July 2024 IF/EX fasting chat

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #1

Didn’t see a thread for June or July, so here is one for July.

Hope everyone is doing well, with the summer vacations and holidays it can be a challenge.

This is my ketoverary month. 8 yrs. of this WOE for me. Wish I had found it sooner.

March 2024 IF/EX fasting chat
#2

Yeah, summer heat melting my brain (it was horrible for a while, now it’s not bad anymore, I have adapted enough, more than ever!), fruits everywhere, it messes with the dietary part of my lifestyle… And I have a baking phase again (I have made my best bread recipe ever, pretty low-carb too, for a good bread, at least but super far from carnivore) and still in love with my air fryer… But that is useful especially when I don’t fancy meat, I had such an odd period lately.
I try to go back to my usual now that a few fruit seasons ended. Only ONE potentially problematic one remains for this year! There will be so much canning too :frowning: At least it loses its charm in that state :smiley: But I will run out of place, jars and patience again… I still love my fruit garden, I am just somewhat incompatible with it…? And it can be triggering. Despite my lacking desires. It’s complicated.

IF wise the last weeks were crazy, I actually ate before even NOON(!) quite often. While I normally don’t get hungry until 2-4pm. Not like I was hungry, of course… But fancied eating, odd. It was tiny and carnivore but still. It should go. And if I am at it, I will stop having coffee in my kind of fasting window. As I don’t drink it black. I want proper, true fasting. Despite the even more severe lack of self-control I had lately, I managed to do something about coffee and now I drink way less especially in the morning when I shouldn’t drink it at all.

I pretty much gave up lunch skipping, I am elated if I last until 3pm now… I go to bed and wake up earlier now! It never had anything to do with the timing of my hunger but it may matter mentally. And in this summer state of mine, denying myself or do strict experiments… Nope.

I don’t track, it’s nice but this way I haven’t the vaguest idea about my macros. I don’t even eat “normal”, maybe I will track a bit to figure out my “off carni normal”? I don’t eat super much I think but I am nearly always very satiated… I should wait until hunger now and then :frowning: I always had problems with that. And my food is quite satiating despite the extra carbs.

Congrats! I don’t remember the year but it was several years ago for me too, I just go off all the time and keto couldn’t make a big change (except fat adaptation, that was neat), that was carnivore… I wonder when I will be able to go back.

I am curious what the others are doing!

(KM) #3

Fighting the darn garden. I wanted moderation this year, instead I have bushels of cucumbers and tomatoes, nearly all volunteers. I should be pleased but as I’m the only one who eats them I’m “reluctantly” eating 20-40 carbs worth of home grown veggies every day. Gonna make some pickles!

Haven’t done much fasting lately, as these salads get eaten at lunch, I have my protein coffee in the morning and then most of my meat protein at night. I guess I’ve got a 10 hour eating window, to me that doesn’t really qualify as IF!

#4

I have plenty of tomatoes now too :slight_smile: Tiny ones. As I don’t do carnivore right now anyway, I eat a tiny bit, my SO eats more - and I have 3 tiny jars for winter too, wow, it normally doesn’t happen! The guinea pig ate almost all lettuce and my SO finished the rest so that isn’t a problem anymore :smiley: The last few dozens were tiny so much more work per portion, whatever that is. Portion doesn’t mean anything to me, really but sometimes I use it as “the amount someone eats in one sitting at the moment”.

It’s Saturday and my SO’s early lunch triggered me so I had a small one too… Maybe tomorrow will be better. But no coffee this far!

Cloudy, not hot day! Great but we badly need rain here and forecasts said so and it’s rainy everywhere to the south but not here :frowning: Even many weeds are wilted at this point! The garden is okay as we water everything that needs it. And I couldn’t care less about the lawn, the non-grass won’t dry out anyway. The grass in the most sunlit parts (outside of my property but due to its position I need to mow it there too) is dried now.

(KM) #5

What is the guinea pig’s name?

#6

She has no name. We call her something but I can’t translate it to English, it refers to her hair, she has some super long ones on her backside.

Today was close to OMAD (with some extra bites… I tend to have that pattern), I had an early lunch (I was already hungry since hours. it’s the cute lovely fat adapted hunger so I could have waited… but didn’t want to, we made some nice food on open fire) and it was so effective I just never got hungry again. But me being me, I still had a few bites later (and creamy coffees).

My current number one goal (besides avoiding coffee) is clearing up things. I will have some proper meals and NO tiny snack-like things or cream in the preferably non-existent coffees…!
So, TMAD or OMAD, whatever my hunger demands. That’s the goal. I don’t even remember what proper hunger feels like though today’s soft one grabbed my attention regularly. I can’t just forget about it for hours, it doesn’t work that way. I just manage to ignore it as long as it’s very, very early (and the hunger is ignorable). Hunger at 3pm, I usually “give in” then. But at 10am, seriously? Nope.

#7

I started a 48 hour fast at 6pm last night. Doing reeeeally well this time. Flew right over the 18-22 hour point when I get hungry usually. Totally energetic. I think my body needed this at this time. I walked 3.5 miles this morning and swam several laps in my pool this afternoon. I feel like eating right now but only because of boredom. :rofl: no hunger. Used to spending so much of my day in the kitchen!

I think I’ll start my EFs in the early evening like I did this time from now on