Diabetics and food rage when low.

My husband is diebetic and he does the same thing. He eats everything in site when he is low and then ends up with a headache because of the sugar rush. He tries to control it but its hard for him also. The only thing you can do is try to pre-plan what you will eat in case you are low. i know when my husband and I started a eating plan a few years ago he had to adjust his insulin because he actually didn't need as much. Have you told your doctor that you are changing your eating habits. He will want to make sure you monitor your sugar closely. Be careful.

My husband is diabetic as well and the other night his sugar dropped to 46 and it was the first time I have seen him show some control while trying to get his sugar back up. We recently went to a class and the woman leading it told us that while it is very important to listen to your body when your blood sugar drops you have to remember to give it time to recover. I guess something from that class really resonated with him because after he downed the first glass of apple juice he stopped and remembered to sip the next one, then waited a few minutes, checked his sugar and took one of his glucose tablets, checked again and so on until he was back in a safe range. It was really difficult for him to do and I could see he was struggling to slow down but I was so proud of him, he used freak out and shovel food into his mouth (even if it wasn't the best food to bring up his sugar) and then feel terrible. Have you tried keeping glucose tablets with you for emergencies?

Yes that used to happen to me too. The main problem was that I would routinely overdo it on carbs, as usually when I go low I feel unsteady on my feet and it scares me, so when the effect of my eating was not immediate, I kept on going, until the packet of Fox's Whipped Creams lemon was finished, or I'd had two Weight Watchers Carrot Cakes topped with lots of extra Betty Crocker Buttercream filling, of which I always have a jar in the fridge for emergency (i.e when i go really low and ran out of biscuits etc).

But when my sugar levels strated zig-zagging constantly between 2.1 and 21.5 and the professor who sees me for my diabetes at the hospital remarked on this, and we discussed what could be causing it, we realised that I was always overcompensating for hypos. I started to slowly educate my will and even when scared by the hypo feeling, i stopped eating so much. I'd consciously say to myself, let's wait to see if i still feel like this in 10 minutes. I now only ever have a small bottle of Lucozade and a couple of sweet biscuits or a sandwich after a hypo. I have saved myself also going sky high afterwards and I manage to keep within my calories here on MFP.

I added a separate "meal" section to my daily diary called "Hypo remedies" under which I enter what I eat when I go low.

I keep snacks with me for blood sugar drops, but have discovered that I can control my sugars by controlling the kinds of food I eat. I track my crashes on MFP to correlate it with certain foods. Since I began eating healthy a year ago with regular snacks and meals, I have only had 2 crashes. Both of them were 3 hours or so after I had Log Cabin Lite Syrup. Now, I can eat normal (real) maple syrup and NOT crash, but I cannot eat the Log Cabin syrup. It is just sugar in there, not HFCS or anything artificial, so I'm not sure what's up...but no more of it for me!

But I keep cheese sticks, protein bars, and grapes handy for emergencies.