R u a fasting hypoglycemic? If not u shud have no sugar whatsoever.

Good job jenny! She's right, unless you're a fasting hypoglycemic, do not, absolutely do not eat sugar like this. I suspect you're reactive, because you seem to need more and more to get the same effect. Eventually, your body is going to overcompensate for the amount and bad, terrible things will happen. Get off the sugar as soon as possible.

Hi,

i do have fasting hypo.


All my life I have been feeling weak, drowsy, confused, hungry, and dizzy if I don't ingest enough foods, especially in the morning. For years i've been making sure to eat every few hours. I envy friends & families who can freely go on trips without having to eat breakfast and they merely feel hungry but not my symptoms. To me it's just astonishing to see them go for 8 hours without a care in the world except to complain about being starving. While I have had to carry foods all the time for times when I cannot gurantee to be able to find foods or have the right foods whenever I need it. You know, trips such as hiking, camping, or even just a full day of outing in the mall or any festivals. Even a trip to the park sounds really scary to me. I'm not sure if you feel the same. I guess my post here is half-venting and half is to ask about glucose drink, ok mostly venting :wink:

ok more venting :
for me exercising in the morning would simply kill me. If I do that I feel so tired and drained and it would take a few days to recover. I guess by being a serious weight-lifter it doesn't help :roll: because it raises my metabolism which burns glucose like crazy. For that purpose I maintain 5-6 small meals a day so I can ingest enough protein and calories. But I find that it's the best to load up on at least 3 meals starting early in the morning, then hit the gym at 6pm. Lifting weights anytime before noon is simply a waste of efforts - there's just not enough glucose in my body to sustain the heavy lifting that I love to do. Also, do you guys find that having sex tends to drain you out like crazy ? :wink: other activities such as just normal house chores, gardening, basketball, tennis....Etc all tire me out a lot easier and faster than normal people. I mean, I see guys who can play sports for hours and then the next day they play again without any problems. For me, I feel that any sports that utilize my legs tend to drain me out, so I don't dare to do aerobics like normal people do....:cry: so that's why I mostly focus on building up my upper-body strength, and I strictly limit my workout to less than 40 minutes. Afterall, it's the quality of the workout that builds muscles, not quantity, but that's an entirely different topic :d

well after years of just accepting my fate I have decided to do a lab test to find out and the result is hypo. I know there are other more detailed and grueling tests that I can do to find out what's wrong with my glands, and hormones and such, but I ultimately decided that i'll be fine just maintaining a steady supply of foods. It's just not worth more poking in my veins to find the root cause.


During the 3-hour ogt test I was so impressed that I was able to stay alert without any symptom at all after they gave me the nice and orangy 75mg glucose drink. That 3 hours just felt like heaven.....I mean I felt normal, like everyone else, for once. To be honest, I was really scared that I would faint in the morning becuase they told me to fast for 12 hours before the test. And then I was thinking to myself how I would survive the 3-hour blood test. I've decided that the best strategy was just to sleep earlier and longer and not wake up until the test. But boy, that glucose drink....It's the best thing in life, at least for me.


So now you see why i've started to hunt for the same type of glucose drinks. Like I said I can't afford to keep on buying the glucose tablets, and I need something more affordable mainly to give me a boost in the morning. And for the rest of the day I simply eat the right meals and i'll be fine, and i'll use the tablets as backup(i keep one bottle in my car).


Any idea ?


Also, do you guys feel the same as I described above for the activity level and the damage it does to your mind & body ? Am I alone here ?


Thanks

del : I tried deleting the post after I enabled smiley in my settings, but they're still not showing ?!!

Okay, well good you're fasting, otherwise awful. Still, straight glucose isn't the best thing. If you're a weight lifter increasing fat with olive oil will be an incredible boon to you. You'll have more energy, be able to lift more and perhaps earlier and should be able to extend meals longer. I used to get worn out doing the things you mention, but not anymore. It's all the fat. If your carbs are low, go with a ton of fat, it really works. I weight lift a lot too and trust me, I have plenty of energy. But yes, I agree, it is generally better to wait until later in the evening. One, less people at the gym and two, more energy has been stored. You don't do legs? Nooooo!!! Don't be one of those guys with just huge pecs and biceps but chicken legs, it just looks silly. Always do lower body too. At times sex can drain me a bit, but it's a natural thing anyway because your testosertone drops to the floor right after. I can usually tell it's going to drain me before it happens, other times i'm just fine. Don't worry about other glands and this and that. Doctors don't realize how important sugar is. When your sugar is screwed up, the entire body is put out of whack, including glands, so anything they find dealing with glands is just another sign of the hypoglycemia. If you had a serious gland problem, you'd know it. Now about glucose drinks, I really don't know. I suppose you could actually be prescribed a glucose drink in some form, but then why not just take 100g of table sugar, blend it and drink it down? Same thing essentially. Or why don't you add more sugar to your meals?

(oh yeah the smileys are still off, why ?)

hi,

good thing I don't have an enormouse pecs and biceps, hahaha. Yea I know what you meant by chicken legs. But the truth is, if I workout my legs too much or least devote a session to it, I find it very easy for my body to "overtrain". That's a sports fitness term meaning my mind and everything gets drained for a few days. I know that's hard to believe but it's true. Same thing with daily house chores if I climb stairs all day or too much standing I would get drained !! So I do avoid aerobics because it uses the largest muscle group of my body - the legs. I look at everyone happily working on the treadmill and guys doing squats and I envy the freedom they get for working their legs anytime they want, not me. But I do try to schedule some sports where I get to use my legs such as tennis but definitely I need to load up on carbs for at least 8 hours before I would dare to do some good amount of running. Isn't that just frustrating.....Especially for someone as active as I am.

I do notice a high-fat diet stabalize my mind and spirit for longer hours. But aside from the health benefits of avoiding fatty foods, as someone who works out seriously - part of the objective for me is to stay lean and keep my bodyfat down too so I don't eat a lot of fats at all. I suppose if I do more aerobics to burn off the calories I should be able to maintain a low bodyfat and keep my hypo symptoms away for hours. But then working my legs for longer period of time would overtrain me. So there's a conflict there.

I spent enough money for co-pay for doctors and lab tests already so the last thing I want is to have to goto a doctor and be regularly prescribed glucose drinks, that's why i'm looking for it on my own. But I didn't know that pure sugar is just glucose, is it really ? If it is then you have just answered my question !! Don't come to my grocery store because there will be no sugar there :)

thanks

Yeah, that's all it pretty much is, so if you would mix plain sugar in water it would probably be the same thing as long as you figure out how much 100g of it is. You don't have to do a full leg workout to work your legs. Legs only really need worked out once every two weeks. I do a few sets of squats, some leg press, maybe assisted squats and then calves and that's it. Hhahahaha, fool boy. Increasing fat will not keep you lean only if you are eating a lot of carbohydrates. When you don't your muscles burn it off immediately. It doesn't go anywhere except for immediate energy. You might want to try it.