Hi mark,

This my first day fasting. I had a Dr. OZ Green drink this morning and must admit i’m mighty hungery. I plan to get a cup on ginger tea with half a lemonth soon. What’s your plan for fasting days?

I think you are doing fantastic. You have nothing to worry about. Another few weeks and you will be at 90kg. Once you reach your desired weight then all you need to do is swap to 6:1 fasting. It should be easy. That is what I do now.

Let me understand properly. This morning it was between 5.28 and 6.33. Was this before you ate anything? How much time between the 5.28 measurement and the 6.33 measurement? And did you eat anything in between the two measurements?

And last night it was 4.5. Did you eat anything after the measurement last night?

Did you do any exercise last night after the measurement, or this morning? This will change the value. After a bike ride my BG will usually drop 0.5.

My measurements will vary between 4.5 and 5.5 in the morning before I eat breakfast. They have been slowly coming down on average so that most of the measurements are in the 4 range now. If I have a carbohydrate meal the night before it will be in the 5 range the next morning. If I have a salad and raw vegetables it will be in the 4 range.

I don’t think you have too much to worry the normal range is 3.9 to 5.9 and is influenced by what you eat. I tested recently and my BG was 4.5 and after eating a salad it went to 6.5 and took two hours to come back to 4.5. I repeated by eating a slice of pizza and it went from 4.5 to 8.5 and took three hours to come down.

OK Im an not a medical doctor so you should check with your doctor. What you have sounds like the “dawn phenomenon”. When you are asleep you are basically fasting for 8 hours. Your blood glucose will slowly fall as there are no calories coming in. Your stored glycogen in your liver is released into your blood stream by the hormone glucogen to compensate for the falling levels of glucose. I think your liver is over responding to the hormone and releasing too much glucose into your blood. or your cells are insulin resistant and are unable to respond to the insulin are store the excess that was released.

I assume you are not on any medication? If you are see your doctor about changing the dose of the type of medication. If you are not on medication try eating different things just before going to bed. Try two table spoons of vinegar (mazetti apple cider vinegar is good). Try eating a few pieces of fatty cheese. Stop all alcohol consumption for one month. Perhaps try vinegar for two weeks and see if it improves. Then try cheese and see if it improves.

It is a little high but not dangerous. Talk to your doctor. Try to change your diet and see what happens.

Most doctors are probably 20 years behind in their knowledge of diet related diseases compared to current research. Also a lot of “cures” for diet related diseases tell you to do the opposite thing. There is no consensus on anything. I suspect that part of the problem is that the same treatment will have different effects on different people.

All I can recommend is that you change one aspect of your diet for 3-4 weeks and monitor what happens. Stop all alcohol for 4 weeks and see what happens. Take vinegar before each meal and before bed for 4 weeks and see what happens. Have more fat like cheese yogurt avocado for 4 weeks and see what happens. Stop all bread and pasta for 4 weeks and see what happens.

I think youre OK. It is a little high but still in the normal range. Change one thing in your diet and monitor for 4 weeks to see if it improves. It will take time to improve, your body cant change that quickly. It has taken me 3 months to go from 5.5 to 4.5 average BG. Im guessing but try the vinegar first. 2 or 3 tablespoons before every meal and before going to bed. Do not change anything else in your diet. Do this for 4 weeks and see what happens to your morning BG levels. Then try no alcohol, then more fat, then less carbohydrates like bread and pasta. Change only one thing at a time otherwise you will not know what has helped improve the BG.

Do an experiment. Is it the pizza or the beer that gave you a high reading? Have pizza and measure the next day. Have beer and measure the next day. Which one gives the spike? You now weigh 98.4kg? Is that a mistake because in your previous post you said you weighed 91.2kg?

You are eating very healthy. More than me 🙂 Personally I do not think there is a big difference between highly refined flour and more wholesome flours. I do not pretend to know all the answers, sometimes foods that work for one person will not work for another person. I think it takes a long time before your body gets used to new foods. Your body adjusts very slowly and I still get strange blood glucose results that I can not explain. I put it down to a particular food that may appear to be good for one person but then for some reason it has a negative impact on a different person. I would wait for a few months and monitor my BG to see the general trend. One off BG levels may not give a proper diagnosis of improvement.

It is only in the last month that my water fasting has become VERY easy to do. I have been doing water fasting for 8 months now and have found them OK. Not overly hard but it has taken some level of will power. In the last month I have noticed a big difference, I now find them VERY easy to do.In fact I was a little concerned by this but have come to the conclusion that my liver is now able to convert fats very efficiently. I am able to get all the calories I need very easily from stored fats. This was not the case when I first started fasting.

My advice. Monitor your vital signs and look at the long term trends. If they are heading in the right direction, then all is good.

Not sure what you mean regards 36 hour fast? When I first started I would do two consecutive days of water fasting. A total of 60 hours. You do not have to do this. You can separate the fast days. Maybe do one water fast and one 600 cal day. I was doing two days to lose weight. Now I only do one water fast day per week. I maintain a constant weight of 72 kg (178cm tall). I think there are large benefits other than weight loss in doing water fasts.

I eat a lot of cheese, plain greek yogurt, avocados, walnuts, almonds.

Most people think you are crazy when you tell them you are fasting. This is normal. We have been told so much rubbish with regards to diet by doctors, governments, diet experts. Dr Valter Luongo diet researcher I think does a 4 day fast once per month. I do one day every week so a total of 4 days for the month. Trying to do 4 consecutive days is probably possible but I prefer to do it one day per week. This is easy for me.

I think you need to focus on the long term average blood glucose levels. Every so often mine will give a high reading and I have no explanation. A few days ago it was 5.9 and for the last two months most of my readings have been below 5. Mostly around 4.5-4.8. My average blood glucose levels have come down a lot but I have been fasting now for nearly 9 months. It is a gradual process. Keep track of your BG levels and see how they change over time.