So I started doing that, only eating if I felt the need to. I also decided that I would no longer stuff myself, that I would make a large, stretched out stomach, something other than the norm. So when to stop? Not when I am full, but rather when I am no longer hungry. I found that I might miss dinner or breakfast or sometimes both; I wasn't actually hungry, so I would not eat.
The weight dropped so fast I was constantly going into hypoglycemia, my blood sugar was going low, which can be fatal if unchecked. In January 2018 I was injecting 95 units of insulin twice a day, to lower my high blood sugar, but as my weight dropped, so did the high blood sugar. I had to constantly monitor and adjust down my insulin.
I started 2019 weighing 205 lbs. and injecting 30 units of insulin once a day. that is a reduction of 25% of my weight, but 85% of my insulin. How did that happen? Well, we have to look at the nature of Type 2 Diabetes.
In Type 1 Diabetes, a person's body stops making insulin altogether and they need it injected daily or they will die. Because they have no naturally produced insulin, without the shot the sugar they eat stays in their blood, resulting in the symptom of high blood sugar. Now in Type 2 Diabetes, you can still make insulin, but for some reason, your body has decided it does not want to, or rather, does not want to make enough.
The reason you become a Type 2 Diabetic is because your body is a bowl of whatever you put into it. In our modern diet, that is a shit-load of sugar. You eat it, it is processed and enters your blood, the insulin allows for the cells of your body to extract the sugar and use it, only, you have been putting in more sugar than you can use for years, and the excess sugar in your body is killing you.
Your body is a sugar bowl, and it is full. Sugar is now toxic to you. It will blind you, it will lame you, it will destroy your nerves and it will turn your brain to mush. So, being a sensible body, it has decided that this is not a path that leads to longevity, so it slows down your insulin production. Your body is telling you to stop killing it. The bowl is full.
Modern medicine's solution is to give you the insulin you are not naturally producing, basically telling your body to go fuck itself, take the damn sugar anyway. The added bonus is that they can point to your blood sugar and show how it has been lowered. They just forget to tell you the part about this not actually being a good thing.
So what happened to me?
As I ate less, I naturally needed less insulin, but, as I began skipping meals, particularly dinner or breakfast, what I was doing was going on mini-fasts, sometimes three or four a week at first. When you deny any human body fuel, it will find a new source of power. It will begin to burn the sugar in the cells built up over years, decades. If you are a Type 2 Diabetic, it is the thing your body has been begging you to do and as the sugar exist your cells, its response is to increase your natural production of insulin. This is why my need for insulin injections has dropped so dramatically.
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