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Originally Posted by MickiSue

Eva, it sounds to me like you are not eating enough, period.

Feeling perpetually cold, BGs all over the place...signs that you are starving yourself, especially when you do such a physically taxing exercise as Zumba several times a week.

If I were you, I'd try eating a lot more fat for the next week. Stop the Zumba while getting solidly into ketosis, and see how I feel.

You are not supposed to be cold, and hungry, on a LCHF eating plan. You are supposed to be satisfied and feeling healthy.

I am definitely considering that I may not be getting enough food. In response to not being meant to be hungry on a LCHF diet, I completely agree with you- it's just that I rarely get hungry. I don't try to restrict or count calories in any way. Often I'll eat until I'm not hungry anymore, but the headache and the cold feelings still don't really go away. I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with low-carbing and that it has/does work tremendously well for me. It (the low-BG symptoms) might just be that I'm eating at the same level I did when I was sedentary and it needs to be upped now that I'm active-ish.

Also, I'm sure I could have gone without the cookies and milk if I wanted, I just made a decision to be reckless and then I was past the point of no return :P In my humble opinion, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have meals or days when you go over your regular carb count.