Dear IF diary, welcome to day 49!
This week has been a strange one. I went shopping and bought loads of chocolate puddings!
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This is weird because I haven’t been eating chocolate at all since starting IF and I am a chocoholic…but the binge craving took over.
When I ate the puddings, I felt awful physically and mentally. My stomach felt bloated, I felt sick and I was angry with myself for eating the puddings.
* I must add that I did still stick to my times and didn’t eat outside of my food window.
I fully expected to have gained weight this week as a result of this chocolate binge.
I am pleased to announce my last 7 days results are all positive!
- Waist – loss of 2cm
- Upper Arms – Loss 1cm
- Body Fat Percentage – Loss 0.9%
- Weight 10 st 5lbs – Loss 1 lb! (Finally a scale loss after 3 weeks!)
Quite the success I would say!
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I want to link a Documentary here made by Dr Michael Mosley. This guy is awesome, he has literally reversed his health issues by following an IF protocol and invented the 5:2 IF diet.
(Source https:// vimeo.com/170735109)
If you are interested in learning more about the effects of IF on the body and I don’t just mean weight loss, I would definitely give this a watch.
My husband has been impressed with the results so far and has decided to try and give IF 16:8 a try.
I will be interested to see how he does, especially being a man and 6ft 2 inches tall, whereas I am only 4ft 11 inches small! I wonder if he will see faster results.
FOODS:
Foods I have been avoiding are:
- bread
- pasta
- potatoes
- pastries
- white rice
I have been avoiding these simply because I know they cause me to bloat up and I get stomach pains after eating them.
I have also noticed this week that nectarines and plums cause me stomach pain and I am unsure as to why this is.
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Perhaps it has always been the case but I have never noticed it before, or perhaps it is because I have had minimal sugar in my diet for 49 days and the sugars from the fruit caused the issue.
Who knows! All I know is that I won’t be eating those now either, which is a shame as I love them.
So what DO I eat?
My diet has recently been lots of:
- brown rice
- quinoa
- all kinds of fish
- eggs
- salads
- avocados (lots of!)
- fruits
- veggies
- coffee
- cream
- blue cheese
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I haven’t been eating red or white meat as I haven’t felt the urge to. I have probably had chicken on 2 or 3 occasions since the beginning of the IF protocol.
Having said all this, I haven’t really been focusing on what I should eat, rather what I shouldn’t eat because it makes my body feel bad. The foods on my 'Eat' list are only there because they have a positive impact on my body, not a negative one.
I am sure everyone's list would be different.
Exercise:
The Star jumps experiment is going well. I have increased the amount from 20 to 40 every hour during the daytime.
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I know it doesn’t sound like much, but 40 star jumps every hour between the hours of 10 am and 6pm is 360 per day = 10,800 per month! That surely has to make an impact right?
I set silent alarms on my fitbit to remind me every hour, so I don't forget.
Thank you so much for your support on my journey, I hope you are finding this an interesting read and perhaps you have even looked into it yourself as a result!
Look after yourselves!
