Feeling OK
I may have found a way to control this hypoglycemia thing. I ate a SMALL serving of food right before I went to sleep last night, and I woke up feeling steady. Not bouncy and full of energy, but not exhausted, depressed or crabby, like I usually feel when I wake up. I wasn't hungry, but I had two scrambled eggs before I left the house this morning, along with two big glasses of water, in case dehydration is contributing to my problems. I'm really trying to fix this. I'm starting to think that if I get hungry, things have gone too far. But that means that I have to eat according to the clock, and really monitor what I eat, so that I'm not consuming 3000 calories a day due to eating with a lack of hunger signals to guide me. It's counterintuitive to everything I've been taught about only eating when I'm hungry, but it may be what I need right now.
Yesterday I felt low most of the day and had a lot of trouble concentrating, having gone to bed without supper on Monday night (too worn out to do anything but crawl into bed when I got home at 8:00). I ate breakfast, and that helped; I ate a huge lunch with lots of protein, and felt OK for a few hours; I had an apple on the way home from work, although I wasn't hungry; but then I had a minor dizzy spell in the library. Not serious, just a second or two of lightheadedness, enough to make me want to sit down for a moment. But I am not going to panic. My body was probably still trying to get back in whack after the abuses of Monday, when I went way too long on far too little food, due to hectic prep for my boss's trip. Having an apple for dinner while standing at the copy machine was probably not the best way to go.
This is more than anyone but me ever wanted to know about hypoglycemia and my personal well-being, but it helps me to write this all down. I can print all this out and take it to the nurse when I go back to see her on Tuesday. What is a blog, anyway, but a post-modern form of group therapy?
Yesterday I felt low most of the day and had a lot of trouble concentrating, having gone to bed without supper on Monday night (too worn out to do anything but crawl into bed when I got home at 8:00). I ate breakfast, and that helped; I ate a huge lunch with lots of protein, and felt OK for a few hours; I had an apple on the way home from work, although I wasn't hungry; but then I had a minor dizzy spell in the library. Not serious, just a second or two of lightheadedness, enough to make me want to sit down for a moment. But I am not going to panic. My body was probably still trying to get back in whack after the abuses of Monday, when I went way too long on far too little food, due to hectic prep for my boss's trip. Having an apple for dinner while standing at the copy machine was probably not the best way to go.
This is more than anyone but me ever wanted to know about hypoglycemia and my personal well-being, but it helps me to write this all down. I can print all this out and take it to the nurse when I go back to see her on Tuesday. What is a blog, anyway, but a post-modern form of group therapy?