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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shelley262" data-source="post: 2679679" data-attributes="member: 455169">Hi another regular faster here. Once I went keto 7 years ago to tackle my sugars I found that as I was around 5 stone overweight my body started to use its own fat stores for energy and I found it very easy to fast as I was fat adapted using ketones and my own fat for energy. I was happily able to do around a month of one meal a day so fasting 23 hours and eating in a one hour window. However as my weight rapidly went back to my normal fasting became harder for long periods so I shifted to 18 hours fasting and an eating window of 6 hours but still sticking mainly to keto these days 7 years on its more common for me to fast around 16 hours and have an eating window of 8hours. I also eat more now low carb rather than keto. I remain medication free and with a normal range hba1c. My treats too these days tend to be the high fat stuff that I was denying myself when eating low fat and becoming diabetic such as cheese and cream or full fat Greek yogurt. Good luck and hope you can reframe your treats to be lower carb ones to help your body to become fat adapted which makes fasting not difficult - it's just a longer period without food. I have 'treats' every day within my eating window mainly low carb versions of the carby stuff so for example as it's pancake day today I'll be treating us to low carb pancakes for pudding later.</blockquote>

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