Two years ago I started Fast-5 for the first time. I loved it. Felt
more energy, more even moods, easily lost the weight I needed to lose
at the rate of 2 pounds a week. And it fit easily into my life. I
simply ate lunch and breakfast and was not terribly strict about
whether my window was 5 hours occasionally 7.
It also lowered my small dense LDL (tested directly) and reduced
greatly my already low CRP
But I also found at the end of 6 months, that I had the first higher
than 100 blood sugar at the doc's. My blood sugar levels have remained
above 100 since that time ( a year and a half). I tried Dr.
Schwarzbine'
strict with my carbs as per Dr. Bernstein (The Diabetes Solution)
But haven't gotten them down below 100. They are not high enough to be
diagnosed as diabetic, but that is only because I am very strictly low
carb. But if you think about the arbitrary way they assign that
diagnosis it is rather silly. Either you have some inability to
metabolize carbohydrate, or you don't. IMO it is like being a little
bit pregnant!
Because of this I have talked about blood sugar issues a number of
times here. I have wondered about my first high fasting blood sugar
was caused by doing fast-5 or if it was a coincidence. What was the
relation between Fast-5 and my blood sugar issues.
My most recent theory is that I had some kind of insulin, blood sugar
irregularity all my life which manifested in my constant hunger, and
mood and energy swings. For at least ten years before Fast-5 I was
probably insulin resistant. I had the signs: a new pattern of
overweight much of it around the middle and I could not lose it . I
did not have high tryglycrides but I did have high LDL I probably had
high post meal blood sugars all that time too, but had so much
circulating insulin that my fasting blood sugar was below 100 all that
time. So finally getting the insulin levels down did not *cause* the
higher blood sugars...it just revealed the other aspect of my problem
. And this is a good thing.
Ellen
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