Hi @DreadCaptRoberts, how is it going? Are you two weeks off the halfway mark? (If I have understood your time frame correctly?)
I've been marking off a calendar in the bathroom I take my Fasting Blood Glucose readings, which helps me hugely to 'do my time', on this. And the halfway mark, I think, is a good indicator of trends. And good to know there is an end in sight?
I think it is perfectly natural to have cravings, and even to feel a lot of hunger. I know this is an unpopular viewpoint, as it is not very stiff upper lip, but I don't have a very stiff upper lip.Especially perhaps, if you are on the Newcastle Diet shakes? There must be a degree of adjustment to such a way of eating.
I hope the eating some extra salt helped. I am with bulkbiker on that, and believe the salt thing to be very important to wellbeing. Oh - and absolutely making sure you are drinking enough fluids and water.
Cheers.
Remember that there is no great long term harm from having BG upto about 10 for a short time (few weeks) if it enables you to change diet and lose fat.
1500 calories a day could be a very bad option as long term calorie controlled diets often result in a reduction of medtobonic rate.
From what I understand at 800 calories a day the body responds in much the same way as it does to fasting.
@ ringi could you please provide a reference for this info?
I am uncomfortable with unreferenced statements like this, especially when it directly contradicts multiple excellent references found on the www.bloodsugar101.com website, which shows that beta cell damage occurs at blood glucose concentration above 7.8mmol/l, and that the damage increases cumulatively the longer the blood glucose is raised.
Sorry don't have a link to hand, but it is what Jason Fung’s recommend in one of his blogs for people on inslin who are starting intermittent fasting until they know how their BG will respond.
One of the Newcastle diet protocols https://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/newcastlemagneticresonancecentre/files/2017 Information for doctors.pdf
says to half inslin at the start and to contect the HCP if fasting BG is over 10 or very low. I think this was done as many GP were saying the workload is too great with people needing inslin doses adjusted often and hence refusing to support people doing the Newcastle diet.
bloodsugar101 is clearly correct that the length of time someone has high BG should be reduced as much as possible. Personally I think 7.8 is too high to have for long, but many people are not able to start LCHF, intermittent fasting or the Newcastle diet without relaxing their BG target for a few weeks.
Clearly if someone has a CGM and is willing to made many changes to their inslin dose they are able to do better then 10, but is it worth it given the risk of hypos and people losing heart due to having to take carbs to treat the hypos?
(10 is a maximum to accept not a target.)
Do we need a write on this site somewhere covering this as it comes up every few months?
What I find admizing it that two leading experts who agree on little both choose the number 10, if I recall correctly it is about when the kidneys start to let the excess suger out, but I don't know if that is the reason.
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