Welcome to my seventh month of intermittent fasting! If youâve been interested in the fasting lifestyle I hope that my experience here is useful to you. This post is part of a series, so if you want to start at the very beginning, click on over to Month Zero â Iâll wait.
Since last month I confirmed that instead of shrinking, I gained a little mass – oops! Luckily this isn’t a big problem. I have a lot of tools in my Fasting Toolbox and it’s time to use them.
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Seven months of not eating all day everyday has definitely yielded positive results, and a clear correlation between my food and my pant size (as expected).
After fasting this long and always trending downward I definitely loosened up my standards and gained some body mass to prove it. But like I said earlier – this just means that I need to use tools available to me, primarily control over what I eat and when I eat; the same tools that most of us have.
Month seven was June for me, I enjoyed my birth month so much that I ended it a larger size than I was when I began! For the record I still fit into size medium leggings, but my Goal Pants show that I am bigger.
Still eating one meal a day, which is an early dinner that starts between five and six in the evening (usually followed by a big snack about two hours after dinner).
Now I will be removing the post-dinner snack and going back to enjoying some green tea in the evening.
Early June – I started breaking my fast with a green juice. A lot of people prefer to break their fast with a specific macro because it makes them feel good, but that wasn’t my motivation (because it’s all the same to me; food is food). I decided to break with green juice because it makes me feel better about not eating ten cups of salad each day.
I like Suja juices from the grocery store, so I often open my eating window with Suja Ăber Greens or Suja Celery Juice. I’m also trying out green powders, and I like Athletic Greens, but I don’t like the price, so I’m shopping around.
Late June – I did get a NAD+ precursor supplement because I think the science is interesting. Like most things I don’t take it daily, and I don’t expect huge changes.
- Here’s a quick article about nicotinamide = B3 from ScienceDaily.com
- Here’s the B3 & resveratrol capsule I like
The struggle in month seven – Not saying “no” to all of the desserts in the world!
The success in month seven – Not getting bigger than I did? Kind of hard to call this month a success when I gained mass, but I know it would have been much worse if I was eating all day and maintaining high insulin levels.
††Goal Pants, Two Pairs
†ALLSAINTS, 30″ waist. I can fasten the entire button fly easily…but I still have too much butt to walk comfortably or to sit.
†Community, 29″ waist. Still hilariously too small. Increased muffin top confirms mass increase.
Q. What contributed to the size increase?
A. Several little things! I can easily say that I’ve been
– less disciplined at dinner
– eating too much in general
– not filling up on good vegetables
– eating too many sweets
– not walking as much (too hot & humid to enjoy walking outside right now)
– AND I recently changed hormonal birth control methods
Each of these little things helped me gain mass last month. Luckily this means that (minus the birth control) I can work on each point RIGHT NOW.
Q. So the new plan is?
A. To apply several small tweaks to regain my spot on the downward slide.
I will be
– making two simple vegetable-heavy meals each week (think broccoli & chicken, or fish & zucchini. These meals will be simple, fresh, and as clean as possible.)
– getting back on the treadmill (at least on the weekends when Mister Jupiter can take a shift with the toddler)
– restrict desserts to special occasions only
– get back to drinking green tea when I want a snack
Here goes!
â Ready for more? Intermittent Fasting, Month Eight (July 2020)
Lady Jupiter 