Sunday, July 22, 2012

the morning after: me eating "well"

Yesterday seems to have fixed the "misbehavior" of the day before.  I had 1400-1450 calories instead of 1100, and i almost slept the clock around:  all caught up!  The scale is down again.  Oh, i did have a bit more carbohydrate, as my supper was a glass of home-made raw-milk kefir.  I also had two glasses of champagne* with my steak and butter for dinner.

I'm almost coming to the conclusion that the alternate-day fasters have a good idea.  Not that i would go the length of eating ANYTHING i wanted on the feast day, but just loosening the reins a little seems reasonable and effective.  Remember when i said that "shaking things up" seems to help break a plateau?  It kinda looks like the ADF'ing might be doing this in an ongoing fashion -- you never HAVE a plateau because you're constantly breaking up the tendency.

Hmmmmmm....
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* i know, i know -- you shouldn't call it champagne unless it's FROM Champagne, and this is from Limoux....  :-P

4 comments:

  1. Interesting, tess. I noticed I do rather well weight-wise if I fast one day a week, usually following a carb blowout day. It helps long-term compliance IMO to have a cheat day, though different people have different personalities so for some people it's better to stay away from carbs entirely whereas others can eat some carbs without it becoming a slippery slope toward croissants and icecream for breakfast and pasta rice and bread for lunch and dinner. ;)

    I would just caution regarding ADF. Many women don't do too well at all on IF regimes no doubt for nebulous endocrine reasons. Seems a lot of females end up with functional hypothyroidism / adrenal fatigue.

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  2. yes, i don't think i'd do it all-out -- just similar to the way i did accidentally the last couple of days. for one thing, i do get hungry on nothing but creamed coffee, by nightfall.

    i'm lucky that i'm able to have a little of a treat without it "setting me off" for a binge....

    [eyes rolling] i DO like to see where there are differences in the way men and women vary in studies, and it often takes a Hyperlipid to go to those details! we learned (or SHOULD have) long ago that WE don't always react the way THEY do!

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  3. Interesting...I have noticed, on occasion, that if I've been eating well (i.e. low carb, moderate calorie) for some time and then have a day where I eat A LOT and a way over my carb goal, I'll often get on the scale expecting to be up a lb or 2, and acutally have dropped. Anectdotal of course, but interesting. During the work week I try to go 16hrs between last meal of the day & my next meal at least several days/week. Haven't noticed any real benefit in terms of weight loss though.

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  4. yes, me too. if i weren't INCLINED by nature to skip breakfast, i don't think it would benefit me, but who knows....

    :-) i love it when a lot of us have "anecdotal evidence" which is very similar -- makes people look like fools who insist that anecdotal evidence isn't significant!

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