22 Year Old With Hypoglycemia - Questions About My New Diet! Posted: 09-20-07 23:48pm
Hi There!
Brief story:
I've ate food & kept habits like most
kids my age. (The Pizza, burgers, gatorade
& vitamin water diet.)
I keep really crazy hours and don't sleep
until 4am sometimes. (working on the
computer.)
I guess it finally caught up to me...
About a week ago, I started feeling REALLY
bad... depressed, light-headed, dizzy and
in a Dream-like state.
I went to the doctor, and after a blood
sugar test, told me I have hypoglycemia
and I need to change my diet & habits
right away.
I'm learning all I can. There seems to be
a lot of contradictory information out
there and everyone THINKS they know what
you should be eating.
I still feel bad. I get really
scared/confused/dizzy through most of the
day.
I just got back from Whole foods market
with lots of things that was on "stan's
diet."
I'm going to focus on my diet and health
almost exclusively for the next month and
see if i can stabilize myself a bit...
4 questions:
1. What do I do if i go out to a baseball
game or somewhere where healthy choices
won't be available for long periods of
time?
2. Are Protein shakes/protein bars from
GNC acceptable?
3. Once I stabilize myself, should I
expect to never eat pizza, bread and
sugars ever again? I drank gatorade and
vitamin water 24/7 for a couple years, so
this is a big change already.
4. Has anyone else felt the same feelings
I described above? And how severe we're
you're feelings/mood swings?? It's kind
of scary sometimes. I hope it improves...
Thank you for the help, hope everyone is
well.
-Dave
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foxforce5
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 57
Posted: 09-21-07 09:30am
Dave - You are not alone. Please read my
post called 'Krimmel plan - worst crash
ever' and other posts.
Stan has been helping me along the way. I
am still having the same feelings as you.
Depression eased up a lot but now this
week it seems to back with a vengeance. I
was having anxiety/panic attacks before I
went on the diet and now they are gone. I
have had a lot of dizziness which I
thought was because I was not getting
enough carbs so I added brown rice into my
meals but still getting the dizziness so I
think it is anxiety related. I decided to
go see a counselor when this depression
first hit me because it freaked me out.
It has helped. For me, I am spending 24/7
obsessing about this and it has made it
worse. Each person is different and reacts
to food differently so it really is hard
to follow one diet and find out what is
right for you. I have not been able to
find a decent doctor yet that will help
me. The strict eating every two hours
diet is helping but it is very hard. I
switched from doing the Krimmel diet to
Stans plan a few weeks ago because I was
always hungry. But eating every two hours
is very restricting. I can do it cuz I'm
at home all day. You are right, there is a
lot of different info out there, i think
I have read it all. That's part of what
makes this so hard.
I have seen a lot of improvements in
symptoms in the last 8 weeks but I am so
anxious to feel 100%. That is the hard
part of all of this. The first two weeks
of the diet was absolute hell for me - I
basically went cold turkey on everything.
And even though a few months prior to
going on the diet I had given up caffeine,
alcohol and simple sugar, I still had the
worst time. Everybody said it was going to
be hard, just did not think, for me at
least, it was going to be so painful. Not
sure if everybody reacts as badly as I did
either.
I am going to see a natural doctor today,
an acquaintance of mine who also has had
really bad hypo said that I should not
still be feeling this bad after almost 8
weeks on the diet.
Regarding your questions:
4 questions:
1. What do I do if i go out to a baseball
game or somewhere where healthy choices
won't be available for long periods of
time?
You will need to pack your own food. I
even sleep with a tiny cooler beside my
bed as I have been waking up hungry at
night. I am sleeping better now too. But
having the cooler there with hardboiled
eggs or cheese means that you can eat and
get back to sleep without getting up.
Drink lots of water.
2. Are Protein shakes/protein bars from
GNC acceptable?
I don't use them and I think Stan is not
of fan of them either. You have to check
the ingredients very carefully. Suggest
you search on this forum to see if anybody
has found a good one.
3. Once I stabilize myself, should I
expect to never eat pizza, bread and
sugars ever again? I drank gatorade and
vitamin water 24/7 for a couple years, so
this is a big change already.
Both of those drinks have a lot of sugar
so cut those out. Once you get stabilized,
it depends upon the person, some people
can tolerate the odd piece of pizza others
cannot. I'm not there yet so I don't know.
I'll be happy if I can just get to a point
where I can eat only 5 or 6 meals a day
instead of 9.
4. Has anyone else felt the same feelings
I described above? And how severe we're
you're feelings/mood swings?? It's kind of
scary sometimes. I hope it improves...
The moods do improve as you get more
stable but can swing back & forth.
Mine were/are severe but not as bad as
some people I have read. I have been doing
a lot of meditating/EFT. It is very scary
but think of it as temporary.
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Stan
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Posted: 09-21-07 15:36pm
At a baseball game, you can pretty much
bring whatever you want in a cooler,
whenever you explain it's due to a disease
that you need the food, they allow it.
The only thing you may be able to eat are
salads without crutons (just take them
out), if they're there, and plain burgers
or with cheese if the cheese doesn't have
any crap in it (don't be afraid to ask).
