Hello :) New member, though I've been following the 5-hour-window habit for several months now with a lot of good things to say about this way of eating. Learned a lot and am about 15 lbs lighter, 20 if you count the water weight I'm less likely to tote around (though it comes back if I have the wrong foods, of course).
I have two unrelated questions for you more experienced folks.
1) When I break my fast, if I have certain foods, I feel pretty crappy. My heart pounds/races and my brain is extremely foggy for an hour-ish. Much more extreme than any post-prandial slump I've ever had.
So far I've correlated these foods, I *think*, to those which are high GI. Rice, apples, and wheat so far. So my question is...is this an insulin spike, do you think? IE, my blood sugar is low from the fast, but the food spikes insulin anyways when the food hasn't actually gotten to the blood yet, so it crashes my blood sugar? Or could it be that my stomach is just working really hard and demanding all the blood? If I eat only my favorite break-fast (avocado and bacon and maybe fried eggs), then wait a while, I can then eat high GI foods in small quantities with no problem.
Obviously this is a case of "well, don't do that then!" *grin* But I am curious whether this is an indication of my general state of health. IE, am I actually insulin resistant?
2) Everything I read says NO CREAMER WHILE FASTING! I did well with that for a while, but eventually I caved and had creamer. And for a few weeks it didn't seem to make diddly-squat of a difference. But then the loss slowed down. I'm inclined to think that some sugar that I ate was the cause, but still, I wanted to ask...has anyone here ever personally found that adding/removing creamer changed their weight loss?
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