dizzy spells due to low calorie intake?

TribeHokie

Yep I've definitely had this happen to me. When I was a young stupid undergrad and thought I could live on 500 calories a day I had to skip class several times because I was too dizzy to get out of bed. Eat more and make sure you aren't overestimating your intake.

slim4health56

Blood pressure measures the strength of the heart contracting...

Not exactly...blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of arteries.

nanaloseweight

Quote.... I do NOT want to start a flame war here, but some people don't respond well to artificial sweeteners either.


I agree with this artificial sweetener theory, read an article just recently, very interesting too. I have started to add cinnamon to my coffee and fruit and I no longer need sugar/sweetener anymore!! Yay, way to go.

Benb7777

40 years ago I started out T 335 lbs went on a strict 800 calorie daily diet, working out at least an hr a day, 15 months later I was at 170 lbs & feeling great! Not once did I have a faint feeling. NOW 40 years later I found myself at 242 lbs Feb 1 exactly 40 years later. So I decided it was time to get back in shape so I started the same ͏Di͏e͏t again and after a month I’m down to 224.8 lbs , but I can’t seem to shake the light headedness. Then made a crucial mistake giving blood yesterday faintness was only a step away. Man what a difference 40 years makes, but have to get it back in shape so I can leave a good looking corpse, just kidding. But I am gonna have to balance my calories during the day

PAV8888

You may want to bring this up in a separate post that you start so that people can freely respond to you specifically as opposed to the users from 7 years ago

There is a reason why MFP will not assign less than 1500 Calories as a target for a male.

There is a reason why a deficit that is larger than 20% of TDEE (25% while obese) is considered AGGRESSIVE.

There is a reason why losing more than 1% of your body weight per week is considered AGGRESSIVE.

Based on your discussion I will make the assumption that you must be at least 60 years old.

Now there are some incredibly athletic 60 year olds on MFP. But I think that even they will probably all agree that it is unlikely that at 60+ they have the same recovery capacity and ability to disregard common sense and health recommendations that they might have had in their 20s!

Hopefully you have time in front of you. Loads of time to get to your goal weight. There is no time-table that is dictating a VLCD without a direct medical exigency and supervision.

Oh yeah... and you will feel dizzy and light headed if you try to implement one... and that is only the tip of UNWANTED HEALTH SIDE EFFECTS that you are incurring.

I lost 72.5lbs my first 12 months of logging on MFP eating >2500 Calories a day. No-typo. And somehow I suspect I ended up much happier than trying to do that by eating 800!

Just saying!