Thursday, February 23, 2012

Abnormally diminished content of glucose in the blood

My mama came to DC for a conference and stayed an extra night to see me. Realizations we had during our visit: maybe I'm hypoglycemic. It would explain so much. Jamie also has hypoglycemia and she basically described it as having inefficient metabolism and needing to eat every few hours. That is definitely my experience, and I think it has been getting worse in the last couple years. Lately the only way I can last between breakfast and lunch without eating anything else is if I have eggs for breakfast and then have lunch around 11:30 (3 1/2 hours after breakfast). If I have cereal or something else lower in protein I usually can't last past 10 am without needing a snack, and I am hungry enough to eat lunch right then. I'm not even riding my bike to work these days and I still feel like I basically need two full lunches in addition to regular breakfast and dinner. Packing two lunches feels like a big pain in the ass, but the alternative is to constantly snack on things like soy nuts and protein bars. I don't really like protein bars because 1) they're expensive, and 2) they're always sweet. When my body craves protein, it doesn't want that protein to be covered in sugar. It occurs to me that maybe I should look into making some sort of protein bar myself.

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