Nausea, feeling ill - down 40 lbs in 79 days.

mph323 wrote: »

Without knowing anything else about you and your activity, I can tell you you're not eating enough to fuel your body. It's nothing to do with toxins, you're losing weight too quickly, and it's caught up with you. Have you put your stats into MFP and taken a look at your calorie goal? Unless you're quite heavy, your rate of loss should be under 2 pounds a week. Are you eating back your exercise calories? That's important too. If you tell us your age, height, current weight and goal weight we can help you figure out how to make sure you're losing weight in a healthy and sustainable way.

Yes, I'd like the answers to all these questions as well.

Without this info, it's quite likely that you're not feeling well because you are undereating and losing weight too fast.

What Are the Risks of Rapid Weight Loss?

Rapid weight loss creates physical demands on the body. Possible serious risks include:

• Gallstones, which occur in 12% to 25% of people losing large amounts of weight over several months
• Dehydration, which can be avoided by drinking plenty of fluids
• Malnutrition, usually from not eating enough protein for weeks at a time
• Electrolyte imbalances, which rarely can be life threatening

Other side effects of rapid weight loss include:

• Headaches
• Irritability
• Fatigue
• Dizziness
• Constipation
• Menstrual irregularities
• Hair loss
• Muscle loss

adamyovanovich wrote: »

I just changed my Goals, to lightly active, which puts me at 2250 for daily calories, most days im around 1800, Ill make sure to hit 2000.

You should be eating all 2250 calories. MFP calculates your deficit into the calories it gives you, so make sure you eat them all!. If you don't feel better within a few weeks, try upping them again, maybe by 100 or so every week until you do feel better. Best of luck!

Incredibly similar story except I quit drinking before starting to lose. BTW, it will get easier - day 475. I also drank a lot of calories and would binge eat, polishing off a bowl of ice cream and a few oreos while waiting for the cheese to melt and then cool a little on my chips in the toaster oven. I also went overboard at pretty much the same rate; I lost 32 pounds in 65 days before posting here and after arguing with people for a while and getting threads shut down for advocating unsafe weight loss, I finally started following some of the links and reading some of the concerns. They are legit. If you are like me, and based on your story you are a lot like me, this is about turning your life around and being healthy and there is a big concern that if you don't make it happen as quickly as possible that you will slide right back into old habits.

It turns out that doing it really quickly makes failure more likely , not less. You need to know how to eat to maintain it when you get there and you need the energy to start being active. Try to get into some activities where you meet some new people that don't have your old habits; meet ups for cycling, hiking, paddling, etc. I am into SUP paddling big time now and have a new social circle to do stuff with besides getting trashed.

My labs were all awesome also, which is one of the reasons I didn't believe people at first. But they don't measure where the weight loss is coming from when you drop too fast. They don't measure adaptive thermogenesis (starvation mode is a myth, but AT isn't). They don't pick up decline in organ function until they cross into territory you don't want to get into.

if you switch to healthier eating habits and slowly increase portions as you appeoach goal, it is much easier to adjust to maintenance. It's been about 7.5 months since I hit goal and I still have to monitor my intake, but this is working.

It's worth doing right.