I thought I'd come back to reply to part of my own post, now that several weeks have gone by. I've continued to have a dollop of heavy cream with each of my two cups of coffee a day, and I've lost ~3 lbs in the 3 weeks since I posted. It's possible that I could have lost more without the creamer, but regardless, it hasn't stopped things for me, so for now (and for myself) I have my answer. :)
It's rather interesting...while I haven't been binging in my window, I definitely don't eat consistently clean. I do have the occasional sugary or junk food (though they taste less-good than they used to), and I don't get all my nutrients. I rarely exercise more than a walk to the trader joe's that's a few blocks away. My window is sometimes 6 or 7 hours.
And yet, with all these things I'm doing wrong, the weight keeps coming down. It's as if my body was really really waiting for this change...for ANY change in this direction...and then it decided that goshdarnit, it wants to be thin again.
I've never been a yo-yo dieter because, well, I never had the willpower to do the first "yo". :) I've just been a slow, steady gainer who liked to *read* diet books but not really do anything with them. That this is happening to me feels a bit like a dream. My "thin clothes" are starting to look not-so-ridiculous on me...in a few months I can probably wear them.
This eating lifestyle is amazing. A big thank you to all the people who have made an effort to get the word out that "really, it's OK if you don't eat all the time".
(The sad irony to all this is that my husband used to eat this way instinctively. As he started to gain weight upon arrival to the US, I nagged and nagged him to eat three meals a day. He gained weight even faster. He now jokes that "if you don't like the current diet fad, just wait long enough, and what you are already doing will be in fashion". Out of respect for all I've put him through, we call this "The <insert-his-name-here> Diet".)
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "foxchyck" <foxeye@...> wrote:
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> 2) Everything I read says NO CREAMER WHILE FASTING! I did well with that for a while, but eventually I caved and had creamer. And for a few weeks it didn't seem to make diddly-squat of a difference. But then the loss slowed down. I'm inclined to think that some sugar that I ate was the cause, but still, I wanted to ask...has anyone here ever personally found that adding/removing creamer changed their weight loss?
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