aiwetir wrote: ↑November 7th, 2018, 12:13 am
If this is a recent issue, you could have your blood sugar looked at. All of my 13 aunts and uncles have Type 2. I get to look forward to that someday probably.
Before you take anyone's advice here I'd get that looked at.
This is good advice—I'm due for an annual physical and full blood workup.
I don't really suffer from bonking, and I don't even really get hungry. I'm definitely a "breakfast junkie" in that every day (no matter what I'm doing) I *must* eat something when I wakeup (like within 30 minutes of waking up) or get REALLY cranky. But coffee (no sugar) and a bagel or a cup of yogurt usually works fine.
Still, I certainly don't presume I'm immune to diabetes—I've definitely consumed a fair amount of processed foods and sugar in my life (not excessive amounts, but just the "normal" amount that people who aren't vegan and who didn't adopt an all-organic, whole foods/healthy diet until late in life might consume).
I guess mostly what I notice is that I want to be able to maintain HIGH energy levels from the beginning of a long, steep hike all the way to the end—so like staying hydrated, I just want to find something to eat that's reasonably healthy, high in calories, and that goes down super-fast 'n easy (so I can just keep the food intake going throughout a hike).
It's entirely possible though that any lagging energy levels I feel are more because I'm just not yet conditioned to doing longer hikes (10 miles or more). I tend to do lots of 3-4 mile hikes throughout the week and don't do longer ones more than once or twice a month. So I think when my body passes the 4-mile mark, it starts rebelling and saying "WTF? We're supposed to be stopping now!" LOL
Scott