Thu, Feb-01-24, 22:44
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Senior Member
Posts: 167
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Plan: Dr Ted Naiman + IF
Stats: 320/158/140
BF:
Progress: 90%
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RE: menopause-I wish!! I bought a book maybe 15 years ago to ‘get ready’ (ugh) because I thought I would go the same path as my mom. I probably crabbed about it before. I was having PMS and hot flashes (in meetings at work) at the same time and had to start HRT (I think last year). I was ready to get off this train ages ago!! I’m cycling now for my 59th birthday in a few days <bashes head on wall>.
I was in the ER for post surgical pain last month, so they did a CT scan and said, “We have to refer you to gynecology.” I said,”They just checked me out b/c my doctor was surprised and needed to make sure nothing was wrong. Everything is fine-I’m just not in menopause yet.” She then narrowed her eyes and told me a doctor she knows delivered a baby to a woman over 60. I was like, “Don’t worry” LOL-
Thank you for the information Janet. I’m not sure the glucose thing would be super meaningful. It’s pretty uneventful-my glucose goes up more when the phone rings or when I go shopping or exercise or something. I once saw a big spike when I was excited for something on TV and was running around to get things done in time to watch. I am ‘excitable’ and have an anxiety issue, so I get these adrenaline reactions a lot. I’ve quit wearing the CGM. It doesn’t tell me anything except when I’ve eaten the wrong thing, and I already know that anyway. I still haven’t noticed anything about when my glucose drops, my graph is kind of moving all the time. Job stress moves my graph around all day long. I just eat twice a day and once in a while I eat once a day, that’s it. I know for sure it drops somewhere around the 60 hour mark if I try to do an extended fast, that one is a dramatic drop down, and that makes me feel like I’m going to faint. I can’t fast like that anymore-I used to before the pandemic when I was heavier. It sometimes drops in the night. Sometimes I see the dawn phenomenon, sometimes I don’t. I don’t know anyone like me.
Are the diabetics following a proper very low carb diet? I honestly don’t have the beta cells to do anything else. I’m not going to tax them by doing much else than that. I’m thinking of dropping the carbs a little bit more by dropping strawberries and raspberries and maybe figure out how to get the carbs down more from yogurt and such. I just keep the berries in the freezer for a treat maybe twice a month. I already quit with the blueberries.
I’ve checked with urine sticks multiple times. People say they don’t work, that is just not true-they absolutely do. I’m in a light ketosis late morning every day and have been since I’ve checked on and off since 2019. If I miss lunch and check, I’ll be in slightly deeper ketosis, but not by much, still fairly light. If I’ve eaten a big meal the night before, I will show no ketones at all and may not until the next day or two. I buy a new bottle when they expire. I don’t eat high fat, so I’m definitely burning body fat. I just don’t eat breakfast and push my lunch out (sometimes missing it due to work craziness). It doesn’t work if I eat snacks of course (the darn chocolate bowl at work-I’ve been really good now all of January). I find it easier to interpret urine sticks than my glucose craziness. My template works for me, but it is just maintenance now.
That said, I’m more thinking about just having a group to hang out with doing the same thing is all. And that weight loss pipe dream-
I will think about it-thank you for the details again!
Last edited by Key Tones : Thu, Feb-01-24 at 23:39.
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