I have never fasted before, so this is a new experience. The first half of the day was fine. After that every food I saw I wanted! But as a diabetic, all I could have was tea, sugar free Jello and broth. Pretty thin scoffins. As night fell, I became really cold, and yes, I was still in the house. I just ran out of input into that internal furnace and it shut down. after about two hours of being wrapped in a down quilt and singing the chorus of the longest Hindu chant on my iPod, I finally warmed up! And I am fine now.
Fasting for a diabetic is interesting. I was advised to not take any of my diabetes meds, as there is no real food to operate on. It felt funny to do that. Mid afternoon I was feeling woozy, so I took a blood sugar reading: 102. So if I didn't have to eat, my blood sugar would be fine. Again it must have been no fuel in the furnace. Most of the things on the list I could have are loaded with sugar. And the sugar free substitutes are mostly sucralose (Splenda) which is just as bad as sugar for this diabetic. And others as well. The vitamin waters are okay, as they have stevia as the sweetener. Stevia actually helps stabilize your blood sugar and is the only sweetener I use any more.
At 9:30 I am feeling fine, though my stomach is growling.
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I am reading a book about food addiction and the only sweetener they reccomend is Stevia. It is called a booster food and is known to boost your levels of seratonin.
Splenda is as bad as sugar for diabetics?? Oh my! Why hasn't my endo told me that?
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