I started college Fall 2000. I was living in the dorms on campus and working at the bank as a teller and I was on my own for the first time. I would go school and I developed a schedule of mostly night classes. I chose night classes because I noticed that I would fall asleep in the morning and even afternoon classes. Especially after eating lunch. I found going to school in the evenings I could pay attention better and focus easier. At the time didn’t know that my hypoglycemia was getting bad and that was the reason I could not stay awake. My insulin spikes were constantly making me crash and I had developed such a tollerence for espresso that it wasn’t even working any more. It wasn’t until I had to take an afternoon class with my friend that she noticed my inability to stay awake and recommend that I talk to my doctor.
I listened her and spoke to the free on campus doctors that came with living in the dorms. The doctor told me that she suspected I had hypoglycemia and she explained what would happened when I would eat something high in the glycemic index and how it would make my insulin spike and then crash. She said the solution was to avoid sugar foods and foods with a high glycemic index and if I wa seating something with carbs I had to have a fat or protein with it order to balance out the spike.
From then on my diet changed a little and I figured what food I should and should not eat. Of course they were all my favorites so it was an ongoing battle with myself to eat right. Eventually I reasoned with myself that these foods and drinks were just not worth it. I would have more energy than anything else.
I wasn’t perfect but for the most part I did what I could to avoid sugar spikes. As time went on I found that I stopped craving sugars and sodas but always drank coffee. Cavities stopped happening and my skin did get somewhat better and more manageable but my body was still reaching out for help as I had more underlying health issues that I did not know about until later in life.
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