I managed a 17 hour fast from Saturday to Sunday, and aside from a bunch of nuts and parmesan crisps around 2pm yesterday, have maintained a partial fast. I’ve had fewer than 200 calories today – a ketone protein bar, a serving of instaketones, and three small squares of 99% cacao. It did have an impact–my blood sugars were 108 around 11am and 107 at noon, but 1pm it had jumped to 120. at 2pm, back down, to 104. I’m going to do more frequent testing today.
Late last week my sugar cravings were again out of control, and I nudged the scale close to 480 by Saturday. We ate well overall on Saturday, but did have some ginger beer with our dinner. Sunday all I had was some nuts and parmesan crisps, and a bottle of kombucha. The combined fasting hours did help; I dumped a lot of waste yesterday. I was 468 this morning.
I’ve been having waking hallucinations a few nights a week the last few weeks. I wake up and see some pretty vivid, disturbing images for a few seconds. Could be a trick of the small amount of light in the room, but when the images move (spider crawling) I suspect it’s something more, It’s a recent phenomenon, so I brought it up with my psychiatrist this morning. She suggested bringing the Wellbutrin dose down to a consistent 300mg for 3-4 weeks. I’m curious to see if that helps. My psychiatrist said there’s a lot of dopamine massaging going on with the Wellbutrin.
The swelling in my legs was bad last week; the weekend fasting helped to purge a lot of that water. But I’m still bloated. I haven’t seen the 440s since February, so I want to buckle down with a decent longer fast.