Socially awesome awkward penguin basically sums me up. Ever since I was in early elementary school, my mom knew something was off with my eating habits and needs, so we got some blood work done in elementary school as well as in the fifth grade where I had a hypoglycemic attack like I've never experienced since, and it was concluded that I was hypoglycemic. Its just a long word that means I have low blood sugar. I don't need to inject myself with anything daily, I just need to make sure I eat enough, all the time.
I know what you're probably thinking: all you have to do is eat enough? Honestly though it can sometimes be such a burden. If I go more than like 2 1/2-3 1/2 hours without eating anything at all, I get nauseous in the blink of an eye (its so weird...I'll be perfectly fine one minute, and the next I could easily be dry heaving over the toilet), dizzy, sometimes pretty disoriented, really tired, wicked cranky, and more than half the time I will lose my appetite, which makes it pretty difficult to get myself feeling back to normal again.
Its hard to keep up with eating so much though. If I happen to go "out" anywhere and I'm not sure when I'll be back, I have to make sure to at the very least bring a couple granola bars and some water with me. I don't think I've ever once gotten through one of my 3 hour classes without having to eat something at some point during it. I feel like a walking grocery store sometimes.
So it's pretty paramount that I have some go-to snacks to get in my belly either before or while the nausea begins to set in and I realize that I need something to eat, now. I've been trying pretty hard lately to make my own snacks to bring places too, instead of grabbing PopTarts or Chewy bars on my way running out the door because I forgot. There is always a 50/50 chance that I have an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers in my bag, but lately I've been trying to make my own "_____ and crackers" snacks to take on the run with me. Nutella on a Ritz is usually my go-to first thought. I love Nutella. After that, it's whatever fruit I have around me, smooshed into my Nutella. After that, whatevs. I think these are my favorites because I could die happy while eating anything of the salty/sweet combination (when I was a kid I would dip potato chips into Dr. Pepper. Yes, the soda, don't judge me).
Yesterday, though, I had cream cheese in the house. Smooshed it on a Ritz, ate it. Then I saw that we had bananas, so I cut up that banana, like so (I'm convinced I've come up with the tidiest way to slice bananas...),
put it on top, ate it. Then I realized that what I was eating could be like a mini banana-cream-pie, so I put a little bit of sugar on top of my next cracker's cream cheese (like quick-made cream cheese frosting), put that banana on top and ate that little shit too.
Cute, huh?
I should turn this into a segment. Hypoglycemia: Eat Something Before You Throw Up And/Or Pass Out.
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