Glad I'm not alone in having tried fasting and found it helpful. I've lately adopted what I'm calling a 44:4 diet, semi-permanently.
I'm never hungry early in the day...I only need coffee. On an eating day I start at 11a.m. with a lot of mostly raw vegetables, and in the four hours before 3pm I make sure I get a lot of nuts and cheese, olive oil, occasional fruit and usually a big omelette or a bowl of my girlfriend's chilli...
...followed by 44 hours not eating. Stopping eating eight or more hours before bed makes it much easier to stop nocturnal fluctuations, which had been a pain for me lately. Getting through the following day is no bother (predictable demanding exercise helps punctuate the hours).
I hope it goes without saying that I'll quickly add a teaspoon of dextrose powder to a hot drink If I start running low.
I had a great extended run in the park today and my BG (which had climbed when I got out of bed) came down without insulin and just stuck between 5 and 6 all afternoon. I'm only injecting 3 or 4 units of Lantus in the evenings and use occasional half-units of Humalog to stop rises.
I'd like to lose about 20lb by my July holiday, then keep it off through the winter, going back to a carefully chosen small meal each day.
In the past five years I've twice done 96 hour fasts, largely from curiosity. I carried on working and forgot about food after the second day. I didn't even stop doing my very exhausting daily hill-run, and I managed some of my best times mid-fast.
It made me wonder how people convince themselves they cannot get to lunchtime without a plate of carbohydrates first thing. I guess most people don't know what they'd manage fine, without.
