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Marty refers to these studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?te...hor_id=29149038

and also a 2012 book, titled
The Glucometer: a Self-Empowering Tool to a Healthy and Lean Body

https://www.amazon.com/Glucometer-S...k/dp/B0792YBSYM

Aside, Studies are from the Univ of Otago!! We've been there with Grav. Might be why I became intrigued by hunger training

Quote:

Introducing Hunger Training!

“Hunger training” using your blood sugar is an exciting approach that has had some fantastic outcomes in recent studies. I first came across the idea in a 2012 book, The Glucometer by Angela Ross, where she recommended simply delaying eating if your blood sugar was above 90 mg/dL.
A 2016 study from the University of Otago in New Zealand, Adherence to hunger training using blood glucose monitoring, found hunger training to be extremely effective, with obese people losing 1.5 kg on average over just two weeks.
Importantly, they also found it was more effective for people to have a personalised trigger level rather than expecting them to reach what they considered to be an optimal blood sugar level (i.e. 4.7 mmol/L or 85 mg/dL in the study) before eating.

People with Type 2 Diabetes and elevated blood sugars had to wait too long for their blood sugars to drop, which made it unsustainable. By contrast, a personalised trigger point was found to be much more effective.

In the subsequent study in 2017 by the same group from the University of Otago, The Effect of Different Types of Monitoring Strategies on Weight Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial, the researchers tested hunger training against:
● daily weighing,
● calorie tracking with MyFitnessPal, and
● counselling sessions.
Hunger training using a personalised blood sugar target was the only scenario where people lost weight, while everyone else gained weight!

All from this Free book: https://www.datadrivenfasting.com/b...kgVjYS2Y0GJR g

No one diet works for everyone, and this one takes interest in and dedication to monitoring and recording BG data. If that is not your thing, or you are frustrated from years of tracking foods or fasting, another twist to dieting isn't going to be appealing.