Overeating during hypoglycemia can cause havoc in blood sugar levels, energy, weight and daily life.
Glucose roller coasters, which often overeat during hypoglycemia, are tired.
This article explains how to stop the eating cycle and habits during hypoglycemia.
What is hypoglycemia?
In the human body, blood glucose levels below 70 mg/dL interfere with the brain and the ability of the whole body to function properly. Even the most basic tasks like walking and speaking can be extremely difficult as blood sugar levels fall below 70 mg/dl.
Your brain relies on the 2-second delivery of glucose from the bloodstream to function. Without sufficient glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream, your brain and whole body will have a hard time functioning.
The intense food cravings during hypoglycemia are really coming from your brain, pleading, “Food me! I’ll feed me!”
Without treatment, hypoglycemia can lead to seizures and death.
Below are five steps to stop the habit of getting sick during hypoglycemia.
- Identify symptoms of hypoglycemia
- Acknowledge your current habits (and consequences) around the lowest and food
- Choose three specific, rapidly acting carbohydrates as the lowest major treatment
- Distracted by something else…
- Enhance this mantra: “I control what I eat when I’m low.”
Let’s take a closer look.
Identify that specific hypoglycemia symptoms
While starvation is one of many telltale signs that blood sugar levels are below safe levels, it is important to identify other symptoms of hypoglycemia and help to strengthen good habits regarding common hypoglycemia treatments.
Identifying symptoms that you personally experience during hypoglycemia reminds us that intense craving for food is not random or normal hunger, but is directly linked to blood glucose levels and is not rational.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) lists the following symptoms of hypoglycemia:
- Hungry
- Feeling unstable
- I’m nervous or worried
- Sweat, chills, rather
- Irritated or anxious
- confusion
- Fast Heartbeat
- Feeling bad or dizzy
If you notice your blood sugar levels are low, take just 20 seconds to identify symptoms, including severe cravings, and remember that these are irrational aspects of hypoglycemia.
Yes, food is necessary, but not necessary all food.
Acknowledge your current habits (and consequences) regarding hypoglycemia and food
Feeding during hypoglycemia routinely has less subtle results. And the majority of breaking that rampage eating habit depends on fully acknowledging it.
You can write it down, make YouTube videos, or record audio notes about what you send to your mom – what won’t work for you! The goal is to simply look at habits and vicious cycles that arise from afar.
Things to consider…
- How many calories do you burn every day or week for overeating? Low price?
- How much does it contribute to your gradual weight gain?
- How often does your blood sugar spike and send up to 300 mg/dL, followed by “Rage Bolus,” which leads to another exhausted hypoglycemia?
- To what extent does that affect your work, school, and relationships?
- To what extent does that affect your self-esteem?
- How embarrassing and regretful do you feel after overeating?
- How does that affect your relationship with your food at other times? day?
Let’s take a quick look at the cycle of bulimia around hypoglycemia in my book, “Emotional Diet with Diabetes.”
Choose three specific, rapidly acting carbohydrates as the lowest major treatment
If you are not ready to treat hypoglycemia with specific things, you can easily grab it Anything Therefore, there are no restrictions around it.
Choose 3 specifics Rapidly acting carbohydrates To stock up and use it to treat low pressure, make sure:
- What you are always ready (for example, a gummy lifesaver survives at high and cold temperatures, and only 3 or 4 is needed for an average low low treatment, and one bag can treat dozens of low values).
- Being able to accurately control the number of grams of carbohydrates you consume. A mild low may only require 6-8 grams of carbohydratesseverely low values may require 15-20 grams.
- Consuming something that is easy and quickly digested. Treating the lowest using high fat or high protein foods only lasts longer symptoms and cravings.
- You are consuming “drugs.” Whichever food you choose (for example, jelly beans, juice boxes, fruit snacks, etc.), you can think of them as “drugs.”
- You don’t use the low as is An excuse to eat a fun good night, tasty, like brownies or ice cream. Instead, give it to yourself permission Eating those snacks in a more controlled environment if your blood sugar levels and appetite are rational and stable.
Choose fast-acting carbohydrates such as fruit snacks, jelly beans, gummy lifesaver, smart, glucose tabs and other items to prepare your wallet, desk, backpack, nightstand, gym bag, jacket pocket and glove component in your car.
The more prepared you are to handle low values properly, the easier and more manageable!
Distracted by something else…
Of course, we all know Symptoms Hypoglycemia can persist even after blood glucose levels rise to safe levels. And of course, Extreme hunger It is one of the most persistent symptoms (the desperate desire for a comfortable nap continues!)
This means that after treating the low ones, you need to deflect yourself with something until more food quietly falls and disappears.
You can see that simply nosing something like gum or carrots can provide satisfying emotions to your brain, as you chew without consuming starchy carbohydrates.
Here are some distraction techniques:
- Apply some ice-like water
- Chew carrots and celery
- Pop some gum or teriduct
- Record yourself a voice note about your ability to control what you eat
- Clean your kitchen
- Squeeze the stress ball
- Lie in the bed and close your eyes
The goal is to deflect your mouth, hands, or both!
Enhance this mantra: “I control what I eat when I’m low.”
Truly, the biggest contributor to the habit of overeating during hypoglycemia is the belief that you can’t control what you’re doing. Your brain is desperately pleading, so you are putting more food in your mouth helplessly
But you have control. You have your freedom to have reasonable ideas, logic and reasons, you need to make the choice to use those things.
Certainly, I would like to eat 3 bowls of honeycomb mixed with Captain Crunch of Peanut Butter every time my blood sugar level is soaked below 50 mg/dl, but I know how much guilt and regret it will make me feel for the rest of my time, my blood sugar, my energy, and how guilt and regret it will be for them.
If you keep telling yourself, you will have to do how much you eat during the lowest or you will Deserves Eating as much as you like for the lowest possible time will continue to give you that belief and its vicious habits.
If you take a little time to remind yourself, “I control what I eat when I’m low,” you will be responsible for how you treat the lowest and for your actions in general.
It actually gives a lot of power. And it’s very rewarding. This is because dealing with reasonable amounts of fast carbohydrates and low ones means raising your blood sugar levels to a reasonable blood sugar level.
This means you don’t have to deal with blood sugar roller coasters and overeating guilt. Instead, you can continue your day, proud of your ability to control your own actions.
Self-discipline is generated…pride. Hypoglycemia can be a source of pride and integrity in how you manage your health. And it can easily start to leak out into other areas of your health.
