Staying away from home

My kids were staying with friends of their dad's at the weekend and when they came back they both had really low blood sugar. I find it really difficult when away to get other people to understand how important it is to have good meals on time. I wonder if anyone has any suggestions about how to get over this problem. They did take food with them that helped a bit, but you can't take whole meals along.

Feeling Good

The burst of sugar really helped me this morning, I was really motivated to do my jobs and was dancing around to loud music while I was doing my decorating. I have made sure that I have had plenty of other foods through the day to keep my blood sugar levels up and I am feeling great.
I must remember to include fruit at the start of my day in future.

How to get up your energy levels

After a couple of fairly lazy days I have quite a bit to do today, so I have decided to start the day with a big bowl of fruit. I will make sure I get plenty of complex carbs later, but I wondered whether the sugar hit first thing will give me the energy I need to finish my painting in the hall and do all my other jobs today. Hopefully it will work, I will let you know.

Why is it so low at the moment?

Having tried to introduce a lot more wholemeal foods into our diets at the moment I would have expected my blood sugar to be much higher. However looking back into what I've been eating lately I've realised that not only have I been making smaller portions, I have also been missing out on some of my snacks. I do find that if I don't have a snack in the middle of the afternoon, and a decent supper before bed that it does have a big impact on the way I feel. Does anyone else feel the same?

Feeling Low

After all my efforts to try and higher our blood sugar I am feeling really low today. Tired, no energy with a headache. I am doing my best to snap out of it, and will have an early night tonight as it could just be tiredness due to a burglar alarm going off nearly all night outside my house.
Abbie is much better today though. She didn't eat as much lunch, but she had a big snack after school and is in a much better mood.

Trying to help my moody 5 year old

My daughter always gets moody in the summer because she plays out in the evening with her friends. She is usually pretty bad when she comes out of school so I always have a snack at hand, but she is always really miserable when her friends are round. She is fine until it is time for them to go home and then she starts crying. Last night she cried for ten minutes, and usually she doesn't cry at all.
I am trying to increase the amount of complex carbyhydrates she has in her diet and also give her a bigger snack after school and might try putting more food in her lunch box but it is a real struggle with her. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Low Blood Sugar

Low blood sugar is a disease that runs in my family. The aim of this blog is to keep a diary of how things I am doing in my diet and other parts of my life change the way I feel and how my blood sugar is doing in order to help other people cope with this.

It accompanies a website I have created which is where I started this diary. However, I felt that it would be a good idea to change it to a blog diary as I would be able to more easily have feedback on how other people cope.

I hope you enjoy the blog and while you are waiting for my first diary entry take a look at the website:

http://www.bowbridgepublishing.com/lowbloodsugar