Sauce. Sauce? SAUCE!!? Drool. . I miss some sauces, Ian.Hi Lotties,
It is fairly unlikely that High Protein is hampering your fasting BG.
A). Fasting BG is usually influenced more by how big your liver dup is (aka Dawn Phenomenon or Foot on the Floor syndrome) rather than your then long prior meal.
B). The body tries to use protein for (re)building and is reluctant to use it for fuel. This is because it produces less fuel and is harder/longer to process than Carbs or Fat.
Quite a few members are on a Carnivore 'Way Of Eating' yet are in long-term Ketosis. So you would have to be eating a lot of meat to have much of an effect on your FBG. However do you account for the carbs in any sauces that you may be using with your stewed meat?
Seriously, I am a very basic eater and cook. Meat fried in plain fat with salt and low carb veg or stewed in a pressure cooker with a small portion of onion and water. Or homemade pork scatchings as snacks - only salt. I like fried suet, too.
My consultant supects fatty liver-highly likely after 2 years of being essentially a fruitarian about 4 years ago - what we do to our health trying to eat clean and healthily, gah!
I wasn't aware of liver dumps before coming to the forum. I'll research the phenomenon.
Yesterday, I had a few moments of weakness with Xmas fruit-flavoured candy canes and ate so many calories of fat and meat (about 1000 more) because the canes gave me the munchies. The liver dump hypothesis is ringing true as this morning my fasting bg was 5.1 at 7.30am although I woke at 2.30am and awake for a couple of hours and only dozed from then on, whereas it has been rock steady around 6.5 previously. It was 6.5 at 6pm after I had fasted all day. I hope it just the liver 'unfatting'!
I'll try out more carbs versus less carbs to see if there is a pattern. Bg went up to around 10 on 2 candy canes, ~18g carbs.
Carnivore is somethIng I did a couple weeks ago when I got overenthusiastic at the butchers I tried to keep protein to around 70g and fat twice that. Was that roughly the right carnivore approach ? Skin and gums not so impressed though.
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