Cutting carbs and I feel so dizzy...

Your diary is not open.

Are you staying hydrated?

I second meeper123. Overall, your eats look pretty healthy - but adding some whole grains and other healthy carbs in may help you feel better, too, and keep your energy up!

I don't see why you're attempting low carb though if your diet is relatively clean already.

Your net calories are 701 yesterday and around 1000 more or less the days before. You probably just need to eat. Why are you starving yourself? There is no need for it to lose weight. Try this calculator to see what you really should be eating.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

I'm not following any specific diet, but I have been trying to decrease my carbs. For the last few days I have felt kinda dizzy and shakey. Kinda like you get with low blood sugar, even if I've eaten. Is this normal? Will this pass? My diet log is open if anyone wants to look. I am not carb free, just trying to eat fewer carbs. I had pb and a few saltines and milk this afternoon to see if that would help but I still feel woozy. :sick:

Wasn't able to look at your diary but sometimes, restricting carbs can cause your blood pressure to go down pretty quickly, if you are used to having normal or low blood pressure before you restricted your carbs. (That's why a lower carb--and especially a low sugar---diet is good for those with high blood pressure.) A lower carb diet isn't for everyone (although everyone can and probably should go sugar-free). If you are going to lower carb, you must increase your fat intake (should be "good fats" like nuts and avocados but even an increase in saturated fat, like organic butter, is beneficial). You can go lower carb or you can go lower fat, but you really shouldn't do both--even though there are some here who are doing both. There's no science yet to back this up, but it has been my experience that I must eat fat to get my body to burn fat. Don't ask me why it works--I just know that it works for me and in conferring with other Paleo-Primal-low carbers, I hear the same story. Exercising while doing low carb and low fat will just exhaust you. Low carbers are almost universal in claiming that you must eat more fat if you are going to go lower carb. I just "talked" to a woman yesterday who says that she is losing weight even though she eats 60-70% of her calories in fat.

Everyone I kow that eats 60 to 70 percent fat (that is only good fat) loses weight. I think that is the way we were meant to eat.... good fats and fruits and veggies

it looks like you do not have enough fat

You averaged 1300 calories per day.... Add fat... good fat.... grass fed beef, good daily, nuts, avocados oils... etc.

You're averaging more carbs than I am, and I'm not eating low carb. Maybe it's calories, or hydration? You aren't eating very many calories and are burning quite a few.

You need to take complex carbs like a baked potatoe or pasta so you will have some energy.

The whole benefit of counting calories is that you don't have to cut down on certain things, calories in vs calories out

The reason you are dizzy is because some of the candida in your body is dying off. It feeds off of carbs and sugar. When you reduce carbs, candida dies and releases toxins into your system. During "die off" 79 toxins are released including ethanol and acetaldehyde. This is what people mean when they say they got, "carb flu". It will pass in a few days. That is why it is a good idea to cut carbs slowly, decreasing a little each day. Soon you'll feel amazing.

I felt like this the first week I cut out refined carbs.Dizzy and weird and not altogether there. But I also wasn't eating enough calories either. I knew I needed more calories but it was hard to fit them in when I was eating lower calorie foods like veggies and fruit. I needed to cut the refined carbs cold turkey though cause I was seriously addicted. After that first week of feeling weird and upping my calories I felt better and the carb cravings were mostly gone. Check out that scooby workshop calculator someone mentioned and input your info. I still do a lower carb, mostly limiting to 113g of carbs a day. I think my percentages are 25% carbs 30% protein and 45% fat but if I go over on the carbs and stay under on my calories it's no big deal.