Crashing from Carbs: How Skipped Meals & Sugar Spiked My Stress – A Data-Driven Health Check (June 12, 2025)

 Today’s numbers tell the story of a body running on fumes and a nervous system that’s been working overtime to keep things afloat.

📊 Metrics Summary

  • Glucose: 119 mg/dL (in range, stable)

  • HRV Score: 12% ⬇️ – very low variability

  • Stress: 81% ⬇️ – taxing, with sympathetic dominance (fight-or-flight)

  • Energy: 25% ⬆️ – still low, but improved from earlier

  • Health: 45% ⬆️ – vulnerable but trending better

  • Focus: 44% ⬆️ – limited, not sharp

  • Coherence: 53% ⬇️ – average, slight drop

Nervous System Balance:
Sympathetic: 50 | Parasympathetic: 10
→ My body leaned hard into “go mode” all day. Rest-and-digest didn’t stand a chance.

🍽 Nutrition Breakdown (Logged via MyFitnessPal)

  • Total Calories: 1,522 (Goal: 1,650)

  • Protein: 78g (Short by 71g)

  • Carbs: 229g (Over by 101g)

  • Sugar: 155g (Over by 106g)

  • Fiber: 8g (Short by 13g)

  • Fat: 38g (Under by 28g)

➡️ Only calories logged were from breakfast (46%) and snacks (54%) — no lunch or dinner. That’s likely part of what triggered today’s dysregulation.

🧠 Insights

My Welltory app flagged a high-stress, low-energy state nearly all day. Coherence and HRV took a nosedive — my system is clearly exhausted. Glucose stayed mostly stable except for one sharp drop near 6 PM, which looked like a reactive hypoglycemic dip. I felt it.

The sugar overload combined with minimal protein and skipped meals probably taxed my system harder than it could bounce back from today. Fiber being this low didn’t help stabilize things either. That’s something I’ll course-correct tomorrow.

💊 Supplement & Medication Stack

🟡 Tonight’s Plan

No pushing. No extra effort. Just recovery. I’ll hydrate, do some slow nasal breathing or box breathing, and prioritize deep sleep. Hoping for a rebound in coherence and HRV tomorrow. This kind of day is the data-driven reminder I needed: skipping meals is not some badge of discipline. It’s a fast pass to burnout.

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