Weight Update Oct 29

I was just curious what things would look like the day after that fast yesterday.

weight: 206.6 lbs
fat percentage: 44.4%
hydration: 38.2%
muscle: 27.4%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2325

Looks pretty comparable to yesterday.

End of my 24-Hour Intermittent Fast

So I made it through my attempt at an intermittent fast.  The tail end was pretty tough - at about 4pm I started to get really hungry.  5pm was even worse.  But my hunger stayed at the same level from there.

To make things really bad at the end though, I went low. So when 7:30 rolled around, I was hungry and I was having trouble concentrating!  So I treated the low and ate a supper that was high in lean proteins as recommended.

Thanks to all the testing I did, I actually ended up with a bit of an impromptu basal test. The evening from dinner to about 10pm has been a notoriously difficult time for me to test, so this gave me some idea of what's going on then.

So I'm supposed to go back to normal eating after tonight.  So I'll have to see if I notice anything different over the next few days in regards to my insulin requirements or anything else.

Weight Updates for Oct 13, 17, 25, and 28

Whoops, I forgot to put four weight stats up here (including today's):

Oct 13:
weight: 209.0 lbs
fat percentage: 47.1%
hydration: 36.3%
muscle: 26.0%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2339

Oct 17:
weight: 207.6 lbs
fat percentage: 47.8%
hydration: 35.8%
muscle: 25.7%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2332

Oct 25:
weight: 207.6 lbs
fat percentage: 45.7%
hydration: 37.3%
muscle: 26.7%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2332

Oct 28:
weight: 206.6 lbs
fat percentage: 44.2%
hydration: 38.3%
muscle: 27.5%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2325

Attempting a 24-Hour Intermittent Fast

Lately I feel like I've been eating absolutely like crap.  Most of this is happening at work (there's always crap in the coffee room) or while out with friends.  I've been busy working on a big work project, so eating out has become an easy way to catch up with friends.

So last night, I went looking for possible strategies to help me deal with the coffee room thing (eating out with friends I'll have to deal with by saying no more often, and making other, non-food hang-out plans with people).  While doing so, I came across information on a 24-Hour Intermittent Fast.  After reading about the health benefits (this wasn't the first article I found about it, it was just the easiest one I could link to that I read), I went looking to see whether it was safe for people with diabetes to attempt such a thing.  The short answer was: yes, but monitor your blood sugar the whole time.  I even found a couple of fasting schedules for people with diabetes to try in this how to get started guide on Diabetes Daily.

Since my last food-intake last night just happened to finish up at 7:30pm, I decided to give it a go.  I go to bed later than their schedule, so I just didn't eat anything last night.  I'm not going to be very active today and will be monitoring my glucose quite a bit (which isn't really anything out of the ordinary for me to be honest).  And if I go low at any point before 7:30pm tonight, I'm going to call it off and treat the low.  But even if that happens, as of right now I've already fasted for about 18 hours, so I think I should be seeing some health benefits, right?  Especially since some people argue that all you need is a 12 hour fast (which is about what most people get while sleeping - although this book by Dr. John M. Berardi with Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon and Nate Green says people who are more sedentary may need 20-24 hours of fasting to get the full benefit in Chapter 1 (which is all I have read of their book so far)).  But, long story short, I'm giving this a try today and shall let you know what happens with it later. :)

Also, if you were wondering, apparently we are hard-wired to eat food that is put in front of us.  Some people argue that we can build up willpower to not eat junk food sitting on a table in front of us.  But that's not super helpful for me, especially when I'm tired (which happens to be every day I have to be at work earlier than like noon because as I already said, I go to bed later). So I think I'm going to have to brainstorm some of my own strategies to deal with the junk food, which may involve avoiding the break room. :(

Weight Update for Oct 8

Just a quick weight update for today:

weight: 205.0 lbs
fat percentage: 46.3%
hydration: 36.9%
muscle: 26.5%
bone: 10.8%
cal: 2317

My period is over, and I've been eating healthier overall this week, so my weight is back on track. :)

Weight Update for Sept 20, 26 and Oct 1 + Fitbit Stats

Ok, these stats aren't great.  I'm going to preface this by saying that the last few weeks have been stressful and busy to the point that I feel like I haven't really been taking care of myself (my glucose has been running high, I haven't been eating very well, and I haven't been very active).  So with that in mind, here's Sept 20th:

weight: 207.2 lbs
fat percentage: 46.5%
hydration: 36.7%
muscle: 26.3%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2329

Sept 26:

weight: 208.0 lbs
fat percentage: 47.2%
hydration: 36.3%
muscle: 26.0%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2334

and Oct 1:

weight: 209.4 lbs
fat percentage: 46.5%
hydration: 36.7%
muscle: 26.3%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2342

These last ones I don't feel *quite* as bad about because I am expecting my period to start in the next few days.  But they're still moving in the wrong direction.  Which is true of my Fitbit stats for the month, too:

Sept - 152,291 steps, 28 days tracked, 5,439 average

This is both down from 2016, and less than August.  During September, I seemed to only break 5000 steps three times a week (instead of my goal of five times a week).  So I'll have to be working on that as well for October. 

I've been a bit healthier this last week in that my glucose has gotten back to normal.  So now I need to step things up in other regards of my health.  After today (because I have some slices of leftover pizza I need to eat), I'm going to try to eat out less and step up my activity (which also means going back to swimming - I swam once last month, which is actually an improvement over July and August!)

Oh, but on the plus side, I haven't felt exhausted like I was earlier in September.  So hopefully that is over!!!