I’ve spent this week in various forms of fasting, that is, mostly 24-hr. fasts, never going more than 28 hours without food. On that day, I posted:
I did have allowed beverages, including fat and cream in my coffee, and half-and-half with which to take my pills. I lost from 131 to 125 but gained back to 127.8 when I took insulin (to keep my BG under 150mg/dL). I have continued, and am continuing, to do Intermittent Fasting (16:8) and having only salad for supper. No berries, no meat.
This is the only way I am coping with the intense stress of Life Support.
I think it’s typical for BG to stay lower during the first few days of fasting. But then it starts to climb. Yes, I know the veteran ketonians say that’s because your liver is trying to dump all the sugar out of it. But that (obviously) increases your BG. As a type 2 diabetic, I cannot—I will not—allow my BG to go over 140 mg/dL, even while fasting, because I know that higher than that can cause organ and nerve damage. Some experts even say over 110 mg/dL starts to cause nerve damage. So I mitigate high BG with insulin as needed. Yes, I know that makes it harder to lose weight, but I’d rather be obese than have blindness, deafness, amputations, kidney failure, stroke, or heart attack.
