Sodium deficiency?
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RunningJustIncase wrote: »How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
You can take a look at my diary. I sent you FR. but usually I’m in a deficit. I maintained intentionally in December but usually avg. 1100 mg of sodium a day. Usually 1200-1400 a day but I do workout hard and burn a lot.
OP, if you’re eating 1200-1400 a day and not eating back exercise calories, depending on how long you’ve been running this type of a deficit, some of your problems could stem from under-eating.
I might have missed it, but what’s your height, current weight and goal weight?0 -
How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
And she had two pregnancies? Your wife is officially my hero!
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How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
And she had two pregnancies? Your wife is officially my hero!
We just had our 2nd child. Ironically, pregnancy is the best time for POTS since you naturally double your blood volume. With POTS, blood volume tends to be lower than normal, which is part of the rest veins collapse more often.1 -
RunningJustIncase wrote: »How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
You can take a look at my diary. I sent you FR. but usually I’m in a deficit. I maintained intentionally in December but usually avg. 1100 mg of sodium a day. Usually 1200-1400 a day but I do workout hard and burn a lot.
Low cal, low sodium, excessive exercise and a lot of weight loss is probably driving the problem. Youd be best taking andiet break since you cut calorie for a year. This means bumping calories to maintenance for two weeks, particularly do moderate and very high carb. Based on your weight loss, your maintenance is around 2100 calories, which is probably where you should be for two weeks.
It might drive some increases in water weight, especially if you do high carb, because you will drive increases to glycogen storage and increase food waste in your system. Don't worey, its not fat.
Recent evidence suggest that this can reduce cortisol levels (stress levels) and improve leptin levels (hunger and regulation of energy balance).
Eta: looking at your diary, it seems that you are eating more than you suggest. But id definitely increase sodium or add salt to your foods.
I aim for 3000 to 5000mg a day.
Ok thank you for your input! And yes I saw the water retention throughout the month of December but knew I wasn’t gaining actual fat:)0 -
RunningJustIncase wrote: »How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
You can take a look at my diary. I sent you FR. but usually I’m in a deficit. I maintained intentionally in December but usually avg. 1100 mg of sodium a day. Usually 1200-1400 a day but I do workout hard and burn a lot.
OP, if you’re eating 1200-1400 a day and not eating back exercise calories, depending on how long you’ve been running this type of a deficit, some of your problems could stem from under-eating.
I might have missed it, but what’s your height, current weight and goal weight?
I try and eat some back especially now. I’m 5’3. After baby I started from 230. I’m now 138. I lost it in a year. My goal is 135 so I’m close! Normally I kept myself at 170 because I used to be smaller like now but was sick a lot. But decided to try this again. I’m in great shape and workout hard!
I’ve added pedialyte to my water since I can ring my clothes out after every workout.1 -
RunningJustIncase wrote: »RunningJustIncase wrote: »How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
You can take a look at my diary. I sent you FR. but usually I’m in a deficit. I maintained intentionally in December but usually avg. 1100 mg of sodium a day. Usually 1200-1400 a day but I do workout hard and burn a lot.
OP, if you’re eating 1200-1400 a day and not eating back exercise calories, depending on how long you’ve been running this type of a deficit, some of your problems could stem from under-eating.
I might have missed it, but what’s your height, current weight and goal weight?
I try and eat some back especially now. I’m 5’3. After baby I started from 230. I’m now 138. I lost it in a year. My goal is 135 so I’m close! Normally I kept myself at 170 because I used to be smaller like now but was sick a lot. But decided to try this again. I’m in great shape and workout hard!
I’ve added pedialyte to my water since I can ring my clothes out after every workout.
OP, you’re at a healthy weight. 1200 is too aggressive a deficit for you. You’re not eating enough. Your goal should be to lose .5 lbs a week.
I realize you’re so close and just want to push hard to the finish line, but at what cost? What shape will you be in when you get there? Think about the reason you started this post. The way you’re feeling. The extreme deficit could be part of the reason you have those symptoms, especially if you’ve maintained that rate of loss (or tried to) the entire time you’ve been losing weight.
You’ve done such an incredible job shedding pounds. Please take care of yourself and don’t risk undoing all your hard work by pushing your body beyond what it can take.
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RunningJustIncase wrote: »RunningJustIncase wrote: »How many calories are you eating? How much sodium did you eat when you increased?
My wife has POTS and her sodium goals are close to 10,000mg; she always tries to eat a lot of potassium and magnesium. On top of that, she gets IV infusions every other week, supplements with prescription 800mg of potassium, 500mg of magnesium and 5000iu of Vit D to fight fatigue. But my wife's POTS is pretty bad. She can't lie flat or changes positions very quickly. But if you want to know if you have POTS, you would need to go to a cardiologist and get a tilt table test.
In regards to salt, you can add a bunch to your foods (my wife actually salts her bacon) and then supplement if needed with electrolyte tablets.
You can take a look at my diary. I sent you FR. but usually I’m in a deficit. I maintained intentionally in December but usually avg. 1100 mg of sodium a day. Usually 1200-1400 a day but I do workout hard and burn a lot.
OP, if you’re eating 1200-1400 a day and not eating back exercise calories, depending on how long you’ve been running this type of a deficit, some of your problems could stem from under-eating.
I might have missed it, but what’s your height, current weight and goal weight?
I try and eat some back especially now. I’m 5’3. After baby I started from 230. I’m now 138. I lost it in a year. My goal is 135 so I’m close! Normally I kept myself at 170 because I used to be smaller like now but was sick a lot. But decided to try this again. I’m in great shape and workout hard!
I’ve added pedialyte to my water since I can ring my clothes out after every workout.
OP, you’re at a healthy weight. 1200 is too aggressive a deficit for you. You’re not eating enough. Your goal should be to lose .5 lbs a week.
I realize you’re so close and just want to push hard to the finish line, but at what cost? What shape will you be in when you get there? Think about the reason you started this post. The way you’re feeling. The extreme deficit could be part of the reason you have those symptoms, especially if you’ve maintained that rate of loss (or tried to) the entire time you’ve been losing weight.
You’ve done such an incredible job shedding pounds. Please take care of yourself and don’t risk undoing all your hard work by pushing your body beyond what it can take.
Thank you so much! I greatly appreciate your kindness and encouragement:)0 -
I actually have the opposite of POTS, and my GP doesn't know what to do with that. If I stand up and start moving, or when I do a sprint from standing, or walk or run uphill my HR does not adjust to the extra effort unless I stop doing this. Once I continue it drops down again and I get the feeling of standing up too quickly with low blood pressure.
Hiking up mountains for me looks like this: walk 50-200 steps with heavy legs, light-headed and being out of breath. Stop. HR goes up and I feel normal again right away. Walk on: light-headed again, heavy legs and being out of breath as the HR does not increase. Stop again, etc...
I can jump out of bed in the morning and walk circles in my flat, and my HR remains at around 55-60, my resting HR until I stop and then it goes up.
You could start by getting a referral to a cardiologist, specifically one that specialises in electrophysiology. Your GP probably ‘doesn’t know what to do with this’ as it’s outside the scope of general practice.
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I actually have the opposite of POTS, and my GP doesn't know what to do with that. If I stand up and start moving, or when I do a sprint from standing, or walk or run uphill my HR does not adjust to the extra effort unless I stop doing this. Once I continue it drops down again and I get the feeling of standing up too quickly with low blood pressure.
Hiking up mountains for me looks like this: walk 50-200 steps with heavy legs, light-headed and being out of breath. Stop. HR goes up and I feel normal again right away. Walk on: light-headed again, heavy legs and being out of breath as the HR does not increase. Stop again, etc...
I can jump out of bed in the morning and walk circles in my flat, and my HR remains at around 55-60, my resting HR until I stop and then it goes up.
You could start by getting a referral to a cardiologist, specifically one that specialises in electrophysiology. Your GP probably ‘doesn’t know what to do with this’ as it’s outside the scope of general practice.
I know. Problem with being in the UK where only the GP can make referrals, and where they only do so for those that are really sick, not those that have a problem since earliest childhood and are still going strong
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