re: Intermittent Fasting experiences?

would work fine.

Not worry about fasting during a 9 hour test. Just don’t worry about it that day and enjoy life.

Hahaha. Ehh it happens. I was just wondering about it. I feel like I have been focusing better and getting a good amount of studying in while fasting. I’ll see how I do in the upcoming weeks with it so test day, I am ready to go.

Thank y’all again!

The caffeine in energy drinks causes an increase in the secretion of adrenaline and glucagon which cause the body to secrete stored blood sugar (glycogen) from the liver, which in turn cause an increase in insulin secretion from the pancreas.

I’ve got a question about blood work. I recently had blood work done - drawn at 7:45 am, had been fasting since 8:00pm the night before, and had pre-workout and worked out at 5:00am prior to having labs drawn.

My fasting glucose was 101, A1C was 5.2, and Insulin was 3.4

I’ve tried to do some research to figure out why my glucose would be high and it seems that it may be a result of gluconeogenesis? Adaptive glucose sparing, or “physiologic insulting resistance”? This article is what I’m basis this on:

Diet Doctor: fasting blood sugar

Has anyone run across this or does anyone have a better, more scientific explanation?

Coffee has the same effect, but does not necessarily break the fast. There is what is known as the "dawn effect" where your body naturally wakes you by dumping sugar from the liver in the early morning hours, and this effect does not break the fast. However, and this is just me thinking out loud, since the object of the fast is to use up the insulin in your system, then having a cup of coffee in the early morning when your liver is already dumping sugar would not necessarily break the fast and would not cause an unnecessarily larger insulin release. Drinking coffee all morning long to stave off hunger though will keep the system loaded with insulin.

I’m with you black. Water, tea, and coffee are fine with zero additions.

Started back on IF at the beginning of March using a 16:8 regimen, and wasn't making any progress. My goal was to reduce the amount of insulin in my bloodstream to help me lose body fat. At the time I was having terrible allergies from pollen so i was taking antihistamines every night to help me get a good night's sleep. I was also drinking 5-6 cups of black coffee everyday to stave off the hunger. At the end of March I found out that both coffee (caffeine) and antihistamines cause problems with either insulin secretion or insulin sensitivity, so I dropped both. I have also changed two days during the week to 24 hour fasting days. Since the last week of March I've dropped 12.5 pounds

Macro Calculator

I used this calculator to find my macros. It spit out 1,300 calories with a 87g, 65g, 1something g, split on carbs/fats/proteins.

Does that seem low? Office job, doing IF to lose weight and then maintain.

Just seems a bit aggressive to me