stephd wrote: Hi Liz, I'm actually not in Ottawa but in Southwestern Ontario near London.
Hello peebles, way to go for losing all that weight. How do you feel now with regular fasting? I'm not worried about my diabetes, or hypoglycemia with fasting. I take metformin, 500 mg twice a day and it doesn't cause hypoglycemia according to the diabetes information thread on here and from other reading I've done. I think I should be ok. Sorry to hear you've had such troubles. I'm sure you were terrified when your blood sugars went so low! dangerous for sure. The worst I've ever gotten is a case of the shakes and some irritability. I was a little shaky during Tuesday's fast but it went away within half an hour. I still can't determine if it was because of my blood sugar or my being so darn cold in my apartment lol. Way to go on your A1c! I only have a limited # of strips for my meter that are covered by my health insurance plan so I don't test every day. A box costs $100, too much for me to afford. My doctor says testing every other day is fine because I am doing so well. I don't think I am in terms of the foods I eat but that I can change.
Yup carieoats, lots of responses, almost difficult to keep up lol.
David, eating like a pig describes me to a T. I'm hoping that eating lots of veg on fast days will carry over into eating properly on non fast days. Today, I just ate a sandwich, had some blueberries, a bit of yoghurt with amazing apricot jam and I want to keep on eating. I'm craving sweets! I just made myself a cup of tea so hopefully that will take my mind off candy and chocolate. If I could survive yesterday, my fast day, I should darn well be able to resist sweets and junk food today! It is Halloween today so my son will come home with lots of candy. Will be tough to stay strong then.
Thanks everyone for all of your responses! now I feel special . So much encouragement! I'm so happy to have found FastDay. Enjoy the day!
One more thing....
Bin the booze, if you haven't already.
I ve put an inch back on so it happens ....