I think you are doing great.

I think that since you have lost a lot of weight your body is far more able to quickly bring down highs now, especially with the exercise you do on a regular basis, the exercise should be keeping the glycogen reserves down and those, when empty, allow the body to hide about a pound of blood glucose for later use, of course it would also hide four pounds of water at the same time.

It is sorta the same for me too, mostly gotten into the pattern now, just having to tweak it a little.

I hope you find a good balance between everything

The crashing feeling is I think what athletes call the wall, one hits that before insulin drops enough to allow glucagon to be released, it takes time to adapt the body to transit that point without being totally wiped out by it.

It would seem you are at least stepping toward the right preparation place and hopefully your body will adapt to 60ies too, and hopefully lower its standard insulin level so that it can release the glucagon faster when needed.

As for too much glucagon, only those that have insufficient insulin production and sensitivity can produce too much of it for too long, or those with tumors in pancreas that release glucagon, in those cases blood glucose levels reach really high values and just continue going up, resulting in sugar coma.

Anyway, I hope you find the perfect balance for you and that your body learns to control things better.

Pancreas needs to learn to not overproduce insulin now that you consume a whole lot less carbs, are you still on any non insulin diabetes meds as those may make adapting a little harder, especially sulfonylureas that cause pancreas to release more insulin (basically that is like taking insulin still, only it also wears out the pancreas beta cells at least according to Dr Alan Einstein @ http://www.diabetesnewsstand.com/vissue/einstein/titlepage.html rather interesting video too I think.)

And I thought I had it made again. I had a hamburger before rehab which is way more fat, carbs and calories than I normally eat for lunch. That should do it – give me more than enough calories to burn.

I only fell to 86 and so that was perfect, right? I ate more before so I didn’t eat after, other than a piece of hard candy. Two hours later I was 67 and in the middle of — not sure what to call it, it’s just I feel differently when I’m crashing v. when I’m solid in the 70s. All I wanted to do was sleep. Eating felt like way too much trouble.

However, I feel perfectly fine in the 80s and 90s now and even in the 70s when I’m, like I said, solid there. I still don’t think I’m likely to have dangerous lows, I’ve watched my body compensate for low blood sugar and often wondered if I have too much glucagon. But, the crashing feeling is no fun at all.

MSG might however make one hungrier and is also a bit addictive. So in Pringle’s case it sort of fits with their whole slogan “once you pop, you can’t stop”

If you feel like reading some more about MSG/Glutamate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_(flavor)#Research_into_health_effects
and more concise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Health_concerns

I do seem sensitive to things that might badly effect asthmatic people though, and after to the best of my ability clearing those out of my food I feel somewhat better, but the downside is that I am now much more sensitive to those compounds. So this might not really matter so much for you.