Chai_Cat Returns.

I haven't had any type of coffee in almost a year (used to average 3 to 5 cups before noon!!!) So...Hope you can accomplish your goal!
 
Hey Chai! I'm honored to be your inspiration and thanks for stopping by my journal. Keep up the good work and I KNOW you can do it, cause if I can do it ANYBODY can...lol. Does starbucks have a sugarfree chai? my coffee shop has a sugarfree chai that I get made with non fat milk and its good and only about 130 cals. You should look into it, I've found with my diet I havn't had to give up much, I just have to look for healthier choices to the ones I usually make.
 
Hey Cat! I'm Ashley and it's great to meet you. Good luck on getting back on track. It sounds like you're doing great!

I have a DDR but the mat isn't sensitive like I'd like it to be. I think my carpet is just too thick that it doesn't work well. Maybe I'll try sticking my chairmat underneath it tonight.

Congrats on getting the Wii!
 
I really suck.


I've been away from these boards for 2 weeks. I've been good for the most part, and what I mean by that is not eating anything blatently bad (ie Mcdonalds) but holy cow what laziness on the exercise.

I dont' know what's wrong with me. Why can't I kick myself into gear? Why do I continue to eat crap that I shouldn't?

Well tomorrow is Christmas and as a present to myself I am going to start a very strict diet. It's obvious that trying to just "eat right." is NOT working for me.

I"ve been tapering off my Zoloft too the last few weeks. I know for a FACT that dang pill put more pounds on me. Only problem is, I can totally tell that I am getting off this drug. My anxiety problem threatens to creep up on me at any second. I keep telling myself to "SNAP OUT OF IT!!" when I feel my brain get caught up in "loop of panic."


I'm sorry to vent, and on xmas eve no wonder lol.

I can't sleep. I'm having hot flashes. Grrrr

But anyways, can anyone suggest a good hypoglycemic diet? All the info on the net is really confusing me. Last time I went to the doctor I told her I suspected that I had this problem because if I skip breakfast, oh my god do I get sick. Or if I drink morning coffee without something to eat siiick. Dizzy, lightheaded, nausious. And it doesn't only happen then, it can occur at anytime that I go too long without eating or drinking too much caffine.

I need to KICK caffine out my diet too but dang it thats hard too. Crap crap crap. I feel sooo sucky right now. Crap.

Again sorry for the vent lol.


Merry Christmas, may God bless you and yours.
 
I think you might call the plan I use a hypoglycaemic diet. I have just posted it in my diary here, if you want to check it out.
 
Hey Chai Cat! Thanks for stopping by my journal. How goes the water intake today? Its hard to get all that water in I think I was able to get in about 5 cups yesterday. Today's been better so far I've gotten in 2 cups and will probably have 3 in within the next hour? Are you keeping up with your water today? I saw that you're trying to reduce your stomach size. Those portion sizes are difficult. I always make my breakfast bowl of cereal bigger than a portion size after that I try to eye stuff as well as possible but it is hard. If you're trying to lose inches on your waist I think the water helps or I could be convincing myself it helps. I lost about and inch and a half on my waist since I've been actively trying to get 8 glasses of water in everyday. So hopefully thats motivational.

I want to get the Wii too. But I'm in no rush, but it does seem like it would get me more active. After working out I just sit all day and either have my head in a book or watch dvds.

I must admit that your username is a temptation. It always remind me of vanilla chai from dunkin donuts, which I just happen to love. Haha!

Well keep up the good work and drink more water.
 
Hey guys, hope the day after christmas finds everyone well and happy!

I want to apologize for my rant the other night. I was feeling down and self-pity was at 150% lol.

Today I have a fresh prespective and things are better.

I really havent' eaten much today though, I just have no appetite with DH out of town. I guess thats good. lol
I weighted this morning and it appears that I lost another pound. So thats good!!

I really should exercise more but I've been pretty lazy about that. The only thing I've done the past few days is paint, crochet or watch tv. Very sad huh.

I did go out to town today and get more yarn. Tomorrow I will goto the grocery store to pick up some food stuff since I"m totally out of oatmeal and cereal.

Water...grr I havent drank but a dang sip today. I need to get on it.
 
Hi Chai Cat! Do you drink your water from a glass or a bottle? I have found myself drinking heaps more water since I started keeping a pop top bottle by me all the time. It is easier for me to want to drink because it's hot here, but still I found a big difference between the last day with no bottle, and the very next day with a bottle.

Glad you're feeling better. :)
 
Yup I use a bottle, but even so I get lazy about it lol. Then suddenly I realize "Hey stupid, your thirsty."

LOL
 
Ok after today I have finally figured out 100% that I have hypoglycemia.

I woke up and had a cup of coffee without eating something. I know this makes me feel like crap but I did it anyways because I did not goto the store yesterday for food stuffs.

So I have my coffee, browse a bit and head out to run some errands.

Bank 1...I notice I'm pretty darn hungry by this point. (been up 2 hours.)

Grocery store...Buying breakfast foods, low sugar oatmeal, raisin bran. Really hungery, but figure I can run my last two errands before eating. (Mistake.)

Bank 2... Takes FOREVER. I"m feeling dizzy as hell. Quickly go by post office and head to Mo's to eat a chicken taco and a few (5-8 chips) with salsa and sweet tea.

Finish my meal a little too fast. Feeling ok, get in a car and head out...errrm slammed with feeling like crap. Spots in my eyes, my ears feel like there is pressure behind them, and I generally feel like crap. In the past this sort of feeling would have triggered a for sure panic attack but since I"m so used to those I pretty much tell myself, (Your not going to die stupid.) And then let the feeling pass.

And now about 1 hour later after that "episode" I"m starting to feel better.

Did some reading though while I was feeling like crap and found this

I could not be more convienced now that I have hypoglycemia.

I'm still pissed at my doctor who months ago said when I asked her if I might have it (Well if you do, not much we can do, just moniter your diet.)
!!!!

Gee thanks. But anyways, I am for sure going to keep track of my food intake now. I want to figure out what trigger foods effect me so I can stay away from them. I'm so glad I started to taper off zoloft last month. Next week I'm going to drop down to breaking my already broke in half pills in half again lol.

So its a quarter of 50mg a day. What's that? 12.5 mg?


I mean if I can control my "panic" attacks with diet...well HELL yes I'm going to try. If anyone has had panic attacks you know the SUFFERING they are.

Needless to say though I am nervous. Low Sugar diet? Say what? won't that make me feel more like crap? But I guess my body needs to get used to what a real diet should be so there will be an adjustment period.

Anyways. =) /ramble off.
 
my sugar crashes like that and that make it hard being on a low sugar diet. especially when its a bad crash and you end up in the hospital and the first thing they do is give you a huge syringe full of glucose lol.........
 
OH geeze!

I certainly do not want to be in a hospital! I have no insurance atm!
Thusly I am slowly going to cut out caffine and sugar from my diet. I can't go off carbs completely. I tried that with Atkins a few years ago..and pass out!
 
Glug,glug...drinking water doing good today...

Just checked my BMI at 5.4 at 223 I am at 38.3 BMI. Which is considered obese. Which of course I knew. So there are some hard numbers to remind me to eat right and DRINK MY WATER.
 
Chai_Cat said:


I mean if I can control my "panic" attacks with diet...well HELL yes I'm going to try. If anyone has had panic attacks you know the SUFFERING they are.
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Panic attacks are horried, I just gave up coffee but still have decafe and the odd Ativan, too scared to take the other tablets.:(
 
Yup I got de-cafe today. =) I mixed a couple table spoons of my old caffinated in with it tho so I don't drop off too sharply.
 
What you are saying about hypoglycaemia is really interesting to me ChaiCat.

I haven't had panic attacks but I was diagnosed at one time as having anxiety. The counsellor I saw advised me to cut out all sugar (I didn't know why), and to go for a walk every day. She said a half an hour's walk was the equivalent of an antidepressant tablet. (I don't know which one - I wasn't taking any). I took her advice but didn't stick with it long seeing as some of the other things she said were very helpful too and I started feeling ok again.

From that article, I wonder if she thought I was hypoglycaemic. I certainly feel like a different person when I go on an Atkins style diet or diabetic diet. Also I get dizzy and feel strange and crabby if I wait too long to eat. I read some stuff by Kathleen DesMaisons (who has a PhD in this stuff, a website with a paid section and a free section and has written some books), and thought I fitted her description of a "sugar sensitive" person. Though I didn't exactly follow her 7 steps plan, I always have her ideas in the back of my mind. I think you might find her work interesting too.
 
Now the hospital thing was just because we didn't recognize what was going on. Being on low sugar is hard for those of us susceptible to hypo.... What helps me is I still take in sugars and carbs I just try to make it wheat rather than white. Pick you up a blood sugar monitor and when its on the down slope eat a piece of candy on a sip or two of and emergency coke...
 
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