Bit of help please??..Fed up already!!

When I first started healthy eating I got headaches too.
I hope they get better, mine did with time. :[

You're probably suffering from caffeine withdrawal, since it is an addictive substance. Your body is used to so much caffeine, and you just quit cold turkey.

Of course it is worth it!! If you decided to lose weight for you, then you did it for all the right reasons!! Your body is just busy getting rid of an accumulation of the bad foods you have been putting into it, once that cleaning process is through you will feel utterly amazing!! Open up your diary so that everyone on the site can see what you are eating now and give you more support.

Good luck with it - if it was easy then no-one would be overweight!! You are worth all the effort you are putting into this. :flowerforyou:

Try brewing some green tea but don't add ANY sweeteners. It has about 1/4 the caffeine of coffee, so it'll give you a little. Plus it's good for weight loss.

Also, the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas are incrediblly addictive, and they mess with your brain. So that might be contributing to your headache issue too.

Chage is always difficult. We humans are creatures of habit, and our body is great at adapting and getting comfortable. You just put your body through a MAJOR shock, so give it a little time and it will catch up.

Please don't be discouraged! The trick to dieting and eating healthier is to add exercise. I know it may feel like you have no energy because you feel yucky, but start exercising atleast 30 mins a day, and you will LOVE how your attitude and confidence changes. You'll see changes in yourself physically and mentally, and then eventually on the scale. Diets only work along with exercise; they go hand in hand. I hope this helps and I hope you feel better soon! Keep it up, we are all here to help!!

I agree with everyone that has already posted...

Going from 4 cans of soda a day to none, your body is going through some major withdrawals. Plus now that there isn't a stady flow of toxins (artificial sweetners, MSG, bad fats, etc) the stored toxins are coming out. Good idea to keep the water going to flush your system out. When craving a caffeine fix try the green tea suggestion! Or if you're craving the carbonation, try soda water with lemons.

The weight will come off when your body has adjusted... be sure to be eating healthy calories and enough. Eat back your exercise calories otherwise your body will store anything that it takes in because it doesn't know when it'll get the next meal. Believe me, I've seen it happen with myself, I was barely eating anything because I was afraid of the calories but then I was so hungry and I focused on healthy foods and ate when I was hungry I lost 2 lbs that week!

Stick with it... you will feel better soon!! :happy:

As a previous poster said, the sick, headachy feeling is caffeine withdrawal. If you're still feeling crummy today, drink one can of diet coke. My bet is that withing about an hour all your worst symptoms will go away.

But dehydration may also be a factor in the headachy, icky feeling. If you went from 4 cans of diet coke to nothing, then you're down a lot of fluid. Remember that you need to keep your water intake high to stay hydrated.

About the other things (it's been a whole week and you haven't lost anything)--welcome to the unpredictable nature of the human body. Some people lose six pounds or more the first week and some people don't lose anything. One factor is that with that level of caffeine intake, you probably were not retaining any water. As soon as you quit the caffeine, you may have started retaining water. That could account for a pound or two. Also, it just sometimes takes a while for weight to start coming off. Be patient.

And finally, several recent articles in Science News have shown that caffeine has genuine benefits for the body. You might object to diet soda b/c of it's sodium content or because of concerns about the relationship between artificial sweeteners and disordered hunger signals, but caffeine itself probably isn't harmful and might be beneficial.

I feel your pain. I had a bad weekend-well four days-I put on 2lbs because if it. As a result of being super healthy and going on a binge I have been getting headaches for the past two days. I'm keeping myself really high on water to get rid of the waste.

It is hard, but having lost a fair bit of weight myself, it's best just to stick with it. You won't regret it-for me it's never easy but the results are so worth the effort.

Keep strong-add me if you want to moan about headaches etc.

And finally, several recent articles in Science News have shown that caffeine has genuine benefits for the body. You might object to diet soda b/c of it's sodium content or because of concerns about the relationship between artificial sweeteners and disordered hunger signals, but caffeine itself probably isn't harmful and might be beneficial.

It has been found that caffeine can be beneficial but only in very high doses. What an average person drinks in a day is not really all that beneficial in the sense of benefiting the body.

The artificial sweeteners will actually make you hungrier because your brain reads the sweet as a higher calorie intake but then once it is metabolized there is no calories and the body will start to crave more calories because you tricked it.

Don't give up, it will ease and it will be worth it, I decided to make a change 2years ago, my daughter came home and said"mammy cydney says your the fattest mammy in our class" and I knew this was truth, 2 years and 5 stone on I am still at it, I'm not gonna say everyday is a breeze, and we all fall off the wagon from time to time. I now train at the gym 5 nights a week, feel great, look better! And do amazing things with my eight year old, it is worth every bit of pain! Not bad for my starting weight of 21st 8lb, at 5ft4. Goog luck and feel free to add me

caffine is addictive
sugar is addictive
if you've cut your caffine and sugar habits cold turkey you're going to feel like *kitten*. On top of that, if you've decreased your overall food intake you're going to also feel hungry for a month. Oh, and don't forget, if you've switched from over processed foods to healthier high fiber options your stomach is going to turn on you because you're body isn't used to fiber. What's waiting on the other side? You will feel better, you will be able to brethe deeper, walk longer, play harder with your child, get an overall superior quality of life. Stick with it and you'll be fine, you just have to bare with it for 30 days and turn that corner. I agree with crammers74, move, get out there and move it'll make you feel better in the long run.

I would maybe be a little more subtle with your changes, so it's not such a shock. The take away is awful for you, as you know, so I'd still cut that out, but maybe have 2 diet cokes...then 1....then half a can...slowly but surely. If I didn't have coffee in the morning I'd feel awful. It certainly is addictive. That might make this process seem a little less like torture. LOL! Make sure your calorie goal isn't too low either. Opening up your diary would help a ton. you can TOTALLY do this. Great job!