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05-29-2007, 02:23 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
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| |  Hungery? Not Me
Have anyone had the dilemma of lunch or dinnertime and the hunger pangs are not bothering you?. 
To anyone who has concentrated on good control you can get to easily to say no to food. Has anyone else find this trait?
I try to look at low GI food (If i get to eat) and find that i can stay off food to at least 48 hours at a time!!! and i don't think that i could do a 40 hour famine. Heh i wont go that far.
Don't get me wrong, I love food but i can quite easily go without.  |
05-29-2007, 06:47 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,815
| | | Sometimes I "skip" a meal if my blood sugars are running too high, but there is no way I could go all day without eating.
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05-29-2007, 07:01 AM
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Posts: 4,635
| | | When I had to fast for about 36 hours, I thought I would be "starving", but found the longer I went without eating, the less hungry I was.
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05-29-2007, 07:22 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by ant hill 
I try to look at low GI food (If i get to eat) and find that i can stay off food to at least 48 hours at a time!!! and i don't think that i could do a 40 hour famine.
| Did i say that!!!  Also i can be in a shop full of things that would tempt me to eat and all i do just look. Anyway 48 hours is a long time and it's an exaggeration.
You can easily gain control of your diabetes and skip meals without batting an eyelid. |
05-29-2007, 08:46 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
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Originally Posted by ant hill
You can easily gain control of your diabetes and skip meals without batting an eyelid.
| Not the smartest way to do it though.
I skip meals, but only cuz i am not hungry at all. I've been known to go 3 or 4 days on one meal but all my bgs are up the creek after I DO finally eat!!
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05-29-2007, 09:03 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 7,391
| | | I skip meals also and never even think about it. Usually, it is because I am busy and the meals just escape me. I can go most of the day without eating until the 4:00 pm witching hour. Then I eat badly. |
05-29-2007, 09:47 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: north wales, uk
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| | | doesnt the body store more fat if it is starved regularly? |
05-29-2007, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by notme I skip meals also and never even think about it. Usually, it is because I am busy and the meals just escape me. I can go most of the day without eating until the 4:00 pm witching hour. Then I eat badly. | My husband has always done this. He will go all day without anything but coffee or Pepsi, then eat a huge supper and snack later in the evening. Then he can't figure out why he has bowel problems! I've been told all my life you have to eat breakfast, to stay healthy and not be fat (lot of good it did me)......he stays thin and hasn't had health issues until he turned 70!
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17 post cards from round 1
3 postcards from round 1/2
And 1 from Ed
I will remember you
Will you remember me
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories.
I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standing on the edge of something
much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much
but cannot say a word
We are screaming inside
But we cannot be heard
Sarah McLachlan
8/26/08 A1C 6.4
Cholesterol below 100
BP 114/64
Still anemic
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05-29-2007, 07:17 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,082
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Originally Posted by 2high I skip meals, but only cuz i am not hungry at all. I've been known to go 3 or 4 days on one meal but all my bgs are up the creek after I DO finally eat!! | I find that when you're are not in good control that you're are hungry all the time.  But in good tight control the hunger pangs disappear and i don't eat full stop!!. So i litterly live on just the baseal insulin. If i do eat it's just the breakfast, That's all. |
05-30-2007, 07:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
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| | | Are you trying to lose weight?
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05-30-2007, 08:22 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Charlotte NC
Posts: 114
| | | How does exercise fit into your control strategy? It seems like without eating regularly, exercise would be difficult. And good health isn't just controlling the diabetes, but getting the muscular and cardiovascular benefits that regular exercise give, right?
I don't mean to sound judgmental...just really, really curious...good cholesterol and blood pressure? |
05-30-2007, 09:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
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| |  Weights
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Originally Posted by Cyborg Are you trying to lose weight? | Yes if i could, But i have good tight control.
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Originally Posted by Goldrun How does exercise fit into your control strategy? It seems like without eating regularly, exercise would be difficult. And good health isn't just controlling the diabetes, but getting the muscular and cardiovascular benefits that regular exercise give, right?
I don't mean to sound judgmental...just really, really curious...good cholesterol and blood pressure? | You know that's is what i'm laking and perhaps i should take up lifting weights like HiI'mDan's regimen. |
05-31-2007, 01:20 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Shire
Posts: 793
| | | You can cause yourself some serious damage by not eating. You will have ketones in your bloodsteam if you do not eat weather you are diabetic or not. Also going without food for long periods of time will burn up all the stored glucogen in your liver and muscles which can result in a serious life theatening hypos.
Could also increase your risk of protein leakage from your kidneys which will cause non reversable kidney and blood pressure problems.
Sounds a bit grim but its a very dangerous thing to do.
peace
Rich |
05-31-2007, 06:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: CT
Posts: 4,588
| | I skip meals from time to time... If I am not hungry, then I just put off eating... I try to listen to my internal hunger cues.
However, for the most part, I do eat regular meals.
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06-01-2007, 04:25 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
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Originally Posted by am1977 I try to listen to my internal hunger cues. | Yeah, I try to listen and look at my BG meter and see a perfect 6 mmol/l and then say to myself are you hungery? and i can quite easyly say meh noooo but if i find something to my liking then i'll have a nibble and just that a nibble!!!
Today i have just had my porridge for breakfast and some honey with it and that satisfys me for most of the day. 
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However, for the most part, I do eat regular meals. | Heh, if i can. |
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