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New here, and some questions
Due to recently discovering I'm reactive hypoglycemic, and on my way to
diabetes if I don't straighten up and fly right, I've now cut my carbs way down. I'm not "doing" any one particular diet, but if there's one that would be the closest it would be South Beach - high veg, mod protein, mod good fat, lower bad fat, nothing white. Breakfast is typically an egg or two, maybe Canadian bacon, with a big pile of spinach or other veg Lunch is usually salad with 3 or 4 oz of meat or fish or burger mixed with leftover vegs Dinner is usually some sort of protein (meat or fish), not huge portions. Snacks are nuts or almond/peanut butter on celery Sometimes I'll throw in a few (1/4 cup or less) of beans into a meal such as chickpeas or kidney beans since my workouts seem better with them and my blood sugar stays pretty level with them (though not with any other starchy carb). I treat them as "carbohydrate pills" . I'm currently off dairy on the advice of a naturopath who may or may not be a crackpot, the jury is still out on that one. But I've got some questions: 1) My body temperature is all over the map. In the AM if I haven't eaten it can be as low as 96, sometimes after I eat it goes up 2 or 3 degrees! In the PM by the time I come home from work, hungry, it's often down to the low 97's. I was always a straight 98.6 girl before this so I don't know what's going on. Is this connected to my thyroid (pronounced to be ok by the doc on the tests)? Am I not eating enough food and that's why the temp drops? Does anyone else here experience the wildly fluctuating body temps? 2) Am I losing weight too fast? I started this 5 weeks ago at 260 lbs (I'm 5'10", tall for a woman, and built like an ox even when I'm not fat) and I'm down to 238 as of this AM. That's 22 lbs in 5 weeks. I'm not super hungry, and I'm afraid of eating too much at any one time as it will send the blood sugar up even if it's all protein. I'm drinking a ton of water too. 3) Am I exercising too much? I'm doing 40 minutes of either walking, step aerobics, or stationary cycling 7 days a week, while lifting weights M/W/F in the evenings. Even when I started I had good endurance as I have a lot of muscle under the blubber (probably from carrying myself around :lol: ) and could do the whole step tape right from the start as long as I took the arms down or out. 4) I've read places that going low-carb for a long time changes your body permanently so that you lose what carbohydrate tolerance you have left because of the diet. Is this true? 5) Will my insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia go away when I lose more weight? I don't have PCOS. I'll never go back to my previous habits, but would like to have a small portion of a carby treat (forkful of birthday cake) sometime in the future without it sending my body haywire. The concept of "never again" is too depressing to keep on with. Thanks, this group has been great to browse. RH seems to be something a lot of people here have or had, it's unusual to see so many of us in one spot. LQ |
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New here, and some questions
Hi Susan :waving:: :lol: . Didn't realize that a lot of you guys are
over here too! No, no T3 test yet. Hopefully when I go back in 2 months they'll do it, I'm going to ask. The TSH was fine, actually a little on the low side. Because the temp isn't just sitting at 96 or 97 it makes me think it's the diet, since it goes up if I eat and down if I don't. I haven't tried pure protein alone for a bg rise test, but I did get a small spike and drop from steak and a vegetable (I think it was asparagus) the other night (128). Not a spike in the true sense of most at ASD but one that I could feel when it went to 100 10 minutes later. It could have been the asparagus but that stuff isn't that carby, I didn't think. I haven't given up the "girly weights" completely, but have added in time on a real weight machine 3x a week to hit more groups and do more weight. My arms do get tired (not just bored!) with the girly weights given enough reps so I figure if they're burning the exercise is doing *something* and if I'm watching TV I might as well do that rather than just sitting there. I'll soon need to get a heavier set. And I need to add ankle weights too for the leg stuff I do on the floor in front of the TV. Right now I wear DH's heavy motorcycle boots since I don't have anything else around to add weight around my feet :lol: . I've still got the shakes, worst in the AM and in the middle of the night. But the daytime ones aren't as bad, probably because I can control it with diet while I'm awake. I've been trying to get the night ones to stop with a handful of nuts at bedtime but it's not working. Thanks for the info and for all the help in the other group, LQ 260/238/target 180 |
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New here, and some questions
I think that stuff is called "Glucerna" - my dentist (who says his doc
says he's a "borderline diabetic" with an A1C of 6.9 and a fasting usually in the 130s ::sigh: drinks them and offered me one when I was in there, shaking, 2 days after this started. I declined since I didn't know what it would do to me. If it's got even a little bit of carbs in it my body is likely to be able to pick them out of the mix and react to it ::sigh::. Like you and the creamed spinach. The Atkins shakes look promising as a possible bedtime snack but right now I'm trying to stay off the fake sweeteners too. My personal theory is that insulin will react even to stuff that just tastes sweet, even if it doesn't have carbs, and I don't need that right now. Chewing gum makes me hungry, so does diet soda. So I've cut them all out ::sigh::. I'm thinking of inventing, when I feel better, some sort of balanced, tasty portable snack that works for me that I can have on hand as a convenience. I'll call them "Gluco-Pucks" :lol: . LQ |
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New here, and some questions
Susan wrote:
:: Nah. Call them almonds. Seriously. Always have them in my car. :: They're about 40/30/30. Almonds? |
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New here, and some questions
Susan wrote: :: Nah. Call them almonds. Seriously. Always have them in my car. :: They're about 40/30/30. Almonds? I think what she meant was that the OP said she would invent something and Susan was saying that almonds already fit the bill: no need to invent something. Pat in TX |
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New here, and some questions
The Atkins shakes look promising as a possible bedtime snack but right now I'm trying to stay off the fake sweeteners too. My personal theory is that insulin will react even to stuff that just tastes sweet, even if it doesn't have carbs, and I don't need that right now. Chewing gum makes me hungry, so does diet soda. So I've cut them all out ::sigh::. I think you're wrong about the insulin reacting "even to stuff that just tastes sweet", though. After all, we are talking about chemicals and chemical reactions, not just "feelings" when it comes to insulin. My insulin doesn't react to the Splenda at all. The Atkins shakes have much less sweetener than the Glucerna stuff, IIRC. Pat in TX |
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New here, and some questions
Pat in TX wrote:
I think you're wrong about the insulin reacting "even to stuff that just tastes sweet", though. After all, we are talking about chemicals and chemical reactions, not just "feelings" when it comes to insulin. My insulin doesn't react to the Splenda at all. The Atkins shakes have much less sweetener than the Glucerna stuff, IIRC. But some folks do respond to AS with an insulin response, I stumbled across one such study yesterday. I think it was 20% of this particular small group tested, and they ate more later due to increased appetite, too. Susan That's not what she said, however. "The Atkins shakes look promising as a possible bedtime snack but right now I'm trying to stay off the fake sweeteners too. My personal theory is that insulin will react even to stuff that just tastes sweet, even if it doesn't have carbs, and I don't need that right now. Chewing gum makes me hungry, so does diet soda. So I've cut them all out ::sigh::." The topic was "fake sweeteners" and her personal theory. An Atkins Advantage shake has milk and soy in it and those have naturally occurring sugars. Pat in TX |
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New here, and some questions
Ok, for those without the patience or interest to read the whole thing,
this is the abridged version: 1) My body temperature swings wildly and seems to correlate with eating (up when eating, down when not eating). Is this other peoples experience? 2) I've lost 22 lbs in 5 weeks. Is that too fast? 3) I exercise 40 min/day 7 days a week, with 3x a week weight lifting. Is that too much? Should I be taking a day off to let my body repair itself? 4) Will low-carbing permanently alter my metabolism so that I will never be able to modestly up the carbs in the future? 5) Will my insulin resistance go away in the future once I lose the weight? Is that short enough? LQ |
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