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Light headed, mid day crashes and vertigo on week three

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  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    xDaniDragonflyx wrote: »
    ladipoet wrote: »
    xDaniDragonflyx wrote: »
    I'm wondering if what I'm feeling today is lack of electrolytes:

    I woke up feeling normal, did my morning routine of getting husband ready for work, going on a half hour walk, did some grocery shopping, then cooked myself some lunch. But after lunch, I just wanted to lay down and take a nap!

    Could this be because I haven't been drinking my keto-rade the last week? Not adding Lite Salt to my waters. Ugh... I thought I was starting to get depressed or something, I just have no will or energy to do anything. u_u

    Yes, very likely what you are experiencing is connected to electrolyte imbalance and/or the precursors of "keto flu."

    Yeah, the keto flu sucked @$$. I'm not going through that again. Back to sucking down lite salt. bleh.

    It’s not so much lite salt you need as sodium. It’s low sodium that causes it
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 7,021 Member
    edited May 2018
    Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »
    xDaniDragonflyx wrote: »
    ladipoet wrote: »
    xDaniDragonflyx wrote: »
    I'm wondering if what I'm feeling today is lack of electrolytes:

    I woke up feeling normal, did my morning routine of getting husband ready for work, going on a half hour walk, did some grocery shopping, then cooked myself some lunch. But after lunch, I just wanted to lay down and take a nap!

    Could this be because I haven't been drinking my keto-rade the last week? Not adding Lite Salt to my waters. Ugh... I thought I was starting to get depressed or something, I just have no will or energy to do anything. u_u

    Yes, very likely what you are experiencing is connected to electrolyte imbalance and/or the precursors of "keto flu."

    Yeah, the keto flu sucked @$$. I'm not going through that again. Back to sucking down lite salt. bleh.

    It’s not so much lite salt you need as sodium. It’s low sodium that causes it

    Yep. Potassium only gets low as the low sodium causes the body to leech other electrolytes. Get and keep sodium up and potassium will level out and stay up.
    Sodium>mag>potassium. That's your supplemental hierarchy of importance.
  • DarthWaderMT
    DarthWaderMT Posts: 231 Member
    baconslave wrote: »

    Yep. Potassium only gets low as the low sodium causes the body to leech other electrolytes. Get and keep sodium up and potassium will level out and stay up.
    Sodium>mag>potassium. That's your supplemental hierarchy of importance.

    Yep, that is what worked for me. I try to get my Mag and Potassium from food...

  • kimmydear
    kimmydear Posts: 298 Member
    I drink some pickle juice every day, but I don't let my family see me because they gag :) I also drink bouillon sometimes and add salt to my foods. I haven't had keto flu in a long long time even starting keto again recently after just being low carb for a long time. I don't log it though. I can tell by how I'm feeling if I'm salt deficient.
  • kimberwolf71
    kimberwolf71 Posts: 470 Member
    kpk54 wrote: »

    PS: a little butter whipped into a cup of salty broth is very tasty to me in the winter.

    Oh yes, hot buttered broth is my favorite winter, before bed treat on gym nights! Delicious!! Beats bullet proof coffee any day, although broth could never replace my good old morning black coffee!!
  • RAC56
    RAC56 Posts: 432 Member
    Olives, bacon, pickle juice, anchovies, pork rinds, pink salt, SODIUM MATTERS, especially in the beginning of going LCHF/Keto. Bullet Proof can be made with a cup of cocoa, cup of tea, cup of bone broth, etc. :)
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