What's On Your Thursday Menu, RNYers?
Good Morning Everyone,
So after spending the morning scouring OH, I realize I had my first onset of reactive hypoglycimia last night, and I basically handled it all wrong, lol. So, I'm writing this little paragraph as a heads up to all the other menu posters so you hopefully can handle it better than me and won't freak out :) The set up is, I didn't eat any dinner, went out with a friend, she gave me an abba zabba (for those not from CA it's a delicious taffy candy bar filled with peanut butter) b/c she knows I love those things. Because I didnt' eat dinner, I decided I'd eat half (I dump, so I try to never eat too much sugar at one time). About an hour and a half later I'm at home and I started sweating buckets, not just perspiring, like actual dripping with sweat (my clothes were soaked through). I was sitting on my couch at the time. I go to get up to adjust my thermostat and I almost fell on my face I was so dizzy and disoriented. I remember thinking, did I get drunk and forget? What the hell is going on? Well, I managed to get to my kitchen and b/c I've seen my dad act like that before (he's a type 1 diabetic) I thought what I needed was more sugar and ate the rest of the abba zabba (WRONG DECISION) since I don't typically keep sugary foods in my house. I ended up passing out (on my couch thank god) and woke up this morning still on my couch, needless to say I was freaked out. Moral of the story is, the original attack was brought on by the candy bar (with no other protein or fat in my system to help with the sugar spike) and I made things worse by eating more candy. Needless to say, no more abba zabba's for me :( Apparently the right way to handle it is through high protein and fat and to avoid it in the first place you don't want to eat a lot of simple carbs or sugar in one sitting ever. I dont' eat much of either to begin with, so this won't be too hard to avoid, but consider this my public service announcement for the board :) It was scary and I don't recommend it. From reading people's post on OH, it sounds like it's more prone to happen to people who are prone to dumping, so if you're a dumper already, heads up.
Time since surgery: 15 months
B - Thinables w/ string cheese
L - Turkey carnitas & tomato
D - Friends b-day she wants to go to a Chinese place she loves, I'll likely eat some broccoli & beef
S - Almonds
W/V - On track
E - none planned
Have a great Thursday everyone!
It was pretty scary. I feel a little light headed today, but nothing too bad (I'm at work). Nothing like that has ever happened to me before. I will say the upside is, it will be easier to pass on sweets from now until forever, lol. The good news is, I was convinced it was diabetes b/c I've seen that kind of thing happen to my dad my whole life, so knowing it was b/c of that stupid candy bar and can be avoided by making the right menu choices puts my mind at ease somewhat. That being said if it happens again (and I didn't eat a candy bar for dinner) I will immediately go to the Dr. But I feel pretty confident it's this RH nonsense and not something more serious. As always I'm thankful for OH to fill in gaps when weird stuff happens....
