Carbs and Sugar Daily Limits...

fitmissbliss

Hello all. I am considering getting back to low-carb eating as my weight loss seems to be nill no matter how heavy I exercise and eat a calorie restricted plan. I always have difficult lasting on a low-carb diet b/c...BREAD...but, I willing to work on letting go of some of those food obsessions. Ive actually been doing some research lately and am more and more convinced that sugar is as much or more of a culprit than carbohydrate ( yes, I realize they are one in the same sort of) for obesity. What is considered a very reasonable low end of daily sugar limits? I am planning b/t 75-100g total carbs with 1200-1600 calories per day...anything much lower than that and my hypoglycemia gets the best of me. I started losing weight last Spring with low-carb, and have lost about 65 pounds to date and began 6 day per week fasted workouts in which I went 12 hours w/out eating, performed heavy duty cardio for 60-90 minutes fasted and then came home and ate. Since doing this...my A1C has dropped from a pre-diabetic 5.8 to now a LOW 4.1 My doctors are heavily against me fasting at all now, and are strongly advising me against not eating something carbohydrate based within 30 minutes of working out. This so goes against everything I've worked to accomplish in the last year...yet, I have to be careful as I was hospitalized in Nov when my blood sugar hit 38 after a fasted workout and I passed out at the gym.
So...I'm stuck in this weird place of feeling like I do not lose weight super well on a 40-45% carb diet...yet, when I drop my carbs low my blood sugar goes bizerk. I am not totally sure if the carbs, low sugar, or just the fasted exercise is the biggest problem.

So...my question(s) are multi-fold I suppose. I'd like to know what everyone considers reasonable low-carb daily sugar intake limits...and I'd also like to know if anyone has any experience with low blood sugar associate with low-carb eating and IF and if they were able to rectify it. If it matters...when I had all my blood sugar issues before I was eating arounf 100g total carbs. I have been since January eating 140-170g carbs ( about 40-45% total calories per day) and my A1c performed 3 weeks ago was still 4.1 The scale wont move...yet, my blood sugar keeps dropping.
Help!

Twibbly

If your doctors insist you eat something carby right after you work out, what about something like a little bit of sweet potato that would also have some fiber (and you can add some butter) so it doesn't hit too hard?

What about SLOWLY dropping your carbs and recording your blood sugars as you do it until you find the right spot for you?

I have a theory that when you are eating at a deficit and not losing weight, it's because your body has decided to do something other than take fat out of storage right then. It might be repairing something, it might be trying to get rid of something. Kind of the way that the Christmas ornaments can stay in the house for 6 weeks after Christmas, but the trash is going to go out NOW even though the ornament tub is sitting in the middle of the doorway.

wabmester

Sounds like your blood sugar got dangerously low. Listen to your docs. Have you been diagnosed with thyroid or other issues that might affect your blood sugar control? If it were me, I'd stay away from the gym till I understood the blood sugar dysregulation.