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If fasting during a holiday is part of your religion, do you participate? Please explain in the comments.
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It’s not. But I think I could fast if I needed too with adjustments to my pump settings.
I do not have a religious affiliation.
The option of ‘fasting is not part of my religion’ wasn’t offered so I picked other.
Not part of my religion thank the good Lord. Fasting as part of my 3-month labs is hard enough. My prior Endo did not require fasting for labs but this one does. I try to get an early morning appointment and am usually high when I go because afraid of going low.
Put Other, as there was not a selection for those who do not have a religious fasting tradition.
While fasting for 24 hours is part of my religion, and something I did prior to my T1 diagnosis, I no longer fast. The process of testing my glucose and taking any insulin, if needed, would break the fast. Therefore, I have decided why bother fasting. My health comes first.
Very few fasting days in my chosen religion. However, my religion values life above all so if I’m fasting and have break the fast before “time”, it’s ok.
Another non-religious person here.
I fast every time my BG runs high. Religiously.🧐
Not applicable should have been an option for us non religious individuals!
No, I don’t fast because the restriction is lifted for medical concerns. The distraction of attempting to keep glucose levels stable during 24 hours of fasting would definitely interfere with the focus of the day.
I have great respect for such traditions regardless of the specific religion. But I do not follow any such tradition(s) personally. Perhaps some day…. I have fasted on purpose in the past, just to see what deliberately NOT eating was actually like. Diabetic far too long, they were exciting and fairly positive experiences when I was able to do so…
I used to not have full meals at breakfast and lunch on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Now that I am 60, I really don’t have to observe those restrictions. Diabetics have the option to not partake in that fasting.
In my adopted religious tradition, I fast by paying extra close adherence to my diabetes self-care routines. I also offer service to others, like mothers who need some extra help with child care or meal prep, while they fast. My spiritual guide advised me that living with T1 diabetes is a blessing from the God Source and that it is my duty to honor it instead of cursing and resenting it. And so I am grateful and continue to live well with T1D since December 1962.
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I fast as long as my blood glucose stays steady, but will eat/drink some juice if my blood sugar drops too low.
Fasting is not part of my religion.
Fasting is not a part of my religion.