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You're doing great! Welcome to detox... seems unfair right? It will all be worth it in the end. Surround yourself with people who will cheer you on.30
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nutrofight wrote: »OP, I think it might be the feeling you are going like a race horse. You're mentally framing yourself as something without enough brains to hold human thoughts which is constraining your thoughts leading to tension. Try thinking you have to go like a person who drinks a lot of water instead.
Uhh, what?
Unsure if sarcasm or troll, lol9 -
Update, just ate my salad for lunch (too late to change my meals for today, I'm already in work) and I washed it down with a can of Sugar Free Irn Bru (coz I'm Scottish, its what we do, lol) which has about 30mg caffeine per 330ml and I can already say I'm feeling better than before... I don't want to smash my head off the desk any longer! Woop!49
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You should definitely reconsider your calorie goal also. I'm 5'9" 190lbs and can lose regularly on 2200 with 3 5k runs a week.1
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You should definitely reconsider your calorie goal also. I'm 5'9" 190lbs and can lose regularly on 2200 with 3 5k runs a week.
This is part of the problem.
I'm ex-military and been recovering from injuries to both legs for the best part of 10 years now. During this time I have been completely sedentary and eating and drinking junk from boredom.
Finally had the last surgery required to get back active again so running 5k is a bit of a long range goal for me.
Currently on a run-walk program to build up to that kind of sustainted exercise and beyond.
So at the moment I'm walking about 30 minutes tops. I'll get there though!
But yeah, I'll still reduce my weekly loss target to 1 or 1.5.
1.5 looks like I'll be sitting at around 1800 cal per day... That sounds doable.19 -
Glad to hear you're (1) slowing down your weight loss, and (2) reintroducing a little caffeine. I think you're going to find that the MFP program is much easier to tolerate making these changes.3
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tirowow12385 wrote: »
You have the symptoms of hypothyroidism from cutting out iodine in your diet. Headaches, weakness, mental fog. I'm fairly positive, go ahead and add salt and see if there's no improvement, what's the worse that can happen, bloating?DuaneBarbour wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »Two questions, one did you happen to cut out anything like caffeine, and two what are your stats? It may be that your deficit is too extreme for your stats.
Yes, I've stopped drinking tea and coffee and coca cola etc.
I'm 6ft and 238lbs, male.tirowow12385 wrote: »Add table salt to your food, yw.
I thought adding too much salt led to water retention and bloating? Is the natural salt in food not enough?
No he doesnt.
People do not get hypothryroid after 3 days of different food
He most likely has headaches and low energy from a combination of eating too littlefor his needs and suddenly stopping caffeine containing products
OP - re consider your calorie level - and if you want to stop caffeine (although from a weight loss point of view, no need to do this) , either do it more gradually or be prepared for few days of feeling headachy.9 -
paperpudding wrote: »tirowow12385 wrote: »
You have the symptoms of hypothyroidism from cutting out iodine in your diet. Headaches, weakness, mental fog. I'm fairly positive, go ahead and add salt and see if there's no improvement, what's the worse that can happen, bloating?DuaneBarbour wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »Two questions, one did you happen to cut out anything like caffeine, and two what are your stats? It may be that your deficit is too extreme for your stats.
Yes, I've stopped drinking tea and coffee and coca cola etc.
I'm 6ft and 238lbs, male.tirowow12385 wrote: »Add table salt to your food, yw.
I thought adding too much salt led to water retention and bloating? Is the natural salt in food not enough?
No he doesnt.
People do not get hypothryroid after 3 days of different food
He most likely has headaches and low energy from a combination of eating too littlefor his needs and suddenly stopping caffeine containing products
OP - re consider your calorie level - and if you want to stop caffeine (although from a weight loss point of view, no need to do this) , either do it more gradually or be prepared for few days of feeling headachy.
Already on it, thanks! Weaning myself off the caffeine with low dosage drinks and I'll be relaxing the cal restrictions (details in my posts above).6 -
Good - sounds like you are on the right track OP
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Another vote for caffeine withdrawal. It seems your diet is pretty balanced but might need a bit more protein.
I simply cannot live life without caffeine. I'm down to just one cup of coffee a day. Without it I will get a migraine that will last for days and I just feel awful in general. Not worth it for whatever supposed benefit cutting caffeine is supposed to give you. For some reason I need the coffee. Have tried switching to tea (with caffeine) and it still doesn't cut it.1 -
DuaneBarbour wrote: »Update, just ate my salad for lunch (too late to change my meals for today, I'm already in work) and I washed it down with a can of Sugar Free Irn Bru (coz I'm Scottish, its what we do, lol) which has about 30mg caffeine per 330ml and I can already say I'm feeling better than before... I don't want to smash my head off the desk any longer! Woop!
That's awesome, glad you're feeling better! Sorry your post got threadjacked, but at least you got the answer first. Good luck!4 -
What's your current height and weight??2
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nutrofight wrote: »Caffeine is a toxin. Why do you think plants make it?
So they can be up early in the morning to get right to photosynthesizin'?38 -
nutrofight wrote: »bennettinfinity wrote: »nutrofight wrote: »Caffeine is a toxin. Why do you think plants make it?
So they can be up early in the morning to get right to photosynthesizin'?
You think plants sleep?
I think plants sleep about as much as I think caffeine is a toxin.
Awaiting subsequent troll response... please don't disappoint me.14 -
OP. I've gone from 330 to ~205. I did it by reducing my calories and increasing activity. I didn't cut out anything I enjoyed, including caffeine. I cut out things that had too many calories for how full they made me, so pop and other high calorie stuff. Beyond that my "diet" looks pretty much like it was, just less of it.
Go easy on cutting out foods. Eat a decent amount of calories. Do what exercise you are capable of. Go for a bit slower weight loss and get that this is a ling term goal.
Most of all, ignore the unsubstantiated crap being spread by social media and those unable to discern the difference.16 -
The headache sounds like electrolyte imbalance, your basically urinating your electrolytes out and not replacing them!
Get some electrolyte tabs or the dioralyte type sachets you can use for diarrhea, these will replace the electrolytes you are losing.
I would use one tab or one sachet per 2 litres of water.
Hope you feel better soon.
Sparkey
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Sounds like caffeine or sugar withdrawal or both.
Maybe just cut back to one coffee a day initially and then one every decond day til you ferl you can cut it out altogether. Maybe allow yourself a mini treat everyday...like a mini chocolate bar.
If you find this too hard and you're an all or nothing person.....then perseverance will do a lot.
You will start to feel better but I know it took me approx 2-3 weeks to feel completely normal again after cutting out added sugar and caffeine.
I'm only 5 weeks into it but i definitely have a lot more energy and feel brighter, more alert. So it's definitely worth the hard work.
This is the hardest bit....you can do it !3 -
Sparkeysworld wrote: »The headache sounds like electrolyte imbalance, your basically urinating your electrolytes out and not replacing them!
Get some electrolyte tabs or the dioralyte type sachets you can use for diarrhea, these will replace the electrolytes you are losing.
I would use one tab or one sachet per 2 litres of water.
Hope you feel better soon.
Sparkey
OP is eating perfectly normal food - just not enough of it and a sudden cessation of caffeine.
He does not need electrolyte sachets.
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tirowow12385 wrote: »
You have the symptoms of hypothyroidism from cutting out iodine in your diet. Headaches, weakness, mental fog. I'm fairly positive, go ahead and add salt and see if there's no improvement, what's the worse that can happen, bloating?DuaneBarbour wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »Two questions, one did you happen to cut out anything like caffeine, and two what are your stats? It may be that your deficit is too extreme for your stats.
Yes, I've stopped drinking tea and coffee and coca cola etc.
I'm 6ft and 238lbs, male.tirowow12385 wrote: »Add table salt to your food, yw.
I thought adding too much salt led to water retention and bloating? Is the natural salt in food not enough?
Iodine is stored effectively in the thyroid, thus it would normally take months without iodine for deficiency to appear. Not three days.10
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