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You CAN get your insulin under control again, you just think you can’t.

Even if you REALLY relish eating, if you started gradually, you COULD start fasting, and your apetite would go waaaaay down.

One day they said, “We gotta test your triglycerides in a fasted state, so come at noon tomorrow without having eaten anything...”

I though I’d die. I had that test and then stuffed myself immediatley.

Later I thought, “Hey maybe tomorrow I’ll slip breakfast again, just like I did this morning...”

I did it and it was easier; I started pushing lunch back more, then more and more.

After a month I was at One Meal A Day —OMAD. And I found out that tens of thousands of other people have been doing that for years, even decades.

Know that funny, ripped NFL guy from Idiocracy and SpeedStick commercials..?

That guy has been OMAD for 15 years, and you can be, too.

You can do it.

I lost 60lbs pretty much effortlessy just by cutting out sugar and carbs. Started out with cutting anything that had added sugar on the ingredients list. Then cut one carb loaded food type out of my life while finding a replacement food/recipes. Potatoes, then rice, the wheat, etc.

Kept it off but want to lose more so I started fasting 2 days a week. It’s been a full month and people are starting to notice that I’m losing weight again.

I agree, which is why the whole ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ bs is just that - bs. If you have little body fat, and limited glycogen reserves, you will have trouble skipping meals. Otherwise, it's generally not a big deal. Further, skipping breakfast and lunch is best, because those are generally the hours during which you are working and are occupied - thus thinking less about hunger. Eating dinner then satiates you until you go to bed - and you obviously won't be thinking about eating while you're sleeping.

I'm not saying this is good for everyone, but I absolutely do believe that in order to substantively lose weight one must kick your body's ‘butt’ to retune your metabolism and get things moving in the right direction. Plus, it's motivating. When you are ‘gradually dieting’, and see little progress, you are much more susceptible to cheating on that diet. When you are successfully losing weight, you want to keep going.

When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided to lose some weight. The smart phone app MyFitnessPal was pressed into service. She went through 2 rounds of surgery and 5,000 RADs of radiation. A few days into her MyFitnessPal experiment, I added the app to my phone. I was 190 lbs, 5 ft 11 in. The app logs your daily weight and food intake 3 meals + snack. It also has a link to the Vivofit2/3 device to tally sleep and number of daily steps.

Today is Oct 7, 2018. My fitness diary shows a 1005 days "streak" of no-missed log days. I weigh 146 lbs now. 13.7% fat. 20.4 BMI. Satisfactory for a 62 year old. My last blood test results were perfect (except for the beta HCG level above 5). I'm 1985 cancer survivor and my "marker" is elevated again.

My "formula" derives from multiple approaches. The Zone diet...calories from protein 30%, from fat 30%, from carbs 40%. I follow the 5/2 diet. Monday/Thursday are 600 calorie days. Tu,Wed,Fr,Sat,Sun are 1250 calorie days. I weigh in each morning to the nearest 1/10th pound. Each meal is recorded.

Why so much effort? My maternal great grandfather was diabetic. My maternal grandfather was diabetic. My father was an insulin dependent type 2 diabetic (much alcohol consumption). My wife is diabetic (type 2). My Rat Terrier/Chihuahua is an insulin dependent diabetic. I'm not diabetic. I have no desire to join the club.

Is there a downside to being 5 ft 11 in and 146 lbs? A small one. I'm almost too light to kickstart my Yamaha SR400 motorcycle. Thankfully, the other bikes have electric start. The Harley Fat Bob at 870 lbs is no big deal to push around. My 3 big dogs in the 90+ lb range are a challenge.

My wife still maintains her MyFitnessPal and Vivofit4 records. She really has a sweet tooth and has difficulty even with the app helping track inputs. Her office mates are very unhelpful. Lots of goodies dropped into the dispatch office.

I did it!
Stopped 160 units of insulin Oct 1st. began with a dinner to dinner fast (24hours). Next, I tried a 36 hour fast and extended it to 45. In eight days I’ve dropped 9 pounds. My fasting glucose readings are around 125 mg. and non-fasting around 145mg. This with no insulin injections.
Google Dr. Jason Fung and understand how the treatment you’re receiving is sending you to an early grave