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What an excellent summary of the difference between symptoms of reactive hypoglycemia (RA) and insulin resistance (IR). I am 11 years out and dealing with the symptoms of RA and appreciate your contribution. I do hope some others who may be uncertain about some of the signs will consult their doctor about it.
Thanks for your post.
Anyone else over 10 years out please research both Reactive Hypoglycemia AND Insulin Resistance.
I thought I was having Reactive Hypoglycemia (RA) when really I was Insulin Resistance (IR).
Symptoms of Blood Sugar Imbalances
Reactive hypoglycemia symptoms (low blood sugar spikes)
- Increased energy after meals
- Craving for sweets between meals
- Irritability if meals are missed
- Dependency on coffee and sugar for energy
- Becoming light headed if meals are missed
- Eating to relieve fatigue
- Feeling shaky, jittery, or tremulous
- Feeling agitated and nervous
- Become upset easily
- Poor memory, forgetfulness
- Blurred vision
Insulin resistance symptoms (high blood sugar spikes)
- Fatigue after meals
- General fatigue
- Constant hunger
- Craving for sweets not relieved by eating them
- Must have sweets after meals
- Waist girth equal to or larger than hip girth
- Frequent urination
- Increased appetite and thirst
- Difficulty losing weight
- Migrating aches and pains
I found this from www.drknews.com. I have no affiliation with this dr. He is a researcher and functional medicine doctor that has free information on his website regarding the Autoimmune Protocol food plan.
This has helped me to understand what I'm dealing with and to help with the malabsorption issues I'm having. Submitting it here to hopefully help anyone else dealing with the same. For me after I eat to many carbs I get very tired between 1-2 hours after a meal, then my arthritis flares for the next day or sometimes more. If you can relate to that, this may help you.
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Thanks so much. My biggest problem lately is I work from home, so I pick all day long. I have to just get back on track. Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate it.
18 years for me. I seem to go up and down too. I was staying between 154-159 for years. Last year my thyroid was off, so I started on medicine for that. Now I hover around 142-148. Don't punish yourself.. drink more water, reduce portions and don't buy sweets. That works for me. My husband loves sweets, candy bars, peanuts, cookies, muffins, little Debbies, whatever. If i see them out, I put them in the freezer so it doesn't become an "impulse" food.
good luck!
Hi Amy,
Thank you so much. I cannot just wrap myself around this. I have had some personal stuff going on and I think that's what's eating at me, if you'll pardon the pun. Thanks for the support. I'm not giving up that's for sure!
I use freshly ground black pepper (2 twists), sea salt (3 twists) & a teaspoon of a good balsamic vinegar. Love it,
6 pounds down in 4 days.
Here are tools for you to speed up weight loss.
*No sweetener
*No keto bakery
*4oz of dairy a day
*No snacking
*8/16 fasting every day.
*3 meals only with 4oz of protein per meal only
*3-4 cups of veggies a day.
*Add fat to every meal, butter, mayo, avocado
, olives, olive oil.
Limit cheese. I rarely eat it.
First of all, congrats on keeping 99.99% of your weight off for those 15-ish years. That's pretty amazing, and seven pounds is probably a good number to address regain before it gets to 20+ pounds and more. I've had three regains and they were all significant. Using the general post op eating plan I've been able to get all the pounds (plus 30 extra I finally took off late last year). Basically for me it looks like dense protein, non-carby veggies, a bite or three of dessert or simple carbs if room.
Basically I also eat keto-ish, but I can't deal with the actual keto macros. What happened for me that finally helped is having hubby go keto. Honestly I didn't realize how much snack foods and baked goods were always around here. I wouldn't eat a lot of any one thing at a time because I dump and deal with nasty RH. But I had learned to eat around all of that by keeping portions small. Once he couldn't eat that stuff, there was zero reason to keep it here.
You know what you have to do. When you're ready, you will do it.
Good luck. And keep posting. If you check the surgery boards and look into the "what are you eating" posts you'll get a long of good ideas for meals from successful post ops which is always a good thing.
