25 Signs To Tell If You're Hypoglycemic

Hi Connie! Just finished your book. Very informative. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia about 30 years ago. I was told to eat 6 meals a day carb and protein together. Nothing else. Oh they gave me a small booklet that didn't really say much of anything. Later I would find myself taking antideppresants for years, never realizing it was the hypoglycemia. I never followed the diet, I didn't really understand and it was never explined to me. 3 years ago I weighed 283 lbs and started a low carb diet, after losing 140 lbs I decided I wanted off the antidepreeants and slowly weaned myself. I have felt fine ever since and I am still following a low carb diet. Now, after reading your book I know why iI could quit taking the pills and feel just fine. The depression was the only sympton. Just wanted to say "Thans"

Hypoglycaemia is frequently misdiagnosed as depression or chronic fatigue, or fibromyalgia as well as the other illnesses mentioned above. Unfortunately that's also true of thyroid problems too.

I'm the Queen of misdiagnosis. If I had a penny for everything I've been misdiagnosed with (including Hypoglycaemia)... now finally they have discovered what I have been saying; the problem is my lack of refreshing sleep.

Connie, I like the fact that you've given readers some specific information and checklists to help people. I'm looking forward to reading your book when it wings its way to New Zealand

This is a joke, surely? That checklist covers just about every sympton that can be present in any illness - all artfully vague too (e.g.allergies, depression, forgetfulness, muscle pains).

Yes, it's important that we all try and cut down on sugar. But this is just nonsense, another load of hype and spin to sell yet another diet book!

Look, let's KISS. ("keep it simple, stoopid"). If you want to lose weight you cut down on the amount of food you are eating, eat good wholesome food instead of junk and get off your ass and go for a walk.

I agree with Terri. What all of this really comes down to is yet another self-help book that tells you to eat clean, wholesome food and not eat processed foods or too much sugar. Yaaawn.

It's like silly love songs, the world can't get enough of them! And really, until peolple start paying attention, what's wrong with that?

I think what's wrong with it is the fact that someone is, yet again, trying to make a buck off of people who are unhappy or ill. Giving up sugar may cure some of the symptoms, but it doesn't cure the quote-unquote underlying disease.

And from the above comments, it sounds like a few people at least have tired of the same old silly, sugary sweet songs.

Not that I don't agree with sugar-restriction (as I do practice it myself), but giving up sugar hasn't cured my allergies, alleviated my depression, or made my insomnia disappear--nor has it made my laundry whiter and brighter and my morning commute shorter. It's not a cure all and it shouldn't be sold to intelligent adults as such.

People who like love songs are unhappy or ill??

Hi Connie please conatact me, you might be the answer to a lifetime of quesitons
KJ

Clever, J. Anything else to offer?

This is NOTHING more than a blatant attempt to sell your book lady.

Well, I see nothing wrong with an attempt to sell her book. Every author is trying to sell their book; if you are going to criticize it, criticize the content of the book, not the fact she wants to sell it.

As one who has suffered from hypoglycemia for years (since childhood)undiagnosed until I had a glucose tolerance test, I can affirm that what she says in this post is true. While my blood sugar is stable, some of my symptoms have not gone away (depression, lack of drive, forgetfulness). I am on meds for depression, and they are helping. Do not discount hypoglycemia. it is real, and it SUCKS!!!

I haven't read the book, but I have read Connie's posts. It sounds to me that she isn't saying that giving up sugar will cure what ails you. She's saying that *IF* you have hypoglycemia, then giving up sugar will clear up a host of symptoms that go along with hypoglycemia, symptoms which can also mask as other ailments. *IF* the symptoms are caused by other ailments than hypoglycemia, then, of course, giving up sugar won't cure those ailments.

Hypoglycemia is indeed a nasty problem. I haven't given up every speck of sugar from my diet, but I HAVE learned to use it in small quantities after I've eaten a real meal of protein, carbs and fat. If I eat too much sugar, or eat it between meals, then I get a lot of those symptoms listed above.

This isn't a diet aimed at everyone, but I would venture to say that eating a lot more veggies and a lot less sugar (or even eliminating sugar entirely) would make most people feel a lot better.

I'm actually interested in the book. More power to you, Connie.

The author is not advocating (in her posts) that you should go to a doctor for a hypoglycemia diagnosis and then buy her book to help you manage your properly diagnosed condition. She is saying that, if you have any of a number or symptoms, you could have hypoglycemia and you should follow her program.

Honestly, I'm not impressed with this series or with this author, who is not a nutritionist or a health-care professional, but a journalist who took a single course on nutrition. Like the other posters, I don't think she has anything new to say on the subject.

Giving up sugar is in your best interests regardless of what ailments you face--but you probably already knew that without having to buy this book.

If you are happy spending your hard earned cash on a book that is just going to point out the bleedin' obvious, then you have more money than sense.

We have, as a society, been told for YEARS and YEARS now to cut down on sugar, about all the bad things about sugar, all the effects it can have (try typing "sugar" etc into a search engine).....this is not new! Just old information rehashed.

I'm thinking of writing a diet book myself - on how you can lose weight by just eating less! WOW!Mind blowing information! If I pad it out, and give my "new" diet a snazzy name, it should sell by the cart load! (And some of you may well be my first buyers, by the look of things......