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<blockquote data-quote="D@n1el" data-source="post: 2242570" data-attributes="member: 517441"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I have prediabetes, I am a lean person (BMI = 18,72), and I've been on low carb/carnivore diets and different (progressively longer) fasting protocols for about 4 months. After a couple of fantastic weeks in which I would have morning BG = 75 mg/dL (no medication, only diet and exercise), things changed. I have returned to prediabetes levels on the second week of last March, and I am yet to understand why (there is a <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/four-months-of-different-kinds-of-fasting-plateaus.172963/" target="_blank">thread <span style="color: rgb(44, 44, 44)">in which I write about that, I do not mean to double it here, I just thought I needed to start from somewhere).</span></a></p><p></p><p>Therefore, I have decided to push it further. I have got into 36-hour fasts, 3 times a week. Then 42h, then 48h. My appetite got crazy, I've started to experience huge carb cravings for the first time since I was into fasting/low carb, and at least a couple of times I would cancel fasting in the middle to eat things I would spent the whole day thinking about, like organic peanut butter (no sugars added) or tahini.</p><p></p><p>After 3 days of low carb rest (first time in months I would eat 150g of carb a day), which I do regret, as obviously it did not help my BG (higher each day), I have tried 72-hour fasting for the first time ever. Just finished it about 12 hours ago. It was nice and smooth, I would dare to say easier and nicer than 48h, and BG was 88 mg/dL. It was mainly water only fasting, I did drink a lot of coffee and at least once a day I would drink a mix of salt (sodium), potassium chloride, organic apple cider vinegar and water, which helped me a lot, I guess.</p><p></p><p>I was enthusiastically planning to do it again this week. Now, I do not know, because something went bad after breaking the fasting. I broke it with a huge meal, 90g of protein, 250g of fat, 12g of net carb, over 2500 calories. I am used to eating OMAD and I have broken many 24-hour fasts that way. Well, but this time, 5 hours after that meal, I was suffering in the bathroom, experiencing a mix of diarrhea with normal stool at the same time (sorry to write about that, really!). About 6 hours later, maybe because that situation made me feel hungry again, I have had to eat an additional small meal. Not 10 minutes after that one, I was back in the bathroom, same situation. Even now, I can still notice that my belly is bigger than it usually is, and I'd guess there's a lot of water still in it.</p><p></p><p>I know that many members here have a huge experience on IF. Would you have a clue about what might have happened? Now it seems too obvious that I should not have ended a longer fasting like that. But I do wonder if there was some other obvious mistake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D@n1el, post: 2242570, member: 517441"] Hi, I have prediabetes, I am a lean person (BMI = 18,72), and I've been on low carb/carnivore diets and different (progressively longer) fasting protocols for about 4 months. After a couple of fantastic weeks in which I would have morning BG = 75 mg/dL (no medication, only diet and exercise), things changed. I have returned to prediabetes levels on the second week of last March, and I am yet to understand why (there is a [URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/four-months-of-different-kinds-of-fasting-plateaus.172963/']thread [COLOR=rgb(44, 44, 44)]in which I write about that, I do not mean to double it here, I just thought I needed to start from somewhere).[/COLOR][/URL] Therefore, I have decided to push it further. I have got into 36-hour fasts, 3 times a week. Then 42h, then 48h. My appetite got crazy, I've started to experience huge carb cravings for the first time since I was into fasting/low carb, and at least a couple of times I would cancel fasting in the middle to eat things I would spent the whole day thinking about, like organic peanut butter (no sugars added) or tahini. After 3 days of low carb rest (first time in months I would eat 150g of carb a day), which I do regret, as obviously it did not help my BG (higher each day), I have tried 72-hour fasting for the first time ever. Just finished it about 12 hours ago. It was nice and smooth, I would dare to say easier and nicer than 48h, and BG was 88 mg/dL. It was mainly water only fasting, I did drink a lot of coffee and at least once a day I would drink a mix of salt (sodium), potassium chloride, organic apple cider vinegar and water, which helped me a lot, I guess. I was enthusiastically planning to do it again this week. Now, I do not know, because something went bad after breaking the fasting. I broke it with a huge meal, 90g of protein, 250g of fat, 12g of net carb, over 2500 calories. I am used to eating OMAD and I have broken many 24-hour fasts that way. Well, but this time, 5 hours after that meal, I was suffering in the bathroom, experiencing a mix of diarrhea with normal stool at the same time (sorry to write about that, really!). About 6 hours later, maybe because that situation made me feel hungry again, I have had to eat an additional small meal. Not 10 minutes after that one, I was back in the bathroom, same situation. Even now, I can still notice that my belly is bigger than it usually is, and I'd guess there's a lot of water still in it. I know that many members here have a huge experience on IF. Would you have a clue about what might have happened? Now it seems too obvious that I should not have ended a longer fasting like that. But I do wonder if there was some other obvious mistake. [/QUOTE]
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