Carol - maybe you can answer my question. I have been eating vlghf since January. I am overweight female, 66, and T2D. Could not get my fbg done below 170-193 even on vlchf. Went through several meds - did no better, some even spiked it up to 293. Couldn’t take metformin (migraines), glipizide (I have too much insulin - why make my body produce more?) , Januvia (also raise insulin, but also gave me incessant bone pain even 6-7 weeks post dc), or bydureon (I can’t convince the docs and medical professions that I can’t understand why they give me meds that raise the insulin production when I have probably 10 times the insulin of a non T2D. Plus, the side effects are really serious.).
I really don’t want to take any meds. (My goal, not my medical professional.) There, that is the background. Now for the question… I am on day 15 of an extended fast - extra pink salt, bone broth added in 1 small dollop of bacon grease in broth because I am on a really strong antibiotic due to a super bug in eyes, sinuses, and upper respiratory and need something in my stomach before I take it.
My morning blood glucose level this morning was 106. I am registering high ketones in urine and breath…(Can’t afford the blood ketone strips…) When I checked my glucose levels about 1 this afternoon, it was 132. This is similar to the results since I have been fasting - it bounces up during the day, then goes back down - last night it was 100 after bouncing up to 149 at 12:34 and 105 yesterday morning. It was doing this before I added in the bacon grease before I started on the antibiotics.
Carol, what is going on?
I am certain I am not fat adapted - lack of energy.