A Little More Light Has Been Shed...

Twibbly

So, after another month of misbehavior, I went back to my hippie woowoo doctor (my husband's term for him - he's a chiro who does a lot of health & wellness).

He basically told me to freakin' get my butt on Atkins' and do it.

I'm having hypoglycemic reactions, which is why my on-again-off-again kept getting further and further off.

From doing further research, it looks like the type of hypoglycemic reactions I have is probably reactive hypoglycemia - this should provide some interesting reading for some of you: http://ehealthforum.com/health/atkins-and-reactive-hypoglycemia-t181317.html

I think my loathing of exercise that makes me sweat may also be related. If I do heavy exercise, I feel tired and out of sorts for quite a while. I wonder if that's because my blood sugar drops below where I like it to be?

I'm also tearing up my gut even more, to the point where I'm now reacting to milk, chicken, eggs (already knew this, but worse now), corn, and pea protein in addition to all the other crap I already knew about (gluten, almonds, etc.). We have high hopes that these will resolve themselves once I get my system stable again.

I'm not allowed to skip any meals. "Meals" apparently also require protein, and there's no protein powders I can have (except one...that still has stevia, but it's made from beef protein and is $68 for 30 servings - NOT happening right now). I bought little eye of round steaks to eat for breakfast for now.

Twibbly

Oh, and bonus points for my doc - when I said I was putting cream in my coffee, he told me to use butter instead and told me there's this guy I might look up, but he couldn't remember the name. It was Dave Asprey and BPC.

FIT_Goat

A good 30+ grams of protein per meal (3+ meals a day) is supposed to kick your metabolism in the butt. So, I think your hippie woowoo doctor is on the right track there.

xLoveLikeWinterx

I have RH as well. It's partly why I'm back doing LCHF. I have to. if I don't, the spikes are ridiculous, I shake, I get confused, sweaty, etc. It's really, really bad

Twibbly

So, using the same glucose meter which is about 30 over the one I normally consider more accurate but am almost out of strips for...

Blood glucose this morning at 7am was 125. Blood glucose now, 1.5 hours after eating? 88.

The other meter showed 91, and now 87. One more strip left for it...no idea how to correlate these numbers with reality. May go ask my MIL later on today, she's a diabetic nurse.

Dragonwolf

Twibbly wrote: »

So, using the same glucose meter which is about 30 over the one I normally consider more accurate but am almost out of strips for...

Blood glucose this morning at 7am was 125. Blood glucose now, 1.5 hours after eating? 88.

The other meter showed 91, and now 87. One more strip left for it...no idea how to correlate these numbers with reality. May go ask my MIL later on today, she's a diabetic nurse.

1. Seems the "over" meter isn't always 30 over. Seems the discrepency scales.
2. 91 and 87 when fasting are good numbers to have. 88 at an hour and a half after eating is also quite good. It should be coming down and near fasting levels around the 2 hour mark.

Twibbly

125, 105, 110. 3 completely different numbers within 2 minutes, and 1 strip that didn't read. The Walgreens one, within a minute after those 3 readings? 74.

I think I'm buying more strips for the Walgreens one and chunking the Walmart one.

JPW1990

Twibbly wrote: »

Oh, and bonus points for my doc - when I said I was putting cream in my coffee, he told me to use butter instead and told me there's this guy I might look up, but he couldn't remember the name. It was Dave Asprey and BPC.

That guy will charge you triple to do what you can do yourself at home without his help. BPC is coffee with butter, mct oil, and hwc in it. You can do the same thing yourself at home with butter, coconut oil, and hwc. Personally, I don't like the butter in there, but it's entirely a taste preference issue. Add whatever combination of the 3 you want, hit the coffee with an immersion blender, and it basically turns into a cappuccino.

For a lot of people, it's a good way to keep hunger away for 6-8 hrs. It also helps you get in calories if you come up short all the time.

Twibbly

JPW, I'm not talking about actually buying his stuff. He was telling me to look at Dave's diet & way of making coffee.

Kitnthecat

I love BPC, but don't buy the guy on the internet's coffee. I use the coffee that I like, organic fair trade, and for about 12 oz coffee, I put in 1 tbsp butter and 1 Tbsp coconut oil ( mct oil), and use my immersion blender to blend it in a mason jar. I like it better with butter than HWC.

Twibbly

I realized today that if I add more veg, I'm practically on the base diet for the Wahls Protocol. So, rather than aiming for Atkins/keto right now, I'm going to aim for getting in my vegetation and not eating things that make me go ow. The third phase of the Wahls Protocol is keto, so I will still be trending that direction.