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<blockquote data-quote="CherryAA" data-source="post: 1494788" data-attributes="member: 327005"><p>I thought for long enough that I needed to eat in the morning, because my blood sugars kept rising until I ate something - or so I thought, then I decided to see if eating anything actually did change anything and it turned out it didn't. Using the CGM I could see that basically my blood sugars started to fall at pretty much the same time every day with or without the food. All that food rally did was take it up a little depending on what I ate, the trajectory coming back down didn't change much at all.</p><p></p><p>That led me back to the fasting principles. I find it much harder to stop eating in the evening than I do to not eat in the morning. I think my weight stalling has been because having started to eat during a day, it doesn't really change how much I still want to eat in the evening.</p><p></p><p>So my new plan was - don't eat at all in the morning, just water or black tea, when the hunger pangs start, try to assuage it with a spicy coffee having first had a glass of apple cider vinegar water . Hold out as long as possible for the first meal of the day - around 2. Eat most of my calories around -9 with a proper two course meal preceded by some more apple cider vinegar. Maybe one glass of wine. Finish that meal with some dark choc or nuts - stick to 1250 calories in total ish. ie still feel quite full all evening my danger time.</p><p></p><p>I started this way of eating about 5 days ago in response to a few days lower will power in the evenings which I couldn't seem to get rid of. I noticed that the dawn phenomena started to flatten out a bit over that time, today its still there but the rise was 5. to 5.7, not 5 to 6.7 as previously .</p><p></p><p>without the cgm monitor I would not have known that the same thing was happening with or without food, because when testing by fingerpricks there is no need to test unless you are eating - so you don't see the true comparative. If you add testing at the same time each day around when you usually peak, you might find the same thing as me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CherryAA, post: 1494788, member: 327005"] I thought for long enough that I needed to eat in the morning, because my blood sugars kept rising until I ate something - or so I thought, then I decided to see if eating anything actually did change anything and it turned out it didn't. Using the CGM I could see that basically my blood sugars started to fall at pretty much the same time every day with or without the food. All that food rally did was take it up a little depending on what I ate, the trajectory coming back down didn't change much at all. That led me back to the fasting principles. I find it much harder to stop eating in the evening than I do to not eat in the morning. I think my weight stalling has been because having started to eat during a day, it doesn't really change how much I still want to eat in the evening. So my new plan was - don't eat at all in the morning, just water or black tea, when the hunger pangs start, try to assuage it with a spicy coffee having first had a glass of apple cider vinegar water . Hold out as long as possible for the first meal of the day - around 2. Eat most of my calories around -9 with a proper two course meal preceded by some more apple cider vinegar. Maybe one glass of wine. Finish that meal with some dark choc or nuts - stick to 1250 calories in total ish. ie still feel quite full all evening my danger time. I started this way of eating about 5 days ago in response to a few days lower will power in the evenings which I couldn't seem to get rid of. I noticed that the dawn phenomena started to flatten out a bit over that time, today its still there but the rise was 5. to 5.7, not 5 to 6.7 as previously . without the cgm monitor I would not have known that the same thing was happening with or without food, because when testing by fingerpricks there is no need to test unless you are eating - so you don't see the true comparative. If you add testing at the same time each day around when you usually peak, you might find the same thing as me. [/QUOTE]
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