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Blood sugar from DKA to three weeks later on low carb

iwilltouchyourcat

iwilltouchyourcat

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Liverpool
Type of diabetes
LADA
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
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Hello all
Since my blood sugar went through the roof and had to go to a&e with dka I have gone low carb and intermittent fasting. My blood sugar has started getting much better and my phone made this fancy graph! It’s still way higher in the morning but lower than it was and is 4.5-5 in the afternoons now. I guess the hospital visit gave me the smack in the bum I needed! I’ve also lost around 3.8kg! (I’m nearly overweight and not obese any more!)
I still have a long way to go but wanted to share this with people who understand. I still miss carbs but it’s easier than I expected!
 
What is your intermittent fasting schedule? I have been trying to fast for 16 hours and eat within an 8-hour window. But even so results in blood sugars after 19 hours have only gotten me down a couple times to 4.8 not lower. It's usually in the 5.2-5.8. Not good. Definitely pre-diabetic. It's so frustrating, I don't even bother checking daily anymore. I heard fasting through Dr Berg, Dr Fung...all for it, gives the pancreas a good break, basically no food, no insulin releases. Starve because that's good for us, but then I have brain fog which is supposed to be the opposite? Then I find I try to get all my nutrients in within the 5-hour eating window, and of course I am starving, and trying to eat well without breaking my fast with sugar spiking foods, then worried that's what causes my bloods to stay elevated after 19 hours? I don't check my glucose all the time. I get too anxious. Just wanted to hear if intermittent fasting works for anyone else re: blood sugars. I basically do one meal a day, which is supper - none of the 3x a day with snacks in-between, and how morning breakfast is the most important meal of the day ****. I avoid all refined carbs, no grains or fruits. Guess the healthy carbs, proteins and fat still cause my sugars to spike and overload. Can't help it, I am starving and have lost weight unintentionally. A1C was 6.6 recently. So upset. i just want to eat healthy foods which i love but feel it's just harming me and leading me straight to diabetes in just a matter of time.
 
Madisons said:
What is your intermittent fasting schedule? I have been trying to fast for 16 hours and eat within an 8-hour window. But even so results in blood sugars after 19 hours have only gotten me down a couple times to 4.8 not lower. It's usually in the 5.2-5.8. Not good. Definitely pre-diabetic. It's so frustrating, I don't even bother checking daily anymore. I heard fasting through Dr Berg, Dr Fung...all for it, gives the pancreas a good break, basically no food, no insulin releases. Starve because that's good for us, but then I have brain fog which is supposed to be the opposite? Then I find I try to get all my nutrients in within the 5-hour eating window, and of course I am starving, and trying to eat well without breaking my fast with sugar spiking foods, then worried that's what causes my bloods to stay elevated after 19 hours? I don't check my glucose all the time. I get too anxious. Just wanted to hear if intermittent fasting works for anyone else re: blood sugars. I basically do one meal a day, which is supper - none of the 3x a day with snacks in-between, and how morning breakfast is the most important meal of the day ****. I avoid all refined carbs, no grains or fruits. Guess the healthy carbs, proteins and fat still cause my sugars to spike and overload. Can't help it, I am starving and have lost weight unintentionally. A1C was 6.6 recently. So upset. i just want to eat healthy foods which i love but feel it's just harming me and leading me straight to diabetes in just a matter of time.
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I am doing 16:8 and occasionally OMAD. My blood sugar started much higher in the morning but after 4 weeks of 16:8 and low carb my morning bm is in normal range now. I’d say keep going it takes a while to see results. Also been watching dr Jason fung on YouTube, and bought his book the diabetes code, who explained the ‘dawn phenomenon’ and blood spiking, and how it is common when you first start off. I panicked today because my bm was 8 before lunch but I tested positive for covid yesterday and read that this can also spike your sugar. I don’t think what you’re eating is causing your blood sugar to spike, it’s the built up stores of sugar coming out of your system and into your blood to be used up ( dr fung explains it much better than I can!)
Stick with it- if it worked for me I am sure it would work for most. ️
 
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