So you are just eating anything, carbs, high carbs, very high carbs on Fast 5? Not testing anything other than fasting?
I don't blame you for not wanting to take and meds if you don't have to. And most likely, if you monitor your post prandial BS for a little while to understand which foods raise your BS and then eat accordingly you won't have to.
Heather doesn't eat as low carb as I do and her BS has lowered on Fast 5. IIRC she doesn't eat much carb, but does eat rice at each meal. I can't do that.
Everybody is different. So it is hard to say exactly what is the best path for each person without some testing of Post Prandials.
What Heather is talking about with cortisol levels causing BS to rise is aslo what I was referring to when i said your liver must heal. The liver has become insulin resistant and thus messes up the hormonal communication causing release of too much blood sugar. This is usually the first part of blood sugar regulation to go, unless you have one of the autoimmune types of D. Fortunately it is the first to heal.
It is also true that the fasting number is often the last to show problems and the last to lower...
Have you read Jenny Ruhl? I would suggest reading everything on her site to get a good idea of what you are dealing with
http://www.phlaunt.
Ellen
Ellen, I am not doing anything except fast-5 and trying to lose wieght. My doctor has prescribed Metformin for my Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, and she said it also could stave off diabetes for a while. I do not want to take that stuff, I am scared of it.
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com , Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@...> wrote:
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> What else are you doing about your blood sugar? IMO you will have to be low
> carb and high fat. Track your PP for a while to see your patterns and which
> foods "work" for you and which do not.
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> I found I had high blood sugars after being on Fast-5 for 6 months . I was
> even eating low carb at the time. It has taken me two years to get my blood
> sugar to stay below 100. During that time I tried a number of things and was
> on and off Fast 5 several times, experimenting with various approaches. Am
> doing Fast-5 again now and so far blood sugar is still good. I eat very
> low carb and high saturated fat and take something called Insulow (R Alpha
> Lipoic Acid and Evening Primrose Oil). Everybody is different, so you will
> just have to experiment and also understand that healing your liver, which
> is usually the problem in early blood sugar dysregulation, takes some time.
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> I started a yahoo group for this issue
> www.bloodsugarthinktank@yahoogroups .com
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>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:52 PM, afwitmer <afwitmer@...> wrote:
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> > 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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