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I loved DreadCaptainRobert’s ‘Captain’s Log’, as a Star Trek reference, so I thought I might take her lead, as in
beloved ‘Alien’ movies, seeing we are both here reporting and logging a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) around the same time.
The first spaceship in the ‘Alien’ series was the Nostromo, and in early 2015 was when I last did a VLCD, a mini-Paleo regime, ie a moderate carb way of eating, when I reported on that journey in this forum.
Last time it was referred to as a deviated Newcastle Diet, using real food – Dr Michael Mosley had not come up with the Blood Sugar Diet doing exactly that, at that time. Absolutely you could see Dr Mosley as your very own Captain Hicks! Both are honeys. Professor Taylor for me could be more in line with Bishop. A hero too after all, in ‘Aliens’, and scientist-professors are very logical as a rule, and Bishop was also very ethical and people-focussed even as an android. Dr Fung is a (benign!) ship-computer – his theories omnipresent .
The Sulaco is the second spaceship to go onto the planet with the aliens. (There may be more space adventures in the future.) (And like the Alien movies - not in close intervals!)
And I am perfectly happy to see going low-cal for a period as basically a ‘fighting aliens on a distant planet’ type of thing to do!
I am an LCHF and Keto eater normally, for 3-4 years now, it makes sense to me to just eat teeny tiny Keto and LCHF meals while doing the underfeeding-over-two-months thing.
My goal this time round is to hopefully permanently lower my levels of abdominal fat, and hence alter my free fatty acid secretion and glucose production from my liver, which is still deranged and giving me significantly high fasting blood glucose and still post-meal glucose that takes too long to come down again.
Along with my blood glucose levels, I am tracking my own insulin production (high normal usually, started diet at a little over high-normal), by testing my c-peptides at the point of the VLCD, and will test again at intervals after. The goal is to have more normal insulin production.
The goal for me is not general weight loss, but rather targeted weight loss – the fat cells in my abdominal cavity and in my fat cells/adipose tissue, particularly I imagine – in my liver. But of course I lose weight on a VLCD. But not at a fast or dramatic rate.
This is about the waist not the weight.
The science behind it is around the twin-cycle theory of course, intestinal hormone activation (upper gut versus lower gut, the lower being the desired one for healthier carb metabolism), AMPK activation, and interest in Free Fatty Acid reduction in secretion (and a positive effect). And of course – the discourse around high/healthy fat, also with regards to providing energy via ketones, and low carb food consumption.
I am an ardent follower of Dr Fung and his T2D theories, while understanding about mucking up my metabolism with low cal (compared to fasting regimes), even so I believe the low-cal route suits me as a SIRD better, as I need the longer period of time to tackle the insulin resistance as a now normal weighted diabetic person. I cannot no-food fast long enough to make the same impact I can on a VLCD. Two months on 800 cals a day of food is WAY more bearable than one month or two months would be on no food, for me. (And the longest I have no-food fasted is 10 days – was the most I could bear.) For me choosing a VLCD is a no brainer. I can live a pretty normal life, my VLCD-spaceship is coasting on low gear as it were, just being hungry mainly at a small meal’s end, but not starving, on 800 cals a day, for 8 weeks.
Post diet – planning on a 5:2 IF regime (thanks again to Dr Mosley/Captain Hicks!)
After 25 days so far, my morning waist measurement has well reduced 3-4 cm and my waist/height ratio has gone down two points from 49 to just inching into 47. Good. (50 is the cut-off point – over that is considered a dangerous waist size for your height. I want a bigger buffer zone.) And along with the waist and tummy, so my FBG lowered as expected – it was a healthy 4.7 one morning. This last week the average was 5.5. Yay.
5 more weeks to go.
beloved ‘Alien’ movies, seeing we are both here reporting and logging a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) around the same time.
The first spaceship in the ‘Alien’ series was the Nostromo, and in early 2015 was when I last did a VLCD, a mini-Paleo regime, ie a moderate carb way of eating, when I reported on that journey in this forum.
Last time it was referred to as a deviated Newcastle Diet, using real food – Dr Michael Mosley had not come up with the Blood Sugar Diet doing exactly that, at that time. Absolutely you could see Dr Mosley as your very own Captain Hicks! Both are honeys. Professor Taylor for me could be more in line with Bishop. A hero too after all, in ‘Aliens’, and scientist-professors are very logical as a rule, and Bishop was also very ethical and people-focussed even as an android. Dr Fung is a (benign!) ship-computer – his theories omnipresent .
The Sulaco is the second spaceship to go onto the planet with the aliens. (There may be more space adventures in the future.) (And like the Alien movies - not in close intervals!)
And I am perfectly happy to see going low-cal for a period as basically a ‘fighting aliens on a distant planet’ type of thing to do!
I am an LCHF and Keto eater normally, for 3-4 years now, it makes sense to me to just eat teeny tiny Keto and LCHF meals while doing the underfeeding-over-two-months thing.
My goal this time round is to hopefully permanently lower my levels of abdominal fat, and hence alter my free fatty acid secretion and glucose production from my liver, which is still deranged and giving me significantly high fasting blood glucose and still post-meal glucose that takes too long to come down again.
Along with my blood glucose levels, I am tracking my own insulin production (high normal usually, started diet at a little over high-normal), by testing my c-peptides at the point of the VLCD, and will test again at intervals after. The goal is to have more normal insulin production.
The goal for me is not general weight loss, but rather targeted weight loss – the fat cells in my abdominal cavity and in my fat cells/adipose tissue, particularly I imagine – in my liver. But of course I lose weight on a VLCD. But not at a fast or dramatic rate.
This is about the waist not the weight.
The science behind it is around the twin-cycle theory of course, intestinal hormone activation (upper gut versus lower gut, the lower being the desired one for healthier carb metabolism), AMPK activation, and interest in Free Fatty Acid reduction in secretion (and a positive effect). And of course – the discourse around high/healthy fat, also with regards to providing energy via ketones, and low carb food consumption.
I am an ardent follower of Dr Fung and his T2D theories, while understanding about mucking up my metabolism with low cal (compared to fasting regimes), even so I believe the low-cal route suits me as a SIRD better, as I need the longer period of time to tackle the insulin resistance as a now normal weighted diabetic person. I cannot no-food fast long enough to make the same impact I can on a VLCD. Two months on 800 cals a day of food is WAY more bearable than one month or two months would be on no food, for me. (And the longest I have no-food fasted is 10 days – was the most I could bear.) For me choosing a VLCD is a no brainer. I can live a pretty normal life, my VLCD-spaceship is coasting on low gear as it were, just being hungry mainly at a small meal’s end, but not starving, on 800 cals a day, for 8 weeks.
Post diet – planning on a 5:2 IF regime (thanks again to Dr Mosley/Captain Hicks!)
After 25 days so far, my morning waist measurement has well reduced 3-4 cm and my waist/height ratio has gone down two points from 49 to just inching into 47. Good. (50 is the cut-off point – over that is considered a dangerous waist size for your height. I want a bigger buffer zone.) And along with the waist and tummy, so my FBG lowered as expected – it was a healthy 4.7 one morning. This last week the average was 5.5. Yay.
5 more weeks to go.
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