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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2095047" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Just popping in to add my two-cents worth on fasting as regular treatment for type two/diabetes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have not been able to find anything that has the same obvious fairly swift health benefits as periodic not eating - however you choose to not eat, or not eat as much as usual. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I got out of the rhythm of IFing, or regularly fasting over a period of days, about nine months ago, and my insulin levels, as in being too high (and therefore my BG rising) rise all too easily, have risen too high again. As in - way over high end normal levels even. Even with LCHF- Keto ways of eating. (I get my insulin levels checked in a C-peptide test, along with my HBA1c and blood lipids, regularly, as I have very severe insulin resistance.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It reminds me, if I need reminding (and I always live in hope of being able to live healthily without medicating and without regularly not eating also! But alas, this is not the case) - that not eating from time to time really is part of my treatment program. This is as a (now) normal weighted, fit regularly exercising, low-carbing person, in steady remission at prediabetic levels since changing the way I ate and moved post diagnosis. Without periodic not-eating, my diabetes health status deteriorates. And it doesn't take long. (Within a few months.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I add my experience in here from time to time, as according to the Swedes, about 15% of all those with diabetes have severe insulin resistance. (These are the folks, like me, who <em>don't </em>enter into the world of remission at non-diabetes levels after losing a ton of weight and maintaining it, and eating low carb/keto.) If I can help any other person in my position (as in having severe insulin resistance - called SIRD) by talking about the role of not-eating, then I am very pleased to do so.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I am giving myself a kick in the diabetes-backside by getting into periods of not eating again, and I have to say it is clear that fasting in the warm season/summer is MUCH easier than in the cold season/winter. (I am currently in the depths of a cold season.) (I think this is the role of carbs, even low carbs, as comfort food, and the role of food as energy in helping keep you warm.) And that if you haven't fasted for a while, you can have the same not pleasant symptoms of fasting that regularly fasting deals to - which is very clear to me now. (Headaches, feeling jittery, weak even after a shortish time of not eating - that kind of thing.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Aloe's moral of the moment - if fasting is part of your treatment plan don't let it go for too long! (yeah, yeah, yeah - life gets in the way of a good treatment plan sometimes!) </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2095047, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Just popping in to add my two-cents worth on fasting as regular treatment for type two/diabetes. I have not been able to find anything that has the same obvious fairly swift health benefits as periodic not eating - however you choose to not eat, or not eat as much as usual. I got out of the rhythm of IFing, or regularly fasting over a period of days, about nine months ago, and my insulin levels, as in being too high (and therefore my BG rising) rise all too easily, have risen too high again. As in - way over high end normal levels even. Even with LCHF- Keto ways of eating. (I get my insulin levels checked in a C-peptide test, along with my HBA1c and blood lipids, regularly, as I have very severe insulin resistance.) It reminds me, if I need reminding (and I always live in hope of being able to live healthily without medicating and without regularly not eating also! But alas, this is not the case) - that not eating from time to time really is part of my treatment program. This is as a (now) normal weighted, fit regularly exercising, low-carbing person, in steady remission at prediabetic levels since changing the way I ate and moved post diagnosis. Without periodic not-eating, my diabetes health status deteriorates. And it doesn't take long. (Within a few months.) I add my experience in here from time to time, as according to the Swedes, about 15% of all those with diabetes have severe insulin resistance. (These are the folks, like me, who [I]don't [/I]enter into the world of remission at non-diabetes levels after losing a ton of weight and maintaining it, and eating low carb/keto.) If I can help any other person in my position (as in having severe insulin resistance - called SIRD) by talking about the role of not-eating, then I am very pleased to do so. I am giving myself a kick in the diabetes-backside by getting into periods of not eating again, and I have to say it is clear that fasting in the warm season/summer is MUCH easier than in the cold season/winter. (I am currently in the depths of a cold season.) (I think this is the role of carbs, even low carbs, as comfort food, and the role of food as energy in helping keep you warm.) And that if you haven't fasted for a while, you can have the same not pleasant symptoms of fasting that regularly fasting deals to - which is very clear to me now. (Headaches, feeling jittery, weak even after a shortish time of not eating - that kind of thing.) Aloe's moral of the moment - if fasting is part of your treatment plan don't let it go for too long! (yeah, yeah, yeah - life gets in the way of a good treatment plan sometimes!) [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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