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Day 40: Foggy

I don't know what's up with me, but I've been in a fog the past few days.  Could be the flu that I never really got.   Could be the bump on my noggin.  Could be cheese withdrawal.  I was wondering if it could be hypoglycemia that caused me to faint the other night and has been making me feel crummy.  I've been monitoring my blood sugar, and while it isn't hasn't been TOO low, it's lower than what my body has been used to for the last several years.  (Yeah, I had gestational diabetes with LittleBoy and was also warned that I was close to pre-diabetes.)  I did a little reading today and found that Dr. Simeons had this to say in "Pounds and Inches (emphasis mine):"

Towards the end of a course or when a patient has nearly reached his normal weight it occasionally happens that the blood sugar drops below normal, and we have even seen this in patients who had an abnormally high blood sugar before treatment. Such an attack of hypoglycemia is almost identical with the one seen in diabetics who have taken too much insulin. The attack comes on suddenly; there is the same feeling of light-headedness, weakness in the knees, trembling, and unmotivated sweating. But under hCG, hypoglycemia does not produce any feeling of hunger. All these symptoms are almost instantly relieved by taking two heaped teaspoons of sugar.

In the course of treatment the possibility of such an attack is explained to those patients who are in a phase in which a drop in blood sugar may occur. They are instructed to keep sugar or glucose sweets handy, particularly when driving a car. They are also told to watch the effect of taking sugar very carefully and report the following day. This is important, because anxious patients to whom such an attack has been explained are apt to take sugar unnecessarily, in which case it inevitably produces a gain in weight and does not dramatically relieve the symptoms for which it was taken, proving that these were not due to hypoglycemia. Some patients mistake the effects of emotional stress for hypoglycemia. When the symptoms are quickly relieved by sugar this is proof that they were indeed due to an abnormal lowering of the blood sugar, and in that case there is no increase in the weight on the following day. We always suggest that sugar be taken if the patient is in doubt.

Once such an attack has been relieved with sugar we have never seen it recur on the immediately subsequent days, and only very rarely does a patient have two such attacks separated by several days during a course of treatment. In patients who have not eaten sufficiently during the first two days of treatment we sometimes give sugar when the minor symptoms usually felt during the first there days of treatment continue beyond that time, and in some cases this has seemed to speed up the euphoria ordinarily associated with the hCG method.

 I don't know if that's my problem or not, but I feel "off," so I'll give the doc a call in the morning to get her take on it.  Only two more days of injections!  I only lost 0.1 pounds this morning, so the "official" 30 pound mark is looking more challenging--and I'm definitely not going to push my luck.

Day 39: Why am I Still Up?

It's after 1am.  I've been up for 18 hours.  I got a little obsessed with the blog, I guess.  What do you think?  


Quick post to let you know where I am: I was down another 0.3 pounds this morning (or yesterday morning, I guess).  That puts me 26.9 pounds down from my Day 1 weight and 30.3 pounds down from my post-load weight!  Only a few days left, and I'm really hoping to lose at least 3.2 pounds so I can "officially" lose more than 30 pounds this cycle.  


Time for me to go to bed, but I'll leave you with a few links from one of my new favorite healthy food sites:


Good News! No reason to pretend to like this junk!



We're seriously supposed to feed this to our kids? What's wrong with these people!?!?



Is it OK to Eat That?