My low carb/IF Diet - BG and progress

Debmcgee said:

Well done for resisting. I've got some oppo in the freezer but don't want my kids to know it's in there so may have a midnight feast! Or save it for tomorrow. I'm going to have to make room in freezer so that I can make low carb ice pops or something. Never gonna get through the summer without something!


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF

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It's OK, Debs, you only have a few days to survive, until the weather breaks a bit.

Sorry, sorry, I know that wasn't very nice of me, but I'm utterly adoring this heat!

What do you drink on fasting days? also how long do you fast?

Clivethedrive said:

Did you see " trust me i'm a doctor last night debmcgee, they are saying that the artificial sweetners in it are bad causing more people to get diabetes....ho hum or pre diabetes.

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Dr. Fung also cites studies about artificial sweetener's increasing insulin although they don't affect blood sugar. He says that they can push it up 20%. I don't know how much you have to have to get that result though. If you're really working on your insulin resistance then the diet stuff could be counterproductive. And it's a myth that Stevia is different he says. Good marketing I guess. I find it's harder to give up sweetener in my coffee and iced tea than it was to give up bread! But your success is amazing, so you must be doing great work

Debmcgee said:

This morning I got 5.7 and I'm 36 hours into my spontaneous longer fast. Had a few pangs over night and did not sleep as well as I would normally but it's been totally bearable. My mum is coming to stay for a few days as its my eldest daughter's 8th birthday. Mum likes to eat put a lot so this could be hard.....

TGI Fridays is for the birthday lunch tomorrow. Today, I reckon it'll be something like Harvester and then on Sunday she wants to go to this fab dessert place where they make the most amazing waffles with ice cream. I was planning on fasting for that but it's torture. I'd actually really prefer not to go at all but I can't really...

I'm feeling a lot healthier.

I also calculated what my pain doctor's goal weightloss for me would amount to - it's going to be a long slog but I'm definitely prepared to give it a go. I'm still focussing on 10kg increments and currently am 3 away from the next block. I've a lot of kids stuff to get through over the summer but really want to stick to losing a kilo a week. I'd be gutted if I undid all this hard work but life has to continue. That's the worst part of this journey. We have it for life and will never be free from it.

Have a wonderful day y'all. I'm so glad weather is cooler and sun is hiding behind a cloud. Makes such a difference!

I'm planning on going out for civilised drinks with my friend tonight - not been out for 3 months! Again, I will not go wild...

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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF

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Well done on nudging up your IF length

You are being consistent in the midst of a busy life

I am only 3 months post diagnosis and my second A1C came in at 29. It was originally 53 and all I've done is permanently changed my lifestyle to one you have adopted


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Well done on reaching 5.7 this morning. I've been reading your blog and know how hard you have been working in it.
I have quite high early morning readings too - so annoying! I became T2 as a result of taking steroids for arthritis, fortunately I was in a pre diabetes study so my T2 was discovered just as I was finishing the three month course of stetoids. I was thrown off the study and was put on 'diet and exercise' for three months by my own GP and given the 'eat carbs with every meal' diet sheet - utterly deadly for me. I bought Dr David Cavan's book Reverse Your T2 Diabetes, read that from cover to cover - it is truly inspirational - thought about it fir a week then bought my own blood sugar meter - I mean how can you know what's happening to your body if you don't test your blood.
I discovered then that my nice healthy gluten free oat bran breakfast muffins spiked my blood, as did my nice healthy jacket potato lunch, in fact anything with as much as a sniff of grain healthy grain or not - spiked my levels. So I recorded everything I ate every day, cut out snacks and cut out Diet Coke! Very sad that but I only drink water, decaf tea and coffee now.
I've been 'eating to the test' ever since, I have lists of everything I have eaten since last December! How obsessed is that I ask? Anyway, at my three month HbA1c my results had gone from 6.7% (44mmol) - I was 6.2% (44mmol) and pre diabetic when I started the study the year before - to 5.6% (38mmol) and my weight has come down from 73.6kg to 55.6kg. To look in the bright side if I hadn't been given the steroids when I was taking part in a pre diabetes study then I would most likely gradually have become T2, this way I was given a real shock and got a real grip of myself.

So - have a lovely summer holiday, I hope you get some decent weather that you can enjoy without being surrounded with a class of kids. Enjoy your night out and good luck with your mum and her eating out habit

KevinPotts said:

Well done on nudging up your IF length

You are being consistent in the midst of a busy life

I am only 3 months post diagnosis and my second A1C came in at 29. It was originally 53 and all I've done is permanently changed my lifestyle to one you have adopted


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Well done Kevin that is absolutely fantastic - I'm green with envy (in the nicest way) of your 29 - I'd love to be that low. It really is worth changing your lifestyle isn't it. LCHF is definitely the way to go, there is no way I would ever want to go back to my former carb laden diet.

Debmcgee said:

@Lizzie2. Wow you've done great! I too tested everything I've eaten and built my meals around what impact they have on my bg. It really is the only way to tell what you're doing to yourself. I like watching Fung when he talks about docs berating patients for not improving health after following advice that is destined to fail. That's been me my whole life (without the docs) and I'm going to beat it.

I wanted to check body stats this morning following the extended fast. It's interesting - the pound I've lost overnight has come from lean mass and not body fat. I wasn't shocked - I've not been weight lifting for a week due to heat and also read it in Fung's book that it will sort itself out after 48 hours and continue to use fat stores instead of muscle. I've got a few of my real-world friends telling me I'll go into starvation mode etc and I just can't be ***** to explain the research so just listen to them bash on about it. They should really know me better than that!! I'm well read and don't make substantial changes without a lot of consideration!

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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF

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Ha, ha. Starvation mode Like your attitude to your real world friends. Pity they wouldn't do a bit of research for themselves and find out the benefits of low carb / intermittent fasting. I imagine most people could benefit from it.
My next door neighbour is a pain, she studies me annually and keeps telling me I'm getting 'so thin' - as if! I just say cheerfully 'no I'm not, It's just that I was so chunky before that I look thin now, I'm not really and my BMI is slap bang in the middle of the upper and lower limits for my height.' I suspect she thinks she knows better but like you say - who cares. She knows I eat a lot - she sees me, I just eat more wisely.