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Hi gang!  Iam so frustrated! I have been trying to do a liquid diet for two days now so that I could get back on track and DECARB!!! However my RHG keeps messing with me and I end up having to eat something. Does anyone have any suggestions for me so that I can do this liquid diet without my blod sugar dropping? I feel like a failure and I want to lose these 7 stinkin pounds that are haunting me!

 When my RHG kept showing it ugly face, I would have to eat a lean protein.  I kept turkey slices and even chedder cheese cubes around to pop in my mouth.  It is not many calories to add and my decarbing still worked fine.  It is your carbs making their last stand.  You can beat them!  

 This is near impossible and not good for you.  I too needed to decarb and here is the plan I used and it worked GREAT!

*No alcohol

*No artificial sweetener

*Only water, tea, and coffee.  You can have low fat creamer. You can flavor water with lemon.

*Veggies include: broccoli, peppers, spinach, tomatoes, zucchini and yellow squash.

Breakfast Picks:

-1/2  cup egg beaters with 1 cup veggies

- ½ cup skim milk/1 cup ice/ ½ cup berries mixed into a smoothie (berries can be strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, or mixed)

-½ cup oatmeal, 1tbs slivered almonds/1 banana

Snacks (2 a day)

-1 cup lowfat yogurt

-14 almonds

-2 rice cakes with 1tbs of peanut butter

-1 piece of turkey rolled in lettuce with mustard

-string cheese (low fat)

Lunch

-2 cups lettuce/ 4 oz of lean meat/ 1 cup of veggies tossed with vinaigrette

-whole wheat wrap with lettuce, mustard, and 4 oz of lean meat

Dinner

-6 oz of any lean meat 

You can use salmon, beef, pork, or chicken as long as it is lean.

You have to have protein and the veggies

-2 cups of steamed veggies

I can get a really bad RHG.  There are days and weeks that I get it just because.
What works for me is fat.  Nut butters are great. !-2 small teaspoons before or in my shake - and my BS remained stable. I still had to "eat" every 3 hrs, but the fat helps. 
I would get RH after just lean proteins, including protein shake.  But adding some fat to it - even a little - helped a lot. i.e. coconut unsweet milk (4 oz) Almond unsweet milk (4oz)... etc.  It was not a lot - but my body stabilized the BS if I ate some fat. 

I would have PB or almond butter (natural, no fat or sugar added) - usually 1 tsp before I drank anything in the morning.  
You may try that for a few days. 
here was my plan:
6:00 1 tsp of PB, coffee with 2 oz almond milk
7:00: small shake (with 4 oz almond milk)
10:00 : 1 tsp PB small shake (with 4 oz almond milk)
12:30 flax -protein muffin (no carbs, but proteins, fiber and egg)
3:30 small shake (with 4 oz almond milk)
6:30 LNS: Greek yogurt with proteins.. with some fat... (full fat yogurt - 3-4 oz max)
 9:30: 1-2 tsp PB _+ small shake (with 4 oz almond milk)

this plan yiealds 144 gr of proteins, app 950 cal.   If you need less - eliminate one shake... and change things around.. ( shakes made with whey isolate - 24 gr proteins per serving, no fat no carbs, 100 cal per scoop)

Berries, or 1/2 apple...( if you want - need)

The LNS - prevented my BS to drop during the night. 
That what worked for me...

Some days - if I wanted to chew something really badly - I would make a soup (with protein added) and chop raw celery... crunchy and nice in tomato (NSA) style protein soup. ...

 

Uhm.... what is RHG??

Hala, was this your version of the 5 day pouch test? 

 Not really... - my version of liquid - low carb.  Mor elike my preop diet t hat I had to be on for 4 weeks... lol.  I could do it then... with a normal stomach... I can do it now...
have in mind that 5DPT does not have to be low carb. using milk (fat free, low fat) normal yogurt, and then some other foods on days 3-5  really may mess me up.
When my carbs get out of control - I really try to get clean. But adding some fiber and fat (flax meal) really helps me with BM...

I did some research into my reactive hypoglycemia and discovered that caffeine could make it worse.  I kind of sat on this info for a year or so, because I didn't want to give up coffee.

When I finally made up my mind to get back on track 2 weeks ago, I gave up coffee.  Now, I only have a little caffeine during the day in my Click shakes (made with only 1 scoop of Click).  I drink one or two of those a day.  I was drinking as much as 6 20oz. cups of regular coffee a day and my RHG was just out of control!

I hope this helps.  If you are taking in caffeine, stop.  It may help!

Thanks for all the responses everyone! there are very interesting and helpful suggestions here. I'm going to play around with these ideas and let you know what worked for me.

Sapphire I DO drink TONS of coffee and caffeinated tea . I am going to TRY and get off of caffeine and see of that helps me. thank you