I like to hear that you are open to new ideasThank you Mark and Finsky for your opinions. Yes, I have wondered for a while if I "eat to my medications" as you put it. I do enjoy eating more when my medication is increased, it's as though I have been given permission to indulge a little. Until I started reading this forum I didn't realise different approaches to diabetes are being investigated.
I have no gallbladder now and I lose my appetite completely if I overdo butter and fried food but will consider reducing carbs a little more, summer being a good time to experiment. I am due for my annual chat with a diabetic nurse (have been in a new area for 18 months) and will see what she thinks too.
I am not interested in fasting with regard to diabetes, I just do a 24 hour one to rest my stomach occasionally.
Thank you. Very useful and you have helped me understand why fasting will help.There can be many reasons..including medical and religious. I fast because I have spare 'energy' stored around my waste line that doesn't get used =loosing it is VERY hard when you are diabetic AND have PCOS. Low carb diet on its own doesn't achieve quite as much results that I would like...or it is VERY slow progress. Add fasting to the diet and hey presto, things start moving.
Saying that, weight loss is added bonus..I have made all the changes to get my blood sugar levels under control.
When you fast..you body will need 'food'...when I doesn't come from your diet, it has to come from somewhere...it start drawing out from its own fat reserves. That is what nature has intended it to be..fat reserves are there when times are hard and food not readily available. But in modern times...food is everywhere and easily available...we eat all the time > weight gain and other health issues....or I should say..CARBOHYDRATES are everywhere, particularly very processed form carbs. All carbs raise our blood sugars causing body to release insulin to deal with those sugars. Insulin also is turning all/unused carb energy into fat stores in our bodies >weight gain. If you have lots of insulin in your system...more eaten energy is stored..when your body is in 'storage mode'..it sends signals that you are hungry, even if you have only recently eaten. So you eat because you truly feel hungry> more insulin produced..and so it goes on in circles.
During fasting your insulin production is minimal..once you body gets used to fasting , one doesn't get those hungry messages same way because insulin is not there playing the game in such a quantity nor is the 'storage' issue present as one will use up what is available.
That is very simplified way of putting some medical reasons for fasting...particularly with type 2 diabetics. But there are many more ways fasting will affect medically for other illnesses and conditions. Religiously it is seen body's way of 'cleansing' itself..and it is very similar way seeing it medically too. I see it way of giving one's body a break to get over come some 'hard days of work' and re-setting the system...or at least make some issues ease off a little.
Do you take stations?I take one Metformin 500 mcg after breakfast and one after lunch. It works for me. On a personal LC diet. Not fat free.
No dry throat. I am trying to drink more water. I bought the Obesity guide by Jung. Really informative. Upping fat intake I find hard after years of being brainwashed into having low fat foods. I am making slow but steady progress. Looking forward to my next hb1ac test. Let me know how you are getting on perhaps we can help each other
Welcome @KEITHMARKS You will find that for many folk, the first reading of the day is the last to fall into line. This is probably due to Dawn Phenomenon, or "liver dump" a quite natural eventI too am following Jason Fung Obesity Code fasting diet. Completed one week, alternate fast days, and now had 10days no carbs, higher fat, my blood sugars coming down in day, but mornings still quite high. Only taking slow release metformin on fasting days when I eat, so some days only take one tablet. I am not overweight, just using the diet to correct sugar levels
Upping fat intake I find hard after years of being brainwashed into having low fat foods.
Yep thats what I do, lunch is often my first meal and I eat my last meal late (8/9 oclock)
Don't skip meals and drink more water.
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