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Low Sugar Feeling
Hey everyone, after a couple months away from the group I came back
for some advice. Everything is going well. Dropped 23 pounds in total and just have another 7 to go. But I digress. I've taken up jogging and all is well, but tonight I had that "low sugar" level feeling about half way through my run. I have been fine for the last 4 months. Dinner consisted of an omlet with spicy italian sausage, spinach, onion, and cheddar cheese. Good overall low carb fuel. Just wondering if anyone else has had that "low sugar" feeling on low carb? I used to get it frequently before but not anymore, until tonight. Just looking for feedback... Cheers, Michael |
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Hi Michael! I had that low energy feeling often when first starting
out on low carbs. You probably did too? I haven't felt that way for the past few months until now - after having had dental surgery. Perhaps the stress to my system from the surgery is causing some loss of energy - or as someone posted, higher carb intake may be beneficial to healing. Since I can't really eat anything anyway, I don't think I'll try it! I'll stick with low carb liquids and see how I progress. But, back to you - have you done anything that may have overexerted your body too? More exercise than usual or any medical procedures? (I didn't think that dental work would really affect my energy level, but it has!). Michelle "Michael" wrote in message ... Hey everyone, after a couple months away from the group I came back for some advice. Everything is going well. Dropped 23 pounds in total and just have another 7 to go. But I digress. I've taken up jogging and all is well, but tonight I had that "low sugar" level feeling about half way through my run. I have been fine for the last 4 months. Dinner consisted of an omlet with spicy italian sausage, spinach, onion, and cheddar cheese. Good overall low carb fuel. Just wondering if anyone else has had that "low sugar" feeling on low carb? I used to get it frequently before but not anymore, until tonight. Just looking for feedback... Cheers, Michael |
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Michael,
Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you into a hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my blood sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some Smarties or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour keeps my blood sugar from going too low. If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. This used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade a go before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Michael" wrote in message ... Hey everyone, after a couple months away from the group I came back for some advice. Everything is going well. Dropped 23 pounds in total and just have another 7 to go. But I digress. I've taken up jogging and all is well, but tonight I had that "low sugar" level feeling about half way through my run. I have been fine for the last 4 months. Dinner consisted of an omlet with spicy italian sausage, spinach, onion, and cheddar cheese. Good overall low carb fuel. Just wondering if anyone else has had that "low sugar" feeling on low carb? I used to get it frequently before but not anymore, until tonight. Just looking for feedback... Cheers, Michael |
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Thanks Jenny. That article was very helpfull to me. From what I read I
must have had a lower than usually carb day and then my run crashed me. Would it be wise to try to 2gram cure before every run, just in case of a crash? Cheers, Michael On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny" wrote: Michael, Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you into a hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my blood sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some Smarties or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour keeps my blood sugar from going too low. If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. This used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade a go before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. |
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Michael wrote:
:: Thanks Jenny. That article was very helpfull to me. From what I read :: I must have had a lower than usually carb day and then my run crashed :: me. :: :: Would it be wise to try to 2gram cure before every run, just in case :: of a crash? I have these after my bike rides....they are not nice...I've seen my BG drop into the 60s, which is when I begin to not feel good. I started taking Glucose tablets before my rides. That seemed to help on the last one...I also took some afterwards. Exercise-induced BG drops is definitely something you need to pay attention to on LC -- if you are a diabetic. I don't know how much of a problem this is for nondiabetics and nonlowcarbers. :: :: Cheers, :: :: Michael :: :: On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny" :: wrote: :: ::: Michael, ::: ::: Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you into a ::: hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my blood ::: sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. ::: ::: The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page ::: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the ::: simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs ::: unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense ::: exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some Smarties ::: or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour keeps my blood ::: sugar from going too low. ::: ::: If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down ::: for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. This ::: used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade a go ::: before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. |
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Roger,
I was having hypo crashes years before I was diabetic. It made exercising really unpleasant because I had no idea of what was happening, only that instead of feeling great after a prolonged exercise session, I'd spend the rest of the day feeling like dead meat. --Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: :: Thanks Jenny. That article was very helpfull to me. From what I read :: I must have had a lower than usually carb day and then my run crashed :: me. :: :: Would it be wise to try to 2gram cure before every run, just in case :: of a crash? I have these after my bike rides....they are not nice...I've seen my BG drop into the 60s, which is when I begin to not feel good. I started taking Glucose tablets before my rides. That seemed to help on the last one...I also took some afterwards. Exercise-induced BG drops is definitely something you need to pay attention to on LC -- if you are a diabetic. I don't know how much of a problem this is for nondiabetics and nonlowcarbers. :: :: Cheers, :: :: Michael :: :: On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny" :: wrote: :: ::: Michael, ::: ::: Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you into a ::: hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my blood ::: sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. ::: ::: The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page ::: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the ::: simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs ::: unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense ::: exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some Smarties ::: or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour keeps my blood ::: sugar from going too low. ::: ::: If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down ::: for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. This ::: used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade a go ::: before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. |
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny"
wrote: Michael, Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you into a hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my blood sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some Smarties or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour keeps my blood sugar from going too low. I don't do much physical exercise but tend to burn a lot of mental energy. Glycerine/glycerol helps keep my BG from going too low, without giving spikes. So do sugar alcohol candies like Hershey's miniature bars. I was having a lot of mental dullness when my BG went down (even just into the 90s). What helps me function at low levels is glutamine, Mental Edge multiple vit/min/herb tablets, and maybe carnitine helps too. I think it was Revek recommending 1500 mg of glutamine per day. (500 was helping some but not enough.) Letting the powder dissolve in the mouth instead of swallowing a capsule made a big difference! Skinny |
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Jenny wrote:
:: Roger, :: :: I was having hypo crashes years before I was diabetic. It made :: exercising really unpleasant because I had no idea of what was :: happening, only that instead of feeling great after a prolonged :: exercise session, I'd spend the rest of the day feeling like dead :: meat. So do you think it means, in my case, that it has nothing or little to do with me being Type 2? I'm a little concerned about this hypo stuff because it seems to happen everytime I have a long ride while LCing. Obviously, I don't want to be doing several damn carb ups a week...Ideally, I'd rather not do any as losing weight is still important to me...It will help me ride faster. But if I have to feel like dead meat all day, that's not gonna work as I have stuff to do... BTW, I'm not confident that 3.5 gm of glucose table (each as 4 gm of carb) will work for me... :: :: :: --Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 :: diabetes, hba1c 5.4. :: Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! :: :: Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, :: strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at :: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ :: :: Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? :: Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm :: :: :: :: "Roger Zoul" wrote in message :: ... ::: Michael wrote: ::::: Thanks Jenny. That article was very helpfull to me. From what I ::::: read ::::: I must have had a lower than usually carb day and then my run ::::: crashed me. ::::: ::::: Would it be wise to try to 2gram cure before every run, just in ::::: case of a crash? ::: ::: I have these after my bike rides....they are not nice...I've seen ::: my BG drop into the 60s, which is when I begin to not feel good. I ::: started taking Glucose tablets before my rides. That seemed to help ::: on the last one...I also took some afterwards. Exercise-induced BG ::: drops is definitely something you need to pay attention to on LC -- ::: if you are a diabetic. I don't know how much of a problem this is ::: for nondiabetics and nonlowcarbers. ::: ::::: ::::: Cheers, ::::: ::::: Michael ::::: ::::: On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny" ::::: wrote: ::::: :::::: Michael, :::::: :::::: Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you :::::: into a hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my :::::: blood :::::: sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. :::::: :::::: The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page :::::: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the :::::: simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs :::::: unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense :::::: exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some :::::: Smarties or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour :::::: keeps my blood sugar from going too low. :::::: :::::: If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down :::::: for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. :::::: This used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade :::::: a go before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. |
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Roger,
I don't know the details on the exercise-hypo relationship. However, if your body was acting fully diabetic, exercise could push your blood sugar up, not down, because the liver would tend to produce a bunch of glucose from gluconeogenesis. It is the presence of a certain control level of insulin that prevents this from happening. Low insulin levels leads to liver dumping (which explains the "Dawn Effect" many people with diabetes experience.) Another mechanism that may be involved is this: if you are insulin resistant, the liver may actually dump some glucose into your bloodstream, your body then produces a bunch of insulin to get rid of the glucose, it takes it a while to have an effect, then it finally kicks in all at once and because you made so much insulin, it pushes the blood sugar too low. However, I'm pretty sure that most athletes run into something similar with prolonged high intensity exercise, hence the pre-game carb loading and the high protein intake (which allows the liver to make something to dump.) -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.4. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... Jenny wrote: :: Roger, :: :: I was having hypo crashes years before I was diabetic. It made :: exercising really unpleasant because I had no idea of what was :: happening, only that instead of feeling great after a prolonged :: exercise session, I'd spend the rest of the day feeling like dead :: meat. So do you think it means, in my case, that it has nothing or little to do with me being Type 2? I'm a little concerned about this hypo stuff because it seems to happen everytime I have a long ride while LCing. Obviously, I don't want to be doing several damn carb ups a week...Ideally, I'd rather not do any as losing weight is still important to me...It will help me ride faster. But if I have to feel like dead meat all day, that's not gonna work as I have stuff to do... BTW, I'm not confident that 3.5 gm of glucose table (each as 4 gm of carb) will work for me... :: :: :: --Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 :: diabetes, hba1c 5.4. :: Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! :: :: Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, :: strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at :: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ :: :: Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? :: Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm :: :: :: :: "Roger Zoul" wrote in message :: ... ::: Michael wrote: ::::: Thanks Jenny. That article was very helpfull to me. From what I ::::: read ::::: I must have had a lower than usually carb day and then my run ::::: crashed me. ::::: ::::: Would it be wise to try to 2gram cure before every run, just in ::::: case of a crash? ::: ::: I have these after my bike rides....they are not nice...I've seen ::: my BG drop into the 60s, which is when I begin to not feel good. I ::: started taking Glucose tablets before my rides. That seemed to help ::: on the last one...I also took some afterwards. Exercise-induced BG ::: drops is definitely something you need to pay attention to on LC -- ::: if you are a diabetic. I don't know how much of a problem this is ::: for nondiabetics and nonlowcarbers. ::: ::::: ::::: Cheers, ::::: ::::: Michael ::::: ::::: On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:48 -0400, "Jenny" ::::: wrote: ::::: :::::: Michael, :::::: :::::: Intense exercise can burn up all your blood sugar and put you :::::: into a hypoglycemic state when you are low carbing. I measure my :::::: blood :::::: sugar with a meter and have seen this happen many times. :::::: :::::: The "two gram cure" which I wrote up on my web page :::::: http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/twogramcure.htm is the :::::: simplest way to deal with the problem without boosting carbs :::::: unnecessarily. It works great. When I some kind of intense :::::: exercise while my carbs are very low I routinely take some :::::: Smarties or Sweetarts along. One Sweetart every half an hour :::::: keeps my blood sugar from going too low. :::::: :::::: If I don't correct, my blood sugar is liable to cycle up and down :::::: for hours after the exercise leaving me exhausted and hungry. :::::: This used to happen to me all the time when I exercised a decade :::::: a go before I was diagnosed with early diabetes. |
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