You shouldn't have to do anything. Your body needs to learn to adjust itself, rather than rely on what you give it. Cherries I do not suggest, the glycemic index doesn't really matter with reactive hypoglycemia, though it can help. Certain foods cause a more extreme reaction with the pancreas in us for some reason. Milk and juice is terrible, if you want to try the juice you should be diluting it with a lot of water. Otherwise, your body is going to get used to it and possibly start dropping your sugar even more in time. I usually take my olive oil before every meal. I know what one tablespoon feels like now so I can swig and feel how much I need. I actually have a pure dressing recipe on this forum somewhere that you can use the olive oil to make. My diet is to eat what I say every two hours. Thus you're eating around 8 meals per day. The meal snack routine does not seem to work very well for most people because the snacks tend to not be enough when you may need a more balanced meal, depending on what you're doing. So yes, it is the same thing but you're way off on the calories. If you eat 8 meals a day of that it will come out to 3,000 calories. The fat is the main source of energy, protein second and carbohydrates last. The fat amount can be adjusted depending on activity level. I use that diet and work out about 5-6 days a week including weight training, so someone with less activity can lower the fat content. Acupuncture may work, but really you'd be of more benefit learning to do it yourself using qigong, which is relatively easy to learn. Best book out there is Dr. Yang jwing-ming's qigong for health and martial arts. Excellent read and perfect for the bigger. It does help.

Thanks for clearing that up. I agree, the meal plans i've gotten from nutritionists are pretty weak on the snacks, and the ones i've received have been way too heavy on the starches. Today I ditched all the plans i've sort of been following and used yours as a guide and didn't have one low blood sugar episode. I have a blood glucose monitor so I can tell for sure if I am having a lbs attack. Today my blood sugar was in the 90's the whole day and I didn't eat nearly as much food as before. It was eating the right kinds of food.
I pretty much cut out most carbs and ate only eggs, cheese, some olive oil, blueberries, almonds, turkey, steak, and spinach. This whole time I thought I was indeed limiting my carbs based on the meal plans from the nutritionist.

I'll do a search for your salad dressing recipe.

Thanks again!

Great! I get all of my carbs from vegetables and nuts, that's it, oh yeah and the fruit. Breads and grains will be added back in later in extreme moderation at first. Glad to hear it worked!

Couldn't find your recipe for the dressing but I came across a semi-recipe in a newsletter I get in case anyone else is interested. There were no quantities so I had to experiment a little to get a combination that I liked.

Olive oil (1/4 cup)
apple cider vinegar (1/2 cup)
black pepper
dried oregano (the shakeable kind in a spice jar)
dried basil (same as above)

shake it up and adjust amounts if necessary. I initially wasn't putting enough vinegar in and it was tasting very olive-oily. After adding more and more vinegar it started tasting more like regular italian dressing. Add a little xanthan gum to make it creamy (it acts as an emulsifier binding the oil and the vinegar together) if you don't use an emulsifier the oil and vinegar will separate.

Breads and grains will always be out for me - at the same time I found out I was hypoglycemic about 3 months ago, I found out I what I suspected for a number of years - I am allergic to wheat.

That's pretty much what my recipe is right there. Don't worry, there are plenty of other types of bread out there that you can try in time!

Hey stan, when you started to drastically reduce your carb intake did you have almost the same feelings as the hypo itself? (dizziness, jittery)

if so, how long until they went away for you? I am assuming those feelings are what you refer to when saying that your diet is tough in the beginning and your body has to relearn how to handle food without a steady barrage of simple carbs.

Thanks again!

That doesn't really apply to me. I was actually on a high carbohydrate diet that was techincally healthy. I pretty much immediately switched to what I do now and noticed results within two weeks. I don't recall really feeling any worse at all.

So vinegar is okay?
I have been following stan's diet for 9 weeks now. I'm ready for a little more flavor - oil and vinegar together on the lettuce would be great!

Yeah, should be fine. Make sure to try apple cider vinegar first off.

I use oil and vinegar on my salad and I dont notice a reaction. I can tell now when I eat something bad. I start to get a little tired. I can say from stan helping out which was a couple days ago, I have improved a whole bunch. My concentration and staying focused has improved 80%. Its like a blessing, every day not being able to concentrate sucked.

Excellent! I'm really glad my suggestions are helping people. You don't even know how terrible it was having to figure out everything on my own with not even a single doctor to really figure anything out.