I have been strictly sugar free for a few
months but recently over vacation I
slipped up. It started with one chocolate
dessert and kind of escalated. Seems it
always happens that when I eat a bad food,
I feel really great (sugar high) and then
trick myself into thinking I can eat sugar
again. I get really excited at the idea of
eating treats and start plotting all the
things I'm going to eat...it is seriously
like a drug. My cravings get out of
control.
Then after a few days, my ups and downs
are out of control and it sort of hits me
like a ton of bricks. Does anyone else
have the reaction to sugar that comes
after a few days rather than an
immediately drop a few hours later? It's
like...I can eat one thing, but that just
leads to craving more and then I give in
and I'm on this crazy roller
coaster...anyone????
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Stan
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Posted: 01-07-08 00:45am
Reactions to something bad you shouldn't
have eaten usually take at least 2 days to
crop up, this happened to me all the time
and made it difficult to figure out what
was going on until I read more about it.
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lulu1346
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Posted: 01-07-08 10:10am
Do you ever feel sort of hyper? Like a
rush of adrenaline/panic attack? Can that
be sugar related??
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Stan
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Posted: 01-07-08 11:56am
Yes, definitely. That was one of my main
symptoms. I would have days for example
where I would feel quite able to complete
any amount of work. It wasn't like mania,
but definitely an excited state. It
usually abated in a few hours at most and
then I felt like crap. I still get
excited from time to time, but it's not
the same anymore, I don't have the
crashes. This is also a good reason why
this illness is often misdiagnosed as
bi-polar. If it gets bad enough, and it
was for me at one point, it will often
seem like that.
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lulu1346
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Posted: 01-07-08 12:11pm
funny.....it was right after eating a huge
brownie with ice cream that I started to
feel like that, but it was a very
unsettling feeling.
So now you really don't feel that way
anymore?
Part of my anxiety wants to talk myself
into thinking that I must have some kind
of disorder because the panic/anxiety
feels so real, but I know it gets 1,000
times WORSE when I eat the wrong
foods...and I know I can level myself out
with my eating. It's so crazy how sugar
for us is like a drug but then my husband
can eat all the right things and his mood
is 100% even keel.
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lulu1346
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Posted: 01-07-08 12:11pm
I mean to say he can eat all the WRONG
things.....
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lulu1346
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Posted: 01-07-08 12:13pm
By the way, I think all of this is tied
into our adrenal glands and how they are
so dysfunctional with the release of too
much adrenaline triggered by the sugar
drops. That is probably why it takes so
long to feel better after following the
diet - our adrenals need to normalize.
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Stan
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Posted: 01-07-08 23:05pm
Yes, it's been shown that the adrenals are
HIGHLY taxed because of the sugar drops,
so it's a symptom. And yes, I don't feel
like that anymore, but I also know very
well what you're talking about. When
really sick, it seemed to be a symptom in
itself to worry about every disease and
mental illness under the sun, though I'd
usually get stuck on liver cancer or
schizophrenia.
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lulu1346
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Posted: 01-08-08 08:32am
i can completely relate - i get stuck on
bipolar! i get really obsessive about it -
it seems like a vicious cycle of negative
thoughts. but i realize now that when i am
balanced and eating right those obsessive
thoughts seem to vanish. it's hard though
when you're in it to see the correlation.
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kybratcher
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Posted: 01-28-08 19:48pm
I too have been amazed at how something as
simple as your DIET can affect your mental
outlook. But bad moods and feelings never
fail to correct themsleves whenever I eat
right. I just can't kick coffee. It is my
last vice.
