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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 1159239" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p>I'm astonished under a kilo would equate to half an inch on your waist, but if it does, it does.</p><p></p><p>Nosher, if your wife doesn't want to weigh herself, then perhaps you can think of somewhere you can have the scales that wouldn't "offend" her? If your weight is to be as important to you as your Consultant suggests, then if I were in your shoes, I would be considering I was only doing half my job but purely monitoring my bloods. Alternatively, if your local Boots or supermarket has a coin-op weighing scale, you could rock up every few weeks and weigh yourself? </p><p></p><p>If you choose to do the latter, then I would urge you to do that before you have eaten, or to have something like a cube of cheese before you go, because your weight will vary through the day, depending upon what you have eaten or drunk. Indeed, I have a day to day variance in my weight too, and many do the same. If, as happens sometimes, I eat a lot (OK, so I eat a lot, often!), and it includes a more gargantuan pile of veggie, or additional carbs, then the reading on the scales will sometimes blip up a pound or two, so I am mindful to take my average over the course of a week. I step on and off the scales every morning, when I get up, before my cup of tea.</p><p></p><p>Of course, it's possible you had either eaten, or dunk more the day you weighed up a bit, and half an inch on the waist seems little to get overheated about, but as we agree, he may be, reassuringly, voicing his concern, rather than just thinking; "Here we go, he's heading off the wagon", and saying nothing.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest you use something like MyFitnessPal to log your meals for a short while. It's a little fiddly the first few times you do it, but quickly becomes very quick, as your regular foods are stored on your account, and only a click away. If you do this for what you eat and drink, without any trimming back, you will quickly see how much of each nutrient you eat, and what you can trim back on, to roughly accommodate your lack of fasting. Depending on the frequency of your posting, it may not be much, as what you need to cut back on sounds like it isn't huge, and of course you're averaging that trimming back over the period of your fasting (by that I mean trying to trim back by the total of your daily amount over the period between which you would normally fast). </p><p></p><p>I know you don't have T2, but your condition, as I understand it does have insulin resistance and fat storage in the mix. Some time ago, I wrote to Professor Taylor at Newcastle to ask him some questions about what he felt were pivotal factors, in terms of maintaining non-diabetic levels and improved IR. He was pretty succinct, to be honest. It pretty much amounted to:</p><p></p><p>- Find a maintenance way of eating of indeterminate, personal nature</p><p>- Maintain weight loss (maintaining the position of being under the personal fat threshold - PFT)</p><p>- Be mindful of any adverse signs detected.</p><p></p><p>When I gave him my details, and explained I hadn't used shakes or done the very low calorie approach at all, but asked him what chance he felt there was I could maintain my non-diabetic HbA1c and other markers. For me, he reckons, bearing in mind I explained I had continued with lower carbs than prior to diagnosis, and a number of good HbA1cs, he stated simply I shouldn't regain weight. He did of concede I had no idea how close to or far from my PFT, and I'm hoping I never find that out (as I would have re-crossed it), so maintaining weight is critical to me. I'f I'm honest, I'm probably a margin below my PFT, when I think when I first had non-diabetic bloods and how much I had trimmed up to that point.</p><p></p><p>It's a tricky puzzle, for sure!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 1159239, member: 88961"] I'm astonished under a kilo would equate to half an inch on your waist, but if it does, it does. Nosher, if your wife doesn't want to weigh herself, then perhaps you can think of somewhere you can have the scales that wouldn't "offend" her? If your weight is to be as important to you as your Consultant suggests, then if I were in your shoes, I would be considering I was only doing half my job but purely monitoring my bloods. Alternatively, if your local Boots or supermarket has a coin-op weighing scale, you could rock up every few weeks and weigh yourself? If you choose to do the latter, then I would urge you to do that before you have eaten, or to have something like a cube of cheese before you go, because your weight will vary through the day, depending upon what you have eaten or drunk. Indeed, I have a day to day variance in my weight too, and many do the same. If, as happens sometimes, I eat a lot (OK, so I eat a lot, often!), and it includes a more gargantuan pile of veggie, or additional carbs, then the reading on the scales will sometimes blip up a pound or two, so I am mindful to take my average over the course of a week. I step on and off the scales every morning, when I get up, before my cup of tea. Of course, it's possible you had either eaten, or dunk more the day you weighed up a bit, and half an inch on the waist seems little to get overheated about, but as we agree, he may be, reassuringly, voicing his concern, rather than just thinking; "Here we go, he's heading off the wagon", and saying nothing. I would suggest you use something like MyFitnessPal to log your meals for a short while. It's a little fiddly the first few times you do it, but quickly becomes very quick, as your regular foods are stored on your account, and only a click away. If you do this for what you eat and drink, without any trimming back, you will quickly see how much of each nutrient you eat, and what you can trim back on, to roughly accommodate your lack of fasting. Depending on the frequency of your posting, it may not be much, as what you need to cut back on sounds like it isn't huge, and of course you're averaging that trimming back over the period of your fasting (by that I mean trying to trim back by the total of your daily amount over the period between which you would normally fast). I know you don't have T2, but your condition, as I understand it does have insulin resistance and fat storage in the mix. Some time ago, I wrote to Professor Taylor at Newcastle to ask him some questions about what he felt were pivotal factors, in terms of maintaining non-diabetic levels and improved IR. He was pretty succinct, to be honest. It pretty much amounted to: - Find a maintenance way of eating of indeterminate, personal nature - Maintain weight loss (maintaining the position of being under the personal fat threshold - PFT) - Be mindful of any adverse signs detected. When I gave him my details, and explained I hadn't used shakes or done the very low calorie approach at all, but asked him what chance he felt there was I could maintain my non-diabetic HbA1c and other markers. For me, he reckons, bearing in mind I explained I had continued with lower carbs than prior to diagnosis, and a number of good HbA1cs, he stated simply I shouldn't regain weight. He did of concede I had no idea how close to or far from my PFT, and I'm hoping I never find that out (as I would have re-crossed it), so maintaining weight is critical to me. I'f I'm honest, I'm probably a margin below my PFT, when I think when I first had non-diabetic bloods and how much I had trimmed up to that point. It's a tricky puzzle, for sure! [/QUOTE]
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