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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LiSwati" data-source="post: 2730017" data-attributes="member: 569214">Hello Lupf.  Thank you for this amazing guidance.  Your personal experience has been most helpful.  A lot of what you’ve said gave me ideas on how I can change my lifestyle. I am proud to say that today I did a 19-hour fast and I’m still alive.  I hadn’t planned on going that long but I attended a function and we only got to eat at 2 pm.  I only had a coffee and lots of water, but I managed with ease.  I only experienced blurred version and by the time I ate, I could hardly see what was on my plate.But I took everyone’s advice and ate veg and meat only.  I also had a small slice of cake, but later took a 2-3 km walk to burn off the cake (yes, it was a walk of shame).After my walk I tested (it was around 5:40 pm).  To my surprise, my reading was 4.7 mmol/L, the lowest it’s been this year.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take my tester with me to the function, but next time I fast, I will do so, as I need to know how low I get when the symptoms kick in.Thanks again Lupf and thanks to everyone who responded to my need for advice.  All the advice has truly changed the way I am now looking at managing my diabetes.  Siyabonga (thank you).[USER=150927]@AloeSvea[/USER] , thanks.  Yes, the impact fasting has on gut health, could certainly be an interesting thread. Not too long ago, I had gut issues from insufficient fibre in my diet, and from what was being said about cutting out starches as much as possible, got me concerned about cutting out All Bran cereal, which had been my source of added fibre and kept me regular; thus the reason I posed the question. But I later realized that an increase in vegetables to my diet, would serve to replace the fibre I was getting from All Bran cereal.It would still be interesting to know how fasting has impacted the gut health of our group.  Thanks for highlighting this.</blockquote>

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