May 2018 IF/EF chat - all welcome

(Candy Lind) #301

SOP in fasting threads to help those who don’t want references to food to interfere with their fasting. Some people are pretty sensitive to eating triggers, some are not.

(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #302

:-1:t3: I’ll just refrain from posting in fasting threads from now on!

(Perpetua) #303

She looks lovely to me! Has great coloring!

(Liz ) #304

Don’t you dare stop posting!

(Allie) #305

@rustyk61 I second @LizinLowell! You can’t stop posting! :slight_smile:

I’m currently at only 14 hours and am getting cold… it’s warm outside, the view from my window is beautiful… but it’s cold in my office and I have to sit at my desk so can’t even move around :persevere:

(I came for the weight loss and stayed for my sanity... ) #306

I messed up. Had a bunch of almonds and homemade sourcream yesterday evening. Wasn’t even hungry.
Bad weather seems to get to me as well as sitting in front of the TV. Also I feel lonely that is about the worst trigger for me…
I planed going out for drinks tonight with a friend. (I stick to my club soda as always)

I don’t mind my fasts falling short for physical reasons, but it does bug me a bit when I know it could be avoided. the mental stuff really gets to me.

#307

49h in. Wavered a bit earlier but not cos of hunger, more cos I had the opportunity to have dinner out with a friend. Fortunately she’s very understanding and supportive of my choices so we walked round the shops instead! Now happily ensconced on my couch with a cup of tea. However, maybe watching Masterchef whilst EFing is not the best idea :thinking:

#308

42 hours in, although it’s not as strict a fast as sometimes as have had white coffee… I will be more careful when I break this fast tonight than the last one!
Just wondering how supportive partners/ family are with EF? My hubby hasn’t read up on any of it but isn’t too impressed with the idea of me doing EF- to be fair, I’m very close to my goal weight & he thinks I’m fine as I am so doesn’t really want me to lose any more. I’d be interested to see if I could go a day or 2 longer, I think I could, as for me the 1st day seems the worst, it’s no harder after that!

(Allie) #309

My man doesn’t even know i do IF let alone EF. The only person I talk to about it, aside from online, is a work colleague who has always been supportive.

(Trish) #310

Mine doesn’t like it when I fast.

(I came for the weight loss and stayed for my sanity... ) #311

My closest friends are absolutely supportive.

My flatmate has the best intentions, but keeps asking me if I want some when he cooks something delicious. Sometimes I’d love to kill him in those moments.
But I know he’s just absentminded. Gifting is his lovelanguage even though he’s no good at it XD

(*Rusty* Instagram: @Rustyk61) #312

Thank you my friend!

I’m sitting at 62 hours. Yesterday was a little tough. More so than normal. Had to fight dizziness and fatigue. Powered through and even went to bed late last night. I’m ready for my meal tonight.

(Doug) #313

My wife has been impressed with my weight loss, but doesn’t really like the concept of fasting - my analysis is that it instantly raises notions of food being forbidden to her. I love her dearly but she’s quite the sugar-burner; I’ve never pushed the issue at all about her own diet. The most I do is cook keto meals - bacon & eggs, meat and green vegetables, which she loves and is totally fine with.

She knew me as an absolute maniac on eating and drinking for 20+ years. I’m wary of pressing things now that I’m only 1 year into my (somewhat) reformation.

(Liz ) #314

“The first rule of fasting club is…don’t talk about fasting” lol. Yeah it freaks some people out. And I can totally understand why! I would have thought my husband was courting an eating disorder if he’d been the one fasting instead of me. Luckily he knows how much research I do and he trusts me. He still watches me closely when I’m fasting but he knows by now that if I feel lousy I’ll just eat.

(Allie) #315

At 20 hours and getting hunger pangs… I’ll ignore them.

(Kirk) #316

Yeah, I don’t tell people when I fast. Too much hysteria and old ingrained opinions.

(Liz ) #317

I skipped my Sunday fast this week but might start Thursday and see how far I get. I spent 2 days in the 150s but now I’m back up to good old 164 which is where I’ve been hanging out for months and months. I still believe something shifted in my last fast and this is just water weight. But I’d prefer to hang around 159 some more so extended fasting it is.

(Allie) #318

Yep… "OMG YOU’RE STARVING YOURSELF!!!"

Really can’t be bothered dealing with that.

(Steve) #319

Yeah, my Father actually went on a big rant about how unhealthy this is (and that my obsessive personality is making me take it to extremes). Really love it when he talks out of his ass. sigh

Mind you, I’m sure he’s getting it from his wife and just passing it along - her daughter died of complications from anorexia a couple years ago - so anything approaching excessive weight loss is a trigger for her.

It’s really disappointing when people have such an emotional response when the basis of their knowledge is ignorance.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #320

Please don’t stop posting.

Brenda Zorn’s fasting thread is the only one that requires you to blur. Not everyone is so sensitive that reading a word throws them off. If it does, I think they need to reexam their relationship to food.

Personally, I look for good recipes to fill up my time when fasting. Always nice to come up with a new meal for breaking a fast. Smelling food can make me hungry or think I am, but looking at words, not so much.