NorthernChick: I will play with my calories this week! Thanks.

Rubidoux: congrats!! It's time for a new thread for you! I'm really hoping I get a whoosh like you do after a plateau, and I'll be right behind you!!

I'm gonna stick around until the deal is sealed. And then maybe we can just change the name of the thread.

171.6 today! I cannot wait to get out of the 170's!

You guys are doing so great!!!

Rubidoux-wow you saw the 160s!!! go you!!

I didn't check my weight today bc I was scared! Went bar hopping for a friends bday last night and was very good with alcohol but bad with food Hoping I don't have to pay for it tomorrow!

I ate food that I do not normally touch yesterday (mac 'n cheese, meatloaf and the like) and somehow I was at 171.6 this morning. I'm really hoping I do not go back to the 172._ I've been stuck on!

You all are awesome!! My sister is here so I'm trying not to be a debbie downer with the strict diet. I went a little over my WW points but never use my extra weekly points so I'm feeling like it wasn't total sabotage. We're walking 2+ miles to a museum downtown so we'll get a few calories burned there.

You all are such an inspiration...keep going!!

Congrats everyone! You're all doing so great!

I've been on a plateau for the past month and it's been really difficult. I'm not giving up but it's hard to stay motivated when the scale doesn't move much. I was 173.6 this morning, so I lost 0.6 but I hope I can lose a solid 2lbs sometime soon or I'm going to go nuts.

172 today!!!!

I hope it's not a fluke!!! I'm going to drink my weight in water today (I don't know why but I'm insanely thirsty!)

It's getting so hot in so cal working out just feels like torture! I hope these last 2 lbs come off!!

yAY Angelic and Jennifer!! any little bit counts!

Suds-I totally know what you mean, when I have visitors I feel like I'm bound to eat a bit more, but good for you to get that exercise in!

We can do it guys!!!

Don't know how I missed this before, but OMG how did you do that?! That's insane! I've been wanting to do something like that (kinda like a cleanse?) with lemon+water for the entire day no foood but I can't get past 10am!!

That sounds really yummy! I'm happy you ate it and I'm happy it worked for you!

I had a slow build up to it. AND most importantly, I don't think I could do it if I was eating a diet with carbs in it bc carbs make me so hungry. But, if the idea of super low carb doesn't make you want to run screaming, I highly recommend it. I started with fasting from dinner until around 2 pm the next day, then 24 hour fasts, so eating one big meal a day, and then worked in a few longer ones, never more than 48 hours, though. I have probably gone significantly over 24 hours only about 6 or 8 times. The really shocking thing about it, though, is that it doesn't hurt, AT ALL. Like, when it's time to break the fast, I'm always really unsure of what I should do bc I'm not hungry. When I broke it yesterday with my coffee with heavy whipping cream, I got to starbucks, as was my plan from earlier in the day, and was like, hmmmm...., not sure if I even want it. And then felt the same at dinner and only ate about half of what I had planned to eat, for a total of about 800 calories for the day. Now it's 5 pm the next day and all I've had today is my coffee w a little splash of HWC, probably about 100 cals.

The whole thing is so bizarre bc I was a major overeater before I started this and one of the things I like most about it is that it's just nice to feel so in control of what I'm eating. I would NEVER have thought I could successfully go for a couple of days without eating.

I am a little surprised that my weightloss is sticking, though. I really thought I'd see a big bounce up this morning, but I was, in fact, another half pound down. I am still bracing myself for tomorrow's weigh in. But I cannot believe that I've seen 166.6!!! I haven't been here since my nine year old was a baby, and I think I only got to 165 or so and then started my trip back up. I am feeling kinda skinny.

ETA: Part of the deal w the lowcarb part, and why I think it's important and makes the whole process easier, is that ketosis can really quash your appetite. I'm doing something called nutritional ketosis, which is a deeper ketosis than atkins, and I swear I never feel the kind of hunger that I did when I ate carbs. If I am hungry I can look at the situation almost as an outsider would, and logically make a decision -- do I need to be fed? what would be good for me to eat now? etc... can all be answered like I'm trying to feel my child a healthy meal without some tug of "I want, I want, I want" screaming at me. When I first made the jump to not eating until 2pm-ish, it was only bc I just was not hungry.

Wow rubidoux! You've given me a lot of info to think about there! I am actually on a low card diet right now! I'm doing the Dukan diet(which is low carb) my only carbs come from oat bran and flaxseed which I have in the morning.

So what about when you workout? Do you ever feel really sleepy or tired without eating? I imagine I would feel that way but granted I have never tried! So you actually would consume wayy less then right for your daily intake?

I actually don't calorie count at all on my diet but if I eat a little later than usual it really bugs me! even if it isn't carbs, just protein+veggies. I really want to try it though! esp since my weight has been MUCH slower in the 170s it just feels like a drag!

Also, last question is this something you would do long term or just right now to lose the weight??

Thanks rubidoux!! sorry I know I'm bombarding you with questions!!

No problem! People don't ask me about IF'ing enough! lol

I actually feel much more energetic during the day when I eat this way. I think IF'ing is part of it but being in ketosis is huge. Do you know if you're in ketosis? Or how many grams of carbs/protein/fat you're eating in a day? Generally speaking, the lower your carbs (probably want to be under 20) and higher your fat is, the more likely you are to be in ketosis. A lot of people can eat however much protein they like and be ketotic, but some people need to limit their protein. Also, it takes most people around six weeks to get into a real deep ketosis. If you do something like atkins, and probably dukan, you should go into ketosis in the first week or so, but then later you get another notch deeper. When that happens to me I get this huge surge of energy. So much so that it has been embarrassing at times. I talk to much. It's a great state for exercising, too!

One thing that might work for you is to have an all fat or fat/protein breakfast. A lot of people do bullet proof coffee, which I don't find terribly appealing (coffee, butter, coconut oil). I like just coffee w HWC. But you could do a couple of pieces of cheese or several slices of bacon. (On another forum I read a post by a woman who said that bacon was her magic meat and that she had lost 70 pounds eating all the bacon she wanted. So, I went with it! Lost a ton of weight, but bacon is not even a little appealing to me anymore. lol) The thing about fat is that it will really satisfy you and you go hours without needing to eat again if you have a sufficient amount. When I used to have a 2 pm meal, it was between 4 and 6 slices of bacon, however much I felt like that day, but somehow after you've had 6 slices of bacon, you just don't need more.

Anyway if you start with this fat meal in the morning, and I'd maybe push it later than your norm by as much as you can stand, maybe an hour, then you may not want to eat again until pretty late in the day. And if you really start seeing what fat is doing for you, you may want to add in more elsewhere and everything will be all different and change around and you will forget when you were supposed to have b'fast lunch and dinner. lol The appetite suppression is really intense. Like, there was a period for me of several weeks when just the thought of eating made me feel kinda nauseous. It sounds kind of awful, I know, but it's actually very liberating. And if you understand that you're feeling nauseous bc your body is burning a ton of fat, somehow that seems just fine.

And, btw, I actually don't eat all that much fat these days. It's a large portion of my daily calories, but bc I tend to eat around 1100 cals or less, it's not actually all that much fat. Most days I'll eat about 3 T HWC, 1 whole avocado, 2 salmon patties, and 1 ounce of cheese or 1 ounce of almonds. Lately I've been adding a little wedge of dark chocolate to that, too. But when you're getting started, I think its good to eat a lot of fat bc it really pushes you further into ketosis.

I actually think I'd like to be doing a lot of this long term. I may add in some veggies, salads here and there, if I can get away with it. And maybe a longer fast here and there will balance that out and keep my weight stable. I'm not sure how it'll work, but I am very committed to once a day eating and I can definitely imagine incorporating longer fasts into it even after I'm done losing. It's supposed to be really great for your health and longevity and it's definitely great for my blood sugar.

ETA: It's been a long time since I read about this stuff online, so I'm not sure where to send you, but if you google "bullet proof coffee" and "intermittent fasting nutritional ketosis" I think you'll find a lot of good stuff.

I'm thinking that i should change my official weigh-in day from Mondays to Tuesdays. For the second week in a row, I weigh a whole pound less on Tuesday than I did on Monday. I was 172.6 this morning, and that was after breakfast!

Thanks for shedding light on the IFing, Rubidoux! And Angelic Fruitcake, that;s awesome! Tuesdays it is!!

TOM for me now, so 174.5 this morning....but i am not listening! lalalala!!!!

I am still at 171.6 today. So glad it did not go back up to 172._! Maybe it will go down more tomorrow if I have a good evening.