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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 897911" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>Bought scales while away from home in order to track my weight. Realised I am heartily sick of looking at the scales over the last six months. And I am heartily sick of having to go hungry for periods of time! Not good, having decided to IF :-/.</p><p></p><p>I'm 70kg, and normal weight. Have been since 3 or so months after diagnosis when I put my eating and motion into overhaul. But I realise that to have normal blood glucose levels, with my liver and pancreas mis-functioning as they do, I need to be around 5kg lighter - ie lean. (Which I was post the D-ND. And according to Prof Taylor's Personal Fat Threshold Theory.) Being lean after decades of having belly fat to some degree (even if the rest of me wasn't fat my belly has been) is hard hard hungry work. (It's not hard for me to be normal weight as a paleo-betic.)</p><p></p><p>Is it better, possible, to get lean gradually? My guess is the only way for me, bar doing the semi-starvation/VLCD thing again. (Which I am in absolutely no hurry to do! Two months of my life on hold to do that.) Will I be able to adapt better to IFing, ie not feel I can't move much in the morning until I have eaten (How I currently feel, after two and a half weeks of 15/9ing.) Can I ever get lean again? Is it a realistic goal? Is it the only way I will be as healthy as I can be?</p><p></p><p>I have come to the conclusion if I have an appetite/leptin thing going on, that makes me not deal well with hunger and skipping meals, even just one meal, it is damage that was done a long long time ago (I have always been like this, always as far as I can remember), or, I was just born this way. (ditto.) </p><p></p><p>I looked at Dr Mercola's IF chart online the other night, and he shows folk confining their eating to just 6 hours 12-6pm. I wanted to die of lethargy and hunger just looking at it! But I can see how it works for many, for some, many, regarding regulating insulin and blood glucose, and regulating eating and energy levels.</p><p></p><p>Hmmm. Will keep thinking about this. Whilst continuing to not eat at night, and skipping eating when I get up in the morning (ie 15/9ing). And then see if my FBG has improved once I get glucose test strips again. How long should it be before one sees an improvement in one's BG?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 897911, member: 150927"] Bought scales while away from home in order to track my weight. Realised I am heartily sick of looking at the scales over the last six months. And I am heartily sick of having to go hungry for periods of time! Not good, having decided to IF :-/. I'm 70kg, and normal weight. Have been since 3 or so months after diagnosis when I put my eating and motion into overhaul. But I realise that to have normal blood glucose levels, with my liver and pancreas mis-functioning as they do, I need to be around 5kg lighter - ie lean. (Which I was post the D-ND. And according to Prof Taylor's Personal Fat Threshold Theory.) Being lean after decades of having belly fat to some degree (even if the rest of me wasn't fat my belly has been) is hard hard hungry work. (It's not hard for me to be normal weight as a paleo-betic.) Is it better, possible, to get lean gradually? My guess is the only way for me, bar doing the semi-starvation/VLCD thing again. (Which I am in absolutely no hurry to do! Two months of my life on hold to do that.) Will I be able to adapt better to IFing, ie not feel I can't move much in the morning until I have eaten (How I currently feel, after two and a half weeks of 15/9ing.) Can I ever get lean again? Is it a realistic goal? Is it the only way I will be as healthy as I can be? I have come to the conclusion if I have an appetite/leptin thing going on, that makes me not deal well with hunger and skipping meals, even just one meal, it is damage that was done a long long time ago (I have always been like this, always as far as I can remember), or, I was just born this way. (ditto.) I looked at Dr Mercola's IF chart online the other night, and he shows folk confining their eating to just 6 hours 12-6pm. I wanted to die of lethargy and hunger just looking at it! But I can see how it works for many, for some, many, regarding regulating insulin and blood glucose, and regulating eating and energy levels. Hmmm. Will keep thinking about this. Whilst continuing to not eat at night, and skipping eating when I get up in the morning (ie 15/9ing). And then see if my FBG has improved once I get glucose test strips again. How long should it be before one sees an improvement in one's BG? [/QUOTE]
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