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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1922133" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Day 42, feel that it is important to add that falling rates of energy and mental capacity seems to be cumulative. ie, on Day 42 I am weaker and less able to carry out things requiring energy, even in the morning, which is my best time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I am VERY pleased that it is getting nearer to the magic end of VLCD, in two and a half weeks. Marking off the days on my calendar where I do my FBG, and seeing the end in sight is getting more important, in order to keep on going.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yesterday I noticed that opening the fridge is getting more painful, as in seeing the wonderful contents. Lots of meats and meat and cheese brimming, just brimming to overflowing with lovely morsels of food I can barely touch. I believe my body, just to see it metaphorically as a separate entity here, is crying out to me, "Why deprive me? When there is all this lovely food? What are you doing to me? Halt! Desist! Stuff me with food!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Do I think this is related to it being six (ish, I don't have the energy to be exact!) weeks in, on way less food?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yes. Body thinks it's Just. Awful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Did notice a first this morning. I am forcing myself to not eat in the morning, in order for the afternoons and the evenings to be more bearable. This is the first morning where I had a slight reduction in my BG from my FBG, in the presence of no-food, as it were. Only slight. But it is an absolute first. (FBG - 5.7. BG three hours later at 5.3.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Could this mean my liver fat cells aren't spitting out lots of FFAs? (Because the cells aren't so/too full of fat so need to spurt the excess out?) And so then my pancreas isn't getting the message to load up on the insulin? So lots of insulin isn't messaging my liver to create extra glucose? (quite erroneously of course! Hence the constant hyperglycemia). It would be nice if that is what is happening in there. (Hello liver and fat cells in abdominal cavity, hello pancreas - what IS happening in there? Wouldn't it be nice to know!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Just a note. I do note that no-one but no-one is interested in a Keto VLCD in the forum. Particularly its effect on severe insulin resistance (as a person with SIRD). Not even my fellow space traveller, doing a classic ND, is interested! My spaceship Sulaco metaphor is entertaining absolutely no-one. Oh well! I decided to keep posting anyway, for posterity's sake. Maybe someone in the future might think, "Hey! Wouldn't it be great to do a Keto VLCD to help right the wrong of the reversed twin cycle. Has someone else done it? Oh yes - look - there is Aloe/Ellen Ripley in there, and she says she felt like cr** in the sixth week. That's good to know..." Something like that.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1922133, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Day 42, feel that it is important to add that falling rates of energy and mental capacity seems to be cumulative. ie, on Day 42 I am weaker and less able to carry out things requiring energy, even in the morning, which is my best time. I am VERY pleased that it is getting nearer to the magic end of VLCD, in two and a half weeks. Marking off the days on my calendar where I do my FBG, and seeing the end in sight is getting more important, in order to keep on going. Yesterday I noticed that opening the fridge is getting more painful, as in seeing the wonderful contents. Lots of meats and meat and cheese brimming, just brimming to overflowing with lovely morsels of food I can barely touch. I believe my body, just to see it metaphorically as a separate entity here, is crying out to me, "Why deprive me? When there is all this lovely food? What are you doing to me? Halt! Desist! Stuff me with food!" Do I think this is related to it being six (ish, I don't have the energy to be exact!) weeks in, on way less food? Yes. Body thinks it's Just. Awful. Did notice a first this morning. I am forcing myself to not eat in the morning, in order for the afternoons and the evenings to be more bearable. This is the first morning where I had a slight reduction in my BG from my FBG, in the presence of no-food, as it were. Only slight. But it is an absolute first. (FBG - 5.7. BG three hours later at 5.3.) Could this mean my liver fat cells aren't spitting out lots of FFAs? (Because the cells aren't so/too full of fat so need to spurt the excess out?) And so then my pancreas isn't getting the message to load up on the insulin? So lots of insulin isn't messaging my liver to create extra glucose? (quite erroneously of course! Hence the constant hyperglycemia). It would be nice if that is what is happening in there. (Hello liver and fat cells in abdominal cavity, hello pancreas - what IS happening in there? Wouldn't it be nice to know!) Just a note. I do note that no-one but no-one is interested in a Keto VLCD in the forum. Particularly its effect on severe insulin resistance (as a person with SIRD). Not even my fellow space traveller, doing a classic ND, is interested! My spaceship Sulaco metaphor is entertaining absolutely no-one. Oh well! I decided to keep posting anyway, for posterity's sake. Maybe someone in the future might think, "Hey! Wouldn't it be great to do a Keto VLCD to help right the wrong of the reversed twin cycle. Has someone else done it? Oh yes - look - there is Aloe/Ellen Ripley in there, and she says she felt like cr** in the sixth week. That's good to know..." Something like that.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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