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Today is my second 5:2 day in the last 7 days. Since beginning various IF regimes (15/9, 6:1, and now 5:2 to try and find the right one, if any, for me), from mid June I think it is - I have lost 2kg. This is a gentle rate of 1kg a month, which is fine for me.
Today my Low Calorie day seems to be going much easier.
I am wondering if this is so because in the last week, on reading more about LCHF, Atkins, and real low-carbing, I have been upping my fat intake by quite a lot, and much more aware of the carb content of foods, so have lowered my carbs too. When I did the Low Cal Diet/Deviated Newcastle Diet, I was blithely unaware of fat content and even the carb content of the food I was eating, but was focussing on its being clean food, and paleo food (just tiny portions of what I normally eat). And counting the blasted calories, as I had to calorie count, of course, to insure I was in a 800-1000 cal window. But now I am looking up the carb gram-age of the food as well as the calories during these :2 days. (Where have I been in this past year? How could I not have started doing this earlier??!!)
I have been testing with ketostix too, and am apparently in a low state of ketosis, which was not the case 6 or 7 days ago. And I do feel pretty good. (I was a moderate to low carber anyway, as a paleo-betic.)
Best of all, in the past 7 days my FBGs have improved a lot. Four days out of 7 - low to mid 5s. Big relief to see those more regularly again. (Two upper 6s, and one on 6.0. ) But no 7s or 8s in the past week. Whew. This is what it has all been about - seeing those FBGs and (therefore the whole day's) BGs come down.
Today, after a relatively high-fat low-carb breakfast and lunch, and chomping on cabbage leaves (I had a mad desire for cabbage), and delightfully upping my carbonated water with lime juice intake - it feels like it has been much easier, in the sense I am not so plagued by strong feelings of hunger. Just a teeny weeny bit. (I saw some nuts in the cupboard when I opened it for a teabag.)
Hmmm. Could it be the diet doctor and the LCHF folk really are on to something? (Yeah, that's me in the pic reading the diet doctor's book.) (He's very witty in Swedish and plays good word games, as well as being cute and earnest and deeply intelligent which he is in English too of course.)
And, could it be that the sun has come out? And I don't have such a big appetite in warm weather. (Up until mid July I was in winter, and for a month the Swedish summer has been..... disappointing. But now it is proper summer weather.) I can be kept happy with some frozen grapes, for instance - which is not so in the cold. (A fancy way of saying today I kept away from the homemade paleo orange and brandy cocoa balls!)
Whatever it is, I am grateful for this mercy. (And today - cabbage leaves!)
Today my Low Calorie day seems to be going much easier.
I am wondering if this is so because in the last week, on reading more about LCHF, Atkins, and real low-carbing, I have been upping my fat intake by quite a lot, and much more aware of the carb content of foods, so have lowered my carbs too. When I did the Low Cal Diet/Deviated Newcastle Diet, I was blithely unaware of fat content and even the carb content of the food I was eating, but was focussing on its being clean food, and paleo food (just tiny portions of what I normally eat). And counting the blasted calories, as I had to calorie count, of course, to insure I was in a 800-1000 cal window. But now I am looking up the carb gram-age of the food as well as the calories during these :2 days. (Where have I been in this past year? How could I not have started doing this earlier??!!)
I have been testing with ketostix too, and am apparently in a low state of ketosis, which was not the case 6 or 7 days ago. And I do feel pretty good. (I was a moderate to low carber anyway, as a paleo-betic.)
Best of all, in the past 7 days my FBGs have improved a lot. Four days out of 7 - low to mid 5s. Big relief to see those more regularly again. (Two upper 6s, and one on 6.0. ) But no 7s or 8s in the past week. Whew. This is what it has all been about - seeing those FBGs and (therefore the whole day's) BGs come down.
Today, after a relatively high-fat low-carb breakfast and lunch, and chomping on cabbage leaves (I had a mad desire for cabbage), and delightfully upping my carbonated water with lime juice intake - it feels like it has been much easier, in the sense I am not so plagued by strong feelings of hunger. Just a teeny weeny bit. (I saw some nuts in the cupboard when I opened it for a teabag.)
Hmmm. Could it be the diet doctor and the LCHF folk really are on to something? (Yeah, that's me in the pic reading the diet doctor's book.) (He's very witty in Swedish and plays good word games, as well as being cute and earnest and deeply intelligent which he is in English too of course.)
And, could it be that the sun has come out? And I don't have such a big appetite in warm weather. (Up until mid July I was in winter, and for a month the Swedish summer has been..... disappointing. But now it is proper summer weather.) I can be kept happy with some frozen grapes, for instance - which is not so in the cold. (A fancy way of saying today I kept away from the homemade paleo orange and brandy cocoa balls!)
Whatever it is, I am grateful for this mercy. (And today - cabbage leaves!)