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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 902100" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>In terms of my own FBGs I am afraid I have too many variables going on to look at myself as a good IF experiment at the mo' - having just switched day for night. My experience with that is it takes about three days to a week for my liver to re-adjust to do that switcheroo - and the adjustment is not in a good way - as I have a liver that misreads (or whatever it is doing) my BG levels re the Dawn Phenon, so the pre-adaptation readings are comparatively quite good ones. Post-switcheroo I have had 2 FBGs in the low to mid 6% range, which is good for me, sadly, these days - having clocked up truly alarming FBGs. Also post-switcheroo it is easier to eat dinner earlier, and not be too hungry in the morning, at least it has for the past couple of days. I just let the airlines feed me during the 30 hours in and out of planes it took to cross the globe. I got a rather high post-meal reading in the mid 9s, while sitting there in a cramped long-haul flight, so I stopped taking my blood! (But gee, that tiramisu dessert was rather lovely...) Yeah, I'm not a paleo gal on long-haul flights, let alone an IF 15/9 one - I have a dream that one day there will be truly diet-and-exercise-diabetic friendly no added sugar with no wheat options onboard airplanes, not to mention restaurants and cafes! Sigh. I did flirt with the idea of totally fasting, as in just drinking water and tea and coffee for the nearly two day journey - but Mr Svea vetoed that one when I suggested it, lol, for obvious reasons. (Mood! As in mine, as in being a bad one. Affected by hunger, prompted by discomfort and lack of motion, and he having to be beside me all that way.)</p><p></p><p>Now that I am back home, as opposed to my transitory one, I also have my tape measure and my scales, and see that my long trip and one month on the road has me at 71 kg (5kg increase from April when I departed). (I wasn't sure if I should have trusted the scales I bought on the trip only a week or so ago) (turns out I could!) and I haven't got my old journals out for comparing my waist and hip measurement (as I measured those for the first time since the 5kg increase.) So now I know what all those post diet magazine articles and online are on about when they talk about how easy it is to regain weight lost on an extreme diet! Certainly is the case for me. Now I am normal weight again and not lean. (And HBA1c of around 44, and not 40.)</p><p></p><p>But did my crunch-less ab exercises, back doing the squats. Enjoying the salad and the fruit (as always). Hope my liver just finds it too difficult to dump a lot of BG overnight now it's switcherooed! Finds it easier to just stabilise instead....</p><p></p><p>And give my body a week to be a good IF experiment subject again...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 902100, member: 150927"] In terms of my own FBGs I am afraid I have too many variables going on to look at myself as a good IF experiment at the mo' - having just switched day for night. My experience with that is it takes about three days to a week for my liver to re-adjust to do that switcheroo - and the adjustment is not in a good way - as I have a liver that misreads (or whatever it is doing) my BG levels re the Dawn Phenon, so the pre-adaptation readings are comparatively quite good ones. Post-switcheroo I have had 2 FBGs in the low to mid 6% range, which is good for me, sadly, these days - having clocked up truly alarming FBGs. Also post-switcheroo it is easier to eat dinner earlier, and not be too hungry in the morning, at least it has for the past couple of days. I just let the airlines feed me during the 30 hours in and out of planes it took to cross the globe. I got a rather high post-meal reading in the mid 9s, while sitting there in a cramped long-haul flight, so I stopped taking my blood! (But gee, that tiramisu dessert was rather lovely...) Yeah, I'm not a paleo gal on long-haul flights, let alone an IF 15/9 one - I have a dream that one day there will be truly diet-and-exercise-diabetic friendly no added sugar with no wheat options onboard airplanes, not to mention restaurants and cafes! Sigh. I did flirt with the idea of totally fasting, as in just drinking water and tea and coffee for the nearly two day journey - but Mr Svea vetoed that one when I suggested it, lol, for obvious reasons. (Mood! As in mine, as in being a bad one. Affected by hunger, prompted by discomfort and lack of motion, and he having to be beside me all that way.) Now that I am back home, as opposed to my transitory one, I also have my tape measure and my scales, and see that my long trip and one month on the road has me at 71 kg (5kg increase from April when I departed). (I wasn't sure if I should have trusted the scales I bought on the trip only a week or so ago) (turns out I could!) and I haven't got my old journals out for comparing my waist and hip measurement (as I measured those for the first time since the 5kg increase.) So now I know what all those post diet magazine articles and online are on about when they talk about how easy it is to regain weight lost on an extreme diet! Certainly is the case for me. Now I am normal weight again and not lean. (And HBA1c of around 44, and not 40.) But did my crunch-less ab exercises, back doing the squats. Enjoying the salad and the fruit (as always). Hope my liver just finds it too difficult to dump a lot of BG overnight now it's switcherooed! Finds it easier to just stabilise instead.... And give my body a week to be a good IF experiment subject again... [/QUOTE]
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