Amanda Rose in Eating Like a Bear plan has a FREE 3 day challenge for anyone. When you sign up for the plan she sends a video, what to eat and not to eat and grocery list. She keeps things very simple. I have started that plan today. She does a daily video to help plan the day. Intermittent fasting – one hour eating and 23 hour fasting. 23/1 — That sounds really crazy to me. I have read about intermittent fasting for quite awhile. My husband and I have been pretty much no grain, no sugar for two years. The more I read about it, the more sense it makes to me. I plan to lose 50-70 pounds. How long that will take, I don’t know.
So here I am day one eating a “really big salad” for lunch, and I mean really, really big. So that salad is huge with mostly lettuce – a little cucumber, onion. Added 5 oz ham, 1 oz cheese, and 1 egg. I added ELAB ranch dressing recipe. When you read more about ELAB Amanda’s goal is to eat between 500-1000 calories a day. I figured today was just over 1,000 calories.
Let me tell you I have never eaten that much food at a meal. It is huge! It took me 55 minutes to eat, and I didn’t quite make it all. My husband said – it was only 4 more bites — it didn’t matter, I couldn’t put any more in my mouth! I was thrilled with how much I did eat. 🙂 I ate my one meal at 12:15pm today. Many people eat their meal at night with family. But there is a lot said about not eating within 5-6 hours of going to bed. I figure I might as well stack everything in my favor to lose weight. With us being retired – the mid day meal should work for us. But I can always change the time. I will measure the bowl – I guess it is 2 or 3 qts. 
May 11, 2020 – start day 231.6 SW