could use a little advice asap

[twinyoga]

And I'm not one to ask for advice too often.

I was in the middle of the 30 day challenge when I was overwhelmed with muscle aches, not feeling the least bit centered, and way too tired to function. Sure, it's probably detox. But I can't go that far with detox when raising twins! So, using my yoga knowledge, I skipped out of the challenge, added some ayurvedic dietary changes and slept like a baby for the first couple nights, no more muscle aches, etc.etc. But, about two days after that I started getting bloated, gassier than usual!, and my blood sugar is totally off. And, who would think that I would be craving raw foods (cooked food tastes terrible!).

Today, contemplating where my body needs to be (while at lunch with my kids), I had fruit salad, then sherbert, then cinamon toast, then toast with bread and jelly. I am shaking like a leaf, blood sugar is so off I could pass out, and I can't even suck in my stomach. I just took a bunch of enzymes and I'm about to take chromium piccolinate for to help balance the blood sugar. My heart just won't stop racing right now. It's thumping out of my chest.

So, please, please give me advice. I'm back to raw ASAP. But it won't be fun to have the sugar withdrawl over the next day. I also have a phone call into a local colon therapist/living food advisor and my holistic doctor. But I feel like a torando spinning right now.

I'll take any kind of advice right now. Oy, oy, oy.

Love ya,

[akh78749]

Okay, I could be wrong, so take this with a grain of salt. I have had hypoglycemia for years. That is, until I went raw. When my blood sugar went crazy, like you are describing, I found that getting a little fat helped. So you might try eating an avocado or some nuts to get started raw again. And drink a ton of water.

I am sorry you feel so bad. :(

[rawfigure]

I am sorry your blood suagar is off. Been there ! I USED to battle reactive hypoglycemia but thanks to Raw, no longer.

I would take a siesta if you can, relax, breath deep, drink some water w/ lemon. Just water for awhile.

Then when you feel you need to eat due to the crash have the highest prtein veggies you can whole, or juiced, or a green powder if you have it.

Highest would be spinach, kale, tomato and pepper.

Eat these till you are back on track. Shy from the fruit balance of the day if you can and you should come back into balance.

If you crave fruit eat the non sweet cucumber, avocado, green apple grapefruit.

Hugs.....

[gatorgrrl]

my dh is hypo. He carries fruit with him and if he feels his sugar getting messed up he eats a apple or orange or banana or something and feels much better. Hope you get to feeling better.

[rawjojo]

Hi Debbie,

So sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. Is the person you are calling Janee? If so, she is a great colon hydrotherapist. That actually might make you feel great again. I'll let you respond before I go on and on about her. My luck it could be someone else.

Feel better soon!
Jodi

[rawpriestess]

Oh, I am so sorry you are going through this, I think the best thing to do is to stop eating for a while, I mean just stop, no fasting no nothing, just water, take a sauna if you can, or hot bath, and allow those toxins to get out of your system fast.


But each person has their own way of dealing with things, since it's bread and sugar, you'll have the sugar blues in about 2 hours after eating it, and if you drink lots of water, it'll get out of your system pretty fast.

[twinyoga]

Yes, it is Janee! That's who worked with me on my 21 day cleanse. I'm anxiously awaiting her phone call. I hope she calls me back today. I talked to my holistic doc., he told me to take the chromium piccolinate and go back to raw asap.

So, I'm drinking tons of water and feeling ok right now. Just planning on taking it easy the rest of the day and playing outside with the twins. I really want to plan on just drinking water and tea the rest of the day. And then start fresh tomorrow.

I haven't had a major dip yet and it's been three hours. Maybe the water and chromium piccolinate are working (I also took enzymes). A bath sounds wonderful! I'll be soaking tonight.

[gatorgrrl]

if I may suggest putting some sea salt in your bath. It feels good plus it helps draw some stuff out.

[twinyoga]

I'm laughing...because one of these days when I'm coaching people with nutrition, I can tell them about my four day break from eating raw and how I had to flush it out with water, baths with salt, and supplements!

[Cinnamon]

You've had some great advise! I'd sure agree with drinking lots of water and just resting as much as you can. Gives your body some time to even itself out. I'm sorry you are going through this!

[rawjojo]

Hi Debbie!

Glad to hear it is Janee. She has some great info. I also did the cleanse with her a few years back. I liked it a lot however I have not done that specific clease since then. Again like everyone else is saying fluids, fluids, fluids!
namaste!

[rawfigure]

I am glad you are doing better. I checked in to see if we heard from you. I have had a few horrible experience, to point of a glucose IV to bring me out of a low blood sugar situation.

In my 11 year battle with hypoglycemia I found the worst thing to do is try to correct the imbalance with two much sugar, fruit, etc. I learned to get enough sugar to bring me to a function level...away from the profuse sweating, racing heart and the dangerous drop in blood pressure and worst, passing out.

I found half a glucose tablet (5 grams I think) would stablize me, then i would let my body do its job and bring me into balance. Over correction with more sugars and carbs kept the cycle going. When you crash, then get back to the function level, protein i.e. amino's are important factor in stablizing the blood sugar, this is often overlooked !

As said in previous post I find being RAW imparitive to proventing hypoglycemia. The times I have decided to eat cooked chocolate or even cooked crackers I had a blood sugar low. Raw for me !!!!!!!

[twinyoga]

I started to get a dip and pretty shakey around 4-5 hours later. But I drank a lot of water and got through it. Then I went to a very mellow yoga class. I'm starting to feel hungry, but I like all the advice I got...so I'm planning on the enema, bath and bed. Oh, and more water.

Raw for me, too. It's just works for me. This is the first time since going raw last July I've had this happen.

Thanks and off to bed now...

[eachpeachpearplum]

I am sorry your blood suagar is off. Been there ! I USED to battle reactive hypoglycemia but thanks to Raw, no longer.

I would take a siesta if you can, relax, breath deep, drink some water w/ lemon. Just water for awhile.

Then when you feel you need to eat due to the crash have the highest prtein veggies you can whole, or juiced, or a green powder if you have it.

Highest would be spinach, kale, tomato and pepper.

Eat these till you are back on track. Shy from the fruit balance of the day if you can and you should come back into balance.

If you crave fruit eat the non sweet cucumber, avocado, green apple grapefruit.

Hugs.....

I completely agree here when I am having these blood sugar issues I get a qt size ziplock bag, cut random hols all over it and stuff it with freah baby spinach and just munch untill you have had enough. It works amazingly well!

[misslinda]

Debbie, sorry to hear you went thru this and I 'm glad you are revamping.

I think a good reminder for us all when we are faced with challenges is to keep in mind that we are putting our organs thru "shock and trauma" when we abruptly eat cooked and then go back to raw etc etc...........the cycle itself can create more damage so let's be gently with ourselves :)

[RawFoodieMom]

Debbie, I'm so glad you're getting through this, and that you're starting to feel better. You're awesome for sticking with it! :)

[Conscious Midwife]

Hot water and lemon for the bloating

Cashews with a few raisins to satisfy hunger and regulate blood sugar

try a morning smoothie with berries and wheat germ

[juliebove]

I had reactive hypoglycemia for most of my life and now I have full blown diabetes. There is one school of thought that RC is a precursor to diabetes.

What I learned was that refined carbs are not good. They can cause your blood sugar to crash. The toast was probably the worst thing you could have had. Fruit juice is also loaded with carbs and should be taken only in small amounts. Lemon or lime juice in water is fine. Less carbs in those.

I learned I could not eat large meals. I ate only small meals and did not allow more than 2 hours to go by without eating something. That "something" would only be a bite or two. And often it was trail mix that I made up myself of mainly nuts and seeds with a small amount of dried fruit and perhaps some coconut mixed in.

Unfortunately if you do have RC there is no one diet that works for everyone. I learned by trial and error what worked for me.

As for the chromium, I would not recommend the piccolinate because of the possibility of gene mutation. I realize this is a controversial subject, but I believe if you want to take chromium,then GTF chromium is a safer kind to take.

http://www.choosecra.com/htmlpages/healthletter/chromiumpic.html

[twinyoga]

Really good information! Miss Linda, I totally agree that I can do worse damage by "playing" with a raw/non raw diet. Lesson learned. Good thing is that I recovered quickly. I drank only water till this morning. Oh, and then bath with salts was amazing! I sweated in the bath and then again after the bath. I couldn't even dry off with a towel. I then did my enema and got rid of lots of crud.

This morning I started my normal raw diet. I had two bananas and pineapple cut up into a salad. My blood sugar feels perfectly balanced now. Lots of water, too!

[RawFoodieMom]

How much sea salt should you put in the bath?

[rawpriestess]

I use about 2 T of sea salt, But I know recipes that say 1/2 cup, I displace alot of water, so that may be why only 2 T works so well for me. LOL

[RawFoodieMom]

Thanks RP, I will have the same issue, so I'll start with 2T and see how it goes.... LOL! ;)