My One Month Fail

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I have to admit to having a very bad month since February 26th.  I found that after my trip to take food photos, I got off my fasting/feeding schedule and slid backwards.  I had so much trouble with my fasting times.  My hunger came back strong and I began to nibble and nibble on my fasting days.  My nibbling was low carb at least, but broke my fasts nevertheless.  Although I did have one day I craved chocolate and gave in for a dark chocolate binge.  That’s a first, since I normally do not crave sweets or sugars but plain old good food.  I’ve spent each day since the 26th losing a pound or two and then gaining it back again, over and over.  My blood glucose reading went up and up, I was into the 200, 300 and even a few 400s.  All this made me very frustrated and mad at myself.  After days of high bgl, I began to inject my insulins again to bring my numbers down and then of course I could not lose any weight.  But the high numbers were scaring me.

Now I’m back on track

To get back on track, it took me several tries and I basically decided to do a restart.  I went back to doing one meal a day or a 20:4 fasting style and injecting enough insulin to bring my numbers down to 200 and below.  Finally I’ve managed to get back to an alternate day schedule of true fasting with no nibbles.  Also, I reduced my eating during my feeding window some and began to eat salads again with some chopped chicken or tuna on top.  This morning I finally weighed below 235 again (233.4) for the first time since February 26th when I weighed 227.  My morning fasting BGL was 251 and I did inject 10 units of short term insulin but no more today.  My bgl was 190 at 2:45pm and will go down a little more before the dawn thing takes hold again in the morning. I notice that today I’m having no problem with hunger and I feel certain I will do well until my Lunch time feeding tomorrow where I plan on eating scrambled eggs and bacon.  I’m also trying to drink lots of water to keep me feeling full.  To motivate myself, I’ve been rereading Dr. Fung’s “The Complete Guide to Fasting” again and going to his website and reading the various success stories there.  They are truly inspirational to read and help me to visualize myself being successful.  I’m praying that I can now stay on an alternate day fasting schedule again and keep my weight/fast loss going.  Yes, this has been a wasted month as far as making progress, but I’ve learned how a break can affect me now and know that sticking to my schedule and my LCHF eating style is important to keep me on track.

One question I would like to have answered is “has this happened to other diabetes following Dr. Fung’s plan?”  I’ve been watching many of his youtube videos and reading on his website to get an answer to my question, but so far, no luck with finding an answer to this.

I did learn during this break, that I need to only keep just enough food to get by in my frig.  When I know that there is chicken, ground beef or other meat sitting there waiting to cook, it bothers me so much I want to cook that day and when I do that, I feel that I NEED TO EAT.  So I plan from now on to only keep salad fixings in the frig along with eggs and bacon – no perishable meats.  That way I will not feel the pressure to cook it or let it ruin.  One good thing I learned was how to fix a ketogenic pizza and it turned out good, so I now know how to fix a pizza crust out of almond flour and cream cheese.  I combined several keto recipes and came up with my own keo crust.

During my break, much of my inflammation returned and my hip and left leg pain came back full force.  So I did a lot of research on exercises for tight mucles in the hips and thighs.  I found a few good ones and I’ve been doing those each day and my pain has decreased a lot.

Here’s a link to a YouTube video of the exercises I’ve been doing that have helped.

Here are couple of more links I recommend checking out:

Dr. Jason Fung’s website.  I suggest starting to read under the Patient tab.

The DietDoctor website where Dr. Fung contributes often. If you are type 2 diabetic like myself, I suggest reading under the Diabetes tab.

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