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diet to prevent reactive hypoglycemia
Posted: 02-24-08 09:47am

Hello everyone
After a terrible childhood made of sickness, anxiety, fears and phobies and an high school failure with more than 20 fainting episodes in the middle of a lesson I have been diagnosed with a very strong form of reactive hypoglycemia. The first time I did the glucose tolerance test I fainted twice and vomited.

I'm finally making sense of all the things I have experienced in my young life. The tiredness, the nightmares, the terrible feelings of pessimism and sadness in the morning, the hypers after eating sugars, the anxiety that never abandoned me even when there was nothing to be anxious about, the impulsiveness and crying spells out of nowhere.

Anyway I have started a series of light body weight exercises 3 times a weeks and they're helping a lot and I feel a lot better. I'm drinking more and more often and taking supplements. My diet is now mostly eggs, fish, meat, greens, vegetables, cheese, nuts, avocados, brown rice, whole spelt pasta and lentils. I use a bit of acelsulfame K when I what to sweeten my herbs tea and I hope it is okay.

If I don't eat every 2 1/2 hours I start feeling like life is being taken away from my body. Colors and sounds becomes less vivid. Thoughts becomes negative and I begin automatically to ruminate about memories and regrets. Anxiety begins and I cold sweat profously. I feel spacey and a deep brain fog hit my mind and I'm unable to remember things or think straight. I become irritable, aggressive and hate everything and everyone. My legs start feeling heavy and seems to soccumb over the weight of the upper body. I feel like going to bed and sleeping for a week and every little thing I can/should do seems overwhelming and impossible.

As soon as I eat all these symptoms disappear.

So the problem is that now I'm eating 8 times a day.
But I don't know how much to eat.
If I eat too little at each meal I end up undereating and not feeling that well. So usually I eat too much at each meal and when I'm consuming my 4rth I feel already overstuffed, bloated and sick.
I'm gaining a lot of weight since I have started this diet and my tummy fat is increasing dangerously. Eating too much seems to cause the same sugar reaction I remember from when I ate a terrible unhealthy diet.

So today my mother bought me a cheap electric scales and I thought I would ask to people more expert and with more experience with dealing with a diet to prevent reactive hypoglycemia how much food should I eat for each of my 8 meals.

I think my total caloric need in a day is around 1900 calories and I'm 19 years old 5.7 and weigh 146 pounds.

Thanks a lot for your help !
Daniel
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