Sometimes I get this bonking sensation early in practice: shakiness, a starved feeling, weakness, odd lights in the visual field (not migrainal here), dizziness--the kind of stuff I usually associate with low blood sugar.
So I started eating a package of Lance ToastChee crackers before every practice, and I almost never get the bonking problem if I do so.
Alas, now a new problem has emerged: just lost my final lower molar, which cracked down the middle like its three predecessor brethren. It's now hard to eat crackers (I can kind of hamster-chomp them with my incisors and other non-masticating teeth).
It's actually hard to eat anything right now, given evacuated-tooth-related pain. My question: are there any forms of liquid nourishment that can take the place of solid food and provide enough of the right kinds of calories to let you swim without bonking?
Note: William Faulkner was once advised that a diet of whiskey alone was not sufficient to sustain life. His retort: There's a lot of nourishment in an acre of corn.
Alas, I have become a teetotaler and thus any recommended liquid nourishment must be of the non-spirited variety.
Thanks in advance for your advice. BTW, diets that allow all you can eat of one specific food really don't work long term. I have been on the Ice Cream Diet for two days straight now, and I never believed how much I could grow to hate this foul cold substance.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Do any of you also get that odd (and very disquieting) bonk sensation? I've tried the Instant Breakfast route, and for some reason, it didn't work as well as those Lance crackers. I thought maybe it was because of all the sugar in milk, plus whatever is added to the IB itself.
In terms of the bonk, there have been times that I just slowed down and swam through it, eventually feeling normal again after maybe 1000 yards. Sometimes, though, it doesn't go away and I think I might faint, which can be problematic in the deep end.
In any event, it's time for my next Ensure as I await the diagnosis and nutritional advice of my fellow armchair clinicians with a passing knowledge of pre-diabetes in toothless swimmers.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Do any of you also get that odd (and very disquieting) bonk sensation? I've tried the Instant Breakfast route, and for some reason, it didn't work as well as those Lance crackers. I thought maybe it was because of all the sugar in milk, plus whatever is added to the IB itself.
In terms of the bonk, there have been times that I just slowed down and swam through it, eventually feeling normal again after maybe 1000 yards. Sometimes, though, it doesn't go away and I think I might faint, which can be problematic in the deep end.
In any event, it's time for my next Ensure as I await the diagnosis and nutritional advice of my fellow armchair clinicians with a passing knowledge of pre-diabetes in toothless swimmers.