I've been doing induction for three weeks now and have been mostly homebound. The other day, I went to the grocery store to get a few things and almost passed out. It was the weirdest thing. Halfway through shopping I began to feel as though someone had put 10lb weights on my shoulders and I actually had to sit down on the floor. ...I was SO embarrassed. The manager called my husband and he came to pick me up. For the next few days I couldn't walk 10 feet without having to sit down.

I've been following the Atkins diet as closely as I can and taking all the vitamins. Plus, I had a check up before I started. I don't know, dare I say it, maybe I'm losing weight too quickly. I've lost 17 lbs. in 20 days.

What are you eating? Are you getting enough sodium. When you are eating a low carb diet and losing a lot of water weight you are also losing sodium and that can cause dizziness and faintness. You can counteract this by drinking a few cups of bouillon or bone broth with added salt every day.

Jean

That sounds very scary! My first thought is that you need to see a doctor. Fainting may be entirely unrelated to Induction and you need to make sure it isn't something else.

Are you eating enough food and drinking enough water? If you aren't tracking your macros you might start. I use Fitday.com to keep track of mine, and I've found that I'm often WAY under on calories when eating LC. If I tried any strenuous exercise right now I'd be in trouble.

Good luck to you, I hope you feel better soon!

Whats your average daily menu?


Jo xxx

Ditto what Jean wrote. You have the New Atkins for New You book, two cups of salty broth is part of that Atkins program. You may be short on some other electrolytes as well. Check the Salt Thread:
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=445775

Agree with Jean and Janet. SALT. If you don't have enough of that, you don't have enough of other electrolytes, either, because the levels of sodium in our systems regulate the levels of other electrolytes, as well.

I think you are losing weight way too fast. 17 pounds in 20 days is a lot for someone of your weight.

To put it in perspective, you've lost 8% of your body weight in 20 days. That's way too much.

I finally went down to the ER mostly because I thought I had a sinus infection that I couldn't kick. They did a blood work up on me and my Potassium level was at 22%. I've been following the Atkins diet closely...including drinking a lot of water, salt intake and broth for breakfast. But I also take Humira for Crohn's Disease and they think it's because 1% of the population that gets the injections has their Potassium depleted. Lucky me. So in addition to the vitamins and minerals that I take daily I'm now on a prescription for Potassium. The doctor in E.R. told me I was lucky I listened to my intuition, because I could've died in a few days. ...I'd been to three other doctors in the last two weeks and the ALL diagnosed me with a sinus infection. btw, that's what Karen Carpenter ultimately died of. Potassium crash.

Goodness! Glad you are OK.

Yeah! I'm glad you got it checked out. That's not nuthin' right there!

Scary to think we could have lost you. Also, all your acquaintances would have blamed Atkins rather than Humira.

So glad you got the right DX. Urgent care doctors are something else, aren't they?

I'm just lucky the attending physician in the ER was thinking outside the box. Thanks for all the well wishes everyone!

Me, too, Laura. After my last experience with a UC doc, and those of friends and family, I'm boycotting them forever.

If I'm sick enough to be seen NOW, I'm going to the ER.