I have been working on this post for the past couple of days…And as you see it’s not much…We got over 5 inches of snow and 1 inch of ice and calling for more freezing rain Monday or Tuesday…Even now our internet comes and goes since we have DSL and a satellite dish…We never had this type of service before ,So we didn’t know what to expect but we get cut off from the world…I’m not sure if I’m digging that, but this is what we get for living outside of town in the country…

I miss all of my readers but I wanted to share some pics of my adventure this weekend…Hopefully I will be back tomorrow…Wish me luck…

I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what is happening here…Again, we all know I’m taking Glyset for my severe low sugar issues…I take Glyset 3 times a day a 1/2 hour before I eat my meals because it’s “suppose”(rather it really does is another story) to slow down the digestive system so your body just doesn’t get dumped with food and it can’t break down the sugar…It seemed to be working until a couple of days ago and the strangest thing started happening…

Here are some examples…

Last night after eating my sugar raised to 130 which isn’t high but I started getting that feeling when your blood sugar is really up…I couldn’t grasp words or put a simple sentence together..My mind got that fogginess that you get when it’s off the charts, and really mine wasn’t…So my husband ran and got me some water and started walking which seemed to help.

A couple of days ago, I had nothing but protein all day…Well my sugar jumped to 170 and again I experienced the fogginess and speech slurring etc…

Now I know they say nothing is wrong with my heart, so that is out with the speech problems…But what I don’t get is, why I’m having somewhat high sugar and it’s making me act like I’m drunk…I know I should be in a good range of 100-120 for my sugar, so this doesn’t make any sense to me…

So if you have any thoughts, please share…Nothing is stupid because maybe someone else is experiencing this as well…

Let me start by making this very clear to everyone…I never had issues with insomnia until this year, when my sugar issues arose….I have always been a very deep sleeper and I’m the type of person who loves her sleep…But guess what the sleep that I love wasn’t happening…Not until I started a new experiment on my own….Now you might wonder what that is and I’m going to tell you all about it…

In March of this year I found out that I have problems with my blood sugar levels fluctuating both on the high and low side and you can’t really classify it per se…It’s not type 1 or 2 diabetes…My endocrinologist put me on this medicine called Glyset to slow down the way my digestive system processes food….I take it 30 minutes before a meal and it levels off my sugar so it doesn’t drop or get real high..It stays in the 100-120 level which is where it needs to be…

So that seems to be working great for me and now my blood sugar levels are really under control.

But… I was still having problems sleeping and I couldn’t figure out why…I was doing everything that I thought I should be doing…But that wasn’t enough…And when night came around I was still only getting 3-4 hours sleep.. So I started taking a look at what I was eating and thinking to myself “something is still setting me off”…

I have come to realize that my carb intake was the issue for me. Throughout the day I was eating high carb foods with my protein and that seems to be what my problem was. I noticed this when I changed what I was having for dinner to a high protein meal and cut out the carbs. After about a week of doing this I noticed that my sleeping patterns got a lot better. I have decided to cut a lot of the carbs out of my daily diet and now things are pretty much back to normal with the way I sleep. I hope this article may be helpful to anyone who may be having similar issues.

Sleep Well…

Berrigirl

I apologize to all my readers for being slow with post these past couple days…I haven’t been posting cause I have been pretty sick lately…I know it seems like I’m always sick but this has to do with me not having my IV nutrient vitamins…I had to cancel a couple weeks ago and I was still feeling good but then this weekend it really hit me…Now mind you, I do take liquid vitamins(and there have been so many), but remember my body doesn’t absorb correctly like most Weight Loss patients…It’s funny how I have to keep reminding people of that…I have been dealing with my body organs being like this for 6 yrs and a team of Doctors(alot) also know me just as well..

So again thank you for your patience, I will be working on what I have been writing on and hopefully this evening get one posted…But please bare with me…When I go in I will let you know and I will be doing updated videos as well…

Thank You,
Berrigirl

Today is just going to be a day for me running around getting stuff done…I need a haircut really bad, it’s been like 3 months..I can’t believe I let myself go that long…But I had bought a house, taken care of a blind dog and been sick…Maybe that is why…LOL…Then I’m going to go and just have dinner with my Hubby at Cheesecake Factory…Yummy….

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and will be posting some interesting post that I have written soon…

Thank you again to everyone…You all are the best…