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‘Stop Eating After 7pm’ Challenge

I'm not testing at the moment, so no idea. I know from when I did, if its part of a meal and I've exercised that today, it's within limits. Hard to stick at just one though!
 
I don't like black or green or roobois tea, but I do have
Mint
Ginger (a slice of fresh)
Clove
Lemon (just a slice)
Turmeric
And various of the commercial ones .
 
I had inhaled my supper last night by 5:30 - really really hungry for some reason. Plus I experimented by adding 20 gms dry weight (around 70gms prepared with water and butter) of Smash instant potato. It was ok, but not as delicious as I remember from a year ago when I last had it.
My BG only went up from 6.8 (finger poke) to 7.5 (CGM) and back down to 5.7 (finger poke).

I deliberately delayed posting this until I had done my FBG this morning to see the effects of the unexpected and over my daily limit carb intake.
5.8 on my GlucoNavii. Very happy.
 
Interesting! I suggested rooibos because it has very low levels of tannins. What about hot water, a sliver of fresh ginger, a sprig of fresh mint, with a sprinkle of cinnamon? Also good chilled in summer.
 
My good intentions went awry immediately after posting, as I received a phone call from hospital telling me to fast for a diagnostic procedure the following day. So I was not able to start to eat until 9:00pm.

Things have been a bit chaotic with tests hospital procedures and times when I have been able to eat. So I am going to try a reset, again, starting this week. The Lent season begins on Wednesday, and that is a time of fasting, and reflecting. Tempting fate , stating this here, but will start my Stop Eating after 7:00pm challenge on Wednesday. (Just so I can have a pancake supper tomorrow, and Valentine supper late on Wednesday.
 
aylalake said:
Interesting! I suggested rooibos because it has very low levels of tannins. What about hot water, a sliver of fresh ginger, a sprig of fresh mint, with a sprinkle of cinnamon? Also good chilled in summer.
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Just as easy to drink hot water. I only want something wet and that does the trick.
 
Yesterday my last food was about 4:30. We'd had a late lunch in a pub and it was enough to see me through.

Did mean I needed breakfast this morning though!

Tonight, was just about to serve dinner at 6 when phone rang. Old friend not talked to for about a year, so 90 minutes later...
Sometimes real life intervenes, in a good way
 

Hi there. Been thinking about this since it was posted - and always interested in what MrsA2 has to say, for sure.

Yeah, I've been doing this a while, but there is no 'and who find it easy' my bold). I'm sorry if it sounds like that's what I thought and felt?

For me, intermittent fasting, (IF) and fasting has absolutely never been easy. For me, I have very active involved hunger signals. It doesn't correlate with how much I am eating, or what I am eating, I have discovered since diagnosis and much experimenting - it's just a given.

I found the daylight to sunset IF regime (similar to your 'eat nothing after 7pm) the easiest - relatively speaking. Not to be confused with finding it easy!

I got inspired to write this last night, when I ate a hearty lamb and veg 'linner' (mid to late afternoon meal to replace lunch and dinner). I was really hungry come the usual dinner time - 6ish, but I did not want to eat more of what I had at linner (the only thing I have pre this week's food shop), so I didn't eat, and drank a couple of herb teas (which I have always said - I would be lost IFing on any regime, without herb tea), and just 'sat' as the Buddhists say, with the hunger.

I have no snacks in the pantry, and my no sugar jelly was frozen in the back of the fridge. As happens with this IF regime - I usually have a nice long bath with a good book, sipping the herb tea, and go to bed early. Particularly noticeable during winter. (Which it is not for me now - high summer in my part of the world.)

When/if I am working long hours - the work and fatigue deals with that! (it helps that I have always loved breakfast and am happy to look forward to it).

Which brings me to - like any addict (and we are ALL food addicts! We'd be dead mammals if we weren't), it helps not to have snacks around, if one's issue is snacking. Or, only snacks in pre measured lower carb amounts? If low-carbing. (This is what I do with my popcorn, and carrot and lentil chips, which are both really easy to go higher carbing on!) And snacking can be super enjoyable - I love my two days off the no eating (and drinking calorific drinks) of an evening/after night fall.

I can do that as I share households with high-carbers, but we don't touch each other's food. I buy what I can and do eat, and shop for others, but their food is theirs.

But, I do not have gorgeous blood glucose levels or a healthy - considering the T2D - HBA1cs. (last test - 61.) I can't imagine what they would be like (well, I can, I guess as I have been there) if I wasn't doing this IF regime, or low-carbing. So - easy? Not at all!

And it's how I remind myself that I do still want to live as long as I can - that I endure the periodic hunger that such a long term IF regime entails for me.

Living with some hunger is a funny kind of way to remind myself I like being alive - but there you are!
 
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