Finally hit the 122's at 122.4   Think IF is helping.   Began eating between 4PM & 10:30PM this week.   Plan was for 2:30 to 10:30, but found I am not hungry at 2:30 and can easily wait.   Do have maybe 75 Cals of protein drink in my coffee and the broth with hot sauce and malt vinegar earlier.

Got super nauseous yesterday & thought sure I'd toss my cookies.   Took my 3 RX's and 5 vitamins at the same time on an empty stomach.   Awful!

 Stuck at 123.0.   Want 122.Something. Soon! 
On the recumbent bike now, will switch to NuStep and try rowing machine later.  Meant to row yesterday & never did.  Good upper body workout.   Knee still sore, backside.   I am very curious as to what's wrong, even though I am fairly certain there is nothing to be done.   Not even sure if the doc would order some kind of imaging. Cheap HMO!

My baby boy! 

 Stuck at 123.0.   Want 122.Something. Soon! 
On the recumbent bike now, will switch 

Got on the rowing machine & it was surprisingly easy on my knee.  Climbed aboard the spinner and it began to ache.   Did ok on the recumbent bike, logger 23K steps on the Fitbit.   Keep it on my ankle.   Not as good as real walking steps, but best I can do for now.

Well under 200 calories for the day.   Will try not to overdo it later! 

 They sent me more GP pics! 

 Pigged out last two days, but weight didn't budge. So that's something.   Bought a discounted chocolate cheesecake & it was wonderful!  Used to bake NY style cheeecskes, but not for years. Damn! It was so good!   Love cheesecake.  
Downloaded one GP pic for HoP and now Pinterest sends hundreds!  I originally went there for French Bulldog pics.   My boy comes from a a champion line & I found his dad, pics taken at big dog shows.

Dad looks exactly like my boy! 

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 Made it until 4PM on coffee and buillion.   maybe 75 Cals, tops.   then had light pastrami on wheat roll with sourkrout. Small thin slice of meat, so maybe 350 Cals.   tasted ok. Lots of hot mustard.   may eat the kraut by itself tomorrow.   too much salt, but hardly any Cals.

Going for IF now, was actually pretty much doing it since 8/20/20 anyway.  

Plan is to eat from 2:30 to 10:30 PM.   Not an optimum time period, but what I'm used to.   Will keep it under 1,000 cal. Tops. So actually a CR/IF combo.

Decided against making bone broth for now.   Too much work! 

 So I learned another very interesting thing from Dr. Fung's book in addition to dieting doesn't reduce muscle mass.   None of the "fasts" and he & others advocate are really fasts, as in the sense of zero calorie water fasts.   His strictest one allows up to 6 cups of coffee daily with 1 TBS of heavy cream, so there's 360 calories right there.   he's also big on bone broth and says drink all you want.   He doesn't list calories for anything in the book I have,  but judging from other recipes, the broth is ~60 Cals per 8 oz serving.   basically, he's saying certain nutrients are as good as a fast and other foods are bad.   He mentions some guy who tried a 30 day fast on kombucha tea and sea salt which averaged 200 Cals a day.   The guy was going for 30 days, but he got too hungry and quit after 3 weeks.

i am thinking of making bone broth tomorrow.  Need the ingredients and avoid shopping on Sundays, too crowded.   They crockpot the broth for 48 hours.   Some ppl roast them first,   Sounds like a good way to eliminate fat.

Look, Annie.  

I am giving the knee a rest after a few easy hours on the bike.   Really liked  a physician on the fasting documentary & bought one of his books.   Many eye-openers. Says fasting & calorie restriction does not result in muscle loss and he has the science to prove it.   Lots new to me about insulin and human growth hormone.   I am just loving this book!

 Tried to edit post and deleted the day! 
 

last nite I began a doc film from Prime called Fasting.   ok, at least what I saw, not much, will finish later.   A lot about IF.   Saw some reviews that trashed it because it promoted ProLon, a fast mimicking diet.   it sells for $250 for a 5 day kit. Outrageous!   The calories range from 750-1100.   not much of a fast.    I have the guy's book, an Italian American professor at USC. The daily menus are in the book.   He suggests this 5 day "fast" be done from once a month to twice a year, depending.   Don't see who would pay all that money for these simple plant based foods.

my dog's brother from another mother.

so my damn knee clicks now when I walk up the stairs.  Never had a clicky joint in my life! did some research and the best fit is PCL injury, grade one, from when I was peddling fast on the bike and my foot missed and went down, like really hard.   appears they do all kinds of tests and then say: take 2 aspirins and call me in the morning.   so I am not seeing a physician, not unless it gets worse. But distressing that the original injury was a good three months ago.  

Well big weight drop overnight, 2 pds.   Know it won't last and one will reappear on the scale probably tomorrow, but haven't seen the 122's for years.  Was down to 117 in 2011 when we moved to this house and it was upwards from there.   my weight fluctuates for no known reason.   not due to fluid intake, been drinking 3-4 mugs of the salt free broth with malt vinegar & hot sauce daily and the mug is a great big 17.8 oz Starbucks one.   has to be I sometimes retain water.