Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: RE: [fast5] Fast 5 and Blood Sugar

Monday, October 12, 2009

RE: [fast5] Fast 5 and Blood Sugar

Thanks, tho, Phil.

Your statement yesterday sent me to do some google searching and I read a couple sites that backed up your statement; even one from someone diagnosed as Type 2 Diabetes.

He stated fasting has helped him beat diabetes. He was not, however, needing to take insulin, so there is that caveat.

From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Voelker
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:34 AM
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [fast5] Fast 5 and Blood Sugar

Just to clarify: I'm not a doctor of course, and I would not purposefully comment on a medical issue like blood sugar issues. Sort of why I preface it "for me," and not "in general," etc. My comment on blood sugar was very simply that for a regular person who does not have blood sugar issues and who is fasting, the extended period of time with no food intake means that you are not replenishing your blood's glucose/glycogen supply and therefore are not experiencing spikes in your blood sugar levels as a normal result of eating. I'll not comment on it further so as not to confuse the issue.

P.

--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@gmail.com>
Subject: [fast5] Fast 5 and Blood Sugar
To: "fast5" <fast5@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 6:40 AM

>>>>>See, here's the thing for me with the whole low carb thing -- I feel that a lot of the time folks are missing the point of Fast5, which is that it's not about needing to eliminate any food group, or do low-carb. Sure, you can incorporate it, but that's not the point to me. Low carb is designed to regulate your blood sugar / insulin / leptin levels, and Fast5 already does that regardless of your food choices during your intake window. <<<<<<

Wish it were true. Fast 5 does help regulate insulin and leptin. But if it will repair damaged metabolism depends on how damaged you are, for how long and the the specific nature of the damage. The idea that weight loss ipso facto will resolve all insulin resistance is simply not the case. It does happen, no question. But not for everyone.

So...if you think you have blood sugar issues, it is foolish in my opinion to blindly believe that any way of eating will resolve it for you. If you get a glucometer and test yourself, you will know what is working.

I loved Fast 5. I lost weight on it. ( all of the 35 pounds I needed to lose) But I discovered my high blood sugar after 6 months on it. since then ( 1 1/2 years ago) I have experimented with many ways of eating to get BG down, and find that
I do better with three meals all low carb. When I went back on Fast 5 it went up .
But I also know of diabetics who swear by Fast 5 (also doing it in a low carb way)

Blood Sugar is pretty complex.

Ellen