Ketosis too quickly? So sick help

Im just starting myself but i read to increase sodium a bit if you are feeling ill. I would avoid the hydroxycut for now though. Just stick to it. It wont last long.

My guess is a pretty bad electrolyte imbalance too.

When going into ketosis, about 5000mg of sodium per day is a good start. Since you cut carbs so drastically, make sure you are getting it. Drink boullion, salt all food, tke salt tablets or add a teaspoon of sat to water. It sounds like a lot but you need it.

Potassium and magnesium get low when sodium is low. Supplementing those will help.

As a general rule, people in ketosis get enough micronutrients from meat, eggs, dairy, nuts and veggies. Deficiencies are not common if you eat good foods.... Beyond the initial electrolyte imbalance from lowering carbs.

nvmomketo wrote: »

My guess is a pretty bad electrolyte imbalance too.

When going into ketosis, about 5000mg of sodium per day is a good start. Since you cut carbs so drastically, make sure you are getting it. Drink boullion, salt all food, tke salt tablets or add a teaspoon of sat to water. It sounds like a lot but you need it.

Potassium and magnesium get low when sodium is low. Supplementing those will help.

As a general rule, people in ketosis get enough micronutrients from meat, eggs, dairy, nuts and veggies. Deficiencies are not common if you eat good foods.... Beyond the initial electrolyte imbalance from lowering carbs.

While true, I think this is where many newbies fail. Because of this, when following extremely restrictive diets, people don't implement correctly and cause more harm than good. In fact, I have had several friends end up in the hospital when incorrectly implementing vegan and vegetarian diets.

snowyky06 wrote: »

Take 1 teaspoon of Pink Himalayan Salt and make sure you are drinking a minimum of 64oz of water daily, more if possible it will help get the toxins out of your system, reduce the headaches and muscle cramps which will come as well if you're not adding the salt back to your body. Also a good quality multivitamin is always a good idea no matter what diet you are on. The salt will help replenish any electrolytes you are losing due to the ketogenic process. Also depending how many carbs you were eating previously the carb flu could be much worse.

Just a piece of semantics. One's body does not build toxins. Our kidneys and liver detoxifies our bodies constant.

My doctor told me to only take Hydroxycut if I wanted a heart attack or stroke. Please stop using. If you are on Atkins please read their web site and follow their plan much safer that way.

gottalovemae538 wrote: »

Thank you guys. I ate so many carbs last night and immediately felt better. The shocker was I am still in ketosis, just a trace amount. I'm not taking the hydroxycut anymore and I will definitely up my carbs some. I will be doing things a lot different now. As far as my eating habits, everything I ate was correct and right out of the Adkins book.

Are you sure there isn't something else going on with your health? Maybe talking to your dr would be a good idea?

gottalovemae538 wrote: »

So far there isn't anything. The only reason why I am on this diet is because I'm freaked out due to my mother's illnesses caused by her weight. I guess I took it all to far. I'm still a little icky I'm about to eat some ramen for breakfast and see how that goes. I'll give it a week and if I don't get any better I'll be going to the drs

There are tons of methods to lose weight. You just have to find a way to achieve a calorie deficit to help you get there. You don't need low carb, keto, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, etc... You need a way of eating you enjoy, that fills you up, that allows you to stay on track and that addresses any medical condition that you have.

JanetYellen wrote: »

Ramen is really not a good food to eat to recover. How about a glass of milk, and a slice of toast with peanut butter or something?

Why wouldn't ramen work? Carbs and salty broth sound like what OP should have.

OP, there are plenty of ways to eat that don't have you puking until you pop blood vessels or get migraines. You don't need to eat keto do drop weight.

gottalovemae538 wrote: »

I know ramen is horrible to eat, but for some odd reason it seems to always do the trick when I feel that sick. I am staying on the keto, it seems to be helping me but I won't do it to a extreme like I was. I do obviously need to do some more research and tweak it to a bit. The benefits of this diet seem to out weigh me getting the keto flu.

Definitely do research before jumping into an extremely restrctive diet. Keto requires additional sodium, high fat and the carbs should come from leafy greens to provide balance to your electrolytes.

Don't be fooled though in thinking this diet is going to provide some magical weight loss and prevention against a host of diseases.... it still requires you to eat less calories than you burn to lose weight. You still want to get a variety of foods to ensure micronutrient availability to address your vitamin and mineral requirements.

I do wish you luck as there are people who are successful with this diet. But in the end, it needs to be something you enjoy and can fit into your lifestyle. And if this doesn't work, then maybe you reassess what is ideal to address your situation.

One thing to consider - if you try this again, and the same results are showing up, I would consider that potentially this diet might not be for you. Or that your level of carbs needed to go into ketosis is higher than others. There isn't much research on it, but some of the recent research on the human body that's actually looking at individuals, rather than looking for averages in populations, is finding that people can respond QUITE differently to different foods and nutrients. Women don't process protein and carbs like men, for example. People's blood sugar can respond the complete opposite to one another even on the same foods, and it remains consistent to the person (like one person's blood sugar level spikes with a food, and another one's drops to the same food - study on that one is here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151119133230.htm )

I have not see that there has BEEN any research on ketosis, but it would not surprise me to find out some day that people's bodies may go into ketosis at different carb levels, depending on the individual, and that what is a healthy carb level for one may be grossly unhealthy for another.