Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Hello, just a introduction

Good for you!!!!Keep it up. Yeah, the blood sugar is the most important thing. The weight will follow I bet, if you just stay with the program!. keep us posted.

Ellen

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, trspcok <trspcok@yahoo.com> wrote:

I just found this group after just finding the F5 website. It was kind of cool to stumble upon it the way I did. I had actually started something along the lines of F5 a while back on my own based solely upon my own research and theories.

I am a self induced recovering diabetic! I have been riding a roller coaster since being diagnosed until this past month or so after applying my research findings. I had honestly let myself go, I stopped the doctors meds, and the diabetic diet crap, really just saying let come what may. But I started having strange tingles and tiny needle pricks in the feet and lower legs, my eyes were blurring up, Diabetic spots were growing darker on my legs, even had some fingers which experienced the numb feelings, and the list goes on. One of the other more serious issues is the pain in my liver. Last year I was told after some on-going bad pain in the liver, that I had fatty liver, this was after a CT scan, probe and etc.

I started having very severe sick spells and getting dizzy, after a week I broke and took my Blood Sugar (BS) it was 402! I was being a dumb @$$, this was not dealing with the issue but rather ignoring it and I was paying for it. I had touched on this once before, the periodic fasting concept but I had not researched it fully, but I knew that the 2200 calories prescribed by the doctor full of 6 meals with carbs in each meal was not the answer, so I knew I needed to address carbs as well.

My weight when all this took place had climbed back up to 260. As I researched and studied I played with this concept and that, I quit smoking and in a few months dropped down to 240. But the problem was my BS was still over 250. I finally decided I had to be as extreme as it is for alcoholics or smokers, you either drop it and walk away or you struggle, there for me can not be a in between. So I developed my plan:

No processed carbs or sugars period!
Eat 50+ % of my diet in raw foods!
Consume no beverages but water, green or herbal tea and goat milk on occasion!
Adjust my body to a periodic fasting schedule!

It was really that simple after I put it down on paper. And here are the results since I started back on March 22nd, 2009:

March 23rd WT - 240 BS - 318
April 1st WT - 240 BS - 300
" " 4th WT - 239 BS - 262
" " 9th WT - 240 BS - 241
" " 14th WT - 237 BS - 170
" " 19th WT - 239 BS - 141
" " 24th WT - 238 BS - 151
" " 30th WT - 240 BS - 169
May 5th WT - 238 BS - 116
" " 8th WT - 237 BS - 109!!!

Pain in legs and feet gone, diabetic spots on legs fading, numbness in fingers gone, eyes back to normal (actually a bit better than normal (not using the reading glasses like I was), sick spells gone, Pain in the liver completely gone!

I am not at this point so worried about the weight, I have not got into a regular activity program as of yet. I am allowing my body time to adjust to this and giving it time to experience a time with no processed carbs being induced. The big think I am focused on at this time is the BS, and the results are completely without any meds what so ever. Each test is performed at 7 AM in the morning to keep it consistent.

I figure that as my body adapts to using the carbs it is getting, it will normalize within a normal range between 90 - 110.

My family have not been very supportive, granted they are all obese, diseased individuals with their own set of problems. The doctor will not support me, in fact stated that he would not recommend this approach and can not support it. But I will not stop, the logic in it is what really sold me. It just works, it fits. It is not hard to do and it is not something I really think a lot about.

Now as for F5, I had been doing a fast till noon one day and eat normal the next day. But after finding F5 I have decided to try this approach for a while and see what happens. I figure the results can only get better.

The one thing that I have noticed too is even though I have not really lost a lot of weight, I feel thinner, my clothes are fitting different. I am not sure why. My daughter even told me one morning as I stepped out of the shower (joys of sharing one bathroom) that my man boobs looked smaller! ha-ha And she is right I just feel different. I seem more alert, look thinner (not as puffy or swelled), I'm active without trying to be and my body just feels better all over.

So the doctors can not support this, but they can support pumping you full of meds, setting up appointments all month for this and that, can support consuming 2200 calories in 6 meals a day full of processed carbs, is there something I am missing here? No, I think I have it figured out. I sure wish other folks could too! I actually look around and see all these sick fat people everywhere, it is sad.

We went to see Jeff Dunham last weekend, (great show by the way) but as we were standing waiting to get in I was looking about and noticed that 9 out of 10 of the 50+ people around us were over weight! Some grossly so. It is very sad.

Take care,

T