So… Ended an 8 day fast… BS tests consistently in morning while fasting fell between 56 & 65 first thing every morning as of day 3. Broke fast in 2 phases.#1. 2 hard boiled eggs, 58g avocado, 2tbsp avocado mayo (no dairy).#2. Coconut butter fried eggs (3), some bacon, steamed broccoli W/1tbsp Kerrygold butter & testing Kerrygold cheese for inflammation issues.
So this morning I wake up to meter reading 107??? Wtf gives??? Is this due to the cheese you think?? I SO prefer how I feel in the morning with the lower reading in the morning. My mid day all week was 77+/-, like that too. I love cheese but was trying to see if the Irish cheese would work well for me.
Could Anything, outside of the cheese, be what caused this? With being cleaned out for 8 days, I really want to use this time to test hard core!
Frustrated & confused
I think you’re body is still trying to conserve blood sugar because of the fasting. It should stabilize after you get further into refeeding and it realizes that food is no longer scarce.
What’s your thought on my choices of my break? Was really craving the broccoli lolol
I think I heard on Ep2 of Fasting Talk podcast that breaking an extended fast with eggs can be problematic. I’d need to listen to the episode again to remember why…
I agree, the only time I’ve tried an extended fast I had scrambled egg as my first “meal”. It seemed to be okay for me, perhaps it’s a case of YMMV. I think they mentioned a handful of nuts (macadamia) as the perfect way to break you in before the first big meal. I’ll try that next time as I lurve macadamias!
You are my hero girl. I NEED to fast…MUST fast. If I keep typing it, maybe it will happen 
They were more concerned about gastric distress if I recall correctly. It’s all about getting the stomach and intestines going again.
Follow your cravings. Feasting is just as important as, if not more important than, the fasting. That’s when your body is rebuilding.
Just listened to it and you are correct as were they!! After phase 1. That’s where I was for about an hour 
lol 2nd Rd… Not an issue… Damn damn damn… Now I know for next time…
Let’s keep in mind that you are likely insulin resistant and that if your BS is up, it doesn’t necessarily mean your Insulin is up to a great degree. The fact that your liver made some glucose as a result of eating something is not surprising. Remember you have metabolic damage that needs to reset to the degree possible. Also remember that this is about keeping insulin low. When you get a high BS reading like this, take your readings until your it normalizes. That should give you a benchmark for your resistance. You should see a better response over time and you should take encouragement from that.
Paul
Eggs are how I prefer to break my fast too … but @Donna (who is an expert in malabsorption ) told me that Chicken meat is preferred for restarting a gut.
I’m the same with macadamias - but if I really want some, I’ll buy a small bag in the baking section. That would be a nice treat and safe way to break your fast.
@Richard summoned me!
When refeeding you want to have the most bioavailable protein possible. Typically chicken/poultry is the easiest to digest, then fish, then eggs, and lastly red meat (including lamb and pork). When we see people with extended and severe malnutrition, they may not even be able to eat those and have to start with something highly processed like isolate (or hydrolyzed) whey protein, or in rare and severely extreme cases, TPN via IV.
For extended dietary fasting, I’d start with chicken. Chew it extremely well and slowly. The more processed it is the easiest it will be to digest. Pureed is easiest of all to digest, actually, since your stomach and intestines start working without the strain of too much movement. I would not worry about fat at all until you readapt to solid food. A variable amount is in animal protein, anyway. The goal is to get the wheels spinning again.
Full fat predominately is probably a bad idea, since fat provokes the strongest satiety response and also the slowest pyloric emptying. Give your body time to adjust. It’s a slow process, sometimes.
After a very long fast it’s also preferable to gradually add food rather than chowing down at once. For IF and shorter fasts this isn’t a concern. However, sometimes there is a shock of sorts to the body when there’s too much food immediately after a period of malnutrition (caused by fasting, surgery, anorexia, etc). Much rarer with our type of fasting, however it’s called refeeding syndrome, if you’re curious.
@Protoman I started LCHF Oct 2015, shifted to Keto Feb 2016 I believe. Would I still be resistant? Would I still have these issues? If so… Why is it taking so long, or what am I doing wrong to fix it?
I took BS 2.5 hrs later, down to 94 with only having a coffee with/coconut milk (tbsp) & liquid sweetleaf drops.
@Donna so, with what I took in, which now I know did me zero good… Would that be why the scale took a nice healthy jump? Like 2# jump? Even tho, after phase 1 of break it didn’t stay even an hour ??
Maybe, Dawn. To be honest, I don’t know. It definitely is why you had any gastric distress.
To give you an idea, after bariatric surgery typically people only eat pureed food for a week after 1-2 weeks of liquids to both protect the new anatomy, but also to avoid refeeding issues. That’s a bit more extreme because surgery is involved as well as fasting, however having said that after an 8 day fast I would slowly progress if you have issues. Some people are more sensitive to metabolic changes, too. We also see a significant weight gain during the first week post-op (literally 3-10 pounds). This is partially from IV fluids during hospitalization for nutrition, but also from fluid retention post-refeeding.