I feel terrible...

kimny72

DuaneBarbour wrote: »

Update, just ate my salad for lunch (too late to change my meals for today, I'm already in work) and I washed it down with a can of Sugar Free Irn Bru (coz I'm Scottish, its what we do, lol) which has about 30mg caffeine per 330ml and I can already say I'm feeling better than before... I don't want to smash my head off the desk any longer! Woop!

That's awesome, glad you're feeling better! Sorry your post got threadjacked, but at least you got the answer first. Good luck!

Lesscookies12

What's your current height and weight??

bennettinfinity

nutrofight wrote: »

Caffeine is a toxin. Why do you think plants make it?

So they can be up early in the morning to get right to photosynthesizin'?

bennettinfinity

nutrofight wrote: »

bennettinfinity wrote: »

nutrofight wrote: »

Caffeine is a toxin. Why do you think plants make it?

So they can be up early in the morning to get right to photosynthesizin'?

You think plants sleep?

I think plants sleep about as much as I think caffeine is a toxin.

Awaiting subsequent troll response... please don't disappoint me.

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Tacklewasher

OP. I've gone from 330 to ~205. I did it by reducing my calories and increasing activity. I didn't cut out anything I enjoyed, including caffeine. I cut out things that had too many calories for how full they made me, so pop and other high calorie stuff. Beyond that my "diet" looks pretty much like it was, just less of it.

Go easy on cutting out foods. Eat a decent amount of calories. Do what exercise you are capable of. Go for a bit slower weight loss and get that this is a ling term goal.

Most of all, ignore the unsubstantiated crap being spread by social media and those unable to discern the difference.

Sparkeysworld

The headache sounds like electrolyte imbalance, your basically urinating your electrolytes out and not replacing them!
Get some electrolyte tabs or the dioralyte type sachets you can use for diarrhea, these will replace the electrolytes you are losing.
I would use one tab or one sachet per 2 litres of water.
Hope you feel better soon.
Sparkey

Tq43

Sounds like caffeine or sugar withdrawal or both.
Maybe just cut back to one coffee a day initially and then one every decond day til you ferl you can cut it out altogether. Maybe allow yourself a mini treat everyday...like a mini chocolate bar.
If you find this too hard and you're an all or nothing person.....then perseverance will do a lot.
You will start to feel better but I know it took me approx 2-3 weeks to feel completely normal again after cutting out added sugar and caffeine.
I'm only 5 weeks into it but i definitely have a lot more energy and feel brighter, more alert. So it's definitely worth the hard work.
This is the hardest bit....you can do it !

paperpudding

Sparkeysworld wrote: »

The headache sounds like electrolyte imbalance, your basically urinating your electrolytes out and not replacing them!
Get some electrolyte tabs or the dioralyte type sachets you can use for diarrhea, these will replace the electrolytes you are losing.
I would use one tab or one sachet per 2 litres of water.
Hope you feel better soon.
Sparkey

OP is eating perfectly normal food - just not enough of it and a sudden cessation of caffeine.

He does not need electrolyte sachets.

spzjlb

tirowow12385 wrote: »

DuaneBarbour wrote: »

MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »

Two questions, one did you happen to cut out anything like caffeine, and two what are your stats? It may be that your deficit is too extreme for your stats.

Yes, I've stopped drinking tea and coffee and coca cola etc.

I'm 6ft and 238lbs, male.

tirowow12385 wrote: »

Add table salt to your food, yw.

I thought adding too much salt led to water retention and bloating? Is the natural salt in food not enough?

You have the symptoms of hypothyroidism from cutting out iodine in your diet. Headaches, weakness, mental fog. I'm fairly positive, go ahead and add salt and see if there's no improvement, what's the worse that can happen, bloating?

Iodine is stored effectively in the thyroid, thus it would normally take months without iodine for deficiency to appear. Not three days.

rasta_bb

DuaneBarbour wrote: »

Ok,

So I'm on day 3 of my weight loss and overall healthy eating journey and since day 1 I've felt like crap.
Got a dull but consistent headache and a huge lack of motivation and energy.
My first thought was my hydration was wrong so increased my water intake and it has not helped.
I'm consuming about 1500 cal per day and according to the app I'm hitting my daily protein and carb targets as well as most of the vitamin targets.
I don't know what to do and I don't know how much longer I can suffer this... I even took a taxi to work today because I couldn't face walking for my train like I always do.

As an example of my daily food:
Day 1
Breakfast consisted of a cup of hot water with lemon and ginger, a bowl of oatmeal with 180ml whole milk and 2 hard boiled eggs.

Lunch consisted of a large self made salad with various dark leafy greens such as baby spinach and kale with baby tomatoes, spring onions and bell peppers with a very light splash of an olive oil and vinegar mixture.

Dinner consisted of a whole grilled chicken breast (about 120g) with some herbs and spices, 1 cup of cooked wholegrain brown rice and 2 cups for steamed broccoli.

An hour before bed I had another bowl of oatmeal and between breakfast and lunch I had a juice consisting of 4 carrots, 2 oranges and a large piece of ginger from my coldpress juicer.

I'm drinking 2-3 litres of water with no additives per day and urinating like a race horse.
What can I do to feel better and stop this headache and energy drop?

Many thanks!

This article should help anyone with this issue, hopefully

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-food-addiction-works#section2

eminater

Where is the protein in your lunch is my first thought. And your snacks are also just basically sugars too. Maybe eat the fruit/veg rather than juicing and including nuts (proteins/fats) with those snacks.

gracegettingittogether

I am an RN and just want to say that over dosage on Tylenol is indeed real and serious. There are protocals followed at hospitals that ensure that patients don't get more than a certain amount per day.
And absolutely kidneys fail because of excessive toxins, such as alcohol or over medication.

4legsRbetterthan2

Hi All,

Another reminder: Please take debates over to the debate board. Disagree with what is posted once, if you cant reach an agreement after that take the debate elsewhere, or link over to an existing debate.

Thanks for your help,
4legs