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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1026506" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>Larissima - you are very kind! Alas, as is clear I am no poster child for fasting - as I experience hunger keenly, and I suffer! lol. Not like the "you won't feel hunger after day 1" assurances of Dr Fung. But, I figure, the world has billions of people in it - what are the chances we all experience not eating the same? </p><p></p><p>I would rather get it over in one foul swoop for a few days a month, than have two days of low-cal hunger looming over my life every week (as in the 5:2), or hunger every day (as in the window of eating method). Also - I can't really do anything else while I fast, for large parts of it - maybe other than short walks (20 mins or so). This is just my make-up, as even as a young person I could not participate in science experiments involving fasting (well - one I remember!) because I had remembered the intense pain and suffering of a 40-hour-famine for charity when I was a young teen. (OK - I AM a bit dramatic! But as I have just been fasting, that is how I experience fasting, lol.) (And I die now when I think of all those barley sugars we were encouraged to consume during that fasting for charity! Dear me! Ghastly.) </p><p></p><p>But, I have not to date found anything that gets my BG in check like fasting does. I feel great after the fast. Lower BGs, more energy, better moods. (Thank goodness, or poor Mr Svea could talk about <em>his </em>pain and suffering at length!) I imagine it's the greatly lowered insulin levels while no food is going in. (I know I produce a lot of insulin still, due to c-peptide levels, if I am reading them and understood them correctly.) Which as we know - comes along with the lowered glucose levels. I like to think of my organs breathing a big sigh of relief during those fasts! It is simply - worth it (for someone who has chosen not to medicate at least).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1026506, member: 150927"] Larissima - you are very kind! Alas, as is clear I am no poster child for fasting - as I experience hunger keenly, and I suffer! lol. Not like the "you won't feel hunger after day 1" assurances of Dr Fung. But, I figure, the world has billions of people in it - what are the chances we all experience not eating the same? I would rather get it over in one foul swoop for a few days a month, than have two days of low-cal hunger looming over my life every week (as in the 5:2), or hunger every day (as in the window of eating method). Also - I can't really do anything else while I fast, for large parts of it - maybe other than short walks (20 mins or so). This is just my make-up, as even as a young person I could not participate in science experiments involving fasting (well - one I remember!) because I had remembered the intense pain and suffering of a 40-hour-famine for charity when I was a young teen. (OK - I AM a bit dramatic! But as I have just been fasting, that is how I experience fasting, lol.) (And I die now when I think of all those barley sugars we were encouraged to consume during that fasting for charity! Dear me! Ghastly.) But, I have not to date found anything that gets my BG in check like fasting does. I feel great after the fast. Lower BGs, more energy, better moods. (Thank goodness, or poor Mr Svea could talk about [I]his [/I]pain and suffering at length!) I imagine it's the greatly lowered insulin levels while no food is going in. (I know I produce a lot of insulin still, due to c-peptide levels, if I am reading them and understood them correctly.) Which as we know - comes along with the lowered glucose levels. I like to think of my organs breathing a big sigh of relief during those fasts! It is simply - worth it (for someone who has chosen not to medicate at least). [/QUOTE]
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