, we'll see how this week goes. I'm not sure with TTOM coming, if I'll even make it 24 hrs!
Noname--I'm glad to hear your fasts are still going well, although I know it must be frustrating to not see the scale move much. Hopefully this week will show a good loss for you! I'm rooting for you!! I'll bet in a way that was nice to be able to have your own menu of food while your boyfriend was recuperating. Sometimes I think if it weren't for my kids and hubby, I could probably do better at fasting. Oh well, it's a trade-off, I guess!
Nayla--Wow, I sure wish we lived close to Disneyworld. You have annual passes, so how often do you go? Do you live close enough to not have to stay in a hotel? Orlando is over a 10-hr drive from here I think, but even just the hotel, tickets, etc is just too much financially for us right now. But I'll bet this season is great--no hot weather!
Welcome Spryng! That's a pretty, unique name
Congrats on your loss so far, and good luck with the rest of your goal! I personally began practicing IF a couple of years ago, but I was experimenting with different methods, and then ended up going off plan because we were trying to have another baby. Recently I started back up with Fast 5, which worked really great for me over the summer, when my stress level was low. But ever since school started (for the kids) and our schedules got crazy again, Fast 5 has been more difficult. I've been experimenting again with different methods, but I haven't quite found the sweet spot yet. My Fast 5 eating window was 5:30-10:30pm, which is a bit late, but our family eats dinner late and I tend to want to enjoy a glass of wine with my husband after the kids go to bed. Maybe an earlier overall window would work better for me, so maybe I will try that next. And maybe I'll do 5 days per week and take the weekends off. I think I got burned out a little doing it pretty much 7 days a week. I hope that info helps, and certainly, if you try one IF method and it doesn't work for you, try another one! Overall it's a very versatile way of eating, and people tend to have to just figure out what works for them. And that can even change over time for each person, as I've found!