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My husband and I have been married for 25 years and have 5 children. They are ages 22, 21, 20, 17 and 16. I am a librarian and am working on a degree in accounting. My husband and I love to geocache. It's a great way to get exercise and enjoy time together.
I started WW in June of 2007 and lost 60 pounds. I have put 10 of those back on and really want to get them back off because I was comfortable at that weight and looked best there. I just can't do WW anymore and actually think that it is what triggered the reactive hypoglycemia. I was eating all fat-free foods, which tend to have more sugar in them in order to compensate for the taste that is missing from taking the fat out. Diabetes runs in my family and I think that made me especially sensitive to all the sugar I was getting in the fat-free foods.
So to do IE I am going to have to eat a lot of small meals, mixing carbs and protein so that my blood sugar doesn't soar and then crash all the time. I think that is the way my body naturally prefers to be fed anyway. I can't stand feeling too full anymore. In fact, last night I had eaten too much in my before bed snack and didn't sleep well most of the night because I was too uncomfortable.
I read the IE book a few years ago and love the premise of listening to what my body needs and wants. My main obstacle in following it is eating slowly so that I don't eat too much and then end up too full. I was always taught to clean my plate, so I struggle with leaving food if I realize I am full. I usually do eat off of salad plates, but think I might need to downgrade to a bread plate, especially since the doctor told me to absolutely not go more than 3 or 4 hours without eating.
I look forward to getting to know all of you and be encouraged with IE by participating in this thread.
Welcome to the group Originally Posted by GeoKasher
Good morning, everyone! I just read through this thread and decided to join you all. I just joined 3FC a few weeks ago and decided to try the South Beach diet because I was just recently diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia. I had read that that diet would help since you cut out all carbs for the first 2 weeks. I have found that doing that only increases my cravings for those foods since they are "forbidden".My husband and I have been married for 25 years and have 5 children. They are ages 22, 21, 20, 17 and 16. I am a librarian and am working on a degree in accounting. My husband and I love to geocache. It's a great way to get exercise and enjoy time together.
I started WW in June of 2007 and lost 60 pounds. I have put 10 of those back on and really want to get them back off because I was comfortable at that weight and looked best there. I just can't do WW anymore and actually think that it is what triggered the reactive hypoglycemia. I was eating all fat-free foods, which tend to have more sugar in them in order to compensate for the taste that is missing from taking the fat out. Diabetes runs in my family and I think that made me especially sensitive to all the sugar I was getting in the fat-free foods.
So to do IE I am going to have to eat a lot of small meals, mixing carbs and protein so that my blood sugar doesn't soar and then crash all the time. I think that is the way my body naturally prefers to be fed anyway. I can't stand feeling too full anymore. In fact, last night I had eaten too much in my before bed snack and didn't sleep well most of the night because I was too uncomfortable.
I read the IE book a few years ago and love the premise of listening to what my body needs and wants. My main obstacle in following it is eating slowly so that I don't eat too much and then end up too full. I was always taught to clean my plate, so I struggle with leaving food if I realize I am full. I usually do eat off of salad plates, but think I might need to downgrade to a bread plate, especially since the doctor told me to absolutely not go more than 3 or 4 hours without eating.
I look forward to getting to know all of you and be encouraged with IE by participating in this thread.
My biggest struggle was also leaving food on the plate but with practice it got easier and then also telling myself that I could finish it later also helped. We are all looking forward to reading more of your post
and to IE. This is a great group of ladies. You will enjoy it. We look forward to getting to know you. I came from that "eat everything on your plate" group too. I'm not sure where I learned it since I don't remember my parents ever teaching me that so I must have picked it up somewhere else. Now there is just my hubby and me and I have a hard time making just enough of some foods for just 2 people. When I raised my family there were always 5 to 7 of us. When family gathered, I often cooked for up to 30 people or more. I finally decided that it was better for leftover foods that we wouldn't or couldn't use later to go down the disposal. Although that doesn't happen to often anymore, it still makes me cringe when I do it.
So I had string cheese and 2 melba crackers for breakfast along with my coffee. I started feeling shaky right before the service, but was prepared with a packet of roasted almonds that I could eat without drawing attention to myself. 
