I am suffering from hypoglycemia, and found in the handbook that I shouldn't eat fruit on the raw diet for about 3 months. I understand that the fruit is a very good way of getting natural sugar, and that the processed stuff is "evil" for our bodies.
Each time has gone for vegetables only I keep trying but falling off the bandwagon and going back to the sugary foods only to mess up and have a very bad time physically/mentally.

I'm on my first day again today and I will do better...
Thanks for listening.
Comet

If you can't do raw without sweet fruits initially, then I'd say eat the fruit - I mean it's better than cookies, right?

You might also try substituting more fatty raw foods and see if those help with your sugar cravings - avocado, coconut, nuts & seeds. Also don't forget to eat plenty of dark green leafy things, because those foods will stabilize your blood sugar & keep your cravings in check.

Good luck!

Raw whole fresh fruits and vegetables are fine, they are generally quite low in the glycemic index and load charts (check them out here [www.mendosa.com]).

Cheers,
J

ps For the benefit of people brwosing this post, I copy the explanation of glycemic index and load from that same website below.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers—the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index—where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

What do you eat on a daily basis when you are not trying to do raw? What did your doc tell you?

If I had hypoglycemia I would completely avoid dairy. There is a theory that dairy (not excessive sugar consumption) may damage the pancreas and that a damaged pancreas has problems with insulin production.

If you really want to use sweeteners, blue agave nectar is accually relatively low on the glycemic index and doesnt spike your blood/sugar level.

and sunshine has good advise, also raw fats or oils with sweet foods will slow the sugar release and maintain the energy longer

Thank you everyone for responding. I'm too embarassed and ashamed to explain what i eat when I'm not eating raw - I'll just say that it is what everyone else eats - k?
The advice here has helped me immensely already. It is great to know that I'm fighting a winning battle now, as there are many people that are here, going through the same thing, with plenty of advice and success to share. )
Thank you again, I really appreciate it, it is soul food, I will attempt to write replies when I can ) I know I will succeed also this time thanks to help here...

Many people have healed their hypo/hyper glycemia by eating a low fat raw vegan diet. This is because fats in the bloodstream inhibit insulin from carrying sugar from the blood to the cells. In Dr Graham's FAQ, he covers the issue of sugar problems versus fruits versus fats:

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I have candida or a yeast infection. How can I eat so much fruit?

Excess fat is the culprit in candida, not sugar, per se. When fat levels in the blood rise, so does blood sugar, because excess fat inhibits insulin from performing its function of escorting sugar out of the bloodstream. The excess fat lines the blood vessel walls, the cells, insulin receptor sites, the sugar molecules themselves, and the insulin with a thin coating of fat, thus blocking and inhibiting normal metabolic activity.

Too much sugar in the blood is as life threatening as too little and can result in serious illness or death. Yeast, or candida, is a constant presence in the blood; it serves as a life preservation mechanism, blooming when there is an excess of sugar in the blood stream to bring blood sugar down to a non-threatening level. When the sugar is distributed and used by the cells of the body, the yeast quickly dies off as it is supposed to.

If fat levels stay chronically high due to a poor diet, sugar will remain in the bloodstream and feed the large candida colonies instead of feeding the 18 trillion cells of your body. Starved for fuel, these cells can no longer metabolize energy, and you become tired, and feel rundown. Because all carbohydrate, fat, and protein that we eat is converted to simple sugar (glucose) if it is to be used by the cells for fuel, the way out of this cycle is not to eat less sugar, but to consume less fat. When fat levels drop, the sugar starts to get processed and distributed again, and the yeast levels drop because there is no longer excess sugar available.