by Stargazer » Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:47 am
I've also been suffering from blood sugar issues for many years. I used to get hypoglycemia symptoms daily, including anxiety, panic attacks, sweating and thirst. When I went to see a doctor to search for a cure to my problems, she redirected me to a psychologist. But I felt that it must be some physical thing that was causing me all my symptoms. I tried the low carb approach to stabilize my blood sugar, and it did help at first. But I didn't feel good eating that way. It felt unnatural to me, and in the end it just seemed to start making me even more sensitive to carbohydrates. So I figured out that the low carb eating just hid the symptoms when I didn't eat too many carbs, but it didn't really heal anything.
I used to eat a lot of sugary stuff and fatty junk foods most of my life. I ate candies almost every day, and not small amounts. Now I'm 27. About a year ago I read the book "Diet for a new America" by John Robbins and switched to a whole foods plant based diet. And I have never felt so good in my life than I do now, both physically and mentally. I've also followed the dietary advice of John McDougall and Joel Fuhrman. Now I eat a starch based diet with addition to many nutrient dense vegetables, berries, mushrooms and fruits. I feel that my health is getting better all the time.
But I still do get slight hypoglycemia symptoms now and then. Not daily as I used to, and sometimes I am free of those symptoms for a week. I usually get some hypoglycemia symptoms when I eat after I've been lifting weights. It still feels that my body hasn't completely recovered from the years of abuse.
I think that my stomach fat is a part of the problem, and I guess I have quite a lot of dangerous visceral fat which just hangs in there and is not going away... or then it's burning very slowly. I have easily lost weight from every other part of my body but the stomach fat just stays. And now I'm underweight.
Any advice? Do I just need more patience and time to heal? Or am I doing something wrong?