Mon, Sep-27-21, 09:13
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Senior Member
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Plan: Very LC, Higher Protein
Stats: 227/186/185
BF:
Progress: 98%
Location: Herndon, VA
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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
I will watch the video. A lot of low carbing proponents started to turn me off because they all claim to have a solution and none of them ever did for me. Just like the vegan people, they insist you're doing something wrong if it doesn't work. Lol!
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Unfortunately, I'm witnessing similar issues where when someone can market aspects of an "eating plan," the next step is to separate this plan as favored over others by discrediting the others in some way. Interesting world where over time, people who normally promoted the same principles of healthy eating start to feud over the details. While the details may be important for some, the bottom line is that the objective is to learn which plans and foods work best for the individual. One issue is that not everyone is willing to track cause & effect details and do self experimentation.
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Originally Posted by thud123
The interesting part about DDF isn't at all about how "long" you can fast, it's purely centered around using your glucose meter to to a) check any feelings of hunger against an algorithm that's been determined by base lining at the start then adjusted by your input and b) if hunger and threshold BG are met you eat, if not, see if these two criteria are met again in a half hour and finally c) if you are still hungry, eat and carry on.
I didn't go 24 hrs without eating, ever! For me it was a lot of holding off to eat breakfast and lunch, then over time as I saw my morning readings elevated, I found that I was eating TOO MUCH, TOO LATE in the day and started to pull my last meal timing back and perhaps move protein from that meal (last meal) to first meal.
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Important points here, as the term "fasting" is often used in different ways leading to confusion. I prefer using "meal timing" as while I'm not doing a lot different by eating in a 6-hour or less window during the day with an 18-hour window of not eating from 6pm one day to 12pm the following day, I don't consider it fasting, it's just two meals per day. This meal timing is what I arrived at (or reinforced, rather) after tracking my blood glucose as DDF recommends. It reinforced how I was eating previously with some additional adjustments where I learned to emphasize protein and limit (not eliminate) fat to adjust my energy requirements. When I used to experiment with IF, the "fasting" part was always 24 hours or more of not consuming anything other than water or plain tea. Good discussion.
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