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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1914177" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Last night I reached the halfway mark, which in my (limited) experience, is a good 'where am I now?' generally and with regards to goals moment to have during these longish-term food restriction regimes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">My longterm HBA1c and impaired fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels' stability had been disrupted, due to an experiment that went the wrong way (too many carbs and 'bad carbs' in particular in a few family and friend feasts over a six month period) - so my FBG averages were high in August and September, pre VLCD. 7.1 and 8.0 respectively. Well in the diabetic range! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But there is nothing like food restriction to bring those FBGs back down again. And for someone like me - the FBG is the key to the rest of the day's BG control (ie if FBG is raised, so are all the subsequent BGs). (Four years of BG metering! Comes in handy for knowing how your body works. How to otherwise? Just a plug for the all important BG metering here.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Physical exercise and activity does impact my BGs normally, in a good way, but this big health-contributor is taken almost entirely out of the picture during any food-restriction treatment. (I just don't have the energy to do anything on top of normal functioning/chores/work on half/more than half the normal calories. Or 'energy from food', to avoid the 'calorie' word.) (When I am particularly physically active, 800 cals would be a third of my energy from food requirement. On a rare sedentary day, around half.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Anyway. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Average FBGs:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Week 1 = 6.5</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Week 2 = 5.9</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Week 3 = 5.3</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Week 4 = 5.4</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It would be more dramatic, but for a couple of sleepless nights which brought about markedly higher FBGs after two occasions. (Calorie restriction affects female rats in this way too, apparently. I would post the link but I am too hungry to be bothered looking for it!) (It's the morning and I have not had my coffee with a dollop of whipped cream in it. My way of getting through the morning without breakfast - a standard keto technique that does indeed work rather marvellously I find.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I feel inspired to order another HBA1c and C-peptide test, because, well - numbers and curves on a graph can be fun! (OK, not that much fun for me, as I only have them when someone else does them.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1914177, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Last night I reached the halfway mark, which in my (limited) experience, is a good 'where am I now?' generally and with regards to goals moment to have during these longish-term food restriction regimes. My longterm HBA1c and impaired fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels' stability had been disrupted, due to an experiment that went the wrong way (too many carbs and 'bad carbs' in particular in a few family and friend feasts over a six month period) - so my FBG averages were high in August and September, pre VLCD. 7.1 and 8.0 respectively. Well in the diabetic range! But there is nothing like food restriction to bring those FBGs back down again. And for someone like me - the FBG is the key to the rest of the day's BG control (ie if FBG is raised, so are all the subsequent BGs). (Four years of BG metering! Comes in handy for knowing how your body works. How to otherwise? Just a plug for the all important BG metering here.) Physical exercise and activity does impact my BGs normally, in a good way, but this big health-contributor is taken almost entirely out of the picture during any food-restriction treatment. (I just don't have the energy to do anything on top of normal functioning/chores/work on half/more than half the normal calories. Or 'energy from food', to avoid the 'calorie' word.) (When I am particularly physically active, 800 cals would be a third of my energy from food requirement. On a rare sedentary day, around half.) Anyway. Average FBGs: Week 1 = 6.5 Week 2 = 5.9 Week 3 = 5.3 Week 4 = 5.4 It would be more dramatic, but for a couple of sleepless nights which brought about markedly higher FBGs after two occasions. (Calorie restriction affects female rats in this way too, apparently. I would post the link but I am too hungry to be bothered looking for it!) (It's the morning and I have not had my coffee with a dollop of whipped cream in it. My way of getting through the morning without breakfast - a standard keto technique that does indeed work rather marvellously I find.) I feel inspired to order another HBA1c and C-peptide test, because, well - numbers and curves on a graph can be fun! (OK, not that much fun for me, as I only have them when someone else does them.) [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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