hypoglycaemia

[gjohnson5]

If you're hypoglycaemic do you feel tired while dieting. I'm trying to equate it to something... similar to the after affects of a night drinking?
I'm just trying to figure out if I'm getting too hardcore w/my diet and caffeine usage. I also don't have a blood sugar monitor which would answer the question entirely and I might have to go to the drug store and buy one

 

[JLowe02]

yea my buddy is hypoglycemic, and he feels like shiet while dieting. tired and lethargic

 

[Tatyana]

The body tightly controls glucose, so you really need to check with a glucose monitor, and if it continually shows very low glucose, you need to have a fasting glucose in a lab.

If you are seriously hypo, you can go into a coma.

I do just think what it is to diet and train hard is to be tired and hungry most of the time.

There isn't anything wrong, that is just how it is.

 

[gjohnson5]

its getting bad now but I can't cheat my diet
got sick today. It might be sickness that they talk about when you go on ketosis for extended periods

 

[miplank]

I'm hypo...know exactly what your talking about.

 

[gjohnson5]

Low carb diet loses the most weight and cholesterol
New England Journal of Medicine

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/3/229

ABSTRACT

Background Trials comparing the effectiveness and safety of weight-loss diets are frequently limited by short follow-up times and high dropout rates.

Methods In this 2-year trial, we randomly assigned 322 moderately obese subjects (mean age, 52 years; mean body-mass index [the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters], 31; male sex, 86%) to one of three diets: low-fat, restricted-calorie; Mediterranean, restricted-calorie; or low-carbohydrate, non–restricted-calorie.

Results The rate of adherence to a study diet was 95.4% at 1 year and 84.6% at 2 years. The Mediterranean-diet group consumed the largest amounts of dietary fiber and had the highest ratio of monounsaturated to saturated fat (P<0.05 for all comparisons among treatment groups). The low-carbohydrate group consumed the smallest amount of carbohydrates and the largest amounts of fat, protein, and cholesterol and had the highest percentage of participants with detectable urinary ketones (P<0.05 for all comparisons among treatment groups). The mean weight loss was 2.9 kg for the low-fat group, 4.4 kg for the Mediterranean-diet group, and 4.7 kg for the low-carbohydrate group (P<0.001 for the interaction between diet group and time); among the 272 participants who completed the intervention, the mean weight losses were 3.3 kg, 4.6 kg, and 5.5 kg, respectively. The relative reduction in the ratio of total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol was 20% in the low-carbohydrate group and 12% in the low-fat group (P=0.01). Among the 36 subjects with diabetes, changes in fasting plasma glucose and insulin levels were more favorable among those assigned to the Mediterranean diet than among those assigned to the low-fat diet (P<0.001 for the interaction among diabetes and Mediterranean diet and time with respect to fasting glucose levels).

Conclusions Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets. The more favorable effects on lipids (with the low-carbohydrate diet) and on glycemic control (with the Mediterranean diet) suggest that personal preferences and metabolic considerations might inform individualized tailoring of dietary interventions. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00160108 [ClinicalTrials.gov] .)

 

[gjohnson5]

Looks like similar results here for low carb diets w/the caveat that high unsaturated fats mayu be more muscle sparring

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16403234

Results
Percent fat mass loss was not different between diets VLCARB -4.5 ± 0.5, VLF-4.0 ± 0.5, HUF -4.4 ± 0.6 kg). Lean mass loss was 32-31% on VLCARB and VLF compared to HUF (21%) (P < 0.05). LDL-C increased significantly only on VLCARB by 7% (p < 0.001 compared with the other diets) but apoB was unchanged on this diet and HDL-C increased relative to the other 2 diets. Triacylglycerol was lowered by 0.73 ± 0.12 mmol/L on VLCARB compared to -0.15 ± 0.07 mmol/L on HUF and -0.06 ± 0.13 mmol/L on VLF (P < 0.001). Plasma homocysteine increased 6.6% only on VLCARB (P = 0.026). VLCARB lowered fasting insulin 33% compared to a 19% fall on HUF and no change on VLF (P < 0.001). The VLCARB meal also provoked significantly lower post prandial glucose and insulin responses than the VLF and HUF meals. All diets decreased fasting glucose, blood pressure and CRP (P < 0.05).

Conclusion
Isocaloric VLCARB results in similar fat loss than diets low in saturated fat, but are more effective in improving triacylglycerols, HDL-C, fasting and post prandial glucose and insulin concentrations. VLCARB may be useful in the short-term management of subjects with insulin resistance and hypertriacylglycerolemia.

 

[gjohnson5]

bump

But the main thing appears to be that I take after my relatives. Meaning I have diabetic on both sides of my family. So I have succumbed to the fact that I NEED to take in some carbs every now and then. If I don't, Il be tired , lethargic, immune suppressed , late for work, and in general sick

Anyway , my energy levels are up quite a bit on lipoflames instead of stacker3. The crash maybe caffeine overload