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Keep food stashed in your car, desk, etc. A Luna/Clif/Power Bar will get you through that low blood sugar phase, or more importantly, get your partner through i

by Evgeny 16y ago

Keep food stashed in your car, desk, etc. A Luna/Clif/Power Bar will get you through that low blood sugar phase, or more importantly, get your partner through it when they're cranky and they have no idea how close they are to being left in a ditch by the side of the road. Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits. Either have someone wash and iron your shirts (a couple bucks a shirt) Well, I made a habit of ironing five shirts for the next week during the weekend. When you're used to it, it takes a minute or two per shirt. Maybe it's cheaper to hire someone for couple bucks per shirt, but my time is not that precious yet unfortunately. I wholeheartedly agree to most of the other points.

reeses 16y ago
"Keep food"...relates mainly to my wife, who doesn't seem to get that there's a link between "not eating" and "being hungry." We'll leave on a four hour trip and she won't think that it might be a good idea to eat before leaving. Let's just say that it took a while before I made the connection from "wow, we have most of our fights in the car" to two things: my getting annoyed with other drivers and misplacing my aggression, and her getting peckish. As for shirts, it's the same sort of choice as hiring a housekeeper. The housekeeper time/value is a lot easier, though, as cleaning the house is certainly more onerous than ironing shirts. :-)
tnorthcutt 16y ago
Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits. Not just for diabetics, if you ask me. I'll occasionally have a "low blood sugar phase", where despite having eaten at my normal times that day, I'll just run into a complete wall and need to eat RIGHT NOW, and if I don't I start to feel miserable very quickly (faint/weak, etc.).

by Evgeny 16y ago

reeses 16y ago

"Keep food"...relates mainly to my wife, who doesn't seem to get that there's a link between "not eating" and "being hungry." We'll leave on a four hour trip and she won't think that it might be a good idea to eat before leaving. Let's just say that it took a while before I made the connection from "wow, we have most of our fights in the car" to two things: my getting annoyed with other drivers and misplacing my aggression, and her getting peckish. As for shirts, it's the same sort of choice as hiring a housekeeper. The housekeeper time/value is a lot easier, though, as cleaning the house is certainly more onerous than ironing shirts. :-)

tnorthcutt 16y ago

Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits. Not just for diabetics, if you ask me. I'll occasionally have a "low blood sugar phase", where despite having eaten at my normal times that day, I'll just run into a complete wall and need to eat RIGHT NOW, and if I don't I start to feel miserable very quickly (faint/weak, etc.).