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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2104484" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">[USER=160246]@Winnie53[/USER], your question "AloeSvea, how has intermittent fasting or TRF affected your glucose levels? And how long have you been doing it?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Answering (currently wearing my blue-light block-out reading glasses for computer work - they do feel easier on the eyes actually) - all kinds of not-eating and periods of time eating, and smaller amounts eating, affect my insulin level, as in lowering it to a healthier or healthy level, (as a 'SIRD' I get my C-peptide tested along with my HBA1c), and my blood glucose levels lower to a healthier or a healthy level. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The healthy levels are not sustained for any length of time, much to my intense disappointment. But I am pleased to have been in 'at prediabetic levels' remission for four and a half years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In context - I have been some kind of low-carb eating for four and a half years (diagnosis five years ago). I am normal weighted, instigated almost immediately on even the moderate carbing I began with, let alone the low-carbing I have been eating for four years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But, and it's a big but, in order to have insulin and glucose levels at a normal healthy level I would have to be skinny, or at least - very lean indeed, and I just cannot do that. I have given it a decent try a couple of times, so it is not from want of trying.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If only I didn't have to eat! If I could just <em>not eat </em>my diabetes would be resolved. But then, alas, so would my life. Now there is a catch! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":arghh:" title="Arghh :arghh:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":arghh:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. (I actually love eating, and love the socialising of eating with others. It's just the type two I don't love <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite42" alt=":inpain:" title="In Pain :inpain:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":inpain:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2104484, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial][USER=160246]@Winnie53[/USER], your question "AloeSvea, how has intermittent fasting or TRF affected your glucose levels? And how long have you been doing it?" Answering (currently wearing my blue-light block-out reading glasses for computer work - they do feel easier on the eyes actually) - all kinds of not-eating and periods of time eating, and smaller amounts eating, affect my insulin level, as in lowering it to a healthier or healthy level, (as a 'SIRD' I get my C-peptide tested along with my HBA1c), and my blood glucose levels lower to a healthier or a healthy level. The healthy levels are not sustained for any length of time, much to my intense disappointment. But I am pleased to have been in 'at prediabetic levels' remission for four and a half years.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]In context - I have been some kind of low-carb eating for four and a half years (diagnosis five years ago). I am normal weighted, instigated almost immediately on even the moderate carbing I began with, let alone the low-carbing I have been eating for four years. But, and it's a big but, in order to have insulin and glucose levels at a normal healthy level I would have to be skinny, or at least - very lean indeed, and I just cannot do that. I have given it a decent try a couple of times, so it is not from want of trying. If only I didn't have to eat! If I could just [I]not eat [/I]my diabetes would be resolved. But then, alas, so would my life. Now there is a catch! :arghh::). (I actually love eating, and love the socialising of eating with others. It's just the type two I don't love :inpain::).)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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