Now the plan is to avoid processed, avoid preservatives, and move towards more natural and organic. I went to the doctor and they said don't wait more than 3-4 hours between meals.
This is utterly crazy. If you couldn't go more than 3-4 hours between meals without experiencing dizziness, something about your diet was seriously wrong.
If you felt better after experimentally eating something different, then eating that was almost certainly healthier. Yes, even if it was donuts. Don't let cultural beliefs about food override your direct observations!
The more aware I am of my diet and how nutrition affects my body, I find the more sensitive I become to changes.
I cut coffee, bread, sugar, and beef/pork. I would eat very nutritious meals, and my energy levels and body felt amazing, but the stand up and be dizzy became more common.
Was I going through withdrawal? Is my body to accustomed to eating these foods? Should my theory be, "sugar and bread is ok as long as I eat other nutritious meals?"
I'm not sure, I'm still experimenting, and I'm utilizing the final month of my insurance with my parents to figure this out.
(If your blood pressure is on the low side raising it will likely help, but obviously consult with a doctor)
But now with diagnosed T2 diabetes, that makes sense. I process carbs very badly, and spirals into a "process carbs into fat quickly, and get hungrier, all the while jack blood sugar". Of course, high fat and high protein diet has went very well for me. I'm not hungry like I used to be, I've lost 40 lbs since the start, and I just feel better.
Do you have a medical condition that requires you to continously eat? If not this advice is suspect at best. Do the people who advise this wake up in the middle of the night to eat?
Of course everyone is different so experement and listen to your body. Mine strongly prefers going long periods of time between meals.
Could be a medical condition, a diet issue, could be a mind issue - anxiety/depression, or it could be that from training as an endurance athlete, and now that I've stopped running my body is having trouble adapting. I read some research with 4 groups: male endurance trained, female endurance trained, male not trained, female no trained. After tests , male endurance trained had a heart pattern change and the other 3 subjects didn't have the same change. From 14-23 I trained at higher levels for distance running and now I do light walking.
I consider myself to be an active thinker, meaning that my mind is always contemplating some topic. Does my brain burn more calories than Expected and does it need certain nutrition to maintain health?
The diZiness is a miscommunication between the heart and the brain.
I don't know..I've had dark chocolate and granola trail mix near me between meals the last 2 days and I've had no dizziness.