tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40033082850875471532024-03-12T20:10:32.712-05:00My Low Carb Road to Better HealthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger707125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-79167864515612625102017-07-04T06:30:00.000-05:002017-07-04T06:59:57.795-05:00MEMORIES OF EMILY'S PASSING - IT'S BEEN 20 YEARS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friday, June 27, 1997 - I spent most of the day that day with my 18-year-old daughter, Emily. I had just bought a little rental house, and I showed it to her, and she was begging me to let her rent it from me and move away from home. We looked at other houses that day, too, and Emily was helping me pick out the next investment. </div>
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That evening, we rented and watched the movie <i>Jerry Maguire</i> and I made her cover her eyes while I fast forwarded through the sex scene at the beginning of the movie. </div>
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Sunday, June 29 - After church, Emily was up on the roof, cleaned out the gutters, which she volunteered to do. At one point, she was laying down on the roof with her head hanging over the edge, and I told her to stop fooling around before she fell off the roof and broke her neck.<br />
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Monday, June 30 - The four of us (Bill, me, 20-year-old son Barry and Emily) made plans to see <i>My Best Friend's Wedding</i> on Thursday. It was the last time that the four of us would sit in a room and talk. It was the last time we were a normal family. It was the last time I saw my daughter conscious. </div>
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Tuesday, July 1 - I left for work before Emily got out of bed that day. After working a while, I ran an errand, and when I got back to the office, I saw that Emily had left me a voice mail. "Hi, Mom - it's Emily. I just wanted to let you know that it's 2:00 and I'm leaving for work. I'll see you later. I love you. Bye!" </div>
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I listened to the message with my finger perched over the "delete" button on the phone. I started to push it, then I hesitated. I thought, "What if Emily gets killed in a car accident tonight, and this is the last time I will hear her voice? I'll be sorry later that I deleted it." I realized that it was just a morbid thought, and deleted the message. </div>
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I had been having thoughts like that for about 18 months. Every time she would leave the house, I would grab her and hug her and say, "I love you! I would die for you!" I always wanted it to be the last thing I said to her, just in case she died in a car accident. I did not treat my other family members this way - just Emily.<br />
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Wednesday, July 2 - If we had not had the window air conditioner running, we would have been awakened by the sirens at 1:00 am. About a mile from our house, Emily, alone in her compact car and on her way home, swerved to miss a deer and lost control of the car. Her car went into a yaw, and spun into a telephone pole on the passenger's front door. The car wrapped around the pole and the pole struck her head. </div>
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We got the call at 2:15 am. We rushed to the hospital to find our daughter in a deep coma. She had brain surgery that day, but it was no use. She never woke up, and around 6:00 pm, the doctor told us that Emily had experienced brain death. We went to sleep at my father's house, because all the beds at my house, including mine, were occupied by family members from out of town who had rushed in to be with us. </div>
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Thursday, July 3 - Around 4:00 am, after not sleeping, I told my husband that we were going back to the hospital. We spent all day there, waiting for all the arrangements to be made for the four men who would receive Emily's vital organs. Between Wednesday and Thursday, there were at least 100 family members and friends in and out and just hanging around. At noon, the hospital told everyone to leave so that they could prepare Emily for surgery. Bill and Barry and I stayed. </div>
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In the evening, I held Emily in my arms one last time and told her about the surgery. I was so afraid that there was a chance that she was still "in there" but couldn't communicate with us and that she was terrified. All I could do was tell her not to be afraid and that she was going to go to heaven and be with God, and that it was going to be all right. </div>
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Friday, July 4 - I did not sleep. I stayed awake and called the hospital several times throughout those hours to see how the surgery was going. A wonderful nurse told me details and let me know when Emily's heart stopped beating. They removed her from life support just before dawn on the 4th of July, 1997.</div>
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Today is the end of Week 28.<br />
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In the past week I have:<br />
Lost 0.8 pounds <br />
Lost 0" around my neck<br />
Lost 1/4" around my waist<br />
Lost 1/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 31.7% to 31.2% <br />
Lean mass from 68.3% to 68.8% <br />
Feasted 4 days and fasted 3 days<br />
Lifted weights 1 time<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 1 time<br />
Walked 1 mile 2 times <br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 19 pounds <br />
Lost 5/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 3 3/4" around my waist<br />
Lost 3 1/4" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 31.2% <br />
Lean mass from 61% to 68.8% <br />
Feasted 125 days and fasted 71 days<br />
Lifted weights 12 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 16 times<br />
Walked 3 miles 8 times<br />
Walked 1 mile 4 times <br />
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<i>THE RULES OF THIS CHALLENGE</i><br />
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<i>Each day, I lower my goal weight by 0.2 pounds until I reach my goal of 130 pounds.</i><br />
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<i>I weigh in each morning on the bathroom scale. If my weight is at or below my goal for the day, I feast. For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, sufficient protein and very low carb. If my weight is above my goal for the day, I fast. For me, that means that all I will have that day is water, coffee, or tea, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. </i><br />
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posting every week to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
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HOW IT WENT THIS PAST WEEK <br />
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It was a bouncy week. I did well until my grandkids came for a visit and I needed to have a restaurant meal. Oh, well.<br />
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THE BIG DOCTOR VISIT<br />
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Bill and I leave tomorrow to see Dr. Jeffry Gerber near Denver Colorado. Starting today, I have to take a week off my challenge to eat higher carb so that I can be assessed for diabetes. This should be fun. Not.<br />
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MY CHARTS<br />
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term goal. The blue line is my actual weight. I am showing two charts so I can see my progress since the beginning of the year, and also to get a close-up from the time I started again after my husband's heart attack in May 2016.<br />
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The third chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
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Below is my chart for the Body By Science "Big Five". It shows the exercises I am doing, along with the weight, reps and TUL, which stands for Time Under Load.<br />
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT, which shows that I am now up to 7.3 mph during the running portion. I am going to keep pushing that up by 0.1 mph each time to see how fast I can go. I will stop increasing the speed when I go flying off the treadmill!<br />
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This is my chart for walking:<br />
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There are three weeks remaining for this new challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading, and don't forget to check out my closed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyLowCarbRoadFastingSupport/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, where a growing group of individuals are using my Fasting Protocol to lose weight, lower blood glucose and raise insulin sensitivity.</i><br />
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Today is the end of Week 27.<br />
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In the past week I have:<br />
Gained 0.6 pounds <br />
Lost 0" around my neck<br />
Gained 5/8" around my waist<br />
Gained 1/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 30.8% to 31.7% <br />
Lean mass from 69.2% to 68.3% <br />
Feasted 5 days and fasted 2 days<br />
Lifted weights 0 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 0 times<br />
Walked 1 mile 2 times <br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 18.2 pounds <br />
Lost 5/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 3 1/2" around my waist<br />
Lost 3 1/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 31.7% <br />
Lean mass from 61% to 68.3% <br />
Feasted 121 days and fasted 68 days<br />
Lifted weights 11 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 15 times<br />
Walked 3 miles 8 times<br />
Walked 1 mile 2 times <br />
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<i>THE RULES OF THIS CHALLENGE</i><br />
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<i>Each day, I lower my goal weight by 0.2 pounds until I reach my goal of 130 pounds.</i><br />
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<i>I weigh in each morning on the bathroom scale. If my weight is at or below my goal for the day, I feast. For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. If my weight is above my goal for the day, I fast. For me, that means that all I will have that day is water, coffee, or tea, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. </i><br />
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HOW IT WENT THIS PAST WEEK <br />
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I had something really weird happen this past week. First of all, I had company staying at my house for four days, making it difficult to fast. So I didn't while they were here. After the first day, I gained 2.2 pounds. grrr. The next day, I gained 1.4 pounds. GRRR. And the day after that, I gained a whopping 4.6 pounds! This happened from eating what appeared to be a low carb meal at a restaurant, but it must have been filled with hidden sugars and LOTS of sodium. Within one hour of leaving the restaurant, my ankles were swollen, and by the next morning, my face, hands and belly had joined the bloat party. Obviously, this was all water, not fat, and certainly not muscle!<br />
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So I gained 8.2 pounds of water weight in three days. The last day of my company's visit, I fasted for the first half of the day, ate a sensible dinner (and was able to turn down the ice cream that everyone was having!), and then I fasted two days in a row. In those three days, I lost exactly 8.2 pounds. Phew!<br />
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This morning, I am 0.6 pounds above my goal, so I'm fasting again, but I feel totally back on track.<br />
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term goal. The blue line is my actual weight. The red line is
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The third chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
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Below is my chart for the Body By Science "Big Five". It shows the exercises I am doing, along with the weight, reps and TUL, which stands for Time Under Load.<br />
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT, which shows that I am now up to 7.2 mph during the running portion. I am going to keep pushing that up by 0.1 mph each time to see how fast I can go. I will stop increasing the speed when I go flying off the treadmill!<br />
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This is my chart for walking:<br />
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There are four weeks remaining for this new challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading, and don't forget to check out my closed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyLowCarbRoadFastingSupport/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a>, where a growing group of individuals are using my Fasting Protocol to lose weight, lower blood glucose and raise insulin sensitivity.</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-86513978873280498772016-07-07T11:53:00.000-05:002016-07-08T05:30:03.396-05:00MY LOW CARB ROAD IS NOW ON FACEBOOKA few days ago, I started a closed Facebook group to give support to individuals who want to try the fasting protocol that I designed back in January 2016.<br />
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Today is the end of Week 26.<br />
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In the past week I have:<br />
Lost 4.4 pounds <br />
Lost 0" around my neck<br />
Lost 3/4" around my waist<br />
Lost 3/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 32.2% to 30.8% <br />
Lean mass from 67.8% to 69.2% <br />
Feasted 4 days and fasted 3 days<br />
Lifted weights 1 time<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 1 time<br />
Walked 3 miles 2 times <br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 18.8 pounds <br />
Lost 5/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 4 1/8" around my waist<br />
Lost 3 3/4" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 30.8% <br />
Lean mass from 61% to 69.2% <br />
Feasted 117 days and fasted 66 days<br />
Lifted weights 11 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 15 times<br />
Walked 3 miles 8 times<br />
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<i>THE RULES OF THIS CHALLENGE</i><br />
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<i>Each day, I lower my goal weight by 0.2 pounds until I reach my goal of 130 pounds.</i><br />
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<i>I weigh in each morning on the bathroom scale. If my weight is at or below my goal for the day, I feast. For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. If my weight is above my goal for the day, I fast. For me, that means that all I will have that day is water, coffee, or tea, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. </i><br />
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HOW IT WENT THIS PAST WEEK <br />
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In the past three days, my weight has stayed stable even though I have been feasting. Today is three feasts in a row! I keep waiting for the customary bounce up, but it hasn't happened yet. It would be great if this trend continued!<br />
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT, which shows that I am now up to 7.2 mph during the running portion. I am going to keep pushing that up by 0.1 mph each time to see how fast I can go. I will stop increasing the speed when I go flying off the treadmill!<br />
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There are five weeks remaining for this new challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-23363759549586199272016-06-24T06:53:00.001-05:002016-07-01T07:46:22.442-05:00THE 2016 CHALLENGE - WEEK 25 RESULTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the end of Week 25.<br />
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In the past week I have:<br />
Gained 3 pounds <br />
Gained 0" around my neck<br />
Gained 3/8" around my waist<br />
Gained 1/2" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 31.4% to 32.2% <br />
Lean mass from 68.6% to 67.8% <br />
Feasted 6 days and fasted 1 day<br />
Lifted weights 1 time<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 1 time<br />
Walked 3 miles 0 times <br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 14.4 pounds <br />
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Lost 5/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 3 3/8" around my waist<br />
Lost 2 7/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 32.2% <br />
Lean mass from 61% to 67.8% <br />
Feasted 112 days and fasted 63 days<br />
Lifted weights 10 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 14 times<br />
Walked 3 miles 6 times<br />
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TRYING TO GET BACK TO NORMAL AND BACK ON TRACK<br />
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As you know by <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/06/as-serious-as-heart-attack.html" target="_blank">my last post</a>, things have been really weird, what with my husband having a heart attack and all. I have not been blogging, but I have been trying to get back on track by doing some longer fasts. The fasting was pretty easy and the weight loss was great, but as soon as I started eating again, I would just gain it all back. Here is what happened when I tried the longer fasting:<br />
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Fasted 4 days - Lost 7 pounds<br />
Feasted 4 days - Gained back 6.8 pounds<br />
Fasted 3 days - Lost 7.4 pounds<br />
Feasted 5 days - Gained back 6 pounds<br />
Fasted 1 day - Lost 2.2 pounds<br />
Feasted 2 days - Gained back 3.4 pounds<br />
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That's a lot of big bouncing around, and I'm not happy with the results. I started out the above at 138 pounds, and ended up, after a lot of deprivation, at 139.6 pounds. I'm thinking my body does not respond to the longer fasts, and so I have decided to reset my goals once again and do what worked for me before, which is trying to lose an average of 0.2 pounds per day, and feasting on the days I meet my goal and fasting on the days I don't. I estimate that it will take me till around August 4, 2016, to reach my new goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat.<br />
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my 7-day average. I am showing two charts so I can see my progress since the beginning of the year, and also to get a close-up from the time I started again after Bill's heart attack.<br />
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The third chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT, which shows that I am now up to 7.1 mph during the running time. I am going to keep pushing that up by 0.1 mph each time to see how fast I can go. I will stop increasing the speed when I go flying off the treadmill!<br />
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There are six weeks remaining for this new challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-kinder-gentler-challenge-week-17.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-79247013406330750032016-06-06T09:22:00.000-05:002016-06-08T09:10:36.973-05:00AS SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wanted to put up this post in case anyone was wondering how things are going with my "kinder, gentler" challenge.<br />
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I am taking a break right now from weighing, measuring and tracking because on May 15, 2016, my dear husband, Bill, had a heart attack. We had no warning, and did not even know that he was at risk. Plus, he has been eating a healthy low carb, optimal protein, healthy fat diet for over seven years. What the heck?<br />
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<b>I want to write out the sequence of events, and I am hoping that this blog post might prevent someone else from going through what we went through. So let me start at the beginning: </b><br />
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In September 2015, Bill had sudden onset vomiting and chest and abdomen pain. We rushed to the ER, where he had an EKG and was told that his heart was fine. The doc in the ER said it was probably just a stomach bug or food poisoning. <b>We understood that the normal EKG meant that his heart was healthy. It was not, but no one at the ER told us that a normal EKG does not equate to a normal heart.</b><br />
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Four weeks later, in October 2015, it happened again. Another ER visit, another EKG, and another clean bill of heart health. This time, the ER doc suggested that Bill see a gastroenterologist. Bill decided not to. The ER doc did not mention seeing a cardiologist, even though Bill presented with chest pain and vomiting.<br />
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It happened again four weeks later in November, then four weeks later in December, then four weeks later in January. Three more ER visits, three more normal EKGs, three more docs telling us to see a doc for the stomach, but no mention of seeing a doc for the heart. In January, Bill finally decided to see a specialist, and after a few tests, was told he had GERD (<span class="st">gastroesophageal reflux disease). He was given a pill to take and he started taking them.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Bill had slowly been gaining a little weight, even though his diet had not changed, and when he gained even more after starting the GERD medicine, he decided to stop taking it. He had not had a stomach issue for several weeks. He stopped taking the pills, and had another vomiting episode on May 10. We called his GI doc, and he said to just start taking the pills again and everything would be fine.</span><br />
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On May 14, he fell ill and told me that he was tired and felt like he had been hit by a truck. No chest pains, but just all over muscle aches. In the evening, he had a headache and all his bottom teeth hurt. I decided that if he was still not feeling well after the weekend, I would take him to the doctor.<br />
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On May 15, I went to lift weights at the gym, but Bill decided to stay home. He said he felt better, but was very tired. At 3 pm, he started having chest pains and difficulty breathing. <b>HE DID NOT FEEL THE NEED TO TELL ME THIS!</b> He thought he was having some sort of muscle spasm. He spent the night sitting up in a chair, unable to lie down.<br />
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On May 16, as I was headed out the door at 4:30 am, Bill stopped me and told me he was having chest and back pain and trouble breathing. We immediately got in the car to take the 10 minute drive to the hospital. Neither of us thought it was a heart attack, or I would have called 911. We told them in the ER that he was having chest pains, and after an EKG, things got pretty dramatic.<br />
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Within a few minutes, we were told that Bill was having a heart attack and needed immediate surgery. He never clutched his chest and passed out. It did not seem like a heart attack. But standing in an ER room and listening to "Code Blue, Room 9!" over the PA system is something I never want to live through again. Watching several medical persons run into my husband's room and start working on him was so frightening! For the second time in my life, I felt like I was part of a TV show, the first time being when my daughter was in the ER after her fatal car accident in 1997. After an angioplasty and two stents, he was taken to the ICU, where he spent three days. We found out that he had three blocked arteries in his heart. One was completely blocked and that's where the two stents were placed. Another one was 85% blocked, but the doctor said we would wait seven to ten days to put in a stent there, because putting in a stent can sometimes cause a heart attack, and the doctor did not want him to have two heart attacks so close together. The other artery was only around 30% blocked, so no need for treatment on that one.<br />
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The cardiologist told me that if I had gone to work that morning and left Bill at home, he would have been dead in an hour or so. He said that Bill did not have a "close call". He had "THE call".<br />
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On May 17, Bill had an echocardiogram done to see what damage was done to his heart during the 18 hours that he was having a heart attack but did not seek treatment. We were surprised to learn that there was no damage to the heart. <br />
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On May 18 we left the hospital and went home. Bill was told to do a lot of nothing, to lift nothing, and to take a three to four month leave from work at the golf course.<br />
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On May 20, we were back in the ER because Bill was still having trouble breathing. When we came into the ER, the same doctor was there. He told us that Bill no doubt had congestive heart failure, and that his heart enzymes during the attack were the highest he had seen. But the cardiologist said he did not have congestive heart failure, because there was no damage to the heart. He did decide, however, to go ahead and do the surgery to insert the other stent, as long as we were there. The surgery went well, and Bill was released from the hospital again the next day.<br />
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On May 23, I took Bill in to see the cardiologist in his office because he still could not breathe. He was examined by the nurse practitioner, who told him that because his heart had suffered no damage, it must be lung disease brought on by fifty years of smoking (he quit ten years ago), and Bill was referred to a pulmonary specialist. We made the appointment, but could not be seen for a couple of weeks.<br />
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On May 25, we were back at the ER because Bill could not breathe and was having head, neck and shoulder pain and was going back and forth between chills and hot flashes with extreme sweating. The ER doctor told us that Bill had congestive heart failure. Tests showed fluid around his heart and fluid around and in his lungs. After he was admitted, the cardiologist ordered another echocardiogram, and this time it showed that there was damage to the heart. So now the cardiologist concurs with the ER doc and Bill has been formally diagnosed with congestive heart failure.<br />
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Bill was put on a pretty high dose of a diuretic, and started losing water weight right away. He was checked out by the stomach doc and the lung doc and got a clean bill of health from both, so it's all about the heart at this point.<br />
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On May 27, Bill was released from the hospital and sent home again. He has a followup appointment today with the cardiologist, and next week he starts cardiac rehab. In the ten days following his release from the hospital, he lost over 13 pounds of fluid. His breathing is normal. He sleep apnea is gone. His energy level is good, but he does get tired a little bit after walking around. He is not working, but we do take short walks around the block and such. His mood is much improved and he is back to his normal, cheerful self.<br />
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<b>But, enough about Bill! I'm sure you are wondering how I am doing.</b><br />
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During the twelve days that we were going in and out of the hospital, I was stress eating and not sleeping. I stayed with Bill at the hospital, sleeping on a futon next to his bed, and ate three meals per day in the hospital cafeteria. The food was surprisingly good, with lots of low carb options. I did eat a few high carb things, like I had a cookie twice during that time, and I had fruit and yogurt. I was no nervous that I felt the emotional need to eat every couple of hours, and I gained several pounds during that time.<br />
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Needless to say, my plan for getting down to 130 pounds flew out the window when Bill's heart attacked him. It has been three weeks since then, and I am now ready, emotionally and physically, to start taking care of myself again. I fasted two days ago, and I am fasting again today, and may fast tomorrow as well. This morning, I weighed 140 pounds. I'm going to try to get on the fast track to getting rid of the weight I gained since May 15 and go on from there to my goal. I took a break from the gym to take care of Bill, but I have started back again and have been lifting weights and making progress.<br />
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<b>THE BIG QUESTION: WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?</b><br />
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According to everything I know to be true, Bill should not have heart disease. He has been eating low carb for over seven years. He quit smoking over ten years ago. He is active. What has happened does not seem right, and I need to get to the bottom of it, and also find out if I am at equal risk.<br />
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From what I have learned, the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=cholesterol+doesn%27t+cause+heart+attack&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" target="_blank">cause of heart disease is not high cholesterol, but systemic inflammation, as these articles explain</a>. All of Bill's inflammation markers are high. Maybe mine are, too. I don't know. And if he, and possibly me, too, have serious inflammation, what is causing it? Is it the feedlot beef that is high in Omega-6? Has a sensitivity to eggs been developing? Is too much dairy causing inflammation? I have no idea, but I intend to find out and stop this thing in its tracks so that Bill can recover, live long, and prosper.<br />
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In the third week of July, Bill and I are traveling to see <a href="http://jgerbermd.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Jeffry Gerber</a> in Denver. I have been following him for a while, and his understanding of heart disease is on the cutting edge of current research. Bill will be tested and evaluated, and so will I. If you would like to get an idea of Dr. Gerber's views on the subject, check out this great <a href="https://youtu.be/A2ACin2AEvg" target="_blank">youtube video</a>.<br />
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When we left the hospital, we were given a set of instructions that included the recommendation to eat 7-10 servings of grains per day, along with starchy vegetables, very low fat, virtually no animal products contained saturated fat, and low salt. Basically, they want Bill to become a vegan. This will happen over my dead body. I know too much to ever let that happen.<br />
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And, all the doctors we saw told Bill that he needs to go on a statin drug. Statins cause so many side effect, including damage to the heart muscle, damage to other muscles and memory loss. Statins are bad, and Bill refuses to take one. I have heard Dr. Gerber say that he does prescribe statins, but not very often, so we are hoping that Bill will not have to take them. I trust Dr. Gerber, and if even he says that Bill should be on a statin, we will have to seriously consider it.<br />
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We will be depending heavily on Dr. Gerber to bring us through this mystery and out the other side.<br />
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I'm not sure when I will post again. I will give an update when I can, and I will definitely let my readers know the results of our testing with Dr. Gerber.<br />
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Thanks for reading!<br />
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Today is the end of Week 19. In the past week, I have:<br />
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Lost 0.4 pounds on the scale<br />
Gained 1 pound of body fat (est.)<br />
Lost 1.4 pounds of lean mass (est.)<br />
Gained 1/8" around my neck<br />
Gained 5/8" around my waist<br />
Gained 1/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 30.3% to 31.1% (est.)<br />
Lean mass from 69.7% to 68.9% (est.)<br />
Feasted 6 days and fasted 1 day<br />
Lifted weights 1 time<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 1 time<br />
Walked 3 miles 1 time <br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 18.6 pounds on the scale<br />
Lost 18.0 pounds of body fat (est.)<br />
Lost 0.6 pounds of lean mass (est.)<br />
Lost 1/2" around my neck<br />
Lost 3 5/8" around my waist<br />
Lost 3 3/8" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 31.1% (est.)<br />
Lean mass from 61% to 68.9% (est.)<br />
Feasted 82 days and fasted 52 days<br />
Lifted weights 5 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 9 times<br />
Walked 3 miles 5 times<br />
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Size 6 jeans, come to Mama! Five and a half months ago, I was wearing a very tight size 12, and now I am wearing a properly fitting size 6. It feels great!<br />
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I have to admit that I broke my rules a few times this past week. On Mothers Day, I was over my goal weight for the day, but I ate anyway because it was a holiday. On Monday and Tuesday, I was over my goal weight for those days, but I was having a hard time mentally getting back in the swing of things. I was back on track fasting on Wednesday, and have been following my rules since.<br />
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I did gain a little bit in inches, but I am not concerned. Weight and inches naturally fluctuate up and down. Improvements in body composition are never linear. I'm looking forward to a good week!<br />
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Below is my chart for the Body By Science "Big Five". It shows the exercises I am doing, along with the weight, reps and TUL, which stands for Time Under Load.<br />
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT, which shows that I am now up to 6.6 mph during the running time. I am going to keep pushing that up by 0.1 mph each time to see how fast I can go. I will stop increasing the speed when I go flying off the treadmill! <br />
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This is my chart for walking:<br />
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There are seven weeks remaining for this kindler, gentler challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-kinder-gentler-challenge-week-17.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-51000718277965570132016-05-06T07:23:00.000-05:002016-05-06T07:24:14.423-05:00THE KINDER, GENTLER CHALLENGE - WEEK 18 RESULTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the end of Week 18. In the past week, I have:<br />
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Lost 0.8 pounds on the scale<br />
Lost 1 pound of body fat (est.)<br />
Gained 0.2 pounds of lean mass (est.)<br />
Lost 1/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 1/4" around my waist<br />
Lost 1/4" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 30.8% to 30.3% (est.)<br />
Lean mass from 69.2% to 69.7% (est.)<br />
Feasted 3 days and fasted 4 days<br />
Lifted weights 1 time<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 2 times<br />
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Since January 1, 2016, I have:<br />
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Lost 18.2 pounds on the scale<br />
Lost 18.9 pounds of body fat (est.)<br />
Gained 0.7 pounds of lean mass (est.)<br />
Lost 5/8" around my neck<br />
Lost 4 1/4" around my waist<br />
Lost 3 1/2" around my hips<br />
Body fat from 39% to 30.3% (est.)<br />
Lean mass from 61% to 69.7% (est.)<br />
Feasted 76 days and fasted 51 days<br />
Lifted weights 4 times<br />
Did treadmill HIIT 8 times<br />
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made a few charts to track my progress. On the first chart, the grey line is my long
term goal. The blue line is my actual weight. The red line is
my 7-day average. The second chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart to enlarge it.<br />
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Below is my chart for the Body By Science "Big Five". It shows the exercises I am doing, along with the weight, reps and TUL, which stands for Time Under Load.<br />
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This is my chart for treadmill HIIT:<br />
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This is my chart for walking, which I did not do any of this week, for various reasons:<br />
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There are eight weeks remaining for this kindler, gentler challenge. If I achieve my goal of 130 pounds with 25% body fat, I'm not sure where I will go from there.<br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-kinder-gentler-challenge-week-17.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-73224197485387751202016-04-29T09:00:00.000-05:002016-05-02T10:25:36.018-05:00THE KINDER, GENTLER CHALLENGE - WEEK 17 RESULTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the end of Week 17.<br />
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It hasn't been quite a week yet since I started my kinder, gentler challenge, but I need to catch up so that my charts line up with a week ending on a Thursday.<br />
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As I mentioned in my last post, I have taken a month off and am now engaged in my next challenge, which is to reach a weight goal of 130 pounds and a body fat goal of 25%.<br />
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I'm not sure I am going to be able to accomplish this, but I am giving it my best effort!<br />
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Here are my rules:<br />
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Rule #1. I will lower my weight goal by 0.12 pounds per day, which comes out to less than a pound per week. Each morning, I will weigh on my bathroom scale, and if I do not exceed my goal for the day, I will feast. If I exceed my goal for the day, I will fast until the next morning. This time, I will not be using my fasting blood glucose as a rule. As
long as I eat right, my blood glucose is stable, so I am only going to
check my BG occasionally.<br />
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Rule #2. Stay active, as outlined below.<br />
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I will have two ways of eating, and they will look like this:<br />
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FEASTING <br />
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Eating ketogenic diet, which means high fat, moderate protein and very low carb. What does that mean for me?<br />
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First of all, I have come to agree with those that believe it is a mistake to eat high fat when there is already excess fat on your body. In my case, High Fat Low Carb means that I will be "eating" high fat from my body and low carb from my plate. Dr. Stephen Phinney explains this concept quite nicely in <a href="https://youtu.be/2KYYnEAYCGk" target="_blank">this video</a>, where he shows the following graphic:<br />
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As you can see, even in the first phase, when a person has excess body fat, it is still a high fat diet, with 25% of the needed daily fat coming from what you eat, and an additional 50% coming from your own body. This body fat needs to be taken into account when determining if a diet is "high fat" or "low fat." According to what you are eating alone, it appears to be low fat, when, in actuality, it is still a high fat diet. As body fat is "eaten", the percentages change until all of the fat needed is being eaten off the plate because there is no more excess body fat to "eat."<br />
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So, for the time being, I am eating the majority of my needed daily fat from my own body fat stores. Research has shown that the body needs at least 30g of fat per day to supply the body's needs, for brain activity, vitamin absorption and gallbladder function, to name a few. I will be attempting to keep my fat intake between 68g and around 80g.<br />
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For protein, I will be following the advice of Jonathan Bailor, who I mentioned <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/break-time-is-over-on-to-next-challenge.html" target="_blank">here</a>, to keep nutrient-dense protein at 1 gram per pound of body weight. For me, that would mean around 136g of protein per day for my current weight, and 125g of protein when I get down to my goal weight of 125 pounds. Pretty simple, huh? This also is in line with the recommendations of the Optimal Ketogenic Living Facebook Group (also mentioned in that same blog post) that is between 91g and 136g for a woman my height.<br />
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Carbs will probably always be very low, because I find that I can manage my blood glucose quite easily when I stay low carb. Jonathan Bailor says to eat 10 servings of vegetables per day, but I'm not sure if that would be a good idea for me, so I will probably stick with the OKL recommendation of 23g of net carbs per day, which is total carbs minus fiber. If I am eating that all in green vegetables, that is still quite a lot of vegetables, so I think I'm doing good in that department.<br />
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I am still sort of tracking my food. I am getting used to how many grams of protein, fat and carbs I need to make a nice meal, so I am doing the math until I have a better handle on it.<br />
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FASTING<br />
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On the days that I don't meet my weight goal, I will be fasting. Although some fasting gurus say that a fast is only water, others say that incorporating very low caloric liquids is okay. I have decided that fasting for me will include water, coffee, tea and broth, all without added caloric sweeteners or fat. I do allow myself to have a few drops of liquid Stevia extract in my coffee and tea. It does not affect my BG, and I like it. And you can't stop me. I did it this way in the first three months of this year, and I suffered no ill effects.<br />
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My weight loss goal is now at a slower pace (about 50% slower), which <i>should </i>translate into more feasting and less fasting. In this past few days, I ate two days in a row, which was not that frequent as time went on in the last challenge. Since starting this, I have not fasted more than one day in a row, although that could certainly start to change again as I get closer and closer to my new goal.<br />
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I
made a few charts to track my progress. On the first chart, the grey line is my long
term goal. The blue line is my actual weight. The red line is
my 7-day average. The second chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart to enlarge it.<br />
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As for Rule #2, part of this challenge is that I have also made some commitments to build muscle and increase insulin sensitivity. I have committed to one day per week of heavy, slow motion weight lifting, using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Strength-Training/dp/0071597174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461649637&sr=8-1&keywords=body+by+science" target="_blank">Body By Science</a>
as my guide. I have committed to HIIT twice per week on the treadmill
at the gym. I have committed to taking 3-mile walks as often as I can,
maybe twice or three times per week. The weight
lifting should take care of the "gaining muscle" portion of my new
challenge, and the HIIT and walking should continue to help with my
insulin sensitivity. Notice that I am not trying to "burn calories"
with my exercise. I'm done with that nonsense. It's not a problem of
too many calories that need to be "burned off". It is a problem with
hormonal imbalance that keeps body fat trapped and unable to be used for
energy. The solution for that is to balance hormones, not to eat less
and move more!<br />
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Below is my chart for The Big Five. It shows the exercises I am doing, along with the weight, reps and TUL, which stands for Time Under Load. The system is to lift weight very slowly up and down, and to attempt to exceed one minute and thirty seconds on each exercise. Each time that goal is reached, you increase the weight by at least another 5% for the next session. As you can see, I did not exceed 1:30 this past week, so there was no increase in weight. One of the great things about lifting this way is that the whole thing takes about 15 minutes and you only do one set on each machine. No more being in the gym for hours and doing multiple sets on each of twenty different machines! In and out fast, with the same or better results. My kind of workout!<br />
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Twice per week, once on the same day as weight lifting, and once a half week later, I do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) on the treadmill at the gym. I begin by walking at 1.5 mph with 0 incline for about 2.5 minutes, then ramp up to a run for 30 seconds at over 6 mph (I keep increasing it each time) with an incline of 3. After the run, I go back to the walk for 2.5 minutes, then back to the run for 30 seconds. I do three of these intervals, ending with a walk, then a 5 minute cool down. I am on the treadmill for a total of 17 minutes, including the cool down.<br />
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The last activity I am doing is walking, at a leisurely pace, around my neighborhood or other beautiful places, or, if it is yucky outside, I will get on the treadmill at the gym. I would like to do this at least twice per week. I found a <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/run-the-map/9wzdncrfhznm" target="_blank">cool app</a> for my phone that tracks my route, along with miles per hour and total distance. When I walk, I aim for around three miles in one hour. Here is what a normal walk looks like, and below that is my walking log:<br />
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There are nine weeks remaining for this kindler, gentler challenge. If I achieve my goal, I'm not sure where I will go from there. Technically, my doctor wants me to weight 122 pounds with around 22% body fat. At my age, I'm not sure that is possible, or even desirable. It's fun to think about, but not if it means I have to live a life of deprivation. I will be more than happy to reach my current goal. Heck, if I stay where I am now, it will be a big health improvement from where I started<i>, </i>which, in case you forget, was <a href="https://youtu.be/l_eBJTHakq0" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-75024466199840655712016-04-25T20:00:00.000-05:002016-04-26T08:17:48.355-05:00BREAK TIME IS OVER - ON TO THE NEXT CHALLENGE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My weight loss and blood glucose challenge came to an official end on April 1, 2016. You can read the final results <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-results-2016-weight-loss-and.html" target="_blank">here </a>if you haven't already. Even though I came in a couple of pounds over my goal, it was so close that I consider the three-month challenge a rousing success! I was able to lose a bunch of weight and, more importantly, I normalized my fasting blood glucose.<br />
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In case you are curious, for these past few weeks, I did some more fasting, lost some more weight, went on a mini vacation, gained some weight and saw one post-meal blood glucose reading get very high indeed, convincing me, once again, that I cannot eat sugar without damaging myself.<br />
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One of the things that I have been doing has been trying to follow the Optimal Ketogenic Living guidelines for the amount of protein, fat and carbs to eat each day. If you join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OKL4Vitality/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> for OKL, you can learn more about how this way of eating works.<br />
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According to the OKL chart, shown here, a 5'3" woman like me should be eating between 91 and 136 grams of protein per day, no more than 23 grams of net carbs per day, and between 68 and 159 grams of fat per day. This last guideline - for fat grams - is a sliding scale based on your weight goals. If you want to lose weight, stay at or near the lower amount of fat grams. If you want to maintain your current weight, stay around the middle. If you want to gain weight, stay at or near the highest amount of fat grams.<br />
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Fasting, in many different forms, is encouraged in this group, and reading the many threads and research articles will give you a real education on nutrition. The works of Drs. Phinney and Volek are highlighted and followed, and I highly recommend the folks at OKL!<br />
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I have also been spending a lot of time watching youtube videos on nutrition, fasting, protein needs and kittens. (It would not be a good day if I did not watch at least one youtube video featuring kittens!)<br />
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One of the people I have been listening to is Jonathan Bailor. I got his book from the library, but it may just end up being one that I need for my personal library. I heard about Jonathan and his thoughts concerning the ridiculousness of counting calories last year. <br />
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I seriously considered trying his weight loss method, but when I found out that he is against counting calories, I was discouraged. Each time I have tried a weight loss method that does not involve tracking every <i>blankety-blank-blank</i> bite of food I eat, I have always gained weight.<br />
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But, after listening to someone that I respect interviewing Jonathan, I decided to read his new book and see what I could glean from it. I have to admit that I was impressed with what I read, which I did with a newly opened mind, and found that the vast majority of what he was suggesting was right in line with the OKL chart I have been following!<br />
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Jonathan's recommendations include eating plenty of nutrient-dense protein (about 1 gram per pound of body weight, which is at the high end of the OKL recommendation), LOTS of green vegetables, and other colors, too, and what he calls 'whole food fats'. He is not a proponent of adding a lot of oils or butter to food, but rather, eating foods that have natural fats contained within them, such as avocados, olives, eggs, nuts, seeds, coconut, etc.<br />
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My fear was that, if I ate the amount of veggies he suggests, my blood glucose would spike up. But, for the past few days, I have been stuffing myself with green veggies, mostly raw, and my blood glucose was only 95 mg/dl at the highest, which was two hours after eating. So far, so good, so I am continuing on.<br />
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The basic premise of the nutrition portion of the book is to eat SANE food and avoid inSANE food. Jonathan explains the difference quite clearly in the book, and on his <a href="http://sanesolution.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, and maintains that if you fill yourself up with (almost) unlimited amounts of SANE food, you will not have room for the inSANE food. <br />
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I love Jonathan's take on exercise, too, possibly because he agrees with what I have already decided is the right way to exercise - lifting heavy weights very slowly, doing a little bit of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) now and then, and taking part in other activities that you enjoy, for stress relief, if for no other reason. Waking, riding a bike, yoga, etc.<br />
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I have a new appreciation for the concepts outlined in "The Calorie Myth," so I have to give it a pretty sweeping recommendation.<br />
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Of course, Dr. Jason Fung is a particular favorite of mine as of late, and I am rather impatiently waiting for Amazon to deliver my copy of his long-awaited book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_7?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+obesity+code+jason+fung&sprefix=the+obe%2Caps%2C299&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Athe+obesity+code+jason+fung" target="_blank"> "The Obesity Code."</a> Dr. Fung has written extensively on diabetes treatment and prevention on his website,<a href="https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/" target="_blank"> Intensive Dietary Management</a>, and his videos, both on his website and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jason+fung" target="_blank">youtube</a>, are thought-provoking, eye-opening and life-changing to thousands of people around the world. <br />
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Dr. Fung uses fasting, both short- and long-term, to manage blood glucose, insulin resistance and Metabolic Syndrome. It was his factual reporting about the benefits of fasting that really pushed me over the edge into fasting to manage my Type 2 Diabetes. Again, I highly recommend that all my readers look into what Dr. Jason Fung is uncovering. His methods are really game-changing!<br />
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So, back to me and what I am doing next...<br />
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Encouraged by my recent challenge, and seeing that it is possible for me to lose weight and manage my blood glucose, I have decided that, after this past few weeks 'break' that I am going to jump back in and try to lose a few more pounds of body fat and gain a pound or so of lean mass.<br />
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Seeing a recent low weight of 133.4 pounds a couple of weeks ago, and a body fat percentage of 29.5, I have set my new goal at 130 pounds with body fat of 25%. That translates to an additional loss of 11.1 pounds of body fat and an additional gain of 1.3 pounds of muscle. Can I do it? There is only one way to find out...<br />
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I have committed to one day per week of heavy, slow motion weight lifting, using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Strength-Training/dp/0071597174/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461649637&sr=8-1&keywords=body+by+science" target="_blank">Body By Science</a> as my guide. I have committed to HIIT twice per week on the treadmill at the gym. I have committed to taking 3-mile walks as often as I can, maybe twice or three times per week, weather permitting. The weight lifting should take care of the "gaining muscle" portion of my new challenge, and the HIIT and walking should continue to help with my insulin sensitivity. Notice that I am not trying to "burn calories" with my exercise. I'm done with that nonsense. It's not a problem of too many calories that need to be "burned off". It is a problem with hormonal imbalance that keeps body fat trapped and unable to be used for energy. The solution for that is to balance hormones, not to eat less and move more!<br />
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The chart to the left shows what my daily goals will be for my scale weight. As you can see, the slope of the grey goal line is a little shallower now than it was for the first three months of this year. My previous goal was to lose 0.2 pounds per day (on average), and, starting tomorrow, the new goal will be to lose only 0.12 pounds per day. I am doing this to take a gentler approach to weight loss, to give my body a little break, and to give some loose skin a chance to firm up, which opportunity I certainly hope it will take advantage of!<br />
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From now until the end of June 2016, I will again be utilizing my Feast/Fast model, with one slight change - I will not be using fasting blood glucose as a determining factor of whether or not I fast on a particular day. I really feel that I have increased my insulin sensitivity to the point where my blood glucose is stable, and although I will check it now and then, I will not routinely check it every morning to see whether or not I'm going to eat.<br />
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This time around, I will simply weigh first thing in the morning before I eat, and if my weight is equal to or less than my goal for that day, I will feast freely. Even though I have been tracking my food intake for the past couple of weeks, just to get the hang of how much more protein and veggies to eat, and how much less fat to eat, I will stop tracking now and just eat in the amounts that I have become accustomed to.<br />
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And, speaking of fat, I do want to mention that I was eating a lot more fat in January, February and March than I have been eating lately. (I am also eating a lot more protein, which has been shown in studies to aid in weight loss.) I finally got it through my head that there is enough fat on my body to "eat" and I don't need Bullet Proof Coffee and Fat Bombs at this stage of my weight loss. As I have heard said, all I need is Low Carb; I'm already High Fat! The fat on my body will be utilized for energy until there is not an excess amount of it. Each time I eat a bunch of fat, my body will burn that rather than the stores of fat already "on hand." Eating less fat does not make this a low fat diet. I am just eating the fat on my body instead of the fat on my plate. And, even with the whole food fats that I am eating, around 50% or more of my calories are coming from fat, so even that is still considered a high fat diet.<br />
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When I get to the point were there is not a lot of excess fat on my body, I will get to increase fat to supply the energy I need to live. I'm looking forward to that! I <i>do </i>miss my BPC!<br />
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One more chart. This is an extended Feast/Fast Heat Map, so that you can see at a glance how often I am fasting. This chart starts on January 1, 2016 and ends on June 30, 2016. One red block represents a 36-hour fast. Two red blocks in a row represent a 60-hour fast.<br />
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As you can see, I have feasted for the past seven days in a row. What a luxury!<br />
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All that will come to an end as I start my fasting again. So I better get used to seeing a little more red and a little less green.<br />
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When I did my last challenge, I posted every day. This time, I will probably post only once per week. Even I get bored with mundane details every day!<br />
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My next post will be a week from now, and I will tell you how I am doing, and show you my charts. I will be adding in an activity log that will show how my weight lifting is going and how many times I have done HIIT and how many walks I have gone on.<br />
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Oh, and I just want to give a personal thank you to my friend Lynn Weiler, who has been a real inspiration to me and gave me the little nudge I needed to start back up again. And she is joining me in this challenge, so, with her permission, I may be sharing some of her results as well! Thanks, Lynn!<br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-27919759385766872212016-04-12T11:47:00.000-05:002016-04-12T11:58:12.270-05:00HbA1c RESULTS CALLED INTO QUESTION.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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IS THE HbA1c TEST A RELIABLE INDICATOR OF AVERAGE BLOOD GLUCOSE OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS? <br />
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If you read my <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-results-2016-weight-loss-and.html" target="_blank">summary post</a> from twelve days ago, you saw the picture I took of my test results from my home HbA1c test. Watching what I ate and fasting a HECK of a lot of days in the first three months of the year, I still got a reading of 5.2%, which is equivalent to an average blood glucose of 103 mg/dl.<br />
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I was so upset when I saw that number! How could it be true? The answer is, it couldn't be true.<br />
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I went to the interwebs to check on the reliablility of this test and found several articles that showed that the results are skewed, either higher or lower, based on the patient's history of anemia and/or iron deficiency.<br />
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I have had anemia and/or iron deficiency since childhood. Even now, when blood tests are done, I am lacking in red blood cells. Sometimes I take a supplement and that helps, and sometimes I just don't worry about it.<br />
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The article that I felt was the most clear was <a href="https://chriskresser.com/why-hemoglobin-a1c-is-not-a-reliable-marker/" target="_blank">this one</a> written by Dr. Chris Kesser. In the article, he says this:<br />
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"Sugar has a tendency to stick to stuff. Anyone that has cooked with
sugar can tell you that. In our bodies, sugar also sticks – especially
to proteins. The theory behind the A1c test is that our red blood cells
live an average of three months, so if we measure the amount of sugar
stuck to these cells (which is what the hemoglobin A1c test does), it
will give us an idea of how much sugar has been in the blood over the
previous three months. The number reported in the A1c test result (i.e.
5.2) indicates the percentage of hemoglobin that has become glycated
(stuck to sugar)."<br />
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However, people with low red blood cells get inaccurate results. He continues:<br />
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"This confused me early in my practice. I was testing blood sugar in
three different ways for all new patients: fasting blood glucose,
post-meal blood sugar (with a glucometer) and A1c. And I was surprised
to see people with completely normal fasting and post-meal blood sugars,
and A1c levels of >5.4%."<br />
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You can read the rest of Dr. Kesser's article to learn how he changed his procedures and no longer uses the HbA1c as the determining factor when he checks the progress of his patients. For myself, I decided to check my blood glucose nine times per day over a one week time frame to see if it was true that my BG was rising so high after eating as to cause me to have an average blood glucose of 103 mg/dl, or 5.2%.<br />
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I tested my blood glucose right before each of my three daily meals. I also tested one hour after beginning each meal, and again two hours after beginning each meal. Of the seven days, I fasted only twice, from dinner one day until breakfast two days later, which made the duration of those two fasts 36 hours each. On the first day that I fasted, I did check my BG nine times. The second day that I fasted, I only checked it twice, because I could see from the last fasting day that there is barely any fluctuation when you are not eating at all. On that second fasting day, I filled in estimates of what I considered to be reasonable numbers.<br />
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Here is a chart (click to enlarge it if necessary) that shows my results for this past week:<br />
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My TRUE average blood glucose over these 63 readings was 80 mg/dl or 4.4%. And this is with me eating the same way that I was during my challenge, and even with me only fasting twice that week, when I was fasting three, four, or five times per week in the last half of the challenge, which would probably mean that my HbA1c should have been even lower than 4.4%.<br />
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My highest reading was 98 mg/dl or 5.0% (two hours after eating a meal) and my lowest reading was 68 mg/dl or 4.0% (the morning after a 36-hour fast). <br />
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My conclusion is that, had the HbA1c test been accurate, I would have gotten a reading somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.4%, not 5.2%.<br />
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Now that I have proved this to myself, I am going to go back to not checking my blood glucose as often. I will check it now and then, and possibly when I eat a food I am not sure of to see if I can tolerate it.<br />
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In one of the diabetes Facebook groups that I belonged to last summer, I mentioned that I did not often check my BG. The other diabetics were outraged and told me I had to test nine times per day or more every day for the rest of my life! When I explained that I am perfectly controlled with diet and that I am on no diabetic drugs or insulin, they didn't care. They felt that I was taking my disease lightly and it was an insult to all the diabetics that test multiple times per day. They threatened me with blindness, nerve damage and amputations if I did not test every day.<br />
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At one point, I had made the mistake of saying that it was too expensive to do all that testing. That's when the you-know-what really hit the fan! They wondered what I cared most about, my disease or my money.<br />
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Well, since my diabetes is perfectly controlled with diet (and exercise), I care about the money. If it ever becomes evident that I am no longer controlled, then I will spend the money. For now, I will use that money to buy a nice steak!<br />
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Keep an eye out for my next personal challenge, which will center around body composition.<br />
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Onward and Downward!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today I am posting the final results for my 91-day challenge.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>I waited several days to post the results so that I would have a chance to do an HbA1c test, put together final photos and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">think about </span>what I wanted to say about my findings, my feelings, and where I want to go from here in my quest to maintain my new weight and lowered fasting blood glucose.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>THE WAY I WILL EAT</b></i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One thing is for certain, and that is that I will continue to eat a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. This really seems like the only way to keep on track. In the past, every time I have tried to increase carbs, I have gained weight. I really don't want to do that this time. More about exactly how I will proceed from here at the end of this post...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>MY HbA1c TEST RESULTS</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have taken an <a href="http://www.diabeteschart.org/hba1ctest.html" target="_blank">HbA1c</a> test to see what my average blood glucose has been for the past three months. The last time I took one was around a year ago, and I got a reading of 5.4%, which means that my average blood glucose for the prior three months had been 108 mg/dl. And that is not an average of just the morning reading (FBG), but all the levels at all times of the day. The ideal HbA1c is around 4.5% which is equal to 83 mg/dl. You can see a chart of how that works <a href="http://www.diabeteschart.org/bloodsugarchart.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My test gave me a result of 5.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2</span>%, which is equivalent to an average blood glucose of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">103</span> mg/dl. This is an improvement over my last test, but <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> would be lying if I did not say how extremely disappointed I am</span></span>. What this means is that although my fasting blood glucose has come down into very good levels, my non-fasting <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blood glucose levels are still elevated. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As much as I hate the idea, I am going to have to start testing my <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">postprandial <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(after <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">meals) blood glucose to see what is causing this problem. If my average is 103, that means that my post-meal readings must <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still be in diabetic ranges, possibly in the 120s and higher.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, wait a minute! It is very hard for me to believe that my average BG is this high when I have been doing all this fasting. I went to the interwebs and found many articles that show the inaccu<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">racy of the HgA1c test. <a href="https://chriskresser.com/why-hemoglobin-a1c-is-not-a-reliable-marker/" target="_blank">This article by Chris</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://chriskresser.com/why-hemoglobin-a1c-is-not-a-reliable-marker/" target="_blank"> K</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://chriskresser.com/why-hemoglobin-a1c-is-not-a-reliable-marker/" target="_blank">resser</a> is a good example and is very easy to understand. In short, Dr. Kresser believes that home m<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">onitoring before and after meals is a much better <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">indicator of</span> average blood glucose tha<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n the HbA1c test. He found that his patients who had stellar BG readings before and after meals at<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> home would test a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rtificially high on a standard A1c test. In the article, he mentions that people with an<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">emia <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and/or iron-deficiency have incorrect results with th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e test. I have been anemic and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">/or iron deficient since child<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hood<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, so a standard home test for BG will be accurate when an HbA1c test <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">may not. We'll get to the bottom of this!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over this n<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ext week, I am going to check my BG at home <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nine</span> times per day and find out what my true average is. I will check fasting when I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> get up in the morning, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one hour after starting to eat breakfast, t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wo hours after starting to eat breakfast, then right before starting to eat lunch, then one and two hours after that, and the same for dinner. T<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he average of these nine read<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ings should be very close to a true average. I'm very sure that my result will not show that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have an average BG o<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">f 103 mg/dl. I started doing this this morning, and so far my average over the three readings was 87 mg/dl. When this week is over, I will post my results.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The chart below is the final chart that shows my fasting blood glucose test results. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The orange lines are
my 7-day averages. As you can see, I did make progress toward normalizing my FBG.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I always do when I take these type of photos, I took special care to stand normally, neither pushing out my stomach in the before photos nor sucking it in in the after photos. I also crop the photos so that they are the same size and can be compared side by side. Also, if you click on the photo above, you will be able to see that I have been left with loose skin. I hope you will not judge me too harshly for this, remembering that I am over 60 years old, and that is part of the reason why. I remember my father telling me that it would be better to be somewhat overweight in order to have tighter skin and therefor a younger appearance, but I would much rather look a little bit older and have a proper body size for my height!</span></div>
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Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Glucose)</span></h1>
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Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by abnormally low blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">glucose</span> (blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">sugar</span>) levels, usually less than 70 <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">mg/dl</span>. However, it is important to talk to your health care provider about your individual <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">blood glucose</span> targets, and what level is too low for you.<br />
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Signs and Symptoms of Hypoglycemia (happen quickly)</span></h2>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shakiness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nervousness or anxiety</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sweating, chills and clamminess</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Irritability or impatience</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Confusion, including delirium</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rapid/fast heartbeat</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lightheadedness or dizziness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hunger and nausea</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sleepiness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blurred/impaired vision</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tingling or numbness in the lips or tongue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Headaches</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Weakness or fatigue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anger, stubbornness, or sadness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lack of coordination</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nightmares or crying out during sleep</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seizures</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unconsciousness</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">As I always do when I take these kind of photos, I take special care to stand normally, neither pushing my stomach out in the before photo, nor sucking it in in the after photo. I also crop them in such a way so that they are equal in actual size and a true comparison can be seen.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">I had a bad incision during my c-section in 1977, and my stomach muscles were cut in such a way that I will never really be able to use them to hold my stomach in. Because of that, I will probably always have a little bit of a "pooch" no matter how slim I am, but I can live with that. Some tummy-control undies go a long way to giving me the impression of a flat stomach. By the way, I am not wearing anything like that in either of these photos. I am wearing regular, non-slimming leggings.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">12 3/8" - 11 3/4"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">36 3/4" - 35"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 1 3/4"</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">33 3/4" - 29"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 4 3/4"</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">41 1/2" - 37 1/8"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 4 3/8"</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">HIPS</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">41 1/4" - 38 1/4"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">THIGH</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">22 7/8" - 21 1/4"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 1 5/8"</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">CALF</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">14 3/8" - 13 5/8"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 3/4"</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TOTAL INCHES LOST - 19 1/4"</b> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">When I do the math for the total inches lost, I count each measurement as one unit with the exception of my thighs and calves, which I count as two units each. Because I have two of each of those. That might not be the right way to do it, but it is the way I do it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><i><b><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Before I talk about my weight loss, I want to explain how I determine my body fat and lean body mass percentages.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">In the past few years, I have had <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/the-scale-lies-why-the-dexa-scan-is-best" target="_blank">DEXA scans</a> and <a href="http://www.bodpod.com/en/products/body-composition/adult-children-bod-pod-gs" target="_blank">Bod Pod testing</a> done to determine my body composition. These are very accurate, but are expensive, usually costing around $100, depending where you get it done.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Several years ago, I found an <a href="http://www.thrivepersonalfitness.com/bodyfat-calculator/" target="_blank">online calculator</a> that is used by the US Navy and is based on neck, waist and hip measurements. I tried it out and found that the results, at least for me, were so similar to the expensive tests that I decided to start using the free online calculator to get an estimate of my body composition. In my experience, I have found the free results to be within a few tenths of a percentage point of the other tests. For my purposes, this is close enough.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">My goal for the past several years has been to reach my goal of 136 pounds with 30% body fat. When trying to lose weight, the goal should be to lose body fat and not lean mass. So knowing what your body composition is starting and ending is very useful. Here are the results for those:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">January 1, 2016</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">60.1 pounds of body fat - 39%</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">93.9 pounds of lean body mass - 61%</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">154 pounds of total scale weight</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">April 1, 2016</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">41.7 pounds of body fat - 30.3%</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">95.9 pounds of lean body mass - 69.7%</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">137.6 pounds of total scale weight</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">LOST 18.4 POUNDS OF BODY FAT</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">GAINED 2 POUNDS OF LEAN BODY MASS</span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">The way I see it, I have come close enough to my weight loss goals to declare this part of the challenge a victory. Technically, I still need to lose 0.9 pounds of body fat and I am actually <i>over </i>my goal for lean body mass by 0.7 pounds.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Because my lean body mass is over my goal, I need to make a shift in my goals. Now, the new goal is to achieve 30% body fat regardless of my scale weight. To reach this goal, all I need to do is lose another 1/4" from my waist.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">By the way, according to my measurements, I am the smallest I have been since starting low carb in 2009, and also the smallest I have been in around twenty years. Before now, the lowest body fat percentage I achieved was around 32% and that was three years ago, but I gained the weight back. This time, I am bound and determined not to do that, no matter what it takes.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">One thing that I want to be sure to mention is that I purposely did not do any kind of exercise during the challenge. I did not want there to be any confounding factors pertaining to my results. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">The chart below is the final chart that shows my scale weight results. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The orange lines are
my 7-day averages. As you can see, I came very close to reaching my goal.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">I have said it before, but it bears repeating, that if I had known this going in, I wouldn't have started. I probably would have just started micromanaging my food intake again, lost some weight, gotten sick of it, quit tracking and then gained all the weight back again.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">I have fasted in the past, and I knew I could do it, but it is still hard to start doing it again once you haven't done it in a while. I went in with a lot of commitment and drive and made it to the end, even when it was difficult. But how often was it difficult? Surprisingly seldom, to tell the truth. For me, once I started and my body adjusted to it, I rarely got truly hungry, and I could even be around other people (most notably, my husband) when they were eating and I would not feel anything. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">In the evening, after a full day or two of fasting, I would start thinking about how wonderful it would be to eat in the morning. Then I would get up in the morning and not be hungry at all. This is one of the blessings/curses of fasting and being in deep nutritional ketosis. Running on ketones instead of glucose is a <i>big </i>appetite suppressant! Very often, I would have to force myself to eat something when I was not hungry. If there was one downside to having a suppressed appetite, it was the concern that I was not going to be getting the nutrition I need.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Obviously, though, I was able to maintain my muscle mass while losing body fat, even though I was eating only every few days for the last half of the challenge. I even gained some lean mass!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>WHERE I AM GOING FROM HERE</b></i></span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></b></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I intend to keep eating a ketogenic diet. But will I continue to feast and fast, or will I go back to caloric restriction, which is eating a smaller amount each day and tracking my food? I would like to look at the pros and cons of each.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Pro - On a feast day, I never have to count calories or grams of anything or weigh food.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">On a feast day, I sometimes don't want to eat and worry about getting nutrition.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Pro - On a fast day, I don't even have to think about food. Or pay for it!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - On a fast day, I don't get to eat if I want to, and I have to watch others eat.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Pro - On either day, my metabolism stays strong and does not slow down.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Pro - This way of eating seems to be sustainable. I may not feel like I need to give up. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Pro - I get to eat every day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - I have to measure everything I eat and track it on a spreadsheet.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - I have to stop eating when I am not satisfied.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - I have to pay for food every day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Con - This is not a sustainable way for me to live. I hate it and I always give up. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">And the biggest <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">c</span>on of all - Caloric restriction has been shown to slow the metabolism, meaning that the longer you restrict calories, the slower the metabolism and the less food you get to eat to try to maintain your weight.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">I found this to be true for myself. In the past, even when eating low carb, I had to continually reduce the amount of food I was allowed to eat in order to keep losing weight. I'll leave it to others to get into the science of why that is true, but I know it is and I have read many articles about the subject.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">So, as nice as it seems to be able to eat every day, I think that the preponderance of the evidence in my case is that I need to continue to feast and fast to maintain a healthy body composition and normal blood glucose. This is what I have decided to do, and I can only hope that it will be sustainable over time. I have done it for three months without too much drama, so it is sustainable so far.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">From here on out, I will not be using the bathroom scale as the measure of my success. Starting next week, I am going back to the gym once a week to do my weight training and I will also be starting a walking regim<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n</span></span> to help with insulin resistance. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Because I intend to gain more muscle (and hopefully tighten up my loose skin!), I know that the number on the scale may start increasing. However, even as I gain muscle, my body size should not increase. For that reason, I will be using my body fat percentage as a guide of whether or not to eat on a given day. Using the free online calculator mentioned in this post, I will check my neck, waist and hip measurement each day and use those numbers in my decision for feast or fast. If the scale is over 136 pounds, but the calculator says that I am still 30% body fat, I'm feasting. If it is 30.1% or higher, I'm fasting.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">The only drawback of this is that I am basically going by my waist measurement, and the day after I feast, I always feel a little bloated, which may be due to water weight and not true body fat gain. Also, like I mentioned earlier, my stomach muscles don't work very well, and just having food in my stomach, even the right kind of food, makes my tummy stick out. But, I figure that if I am fasting each time my waist measurement goes up a little, it will be good for me. Fasting is good for me. I need to keep telling myself that! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout this challenge, as I was needing to fast more and more often, I have been concerned that I would need to keep up only eating a few times a week in order to maintain my health. But I'm thinking that it may not be the case, because I am now no longer needing to lose weight. When the challenge was in full swing, and I gained weight after a feast day, I would not only have to "fast off" that weight, but also an additional 0.2 pounds to keep up with my weight loss schedule. Now, if I gain weight (and by that, I mean body fat) on a feast day, all I need to lose the next day is that same weight and no more. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks so much for reading and for sticking it out with me for the full challenge!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, and just in an effort at full disclosure, I must admit to my faithful readers that I went out to a restaurant and to the mall on April 1st, the first day being off the challenge, and I ate things I should have not eaten. It's all a blur now, but I have vague memories of a few French fries, some popcorn and a Dark Chocolate Pixie from Fannie May.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;">I gained weight. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I fasted on April 3rd and 4th. Today I am e<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ating and checking my blood glucose before and<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> after eating.</span></span></span> Onward and downward! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
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like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Today is Day 91 - LAST DAY!<br />
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Weight goal - 136.2 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 138 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 75 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 86<br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
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Last day! Yesterday I ate lunch with my family and then I had a few morsels of other stuff later in the day. Today, because it is my last day and I want to finish strong, I am water fasting. No broth, no coffee or tea and no Stevia. I have my timer set for one hour, and I will be drinking 8 oz. of water each hour until bedtime, with my first being at 7 am this morning.<br />
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In order to totally win the challenge, my weight needs to be 136 or lower in the morning, and my FBG needs to be 75 or lower.<br />
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Yesterday, I gained 1.8 pounds. To win tomorrow, I need to lose 2 pounds before tomorrow morning's final weigh-in. I've done it before and I'm hoping I will do it again. <br />
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Even if I don't hit 136 pounds and 75 FBG, I will consider it close enough to a win to call this challenge a success.<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 77 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-74352543632923223422016-03-30T08:02:00.002-05:002016-03-30T08:05:29.453-05:00DAY 90 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Today is Day 90<br />
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Weight goal - 136.2 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 136.2 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 76 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 73 <br />
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Today is a Feast Day!<br />
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<i>For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my charts and post them here on the big blog. I'm
posting every day to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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I am doing my final weigh and measure in two days, which is the morning after Day 91. Today I met my goals for weight loss and FBG reduction, so I am eating. But because I am <i>SO CLOSE</i> to the end of my challenge, I am going to eat very light today. I might have even decided to fast today, but I have company coming for lunch, so I would not want to fast anyway. Today, I am going to eat a light lunch and stop there.<br />
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On Friday, I am also going to be doing an <a href="http://www.diabeteschart.org/hba1ctest.html" target="_blank">HbA1c</a> test to see what my average blood glucose has been for the past three months. The last time I took one, I got a reading of 5.4, which means that my average blood glucose for the prior three months had been 108. And that is not an average of just the morning reading (FBG), but all the levels at all times of the day. The ideal HbA1c is around 4.5 which is equal to 83. You can see a chart of how that works <a href="http://www.diabeteschart.org/bloodsugarchart.html" target="_blank">here</a>. We'll see how close I get.<br />
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Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Glucose)</h1>
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Signs and Symptoms of Hypoglycemia (happen quickly)</h2>
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<li>Shakiness</li>
<li>Nervousness or anxiety</li>
<li>Sweating, chills and clamminess</li>
<li>Irritability or impatience</li>
<li>Confusion, including delirium</li>
<li>Rapid/fast heartbeat</li>
<li>Lightheadedness or dizziness</li>
<li>Hunger and nausea</li>
<li>Sleepiness</li>
<li>Blurred/impaired vision</li>
<li>Tingling or numbness in the lips or tongue</li>
<li>Headaches</li>
<li>Weakness or fatigue</li>
<li>Anger, stubbornness, or sadness</li>
<li>Lack of coordination</li>
<li>Nightmares or crying out during sleep</li>
<li>Seizures</li>
<li>Unconsciousness</li>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>89 DAYS DOWN AND 2 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>55 FEAST DAYS AND 35 FAST DAYS - FASTING 39% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>17.8 POUNDS GONE AND 0.2 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>99% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 98% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 137.2</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 74 </b></span></span></span><br />
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The orange lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Today is Day 89<br />
<br />
Weight goal - 136.4 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 137.6 <br />
<br />
Blood glucose goal - 76 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 77<br />
<br />
Today is a Fast Day. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
<br />
There's not much to report today. I was sick from whatever until around noon yesterday. Now I'm afraid to eat the leftover turkey!<br />
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I can't believe there are only three days left, including today. Day after tomorrow is my final measure and weigh-in, and I will be taking photos so I can show you my before and afters.<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>88 DAYS DOWN AND 3 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>54 FEAST DAYS AND 35 FAST DAYS - FASTING 39% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>16.4 POUNDS GONE AND 1.6 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>91% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 98% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 137.7</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 73 </b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-47492493735185062252016-03-28T07:59:00.001-05:002016-03-28T07:59:58.196-05:00DAY 88 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">January 11, 2016</td></tr>
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<br />
Today is Day 88<br />
<br />
Weight goal - 136.6 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 138.6 <br />
<br />
Blood glucose goal - 76 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 87<br />
<br />
Today is a Fast Day. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
<br />
I had a nice Easter yesterday, with plenty of feasting. However, the turkey was fresh and, after it was roasted, I thought it tasted "off" and I was sick to my stomach for the rest of the night until bedtime. And this morning, I am still nauseated and belching. I'm happy to be fasting today!<br /><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>87 DAYS DOWN AND 4 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>54 FEAST DAYS AND 34 FAST DAYS - FASTING 39% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>15.4 POUNDS GONE AND 2.6 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>86% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 97% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 137.9</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 72 </b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-7618291236050710992016-03-27T11:58:00.000-05:002016-03-27T12:04:08.235-05:00DAY 87 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Today is Day 87<br />
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Weight goal - 136.8 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 137.4 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 76 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 78 <br />
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Today is a Special Feast Day!<br />
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<i>For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my charts and post them here on the big blog. I'm
posting every day to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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<i> </i>He is risen, indeed! Happy Easter to my Christian readers.</div>
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Even though my numbers are slightly above goal this morning, it is Easter and I am eating. I've already started off the day with poached eggs and freshly made Hollandaise sauce. Yum! Not sure what we are having for lunch. I was going to roast a chicken for dinner, but the store was out, and there was a small turkey there, so I figured what the heck. We are having roast turkey for dinner along with some veggies with the leftover Hollandaise sauce.<br />
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It's kind of weird that I did not lose weight yesterday. But I did some measurements, and I evidently lost some body fat, so I'm not too concerned. More about the body fat in the Big Reveal in a few days.</div>
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Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Glucose)</h1>
Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by abnormally low blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">glucose</span> (blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">sugar</span>) levels, usually less than 70 <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">mg/dl</span>. However, it is important to talk to your health care provider about your individual <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">blood glucose</span> targets, and what level is too low for you.<br />
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Signs and Symptoms of Hypoglycemia (happen quickly)</h2>
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<li>Shakiness</li>
<li>Nervousness or anxiety</li>
<li>Sweating, chills and clamminess</li>
<li>Irritability or impatience</li>
<li>Confusion, including delirium</li>
<li>Rapid/fast heartbeat</li>
<li>Lightheadedness or dizziness</li>
<li>Hunger and nausea</li>
<li>Sleepiness</li>
<li>Blurred/impaired vision</li>
<li>Tingling or numbness in the lips or tongue</li>
<li>Headaches</li>
<li>Weakness or fatigue</li>
<li>Anger, stubbornness, or sadness</li>
<li>Lack of coordination</li>
<li>Nightmares or crying out during sleep</li>
<li>Seizures</li>
<li>Unconsciousness</li>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>86 DAYS DOWN AND 5 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>54 FEAST DAYS AND 33 FAST DAYS - FASTING 38% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>16.6 POUNDS GONE AND 1.4 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>92% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 96% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 138</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 70 </b></span></span></span><br />
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The orange lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Today is Day 86<br />
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Weight goal - 137 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 137.4 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 77 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 78<br />
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Today is a Fast Day. <br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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I did bounce up in weight from my low after fasting for two days, but that was to be expected. I<br />
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ate yesterday, but did not have a good time doing it. I made low carb cheesy biscuits and had them with bacon for breakfast, and that part was great!<br />
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But then I had the leftover cheeseburger casserole for lunch and it made me sick to my stomach. I think it was in the fridge too long. I even wondered if my BG had crashed, so I checked it and it was 71, too high to consider hypoglycemia. <br />
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Then a quilting customer came over and brought over a loaf of fresh out of the oven and still warm homemade <a href="http://draganabakes.blogspot.com/2010/01/poppy-seed-and-walnut-strudels-for.html" target="_blank">potica </a>and I must admit I had a bit. My Czechoslovakian grandmother made this all the time, and I could not resist tasting it again after probably 35 or 40 years! Of course, she developed Type 2 Diabetes eating that kind of food, so it is not something I want to do with any regularity!<br />
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For dinner, I had chicken thigh and sauteed mushrooms and onions with cream and butter, and, even though I did not overeat, I felt overly full and uncomfortable for the rest of the night until bedtime.<br />
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As you can see by my numbers, I only barely missed being able to eat today, but I'm actually relieved. I am getting into the swing of fasting, and am really starting to think that alternate day fasting might be a good way to maintain weight and FBG. It's not hard.<br />
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I shouldn't say it's not hard. Would it be easier to eat every day? Sure. But you have to pick which "hard" you are going to do. It's hard to fast every other day. It's hard to be overweight and diabetic. So which one do I choose?<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>85 DAYS DOWN AND 6 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>53 FEAST DAYS AND 33 FAST DAYS - FASTING 38% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>16.6 POUNDS GONE AND 1.4 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>92% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 95% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 138.4</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 71 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-14470770016155254622016-03-25T08:40:00.000-05:002016-03-27T11:29:32.296-05:00DAY 85 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Today is Day 85<br />
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Weight goal - 137.2 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 135 - NEW LOW<br />
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Blood glucose goal - 77 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 57 <br />
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Today is a Feast Day!<br />
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<i>For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my charts and post them here on the big blog. I'm
posting every day to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!</b></i></span></div>
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I have not only reached my goal, I have surpassed it! The original goal was 136 pounds, and this morning I weighed in at 135 pounds. This is after a two-day fast, so I know that I will bounce back up a little after eating LIKE A BOSS today, but that's okay. I still have several days to go before my results are official.</div>
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I cannot believe that I have lost 19 pounds in the past three months! Why, oh, why didn't I do this sooner? I had been thinking about it for years and just never pulled the trigger. I'm so glad I did! </div>
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And fasting blood glucose of 57! This fasting is no doubt doing wonders for my insulin sensitivity.<br />
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You might think that 57 is hypoglycemic, but it only is a problem if you have the following <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/blood-glucose-control/hypoglycemia-low-blood.html" target="_blank">symptoms</a>, which I do not have this morning, even with a FBG of 57:</div>
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Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Glucose)</h1>
Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by abnormally low blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">glucose</span> (blood <span class="tooltip right" style="z-index: 1000;">sugar</span>) levels, usually less than 70 <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">mg/dl</span>. However, it is important to talk to your health care provider about your individual <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">blood glucose</span> targets, and what level is too low for you.<br />
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Hypoglycemic symptoms are important clues that you have low blood glucose. Each person's reaction to <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">hypoglycemia</span> is different, so it's important that you learn your own signs and symptoms when your blood glucose is low.<br />
The only sure way to know whether you are experiencing hypoglycemia
is to check your blood glucose, if possible. If you are experiencing
symptoms and you are unable to check your blood glucose for any reason,
treat the hypoglycemia. Severe hypoglycemia has the potential to cause
accidents, injuries, <span class="tooltip" style="z-index: 1000;">coma</span>, and death.<br />
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Signs and Symptoms of Hypoglycemia (happen quickly)</h2>
<ul>
<li>Shakiness</li>
<li>Nervousness or anxiety</li>
<li>Sweating, chills and clamminess</li>
<li>Irritability or impatience</li>
<li>Confusion, including delirium</li>
<li>Rapid/fast heartbeat</li>
<li>Lightheadedness or dizziness</li>
<li>Hunger and nausea</li>
<li>Sleepiness</li>
<li>Blurred/impaired vision</li>
<li>Tingling or numbness in the lips or tongue</li>
<li>Headaches</li>
<li>Weakness or fatigue</li>
<li>Anger, stubbornness, or sadness</li>
<li>Lack of coordination</li>
<li>Nightmares or crying out during sleep</li>
<li>Seizures</li>
<li>Unconsciousness</li>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>84 DAYS DOWN AND 7 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>53 FEAST DAYS AND 30 FAST DAYS - FASTING 38% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>19 POUNDS GONE AND 0 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>106% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 93% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 138.7</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 70 </b></span></span></span><br />
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made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The orange lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Today is Day 84<br />
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Weight goal - 137.4 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 138 - NEW LOW<br />
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Blood glucose goal - 77 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 65<br />
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Today is a Fast Day. <br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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I had an odd day yesterday. I worked in the morning and felt fine, but when I sat down to take a break in the afternoon I got so sleepy that I had no choice but to lay down on the couch, cover up with a quilt, and sleep the afternoon away. Around 4 pm, I actually drank a cup of coffee to be able to wake up. That has not happened since I started my challenge.<br />
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I'm not sure what I will do yet when this is over next week, but I know that I am really ready for a change. In the past seven days, I have only feasted twice. I'm sure that that must not be the only way for me to maintain a healthy weight and FBG. That does not seem like enough food for me to get the nutrition I need.<br />
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The thought is occurring to me that I might have to start tracking my food again, and that is not a good thought! One of the main reasons I did this challenge was so that I would <i>not</i> have to weigh and measure everything and keep a spreadsheet of what I am eating.<br />
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Is is possible that I am just eating too much on my feast days? If that is true, is there a way that I can just "eyeball" food to keep from having to track? Maybe if I just limit my protein to 4 oz. per meal, and limit my veggies to 1/2 cup or 1 cup or whatever is reasonable, and limit my fat to whatever, I could eat three meals a day and not have to track. Maybe then I could eat more than twice a week! I have been fasting so much that the idea of getting to eat every other day seems like a luxury!<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>52 FEAST DAYS AND 32 FAST DAYS - FASTING 38% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>16 POUNDS GONE AND 2 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>89% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 92% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.5</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 75 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-55627320770421728052016-03-23T08:15:00.001-05:002016-03-24T07:57:29.951-05:00DAY 83 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">January 11, 2016</td></tr>
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Today is Day 83<br />
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Weight goal - 137.6 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 140.2 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 77 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 72<br />
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Today is a Fast Day. <br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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I had a great time feasting yesterday! I experimented with a new recipe for eggs baked in avocado. It was <i>horrible </i>and I will never make it again! For lunch, I had cabbage and onion fried in bacon grease and also some salami and cheese. I tried a new recipe for dinner, too, and it came out great. It was a bacon cheeseburger casserole and it made enough to have for another meal for both hubby and me. Of course, that will not be today, because I am fasting again. Big surprise.<br />
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I have to look at the big picture, though. My weight today is a lower high compared to my weight on other days that I have eaten the day before. So there is progress being made.<br />
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After I posted yesterday's blog entry, I looked back on my records to see when the last time was that I was the size I am now. It turns out that back in June 2011, I had the same measurements (within 1/8") and the same weight (within 0.2 pounds), so that means that it has taken me almost <i>five years</i> to get back to my lowest body size and weight since starting low carb back in 2009. And during that time, I was trying every low carb type of diet that I could find. I still have a little way to go to reach my goal of 136 pounds with 30% body fat. I have been tracking my body fat during this challenge, but I'm going to save that info for the big reveal next week. <br />
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I am also very pleasantly surprised and pleased to see that my FBG was only 72 this morning after a <i>very </i>full day of eating yesterday! This is real progress!<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>82 DAYS DOWN AND 9 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>52 FEAST DAYS AND 31 FAST DAYS - FASTING 37% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>13.8 POUNDS GONE AND 4.2 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>77% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 91% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.7</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 78 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-70244068329635376782016-03-22T08:05:00.000-05:002016-03-25T08:13:45.915-05:00DAY 82 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Today is Day 82<br />
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Weight goal - 137.8 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 138.4 - NEW LOW<br />
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Blood glucose goal - 78 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 66 <br />
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Today is a Special Feast Day!<br />
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<br />
<i>For me, that means a ketogenic diet - high fat, moderate
protein and very low carb. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
<br />
And why is today a Special Feast Day, you might ask. Well, although my FBG is way below my goal after fasting for two days (60 total hours with only non-caloric liquids), my weight is still above my goal. Shouldn't I be fasting today?<br />
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The short answer is yes, I should be fasting.<br />
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The only slightly less short answer is, I refuse to fast three days in a row! I think I need some nourishment. Plus, I went shopping for special food yesterday and I want to eat something.<br />
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If I am over either goal tomorrow morning, I will fast then, and I am willing to fast two days if need be. As for today, I am eating like a queen! <br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>81 DAYS DOWN AND 10 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>52 FEAST DAYS AND 30 FAST DAYS - FASTING 37% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>15.6 POUNDS GONE AND 2.4 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>87% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 90% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.8</b></span></span></span><br />
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made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Today is Day 81<br />
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Weight goal - 138 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 139.4 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 78 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 75<br />
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Today is a Fast Day. <br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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As you can see by my numbers above, my FBG allows me to eat, but my weight does not, so I am fasting again today.<br />
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I have a small confession to make. Yesterday, my grandkids and I made an Easter centerpiece for my dinette table using peeps and malted milk ball robin eggs. I ate one of the little eggs. Bad me! And it didn't even taste good!<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>80 DAYS DOWN AND 11 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>51 FEAST DAYS AND 30 FAST DAYS - FASTING 37% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>14.6 POUNDS GONE AND 3.4 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>81% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 89% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.8</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 82 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4003308285087547153.post-17059775317217033732016-03-20T09:50:00.001-05:002016-03-20T10:33:17.677-05:00DAY 80 - 2016 WEIGHT LOSS AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CHALLENGE<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Today is Day 80<br />
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Weight goal - 138.2 or lower <br />
Actual weight - 140.6 <br />
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Blood glucose goal - 78 or lower <br />
Actual blood glucose - 83 <br />
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Today is a Fast Day. <br />
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<i>For me, that means that all I will have today is water, coffee, tea,
or broth, all without caloric sweeteners or fat. Each day, I will weigh
in, check my fasting
blood glucose, find out if I will feast or
fast that day, update my chart and post it here on the big blog. I'm
posting
it to motivate myself not to give up, and if I think that anyone is
looking at this, it will help to keep me accountable.</i><br />
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Yesterday, I planned on a cup of BPC for breakfast, a bread-less Reuben sandwich for lunch and then no dinner.<br />
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I ended up eating a few little things around dinner time. I guess it is easier to start the day fasting than to eat part of the day and then fast the rest of the day.<br />
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I will probably need to fast today and tomorrow to get back on track. When I started this challenge, I remember thinking that it was going to be <i>so hard </i>to fast for a whole day! Now, looking ahead to fasting two days in a row is no big deal. However, I just <i>know</i> that if I had realized when I started that I would be fasting every other day, and sometimes two days in a row, I never would have done it.<br />
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It looks like the question is going to be: Am I willing to fast every other day for the rest of my life if that's what I have to do to maintain normal weight and FBG?<br />
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And, since my FBG is too high for my liking after the days that I eat, will I have to cut down on protein and carbs on the days that I <i>do </i>eat?<br />
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I just did the math, and my average FBG for these past 80 days has been 85. I have been slowly lowering my goal, and was looking forward to my FBG consistently being around 75. My lowest 7-day average since I started has been 78, but that was when I had fasted three or four out of those seven days! Obviously, eating only three days a week does not seem sustainable or healthy from a nutritional point of view. <br />
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Here is the thought that is going through my head this past week: I am considering the fact that my FBG may never get as low as I would like it to, even if I am eating every other day, which I hope I may be willing to do. If it is true that the goal for my particular body is too low, I may have to settle for an average fasting blood glucose of around 85. That would not be the end of the world, as long as I could keep it there. Of course, since that is <i>fasting</i> blood glucose only, it would mean that my overall average would probably be around 95 or so instead of the gold standard of 83. Also, not the end of the world if I can keep it from going any higher than that. Could I get it to go lower if I went back to eating zero carb? Probably, but I tried that and I could not sustain it, as you can <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2013/09/leaving-zero-carb-thoughts-on-alternate.html" target="_blank">read about here</a> if you are interested.<br />
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If I end my challenge with the decision to track both weight and FBG, and keep weight at 136 or below and FBG at 75 or below, I will rarely get to eat. That is not sustainable. <br />
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If I end my challenge with the decision to track only FBG and keep it at 75 or below, I will rarely get to eat. That is not sustainable.<br />
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If I end my challenge with the decision to track both weight and FBG,
and keep weight at 136 or below and FBG at 85 or below, I will probably get to eat every other day. That is sustainable.<br />
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If I end my challenge with the decision to track only FBG and keep it at 85 or below, I will probably get to eat every other day. That is sustainable, but from past experience, I know that even when my FBG is around 85, my weight can still start creeping up, so this is not a valid option.<br />
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If I end my challenge with the decision to track only weight and keep it at 136 or below, I will probably get to eat every other day, and I can safely assume that my FBG is around 85 or below, based on the readings I have been getting during this challenge, as long as I eat the way I have been eating during the challenge, which is high fat, moderate protein and very low carb.<br />
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I'm thinking that this last option is probably going to be my best one. <br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>79 DAYS DOWN AND 12 DAYS TO GO</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>51 FEAST DAYS AND 29 FAST DAYS - FASTING 36% OF THE DAYS</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>13.4 POUNDS GONE AND 4.6 POUNDS TO GO </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>74% OF THE WAY TO MY GOAL AFTER 88% OF THE DAYS </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE WEIGHT - 139.9</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>7-DAY AVERAGE FASTING BLOOD GLUCOSE - 84 </b></span></span></span></div>
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<i>I
made a few charts to track my progress. The grey lines are my long
term goals. The blue lines are my actual results. The red lines are
my 7-day averages. The
last chart is a little heat map to show at a glance how often I have
actually had to fast to achieve the results I am after. Click on any chart or photo to enlarge it.</i><br />
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<i>This is a personal challenge just for me, but <u><b>if anyone reading
would
like to join me, please talk to your doctor and make sure that it will
not conflict with your current medical condition or medications.</b></u> If you are taking the challenge, please be sure to let me know how you are doing!
Thanks for reading!</i><br />
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<i>To find out more about this challenge - the rules and how it started - click <a href="http://lowcarbbetterhealth.blogspot.com/2016/01/day-1-2016-weight-loss-and-blood.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0