Re: [fast5] Re: Breaking the plateau

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:12 AM, <bbarndogz@aol.com> wrote:

Heather said ->>"Some of us also use Fast-5 as a vehicle for experimenting with diet, for
reasons that aren't necessarily about weight loss. For me, I originally got
on it to help with gut issues (from living for years with undiagnosed
celiac) and blood sugar issues. Fast-5 helped a LOT on both of those, with
no tweaks at all. But it also made it easier to do food experimenting,
because when you only eat one meal a day it's easier to track the effect of
that meal."<<

 

Hi Heather,

I've corresponded with you on a couple yahoo groups. (I'm writing from my aol acct so my email my not be familiar. Not really sure how it shows up when I post from the yahoo page. Never really paid attention to it) Any way, you are the reason I found Fast 5 awhile back. (Thank you) Fast 5 sounded like a healthy way to go and I'm finally getting around to learning more about it. You say here that Fast-5 helped a lot on gut and blood sugar issues. Would you mind elaborating on that a bit? I have both big time and am dedicated to healing both problems.

 

Thanks for any info. I always love your experiments and posts:)

Nancy

Thanks! 

My issues on blood sugar were that, for most of my life, I would get "low blood sugar" if I skipped a meal. I really HAD to eat every couple of hours. This got rather inconvenient when I found I had to avoid gluten too ... I'd have to haul around food whenever I left the house. And then I started reacting to OTHER foods too. It was getting seriously difficult to know what to eat.

Someone on another list suggested that eating in a 4-hour window would solve the "low blood sugar" problem. Sounded insane, so I tried it. After a couple of weeks of purgatory, it worked. No more eating every two hours. Also, my average blood sugar dropped from 95 or so (high, but not diabetic) to 83 (not bad at all). 

And then my digestion started getting better. Still can't eat gluten ... in my case, that was probably the cause of all the other problems ... but greasy steaks, big piles of starch, etc. were no problem. But I stopped wanting big piles of food too, and servings got smaller and smaller. I added konjac to my diet too, and that finished off the last of the gut issues (no IBS symptoms at all).

 

Mind you that in all this journey I also got 10 years older ... so I'm 56 now, about the age my siblings and parents got major arthritis, osteoporosis, eczema, skin cancers, etc. I actually feel younger now than I did at 46 though. Given the changes I've made, I can't say that Fast-5 is the main reason for this, but as Bert has said, it's a tool ... a very useful one in my case.

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Heather Twist
http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
 
 

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