Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: fast 5 ( Heather

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: fast 5 ( Heather - blood sugar)

Yeah, it is a little weird, which is why I share it. I think there is
definitely a "learning curve" your body goes through in changing
eating habits. But like others have said, having an "empty tank"
for glycogen makes the postprandial curve a lot less, and I think
that is more important than the fasting number.

I should also add that way back when I wasn't working on my
diet at all, my FBS would go way up when I skipped a meal.
I'd get the shakes and headaches and all that, which I attributed
to "low blood sugar", as most people do. That's why I bought
a glucometer: to see how low it really was! But to my surprise,
when I was shaky, by BS was high (about 120). Someone told
me that it was probably high cortisol ... when your body thinks
it is starving, it pumps out cortisol, a stress hormone, which
dumps glucose into your blood.

THAT kind of high glucose has nothing to do with your body's
ability to STORE glucose, which is what Type 2 diabetes is all
about. If they had tested me back then, they would have
concluded that I had diabetes ... even though my postprandial
glucose curve was pretty flat.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Karen <laurvick@charter.net> wrote:
> Heather
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> Thank you for sharing this...
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> I guess I would get scared to see it rise, but knowing your results would
> encourage me to keep going.....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Heather Twist
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:37 AM
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [fast5] Re: fast 5 ( Helen)
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> Some people in the past have reported that their FBS went up a bit when they
> started fasting, then dropped as their body got used to it.
> That seemed to happen to me too: it was usually 95 when I was eating 3 times
> a day. Doing intermittent fasting, it went up to 105. But after a few
> months, it went down to 87.
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