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Do you fast? single choice poll please say what other is.
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I fast twice a week for 14-16 hours which can be considered as Intermittent fasting. And fast daily for 12-13 hours in night on other days.
I fast in a way by not having brunch until midday, so fasting for around 14 hours. Low carb after that. Works for me.
I used to skip breakfast as a kid/teen, then everybody had a big go at me about how important breakfast is, and I brought it in. Now they've changed the narrative, but I am too used to breakfast to cut it out again. *Grumbles*
I can not fast as a diabetic- very low weight one. My husband is an keto intermmitent fastener. I maintain mostly a high level keto diet with carb's higher being higher than normal require by endo. and my nuero.( have Epilepsy).
I don't fast, because if I go too long with out food my blood pressure drops and I get woozy and feel like I am about to faint
I have done in the past but not for a long time.
No I wouldn't fast. I have a liver condition called Gilbert syndrome. It's minor as far as liver conditions go, but it makes me more prone to hypoglycaemic drops if I get too hungry . Hypos feel horrible and though it's not a serious coma risk like a diabetic one (the blood sugar levels do come up, just slowly) it could be dangerous if you're operating machinery ( I've had a car bump whilst hypo ) It also causes low level jaundice which is normally only visible if I'm ill, but apparently this also happens if you fast so I dont want that! I'd also be grumpy lol. Three meals plus a small snack keeps things ticking over nicely.
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We continue to eat normally on a wide range of meat, fish, eggs, cheese, vegetables and fruit every day. Breakfast is an important meal giving the body energy to start the day. Kids that go to school without breakfast have been shown to under-perform.
At my school all children can have free toast in the mornings
I used to fast and do low carb highish fat but my hepatologist told me that fasting stresses the liver and as I have cirrhosis I must never fast.
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I hope this is what you want.😊
Cant fast and dont need to . Diabetic 2 and fasting causes spikes in blood glucose and takes days to rectify - as in fasting for a blood test which is held back by a number of hours.
If your blood sugar is that badly unregulated, I would commit to fixing your t2 instead of resigning yourself to going inexorably downhill. It's not difficult or unpleasant and you'll get your life back again.
Not at all unregulated - when you fast the body responds by releasing glucose.
I try to have a fasting blood test first thing 8am but at times other emergencies have created hours of backlog at the pathology lab. I now leave if this occurs rather than waiting. What I meant taking days to rectify is I usually test @ 5.9 but leaving it too long throws glucose balance out into the high 7's. Steady even time between meals keeps everything balanced - fasting is contrary.
>> when you fast the body responds by releasing glucose.
Sure; this is perfectly normal. In a non-diabetic body, everything else responds to the same insulin signal that causes the glucose release to take it up and burn it for fuel. However you suggested you're getting a large overshoot, which is a result of (a) the rest of your body being incapable of responding correctly and (b) your liver failing to shut down gluconeogenesis as blood glucose rises.
Why not just fix it? You don't have to live with diabetes. Type two is easily reversible as long as it hasn't persisted for many years. The longer you wait, the less likely it gets. If you have a NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme group in your area they can talk you through it - although frankly it's simple enough to just do it yourself. Check out diabetes.co.uk.
Just had my half yearly blood results and all is better than four months ago, what your saying and what my GP says are similar although she agrees I should not fast too long better to come back another day.
I am in Perth, WA and am a member of Diabetes Australia ( NDSS)
To all intents and purposes I have complete control of my diabetes 2 , your misunderstanding my point - is delay in eating by fasting first thing in the morning is counter productive to a stable glucose level .
By delaying food intake my other scripts are delayed ( 2 hrs before and some are 3 hrs after food ) - the whole sequence is avoidable if I dont fast beyond an acceptable point.
Maybe I expressed it wrongly by implying Blood Glucose was the two days to achieve balance again. I apologize .
I was suggesting you cure it, rather than take medications to mask the symptoms until your body finally gives up under the strain of compliance with pharmacological intervention.
I had a look at the IDF website and I get the distinct impression that the purpose of the IDF is to ensure its own continued existence. The focus is entirely on "managing" diabetes - ie., keeping people borderline diabetic for the rest of their lives and dosed up on powerful medication - rather than freeing them from it. The recommendation to put "most" diabetics on statins is unconscionable. Their dietary recommendations (such as they are) ignore the basic biochemistry behind diabetes. I'd best stop there before this turns into a spittle-flecked rant.
I would urge you to take a look at the diabetes.co.uk site. Of course I can't tell you what to do with your life, but T2 is curable. Those guys are doing great work getting people off drugs and onto a proper diet-based treatment (not "management") for T2.
<The focus is entirely on "managing" diabetes - ie., keeping people borderline diabetic for the rest of their lives and dosed up on powerful medication - rather than freeing them from it. The recommendation to put "most" diabetics on statins is unconscionable. >
Couldn't agree more , I stopped Statins because of a few reasons and since then every metabolic problem I have put up with for fifteen years has disappeared and I was only on 2.5mg Atorvastatin . I have already reduced my Hb AIC from 8.4% down to under 6% in a 100days - I still call myself Diabetic 2 but I can see being down to 5% by the next blood test.
Suffice to say I totally agree from where your coming from and its where I want to go.
Perhaps I SHOULD but I DON'T, I'm a FAT/ OBESE man! Am I 'Proud', of the fact I'm Large? Well not exactly….I'm just happy that, nearly Twenty-Two Years after I was given 'an Hour' to live, I'm Still here. Yes I do sometimes, go to the Gym, and I do some 'Group' Keep Fit every Tuesday. Maybe I should do 'More', Maybe.....
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I do a 8 / 16 hour fast have breakfast around 9.30 am don’t eat after 8 pm
I'm work busy so i miss to breakfast only
I don’t fast but I never eat after 5pm. I sleep much better too.
I often go from 7pm to 12 midday without eating. I don't feel hungry otherwise I would definitely eat sooner! But it's an effective way for me to balance my calorie intake and maintain a healthy weight.
I used to do an alternate day fast....20:4, with a normal three meals a day the following day, but I'm currently trying out 16:8 one day and 20:4 the next day. Effectively that means, lunch and dinner one day and just dinner the next day, with nothing after 8pm. My aim is weight loss, but I am finding that I feel great on this fasting lark 😄 So I may just continue it even after my weight loss, by just eating more in the eating window.
I can't fast since I'm on insulin and other medications through the day. I also have Epilepsy and if I don't eat, then the blood sugars for the Diabetes goes too low and can set off seizures both Diabetic and Epileptic. I go to a lab for the A1c and always get asked if I had fasted. I tell them that the doctor knows I'm not able to.
No, since I’m a brittle type 1.
I am trying to leave 14 - 16 hrs between dinner and breakfast as recently recommended on the NHS diabetes prevention course. We were told this helps weight reduction and helps address insulin resistance. But this doesn't tally with what people have posted here. Confused...
Hi Janet, some members are type 1 diabetic and I believe it's harder to regulate insulin with type1 as it's an autoimmune disease, where the patients immune system disrupts insulin absorption and type1 is not related to weight or age like type 2.
So if it works for you then thats the main thing. 😊
Thanks Jerry. That makes sense. And I am pre-diabetic, rather than actually type 2, so I suppose that's another factor. Have lost 3kg anyway,,,I appreciate your reply. 😊
That is more or less what I have been doing since year dot , being from a farm we always had Dinner at 5pm / 5.30pm and Breakfast at 7am - 8am.
Whats old is new again !
Has your doctor told you that you may have hypoglycemia?
That’s good news!😀👍
What do you have to eat during the day and evening hours?
hi
I miss read the poll at first, I thought it said do you eat fast lol! Which, unfortunately, I most definitely do!! Heartburn remedies are my best friend!
