Intermittent Fasting Details

I'm on Day 4 of fasting and it is going well. I am not struggling with it at this point and to be honest, I feel better than I have in a few weeks!

My fasting window starts at 7pm and ends at 12:pm although sometimes i go a bit behind.

My day looks like this:

6am I have Natural Calm and Benefiber in hot water
Cup of decaf coffee with Vital Proteins and Coffeemate sugar free
Cup of half-caff either in the car or after I get to school
If I am hungry, bone broth at 9am. Drink about 20 oz of water throughout the morning.
12pm -- I have a smoothie. Right now my smoothie is spinach, 1/4 cup blueberries, 1 tbsp flax seed, 1 cup coconut milk unsweetened, and 1 scoop of Vega one.
I snack on a breakstones cottage cheese afterwards
Snacks could be a piece of cheese, a protein bar, or yogurt and GF bread
Dinner I am trying to prioritize protein since that is my one major meal of the day.
I treat myself to nutella if my macros allow it. I also have sugar free jello on hand.
Herbal tea throughout the day and fasting window as I want it.
Gum to help with chewing cravings.

I started Sunday and am down three pounds. :)

Comments

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Sunday thoughts

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. Isaiah 1:27 find this quote to really correlates what's going on in the world today where people are turning away from religion and yet still pointing fingers. They're blaming the immigrants they're blaming the people who are separated from their kids and that they're not loving them the way that God has taught us to love people and I just wish that God would surely bring his spirit and his grace

Reflective Sarah

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