Snacks With Reactive Hypoglycemia

[jimmytootime]

Hello everyone - hope you are well.

I have had Reactive Hypoglycemia for nearly 10 years, it really is a horrible condition to have. Heartfelt sympathies to everyone who is dealing with this absolutely horrendous condition that deprives you of any happiness. Hope you are trying to stay as happy as possible.

I have adjusted my diet to as low carb as possible, i can actually find i can tolerate a bit of fruit and granary toast, which helps really well. I kindly wondered if anyone had any good snack ideas, that were high protein or fiber and low carb. I have to do alot of travelling for work and find myself going weak and faint on the train, i try ride this out as much as possible.

Any ideas for snacks you could give, i would be very thankful for. Thank you for listening.

Regards,

Jimmy Tootime

 

[MeiChanski]

Hello, welcome
You can opt for veggie sticks and nut butters, chicken slices and cheese sticks or deli slices, homemade tofu jerky or meat jerky, small pot of plain yogurt and berries, boiled eggs, lettuce wraps with meat of your choice, tuna mayo and cucumber sticks. They all go well in a cooler bag ot container if you have one. That’s all I can think of at the moment. Maybe someone will come by and add more to the list.

 

[Lamont D]

Hello everyone - hope you are well.

I have had Reactive Hypoglycemia for nearly 10 years, it really is a horrible condition to have. Heartfelt sympathies to everyone who is dealing with this absolutely horrendous condition that deprives you of any happiness. Hope you are trying to stay as happy as possible.
I have adjusted my diet to as low carb as possible, i can actually find i can tolerate a bit of fruit and granary toast, which helps really well. I kindly wondered if anyone had any good snack ideas, that were high protein or fiber and low carb. I have to do alot of travelling for work and find myself going weak and faint on the train, i try ride this out as much as possible.

Any ideas for snacks you could give, i would be very thankful for. Thank you for listening.

Regards,

Jimmy Tootime

Hi @jimmy Tootime, and welcome to our forum.
If you have had RH for ten years, you should be able to control your hypos better than you are saying.
I got diagnosed six years ago and because of the dietary adjustments and intermittent fasting, I have little or no problem going hypo!
I travel a lot, on the road once or twice a week, traveling up and down the motorway, there are certain services that have food outlets that you can get a salad or some low carb bites, mostly meat products in the small supermarkets, you just need to be careful if the food is processed.
I will not give you a list of bites that I can have, but I like you, can have small pieces of fruit, but because of my other intolerance to diary, wheat and so on, I tend to take cold cuts of meat that I have cooked previously.
But the most important thing I do is fast, during the morning travel, and probably don't eat until the evening. I always have emergency rations and take it easy on the caffeinated drinks. More age than dietary!

If you take time to read the threads in our forum and the low carb forum, there is some great ideas.

For me to have control and prevent the Hypoglycaemia, I avoid carbs as much as possible, RH is a reaction to food, and it is certain foods that trigger the imbalance in hormones that causes the symptoms. The usual suspects are carbs!

If you have the time, I would like to hear your story, how in the last decade, I was struggling with hypos, not having a clue what was going on, and how you got diagnosed. What tests have you had and the way you were treated by some doctors, dieticians and other healthcare providers.

I had a terrible time getting diagnosed, it took years and lots of tests.

Best wishes