Carbs, carbs, and more carbs! I haven’t tried eating this many carbs in over 3 years. And less protein. It’s been drilled into me since well before my surgery that I should eat very few carbs (one doctor even told me to cut out ALL carbs because that was causing my blood sugar issues) and as much protein as possible. 85 - 100 grams a day! Now I should eat no more than 75 grams of protein and about 135 grams of carbs a day. The whole time I am eating now the little voice in my head is crying NOOOOOOOOOOOO....
Yesterday I traveled from AZ to CA to stay with my parents for a week or 2. My sister was very ready to be home! I slept for about 10 hours last night. I got up and went for a short walk. Only about 5 minutes, but it’s a start. I ate most of my breakfast. 2 hours later I checked my blood sugar and it was 102! Hooray!!! That hasn’t happened in a very long time. It made me feel good. Praise God! I had my mid-morning snack, then took a shower. I rested for a little while and then I was ready to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine the doctor at Mayo had subscribed. I checked my blood sugar just to be sure I could drive. 80. Nope - didn’t have warm-fuzzies about driving. My mom drove me to CVS. I checked my blood sugar again when we were almost there. 71. I’m not supposed to correct it until below 70 now, but I didn’t feel comfortable going into the store when it was obviously dropping. I went ahead and ate my 2 PNB crackers and a small piece of beef jerky. Boy oh boy, I didn’t feel good. We finished there and went to the grocery store for some items that I needed for being on the new and improved diet. More walking. I’m pretty sure that a snail could have gotten around the store faster than me. I was so glad to get back to the house. I gathered everything I needed so I could stay in one spot for a while. I took my new med, then I had a sandwich with 2 WHOLE PIECES of 12 grain bread. TWO PIECES!!! Yum! It took a couple of hours before my body recovered from the low, but I’m feeling good again. My afternoon snack was surprisingly good. I had a 100 calories strawberry cheesecake greek yogurt with some grape-nut flakes. AWESOME snack! I also took some time to set alarms in my phone to remind me of when to eat. I need to start being on more of a schedule. I had a schedule before, but I got to where I had to eat so often in between meals and snacks because of my blood sugar - I was just really thrown off.
One of my goals for this week is to search for online support groups for people with reactive hypoglycemia (the official medical term is postprandial hypoglycemia) - it is the kind you get following gastric-bypass. If I can’t find any, then I will start by creating a group on facebook. I might be the only one in it, but like they said in “Field of Dreams” - if you build it, they will come!
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