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Day 2 of a planned 2 day Fast
Perhaps it is all good news...
I was able to go an entire day and only drink water, green tea (with Splenda®), and home made bone broth. Except for the Splenda®, Dr. Fung would totally approve :) Total carbs for the day, 2 carbs! For the first time, a TRUE 'water fast'. This morning I even lost a pound :) Success right?
Not so fast...
Before I went to bed I got on the scale. I was up 2 pounds!
WTF?? Ok water retention. What else is going on? Now, I usually don't do this, but before bed I took a blood glucose reading... 159! This is insane. No food, no sugar, walked 17k steps for the day, and my blood sugar is this high? What is causing it? Could it be one cup of bone broth? Could it be the low carb bread still digesting in my stomach from the BBQ on Wednesday?
Whatever the problem. High insulin = weight gain.
It wasn't until this morning, after a peaceful night sleep, that I thought that perhaps the mega dose of liquid melatonin I take every night could be the culprit.
I looked at the ingredients. After water, the number one ingredient is... "cane juice crystals", look that up and it is... SUGAR (https://n.pr/2J3vNLa) (sigh).
So each night, during my longest fasting stretch while sleeping, I have been dosing myself with mega doses of sugar?! Even this morning I woke up with a reading of 93 (during fasting I should be around 78).
Well, I hope this is the culprit. I will now take this 'as directed' rather than the mega doses (that really knock me out and allow me to sleep sooo soundly).
I'm going to have to wait until next weeks fast to do a real test because I break my current fast tonight.
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