Hypo-WHAT?

Well my dears, the time has come for me to go in depth about my healthy eating/weight loss tips, as a thank you for reaching 100 Facebook Followers!
I was just going to give you the tips, but then I realized that in order for you to understand how and why I learned these tips, you needed to learn a little more about my back ground.
We all have a story, right?

About four years ago, I started having mood swings, dizziness, fatigue, irritability and other unexplainable symptoms.  They began slowly, one-by-one, like they were trying to sneak-attack me and before I knew it, I was all outa' whack with no idea why all this was happening.
Like I explained in Our Fairytale- Chapter 2, it was even tough on my relationship with my husband.
I would throw hissy fits out of no where and he wouldn't even know what hit him.  Somehow, he realized that these hissy fits correlated with my empty tummy, and he would shove food at me until I ate.  Thank goodness he knows me better then I knew myself or I never would have figured out the problem.

I had developed Hypoglycemia.

Source: google.com via Janna on Pinterest

Now Hypoglycemia is not a disease in and of itself. It is an indicator of much more.

Symptoms

Confusion, abnormal behavior or both, such as the inability to complete routine tasks
Visual disturbances, such as double vision and blurred vision
Seizures, though uncommon
Loss of consciousness, though uncommon
Heart palpitations
Tremor
Anxiety
Sweating
Hunger

You don't have to have all of the symptoms to have hypoglycemia, but let's just say- I have all of them but one.  That made it pretty easy for me to diagnose myself. Thank you WebMD. 
I probably should have gone to the doctor, but everything I found told me how hard it is to get doctors to listen or to find one that knows how to treat it. Instead, I began researching and creating my own eating regimen. It was not meant to be a diet, but ended up teaching me a LOT about how bad I was in my eating habits.

Let me just tell you right now....I DO NOT advocate "Dieting". 
Unfortunately, society has turned diet into a four letter word, and I will not now or ever help you with a "diet".  I know some of you are all like, "but you said...?"
Yes, I said weight loss, but there was a backslash and a "healthy eating" attached.
If you think tomorrow's post is going to divulge some magical elixir to allow you to scarf cheeseburgers with two sides of fries and see results, you might as well not read it.
But if you want to know some life style changes that have blown my mind with the results?
Be ready for tomorrow!


As for the rest of the Hypoglycemia story, I did finally go get tested, and not surprisingly I was right.
I know all of you moms out there will recognize this:

It's like drinking a whole bottle of Triaminic.
Doesn't sound or taste bad, until you only have a few minutes left, and you end up having to struggle to get all that sugar down. The other awkward thing was that the nurse asked when I was due...

"Um...Do you know something that I don't know??"

Come to find out, she was assuming (makes and @ss out of you and me) that I was taking the test because I was preggers. No m'am. No thank you.

The test didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but they did inform me that I am Pre-Diabetic and have to go to an Endocronologist. I still don't know what an Endocronologist is, but it sounds important.

In case your interested in reading more or you think you might have similar issues:

• Mayo Clinic Article
• MedicineNet
• The Hypoglycemia Support Foundation
  
  So are you ready for tomorrow?
  There are going to be some Before/After photos for your pleasure illustration ;)