It was amazing what a difference switching from white pasta/rice/bread to whole grains. During my switch over, i did things one at a time.
I had done the breads along time ago. Then start 1/4 whole grain pasta, or rice and then slowly made the change to half and half, and then 3/4 whole grain, then all whole grain. Make sure to get pastas that have the same cooking times.
I recommend just doing one pasta , rice, bread at a time because it takes time to get use to the new flavor, taste and consistency. We tried to do more at once, and it back fired, and couldn't take all the change at once.
So during the change. I would notice on the evenings which had the group of white grains still. I wouldn't feel as well, and then I would feel worse in the morning.
The whole grains take longer for your body to process than the white grains/pasta/rice.
Plus, take a look at the cereal closely. So many have way to much sugar, and look at the total carbs too. Some w/ dried fruit in it, have way to much sugar in them. Take a look at the kashi brand cereals, have way more fiber and protein than some others. Although since they have become more popular, they have introduced some which have more sugars and less of the good stuff in it.
You definitely have to be a label reader. I always look at the labels and then just put back the things w/ too much sugar in them.
About feeling deprived. For myself, if I want to have a treat. I can have a small treat, i have to eat the treatEat the treat before I have my meal. Do essentially dessert first. If we are doing a buffet. I grab a small dessert, eat that first, and then eat my meal.
The way I understand the low blood sugar, is your body ball parks the amount of insulin you need, and generally it overshoots and spits out too much insulin. So, if you eat the dessert first, your eating good proteins after it, and more food (which uses up that extra insulin) that got spit out from eating the dessert.
If I eat a dessert at the end, since (I don’t do fake sugars, causes headaches and other things), there is mostly sugars in the desserts. Then I have to eat something again within a half hour or hour, or my sugar starts to go low, and I start to feel yucky.
So, if she does have a dessert after her meal. Well, she will probably need a high protein snack 30-60 minutes after that snack. This isn't a good thing if your trying to watch your weight, and not gain a ton.
What mistake some people do, is they will eat the sugary treat. Then an hour later they will eat more sugary treat (life savers, any type of hard candy, etc). Then continue the process and in the mean time, your energy level, pops up and down, along with your moods.
One thing I enforce in the house, is the no treat rule. There isn't candy, chocolate, ice cream sitting around in the house. yes, of course, you do get a craving for those foods. However if you don't have them in the house, you pick out a healthy alternative, like an apple or bannana (yes you also have to watch your sugar intake from fruits too), then it passes. Much better to have fruit to satisfy the sweet craving than the candy.
Occasionally I allow them in the house, for a day or 2 max. But, once I've had a rollar coaster from the offending snack, dessert item, my hubby brings it to work , or it gets tossed out.
Its really not fair to have the candy and desserts sitting around constantly for someone can't have it. Its one thing to deal with it for a week at disney, but every day in the house, watching people eat candy when you know it makes you sick, really isn't fair. Keep it at least out of site, and out of reach, if possible.
Plus, if you think about it, removing the white flour, candy and desserts is going to be a positive move for the whole family.
One more thing to remember. If your reading all the posts about low blood sugar in relation to diabetes its different, in really how you need to control it. Your spitting out to much insulin, and if you have too much sugary what ever, and the insulin of course is going to be spit out, the best way to handle it is to have a high protein snack/meal to even it out, and not wait for your blood sugar to bottom out, and have a bad yucky feeling, and mood. I've seen diabetics discuss the low blood sugar, and I don't tend to treat it like they do. So, keep that in mind. Not everyone reacts the same way to the same foods, so you'll have to try by trial and error to see what works. What worked for me, may not work for your daughter. You can get low blood sugar when your a diabetic, but just having low blood sugar is different. Just something to keep in mind when your reading thru things.
Have a great trip
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