Sugar-free chewing gum

[Dornfield]

I’m currently dabbling with ‘time restricted eating’, between 12 noon and
7 pm. My ‘calorie restriction’ alone (limited/ no real dedicated exercise as yet) has had some benefit on my weight, but I seem to have plateaued (if you can plateau at a low level) at 82.3kg. Stubbornly ‘point 3), to the extent I am starting to wonder if my scales are broken!
With time restricted eating, I am trying to ‘clean fast’, with only water, black tea and black coffee in the morning. My question is, if a splash of milk is sufficient to ‘wake up your brain’ and defeat the metabolism of the fast, will the artificial sweetener in sugar-free gum also have a negative effect? Although sugar and calorie-free, I read that it is the effect on the brain that may be important.
Any thoughts on sugar-free gum during ‘clean fast’?

 

[CliffH]

I’m currently dabbling with ‘time restricted eating’, between 12 noon and
7 pm. My ‘calorie restriction’ alone (limited/ no real dedicated exercise as yet) has had some benefit on my weight, but I seem to have plateaued (if you can plateau at a low level) at 82.3kg. Stubbornly ‘point 3), to the extent I am starting to wonder if my scales are broken!
With time restricted eating, I am trying to ‘clean fast’, with only water, black tea and black coffee in the morning. My question is, if a splash of milk is sufficient to ‘wake up your brain’ and defeat the metabolism of the fast, will the artificial sweetener in sugar-free gum also have a negative effect? Although sugar and calorie-free, I read that it is the effect on the brain that may be important.
Any thoughts on sugar-free gum during ‘clean fast’?

My mother used to tell me that, if I swallowed chewing gum (only sugary gum was available then), it would wrap itself round my heart. I'm not sure though of the robustness of the studies that she was relying upon in order to make that assertion .

 

[Drummer]

I'm experimenting with something rather strict at the moment, but can't see any reason to be as strict as you are being.
The low calorie diets I have done in the past failed completely, but going onto this one already fat adapted seems to be the factor enabling it to succeed.
I do drink coffee with cream in the mornings on some days, but I am so in the groove that I am forgetting to do that.
At 5pm I have a 200 calorie shake and then make dinner.
Some days I might have 2 cups of coffee.
I am not following rules, this is a quest to see how I can influence the next HbA1c test, whenever it might happen.