4-week fasting countdown to February 2024!

[Peae]

Welcome all, this a thread for Intermittent Fasters who want a weekly check-in on Fridays. Chat between the check-ins are welcome too, share as little or as much as you like. Each Friday, log your weight, fast, whatever metrics help you.
 
Check-in 0 Friday 5 January.
Check-in 1 Friday 12 January.
Check-in 2 Friday 19 January.
Check-in 3 Friday 26 January.
Check-in 4 Friday 2 February.

[Peae]

(Previous thread, https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/fasting_diet/4955492-4-week-fasting-countdown-to-the-new-year?page=1).

[Booksbookbooks]

Ohh can I join?

[HarpQuartet]

Thanks for the new thread, @Peae , welcome @Booksbookbooks (love your user name) and jealous of your glossy coat, @StealthOps

Feeling like I can get to 78.5kg by 02 February 💪

[Clearingaspace]

Thanks @Peae welcome @Booksbookbooks

Good luck with goals @HarpQuartet and @StealthOps . My Jan goals (also adapting some of stealth’s ideas!):

*continue increasing length of longer fasts

• at least a 12 hour fast every day
  
• log veg in some way and try to eat well between fasts (along the lines of meal for someone you love mentioned by a poster in the previous thread)
  
• sleep - in bed before 12 every day
  
• weight - i hope to have lost 2 stone in total and approx 6lbs for the month. Will record weight in stones this month!

[loveyouradvice]

Well.....

Declaration now - that was NOT a successful Christmas on eating front... I've had them in the past and loved how my body felt, full of energy and clean

This time too many emotions flying around, including discord with my husband on top of grief, and I overate...too much "kryptonite" with lots of people and food everywhere and late night eating... think one day I managed 15 chocolates.. Hmm.

So weight now - 12.8 from 11.13/12 pre Xmas... it will come off and I'm not allowing myself to feel too annoyed that I've soared. Just gently curious to see how fast it comes down... I think around 3-4lbs of it is "real weight" given how much I put away, and am hoping the other 4lbs are water etc...

I love the image of us as greased up greyhounds - going to hold that in my head as I enjoy a NYE spread today and then back to OMAD and increased fasting from tomorrow

Looking forward to being on the January journey with you all!!

[loveyouradvice]

In the next few days, I will make January commitments and look forward to hearing all of yours - Congrats @Clearingaspace on clarity and a great start

[Peae]

Welcome @Booksbookbooks .

I am feeling terrible after the gym yesterday, carb-flu and my legs are barely working. I thought I'd taken it very gently! Today I am eating unhealthily and enjoying some food I don't want to eat in a while. Starting the next phase of Zoe properly tomorrow.

[Peae]

Taking my lead from @Clearingaspace, my goals for our countdown to February are:

• at least 14-hour fasts every day.
  
• at least a Zoe score of 50 per day (this means basically low UPF and high in plant-based foods).
  
• at least 10k steps a day on my sedentary drive-to-work days days.
  
• get to the gym and lift x6 and swim x3.

[ApolloandDaphne]

I think this is the thread I need but I am on hooray at the moment and can't start properly (at all if I am being realistic!) until the 6th. Can someone tell me what Zoe is?

[ApolloandDaphne]

I'm on holiday although hooray is a great description!

[Peae]

I'm doing Zoe Nutrition (www.zoe.com) and really shouldn't be spamming the thread about it because our theme here is Intermittent Fasting :)

[Catherhino]

Ah ha, found the new thread, thank you!
So I weighed in this morning to give me a baseline: 195.2lbs, so I've put on about 3lbs over the festive period.
I'm going to take it easy for the next few days whilst I'm still off work - go for a minimum 14 hour fast which still gives me a lot of flexibility but still keeping a little bit of control. Then back to 17:7 next week with a view to doing 20:4 once or twice a week. Let's see how that works out for me! 🤞🏻🤣
I'm also doing dry January (I'm on that thread too) - I don't usually drink a lot anyway but it's just that extra little bit of control. Good luck everyone and happy new year!

[Booksbookbooks]

Good Morning all and a happy new year to you all. Thank you for your welcome. So I weighed in today 11st 5. I am only 5ft 2! My first goal is under 11 stone. My birthday this week so I am going to start fasting next week. Meanwhile I have started healthy habits:

Get outside into the daylight for about 20 mins. I take my cup of tea into the garden. Trying this in order to sleep better! Been doing this for a few days now.

Exercise! Today I did a step workout..only managed the beginners section of my dvd aiming to be able to complete all sections by June ( with an additional riser)

Stop eating crap..lucky most of the Christmas rubbish is gone!

[Peae]

@StealthOps yes, I am aiming for twice a week with room for manoeuvre, hence the 6 😁.

I lifted seriously in my thirties and was a lovely, toned size 8. Two free resources that got me started were Stacey’s story at Nerd Fitness and the routine “Stronglifts 5x5”. (I’ve not checked either of those but hope they’re still relevant).

I too read so often how weightlifting is important to women, especially midlife and beyond.

[loveyouradvice]

Yes, that's one of my New Year resolutions - to add in weights to my exercise regime, ideally by Feb. I have to take it cautiously as I have ME but SO agree - everywhere I turn there seem to be articles about the importance of strength training for women as they age.

LaSilkySightHound is now how I will think of you @StealthOps ... with imagination we can all fly. I dance around the kitchen in all sorts of ways and realise how wise we were at 5 or 6 years old, when many of us thought of ourselves as graceful ballerinas, dancing everywhere despite our pudgy frames (in my case!)... reality did NOT get in the way.

I'll be restarting a delightful class locally that uses all the ballet and ballroom moves to get fit - heaven! And takes me right back to being 6.

[loveyouradvice]

@Peae that is a bit darn impressive!!!!!

I too am a Zoe fan having done it last autumn ... very chuffed to get pretty good scores, and to have it confirmed that my blood sugar is all over the place so I need to manage that carefully.

And I find it fun "growing my gut biome". I see it a bit like gardening, planting beautiful things in it (in my case more pulses and kombucha etc) and waiting for them to grow, while restraining the weeds (too much sugar, meat, etc). Made me laugh that "peas" were one of my top foods having avoided them with a diet-mindset for so many years.

[loveyouradvice]

And now to January.

First week I'm re-adapting to healthy sociable eating as my DD still down from uni, so 4-5h windows each day and TMAD, although if there is the opportunity for OMAD I will take it.

Second week I am going to aim for 4-5 OMADs with a 1-3 hour window and see where that gets me. My body often responds well to a short intense phase before returning to a more liberal regime.

My pre-Christmas plan had been to lose 9lbs in Jan/Feb to take me to my goal weight (11.2-4) for my birthday in early March.

Hmm... having put on 7lbs over Christmas, I'll need to adapt. First step: to lose those 7lbs.

[loveyouradvice]

Welcome @Booksbookbooks hope you have a fab birthday and @ApolloandDaphne - Looking forward to you both starting next week and letting new ideas and habits start to form before then

I'm new to having joined a month ago. This is such a fab group of women!

[putthehamsterbackinitscage]

Just checking back in after a bit of a disastrous December...

Restructuring at work is due to be finalised soon I hope... 🤞 I will still have a job.

Starting today, 11st 4lb ... target of 32 lbs to go...

Plans for January... Dry January as a good start - drank far too much during December

And, get back to IF, cut the chocolate and carbs and try to generally eat only when hungry.

Looks like a growing group on here - looking forward to reading everyone's stories and updates...

[pottypotamus]

Hello everyone!! Thanks for the new thread!!
Happy 2024!!!
I was away from day after Boxing Day so wasn't able to join in the last Friday check-in.

However seems like I've put on 1.7kg over Xmas period

Not too concerned as I'm back to work and back to IF. Hoping to lose what I've put on in 2 weeks. And then is the long slog to get past the overweight threshold.