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Great tip! I'll try it. How long after a little fat snack do you wait before you test your BG again?Did you ever try a fat snack in the morning to lower your Bg? I'm wondering whether a very early morning small snack of fat might keep my dawn phenomenon from occurring, or at least limit it. Does...

How kind of you! At times I think I'm long-winded writer, but this has become very important to me, and I've learned more on this forum than I have in many of my other readings in the last two months. I'm looking for a sustainable lifestyle, rather than an intensive lose weight diet, although I...

Excellent idea! As I've replied to other threads my body doesn't seem to be working in predictable patterns, especially with fasting and Dawn phenomenon. Your idea of a very low carb snack, especially if I take it in the morning, might keep my liver from continuing to release glucose through...

Great advice! I too am resisting the drugs. My problem with overnight/daytime fasts is that I have a pretty large dawn phenomenon happening, and I can be a 7 at 5:30 AM but then my numbers just keep rising while fasting until about 11:00 AM, when they will be a 10 or 11. Low-carbing for two...

Sorry, pushed the button by mistake before proofreading and finishing. Is the effect a long term one for you? What happens if you skip fasting, do your numbers rise again? It sounds like fasting has been a part of your weekly cycle for a long time. Have you ever had a length of time when you...

May I ask Kevin, how long you have been following this fasting regime?do you find a big difference in your blood glucose directly after fasting, or as an overall accumulative affect

Thank you very much for sharing the details of your fast Deb. It sounds like it really helps you. I have done some preliminary reading of Dr Fung, and I often go 12 hours without eating, but I'm a little scared to go longer than that. May I ask, are you on insulin? Have you ever had Hypo...

Thanks for a much for those ideas. I'm getting the message from a lot of people that variety is huge and what works for people. I really appreciate people sharing what works for them , Because it gives me a wider range of options to think about. I really like this forum!

Please keep me posted as to how you're doing with the fasting. I'm quite intimidated by the idea as I get very lightheaded when I don't eat, even with my Bloodsugars are still a seven. Thanks very much for sharing ..much appreciated!

Yes,after reading about going off statins, I made both of those supplement choices, plus potassium and magnesium because I was having some muscle cramps with exercise. I did stop taking my Crestor for three weeks, and my Bloodsugars came down a point or two, but I visited my cardiologist last...

Thank you very much for your feedback! Are you suggesting that I have to get down to about 30 carbs and a strong state of ketosis to have any effect on the blood sugar? I had thought that eating within the guidelines of low-carb lifestyle (I was eating 50 carbs)was supposed to have a profound...

Thanks for your response! Obviously I have to find out more about fasting and diabetes. It goes against what we have been told medically since the onset of my diabetes But then the Hindenburg myth of Chloresterol and animal fats causing all those problems has gone up in flames. Who can we...

I think I have to go off of them, and carefully monitor what happens to my good cholesterol, and my blood glucose, and my persistent dawn phenomenon. Thanks for your advice, and anecdotal response.

Sorry pushed the wrong button! I do assume that I have to include the carbs in my overall daily carb count, and as you have to take several of the lozenges when you're sick, that could really add up. And that's in the sugar-free!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad that the sugar alcohols won't cause a spike, but I Soum that I still have to include the carbs in my And overall daily carb counts

Thank you for your lead on the intermittent fasting. I am a little leery about fasting because I know I react badly when I go too long without eating, but I'll have to see what Dr. Fung has to say, and the evidence that he presents. When so many of the bedrock beliefs we had about chloresterol...

Many thanks for your reply! I am still on statins, but want more research before I go off of them. I'm seeing my doctor very soon to consult about this, but figured I needed to be better informed before I spoke to her. I don't know anything about intermittent fasting, so I will have to find out...

Thanks for your reply. And I hear you about secret snacking and the hidden carbs. I have been relentlessly looking up carb contents of things like sugar-free Ricola lozenges ...3.5!I will check out your connection! Many thanks

I would appreciate some feedback on some unexpected setbacks I seem to be having. I am a 10 year type two diabetic, previously on insulin, but through diet, I have been off insulin for over five years. I have been following a low glycemic, complex carb, Mediterranean-style diet with lots of...

Dear Torq.Mean spirited reply! If you think the question is not interesting, then don't reply. One of the many reasons for being part of this forum is to feel connected to others who are struggling as well with life challenging issues and who have a lot of bad habits to leave behind. We need...