@SunnyNC, I’m sorry to be posting again when nobody did after my last posts, but I wanted to share the results of my first hours with the CGM, because it is nothing like I was expecting! It is much worse.
I’ve received it yesterday, after my OMAD. By the time it was ready to be scanned, I had finished eating about 2h prior. My OMADs are below 20g carbs.
Well, my BG has been jumping up and down and I haven’t eaten again. Only drank water. No coffee, no tea. No pills. No exercise. I haven’t even left the house, as I’m working from home these few days.
Whenever I move, like now I was washing my showerbox and washbasin, it went all the way up to 154 mg/dL. I stop washing, it goes down. I start washing again, it goes back up.
I go up the stairs, my BG jumps up to 120s. I brush my teeth. I wake up to pee. If I move, my BG moves. Up, then down. No food involved. I’m laying down now, trying to calm it down from the 154!
So, my problem isn’t just upon waking up, the dawn phenomenon thing. It is much worse.
I had written already about the fear that I just can’t adapt to using fat as energy. That’s the reason I had become a carnivore: I wanted to force my mitochondria into doing something. Getting more of it, or whatever. I want to do anything I can to get my FBG sorted. There’s no food I can’t stop eating. But I still felt miserable a few months into carnivore. Weak. Like with keto.
Then I spent summer traveling by bicycle and I just had to eat carbs. For the record, it was a super hilly country and I was mostly on trails rather than asphalt, carrying all of my gear to survive on the bike. I didn’t go crazy on carbs either, as they scare me. I lost weight, because I couldn’t eat enough (far from food, small places without options, on the trail) and CICO always works with me. It wasn’t a bad thing, because carnivore had made me put the most weight I had in my whole life.
Anyway. What I’m thinking: I’m very low carb. My weight is stable, so I’m probably eating enough. Most days, OMAD. I eat to satiety as we tell everybody to do in this forum.
But if I’m right, my body just can’t use fat as fuel, or super inefficiently, therefore, whatever I do that requires a little energy, it throws glucose in my blood to keep my muscles moving, my heart beating.
I don’t know what to do.
A few words about something I think it is related.
My heartbeat also jumps up. My heart has always been like this. I’m a fit person with the heart of a sedentary one. Last time I ran 20k, my average heartbeat was 182. My blood pressure is always between 100 and 60 (on the lowish side). My cardiologist agrees that that’s just the way I am.
