I have a weird reaction to eating baked potatoes?

Question

Whenever I eat baked potatoes, sometime afterwards I get sharp, stabbing twinges of hunger (except it feels weirder than that), and I start to feel lightheaded and shakey and ill and weak, and sometimes I tremble slightly and feel kind of like I might pass out. If I then eat something heavy and nonstarchy, like baked beans, it goes away. Mashed or fried potatoes sometimes make me feel a little bit like this, but just a little bit.

What's wrong with me?

By the way, I also can't be filled up by anything with a lot of carbohydrates, like pasta or bread or whatever.

I always find that no matter how much I eat for dinner, at the end of the day I feel hungry and its not sated unless I eat a can of beans, unless dinner had lots of beans. Yes, my roommates have complained. I have no idea why this is.

Answer 1

This sounds suspiciously like diabetes. Simple carbs (like white bread, regular pasta, candy, potatoes, high fructose corn syrup, etc.) drive your blood sugar higher and can give you a feeling of hunger (and more.)

The beans are complex carbs and are much slower to hit your blood sugar.

http://www.glycemicindex.com will tell you about high and low glycemic foods, and help you avoid this -assuming this is the cause.

It's very important you talk to your doctor right away so you can be tested.

I am not a doctor, so consulting one is important. I can only guess, the doctor can test. Best of luck to you.

Answer 2

it's most probably an bad reaction. probably shouldn't eat anything that's starchy.