Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet Day 1
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Day 1 of the Prolon fasting mimicking diet: 1100 calories, meals, and continuous glucose monitor data showing carb spikes.
My first day on the fast is pretty easy. I regularly go without food in the mornings anyway, so I had no real hunger until late in the morning. At around 1pm I indulged in the first item on the menu.
Fairly sparse, but doable.
Dinner was similarly bare, but included another of those 230 calorie L-Bars.
All told, I consumed about 1100 calories on Day 1 – around half of what a person my size should be eating. That amount of food isn’t entirely satisfying, but coming the day after Thanksgiving, if anything it feels like a reasonable break.
Those soups are high in carbohydrates, though, so my glucose for the day shows some hefty spikes: