boggle
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- Type of diabetes
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I have been recently really trying to get my higher readings down in the morning.
From what i've looked at as we get ready to wake the liver releases glucose into the blood stream and the body also sees an increase in hormones such as growth hormone.
I've found that the only way for me to reduce this effect is to become fat adapted. To do this I had to reduce my carbohydrates to around 20g or less a day and increase my fat intake. I've been monitoring my ketones, which indicate fat burning. I did lose about a stone in weight and was able to stop taking insulin but my weightloss plateaued before hitting my target weight.
I have now introduced fasting into my life and its helped me reduce my weight further. I eat at slightly odd times due to my job; 10am, 3pm and 10pm. I think my late dinners really did not help my morning numbers, even with a zero carb meal (delayed gluconeogenesis?), so I now skip this meal and maybe have a bigger 3pm meal. I found that I am hardly ever hungry in the morning so I skip this meal. Essentially I was doing OMAD and this worked quite well for me. On my days off I found OMAD a bit harder, so 16:8 was ok for me on these days and 20:4 probably worked a bit better. Last Friday I did a 36 hour fast and I've just finished another 36 hour fast today and I lost significant weight.
I would recommend exploring fasting options for anyone who is practicing keto and has plateaued a bit with weightloss or blood glucose reduction. Some people do keto but do not increase their fat intake, I believe this might make fasting harder and you might not get as good a result. I believe it is important to become fat adapted before fasting so that you have the bio mechanisms to burn fat.
From what i've looked at as we get ready to wake the liver releases glucose into the blood stream and the body also sees an increase in hormones such as growth hormone.
I've found that the only way for me to reduce this effect is to become fat adapted. To do this I had to reduce my carbohydrates to around 20g or less a day and increase my fat intake. I've been monitoring my ketones, which indicate fat burning. I did lose about a stone in weight and was able to stop taking insulin but my weightloss plateaued before hitting my target weight.
I have now introduced fasting into my life and its helped me reduce my weight further. I eat at slightly odd times due to my job; 10am, 3pm and 10pm. I think my late dinners really did not help my morning numbers, even with a zero carb meal (delayed gluconeogenesis?), so I now skip this meal and maybe have a bigger 3pm meal. I found that I am hardly ever hungry in the morning so I skip this meal. Essentially I was doing OMAD and this worked quite well for me. On my days off I found OMAD a bit harder, so 16:8 was ok for me on these days and 20:4 probably worked a bit better. Last Friday I did a 36 hour fast and I've just finished another 36 hour fast today and I lost significant weight.
I would recommend exploring fasting options for anyone who is practicing keto and has plateaued a bit with weightloss or blood glucose reduction. Some people do keto but do not increase their fat intake, I believe this might make fasting harder and you might not get as good a result. I believe it is important to become fat adapted before fasting so that you have the bio mechanisms to burn fat.