Does anyone get cravings for certain foods or drinks. I'm confused whether they are just cravings or something connected with Hypoglycemia. I only tend to get them during the night. I looked up the link between sleeping tablets and Hypoglycemia and there does seem to be a link, as in they mess up your insulin balance. However when I first became ill, I wasn't on any kind of medication and suffered from this symptom every night. It always seemed to happen at around the same time and I would be compelled to eat something sweet. Then that changed to being compelled to drink milk. It went away for quite a long time, but since my sleep has become worse again I feel compelled to get up during the night and drink milk again. I used to think that if you craved something it was because your body needed it, but someone told me we crave the things that arn't good for you. What does anyone else think? Love Tracy xx <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Hi Tracy
Don't know if this will help but I have been reading Cutlers book and it says if you don't dream you should supplement with choline. I did some research and found out that cravings for chocolate, milk, icecream are also a sign of needing to supplement with choline. I have also been having these cravings at night too and was doing good with the hypoglycemia until just recently. BTW I don't dream. Do you?

I have short bursts of sleep and do have quite vivid dreams that are usually quite weird, accompnied with heavy sweating and aching and feeling generally awful. Similar to having a very bad bout of the flu, where your almost delerious and when I finally get up I never feel like I've been to sleep, more like I've been run over by a tractor. I never go into a deep sleep and feel refreshed. It takes me a couple of hours to get going in the morning. It had got so much better, but the last week has been hell. I am exhausted. What is choline? I've never heard of that. Love Tracy x

i get occasional hypoglycemia and found eating something protein every few hrs cures the problem.
im not sure if food cravings are part of it, i have cravings but ive mastered how to cook the things i crave for from scratch with sweeteners and not sugar. If i fancy a macdonalds i just remnd myself that the reason it smells so good is because its full of crap, like MSG. i have given in and eaten things like birthday cake, etc in the past but not many times, im qiuite strong willed when it comes to diet, i dont want to feel any worse than i do. i dont have to worry about chocolate cravings, it takes me only a few minutes to make my own raw chocolate.

Hi Tracy
Choline is in letchinson...I hope I spelled that right. if I do dream which is very rare it is usually a bad one. Also it takes me a couple of hours to get going too in the morning, makes it hard to get to work or anywhere on time. Sucks!!!
Hi Dawn
How are you? So how do you make that chocolate? Chocolate is hard for me to avoid, I have been getting the really dark but still has some sugar in it. I never liked the dark but for some reason now that is what my cravings are for instead of milk chocolate,that was always my favorite. Take Care!
Rachel

Hi rachel,
recipe
cacoa butter
cacoa powder
cacoa nibs
sweetner,i use,xylitol or agave nectar
flavouring,(natural)
almonds, brazils,or cashews (ground) you can use gogi berries also.
Put a bit of carob powder in if you like
vanilla.
melt he cacoa butter and mix all ingredients together,i put in ice cube trays to set in fridge,
you can substitute cacoa butter with coconut oil or use half an half.
dawn

Dawn, where do you get the chocolate and the agave nectar from?

Tracy, I have had the same thing. I guess it is hypoglycemia, or something. I used to get up too and drink large glasses of milk and coudln't stop going back for more. Always at night! Plus I'd get cravings to eat at odd hours as well.

I believe it's candida and mercury that does this. Sugar is not the answer, it can cause these things to occur. You may feel better when you get a fix, but then worse in the long run. I only controlled it by controlling the candida and detoxing the mercury. Otherwise it would never stop. A neverending cycle of bizzare cravings and unstable blood sugar.

Milk has lactose and will feed yeast as well and apparently milk interfers with detoxing mercury. Wheat is treated wtih mercury fungicide apparently (whcih might explain why I would get immediate poisoning symptoms after eating it, though that could have been gluten too). And sugar lowers immunity and messes up so many things inside the body, that I believe these three, plus yeast itself should be completely avoided.

It depends on what you're willing to give up diet wise to gain any ease of symptoms, as so often foods we crave are the yeast calling out to be fed! And giving into it in anyway shape or form is usually pretty disastrous. It hurts to have them die off, and cravings increase during that time often, but it's necessary if one wants to control the symptoms they keep causing.
Of course whatever is at the bottom of all this is obviously allowing these things to happen in the first place. But until that is remedied, most of us need to battle yeast long term.

I know you've heard all this before, but just letting you know that your symptoms have been experienced by me many times and still do. My yeast has also been worse since walking into a dental office and being re-exposed to mercury vapor. They seem to go hand in hand.

Hi Linda, thanks to Matti i got the cacoa butter from this site; www.funkyraw.com
The rest of the ingredients i got at revital, a local health food shop.
www.revital.com
Agave, you can get at Holland and Barrett, i get mine at Asda.
Dawn x

Hi dawn….i made Mati’s truffles today…….really good. I add vanilla pods, maca powder plus a touch of salt….Happy Easter to me! Yumm!

Agave from here

http://www.detoxyourworld.com/cgi-b...&PN=agave%2ehtml%23aF0017#aF0017

I am fine with agave, but cannot handle any other sugar. it is heavenly stuff.

Thought you might mention them Sunshine. They are £££ but I may end up buying something from there at some point.

At the moment if I made this recipe I'd probably scoff the lot in a day. But I will save it for myself and my daughter, when the food cravings have died down.

Thanks for the info Dawn. What sorts of proportions do you use these ingredients in -- or do you just combine them as you like? What kind of flavouring do you use, apart from vanilla? Do you always grind the nuts or can you put them in whole?

Yes…I know detoxyourworld is expensive, but they do seem to know what they are doing. Its not just any old on-line shop. It is specifically for RAW foods. All the stuff I have got from them tastes amazing and I get no reaction. I think thats down to how they make the foods they sell. They use only very small amounts of heat so that enzyme loss is minimal. Anyway, I sure other stuff is just as good. This just happens to be where I get my raw ingredients. If I have to pay a tad more to get zero reactions…so be it.

I grind the nuts and cacao nibs first, then add the liquid stuff at the end in small doses until you get the right consistency. Quanatities….whatever you think is right. Flavourings…tastes wonderful just like that. I did add some cinnamon to one batch but think I put too much in and was not as nice. A little nutmeg is nice.

Remember to keep them in the freezer. Tastes better and consistency is better.

Yes….i have to be careful not to scoff the lot all in one go too. They are amazingly good and I still get zero reaction from them except deep deep joy!

Sounds great! I'll treat myself to something from that site sometime.

I'm having horrendous cravings right now. I'd just eat that batch and then, craving more, I'd probably rampage through the local chocolate shop.

I keep telling myself I'm at war with candida and I ain't gonna let the buggers win LOL.

Hi Linda, i dont measure anything,i crush the nuts because i like it that way but you could have them whole. i have used lemon flavouring which was great.
its much cheaper to make your own,once you have the ingredients it lasts ages.i was buying ready made stuff but one bar is between £3 and £4 could be more, and they are tiny. i also found some of them just werent sweet enough for my taste buds, when i eat chocolate its really got to be sweet, when i make my own i make it sweet. once you try he agave nectare you'l never need sugar, though it is more expensive,i have also used xylitol which is just as good in my view.
Does anyone know if raw chocolate has alot or any caffeine in it?
Cheers Dawn.

Thanks Dawn. This sounds lovely. Lots of cocoa butter, that's what I'd have.

The caffeine is one concern though. As far as I know, chocolate naturally contains it. I actually can feel the hit when I have dark chocolate which is probably why my cravings are always for milk or white chocolate.

The nightwaking and having a hard time getting going in the mornings sounds adrenal. Hypoglycemia goes hand in hand with adrenal fatigue and often hits in the middle of the night. For me, it causes headaches sometimes, but usually restless leg and jitteriness is how it shows itself. Hg poisoning can really drain the adrenals. Cortisol should be at it's highest in the morning causing you to wake up. When the adrenals are fatigued, it isn't and you may have difficulty in waking. That's why many people with adrenal fatigue use coffee, sugar, and caffeine to get them going in the mornings. Check this out:

http://www.drrind.com/scorecardmatrix.asp

Shonda

I've had to give up on cacao nibs and all things chocolate and therefore things worth living for <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

With my ACE, if I eat cacao, I have severe insomnia.

i havnt made an chocolate for a couple of weeks now, went a bit crazy with it, took it to work also for people to try,most said it was better than shop bought choc,anyway it satisfied my cravings so much that im not craving it anymore which is great.