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Intermittent fasting: 14/10-16/8, 5:2, 24-hr fast, 20-hr fast
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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1051827" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">It's my once a month 2-3 day fast time, and I'm on day 2. What is interesting for me this time is I am not suffering with hunger pangs (or is it pains?). I was not having a bad time of it yesterday either! Wow! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I think it is probably due to the heat and the humidity (height of summer in the southern hemisphere). It could be due to being in my 'natural habitat' (and light and weather conditions!). it could be the fact that my vitamin D hormone levels are rising very nicely now. (I paid the dough and got my vitamin D tested - as my years in the cold country where the sun seriously don't shine for months and months had depleted it so.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Or, if I am being optimistic - maybe my leptin levels are responding or changing? ie my appetite hormone is giving me a break with all my repeat fasts! (Wouldn't that be nice?!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">My FBG this morning was not marvellous - still in the mid 6s, and it hasn't dropped as the morning progressed - now it is in the late 6s. But yesterday, in my usual lowest BG point of the day (late afternoon) - it was 4.7. Good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Yesterday evening around dinner time - I had a cup of homemade turkey bone broth. I love having a bone broth/stock during a fast. I know it means it's not such a strict no food fast then, but I don't have any of the faintness or dizzy spells now I am drinking it. A couple of hours after the broth my BG was 5.0. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I haven't taken the konjac root capsules this time. No worries there it seems, either.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">It's great having Fung's work on fasting to read during these times as further encouragement and inspiration. I love his glucose-as-garbage out on the street, insulin-as-garbage truck/street cleaners, and our bodies as a town metaphor. (The front doors are the 'open' cell receptors.) (The streets the blood stream.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">During a fast there is no glucose being put in through the front door by the street cleaners. (Alas, I have my own glucose-generator working hard inside my house! Argh!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">And I remind myself my insulin levels are very/low during a fast, which will hopefully aid lowering insulin resistance. (The shut front door, which in an ideal world in a friendly town can and should be open! - ie insulin sensitivity.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1051827, member: 150927"] [FONT=Tahoma]It's my once a month 2-3 day fast time, and I'm on day 2. What is interesting for me this time is I am not suffering with hunger pangs (or is it pains?). I was not having a bad time of it yesterday either! Wow! I think it is probably due to the heat and the humidity (height of summer in the southern hemisphere). It could be due to being in my 'natural habitat' (and light and weather conditions!). it could be the fact that my vitamin D hormone levels are rising very nicely now. (I paid the dough and got my vitamin D tested - as my years in the cold country where the sun seriously don't shine for months and months had depleted it so.) Or, if I am being optimistic - maybe my leptin levels are responding or changing? ie my appetite hormone is giving me a break with all my repeat fasts! (Wouldn't that be nice?!) My FBG this morning was not marvellous - still in the mid 6s, and it hasn't dropped as the morning progressed - now it is in the late 6s. But yesterday, in my usual lowest BG point of the day (late afternoon) - it was 4.7. Good. Yesterday evening around dinner time - I had a cup of homemade turkey bone broth. I love having a bone broth/stock during a fast. I know it means it's not such a strict no food fast then, but I don't have any of the faintness or dizzy spells now I am drinking it. A couple of hours after the broth my BG was 5.0. I haven't taken the konjac root capsules this time. No worries there it seems, either. It's great having Fung's work on fasting to read during these times as further encouragement and inspiration. I love his glucose-as-garbage out on the street, insulin-as-garbage truck/street cleaners, and our bodies as a town metaphor. (The front doors are the 'open' cell receptors.) (The streets the blood stream.) During a fast there is no glucose being put in through the front door by the street cleaners. (Alas, I have my own glucose-generator working hard inside my house! Argh!) And I remind myself my insulin levels are very/low during a fast, which will hopefully aid lowering insulin resistance. (The shut front door, which in an ideal world in a friendly town can and should be open! - ie insulin sensitivity.) [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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