Intermittent Fasting, Low Carb

After a lot of the reading I have done, I went low carb, not Keto. There is a distinction and it comes to how many carbs you eat in a day. It is not just carbs, but the type of carbs. This matters. Simple carbs in industrial food are not the same as complex carbs.

Yes, chemically glucose is glucose. Yes, chemically fructose is fructose, but industrial food is extremely easy to absorb. Complex carbs come packed with fiber, which slows the absorption and bioavailability, ergo you also feed your gut biome. I add this caveat since it matters.

What has happened? First, my weight loss restarted. I have been on a plateau for so long that it is not even funny. Yes, I am aware of the set point theory, and my body was fighting any more weight loss. If the high insulin leads to obesity hypothesis is correct, eating the way I am is lowering circulating insulin, which is also leading to lower insulin resistance. More on this bellow.

While a Dexa scan would be more exact, my fat percentage is dropping, and my waist circumference is slowly (and I mean very slowly) going down. So I would say my body is using those fat stores. This is the conclusion I have reached. I also lost a couple more pounds, which is fantastic after almost 24 months of not moving.

So what is my fasting?