So I committed to the intermittent fasting diet- hooray for me. It was really hard the first few days. I get the urge to eat after 7pm- it's just ingrained in my mind that I should snack snack snack while I sit dormant watching TV. I rush to have dinner made and ready to eat before 6pm- because 6pm is the eating cut off. I try to remember to drink water throughout the day. Even though water and coffee are literally the only beverages that I consume on a normal basis. I try to get 12,000 steps a day, but often fall short with about 10,000. This has been said to be the average that a normal person walks in a normal day. But average and normal is not what gets a normally overweight person to lose weight. I lost 3 lbs in 17 days, according to the apps I am using - Fitbit and DoFasting! (I attribute most of this weight loss to the stomach virus that my whole family got last week). So, needless to say, after 17 days of using the apps and other tools- a brand new smart scale, night...