Are you hypoglycemic?
Posted By: Happy MT Robin on 2009-01-18
In Reply to: See message - AnnieD
Your comment sounds like my SIL - if she has anything that has sugar in it, in about 30 minutes she's comatose on the couch.
Also, it could be the combination of things that you are eating. I recently finished a book called The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose that talks about food categories and the proper ways to combine them. Your stomach uses different enzymes to digest different types of food, i.e., starches, proteins, fats, vegetables, etc. So if you combine them incorrectly you're not letting your insides work as well as they should. It's very interesting and I've been trying to apply a lot of her methods starting in the last couple of days or so, and I've found I have a lot more energy than I used to.
LIke someone else suggested, keep a food diary and make particular note of when you start to feel like this and how long after eating it's happening. That will be the best way of finding out what is possibly triggering it.
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