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<blockquote data-quote="Roggg" data-source="post: 2388786" data-attributes="member: 489176"><p>Intermittent fasting generally comes in 2 flavours... One is often called "time restricted", and we'll call the other one "alternate day" for lack of a better term. </p><p>Time restricted is, as you suggest "skipping meals". Or more accurately having a longer period each day when you dont eat. For example, I often do "20/4" which means I only eat during a 4 hour window each day. For me that means I eat between 3pm and 7pm. So "snacking between meals" is okay as long as it's not between your last meal today and your first meal tomorrow. If you are going to do "time restricted" eating, you can ease into it. Start with no snacking after dinner. That should get you to about 12/12. Skipping breakfast would be a good second step, and that gets you to about 18/6. You dont necessarily need to go as far as 20/4 to get benefits.</p><p></p><p>What I'm calling alternate day involves just not eating certain days, but eating normally (but preferably low carb) on other days. This can be harder to adjust to, but may yield faster improvements in blood sugars. Strictly speaking "alternate days" means eating every other day, but there are other patterns that people use. A lot of people use 5/2. This is eating 5 days a week, and fasting 2. Some people do the 2 together, and others split them up.</p><p></p><p>CAUTION: If you do any kind if intermittent fasting while on gliclazide, you run a risk of low blood sugar. Medical supervision is best, but if I couldn't have medical supervision, I would use keto/low carb to get off the gliclazide first before adding fasting.</p><p></p><p>Fasting works much like low carb works. By not eating carbs (or for IF, not eating anything) you give your body time to clear sugar from your blood, and then your insulin levels can drop. This can lead to using fat for fuel instead of sugar for a while which is really good for improving "insulin resistance" which is at the heart of most type-2 diabetes.</p><p></p><p>It's a lot to take in... I know. If you want to know more about fasting for type-2 diabetes, Dr Jason Fung literally wrote the book on it: "The Diabetes Code". In my experience, fasting really boosts the benefits of low carb eating for diabetes, but I do think that the low carb is the more important of the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roggg, post: 2388786, member: 489176"] Intermittent fasting generally comes in 2 flavours... One is often called "time restricted", and we'll call the other one "alternate day" for lack of a better term. Time restricted is, as you suggest "skipping meals". Or more accurately having a longer period each day when you dont eat. For example, I often do "20/4" which means I only eat during a 4 hour window each day. For me that means I eat between 3pm and 7pm. So "snacking between meals" is okay as long as it's not between your last meal today and your first meal tomorrow. If you are going to do "time restricted" eating, you can ease into it. Start with no snacking after dinner. That should get you to about 12/12. Skipping breakfast would be a good second step, and that gets you to about 18/6. You dont necessarily need to go as far as 20/4 to get benefits. What I'm calling alternate day involves just not eating certain days, but eating normally (but preferably low carb) on other days. This can be harder to adjust to, but may yield faster improvements in blood sugars. Strictly speaking "alternate days" means eating every other day, but there are other patterns that people use. A lot of people use 5/2. This is eating 5 days a week, and fasting 2. Some people do the 2 together, and others split them up. CAUTION: If you do any kind if intermittent fasting while on gliclazide, you run a risk of low blood sugar. Medical supervision is best, but if I couldn't have medical supervision, I would use keto/low carb to get off the gliclazide first before adding fasting. Fasting works much like low carb works. By not eating carbs (or for IF, not eating anything) you give your body time to clear sugar from your blood, and then your insulin levels can drop. This can lead to using fat for fuel instead of sugar for a while which is really good for improving "insulin resistance" which is at the heart of most type-2 diabetes. It's a lot to take in... I know. If you want to know more about fasting for type-2 diabetes, Dr Jason Fung literally wrote the book on it: "The Diabetes Code". In my experience, fasting really boosts the benefits of low carb eating for diabetes, but I do think that the low carb is the more important of the two. [/QUOTE]
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