Hypoglycemic Desperate Faster

by Terry Voynow
(Franklinville, NJ,US)

I've been Hypo since I was young. I remember coming home from High school and eating everything in sight by time I got home and then I would climb the stairs and crash for a couple of hours.

At lunch time I was famished and would over eat. I would gain weight and then do whatever it took to loose it. Thank God I don't have the ability to make myself throw up or I would have had that problem also.

I really seemed to have my eating and exercising under control for years. I loved to exercise. After my last child was born I dropped all of my weight and looked better than I ever had. I went through severe post par-tam depression. I dealt with that and I really became emotionally better than I ever had.

I had a lot of problems in my marriage at that time and I kind of gave up on eating healthy and exercising. I had started working and didn't bother making time for it. So over the years I have put on a lot of weight.

About 7yrs ago I had worked for Estee Lauder in a department store and my blood sugar drops were so out of control that I was eating constantly and afraid to be without food or sugar.

I sometimes would eat sugar packs. (now I just use the glucose tablets) but at the time I was just doing the only thing I could think of. After a drop I couldn't drive and I would have to sleep in my car before I could drive home. This actually became normal for me.

During this time I kept spraining my right knee and had to go to therapy for that. Then I was cleaning my Dad's summer place and way over did it. When I was in pain I kept going-determined to get it all done. Well the next day I was so bad I couldn't move. My Dad had to bring me home and just getting out of my car, I was yelling.

I was out of work for 6mos. During that time the department store I worked for was bought by another store and we had the option of going with that store or severance pay and unemployment.

I took the latter. I went to school for word and excel and am now working for a chiropractor. (which is very fitting) anyway the sugar drops have gotten worse and the Dr. said I have reactive hypoglycemia. But it seems to drop no matter what I eat.

I had gotten to the point were I ate anything and everything I wanted and when I wanted it. I spoiled myself with no self control. The night before I went on my fast I came home from work and bought and ate 6 slices of Ellios type pizza's.

That night I saw a book from the '70's where my cook books were stored. "Help Lord! The Devil wants me fat! by C.S. Lovett and I went to bed and read it. I was very encouraged and decided to start the next day. No preparation. I started doing all of my research after I started the fast. I had made up my mind and that was it.

I now have learned that you should prepare for a fast. I believe "Lovette" did mention that but I wanted to get started. Not recommended. It was my husband's birthday 2 days before and I had eaten so much sugar! By the second night of the fast I felt like I had the worse case of the flu and almost gave up. Things did get better after that.

I've had some bad drops in sugar. On my forth night I went down to 50 and was very concerned so I squeezed and strained an orange and added it to my seltzer water. And I kept doing that at least 3x's. It did go up into the 60's.

The next day I ran into the same problem and had to repeat the process. I have learned since starting that for hypoglycemic people you should go on a juice fast, eat slices of avocado and banana every few hours, and high quality veg. source protein powder to your juices, and add psyllium or another good bulking agent to you juices twice a day to regulate blood sugar levels.

My husband has gone out and gotten me these items but I'm trying to ride this out a little further. I know that a water fast is so much more effective and I've gotten this far already.

My Blood sugar #'s have been not to bad. I started dropping yesterday and did the orange thing but it upsets my stomach. Then I would do the seltzer. My sugar was at 67 last night but up to 79 this morning. So I was encouraged.

Today is my 7th day and I feel pretty good. Need to wrap this up and get to work. I know I've done all of this in not the safest manner for my condition and do not recommend it. I feel like I'm torturing myself but I don't want to give up. I got the glucose tablets for emergencies and I'm going to get my juicer out and prepare it for going to juice if necessary.

I believe the normal glucose levels for fasting are 60 to 120. Before, I felt sick if I was even in the 80's. So when I get at 60 and below I've been taken action. If anyone has anything they can share with me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.