Personal trainer, training programme

Low Blood Sugar

Exercising with low blood sugar level

If you have low blood sugar levels you should check with your doctor before beginning a personal training programme

Since this subject is very important and vast, it is covered in my books. We will therefore, cover some key aspects today.

One of the least recognised disorders of modern life - and one of the most common - is hypoglycaemia, or low levels of glucose in the blood. As with most health problems, hypoglycaemia does not just happen to us - we put it on ourselves, through lifestyle and our eating habits.

The Effect

The simplest cause of low blood sugar is going too long without food. Eating raises the level of glucose in the blood. If we use slow-release foods, such as rice or vegetables, the level rises gradually and does not cross a certain threshold. However, if we take stimulant substances, such as sugary foods, alcohol, nicotine or caffeine, the level of glucose in the blood shoots up. The symptoms of low blood sugar ranges from tiredness, hunger, muscular palpitations, depression and shaky hands to anxiety, bad temper, dizziness and headache.

Usually the low blood sugar person is the last to realise he or she has a problem. If you answer 'Yes ' to two or more of the following questions, the likelihood is that you are low blood sugar.

Do you often have an irresistible desire to nibble between meals, usually on something sweet or starchy, or a dependence on cigarettes or alcohol to deliver a boost as your mood darkens or energy flags?
Do you find it difficult to stop once you start to nibble, puff or tipple?
Are you ravenous by dinnertime and then tend to over-eat?
Do you tend to be 'flat' in the morning and have to gee yourself up?
Do you eat quickly?
Are you constipated?
Do you tend to skip meals and then feel almost weak or dizzy with hunger?
Do you often feel 'low' and look at yourself hypercritically?
Do you tend to procrastinate, putting off until the day after tomorrow what could easily be done today?

Tips to help keep your Blood Sugar Level Steady.

1. Mid morning and mid afternoon, take some Missing Link with Argan Oil mixed into some stewed fruit e.g. apple, pear or bilberry.
2. At night, take Calm Powder, which delivers magnesium and trace elements. Dissolve a little with hot water and mix with 3 or 4 stewed prunes.
3. Warm food and drinks are helpful.
4. Eat a little - often.

Breakfast

Oatbran porridge with grated apple.

Lunch

Avocado salad with raw spinach, asparagus tips and fresh herbs dressed with lemon & oil.

Supper

Steamed or baked chicken breast, with summer vegetables (Asparagus tips, fine green beans, sugar snaps peas, some leek) with fresh dill, oil & lemon. Or Green bean salad with rice combined your beans with mange tout etc. (as above). Serve with brown rice and herbs.

In-between meals, in addition to what we have already mentioned, Chicken soup or avocado, are good levellers.

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