Scaredy Cat
Photo by @akb.ph: https://www.pexels.com/photo/portrait-of-cute-cat-lying-on-ground-18316166/
I’ve been waiting to get a libre device delivered, installed on my arm and some figures in. As I’m in control of diabetes without drugs now and wholly using lifestyle diet I was not expecting but am prepared, for catastrophic results.
I’m a scardy cat. Can’t get over it, at least not just yet. I suppose that keeps me sharp, I don’t know but I will have to come to terms with what is bound to become irrational fear if I am to make this so far success a permanent reality.
My figures are higher than I expected this time, with an average over 3 days of 6.4 mmol/L
which is between 5-7. According to the powers that be, that is within a normal range for people that are not diabetic. So I’m in ‘remission’ still. Some people call this reversal, I choose the former as that means I am still potential to become diabetic again if I do not keep up the lifestyle changes. That said, I continue to experience the benefits of being in control of my blood sugar levels and I am not going back to the way I was. Day by day I notice small improvements in my body and mental acuity. When diagnosed I was pretty much told I must have numb fingers and feet to which I said that I certainly did not. Rather I experienced pain where others would have described lack of sensation. Over 2 years now, this has lessened. Right now, I am aware of abnormalities in feet and toes by the way my nervous system talks back to me saying “I’m still here you know, stop giving me sugar’ and I listen, attentively.
I am still no longer diabetic.
One thing above others that opened the gate for me to remission from type 2 was once cutting out all literal sugar, then removing starchy foods that turn straight into sugar moments after eating them, keeping all this up until I lost ( more ) weight that I already had from calorie restriction, eating healthy fats and proteins that reduced what could be uncontrollable hunger was ‘intermittent fasting’.
Not eating for as long as you can between meals is intermittent fasting, so, believe it or not, your likely doing that right now. Its called sleeping. When you wake up, you get breakfast, then you carry on eating all day long until you have to stop in order to go to bed and sleep. At least that’s how I used to live my life until I realized I didn’t have to eat breakfast any more. Then I extended this to be lunch time before I ate. Then I pushed it further until I was able to not eat for nearly 20 hours after last eating. You can’t do this straight away as for one, we are conditioned to eat like hobbits with breakfast being ‘the best meal of the day’ followed by elevenses, 2nd breakfast and finally lunch, followed by tea, dinner and supper. In between we snack, so never a dull moment.
People, I am informed by my reading and youtube people, have been fasting for 1000’s of years and I believe them. For mental health and for some, spiritual enlightenment or mental clarity, humans have regularly fasted from food for days at a time and so long as it is not more than several days and the person is relatively fit and healthy, this has never killed anyone as far as I know - you do your own research but I’m fairly confident to make this conclusion.
So my next step is to increase the amount of time I have between meals to be greater than 20 hours and to do this just once or twice in say, a month. I may go for the full 40-48 hours, perhaps less. I will wait and see.
Oh, and if your thinking of doing this, do your research and if you have a medical person you can trust, consult with them before following such a course of action. But if you put the work in, cut out sugar and starchy carbs, then good luck to you. It can’t do any harm to just, put down the fork, step away from the plate and just, not eat for a while.
Good health to you.