Having to reconsider.

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The fasting periods may not be long enough.  I really don't want to do double multi-day fasts.  It might be too much.  Even if I can handle it, I don't think it would be good.  However, adding another day of fasting to the two-day fast might be reasonable.  I have considered doing that alternatively... one time two-day, the next three-day... but that gets too complicated.  Better to pick something simple and stick with it.  I won't call it an extreme step.  Two days to three is not that much.  That first stretch was the test.  By the fifth it wasn't even a sweat.  As suggested, even on days on which I am well awake and aware, I often start my meal prep late.  Food simply isn't on my mind, not even on meal days.  Now, when I'm into prep, know I will be eating?  Then getting between me and food might end up with someone in the hospital (and someone, as a hint, well fed and apologetic... mostly).

I will give going back to absolutely simple food a chance first.  Perhaps I went astray trying to be fancy.  Maybe I just din't count well.  Maybe those first few cycles were extreme enough to trigger something in my body, but now it's used to it, and maybe I am eating too much protein to fat.  I want more food experimenting first.  Now, I don't mind going to three day fasting.  I don't see it as even an issue, for me personally.  My will is good.  The one thing I have concern regarding is my body.  I am not sure how far it can be pushed.  So, for now, plain meats, as much extra fat as I can shove into my diet, no extras, no broth, no cream tea, no gum, and just one 'sweetened' tea a day... since that has proven out in small doses.  Only plain tea, black coffee, or water to drink otherwise.

My middling blood sugar reading just now was 152.  It's not bad, it just isn't 126, or lower.  I may have to count fats, proteins, and carbs closely, as another option.  I am almost certain I am not getting enough fat.  I may be getting too much protein, which can become just another carb.  I do think I am doing well with carbs.  Can you do too well?  Yeah.  I am starting to think that carbs, every other meal day, as the first course (a la salad, vegetable, or fruit) is the way to go for me.  I hate halvsies, or tiny portions.  I can cut, but there needs to be some... taste of it.  Anyway... working on things.  Something just is not working as it should.  It's in there somewhere.  I either use a scalpel to gently lay it open and excise the problem or I grab a hammer and just starve it longer.  Both may work.  I am just hoping both aren't required.

I know exercise would be good to add.  Walking, from what I have heard, has some limits.  It has been suggested, for my purposes, if I am going to walk to walk for an hour.  On a steady walk, it has been suggested, it takes 25 minutes to use the sugars in the body (more for a type-2 diabetic(?)).  Which means a 30 minute walk would only begin burning fat, then do so for about five minutes.  The goal is to load the body so as to use sugar (in my case).  Whether I can walk for even 30 minutes to start is questionable.  I simply don't know.  It is possible.  Perhaps an hour walk is doable.  But then is it repeatable multiple times a week?  Once a week is not enough, better to go three 15 minute walks, and work my way up, then one 1 hour walk.  I can't really do that with sleep running from late morning to early evening, though that may be changing.  Or I might use the ac in an attempt to shift the sleep cycle.  It is simply too hot most of the day, sometimes all day perhaps.  I'll keep at it.

Oh, I have been looking for a recipe to bottle refrigerator jalapenos and cucumbers... not a true canning thing which requires a wet bath or such.  Many recommend sugar.  Of course, that is out.  I'm not seeing anything on Y.T., so I may do searches elsewhere.  Perhaps there is a reason sugar is used, perhaps that is a part of the problem with the American diet, or maybe that is what the government wants pushed.  All sugar, in everything, all of the time.  Kill em' with their hunger, especially a self-created hunger.  If I find something, try it, and it works, I will put a link, or do a small quote with dues and link back to the original.  I really don't know how to do that all properly.

Later.