GPH
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I've tended to go into dinner just famished and ready to roll up my sleeves and eat like a farm hand. So rather than struggling with myself at night, I'm seeing how I can beat back the hunger preemptively around 3 PM.
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I Know that feeling GPH.
I'll be taking a leaf out of your book from now on when it comes to eating 'preemptively'.
Just recovering from the worst ordeal.
I spoke too soon thinking everything was going well.
So what happened was that yesterday; because of the decreased carb intake I didn't have much of an appetite at all. So had a smaller than usual dinner (salad & turkey rashers) with not much carbs; just a banana later.
Well, low and behold, a few hours later I woke up thinking I was going to die;
the worst dizziness,(room was spinning so bad) sickness, weakness, couldn't keep anything down & being sick.
Why? I didn't know initially but later learned it was The dreaded low blood sugar.
Also gluten free bread was like trying to choke down cardboard when I was in this state; Only thing that helped in the end was 2 slices of regular white bread.
Only barely starting to feel human now. There are so many nasty side effects from low blood sugar, headaches, irritability, insatiable hunger. nightmares.
It explains why I always was such a 'sugar addict' too; trying to off-set this condition. Something I'm beginning to realise is that stress can set off an insulin reaction too.
So stress + too few carbs + perhaps too many caffeinated drinks (including green tea) =total incapacitation. Lesson learned. Hope nobody else has this happen to them.
Going forward I intend to include more CM snacks, eat around every 3 hours. Prepare more meals in advance so I always have something. Never more than 2 caffeinated drinks per day. Have some kind of fast acting carb like lucozade to hand to off-set this if it every happens again. Eat a regular intake of carbs no matter how I feel.
Taking de-stress seriously.
No joke this!
Hope everyone has a good week!