4th day with low calories, feel horrible and lack of energy

How many calories are you eating a day?

Don't worry about tracking potassium. A lot of foods in the database are missing the potassium entries. Eat fruits & veg and you will get enough.

kommodevaran wrote: »

porterjcharles333 wrote: »

Also it is impossible it seems to get my 100% of potassium ! I even bough suppiments! I hope my body will adjust to the low energy diet, I work out more so I can eat more .

What is your height/weight/sex/age, estimated TDEE, and how many calories are you eating? Don't worry about potassium unless 1) you have a medically diagnosed deficiency, and 2) entries of all the foods you eat have potassium filled in.

This. We can't offer assistance without knowing your height/weight/sex/age, estimated TDEE, and number of calories you're eating.

DanaDark wrote: »

Lower calories will not cause what you are experiencing. ((Technically it can but you're not on 100 calories a day for 5 years in some third world country dying village or something))

BS. Low calorie eating most certainly could cause the OP's symptoms. We don't know if it is, because we don't have enough info. But to post that low calorie eating cannot make a person feel horrible and lack energy is to post absolute drivel.

jemhh wrote: »

BS. Low calorie eating most certainly could cause the OP's symptoms. We don't know if it is, because we don't have enough info. But to post that low calorie eating cannot make a person feel horrible and lack energy is to post absolute drivel.

You are wrong. The body has an abundance of tools and stores to offset too low of calories for a decent period of time. (Hint: that's how we drain fat cells)

The body does not have a mechanism for generating essential proteins, vitamins, and minerals. Eating too few calories likely means eating too little and thus not getting the proper nutrition as per above. That is what generally causes such symptoms, not the lack of calories. This is a case of assuming correlation equals causation.

This is also assuming the OP actually HAS energy stores... Fatty tissue, some muscle, a few bones remaining in relatively decent shape.

Learn to eat potassiumy food and you'll be ok. And if you're falling off the wagon after 4 days you're doing it wrong. I suggest you have a day or two of eating like the recently you, and accurately log all of it. Get an idea of the calorie level you were eating at and then start reducing it by a reasonable amount of about 500 calories each week. Were you eating 14000 calories each week? Try starting your reduction by eating 11500 calories for a week. Your stomach will shrink in a few days and the new level of 11500 will seem sufficient. You'll lose a pound, too. Get the hang of this new life at that level and then decide if you want to lower your intake further, and how you want to do it. Were you eating 20000 calories each week? Jumping from there to the 10800 weekly calories of a 1200 calorie daily diet is way too much to try at once.

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

The human body also deliberately fights back against a calorie deficit by instigating these changes (desire to move less being the key one), because it thinks there's a famine and you're gonna die. That's the effect of the calorie deficit itself, not necessarily poor nutrition. Although poor nutrition also has similar effects, a caloric deficit is equally likely to be the cause.

Reducing calories to a level MFP recommends will not put the body into thinking there is famine and impending death.

As I mentioned, it is VERY VERY unlikely the OP is in prolonged massive caloric restriction common in poorer third world countries.

My assumptions are standard for MFPers: 1. following MFP suggested calories, 2. Given daily internet access, most likely in a 1st world country thus no worry of extreme starvation.

Of course, those assumptions could be incorrect. I honestly don't go checking every OPs location...

But yeah, under non-extreme cases, low calories is unlikely to cause these symptoms without some other underlying issue (medical). When someone first reduces their calorie intake, it is not uncommon to not get the proper nutrition right off the bat.