Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Diabetics

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

[fast5] Re: Diabetics - shout out!

I do ff and low carb high fat.. and moderate protein.. about once a wk or less
I'll eat something higher in carbs like fried potatoes... or sweet potato ,on Thanksgiving
But I wouldn't touch sugar... all desserts are Sugarfree... I know sugar would set
off cravings...

Helen

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "Karen" <laurvick@...> wrote:
>
> I do not have an 'official' diabetes diagnosis, but my blood sugars are
> running higher than 'normal' so I am monitoring my food intake in hopes to
> bring them back down.
>
> When I first started monitoring BS (blood sugars) in September, they were in
> the 120s range and are now down to upper 90s and low 100s.
>
> I know there are several diabetics here and at least one has said that their
> BS numbers were getting better following Fast5.
>
> I'm not currently following Fast5, but reading the good reports here (thank
> you all for sharing!), I'd so love to have that carefree way of eating once
> again!
>
> What I like about the high fat WOE is that I'm not hungry and I don't have
> nasty cravings.
>
> Along with changing my WOE to high fat, I got rid of sugar, so it could be a
> double bonus on cutting carbs: got rid of the sugar addiction and the
> cravings.
>
> My main concern of following Fast5 and 'eat whatever you want' is that I'd
> go back to eating higher carbs and have the cravings again (I'd monitor
> blood sugars to make sure they didn't elevate).
>
> Anyway, would love to hear your blood sugar success stories with Fast5.
>