How can I tell ? Fasting

[marklifestyle]

Please read through this thread as well

Fasting, autophagy, and fat supplementation

Hoping someone with a better understanding of the underlying science can help here. When I fast, I typically do it for two reasons: To break through a stall, or reverse weight gain. To take advantage of the benefits of autophagy (see here for more info from Dr. Fung’s site) Dr. Fung, who is of course a major advocate of fasting “allows” the use of supplemental fat and/or HWC as a means of increasing the ability to fast. At the same time, if @richard’s post here is accurate, in my case extend…

[marklifestyle]

finally, read about fat restriction especially when attempting those last few fat pounds

Restrict plate fat when trying to lose body fat - discussion

[image]@richard @CanKeto @Fiorella @devhammer I am fascinated to know what you think of the principle put forward in this diagram from @ted.naiman & how it fits into this pretty fierce debate! This really interests me as I still have plenty of body fat to lose & more healing of T2D to be done. Am I understanding ted’s diagram correctly, he’s saying restrict plate fat when trying to lose body fat, he’s talking about fat grams but of course a gram of fat is 9 calories so is he committing the keto …

[marklifestyle]

Good Luck @Ketokellie

thanks for having my back @hedleylo

[hedleylo]

Replies on the forum can be confusing sometimes.

Almost 40 hours into a fast where I’m surprisingly not grumpy AF so I thought I’d help with some clarity in the community.

[marklifestyle]

[Ketokellie]

Tested 30 minutes later and it went from 84 to 80

[Madeleine]

Kellie, probably the best way to know (aside from the glucose meter, which you might need to do multiple times to rule out other things, since a lot of variables can influence sugar levels…) is to set aside one month when you don’t have cream in your coffee and compare it to the month that you do. Dairy itself is another compounding variable…
But you’re losing inches, right? So you’re not really in a stall. Also I’m not sure that 10 days of no loss (inches or weight) would qualify as a stall anyway.

[hedleylo]

set aside one month when you don’t have cream in your coffee and compare it to the month that you do

Agree.

Dairy itself is another compounding variable

Agree.

Also I’m not sure that 10 days of no loss (inches or weight) would qualify as a stall anyway

Seen this posted other places. Agree.

[marklifestyle]

Here is another take from November last year:

Does cream in my coffee confound a fast?

thanks for the quick response. Onward to fasting!

[marklifestyle]

AND FINALLY, this is the one I was looking for. It describes the inulin test in the FAQ and @richard also posts some excellent graphics and other information in the comments.

That is the wonderful thing about the forums. The search function allows to see in high resolution other posts similar or exactly the same as the question now conflicting you. Better is that if it was a year or so ago there has been enough time for you to ask follow up questions to see how it worked out.

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[PaulL]

not grumpy AF

I don’t think this ever applies to me, lol!