Sounds like you need some good fats and protein. Check your diet and see if you are adding enough of these. Another common problem with dizziness is lack of hydration or too much caffeine. Good luck!

You mentioned a "six week Paleo program". What are you planning at the end of that six weeks? I think the Paleo lifestyle is a fail if only intended as a quick weight loss strategy. Paleo is a WIN as a lifelong strategy for ideal health.

Thanks all for your feedback. I will look more closely at protein and health fat intake. Is there any rough estimate of what the fat,protein,carb ratio should be?

It depends on you. However, fat should never be less than 50% of calories consumed and ideally more. I also think carbs never need to be more than 20%, for me, much less. What are you using now?

For the sake of ease, you could just follow Paleo guidelines, being sure not to avoid fat or going overboard on sugar/starchy foods and not worry about macros or calories. Since you have so little to lose, that route will likely be best. However, you need to let go of the mind set of achieving the fastest weight loss possible. Picture there being no deadline and work to determine a healthy way to eat that is sustainable forever.

One issue I have been having very dizzy spells over the last couple of days that I did not get in the first week.

When this happened to me, it turned out I was not eating enough total calories. Macros (and fat/protein/carb ratios) were not the cause in my case -- inadvertently eating at too low a calorie level was.

If you're not counting calories, the easiest way to get more calories in is fatty cuts of meat, nut butters, avocados, olive oil, coconut milk, and butter/ghee.

Also as an aside, when I started consuming too much fat for my system, it had unpleasant digestive side effects...so, watch out for that lol.

Yes, with a 2 pound weight loss goal with so little to lose, under-eating is likely the cause as noted before macros came into the discussion.

How much was too much fat for you? Interestingly, I had problems with fat when I was eating too many refined carbs. My extremely obese aunt avoids fat for the same reason, but the problem, in our case anyway, is not the fat but the overload of sugar/carbs.

How much was too much fat for you? Interestingly, I had problems with fat when I was eating too many refined carbs.

I noticed issues when I had more than 1/2 c coconut milk in a meal, particularly when combined with fattier cuts of meat. Especially if I had two or more servings per day. (For instance, I would make a cream of veggie soup and sub coconut milk for the cream, then have avocado and steak salad for my next meal.) I had these issues during the second half of a Whole30, so I know refined carbs were not responsible for my issue.

That being said, I seem to handle the fat in ground/minced meat much better. And my stomach seems to have adjusted gradually to a higher fat content over the last couple years. Just don't try to make the jump all at once!

Out of curiosity, I looked at my macro breakdown for the last month and it was: 20% P / 47% F / 33% C. I don't consciously adhere to a macro ratio so this is just how my body likes to eat naturally (and a byproduct of my current budget, which includes lots of cheap ground meats). I do attempt to get 1 g protein/lb of LBM in, but I missed it as often as I hit it this month...