PCOS-DIET Messages for January, 2002: Re: Any advice? getting hypoglyceamic when low carbing

Re: Any advice? getting hypoglyceamic when low carbing

From: Leslie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:25:53 -0800

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Hmmm...I'd be wary of any diet that has you swinging between high protien one day and high carb the next. I would think if you ate a lot of high carb for a day, your cravings would go through the roof the day you are not eating a lot of it, and your blood sugar level would bottom out when you stopped. I don't know the slimming world diet, but you do need some carbs daily to stay healthy. Trick is keeping them as close as possible to how nature created them. Lentils would serve to give you carbohydrates and protien, if you dislike meat. They are also low glycemic, for the most part, so you will not get the sugar crash.

If you are insulin resistant, and I'm guessing since you are on metiformin you are, then eating a lot of carbohydrates *will* stop you from losing weight. If your blood sugar level goes up, then the excess carbohydrates will be stored as fat. Unfortunately for those of us that are IR, because the insulin cannot get our cells to absorb energy well, it is way to easy for our body to not use sugar and change it to fat. :( Protien, fat and fiber help level out the blood sugar instabilities caused by eating carbohydrates. I have found, for myself, that if I eat any carbohydrate, I need to eat protien with it. For example, if I eat an apple, I try to eat a few nuts with it. Since I have started doing this I don't tend to get the lethargic midafternoon slump anymore, and I have energy pretty much throughout the day. :)

I don't know that this is what you wanted to hear, but I hope it helps a little bit.

Lekili

> Hi, i wonder if anyone can help i'm taking metformin and xenical for
> weight loss and doing the slimming world diet( high protein one day,
> high carb the next and always low fat)and also swimming at least 3 times
> a week and dance. when i'm doing the low carb day my blood sugers are
> dropping to below 2mmol and my g.p has reduced my metformin dose because
> of this. I know from this forum that low carb seems to be good but i'm
> not a graet lover of meatand can only survive on slimming world protein
> days because i know tommorrow is a carb day! and i know if i was low
> carbing alll the time my blood sugars would keep dropping. I'm not
> really losing any weight and am getting desperate because i really am
> tring so hard! Any help or ideas gratfullly recieved
>

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