And Another Day of a Reactive Hypoglycemia Diet

I’ve received a couple of emails asking me to post more of what I eat to combat my hypoglycemia. A brief piece of background info if you’ve just found the site: I haven’t had a reactive hypoglycemic spell in months, and I feel great! Before I switched my diet to vegetarian, my life was often miserable for many hours a week.

My Reactive Hypoglycemic Diet Plan

Anyone who has had the misery of low blood sugar and the accompanying shakes, sweats, mood swings, blurred vision and nausea knows how truly debilitating a disorder it is. But it is treatable in the most cases by dietary change, and that’s what I decided to do. At first i started on a very restrictive vegan diet but gradually added foods. I feel so great on this diet that I actually forgot to buy glucose tabs and ran out two weeks ago. To my surprise, I haven’t needed the tablets lately.

Food for Reactive Hypoglycemia

Here’s what I ate and drank today (my blood sugar stayed at normal levels, around 80-120 all day):

• 8 a.m. cup of 1/2 caffeinated coffee with 3T Silk (soy) vanilla creamer
• 8:30 a.m. 1 slice Ezekiel 4:9 toast, 1T Earth Balance buttery spread, 2T all fruit blackberry preserve (no sugar, just fruit).
• 10:30 a.m. 1 banana, 1/4 cup cashews, 10 oz water mixed with 2 oz cranberry juice.
• 12:30 p.m. Chickpea curry with cauliflower and broccoli (Indian curry with cumin, garam masala, chili pepper, cilantro, green chili), 1/6 cup brown rice, 1/6 cup wild rice

• 2:40 p.m. About 14 baked, blue corn tortilla chips and 1/4 cup salsa.
• 4:40 p.m. 10 oz water mixed with 2 oz cranberry juice.
• 5:00 p.m. mixed herb salad, carrots, onion, clover sprouts, tomato. Topped with 1/4 cup Quorn stir fried in 2T peanut oil and a peanut/ginger sauce (pre-made in a jar from the grocery store–no added sugars), handful of cashews and 1/6 cup grated soy cheese.
• 6:30 p.m. (before a 20 min swim): 5 oz water mixed with 1 oz cranberry juice and 1/2 a chocolate peppermint Luna bar.
• 7:30 p.m. (after swim): 5 oz water mixed with 1 oz cranberry juice and 1/2 a chocolate peppermint Luna bar.
• 8:30 p.m. cup of herbal lemon tea
• 9:30 p.m. 2 oz white wine mixed with 2 oz soda water. About 6 baby carrots and 3T hummus. 4 Triscuits.

In addition I drunk about 16 oz of water

I do not count calories for many reasons, including the fact that I have better things to worry about than calories (like not having a hypoglycemic episode!). I can tell how much I should be eating and if weight creeps on I just make an effort to exercise more or eat slightly less. I don’t typically count anything, when it comes down to it. I’m a fairly good cook and I seem to intuitively know how to cook a balanced meal. For example, the curry and Quorn both have splashes of fat, adequate protein and lots of vegetables (fiber, vitamins etc.). I think it’s important with reactive hypoglycemia to eat both fat and carbs–although I do get the majority of carbs from veggies!

I’ll post more of these kinds of menus again soon.

Related posts:

1. A Typical Day’s Diet for Reactive Hypoglycemia
2. The Reactive Hypoglycemic Diet
3. Clif Z-Bar and the Reactive Hypoglycemia Diet

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