I have been TRYING to gauge just how little I can eat in order NOT to get so tired, with a miriad of other unplesant things, after I eat. I mean it's crippling. I know I spoke to my Chiropractor about this problem and he told me to eat much smaller meals less more frequently throughout the day.

Biblically we SHOULD eat a handful of this and a handful of that as we hunt and gather. I am torn between small, high calorie meals and regular calorie meals. I am trying to lose a little weight but the frequent low calorie meals just don't stay with me very long. I get hungry again soon after.

But this is a problem because, just now, I ate a HALF of a tuna salad sandwich and already I can feel myself going down. Why do I get like this?? In my working days, after lunch, I was Useless for a couple hours and to TRY to be productive left me breathless and dizzy.

If anyone has any other suggestions I'd be glad to hear them.

Wiix a doc once asked me if I feel very tired after eating a meal. I said yes that I just want to lay down and sleep and I am useless for a while.

He told me that all the blood is going to that area to try to digest your food and that your body is working so hard to digest it has no energy for the rest of it.

He connected it to my thryoid condition and also told me to get a digestive enzyme.

Dont know if its the same or not.

Hope it improves

Did you feel anything just before you ate--weakness, nausea, headache? If so, you might have low blood sugar and just waited too long to eat. Eating high-protein, high-fiber (with plenty of water!) every 3 hours or so can keep your blood sugar stable and help you avoid this problem.


Good luck!

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Yea, extreme weakness. I don't hardly ever feel hunger. I had a friend who was like this, skinny as a stick her whole life. Not me though. I shouldn't weigh this much, I don't eat that much.

I think you should see an endocrinologist.

and while you are waiting to see the endocrinologist, trying researching metabolic syndrome/syndrome X....good luck

Well, since I started this thread I have done some things differently and the problem has disappeared. PLUS I have dropped almost 20 pounds. Yea, I'm shocked too.

I decided to just eat smaller, lower calorie meals and to cut out the night time eating all together. I do allow myself ONE sweet thing a day though but it has to be healthy and only a NORMAL serving, not a big plateful.

I knew if I thought about it correctly I could figure what I was doing wrong.