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From: Joan C Westgate on 28 Mar 2005 23:58 Carbohydrates and sugars are tempting because they provide a quick reaction and are in easy to grab foods (fast, easy packing, etc.). It takes a little while to get off the roller coaster and settle down the glucose levels. You will feel better the longer you can maintain control. Using your monitor will encourage stability and knowledge of food that does and doesn't work for you. It would be so much easier if it were only one food to avoid, but it seems like each person needs to customize what they can tolerate. Basically, a low carb diet is the starting point, finding what range of carbs (high glycemic) works. Occasionally, small tastes of other "treats" can be tolerated by some. From what I can understand, hypoglycemic people, diabetic folk (medications, insulin) are all juggling food choice, portions, timing to try and maintain normal numbers. Keep working to avoid progressing onto developing diabetes and the complications it creates. Joan
From: merkoyle@yahoo.com on 4 Apr 2005 22:03 I cannot say what the cause of your problem is, but I have found that recently, with myself, I feel best mentally when I have eaten foods I should not eat. I'm the one who possibly has developing insulin resistance in addition to hypoglycemia, so my theory is that my blood sugar may be really high, but since I'm not sensitive to insulin, glucose is not getting to my brain, so I have to eat even more carbs to get some fuel to my brain. For instance, I feel quite lucid right now, and I won't even embarrass myself by revealing what I have eaten tonight. Also, if anyone's body is used to refined carbs, when they try to limit themselves to protein and complex carbs, initially, it is not going to feel like enough fuel for the brain and body. There is a definite transitional period-I have tried going 'cold turkey', and it is quite hard. There is this confusing paradox between what feels right to the mind and what is healthy for the body-hypoglycemia is an elusive, hell-born beast, in my humble opinion. I hope that you don't beat yourself up-the fact that you keep trying is important. Maybe you could leave a menu of meals for the next day by your alarm clock. And if you don't follow it completely, that's okay. Sometimes I think our 'slips' are honestly the brain's way of seeking fuel. Good luck.
From: Michael Mauter on 20 Apr 2005 23:00
Hello, news.optusnet.com.au! You wrote on Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:38:08 +1000: noc> I saw some weet-bix in the cupboard (that's a breakfast cereal in noc> Australia), and I thought to myself: "Pity I can't eat them any more, noc> I should at least finish them." And once I started to think about it, noc> I had to have them, even though I am usually trying to follow a noc> hypoglycemic diet. So I ate them with lots of sugar and milk and noc> thoroughly enjoyed myself. But now I hate myself for doing it, and I noc> can't understand why the temptation is impossible to say no, something noc> in my mind just seems to take over and I can't stop myself from noc> eating. Just wanted to let you know that I have been struggling with this same kind of insanity for what seems like forever. The only way it seems to make sense to me is to look at it in terms of an addiction. I smoked for many years, all the while cursing myself for feeding the monkey on my back. I think that this ranks right up there. Thanks for the honesty With best regards, Michael Mauter. E-mail: mmauter(a)comcast.net |