Why do I need to stabilize my blood sugar and how? Are you someone that struggles with late night cravings? Mood swings or a lack of energy? You are probably also (conscious or unconsciously) struggling with blood sugar balance. Trying to eat healthier or just trying to find your way with these nasty side effects. Today we’ve prepared some great daily practices, diet changes and natural remedies to help you heal yourself. Now every body is different, and we are not your personal doctor that knows your situation. Yet we are nature, and so by helping our bodies, in a natural way to balance your blood sugar, everybody can come a great way forward. So we invite you to try, all of them, and see which ones are best for you. And to integrate them into your daily life, and see your life improve! So let’s get started.
The basics of the situation
What even is happening in your body, when the blood sugar is imbalanced? To put it basic, we have this line through our day. And when this line is mostly linear, our organs and systems in the body get the right amount of nutrients and oxygen that it needs all day long. But sadly, this is for many people not the case. This is because, when we eat something, our line gets higher, and when we have digested our food, and absorbed the nutrients, the line gets lower. Now this is completely normal, but when we eat too much sugar, take a lot of caffeine or eat with gaps that are too long between the next meal. Our lines get way too low, or skyrocket up. And this creates such an impact on the body, because all other hormone production need to stop, in order to balance out this ‘line’. Which is why, it comes with so many side effects. Because our body is trying to show us, please change this, please stop. Which is why, I have prepared some daily changes for you. So that you have a clear vision on how to heal your blood sugar levels. And go through it, without stress or some repressing pills. Because to heal something, we need to get to the root of the cause, and change that for good.
Eating at set times
Now there is not one diet, but there certainly is one rule for balanced hormones. Eating at set times. Now for some, intermitting fasting helps and they eat at 10- 2 and 6 pm, while for others ( especially women ) thrive better on eating 6 small portions through out the day. This is totally up to you, and again look at what is best for you. But by eating at set times, every day ( no, 30 min difference is no problem ), our hormonal system gets used to it. And this way, it knows when to produce certain hormones to start the digestion, when the food will come, etc. This way, you take away an enormous amount of unconscious stress from the system. Which again, allows it to heal and thrive naturally.
Man/ Female
Now this may seem a little put in boxes, but the female body, has an hormonal cycle of 30 days. While mens hormonal cycles last 24 hours. This may show you, why women need other things than man. And this is especially true for how many times a day, we eat. While intermitting fasting has been tested greatly to improve your health, it has been tested only on men. And what has been proven, is that women’s bodies thrive much better on eating smaller portions, 5-6 times a day. While men, thrive better on eating 2-3 times a day. Now of course this can vary from all bodies, but this is again, a great indicator to listen to your body. Your hormonal system. And see, when eating 5 times a day, how is your energy at night? Are you less stressed? Do you get late night cravings? How is your menstrual cycle? These are all direct reflections of how our hormonal system is doing.
Now for me, personally my body thrives best on eating at 10-12-4 and 7 pm. So experiment and look at what would be best for you.
Quick disclaimer: eating more times a day, will not make you gain weight if your body does not need extra weight. When we balance our hormones, we often either lose/gain weight, which is exactly what our body needs at that time, to live healthier.
Eating to gain energy
Now we can either help our body, or slowly make it sick. And we do this by either choosing to eat highly processed ( energy taking ) donuts, energy bars, cookies, candy, sodas. Or by balancing grains with veggies, eating good sources of omega 3& 9 fat like avocados, fatty fish, nuts and seeds. The choice is yours.
Stress
For this topic, we made an entire post to help you live a low stress live, especially during stressful times. But a quick tip for now. The best stress releaser, is reminding yourself, that you are enough, you are doing enough, you are not broken or unworthy. You are doing as much as you can, you look beautiful, it is going to be okay. We tend to worry so much ( consciously and unconsciously ), and this is taking our precious energy, that could be used to heal your system, but instead is wasted. So by just taking time during the day, whether it is putting a post note on your mirror, or just smiling to yourself in the mirror. This may sound silly, but oh do we all need it. The world takes a big toll on us, especially with the unrealistic beauty and life standards. So by just complimenting yourself, you give energy to your body. And as silly as it may is, try it for a day, and just see what happens.
Blame us if it didn’t make you smile, if that makes you feel better.
Caffeine
Whether it is in coffee, green tea, or other substances. When we have a sensitive ‘line’, because of the daily struggle already. We really want to avoid caffeine. Because it really just makes the situation worse. Now most of us, have coffee because of a lack of energy. But the lack of energy, usually comes from an imbalanced blood sugar on the long term. So it just keeps you in this visous cycle. Now how do you break it? While still needing that energy? The easiest answer would be, just stop drinking the caffeine, and get through the muddy period without any replacement. But that would be shitty advice. Which is why, we have made a separate post, all about natural ways to have more energy.
And of course, added with a bonus of herbal energy givers, without the energy crashers. So you can check it out too, and avoid coffee for at least 3 weeks.
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