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Old Sat, Jan-06-18, 11:02
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Plan: mostly milkfat
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I think if you spill salt, some vampires are forced to stop right there and count each grain. Ridiculous species.

Hypoglycemia... maybe taking a method from type 1 diabetics would make sense. In Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, he suggests keeping the numbers low. Keeping carbs really low means people don't need to inject nearly as much insulin, so that if they overdo things on insulin, or if the carbohydrate content of a food is off by 10 or 20 percent or so, the mistakes are smaller. Less oversteering. If there is a hypo, since the mistakes are smaller, the amount of glucose needed to correct the hypo is much smaller--preventing an oversteer in the other direction. You felt good after eating that turtle chocolate, maybe because it was just enough to correct for a hypo, not so much that it threw you into another round of reactive hypoglycemia further on.

Do you have a glucose meter? Another page from Bernstein's book (okay, pretty much all the pages), keeping meals constant and taking regularly spaced readings afterwards, looking for a pattern makes sense. Are you getting hypo symptoms sort of randomly through the day, right after meals, two or three hours later, in the morning vs. evening, etc. One study in the 60's showed a fair number of people with perfect blood glucose responses at the two hour mark, where the standard glucose tolerance test usually ends, going hypo at the four hour mark.
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