KimberlyV
04-05-2003, 06:55 PM
Hi guys! I am back and have some news. After all the questions I have had about which diet is best for me, I now know which will HAVE to work. Through some recent extensive bloodwork, I have found out that I am Hypoglycemic. So therefore, I have a diet all planned out for me. I am positive about this because I almost feel it is an answer from God so that I will quit stressing about which diet I should follow. . . that was consumin my life. My question to you all is are any of you Hypoglycemic and if so, what kinds of things do you have to eat? My diet is supposed to consist of lots of proteins, fresh fruits and veggies and lean meats. I am supposed to cut down fat, cut out sugars, but still consume complex carbs. Also, I have to get lots of fiber. I also have to eat 3 meals, with 2 - 3 snacks. I feel like I am eating all the time. But it seems like all I can get myself to consume is wheat bread, peanut butter, fresh fruits (Except for bananas), fresh veggies and lots of V8 Juice. I need some breakfast and snack ideas. Since I have to try not to eat fried foods, it makes it kind of hard for early morning. If anyone else has any information on this, I would definitely appreciate it!
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RageOfAngels
04-16-2003, 05:11 PM
I battled hypoglycemia for a few years and as my body has gotten healthier through diet changes, cleansing, the right supplementation, etc., the problem has been lessening and lessening. Some tips:
- The most important thing first off is to avoid white sugar and white flour. For instance, if that peanut butter you eat is a commercial brand which has added sugar, ditch it. There are plenty of other brands with no sugar. Commercial wheat pasta, cakes, pies, etc. are not good either - I eat brown rice pasta (it's even better) - the white flour is one of the biggest triggers to hypoglycemia.
- Take some form of chromium supplement. What worked for my was CoQ10. Others recommend Chromium Picolinate for hypoglycemia. Experiment and see what helps.
- Finally, hypoglycemia is sometimes a symptom of other body functions going awry, especially of the liver. See if you can do a liver cleanse (products for such are available in health food stores), and possibly some colonics. A great diet for your liver is no white sugar or white flour, no hydrogentated oils, organic fruit and produce (as much raw as possible), and not too much meat. You can get protein from brown rice and beans, tofu or seitan, nuts and nut butters (almond is particularly good), seeds like sunflower and pumpkin, and together with an array of fresh vegetables your protein needs will be more than taken care of.
Hope this helps. If you give your body what it really needs, it can repair itself in amazing ways and one day you may actually be free of the hypoglycemia, so it need not be a permanent condition. But for now it needs to be taken seriously.
Cheers,
Al
- The most important thing first off is to avoid white sugar and white flour. For instance, if that peanut butter you eat is a commercial brand which has added sugar, ditch it. There are plenty of other brands with no sugar. Commercial wheat pasta, cakes, pies, etc. are not good either - I eat brown rice pasta (it's even better) - the white flour is one of the biggest triggers to hypoglycemia.
- Take some form of chromium supplement. What worked for my was CoQ10. Others recommend Chromium Picolinate for hypoglycemia. Experiment and see what helps.
- Finally, hypoglycemia is sometimes a symptom of other body functions going awry, especially of the liver. See if you can do a liver cleanse (products for such are available in health food stores), and possibly some colonics. A great diet for your liver is no white sugar or white flour, no hydrogentated oils, organic fruit and produce (as much raw as possible), and not too much meat. You can get protein from brown rice and beans, tofu or seitan, nuts and nut butters (almond is particularly good), seeds like sunflower and pumpkin, and together with an array of fresh vegetables your protein needs will be more than taken care of.
Hope this helps. If you give your body what it really needs, it can repair itself in amazing ways and one day you may actually be free of the hypoglycemia, so it need not be a permanent condition. But for now it needs to be taken seriously.
Cheers,
Al
memehegan
03-15-2004, 02:20 PM
Hi, I was just diagnoised with reactive hypoglycemia and can't see the dietitian for a week. I am looking for more indepth diet suggestions. I weigh 286 and have for years. I am very active- preschool teacher, teenage kids. I eliminated most sugars years ago (except for that one chocolate day before my period!) and that seemed to stop this- but I have had three episodes in one week. Not- severe- my sugar normally tested at 85 and when symptoms began to appear it was 69. I have read a little about it on line. Much more than the doctors have shared- it seems like its not a big deal to the docs I have seen, I pushed for the diet consult because the symptoms are a big deal when your trying to actively manage 18 3years olds cheerfully. -meme
Susannah
03-16-2004, 02:56 PM
I had hypoglycemia, and I also had (think it's past tense, since the symptoms are gone now) PCOS, which they think results from your insulin sensitivity being faulty. Well, anyway, I went on the South Beach diet and it really cured everything within about 3 months. I really recommend it, or at least recommend that you read the book. It's a fast read, only about 120 of the pages are about the diet, the rest is recipes. If you live in an area where there is a store called The Vitamin Shoppe (it's a chain, go to their website for locations), they will loan it to you for 30 days for free, which is plenty of time to read it (actually, they will loan you any of their books free for 30 days, it's a really great deal, since they have a pretty extensive book section).
sean
03-16-2004, 03:58 PM
I sympathize. I had very bad reactive hypoglycemia, and in fact discovered the Atkins diet in my need to control insulin, and only found out it's weight loss advantages as a side benefit.
Atkins, Protein Power, or South Beach should all help control insulin, therefore, low blood sugar. To the basic formulsas you must add eating small, protein based meals frequently. You can't let the blood sugar levels drop like they do after hours without food.
If you are seriously, seriously ill, as I was, you may need the induction phase of Atkins to get stable, and then go on to the low-carb, NO-high-glycemic diet that suits you best. For me, it made sense just to keep on with one or another modification of Atkins over the years.
After many such years, the reactive aspect of the body's glucose/insulin system gradually reverted to something like "normal," and I am pretty unconcerned about it all now. Although I still just don't eat much sugar, even on "cheat" occassions, period. And I still can't go half a day without eating. I used to have to eat everythree hours without fail, and now can go four or five, six hours in an emergency, but I do start to get dizzy, etc.
Hope this helps.
sean
Atkins, Protein Power, or South Beach should all help control insulin, therefore, low blood sugar. To the basic formulsas you must add eating small, protein based meals frequently. You can't let the blood sugar levels drop like they do after hours without food.
If you are seriously, seriously ill, as I was, you may need the induction phase of Atkins to get stable, and then go on to the low-carb, NO-high-glycemic diet that suits you best. For me, it made sense just to keep on with one or another modification of Atkins over the years.
After many such years, the reactive aspect of the body's glucose/insulin system gradually reverted to something like "normal," and I am pretty unconcerned about it all now. Although I still just don't eat much sugar, even on "cheat" occassions, period. And I still can't go half a day without eating. I used to have to eat everythree hours without fail, and now can go four or five, six hours in an emergency, but I do start to get dizzy, etc.
Hope this helps.
sean
sean
03-16-2004, 04:04 PM
Oh, and nothing matterred as much as starting the day with a high-protein, low or no carb breakfast.
After spending the night depleting your blood sugar, the last thing you need in the morning is a donut or scone to produce an insulin spike. You will send yourself into mild insulin shock.
Eggs, breakfast meats, cheese, tofu or miso if you are a veggie. But make that breakfast high protein--I'd even say ALL protein for a while until you get the endocrine system to calm down. It is a pavlovian thing, insulin reactivity, and it takes a while without stimulus (carbs, especially high glycemeic ones) to extinguish the insulin pulse reaction.
After a while,you can go to a bit of oatmeal, or one piece of whole wheat toast, but if you're like me, you may always have to keep the breakfast heavilly protein, no matter what diet you follow the rest of the day.
See how your own body reacts. It may take some days of changed habits to have a marked effect., but you certainly should start to feel better within a week or so.
good luck
sean
After spending the night depleting your blood sugar, the last thing you need in the morning is a donut or scone to produce an insulin spike. You will send yourself into mild insulin shock.
Eggs, breakfast meats, cheese, tofu or miso if you are a veggie. But make that breakfast high protein--I'd even say ALL protein for a while until you get the endocrine system to calm down. It is a pavlovian thing, insulin reactivity, and it takes a while without stimulus (carbs, especially high glycemeic ones) to extinguish the insulin pulse reaction.
After a while,you can go to a bit of oatmeal, or one piece of whole wheat toast, but if you're like me, you may always have to keep the breakfast heavilly protein, no matter what diet you follow the rest of the day.
See how your own body reacts. It may take some days of changed habits to have a marked effect., but you certainly should start to feel better within a week or so.
good luck
sean
mary b.
03-18-2004, 11:42 PM
Hi,
You definitely need protein each time you eat. Every meal & every snack. It only has to be as little as 1 oz at snack time. Definitely avoid concentrated sugars and fruit drinks, only very small amount of fruit but with a high protein meal. Drink lots of water about 1/2 - 1 cup with each meal. Have a late night before bed protein snack. Cheese and 1/2 apple or 1oz string cheese and some almonds. Hope that helps.
You definitely need protein each time you eat. Every meal & every snack. It only has to be as little as 1 oz at snack time. Definitely avoid concentrated sugars and fruit drinks, only very small amount of fruit but with a high protein meal. Drink lots of water about 1/2 - 1 cup with each meal. Have a late night before bed protein snack. Cheese and 1/2 apple or 1oz string cheese and some almonds. Hope that helps.
memehegan
03-20-2004, 11:40 PM
It sounds like I am very lucky because I eliminated all sugars, juices and white flours and white rices susbstituting ww or brown. And scaled down to mini-meals. The first couple of days I did the clock watching and found I could only comfortable go 2 hours.
But by friday I was able to go the 3 hours between our meals a work. I have lost 5 pounds an it hasnt been a week. I also tried to add a little more excersize activities in my classrooms- even a robust 15 minutes of head shoulds knees a toes and the chicken dance leave me panting. Today I walked/hiked and hour and a half with my 13 year old. In the hey day of my 20's I walked 9 miles a day a weighed a 100#'s less. I see the dietitian monday. Thanks for all your tips - meme
But by friday I was able to go the 3 hours between our meals a work. I have lost 5 pounds an it hasnt been a week. I also tried to add a little more excersize activities in my classrooms- even a robust 15 minutes of head shoulds knees a toes and the chicken dance leave me panting. Today I walked/hiked and hour and a half with my 13 year old. In the hey day of my 20's I walked 9 miles a day a weighed a 100#'s less. I see the dietitian monday. Thanks for all your tips - meme
chevyman
03-21-2004, 04:19 AM
Excuse me but what is "hypoglycemia?"
never heard of that??
to that last poster above (mary b) excuse me but a 1/2 cup of water is not what I would concider a "lot"....lol
why would having white flour be bad? (dieting) I figure its hi in carbs but looks like you would need almost every part of nurtints your body needs?/all the main food soruces.... not consuming lots of carbs would be good and of corse sugars and fatty foods would be bad.
btw what is a complex carbohdrate?.......the FDA is making all the food companys put on there labels the "hiddin" stuff thats in the ingredients and not just on the outside of the label....if you pick something up that says low carbs or no carbs better read the ingredients on the label also....this is where I messed up by not reading and trusting the food companys if the first word is sugars better watch out!!!
I have a question? "weight watchers Inc" would know this but I'm not a member
how does one go about finding out what your total calorie intake would be per day?
never heard of that??
to that last poster above (mary b) excuse me but a 1/2 cup of water is not what I would concider a "lot"....lol
why would having white flour be bad? (dieting) I figure its hi in carbs but looks like you would need almost every part of nurtints your body needs?/all the main food soruces.... not consuming lots of carbs would be good and of corse sugars and fatty foods would be bad.
btw what is a complex carbohdrate?.......the FDA is making all the food companys put on there labels the "hiddin" stuff thats in the ingredients and not just on the outside of the label....if you pick something up that says low carbs or no carbs better read the ingredients on the label also....this is where I messed up by not reading and trusting the food companys if the first word is sugars better watch out!!!
I have a question? "weight watchers Inc" would know this but I'm not a member
how does one go about finding out what your total calorie intake would be per day?