cookies and what happened?

Sounds like standard blood sugar swings. From memory... Blood sugar
goes up insulin isn't reacting fast enough. Finally insulin kicks in
but maybe too much. Blood sugar plummets and you get sleepy. In a
person with good blood sugar controll they wouldn't have the
severitity of the high-low swing--they would stay more even.

I got that after eating a carby chinese meal yesterday complete with
an eggroll & brown rice. I was sleepy all afternoon at work. Once I
went on Atkins, the sleepy afternoon syndrome disappeared form months.
I then would notice it only after a particularly heavy meals or a
carby one.

Using the Betty Crocker pouch mix to make 18 cookies, 2 cookies are 19
carbs. Semi sweet morsels could add 5-10 carbs per cookie. So you
might have had 50 carbs in a few minutes. If you've been eally low
like induction I'd almost expect that reaction.

If you get that cookie craving again, you could try Keebler CHips
Deluxe Carb Sensible cookies. Expensive but the double chocolates are
very good. Although you still ahve to limti yourself they use splenda
and some SA's so they cut the sugar levels down to something your
system wouldn't react so much to.


"S t a c i" wrote:

Yesterday, for whatever reason, I was craving cookies. It's been a couple
of months since I've had any sweets at all, so I gave in. I had a peanut
butter cookie mix in the cupboard, so I mixed it up with some chocolate
chips and went to town.

Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I ate three. Three normal-sized
cookies - a decent serving. They satisfied my craving just fine.

Then, within 15 minutes, it was all I could do to keep my eyes open. I was
suddenly so tired! I grabbed my book and a blanket to rest on the couch for
a few minutes, but I fell asleep immediately without even opening my book.
I woke up an hour later feeling really foggy.

What did I do to myself here? I really don't understand much about blood
sugar, but I'm guessing that maybe my blood sugar level dropped and made me
fall asleep so quickly? Can someone who knows more about this enlighten me?

Before LC, I never would have fallen asleep after 3 measly cookies. Maybe
my tolerance for sugar has diminished after not eating any sugar for this
long?

Anyway, I won't be doing that again. My husband's out of town right now, so
the rest of those cookies are headed straight for the garbage can.

TIA
S t a c i
5'11 - - 213/185/170
LC since 8/03, with 10 months off due to culture shock, started up again
6/04


DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/275/Jul-269/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004
Maint.-70 carbs/day (CCLL=50-60)

Sounds like standard blood sugar swings. From memory... Blood sugar
goes up insulin isn't reacting fast enough. Finally insulin kicks in
but maybe too much. Blood sugar plummets and you get sleepy. In a
person with good blood sugar controll they wouldn't have the
severitity of the high-low swing--they would stay more even.

I got that after eating a carby chinese meal yesterday complete with
an eggroll & brown rice. I was sleepy all afternoon at work. Once I
went on Atkins, the sleepy afternoon syndrome disappeared form months.
I then would notice it only after a particularly heavy meals or a
carby one.

Using the Betty Crocker pouch mix to make 18 cookies, 2 cookies are 19
carbs. Semi sweet morsels could add 5-10 carbs per cookie. So you
might have had 50 carbs in a few minutes. If you've been eally low
like induction I'd almost expect that reaction.

If you get that cookie craving again, you could try Keebler CHips
Deluxe Carb Sensible cookies. Expensive but the double chocolates are
very good. Although you still ahve to limti yourself they use splenda
and some SA's so they cut the sugar levels down to something your
system wouldn't react so much to.


"S t a c i" wrote:

Yesterday, for whatever reason, I was craving cookies. It's been a couple
of months since I've had any sweets at all, so I gave in. I had a peanut
butter cookie mix in the cupboard, so I mixed it up with some chocolate
chips and went to town.

Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I ate three. Three normal-sized
cookies - a decent serving. They satisfied my craving just fine.

Then, within 15 minutes, it was all I could do to keep my eyes open. I was
suddenly so tired! I grabbed my book and a blanket to rest on the couch for
a few minutes, but I fell asleep immediately without even opening my book.
I woke up an hour later feeling really foggy.

What did I do to myself here? I really don't understand much about blood
sugar, but I'm guessing that maybe my blood sugar level dropped and made me
fall asleep so quickly? Can someone who knows more about this enlighten me?

Before LC, I never would have fallen asleep after 3 measly cookies. Maybe
my tolerance for sugar has diminished after not eating any sugar for this
long?

Anyway, I won't be doing that again. My husband's out of town right now, so
the rest of those cookies are headed straight for the garbage can.

TIA
S t a c i
5'11 - - 213/185/170
LC since 8/03, with 10 months off due to culture shock, started up again
6/04


DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/275/Jul-269/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004
Maint.-70 carbs/day (CCLL=50-60)

"S t a c i" wrote in message ...
Yesterday, for whatever reason, I was craving cookies. It's been a couple
of months since I've had any sweets at all, so I gave in. I had a peanut
butter cookie mix in the cupboard, so I mixed it up with some chocolate
chips and went to town.

Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I ate three. Three normal-sized
cookies - a decent serving. They satisfied my craving just fine.

Then, within 15 minutes, it was all I could do to keep my eyes open. I was
suddenly so tired! I grabbed my book and a blanket to rest on the couch for
a few minutes, but I fell asleep immediately without even opening my book.
I woke up an hour later feeling really foggy.

What did I do to myself here? I really don't understand much about blood
sugar, but I'm guessing that maybe my blood sugar level dropped and made me
fall asleep so quickly? Can someone who knows more about this enlighten me?

Before LC, I never would have fallen asleep after 3 measly cookies. Maybe
my tolerance for sugar has diminished after not eating any sugar for this
long?

Anyway, I won't be doing that again. My husband's out of town right now, so
the rest of those cookies are headed straight for the garbage can.

TIA
S t a c i
5'11 - - 213/185/170
LC since 8/03, with 10 months off due to culture shock, started up again
6/04

maybe it was the quart of vodka you washed it down with?

It's predictable that when you eat too much you get fat.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW


"Gunnloth" wrote in message
...

"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
m...
Cookies are not low carb.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

You have become predictable sweety. Explore the possibility of new
material
please.

Regards,
Gunn