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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1927337" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Only ten days to go. Thank goodness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I am very aware these days just how much food gives you energy to perform tasks - both mental, and physical, absolutely. I need to time my eating with performing at whatever task needs to be done, as in just before. Then I have the energy, and I work until the energy runs out. Which is quicker than it would be normally, for sure. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I really notice it with yardwork. My capacity is more than halved, more like a third, and seems to fit the reduction in energy from food pretty exactly. Heavy lifting is all good. I just make sure I do weight-lifter big grunts to help me psycologically! It's the amount of physical work I can do, other than lifting, that has changed hugely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But I find myself now planning both physical work and mental work that I can do post this semi-starvation regime. When I have a normal life again!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I describe it to those not in the know as an 'extreme diet for two months, to help treat my diabetes', so folks get an idea about it. Otherwise I just come across as someone suffering from anorexia - as being on an extreme diet when you are lean-looking will do. And me being a woman and all. Because I am closer to lean-looking now, than normal weighted-looking. (Yeah. You have my word. 6-7 weeks of never eating enough to fill you up will do this.) I say 'looking' because I have always been heavier than I looked, due to the lean muscle mass, which is part of my natural body type. Immediately after 'the Nostramo' VLCD in 2015, I was in a group of folks with diabetes been given a talk, I even had an endo ask me if I was type one. I said, no, I am a type two, but I have a very low personal fat threshold, more is the pity. (Oh dear me is it a pity!) And I am very happy to advertise the ND's theory of personal fat thresholds. I now have the knowledge about severe insulin resistance which I did not have back then. But I don't want to bombard people with intimate info about my poor old insulin receptors and my cells!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">BGs, the waist, the tummy - going good. For an office-Aloe work appointment I had to buy a new pair of office trou, a size down (just a bit of girlie-talk here), ditto bra! Two sizes down on that actually. Ah yes - body fat. Hmmm. They were very reasonably priced, as in cheap, which is good because they might have to be put away when I resume eating normally, never to rear their lean-lined clothing-heads again? I don't know what is going to happen post this 'extreme diet for helping manage my diabetes' time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If I was going to lose more around my waist and tummy, perhaps the amount I would need to lose to be in normal and healthy BG range, permanently if there is such for me - it would have to be the same again, I am thinking. (5kg per two months to be exact.) So another two months VLCD on top of this one, to be as lean as I was in my early to mid 20s. Good grief. But. And it is a big but. I just can't give up another two months of my normal life, no matter what Dr Fung and Prof Taylor think about fasting and VLCDing respectively - there is no way this is anything like my normal life. (And that is normal as a type two diabetic using physical activity, LCHF and Keto food and IFing to treat it.) I think they say it is 'just' 'easy' or 'not hard at all' from time to time to promote their theories and treatment, which I quite understand. But I do not think it reflects reality at all. No. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Please let me go on record saying - I do not <em>ever</em> think it is just boring at worst (one of Prof Taylor's more optimistic comments on VLCDing) - deliberately making yourself NOT eat the food your body and your mind is saying you want, and you need, for two months. Nothing merely tedious or easy about that at all. I use all my OCD-ish parts of my nature to be able to do it. Which is how I do it. But I could not do this for four months in total. Not now anyway. I have a normal life I want to live. Properly LCHF/Keto fed. Sigh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Did I mention I am really pleased there is only ten days to go?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1927337, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Only ten days to go. Thank goodness. I am very aware these days just how much food gives you energy to perform tasks - both mental, and physical, absolutely. I need to time my eating with performing at whatever task needs to be done, as in just before. Then I have the energy, and I work until the energy runs out. Which is quicker than it would be normally, for sure. I really notice it with yardwork. My capacity is more than halved, more like a third, and seems to fit the reduction in energy from food pretty exactly. Heavy lifting is all good. I just make sure I do weight-lifter big grunts to help me psycologically! It's the amount of physical work I can do, other than lifting, that has changed hugely. But I find myself now planning both physical work and mental work that I can do post this semi-starvation regime. When I have a normal life again! I describe it to those not in the know as an 'extreme diet for two months, to help treat my diabetes', so folks get an idea about it. Otherwise I just come across as someone suffering from anorexia - as being on an extreme diet when you are lean-looking will do. And me being a woman and all. Because I am closer to lean-looking now, than normal weighted-looking. (Yeah. You have my word. 6-7 weeks of never eating enough to fill you up will do this.) I say 'looking' because I have always been heavier than I looked, due to the lean muscle mass, which is part of my natural body type. Immediately after 'the Nostramo' VLCD in 2015, I was in a group of folks with diabetes been given a talk, I even had an endo ask me if I was type one. I said, no, I am a type two, but I have a very low personal fat threshold, more is the pity. (Oh dear me is it a pity!) And I am very happy to advertise the ND's theory of personal fat thresholds. I now have the knowledge about severe insulin resistance which I did not have back then. But I don't want to bombard people with intimate info about my poor old insulin receptors and my cells![/FONT] [FONT=Arial]BGs, the waist, the tummy - going good. For an office-Aloe work appointment I had to buy a new pair of office trou, a size down (just a bit of girlie-talk here), ditto bra! Two sizes down on that actually. Ah yes - body fat. Hmmm. They were very reasonably priced, as in cheap, which is good because they might have to be put away when I resume eating normally, never to rear their lean-lined clothing-heads again? I don't know what is going to happen post this 'extreme diet for helping manage my diabetes' time. If I was going to lose more around my waist and tummy, perhaps the amount I would need to lose to be in normal and healthy BG range, permanently if there is such for me - it would have to be the same again, I am thinking. (5kg per two months to be exact.) So another two months VLCD on top of this one, to be as lean as I was in my early to mid 20s. Good grief. But. And it is a big but. I just can't give up another two months of my normal life, no matter what Dr Fung and Prof Taylor think about fasting and VLCDing respectively - there is no way this is anything like my normal life. (And that is normal as a type two diabetic using physical activity, LCHF and Keto food and IFing to treat it.) I think they say it is 'just' 'easy' or 'not hard at all' from time to time to promote their theories and treatment, which I quite understand. But I do not think it reflects reality at all. No. Please let me go on record saying - I do not [I]ever[/I] think it is just boring at worst (one of Prof Taylor's more optimistic comments on VLCDing) - deliberately making yourself NOT eat the food your body and your mind is saying you want, and you need, for two months. Nothing merely tedious or easy about that at all. I use all my OCD-ish parts of my nature to be able to do it. Which is how I do it. But I could not do this for four months in total. Not now anyway. I have a normal life I want to live. Properly LCHF/Keto fed. Sigh. Did I mention I am really pleased there is only ten days to go? [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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