AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore

[Jenny A]

Can I join?  I'm not really trying to lose weight, just maintain the weight loss and the cardiovascular  gain. I went from 198 to 145 between January 2017 and September 2017.  I'm on the same plan and bouncing around between 143 and 147.

I would like to have what she's having!  Well done, Jenny.

You can have what I'm having. Why not?

I'm eating only between the hours of 12:00 and 20:00. Which is to say only eight hours a day, and at least a couple hours before bed. Water, black coffee, tea and other calorie free liquids any the time.

Breakfast: Black coffee.

Lunch, a green salad of some combination of spinach, kale, lettuce, and/or cabbage. I top it with cheese, meat, boiled egg, and perhaps olives, grilled artichokes, avacados, capers, or Kim chee. I'm very generous with toppings. Add an oil and vinegar dressing that's high on oil and low on sugar. Sometimes I have a glass wine too.

Cappuccino or latte or coffee in the afternoon. A few nuts, a cheese stick, a few squares of 80 to 100 % chocolate if I'm hungry

Dinner, lots of low carb veggies, a meat, green salad, and sometimes more cheese. I try to limit sugary sauces but every so often something like duck la orange sneaks into the menu. Sometimes I have a glass of wine too.

No, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, carrots, or parsnips.

Occasional beans and yams, fruit. Diet soda less than once a week and only during my eating window.

I am eating well over 2000 calories a day. And every month or so, I cheat at one special meal and have bread or pasta, fill dough, cheese cake, or some other thing.

I exercise one hour five days or more a week: walking with elevation gain and loss; biking; the rowing machine; or yoga.

That's it. For context, I've been trying to lose weight without success for ten years. The only result was that I both fat and hungry. This regimen is the result of setting two week experiments and tweeking them until the weight began to come off. It's stopped coming off, but I'm fine with where I am weight wise. I'm still building endurance, flexibility and muscle.

It helps that Mr. A is eating the same way.