First time really trying a whitefish Makhani, went with grouper for the more resilient texture....was not disappointed. I usually am overly critical of my experiments, but I can honestly, truly say, 10/10, will make many more times!
- Roasted Tajin-crusted potatoes
- cold tomatillo soup with crema
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Fish taco bar with:
- lightly sauteed onions and peppers
- Heavily spiced tilapia
- spiced flour tortillas
- cilantro lime chili yogurt
- salsa
- Stir fry veggies in a light sherry soy and vinegar sauce
- wild rice with gochujang, seared shrimp and a lime yogurt drizzle
- hake filets
- almond flour crackers with cilantro lime cream sauce, smoked oysters and fresh cilantro.
Wasn't really feeling up to making a nice, elaborate meal so I kept it pretty simple. I did however discover that I accidentally bought double fat Greek yogurt. It's the greatest thing I've ever eaten.
If you're a fan of incorporating 5% Greek yogurt into your cooking, I strongly recommend you try the 10% if you ever have a chance.
Roasted baby potatoes
Riced cauliflower with sauteed peppers and onions with shrimp
steamed Sprouts
flounder
10% Greek yogurt with fresh parsley and smoked paprika for dipping.
Hey folks, I'm back again for my Month 7 check-in and things have officially started to slow down noticeably!
Highlights from the month:
Still getting phenomenal results at approximately 0.5lbs a day, but definitely off of my usual 0.75-0.85 lbs....guess it was inevitable.
I had more rice this month than usual, with brown or wild rice being a component of 3 out of 5 meals in the last 30 days. I noticed the scale seemed far more stubborn after those refeeds. I put it down to holding onto a lot of water via glycogen.
Stayed on top of the electrolytes this month, no catastrophic problems or extreme dizziness!
I noticed my movement has been declining, so I'm making an effort to increase activity going forward. I assume this is my body's way of putting the brakes on my slow-motion disappearing act.
my fasting length continues to climb, not because I'm trying to push it, but because I'm just getting more and more comfy with the long cycles. This month was up to nearly 137 hours.
despite the scale slowing down, my body is beginning to shrink at a noticably faster rate. Virtually nothing fits anymore and the belts are starting to fail as a solution because of extreme waistband bunching.
Thanks to all the wonderful folks here for the great conversations and advice, I hope you're all doing great in your fasting endeavors, whatever your goals may be! I hope to check in with you guys in another 30 days and be able to report I'm finally in the 200s!
Cheers!
Hey all, I'm sure all the regulars recognize me by now for the monthly check-ins, but for those who don't, I'm the guy doing rolling 72s(+) all the way down from 500lbs to hit my ideal weight of 190.
In just a few more hours, I'll officially hit the 6-month mark of my rolling fasting protocol. This month has been filled with a lot of great milestones, and I hope to match it next month with some even bigger ones!
Big wins this month:
Because I was really feeling it, my average fast this month stretched to over 135hrs.
I officially hit the halfway point of my journey this month at 155 lbs lost!
I found some shorts I probably haven't worn in 10 years and tried them on. Not only do they fit, but they were falling off my ass.
Big takeaways from the month:
This is proving to be sustainable for longer than I expected. I originally planned to be off-ramping from rolling fasts right about now, however I'm still managing really well, and I'm going to push it another couple of months probably.
Anecdotally speaking, turns out multi-vitamins do at least a little bit of something. I've been taking a multivitamin daily pretty much up till this month. I'm aware that the science on them is very spotty at best, and I just kind of quit taking it to see what would happen. Maybe it was just the magnesium and potassium supplementation in it, or maybe it was something else alongside of it... But I've had more rough days this month than probably the last 5 months combined. I'm taking the pill again.
Maybe it's just the fact that my fasts have extended on average this month, but while my mind feels very sharp, I do feel physically weaker than I have in a while.
I don't know if I got a bad batch or did something wrong when I cooked it, but Impossible ground beef is absolutely foul. It ruined an otherwise awesome refeed. Back to exclusively whole foods for me.
I went a little wild with diet soda this month, I feel more bloated. I think they're still great to have occasionally, but I'm backing down off of them for the foreseeable future.
I want to thank all the wonderful supportive people here for a great six months of support, and hopefully an even better 6 months ahead! Good luck to all of you in your fasting endeavors for whatever reason you do it, you guys rock!
Super happy to hit a nice round number, since tomorrow marks the 6-month anniversary of my start date.
Can't really see the salmon but it's on there!
Pretty pleased with the timing. Egg yolks were still runny and creamy and the salmon was a perfect midrare.
Topped with fresh dill in yogurt and lemon.
It got a little bit big so I've been nibbling for a couple of hours now, but it's a real treat.
**Mezza platter:**
- Labneh with some aromatic-infused olive oil
- Sardines with olive oil
- Roasted red peppers with avocado tossed in chili flake
- Diced tomato, pickled shallot, and capers with lemon.
- Feta-stuffed olive
- Flax flatbread toasted to make homemade crisps.
**The entree:**
- Vegetarian stuffed portobello and zucchini with a crisp panko and yeast crust. Dusted with smoked paprika.
- A chickpea salad with corn, peppers, cherry tomato, and feta.
- Topped with creamy recaito dressing and fresh parsley.
**Dessert:**
- Pistachio mousse with crushed roasted salted pistachios mixed throughout.
- Lightly macerated raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries with freshly cracked black pepper.
- A light honey drizzle over-top.
My energy has been in kind of a downward spiral for a couple of weeks now, so I decided to have a pretty fat heavy refeed to see if I can recover a little bit of my energy levels.... kind of outgrew my original scope, but it's delicious!
**Mezza platter:**
- Labneh
- Sardines with olive oil
- Roasted red peppers with avocado tossed in chili flake
- Diced tomato, pickled shallot, and capers with lemon.
- Feta-stuffed olive
- Flax flatbread toasted to make homemade crisps.
**The entree:**
- Vegetarian stuffed portobello and zucchini with a crisp panko and yeast crust. Dusted with smoked paprika.
- A chickpea salad with corn, peppers, cherry tomato, and feta.
- Topped with creamy recaito dressing and fresh parsley.
**Dessert:**
- Pistachio mousse with crushed roasted salted pistachios mixed throughout.
- Lightly macerated raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries with freshly cracked black pepper.
- A light honey drizzle over-top.
Broke another rolling fast. Energy was low so I went big.
Mezza platter:
- Labneh
- Sardines with olive oil
- Roasted red peppers with avocado tossed in chili flake
- Diced tomato, pickled shallot, and capers with lemon.
- Feta-stuffed olive
- Flax flatbread toasted to make homemade crisps.
The entree:
- Vegetarian stuffed portobello and zucchini with a crisp panko and yeast crust. Dusted with smoked paprika.
- A chickpea salad with corn, peppers, cherry tomato, and feta.
- Topped with creamy recaito dressing and fresh parsley.
Dessert:
- pistachio mousse with crushed roasted salted pistachios mixed throughout.
- Lightly macerated raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries with freshly cracked black pepper.
- a light honey drizzle over-top.
Hey folks, some of the regulars here will remember me, I'm the guy that's doing rolling +72s since January in an effort to not be absurdly obese anymore. I know I'm not scheduled for my regular monthly check-in for another 2 and 1/2 Weeks or so, but I hit a milestone and I felt like sharing!
I pushed my fast at the end of June out to about 8 days, It was a rough one, but after that and a couple more days, I finally hit my 50% overall weight loss goal!
I am now officially (STILL AFTER REFEED) 155 lbs down in 163 days, with just a bit under 155 left to go!
I wanted to thank everybody for all the kind words of encouragement and messages that I've received over the past 5 months, you guys are awesome, and you've helped more than you may ever know. There's still a slim (Ha) chance that I'll hit my final goal my New Years Eve, but honestly, even if I'm a little short, it's hard to complain about this kind of progress. I really want to let you guys know how much I appreciate all of you!
I've been hitting it pretty hard, but generally don't talk to anyone in my daily life about my weight loss, so I come to places like this to celebrate now, I guess lol.
I've got a long way to go, but it feels good to finally see a major milestone like 50%. Feeling great!
The little goofy badges you get that put your weight loss in the context of something else are so fun. Little motivational tricks like that typically don't work on me, but I find myself checking the goal progress regularly, especially how as you get closer, it starts to show the image instead of just the "?". I like to try to figure out what comes next. It's good motivation.... It got me to put down this small refrigerator I've apparently been carrying.
So unrelated to the whole pescatarian thing I'm currently about 5 months into extended rolling fasting. Since I eat so little every month, I like to try to make sure everything is an event, and I've pre-planned out my dinners for the month of July. I'm really excited about the month and I figured a bunch of pescetarians Would be able to appreciate the diversity of seafood flavors and textures!
Probably the biggest one I'm excited about is number 7. I'm kind of experimenting here but in my head it sounds absolutely phenomenal.
Assuming everything goes to play and I'll see you guys throughout the month of July with follow-up photos :D
Edit: I am always looking for new inspiration or feedback, so please feel free to share if the mood strikes you!
Hey everybody, I'm back again with the monthly report Just a couple of days late because life got in the way. I'm now just a little bit over the 5 month mark of rolling fasts (currently at hour 96 and haven't finished it, which is why the calendar is behind)
I upped my intake and did 5 days of OMAD at the end of May, and WOW did that little break really make me feel great! I felt so much better, stronger and more energized than I have all year. I think there's really something to taking a little focused recovery every now and again. So if you want to be technical, The rolling 72 hour fast streak ended last month, but we started again in June. I choose to still look at it as one big event, And the 72 hour mark was always a little bit misleading since 2/3 of my fasts over this 5 month period have been in excess of 100 hours, And my fasting length average is still well in excess of 72. Always just calling it "rolling 72s" was easier than having to explain and pull up the log every time I talked about it lol
The big takeaway for me this month was how adaptable we are as humans. I genuinely did not realize how run down I was because it was something that I had just been slowly piling on 4 months. When I reset, not only did I feel incredible but it gave me that perspective of really putting what I had been doing so far into context. Got to listen to your body folks!
But, we're back on it regardless. Still feeling great, and making up for lost time. The scale dropped like a rock in the first couple of weeks, I'm assuming just because of all the excess water and food in my gut from eating OMAD for almost a week.
I want to thank everyone again for all the kind messages and encouragement, As of today, a little bit over 30% of my fat ass has forever vanished from this Earth! I wish everyone out there the best of luck with their fasting. For whatever reason it is that you do it! You guys are awesome!