When you snack and "MUST HAVE SNACK NOW UG!"....what do you snack on that is healthy and doesn't cause any spikes? Please...no carrots. I'm so sick of carrots! :o)
I need ideas that are low in calories. This whole having to eat all of the time is really becoming depressing....I have weight issues as it is and this isn't helping. Eating one meal a day and a small snack later, which is what I am used to doing...just ends up with me getting sick. Grrrr!
I need ideas that are low in calories. This whole having to eat all of the time is really becoming depressing....I have weight issues as it is and this isn't helping. Eating one meal a day and a small snack later, which is what I am used to doing...just ends up with me getting sick. Grrrr!
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03/22oh i know what you are saying-
this eating all the time thing is really weird for me...
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03/26I always keep a Larabar in my purse. They're made completely of dates and nuts (some with other dried fruit in addition). See larabar.com. I find them at Trader Joe's and at various health food stores (Wild Oats, New Seasons, etc.). They're fab! -
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03/29Yes! Larabars RULE! -- as I have said many times before in this tribe.
There is no substitute. I buy them in large quantities and stuff one in each of the four pockets of my leather jacket.
Trader Joe's carries them, but they only have two or three of the six or seven flavors available.
Larabar just came out with a new Pecan Pie flavor that rocks my world.
Anyway, here's some stats from an Apple Larabar:
Ingredients: dates, walnuts, unsweetened apples, almonds, raisins, cinnamon
Calories 190
Fat Cal. 80
Sat. Fat Cal. 5
Total Fat 9g
(Saturated Fat 1g, Polysat. Fat 3.5g, Monosat. Fat 4.5g, Trans Fat 0g)
Cholesterol 0g
Sodium 10g
Potassium 270mg
Total Carb. 23g
Fiber 4g
Sugars 16g
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03/29i wonder if i have tried these- doesn't sound familiar- i have a bad habit of checking for protein first on these types of things---
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04/01Yeah, TJ's only has 3 flavors. There are now TEN flavors! Woo-hoo! And also another side line!
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04/01I'll look them up. I'm skeptical about bars...but I'll try anything at this point. -
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04/02The thing that's different about these is that they're just dates and nuts, pretty much. No wheat, no sugar, no weird shit.
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04/24I'm confused.
I've read that eating dried fruit is bad for hypoglycemics and my doctor urged me to steer clear. But man, these sound good! -
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04/24Possibly your doctor was alluding to the fact that dried fruit concentrates the fruit sugars, thus giving them a higher sugar level than fresh fruit in relation to their weight. But the effect of fruit sugar on a hypoglycemic's body is not as great as that of eating white bread or white sugar. It's all about moderation and the gradual cycling of your blood sugar at a constant moderate level, and dried fruit (or products that contain it, like Larabars) are an enormous help in maintaining that level. So while sitting down and eating a whole bag off dried apricots might be unwise, eating a few pieces (or a Larabar) in order to stave off sugar crashing works very well -- doing exactly this saves me from getting reactive hypoglycemic migraines. -
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04/24also- a lot of dried fruits are sweetened, the ones in larabar are not -
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04/24I've never found it difficult to find dried fruit that was unsweetened -- just unsulphured! And the unsulphured stuff is more expensive by far.
Notice how whenever you want food with *fewer* ingredients, that it costs *more*? WTF?!
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04/26awesome news! thanks! i keep checking out the larabars at trader joe's and they look SO GOOD.
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04/26i think some have less fruit than others- but not sure- i think the cashew one seems less fruity -
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04/26"Less fruit" is not what you need to look at, but "less sugar." All of the bars have about 16 or 17 grams of sugars (in the form of natural fruit sugar).
But the human body reacts differently to fruit sugar than, for example, to white sugar.
Based on long personal observation of my own hypoglycemia, I can say this: The real key for any hypoglycemic is to experiment over the course of weeks or months and pay close attention to the results. Everybody's biochemistry is slightly different, and your reaction thresholds to certain foods will not be the same as other people's (which is why doctor's advice may not be helpful in all cases). Additionally, as you change your diet your body gradually adjusts, and your reaction thresholds will also change! I am now able to eat and drink certain foods in small amounts that were absolutely forbidden before (caffeine and white sugar, for example), because since I evened out my blood sugar levels, my fluctuations between high and low are not as radical as before.
For me, the key is not what I eat, so much as eating often enough, that was the key to my own problems. Larabars are just the emergency snacks I cary around to make sure that I get enough to eat between meals. -
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04/26yeah- i know man-
i was just pointing out a taste thing
sorry to mix up your fructose sugar terms
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04/26No need to apologize!
You're totally right that the cashew one tastes less fruity. I just wanted to clear up any confusion between "fruit," "fructose," and "sugar."
I actually don't like to use the word "fructose" for "fruit sugar," simply because raw fructose is often added to sweets, and it's very different than actual fruit sugar in terms of its effect. Any substance that is food-based -- i.e. actually naturally occuring within food -- is handled by your body very differently that that same substance extracted and purified.
Many studies have shown, for example, that vitamin supplements are useless, because your body cannot absorb raw nutrient -- it needs to extract it from food for it to work. Hence the introduction of food-based vitamins.
My body treats pure fructose very much like white sugar, so I try to avoid it. But my body has little problem with naturally occuring fruit sugar.
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04/22I've figured that vitamins were just a security blanket, although if you eat the right foods with the pills, it helps the absorbtion i've heard. I wonder how much eating something like spirulina with the vitamins would help...
What gets me are those vitamin infused waters and dont-let-me-get-sick drinks and pills, which are the same thing at a buck a pop. Such clever marketing! -
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04/22Anybody remember caffeinated water? A short-lived fad during the dot-com era. Water Joe was one such brand. -
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04/22Hehe, people going to say the same thing in ten years about the caffinated beer!
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04/24I used to eat a lot of fruit when I was young, including dried fruit, but I can't do that anymore.
Fresh fruit in moderation...yes, as long as I'm eating something with protein in it. Dried fruit...no; not without problems. Worse are those protein bars/energy bars...not quite as bad as candy bars, but almost. I even tried ones made for diabetics.
I've gotten conflicting diet info from different doctors after finding out I had hypoglycemia (about 11/12 years ago).
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04/24Someone at school showed me one of those diabetic bars yesterday. First ingredient was corn syrup?!? It said it was suppose to be gentle raising and lowering the blood sugar levels, i just think its funny that the main ingredient is still candy.
I don't eat much fruit. Sometimes i'll have some in trail mix, or a banana here when i really want cookies but can't find any because i stopped buying them. Oh oh, alvacados, i wish i ate those more often. They are a nice alternative to the constant hummus! -
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04/24Yeah, I fail to see how all that sugar is good for anyone, let alone diabetics. It's made me wonder if hypoglycemics and diabetics much react differently to sugars.
My boyfriend and I are both hypoglycemic (not diabetic), but we have different reactions to the same thing. He can actually eat those protein bar/power bar and they help him with his blood sugar. -
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04/24Hehe, my girlfriend is HG too, which would thing is coincidental, besides the fact that we started going out while i was working at a candy store. We definately have different reactions to the same food!
I think (please correct me if i'm wrong about any of the details coming up quickly!) the reaction to sugar is way different in diabetics. They have insulin issues that makes the sugar in their blood build up, leading to hyPERglycemia, which gets into vascular, healing, and hydration issues. Type 1 has to take insulin to help this, and Type 2 has to change their lifestyle/diet, and maybe take some medication.
They can have HypOglycemic attacks sometimes too...
Meanwhile, hypOglycemics don't get enough sugar for some reason, the two types being –reactive– and –fasting– ...One is people who eat and crash quickly from the sugar swiftly being, is it 'metabolized,' is that the right word? The other type is a heavy slump after not eating for a long time, 4+ hours.
Instead of complications from too much sugar, the brain and body start to malfunction from lack of energy, and/or adrenaline pumps in to keep the body going. (It just dawned on me why my eyes were constantly dialated while sugar fixing for years). -
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04/25So are there people who are hypoglycemic types? Reactive and fasting types? My boyfriend just seems to have problems with fasting. I have problems with both quick metabolizing the sugar AND with fasting.
The doctor that first realised I was hypoglycemic (an allergy specialist that my insurance doesn't accept anymore...*sigh*) wrote that I was a fast metabolizer. He didn't test me, he just said my problems didn't seem to come from allergies but from hypoglycemia. I didn't want to give up sugary treats, so I went to my regular doctor to get tested...in between the 3rd and 4th hour it was obvious that I was having a glycemic reaction. (I started giggling, talking super fast to the lab technician and felt dizzy.)
Every doctor I go to has different eating advice for me. If I listened to one doctor, I'd be eating mostly meat and fat and no fruits except for unlimited amounts of strawberries and watermelon. Another doctor said watermelon was a no-no, I should eat grapes instead, but the strawberries were okay.
I finally got sent to a nutritionist who said to always combine a protein or fat with a complex carbohydrate for all meals and snacks. -
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04/25What the faster's eat doens't seem to matter as much. its comes from a broken liver or gland or a tumor or something. Is a lot more serious. I dunno, look it up, the fasting kind is creepy.
Diet seems like a constant trial and error. We're all different all the time!
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02/07So i've been trying more raw foods. Lots of fruit! I now eat an avocado almost every day and red bell peppers like apples! Borrowed my mom's juicer and make green juice smoothies pretty often (swiss chard!)! Raw brussel sprouts are delicious! I started making a trail mix with raisins, and either almonds or pumpkin seeds and an insane amount of cinnamon. As mentioned in another entry, my new love is baking chocolate, although i'm going to try the raw cocoa nibs soon!
