Sensible snacking
Your stomach is shouting ‘I’m Hungry!’… well actually,your brain is alerting you that your blood sugar is low.
In this situation, what do YOU do?
A lot of our clients go for a quick fix. They take a sugar snack onboard to solve the short-term problem. Once it was ‘Take a break, have a KitKat’, but today, supermarkets and garages are awash with high sugar, quick fix alternatives, some of them masquerading under ‘Healthy’ names or descriptions. How many spoons of sugar are in a can of ‘full-fat’ Coca Cola?* Well ‘sports’ drinks are just the same and most ‘healthy’ snacks are just vehicles for a sugar load.
Why does this bad choice matter?
First, every low sugar state that occurs is something you created, yourself, by not eating sensibly/ planning your intake better, earlier.
Second, that sugar hit is seriously damaging, and very temporary in its benefit. The sugar stimulates an insulin peak that drops the blood sugar like a stone – back to worse than when you started.
Third, you are perpetuating a rather addictive habit. [Sugar is very addictive].
A better idea?
Your ‘hypo’ [low sugar attack] need never happen. If you eat regular meals with enough protein and fat, you have slow release energy that keeps you feeling full and never causes peaks and troughs in your blood sugar.
And … eg if you had a handful of nuts and a glass of water you would resolve the low with no bad effects at all. In the Diet & Fat Lossmodule of the Head_Space Academy we offer a list of good alternatives for healthy snacking. If you would like it now email nick@vitalitas.co.uk.
If you are sitting all day 3 meals should be enough: if you are active, you might need a couple of small sensible snacks as well.
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