Fun with blood sugar

[sylvar]

Yesterday I was hanging out in a bookstore reading Diabetes for Dummies and made a few interesting discoveries. First, I'm still supposed to consume 40%-60% of my daily calories as carbohydrates; my pseudo-Atkins attempt to avoid carbohydrates wasn't doing me any good. Second, I was hypoglycemic at that very moment. Recognizing the symptoms as I read them, I wobbled over to the coffee shop, took a packet of sugar, and ate it. In a few minutes I was feeling normal again.

My mom got me back into daily walks, and it's paying off. I'm down about 5 pounds since before the holidays. What a braggart!




And no, I didn't buy the book. But I will soon.

Comments

[ximinez]

Funny, all the Atkins evangelists I've heard from said that avoiding the carbs helps control diabetes. Who's right? (I would be inclined not to believe the Atkin's folks, but that's my own bias showing.)

[ximinez]

s/all/most of/

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they meant "avoiding the carbs help induce ketosis, which makes you lose weight," (well, so does a really nasty flu, but that's also a medical problem just like ketosis) "thus reducing diabetes symptoms".

[ximinez]

Iiiiinteresting.

[kittykatkatja.livejournal.com]

It really also helps control blood sugar levels and insulin production - if you're not introducing carbohydrates into your system, you're not stimulating the insulin production, or needing the insulin to process the sugars. Nina's living proof. I _was_ living proof in those Dorothy days, but then I started carbing again and became the opposite.