Headaches

your profile is closed, so it is impossible to see the food or calories you are consuming. It could be a number of things:
1. Insufficient caloric intake: make sure you get your minimum calories. Crash dieting is dangerous and does not result in long term weight loss. Healthy lifestyle changes that are sustainable are the only way to lose and keep it gone.
2. Dehydration: make sure you drink plenty of water.
3. Caffeine withdrawl: are you suddenly cutting out sources of caffeine such as coffee, soda, or energy drinks? If so, you are going to have to work through the withdraw - it took me about 2 weeks of headaches when I gave up soda and coffee years ago. I do drink coffee again, but limit it to 2 cups in the morning.
4. Sleep deprivation - have there been changes to your sleep patterns since you started your diet? Especially related to caffeine or exercise. Caffeine is self explanatory. Some people (and I am one), can get pretty geeked up after a workout. If I exercise too late in the evening, I may have trouble falling asleep. Guaranteed headache the next morning.

Those are just some ideas. You will need to look at your food intake and life changes to see what might be triggering headaches. If they persist and you can't find a cause - see a doctor.

Coffee is fine as long as you don't put loads of sugar. I use only milk.

doll_zoe wrote: »

I think it's the caffeine I use to drink so much soda and I cut my self off completely . But it's ok to drink coffee ?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Most people stop soda intake on a diet because of the calories in the average can of pop. Even diet soda is linked to weight control issues. Although not proven, there is quite a bit of support via various studies that artificial sweetner may 'trick' your body's sugar feedback mechanisms ultimately resulting in you craving/eating more food to get more sugar. Just google some on diet soda's contributions to weight gain and obesity and you will find lots. But, you will need read critically and to draw your own conclusions.

Anyway, coffee and tea are pretty close to null calories. Black coffee is something like 2 calories per cup. Of course that goes up if you add sugar and creamers. (and even if you use artificial sweetners...well...again, do your own research on that as the jury remains out). So, from a weight loss perspective - yea, coffee is pretty innocuous. There are lots of people who believe coffee may have other ill effects on health, but my reading suggests that is way overblown for the moderate coffee drinker - say 2 cups a day. But I also know that anything in excess is likely to have certain risks, so I wouldn't recommend pounding 5 or 6 or more cups of the stuff a day. But, again, I would suggest you hit the all mighty google and find some respectable data from respectable sites (say the Mayo clinic) and make your own conclusions. Everyone is different and only you can assess your health needs along with help from your doctor.

Considering your other thread where you said you had consumed 600 calories in meal replacement shakes and 1400 calories left for the day, I'd venture to guess that not eating enough may be linked to your headaches. The lack of caffeine may also be a factor, or dehydration.

Meh, I lost 100lbs drinking diet coke and I have kept that 100lbs off drinking diet coke for nearly 3yrs. People only have an issue with diet sodas when they think they can have a Big Mac and a diet coke and somehow one cancels out the other.