Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Type 2 diabetes

five meals at 50 g carbs is wayyyy too many carbs. i take care of a disabled person who has diabetes and her endocrynologist had a class that was really great. they recommended four meals at 30 g carbs for the day.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@...> wrote:
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> For me it wasn't till I had been successfully doing Fast- 5 for six months
> that I had my first high fasting blood sugar. It wasn't all that high,
> just over 100, but it got my attention because I had thought that by doing
> Fast-5 , losing weight easily I had lowered my insulin levels and was
> therefor fine and not in danger of blood sugar problems in the future. But
> obviously not all was well. For me it seems that dealing with my insulin
> resistance revealed some blood sugar dysregulation that had probably been
> going on for a long time, judging from symptoms that went away on lower
> carbs. It has been over two years since then and I have been tweaking my
> low carb regimen and experimenting with and without Fast-5 to get my
> numbers under 100 and lower if possible. At first I tried Dr.
> Schwarzbein's methods of five meals and about 50 g carb. That got my
> fasting up to 126 ! So then i went back to Fast-5 but although BG was
> lower it was still just over 100. These days I seem to have the best
> control and lowest numbers with three well spaced meals a day (low carb,
> high fat and just enough protein) and am in the low 90's most of the time
> with forays into the 80's. When I say well spaced, I mean no less that four
> hours apart and optimally 6 hours apart.
>
> So though never got diagnosed with actual diabetes, my home testing on
> occasions when I had about 100 - 150 grams carb indicates that I easily
> could have been officially diagnosed. But even amongst those with a
> diagnosis, it seems there is great variation as to how people respond to
> various regimens. .
>
> I don't think there can be any harm in trying Fast-5 and it just might do
> the trick for you. Just test often enough to know how it is working. I
> think we each have to do a fair amount of experimenting to find what is
> optimal.
>
> Ellen
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> I
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...>wrote:
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> > I don't have diabetes, and my blood sugar was very steady at 95, unless I
> > skipped a meal, in which case it went UP to 120 (and I got super hungry and
> > grouchy: the so-called "hypoglycemia" except obviously there was no
> > "hypo"!). I kind of think it's this "jump" to high glucose that made people
> > think up the 5-meal-a-day thing for diabetics?
> >
> > After starting Fast-5, it went up during fasting periods for some weeks ...
> > then it dropped, and now it's a steady 83. That mirrors some other people's
> > experiences that people have shared. It is possible that during the
> > "adjustment period" glucose control might be worse, but in the long run,
> > Fast-5 seems to help most people with glucose control.
> >
> > Anyway, I don't get the "hypoglycemic" attacks now either. Everything just
> > kind of evened out.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Bill McCarty <wbmccarty@...> wrote:
> >
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> >>
> >> Denise, Fast5 runs counter to the common-sense advice often given to
> >> diabetics: eat frequent, small meals to avoid overtaxing the glucose
> >> metabolism. So, I don't understand why my glucose control is better when
> >> following Fast5. But it is.
> >>
> >> My glucose control deteriorated several months ago and, in trying various
> >> ways of regaining control, I stumbled into an eating pattern I later
> >> discovered was essentially Fast5. Even very limited consumption of
> >> carbohydrates, which had worked for me in the past, did not accomplish what
> >> Fast5 has accomplished. Even though I have frank diabetes, my quarterly test
> >> results were below those associated with a "high risk" of diabetes. I won't
> >> argue with real results.
> >>
> >> Of course, this is merely my personal experience of a few months duration.
> >> As with everything pertaining to diabetes, your mileage may vary.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> O
> >>
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> --
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> are healed by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
> ~Wendell Berry
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