My Intermittent Fasting Attempts

After 2nd day (night) of 24 hour fast, my FBG this afternoon was an 84, blood ketones were 1.1, Ketonix was 3 green blinks, and "pee"tones were showing small (15).

I didn't test after eating yesterday evening or this morning getting home. I'll have to try to remember to find and take time to check after eating because it is always a rush to get ready to get ready to go to work.

My fast breaking meal today will be my cup of BP coffee, a fried hamburger patty with cheese and bacon, some broccoli tots, and a lettuce/slaw salad with 2 boiled eggs, green olives, cherry tomatoes, pecans, and a few craisens. The salad dressing is a tablespoon of ACV, 2 tablespoons each of extra virgin olive oil and flax seed oil. This meal may be tipping my daily carb limit to a little over 30 grams of carbs, but I think it will be under 50 grams.

oh, just one thing that might be present with fasting that is NOT present with KETO because keto can be so satiating.....grahlin( probably mispelled). It is a hunger hormone that peaks in the 2nd day then slowing fades until most people find themselves with absolutely not hunger in 4-5 days.

With shorter intermittent fasting, grahlin will be something you have to deal with.

Most people notice that it has cycles, ie you'll experience hunger during your regular feeding hours, but during the hours in between you won't feel hunger.

I think I've mentioned it before, but I drink a sugar free, sweetener free carbonated lemon water during my mealtimes because there is a bloating feeling that lasts long enough for me to get back to work. I've never liked carbonated waters, I thought they were bitter, but with fasting and keto I have come to notice that there is a subtle sweetness to them.

I'm open to any advice, this is a new thing for me to try. I know back early in my marriage, my wife would try to loose weight by fasting or severely limiting calories. All gains in weight loss were soon lost plus some. I believed back then that fasting was a bad thing and 3 square meals a day was required. I just accepted that for fact. I don't really know that I have an end goal and I haven't done much checking into fasting. I am unaware of all the benefits or downsides, but since learning that not everything that is said to be good or bad is necessarily true, I think that maybe what led me to think that fasting is bad may not be true either, so why not try it. I may not go beyond 24 hours, but working nights it has been easy.

Thanks, I'll have to check out the 'gremlin' stuff.

Was too exhausted to check in yesterday, Don't think it was fasting related, because I had the energy to put in over 20,000 steps and between 60-70 floors night before last.

Yesterday had a 116 BG when I got home and my blood ketones were 2.1. After I woke up, my BG was 86 and my blood ketones were 1.1, didn't do the Ketonix. This morning after my last night of graveyard shift this time around, BG is 102, blood ketones are 1.7, and Ketonix is giving me 3 green blinks.

I think the Ketonix may need to have the sensor checked/cleaned. I used to blow red blinks much of the time. Then again maybe it is saying I slipped a little from what I was eating then vs now. I may look at getting a cheap breathalyzer that reacts to acetones before spending much to upgrade the thing.