What I have found is that sometimes when I am fasting my BG goes UP.
In fact, it goes higher when I'm really hungry, like when I first do
fasting. When I first started fasting it went up to 123 or more, but
was normally 95. But now, fasting, it is 83, which is way better than
95.
Thing is, when you fast, your body produces cortisol to force sugar
into your bloodstream. Sometimes it overshoots, and gets too much
sugar into your blood. If you fast a lot, it gets better at releasing
the right amount. At least that's the theory, and it seems to be true
in my case. In general, the thought about fasting and diabetes is that
over the long run, the fasting can help with Type 2 management, but
the BG numbers might go up in the short run.
There is an interesting theory also that high iron stores are the root
cause of Type 2 diabetes. Donating blood seems to help Type 2. I've
found that avoiding high-iron foods seems to help too, in "metabolic
syndrome" in general (and drinking tea with meals). See:
http://diabetes.
This would fit with "gestational diabetes" because during pregnancy,
the body hoards metals in general (copper too). Also no menstruation.
In the US, the high-iron foods are carb foods with added iron:
fortified breakfast cereals seem to be among the worst offenders.
Anyway, it's an easy thing to experiment with.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:52 AM, afwitmer <afwitmer@yahoo.
> I am back on fast-5 again after a break. I did not know that I had diabetes. My doctor took my A1C in January and it was 5.9 However, I have had gestational diabetes 3 times in the last 6 years or so. I am not pregnant now.
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> This morning I took my blood sugar, after fasting for about 11 hours or so and it was 129 !!!!!!! And that was fasting!!!! I took it another time before that and it was 119!!!! Whoa! Does anything change for me with this diet/lifestyle if I have diabetes OR pre-diabetes?
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