Fri, Sep-15-06, 08:50
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Finding Balance
Posts: 6,093
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Plan: Atkins/PP Maint, IF24/24
Stats: 162/123/120
BF:~50%/23.9%/20%
Progress: 93%
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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Ok, I am ready to start IF. I won't eat after 7pm tonight through 7pm Saturday. I took a steak out of the freezer for dinner on Saturday, I'll be looking forward to that. I also want to make some cranberry power muffins (from the LC Cookworx cookbook), but I don't think I could handle making them and smelling them while I was fasting. So I either need to make them tonight, before I get too hungry, or wait until Saturday night. I am trying to think of things to keep myself distracted during the day on Saturday.
One of the things I am looking forward to is not having to carry my lunch into work several days a week.
I have also decided that I will take all my supplements at one time, in the evening when I eat (either before 7pm, or after 7pm, depending on whether it is a fasting or eating day). Particularly the cod liver oil and vitamin E, with the fats, I think it would interrupt the fast if I took them in the morning when I shouldn't be eating anything.
Setting 7pm as my start time should work for me. It will give me enough time to get home and either grab a last quick bite before starting a fast at 7pm, or to start preparing dinner at the end of a fast period, so that I can eat as close to 7pm as possible. I think it makes sense in my mind, to start out with eating protein, so it will take some preparation time (unless I have something pre-cooked, which I frequently do). It is possible that I won't be as desperate to eat, as I am imagining. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Great job Nancy. I'm glad that it didn't seem hard for you. Good luck to the rest of us today and tomorrow, as we start.
I asked the forum moderators if it was okay to post the link to this thread to Dr. Eades blog, and they have no problem with it. So, I will go ahead and post a note to Dr Eades blog about this thread, so he can follow our progress if he is so inclined.
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