New month, new thread. Open to all interested in fasting to meet your goals.
Watch out for those holiday goodies, they will be everywhere.
DEC 2025 IF/EX Fasting
Shinita
#2
I still don’t know how to write about fasting without writing about food but it’s relevant I guess. As I still can’t do EF, that is different except the very important Last Meal.
I ate off enough in summer and even in the autumn*, I don’t think this December will be as bad as usual (and I always have lots of stricter December days out of hedonism and self preservation).
*Pretty much all the fruit seasons ended, yay!
Well. Still no clean OMAD but I am working on it! I managed to buy way too much carni food last time I was in a supermarket (it’s a wonderful amount, not even very much but my freezer is tiny) so there is some must-be-eaten-soon stuff at the moment. After it runs out (to the extent that I can leave it to my SO), I will eat simpler and resume tracking. I suspect I need it for OMAD. I just can’t eat an OMAD sized meal without tracking. It’s super easy to eat my tiny energy need (or significantly more) at once but I am used to eating to satiety under normal circumstances and satiation arrives way too early now without planning or eating fattier. So my better and better lean eating tendencies (lean in my world) combined with my very easy situation can’t result in good OMAD days. So I will plan well 
After I figure out what I need for satiation nowadays.
I really want some proper (probably still intermittent) fasting already. It’s nice when happens and it has lots of benefits.
I had a tiny lunch today (it is new that I can do that. never had this easy satiation since I have just tried out carnivore and ended up with a few crazy low-cal days. surreal). I had 2 dinners yesterday and extra bites. But I am hopeful I will get better really soon.
Coffee is stubborn but I will do what I can…
Yeah I started to make the stuff I like too much in its very inferior sugary version (and it’s not fatty!!! I barely ever liked non-fatty candies). Apparently it’s only a thing here so it has no English name, whatever. It’s a candy in cute wrapping that goes on (and below) the Christmas tree in big amounts. I really like the citrus jelly version and it’s easy to make except the shape will be off but who cares. And I don’t put it into wrapper. Super easy treat and I will have a ton so I hopefully will avoid all temptation. Mine is better regarding everything, perfect sweetness for me. (Commercial stuff, okay homemade too, tends to be way too sweet for me and that reduces the joy significantly, often rendering the thing inedible though that’s rare, I can always eat just a tiny bit along with a lot of black coffee… But that takes some exceptional stuff if I am in the right state of mind.)
I will make my own desserts, mostly as usual. But now that satiation comes easy (and I still have my creamy coffees), I am quite fine without even a dessertless meal. Wow.
scaperdude
(B Creighton)
#3
I am starting December quite encouraged from my November results. Even though I gained a few pounds the last week over Thanksgiving, I believe that mostly to have been glycogen and water weight back in the muscles as my musculature jumped about 4 lbs. My BF and subQ both fell about a percent over Thanksgiving as compared to mid Nov. I am starting at 180.7 lbs today. BF to 24.1% and subQ to 20.9. I didn’t measure subQ on the Renpho during the same time period tho. My Hume says lean mass is up almost 4 lbs but my percentage suffered from my last weigh in. Anyway, whatever I am doing seems to be working this year to lose fat while gaining muscle, so have to get past Christmas now… LOL. That will actually be easier this year than Thanksgiving was…
Shinita
#4
Great! 
I love Easter. All traditional and tempting main food is carnivore, I can make my usual desserts and there is no bigger family meal (that’s only for Christmas)! Just us 2. Though even Christmas dinner would be quite low-carb without the desserts… We will see what I will do but as it’s a single meal, I won’t bother more than bringing my own desserts and focusing on my very important protein anyway (if I just eat my protein, it’s virtually inevitably an OMAD sized meal). Christmas (24th I mean, only that is Christmas to me as everything interesting, celebratory meal and gift giving happens on that day) is OMAD, I do that since ages as only that makes sense to me (we have a family Christmas dinner, after all and I used to visit other relatives in the afternoon. like my SO’s dad’s second wife’s family. we don’t have many relatives and we had a good relationship with them. well good enough for a Christmas visit). And I used to go carnivore on the 25th… It’s a good time for it. Once I did some super strict, unnecessarily ascetic version with no dairy… I think I lasted 2 days, very impressive from me, I don’t think I will try again.
I so don’t have the mood for Christmas baking (one of my gifts is edible)… Rock painting sounds nicer, I will start that soon. It will be a horse year. It will be my 3rd Chinese Zodiac rock, it will be fun to make all the animals. I try to make this one fiery, it will be Year of the Fire Horse, after all and red is an important celebratory color in China anyway.
Weather is gloomy, sometimes foggy and cold, no wonder my mood and energy isn’t so great. I really miss sunshine. I still need to go outside but the weather isn’t very encouraging.
I should try to go on a slightly longer fast somewhere in December even if it sounds a bit difficult considering my track record… Maybe I will try AGAIN to wait until I get hungry. It’s very very hard to do, I almost always eat before it happens. Need to focus on something else than food.