Lighthearted but I'd still like your opinions:
I do intermittent fasting, as I don't usually get hungry before midday - sometimes quite a lot later. If I do feel hungry before then, I eat, but it's an unusual circumstance. While fasting, I have several coffees with a small amount of cream. With this system, my Dawn Phenomenon rises into the high 6s, very occasionally a 7, until either 3pm or after I eat (keto diet) whereupon it settles into the 5s, occasionally high 4s. Overall my Hb1ac is in the pre-diabetic/non diabetic range, so I'm not worried about it. I'm a high reactor to any stress, exercise, or situation that needs to be managed, and earned my living doing the latter, so again, I don't worry about that - it's just how I'm made.
As an experiment, I have recently been eating a small Greek yoghurt each morning, which usually means less coffee but not always. Now the question: should I regard the yog. as food or drink as in am I still fasting? Its texture is the same as the cream. I want to get the maximum benefit from fasting, which has been very helpful.
Whaddya think?
I do intermittent fasting, as I don't usually get hungry before midday - sometimes quite a lot later. If I do feel hungry before then, I eat, but it's an unusual circumstance. While fasting, I have several coffees with a small amount of cream. With this system, my Dawn Phenomenon rises into the high 6s, very occasionally a 7, until either 3pm or after I eat (keto diet) whereupon it settles into the 5s, occasionally high 4s. Overall my Hb1ac is in the pre-diabetic/non diabetic range, so I'm not worried about it. I'm a high reactor to any stress, exercise, or situation that needs to be managed, and earned my living doing the latter, so again, I don't worry about that - it's just how I'm made.
As an experiment, I have recently been eating a small Greek yoghurt each morning, which usually means less coffee but not always. Now the question: should I regard the yog. as food or drink as in am I still fasting? Its texture is the same as the cream. I want to get the maximum benefit from fasting, which has been very helpful.
Whaddya think?