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Type 2s: How long did it take to get HbA1C below 42
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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1464765" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>For me, fasting only impacts my blood glucose numbers after 20 hours or so. Shorter fasts (such as 16/8) have no effect on my Libre graphs at all.</p><p></p><p>So I went for 24 hr fasts, which meant that I was eating once a day, and seeing reduced blood glucose numbers for the afternoons (I tended to fast from 7pm til 6 or 7 the next day, and my bgs would bounce about as normal, until afternoons, when they would drift downwards until I ate between 6 or 7 pm).</p><p></p><p>However, after a while I noticed a few things that didn't please me.</p><p>- weight loss was insignificant, even on 1 meal a day, and I wasn't eating huge evening meals.</p><p>- so I suspect that by fasting too regularly, and too consistently, I had effectively been low calorieing AND fasting, and my metabolism had slowed down to match the lower calorie intake. This had happened before with lc diets, so it came as disappointing, but not surprising.</p><p></p><p>Since stopping fasting I have switched to less than 20g carbs a day and am eating more regularly, using the dietdoctor recipes. Metabolism seems to have speeded up again (thankfully without weight gain!) and I feel much better. My blood glucose is also better on dietdoctor than it was on the fasting. </p><p></p><p>But then, for me, carbs are key. I was eating 20-40 g carbs a day on the fasting, whereas I am eating less than 20g carbs a day on the dietdoctor - which seems to suit me better.</p><p></p><p>So no, fasting did NOT increase my tolerance to carbs.</p><p></p><p>[USER=375067]@Art Of Flowers[/USER] I can appreciate that you are trying to work out generalised indications of what works for people, but I just don't think you are going to get anywhere. We are all so different. There are so many factors at work - age, sex, activity levels, levels of carb intake, protein intake, other health conditions, hormones... it is like comparing chalk and cheese.</p><p></p><p>I do however, wish you every success in finding out what works for YOU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1464765, member: 41816"] For me, fasting only impacts my blood glucose numbers after 20 hours or so. Shorter fasts (such as 16/8) have no effect on my Libre graphs at all. So I went for 24 hr fasts, which meant that I was eating once a day, and seeing reduced blood glucose numbers for the afternoons (I tended to fast from 7pm til 6 or 7 the next day, and my bgs would bounce about as normal, until afternoons, when they would drift downwards until I ate between 6 or 7 pm). However, after a while I noticed a few things that didn't please me. - weight loss was insignificant, even on 1 meal a day, and I wasn't eating huge evening meals. - so I suspect that by fasting too regularly, and too consistently, I had effectively been low calorieing AND fasting, and my metabolism had slowed down to match the lower calorie intake. This had happened before with lc diets, so it came as disappointing, but not surprising. Since stopping fasting I have switched to less than 20g carbs a day and am eating more regularly, using the dietdoctor recipes. Metabolism seems to have speeded up again (thankfully without weight gain!) and I feel much better. My blood glucose is also better on dietdoctor than it was on the fasting. But then, for me, carbs are key. I was eating 20-40 g carbs a day on the fasting, whereas I am eating less than 20g carbs a day on the dietdoctor - which seems to suit me better. So no, fasting did NOT increase my tolerance to carbs. [USER=375067]@Art Of Flowers[/USER] I can appreciate that you are trying to work out generalised indications of what works for people, but I just don't think you are going to get anywhere. We are all so different. There are so many factors at work - age, sex, activity levels, levels of carb intake, protein intake, other health conditions, hormones... it is like comparing chalk and cheese. I do however, wish you every success in finding out what works for YOU. [/QUOTE]
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