I am so upset with myself :mad:

I have been living in total isolation for the past 3 months. I wanted it that way, I wanted to focus on my health and weigh loss and my social life was not good friend what came to my weight loss journey.

I miss my friends dearly and stay in touch via phone etc. but I have been avoiding all face to face contact.

My friends decided to pop in last night, because they basically said enough is enough and wanted to see me.

So they brought wine, cocktail meatballs, cheese, nut trailmix and fruit.... I drained a bottle of wine, ate all night long. I don't even know how many calories worth but I am guessing 2500-3000 calories.

We played cards and, talked and laughed...it was REALLY nice, but I can't slip back into my old ways.

How do you handle social life and friends? -- All my friends love to eat and enjoy wine... I miss my friends, but I am afraid of seeing them :(

Scale was 148...I thought for sure I would be over 150.

Jo... I can't handle muscle relaxes either. They usually make me tired for 36 hours. Tylenal PM does the same.

Krystal; I missed you!! :hug: 7 pounds? I am so sorry! That is so mentally draining to see that!

Sum, sorry about the great time you had last night, that sounds really funny, but I worded it that way on purpose. You had a great time with your friends. You don't do that every day and it is life. I think we have to keep in our minds this is going to happen both during our weight loss journey and in maintenance. If you were in maintenance, you probably wouldn't think anything of it, even if you gained a few, and you would get right back to plan and that weight would fall off. So you do the same thing now. You didn't gain and maybe you would have lost a little more if you hadn't indulged, but you have to get right back to plan today and continue on. And if you do gain a little, it will fall back off. If you don't gain, great, continue on with the losing. I know it is so much easier for me to say, but looking from the outside in is much easier to see how minor it is in the grand scheme. Just don't let it turn into an all the time thing. Maybe you should think about doing it once a month and plan for a fast before and after to make up for the calories. I don't know if that sounds appealing to you or not, but just a suggestion. I am here for you and we are going to finish this thing if it takes us another year! :hug:
If it makes you feel any better, I had seconds at dinner last night of both my salad and the main dish! I have to go back and adjust my diary to reflect the extra cals, but oh well. And, I am back up those 1.5-2 pounds on the scale this morning, so even worse than what you faced! It sucks, yes, but will I quit, NO!
So my plan today is to eat normally again, get in an early dinner so I can fast until dinner Monday. Are you with me? We can do this. I bet you will still see a loss this week, kind of like what a Spike day does for you.

Absolutely Jo. I feel bloated and yucky today. -- I will eat dinner around 5 pm that way I feel I can "cheat" one hour tomorrow :lol:

Thanks for the suggestions....I wish everything did not evolve around food and wine with my friends. I wish we could do walks etc :(

good morning :) well i guess it's afternoon by now lol....we are all very tired today and im totally blaming the daylight savings time change...ughh...i slept in this morning which felt good, now DH is asleep again...both kids are tired, my younger son and his cousin, who's been over since yesterday with us...my son is 5 and his cousin is 7...ive spent the morning in my lazy clothes and am doing laundry....i cleaned up the boys' disgusting bathroom, cleaned up the living room and did other random cleaning stuff around here...laundry will take all day...DH is leaving for a business trip tomorrow morning early and sundays are laundry days so he'll leave with nice clean clothes...

i love those days when i can just stay home and the house is clean and quiet and im getting chores done...i need to make a stop at the store in awhile, hoping they have the bookshelf in that we want to get, will need to take the truck...

im not working out today...sundays just mentally arent for working out for me..it's strange, i can work out any other day of the week just fine, no matter how busy i am or what's going on, but on sundays i just have ZERO motivation or desire to run...so i'm calling it a rest day....my shoulders have been really sore too, im assuming from running

I took a head start Jo :D

We went out to bfast yesterday (it was planned beforehand)... I ordered an omelet. I felt yucky almost right away and I thought it was because of night before...BUT turns out they use flour in their baked omelet :mad: And because I have Ceiliac and I was up for a "fun" evening and night. UGH!

So this fast will be great, get me all cleaned up :lol: -- I am sure I will be starving by 3 or 4... I will go as late as I can, tho.

First of all, who puts flour in an omelet??? I have never heard of that, ever. Sorry you had to find out the hard way.

Well, I got a late start and will not be done until 6:30 or so :( I will live vicariously through you this afternoon.

I ended up spiking again yesterday. I had such chocolate cravings and that led to a baked potato and the rest just went from there. So I don't know how mixing spiking with fasting will go, but I feel awful this morning so I am definitely fasting until dinner. Oh, and looked at my tracker and I am ovulating (tomorrowish) so that would explain the scale being stubborn and the cravings and whatever else DH has blamed me of the last couple days. Darn ovulation is worse than PMS for me.
DH sprung on me at the last minute this morning there is a speaker he would like me to bring DS out to tonight and/or possibly stay myself if I thought I could sit on bleachers (right!). So now I am not sure what I will do about eating. I have to talk with him later to get the details on time and all.

I am going to do some kind of workout this week! My doctors appointment is tomorrow so hopefully she can help guide me. I am feeling much better, but am keeping that appt. so I have some answers as to what is wrong.

Did I mention I hate the Monday after time change? :devil:

I'm with you, I don't really like working out on Sundays either. Hope you got all the laundry done and I agree, time change is the :devil:

Very quick post from me before my morning run in Nashville :)

I just love it here! The weather is awesome, the people are awesome, the shopping is out of this world (compared to Memphis--what isn't??)!!!

I think I have overeaten breakfast! UGH!

I managed a 5.3 mile run yesterday. I could have gone longer, but I was out of road! I didn't run downtown where the 1/2 Mary will be. It is mostly UPHILL!! :tantrum: This is going to really suck. I seriously will be doing good to walk this race.

Last night, we ate at Margaritaville. I overate. Oh well. DH and I NEVER go out to eat anymore. I had 2 Pina Coladas, 1 crabcake, a couple of onion rings, and a few nachos from his plate. The experience wasn't the same as when I went to the Margaritaville in Cozumel :lol: Nashville doesn't have the Caribbean as a backyard!

JO: You should be just fine with spiking and fasting. Many of MFP do this and are successful.

KRISTIINA: That is a tough line to draw with your friends. 1. You're so tempted just by being around the lifestyle. 2. They expect for you to partake in food and drink with them. 3. You have your own goals, but you want & need to participate in the social realm.
I think you could find a balance, despite the temptations.

ALASKAN: :yay: on your running!! I am so excited and impressed. No doubt you are setting yourself up for success with a 5K!! You can do it :)

Gotta scram. I am running and then shopping today before heading back home.
I wish we could have stayed 3 or 4 days here. Have a great Monday everyone!
Oh, I'm going to Trader Jo's for the first time later on. What should I buy? We don't have one in Memphis.

:barf:

YUCK! Who does that??

good morning :) my cough/cold keeps lingering and/or returning, not sure which...i'll feel fine for a day, then sick for a morning, fine that afternoon, coughing at night etc...i felt fine all day and began coughing last night, still coughing this morning

had to get up extra early on this time change monday (ugh) because DH had to be at the airport by 6 a.m. for a business trip...he'll be back in a few days...it's still dark out but looks like it might NOT rain today!! my bike is in working order again, thanks to DH who pulled it out and got it ready for me to ride again...it was SO NICE outside yesterday until literally the time i came home with a tire pump and it started pouring rain and slush...i'd like to ride my bike this morning but it's also really cold...i have a hard time working out when i'm cold, my bones and joints just feel old and creaky and it never goes well...i know i'll be at the gym later, like it or not LOL

time to go wake the kids up for school :)

I KNOW!! They make these FAB baked omelets and I guess they add a table spoon or two with milk in the batter to make it "fluffier". Self raising flour :mad:

What ticks me off; when the waitress asked if I wanted pancakes or toast, I said I have a gluten allergy and if I could have something else like tomatoes or hash browns... she never informed me that the omelet had flour.

Sum, now you have me craving an omelet! Course, 18 hours into a fast, lots of things start to sound delish. How's it going for you today?
I have a headache that I think is more related to hormones than fasting, but I may have to cut it short because of it. I'm still going for now though...

Krystal, glad you are having a great time! That sux about the uphill race route :(

Alaskan, I had to chuckle about the creaky bones, right there with ya!

I am ovulating as well Jo...lol And I have a slight headache as well. But I am doing quite well, no real hunger. Today I am having a lot easier time than I did on Friday.

Have fun shopping Krystal!

:wave: Alaskan!

Okay, I just realized that with the time change, I am not as far along as I thought I was :( I was thinking about how fast this day has passed by and then it hit me :lol:
I don't think I want to eat as late as 7/7:30, so I will probably go for about 22 hours or so today and eat around 5:30. Still a good one.

I think that is awesome Jo! 22 hrs is nothing to sneeze at :D
I sort of started IF last week, and this fasting "thing" is getting easier. I have no hunger nor cravings.... strange (for me :lol:) I think I will follow 19 h fast and 5 h eating window for Tuesday and Wednesday and do 22-24 hour fast on Thursday. -- I started following a thread called eat-stop-eat here at 3FC and what I gather, fasting gets easier over time.

I think we are doing AWESOME, and I am soooo happy you are doing this with me. It really helps! I keep thinking about you and your cravings and I don't want to let you down. :hug:

ETA: Can't wait when Krystal can join us!!

I know, I always think, "well, Kristiina is doing it too"!
Oooh, maybe I will pop into that thread too one of these days. I have been engrossed in an old closed thread (probably the same people) that came up when I searched for IF.
I have to say today has been a pc. of cake. Not sure if it is because I spiked yesterday or if it is just truly getting easier, but today I am gooooood! Oh and that dull headache is gone, bonus!
I was thinking the same, a smaller window the next two days, probably 5 also, and then fast again Thursday. I will have to make plans for the weekend too so it doesn't turn out to be a wash. I don't think I am going to spike again until I can get some workouts under my belt.
I was just working out my calorie needs (again). Seems like I am always tweaking my calorie needs. It is hard right now without working out. Hoping for good suggestions from my doctor tomorrow :crossed:

I did it, but my dinner was not the best. -- We had no formal dinner plans because everyone was going at different directions and I ended up making nachos for myself :o I feel really full, even though I did not eat THAT much.
How are you Jo?

So 5 hour eating window for tomorrow?

What time is your doctor appointment tomorrow? Do you think it is broken?

Yes! Plan for 5 hours tomorrow.
I ate at about the 22 hour mark today (I think, got tired of calculating it :lol:)
I had a huge 1000 calorie salad :o I was still hungry a little while later so then had a couple hard boiled eggs and a fiber one brownie. Now I am full full full!
Yes, my appt. is tomorrow at 2:40. Ironically (or not) I feel great today. I am actually starting to be able to sit straight in a chair and (almost) lean back. Yes, I do believe it is broken. I am noticing some pain now mid/lower back when I try to bend back. I think this is where I hit the step behind me when my butt hit. I hope there is nothing wrong there. At this point, I want to know where it is injured/broken and how long and what type of recovery to expect. Hopefully I can find out that much. My doctor is really a minimalist, so I hope she takes it seriously.
I am going to try to go outside for a walk tomorrow and see how it feels. I don't think easy walking will be too jarring to inhibit healing. My friends neck is doing better and she wants to get back to walking Thursday. I really hope I can. I miss those 400 calorie + burns and the resulting "buzz" from it :lol:
Nachos sound delish! I think that is like pizza, there's a lot of healthy stuff that goes on top so how bad can it be? What type of chips do you eat to avoid gluten? Speaking of which, how are you feeling?

Gosh, I sooooo wanna be doing IF right now, but when???
That's the question!
If I had an exclusive schedule @ work, it would be so much easier.
If I weren't training for this 1/2 Mary, it would be so much easier!!
This too shall pass...
In May, after this race, I am hopefully going to Lake Tahoe for a week.
Then afterwards, I'm seriously doing a lower carb, high protein, IF, heavy lifting routine!!
I'm considered "skinny fat" atm, & I hate the way I look & I HATE that terminology!!

Have you girls heard of Finding Your Body Type? I came across it last week while looking through some YouTube vids. I had not heard of it until then and am becoming increasingly interested in it for a couple of reasons.
For starters, the "thyroid type" seems to fit me almost perfectly!
My limbs stay extremely cold. I tend to gain weight all over when I gain. I constantly eat carbs & sugar & need regular afternoon naps. I have had the brittle nail thing my whole life until recently & my hair has always been on the dry side, except for if I go without washing it for a couple days.

All of this led me to the benefits of coconut oil for this body type. I bought some at Whole Foods Monday when I was in Nashville. I'm not expecting leaps and bounds results, but I'm optimistic.

The book suggests a thyroid detox, which if you all remember, I did a detox last year after my cruise. I couldn't really see the benefits of it on the outward appearance, but who knows what it did internally. I didn't have my liver enzymes drawn before and after, so….who knows.

I also haven't restarted taking any supplements since being off of it for almost 3 months.

Ovulation is here, yay :mad: scale jumped to 150. Oh well, I am learning to accept these hormonal ups. I also woke up middle of the night and I was super thirsty. I gulped down 30 oz of water, so I am sure my "real" morning weight is lower :lol:

I am doing 19 hour fast, except I am putting a tiny splash of cream in my morning coffee....

My joints are on fire from eating that gluten :( I hope these toxin leave my body soon, I have been just sitting around and waiting for this to pass. It is supposed to be absolutely gorgeous here today....I have not been able to walk for a few days, I am going to try to take a gentle walk today.

Krystal...lake Tahoe! We are considering moving there once Cam is done with high school. I am so jealous of your trip! I feel that I need more toning and sculpting. I am not happy how my body is looking either. My legs are looking very nice from walking, but my tummy and arms...ugh! I feel I don't have enough time....I should cut my walks a bit shorter and utilize our home gym. I have just lacked motivation on weight lifting department. I started walking with the poles in hopes for some toning. I just want to get down to 140 and I feel if I was in my normal BMI range, I would feel better....right now I am just focused on this extra flap :D

I have all of my faculties on charge--including, the Ant, the iPhone, and the Garmin!

Hey--It's :carrot: NO EXCUSES TUESDAY!!! :carrot:

Get Out There!!!

Hey, meeee toooo!!
A couple more days, and I am PRAYING for a miracle of some type of water deflation!
I took a Colon Cleanser Sunday and Monday & have successfully upped my water intake back to where it should be.
By Friday, we shall see where I am.
Down to a whopping 146.2 (-0.8). I'll take that.
I still can't believe 2 weeks ago I was 1.8 lbs away from my 1st goal :tantrum:

Also, on a different note, I went to LuluLemon while I was in Nashville and got a new Sports Bra, just for the 1/2. I also bought a pair of running socks. I keep getting blisters on my feet despite different shoes. So, we'll try the socks to see if that's it. I've already lost a toenail with my previous 6 miler :barf: I know that's TMI, sorry! :lol:

Good morning gals. I have a feeling ovulation has passed for me but I will not hold my breath. My scale is down a few back to normal since spiking so who knows if it is just normal after spike fluctuation or after ovulation fluctuation. I will wait and see what it does in the next couple days. Oh, and I just remembered I was lower carb yesterday since I was focusing on getting in enough protein after my fast so that could be it too. I am slightly encouraged anyhow. I have been burned so many times before, it is hard to get excited :?:.
Planning fast 5 today, but may have to be a little more flexible due to my doctors appt. right in the beginning of my window. I guess I will determine how hungry I am an hour before and go from there, may turn into more of a 16/8 or a 18/6:dizzy:. I would love to go in fasting to see what my vitals are, and also I would show a big loss from January since I was post binging for 2 weeks then :lol:

Krystal, I think there are a lot of people that fast for only one or two days per week. You could just do it at the tail end of a shift and sleep through most of it or do it on one of your days off. Also, many people do shorter fasts every day like leangains you were talking about. That would be good if you want to do body recomp.

I am with you guys on wanting to "shape up" but I get so defeated when I read about not being able to build muscle when in a calorie deficit. I just workout and eat with the intent of keeping the muscle I have and figure I will work on building when I am able to eat at maintenance or above. It takes time. Krystal, you are probably right about there. Most people start when they have just a few more pounds to take off. They start building muscle and the last pounds of fat fall off. The scary thing is raising your calories to maintenance levels. Oh, and I hardly believe you are skinny fat, whatever. All the working out you do I am sure you are very athletic.
Interesting about the body type, may have to check that out. I have been sporadically using coconut oil for a while now, but nothing consistent.

Sum, so sorry you are having joint issues, that sucks especially with the nice weather. I am sure the combination of drinking that water and the salt from those nachos is what has your scale up today. Make sure you are running to the bathroom all day today to get rid of it!
Hehe, I had to chuckle, I put a little cream in my coffee this morning too! I feel so much better. I kept reading about making sure to keep drinks under 50 calories, so I kept it to about 25 and it is not as good as regular, but sooooo much better than black or nothing at all! Something about that hot cup of coffee in the morning :coffee: And by the way, I have to force myself to work out with weights too. I would rather run for an hour than lift weights. What is up with that? Once I am done lifting though, I love the feeling so it is worth it.

good morning :) i use xanthan gum in my shakes and smoothies...just dont overuse it because it turns it into more "glue" than "creamy"...i learned that the hard way LOL also good for thickening gravies and puddings without dumping in flour or cornstarch...

i still have a cough in my chest...got to bed on time last night and slept well, except for a few times up with the puppy who wouldnt lay down and sleep...i always put my little son in bed with me when DH is out of town...i have this irrational fear that, since his room has big windows and it is sided with the porch, that someone will open his window at night and steal him...it's weird, it only surfaces when DH is gone...

i still plan to run today though, we'll see how my cough holds up...and then work...and then my teenager has a concert tonight that we'll be at all evening

Okay, Sum, I called it at 18 hours and ate my breakfast (minus the coffee). I was getting hungry and when I thought about having my appt. at 2:40, then dealing with the kids and getting them to practice and stuff, I would have ended up at 22 or more hours again. I didn't want to do that, want to shake it up every day, so I ate and it was gooooood!:lol:
How are you doing today? I decided not to walk today even though it is gorgeous out, waiting to see what the dr. says. Did you get a walk in or are you still hurting too much? You know what, if your joints are that sore, that means you are inflamed and that is probably the water weight you are seeing on the scale! Anywho, hope your day is going well!

Alaskan, I worry about the kids and the house when DH is out of town too :(. Do you think your lingering cough could be allergies? I used to get lingering coughs after being sick and now I suspect is was allergies all along. I get allergy shots now and haven't had a lingering cough in a couple years. Maybe trying some over the counter allergy meds may help? I dunno, just a suggestion ;). I hope it goes away soon, I know how annoying it is. I had a patient once tell me "you know, you'd stop coughing if you would stop coughing" :lol: In other words, the more you cough, the more you irritate your throat and bronchi and the more you cough. I still think about that to this day.

K9, tell me more about xanthan gum. Is it healthy? I know I see it in a lot of "healthy" foods. It must be a filler for taking out fat or sugar in those foods?
Glad you found some good socks and bra for running, good gear makes all the difference. I really need to get some new workout bras. I wear 2 bras most of the time and sometimes for longer runs I wear 3 :rofl: One with underwire, one sports bra with good support and one elastic one to hold it all in place :rofl: I hate bouncing!!!

Jo; I keep thinking about you, I SO hope it is not broken!!

Krystal; I use Xanthax Gum when I bake gluten free bread; but I am going to try it in my smoothie. Yum!

I just walked for 5 miles. -- My joints get sore when I get gluten... I thought a walk would do me good; remove all yucky gluten toxins out. I do feel better :) I think I am holding onto water from my omelet incident.

I ate around noon and well...so I think it was about 18 hours for me. I was hungry at that point :D I will have a normal snack and dinner and finish eating by 6 pm. -- Then do another 18-19 hour fast. -- I need to figure out my 24 hour fast days; I ate junk for dinner last night.... I think I need to start off with salad and maybe veggies with ranch dressing. Or I will simply only fast 22 hours at first and keep increasing the duration. -- What i am noticing though; I don't have any cravings today. my eating is more controlled; hmmm.

I just did it and my results; You Are An Adrenal Body Type...funny because my chiropractor said I may have adrenal fatigue; he wanted me to take adrenal support supplements. Interesting!! Thanks!

I just had a huge "moment". I think I am finally accepting this weigh loss as a journey, not a sprint :D Ya...I am blonde and pig headed and things take time :lol:

Last month, during my ovulation and PMS and actual TOM I was hovering around 152/152/154; it was devastating because I had seen below 150's....month before that I was hovering 153/154/155...again the same devastation because I had seen 150/151...

THIS month I am hovering 148/149/150 and I am finally okay with that number being higher than the 146.5 I saw.... I guess I have been on this path now long enough to see the pattern. -- I am getting smaller, not fast, but at a steady pace.

My prior weigh loss journeys failed because I felt my progress was not fast enough.

I am so grateful I have you girls! :hug: I think I have told you that a few times :D BUT I am sticking to my plan.

Kristiina: Jo & I didn't name this thread "Slow Dancing" for nothing!!! :lol:
:grouphug:

Hi I am back. So I waited in the doctors office for an hour and a half surrounded by sick people I really didn't want to be near and I still don't know if I broke my tailbone or not :lol:
I told you my dr. was a minimalist! What she told me made sense though, in that whether it is broken or not, the treatment is the same. She palpated all my vertebra, sacrum and coccyx and the only place I am sore is the coccyx, so that is good. She said because I had injured it as a teenager, it may take longer to heal, every time you hurt the same spot it takes longer the next injury. She said typically, it will take 3-4 weeks and I am at 2 right now. She told me I can do anything I want, just use pain as my guide. I can go out walking, I can lift weights with the exception of the seated ones because I can't sit straight and I can jog when it feels okay to do so. I tried jogging in place and that still puts a lot of pressure there, so I won't do that for another week or so. She was going to write me a script for an anti-inflammatory, but I opted to just keep taking the ibuprofen as needed. Her thinking is a lot of the pain is surrounding tissue and inflammation, so taking that twice a day may help a lot. I'm not much of a pill taker, so I will see on that. I may just take it with dinner for another week or so.
So all in all, glad I went in, but probably didn't really need to.
Oh, I almost forgot the best part, got weighed and was 176! On a doctors scale! With my clothes on! Holy sheet. I may actually show a loss for this week for once :yay:. Of course, it is only Tuesday, lots of time to mess up or hold some water or something :lol:
So tomorrow I am going on a nice leisurely walk with my audio book in the 70 degree sunshine :yay:
Thursday my friend is cleared to start walking again :yay: I think I told you guys she had a bulging disc. She doesn't even know I was hurt.
Not sure about getting back to lifting, I have to mull that over a little bit. May wait til next week to see how the walking makes me feel first.

I am so happy for you. I feel like we are all in therapy together and you just had a major breakthrough. I am so proud :hug: What a journey we are all on together.

Ugh, I'm adrenal too. I blame the kids! Making me stress and worry all the time!

im finally home for the night and its 9 p.m....phew!...i did run 1 1/2 miles today at 5.0 mph and then did incline walking at the highest incline and a high speed for about 10ish minutes...just wrapping up what was left of the 45 minutes that i spend on the treadmill...worked all afternoon, teenager's concert all evening...now im eating and settling the kids down for the night...im tired BUT i managed to stay within my calories, which has been really hard because i get hungry when i workout..ugh...

Alaskan: What type of concert was it?

JO: No xray? Would have taken all of 4 minutes--if that. Well, I do hope you feel better soon! & :yay: on the 176--CLOTHED!! That's awesome.

Hey, guess what...I'm on the downward trend too this week!! :carrot: BUT, I still have a TON of time to screw it up!! :lol: Plus I have to work tomorrow night.

I got in a FABULAIRE run yesterday. The weather was so perfect--No rain, minimal wind, :sunny: but not too much.. I did 6 miles of hill intervals--they kicked my ar$e! I try to maintain a 12 min mile, but I usually end up running b/t 11-11.50 min. However, uphill--it's more like 13. So it evens out to average 12 min. I am totally ok with this. So many of my running friends do between 8.5-10min miles. I have to keep reminding myself that time is unrealistic for a me with lower back injury. I DO NOT want to be lying in bed for another 2.5 yrs b/c I overdid it!!!

Morning! Supposed to be a glorious day here, weather wise!

Great job on those runs girls, Alaskan and K9. I think you are both getting faster than me now :nono:

I have a whimpy little stride for a tall girl :lol: I am working on that, but I think that is part of my speed problem both walking and running. I had an aha moment about a year ago when someone said people that get sore hips running have a weak core. I know I have a weak core and I get sore hips and I think that is why I keep my strides smaller. Always a work in progress!

K9, I totally agree with you, go a little slower to save your back! So not worth an injury. You will find you are faster than at least half of the participants anyways. You will do great. I am excited for you:carrot: I have never run in a race. My parents were avid runners when I was growing up and ran races just about every weekend, and they were off running daily. They were running addicts. Gosh, they still run, although not every day now, but at 67 and still going strong! I think watching them do all that when I was young is part of the reason I am not interested in races myself. Well that, and I am really slow and so not an endurance athlete :lol:

I will be fasting today and leave about a 5-6 hour eating window, depends on where my day takes me, I have a lot I want to accomplish and I want to get out in the sunshine for at least a walk to see how that feels. Who knows if I will be hungrier today due to increasing my activity level from the last two weeks. I hope my body is totally shocked by me moving it more and drops some major weight, one can dream :lol:

:sunny:Morning ladies!:sunny:

We are going to have gorgeous day. 73F :woohoo:

I did REALLY well yesterday with my 5 hour eating window. I like how it makes me feel and it is curbing my temptations. Weight down to 149. :D I am feeling happy and content and for the first time kind of exited over my new life style.

My gluten incident is almost over. Thank goodness! Knees are still a bit sore and tummy feels "raw" but I think I have the poison out of my body.

I will do another 19/5 plan today. I think I was done with my last bit of food around 5 pm, so I will have lunch around noon, right after my walk. I am making a smoothie; and adding some Xanthan as Krystal suggested.

Jo I take really long steps.... somehow I swing my hips and get my speed up.... My hubby is nearly 6'3" and my stride is as long as his; hence my Speedy Gonzales skills :D I think I was a pretty fast runner as well...I think it used to take me 55 minutes to run 6 miles with a short break at 3 mile mark. BUT at the end my ball joint in my hip got inflamed and I had to stop, so better be safe than sorry Krystal!

I hope your walk will go wellJo. You must feel better that Dr. gave you an okay to resume activities. -- I had broken my tailbone when I was 16 years old... my dance partner dropped me. I remember being it very sore, but I only found out 15 years later that it had broken. -- Good luck today, and take it easy if needed. :hug: You don't have to be Speedy Gonzales :crazy: :lol:

Nice job keeping up with your runs Alaskan!

Jo, are we planning on doing another 24 (or 22) hour fast tomorrow? I think I will aim for 1600 calories for today.

Yes, I think we should shoot for a little longer one tomorrow if we can. Don't know about you, but with the nice weather and the kids activities, I can feel our dinner time getting later and later so it may get more difficult for me to do a whole 24. I guess I will see when we are all ready to eat today. Yesterday I just ate ahead of everyone because it was ready and I was hungry :lol:

I think I am feeling the best with a 5-6 hour window, what about you?

I have been keeping my cals right around 1200 each day because I still plan on Spiking on the weekend. I may adjust a little as my activity level increases.

I have been focusing so much on getting in protein and veggies when I break my fasts that I realize I have been pretty low carb the last couple days. That may explain my weight drop :( I think I will stick with lower carb throughout the week though and do a sort of carb load when I spike.

I think I have changed everything I was doing: I have rested for 2 weeks (was working out like a maniac), I have experimented with fasting (used to eat pretty much the same schedule every day), and I have been eating lower carb (used to eat moderate carb). So if I don't show any loss sometime soon, something is drastically wrong with me. How much more can you shake things up???