What Do I Do To Control This?!
Question: I am hypoglycemic (my blood sugar goes down, but doesn't go high). Today I was walking 4 miles (in 1 hour), and by the end of the second my blood sugar tanked and I dragged my feet the rest of the way. I don't know how to do my exercises with my bloodsugar going down like that. Mini candy bars don't do anything, when my bloodsugar goes down I usually eat chips or crackers until I feel normal again. What can I do to keep myself level? I've put on weight (about 20 lbs) from this binging method. What can I do?
Answers: I am hypoglycemic (my blood sugar goes down, but doesn't go high). Today I was walking 4 miles (in 1 hour), and by the end of the second my blood sugar tanked and I dragged my feet the rest of the way. I don't know how to do my exercises with my bloodsugar going down like that. Mini candy bars don't do anything, when my bloodsugar goes down I usually eat chips or crackers until I feel normal again. What can I do to keep myself level? I've put on weight (about 20 lbs) from this binging method. What can I do?
Eat whole fruits instead. Candy bars won't get into your blood stream as fast as most fruit.
Are you sure you don't have diabetes?
I know when I was out of shape, I would get low blood sugar all the time and feel faint with rigorous exercise. Maybe a diet would do you some good with mainting your blood sugar.
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Yeah you should get checked for diabetes. Going on a diet should help and you will feel better about yourself in general. You would be suprised how much mental affliction, caused by being out of shape, will affect your body as well.
Also pasta won't work. If you have a drop in blood sugar, you need glucose immediately in your blood stream or you can pass out or go into a coma if it is severe enough.
I would suggest eating more complex carbs instead of the candy or chips. Pasta might help. The carbs in the pasta slowly turn into sugar and help with the glycemic drop, but does not make your sugar level spike then crash.
Eat some pasta with protein (if you are not a vegetarian) about 45 minutes to 1 hour before your walks. That should help.
Fruit is full of sugar, but will release it more steadily into your bloodstream than processed foods.
I have the same problem. You might also be anemic. I'm a triathlete and before a race, I eat a snickers bar. I carry one with me everywhere and it helps me get my strength back every time I have an attack. Snickers have peanuts which fill me up quicker, those other candy bars don't do anything for me either. This might not be for everyone, so talk to your doctor first.
Have you tried to use a Daily Diabetes Diet Counter before? It might help you monitor your blood sugar and give you a feel of what to do or what foods are affecting you in what ways.
http://fiberdiet.info has a free counter, scroll to the bottom of the front page, it is near the bottom.
This message could be useless or could help, just thought I would try to help out!
Talk to your dr. to find out they'll know what it is
1. Eat a high carb low fat diet
2. Eat 5 times a day! Think of your body as having an engine that you need to keep refilling it throughout the day for it to run optimally! I eat at 7, 10am, lunch, 3pm and 6pm. This keeps me energized, helps keep the sugar levels even and helps me maintain my weight. The key here is not to eat more, but to eat more often. Very important to understand the difference.
3. I carry a small water bottle filled with orange juice when I'm excercising to help bring the blood sugar up quickly.
4. Excercise after you have had one of your mini meals, and if you need to have some extra protein at the end of your excercise then do it!