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If you felt shaky at 4.2, then having something to eat makes sense, but it didn't have to be a big bowl of cereal. Indeed, it didn't really even need to be sweet.
You need to think ahead a little. Know what you will have for breakfast, and then if the need to eat is mega, mega urgent, eat it. It cannot take longer to open a carton of yoghurt than it does to pour a bowl of cereal and add milk. If you can't be that prepared, have a go-to food, which you can use in that situation. Something you can have in your fridge, handbag, car, wherever. You need to know what your crisis plan is, and stick with it, not revert as soon as things get a tiny bit uncomfortable.
When I started my changes, my HbA1c was 8.8. I have no idea how that happened? But, that was the score. It sent me into disbelief and challenging if someone else's blood scores had been attributed to me. My initial fasting score was 15. Boy, that was a tailspin moment. So, although I may not have been diabetic 17 years, I have had to make changes, to make a sea change to my blood scores.
When I learned, after a couple of weeks that I had to heed all carbs, not just sugar, I had the odd wobbly moment where I got a bit confused and felt shaky. Curiously, i also had a really hungry day on Friday, when I could have happily eaten the contents of the fridge, freezer and larder, but I know I don't need to. My first call in those situations is to have something to drink. Normally, I make a cup of tea, with milk, no sugar, then if it's close to a mealtime, that will often tide me over until we eat. If I can't have tea, I just have some water. Having something inside you will take the urgency off those feelings, and if you are in a false hypo situation, your liver will dump some energy into your system and the symptoms will likely abate.
Don't tinker around the edges with this thing Sarah. That's how you ensure "nothing works".
You need to think ahead a little. Know what you will have for breakfast, and then if the need to eat is mega, mega urgent, eat it. It cannot take longer to open a carton of yoghurt than it does to pour a bowl of cereal and add milk. If you can't be that prepared, have a go-to food, which you can use in that situation. Something you can have in your fridge, handbag, car, wherever. You need to know what your crisis plan is, and stick with it, not revert as soon as things get a tiny bit uncomfortable.
When I started my changes, my HbA1c was 8.8. I have no idea how that happened? But, that was the score. It sent me into disbelief and challenging if someone else's blood scores had been attributed to me. My initial fasting score was 15. Boy, that was a tailspin moment. So, although I may not have been diabetic 17 years, I have had to make changes, to make a sea change to my blood scores.
When I learned, after a couple of weeks that I had to heed all carbs, not just sugar, I had the odd wobbly moment where I got a bit confused and felt shaky. Curiously, i also had a really hungry day on Friday, when I could have happily eaten the contents of the fridge, freezer and larder, but I know I don't need to. My first call in those situations is to have something to drink. Normally, I make a cup of tea, with milk, no sugar, then if it's close to a mealtime, that will often tide me over until we eat. If I can't have tea, I just have some water. Having something inside you will take the urgency off those feelings, and if you are in a false hypo situation, your liver will dump some energy into your system and the symptoms will likely abate.
Don't tinker around the edges with this thing Sarah. That's how you ensure "nothing works".
