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Originally Posted by JEY100
Maybe it is just a mental trick, but knowing I can have a big dinner each day makes the concept of a 24 hr fast much easier to accept, as does the option to have CO, or broth, and all the other choices.
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So far I've done three 36 hour fasts this week. Mostly because I'm in a hurry to lose this weight, as it's all re-gain weight and I've just been sick about it (when I wasn't firmly in denial and eating to bring it about). I kind of like the symmetry of a whole breakfast/lunch/dinner day without food every other day. Until I get tired of it, when I figure the 24 hrs should feel very doable and more importantly, sustainable as my impression was that we just keep doing fasting, if not every other day, then some variation of it.
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Originally Posted by JEY100
I asked on Bonnie's thread too, but has anyone tried using a fiber supplement to lower blood sugar? On Dr Hyman's rec 2 years ago, I bought PGX, a konjac fiber. Thinking about adding it again more slowly this time, though that would be another element to the fast here. But since Dr Fung thinks fiber is "protective" I would think he would support it too? He includes 1 TBsp of Psyllium Fiber in his patient guidelines (never liked it much) so any other fiber recs from anyone following this thread? Any BG improvement from it?
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I have PGX too but didn't take it much because it gave me bad gas. It might be different now that I've been addressing my gut bugs or maybe I just need to go slower as you say. I wasn't checking BS back in those days. I've been adding acacia fiber to my puddings but couldn't say if it affects blood sugar or not, it just seems like a good idea. I would think it would mostly be indicated in conjunction with eating carbs rather than during a fast, otherwise
why would it have an effect on blood sugar? Perhaps the psyllium fiber is for the feeling of fullness or constipation when eating so much less food overall.
I've been adding the vinegar the past couple nights, my morning BS is definitely affected. It's been 125 after an eating day and 110 after a fast day and after the first vinegar dose, it was 100 and today after the second vinegar night, it was 90.
What's disturbing, however, is in both of these vinegar nights, I've had really serious joint pain. I can't think why it would be the vinegar as vinegar is supposed to be
good for joint pain, but can't see why it would be anything else either though I have had bone broth, teas and cream the last two fasts that I didn't have the first time. I don't think it's exercise related as I only had two short walks yesterday. I suppose it could be a "normal" pain flare up.