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- Type of diabetes
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Hello Everyone,
Apologies for the long post, but...
I've been reading this forum for a few weeks now, and have found some reassurance to what has been happening to me, for a good 'few years' (read, decades?) now.
Looking through some posts, I feel that I can relate to the 'reactive hypoglycemia' experience. I know that I feel rubbish if I don't eat regularly, and more so when having foods of the higher G.I. variety, so have been eating a diet of 'brown this', 'wholegrain that', but occasionally have chocolate (due to my other half buying them... )
My old diet consisted of brown rice with most things, porridge in the morning with Alpro milk with squirt of honey, all sorts of meats and veg. No bread or wheaty stuff, as I get the worst heartburn with that kind of food. Convenient (I have automatic rice cooker!), I work from home most of the time, but long hours in a mentally straining job.
This came to a head about 5 weeks ago when I had to work away for a week. Choices for lunch were pie and chips or a wholemeal ham salad baguette. Of course I plumped for the baguette (devil, deep blue sea?), along with a preventative ranitadine to prevent any volcanicity from my stomach.
Anyway, long story short, I had lunch at 1pm and come 5 pm, still working, I started feeling my usual 'low' coming on (not had anything else to eat, as it's the usual office fare of snack machine), and I thought, I'll sit this out, sometimes it goes away, and having main meal in a couple of hours anyway. Before I knew it, slight headache, sweating, and ready to bite someone's head off, and feeling rather wobbly. Ended up with me demanding chocolate from a Director who happened to be walking by, so not the wisest career move to date! Eek. He got me a Galaxy bar from the machine, and I felt better after 2 squares
This incident reminded me of a similar thing that happened over 20 years ago - my Lucozade incident, and tbh, this more recent incident scared me a bit and must research more.
I did already know about insulin and fat storing, and have struggled to keep my weight down for years. Why have I been so complacent all these years, I am asking myself now. No point beating myself up about these things, as I am making changes now, and perhaps see my GP (and try to not sound like a hyperchondriac?)
So, I got home and got a SD Codefree meter from Amazon and now testing meals in accordance to the Blood Sugar 101 site, and also trying to catch my 'lows' (so far, had a mildish one at 3.6, another at 3.9, both done on purpose, but no way felt as bad as I did at work).
I thought about testing pre meal, post meal, 1, 2, 3 hours, or until levels back in the 5's. So trying my usual 'healthy' choices of homemade, low G.I. and readings, 10, 11.4, in the 8's, in the 9's, and I'm mentally kicking myself up the wotsits seeing these numbers! Always comes back down to the 5's, with the maximum I seen, was a rice dish that took 4 hours of above 9 before crashing down to the high 3's level (and had a hot chocolate to bring back normality).
I did house move last year, joined a new GP surgery and they did the 40+ year old MOT tests, all normal and HBA1C of 5.5. And no, I've not seen my GP about the above incident, since I get back to normal BS after meals (low to mid 5's), and wake up BS averages 4.8. I just don't like being in the 'toxic' range, so....
So now, doing the LCHF approach, reading this site, Diet Doctor and have now on this way of eating for a few weeks now. 5 kg lost (I'm 5'6" and a half, and started around 75 kg) and feel improved and no lows. Measuring the BS reaction to foods, I've had to totally give up all rice, porridge, trim down the pasta portions to 'no point in this' levels , but have not tested bread or potatoes, as these don't form part of my usual diet anyway. In comes more fresh veg, meat, all stir fried in a wok, and I'm probably eating more nutrients now than before Foods that instead of doubling my BS level at 1 and sometimes 2 hours, to moving it only 0.4 in the same timeframe. Am also feeling much better, and can go without eating for hours. If I can fit into my size 12's instead of squeezing, then that alone will be a good result
Thankyou for reading my 'essay' and thankyou for letting me read the very useful info on this site. At least now I understand why I can eat 600 calories plus some, then burn maybe a couple hundred before feeling ravenous again. No wonder I gain weight easily! Am hoping to carry on control by diet and life style alone.
Best wishes to everyone,
Lou
Apologies for the long post, but...
I've been reading this forum for a few weeks now, and have found some reassurance to what has been happening to me, for a good 'few years' (read, decades?) now.
Looking through some posts, I feel that I can relate to the 'reactive hypoglycemia' experience. I know that I feel rubbish if I don't eat regularly, and more so when having foods of the higher G.I. variety, so have been eating a diet of 'brown this', 'wholegrain that', but occasionally have chocolate (due to my other half buying them... )
My old diet consisted of brown rice with most things, porridge in the morning with Alpro milk with squirt of honey, all sorts of meats and veg. No bread or wheaty stuff, as I get the worst heartburn with that kind of food. Convenient (I have automatic rice cooker!), I work from home most of the time, but long hours in a mentally straining job.
This came to a head about 5 weeks ago when I had to work away for a week. Choices for lunch were pie and chips or a wholemeal ham salad baguette. Of course I plumped for the baguette (devil, deep blue sea?), along with a preventative ranitadine to prevent any volcanicity from my stomach.
Anyway, long story short, I had lunch at 1pm and come 5 pm, still working, I started feeling my usual 'low' coming on (not had anything else to eat, as it's the usual office fare of snack machine), and I thought, I'll sit this out, sometimes it goes away, and having main meal in a couple of hours anyway. Before I knew it, slight headache, sweating, and ready to bite someone's head off, and feeling rather wobbly. Ended up with me demanding chocolate from a Director who happened to be walking by, so not the wisest career move to date! Eek. He got me a Galaxy bar from the machine, and I felt better after 2 squares
This incident reminded me of a similar thing that happened over 20 years ago - my Lucozade incident, and tbh, this more recent incident scared me a bit and must research more.
I did already know about insulin and fat storing, and have struggled to keep my weight down for years. Why have I been so complacent all these years, I am asking myself now. No point beating myself up about these things, as I am making changes now, and perhaps see my GP (and try to not sound like a hyperchondriac?)
So, I got home and got a SD Codefree meter from Amazon and now testing meals in accordance to the Blood Sugar 101 site, and also trying to catch my 'lows' (so far, had a mildish one at 3.6, another at 3.9, both done on purpose, but no way felt as bad as I did at work).
I thought about testing pre meal, post meal, 1, 2, 3 hours, or until levels back in the 5's. So trying my usual 'healthy' choices of homemade, low G.I. and readings, 10, 11.4, in the 8's, in the 9's, and I'm mentally kicking myself up the wotsits seeing these numbers! Always comes back down to the 5's, with the maximum I seen, was a rice dish that took 4 hours of above 9 before crashing down to the high 3's level (and had a hot chocolate to bring back normality).
I did house move last year, joined a new GP surgery and they did the 40+ year old MOT tests, all normal and HBA1C of 5.5. And no, I've not seen my GP about the above incident, since I get back to normal BS after meals (low to mid 5's), and wake up BS averages 4.8. I just don't like being in the 'toxic' range, so....
So now, doing the LCHF approach, reading this site, Diet Doctor and have now on this way of eating for a few weeks now. 5 kg lost (I'm 5'6" and a half, and started around 75 kg) and feel improved and no lows. Measuring the BS reaction to foods, I've had to totally give up all rice, porridge, trim down the pasta portions to 'no point in this' levels , but have not tested bread or potatoes, as these don't form part of my usual diet anyway. In comes more fresh veg, meat, all stir fried in a wok, and I'm probably eating more nutrients now than before Foods that instead of doubling my BS level at 1 and sometimes 2 hours, to moving it only 0.4 in the same timeframe. Am also feeling much better, and can go without eating for hours. If I can fit into my size 12's instead of squeezing, then that alone will be a good result
Thankyou for reading my 'essay' and thankyou for letting me read the very useful info on this site. At least now I understand why I can eat 600 calories plus some, then burn maybe a couple hundred before feeling ravenous again. No wonder I gain weight easily! Am hoping to carry on control by diet and life style alone.
Best wishes to everyone,
Lou