Is fasting good for me?

[Nicksellick]

Since diagnosis I have gradually got in to the habit of not eating until around 2.00 pm.
Before then I have tea and coffee with ff milk and water, occasionally a weak squash.
My blood glucose just before I ate this morning was 9.8.
two hours after eating it was 6.0.
i am wondering if, because I seem to have a fairly high fasting glucose level, maybe it would be better to eat smaller meals more regularly.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Nick

 

[Lamont D]

Since diagnosis I have gradually got in to the habit of not eating until around 2.00 pm.
Before then I have tea and coffee with ff milk and water, occasionally a weak squash.
My blood glucose just before I ate this morning was 9.8.
two hours after eating it was 6.0.
i am wondering if, because I seem to have a fairly high fasting glucose level, maybe it would be better to eat smaller meals more regularly.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Nick

Only by trial and error will you know! For that you must use your monitor.
Maybe, your liver may give you a bell with glucose levels around this time, because you haven't ate. Maybe, you have done something physical just prior to testing. I don't know!
What you are doing is intermittent fasting, there is no hard rules how you do it. If you do fasting, it means that you have an eating window of a few hours per day, maybe four to five hours or even split. It doesn't matter as long as it works. It is cutting down on meals and portions, as well as carbs and sugars!
Using your monitor around meals is great, but if you want a fasting level, it is necessary to do it at roughly the same time in the morning before any food, but also at least half an after rising, because of dawn phenomenon.
I usually take my fasting levels around 10-11am.
Record all your data in a food diary. It will help you understand what is happening with your BG levels.