to have no sympathy for people who suffer from low sugar

[roisin]

OK, here's the scenario. Perfectly medically fit and healthy person claims they are trying to lose weight, but every 2 hours or so they 'have to eat' something high-sugar because otherwise their 'blood sugar levels drop' and they feel unwell.

Now in my rudimentary understanding of the biology of weight loss your blood sugar levels have to drop, as that is precisely the point at which your body realises it needs to start converting body fat to sugar to supply energy; so that is exactly the point where you will start losing weight. And if you eat at that point then you won't lose weight.

Clearly I don't suffer from low blood sugar levels. As I generally have 3 meals a day, and rarely snack at all inbetween those meals.

So AIBU? Is this something 'real' that I should have some real sympathy for?

Reading Des's post I wondered about her analysis re sedentary lifestyles. I had my worst problems when I was a teenager. This was probably the most active time in my life, as I did a lot of sport, and have never really done so since. Mostly I have grown out of the really dizzy black out effects, although I still have them occasionally (very related to how much I move my head around and travel sickness, but only when I am low on energy). I was fine during pregnancy and breastfeeding, but then I think I did eat a lot then! So I'm interested in other people's experience re. exercise.

nooka, yes I definitely had this much more as a teenager when I was more active (but also was less au fait with how to manage it)