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<blockquote data-quote="Kyi" data-source="post: 1251713" data-attributes="member: 211285"><p>Hi </p><p>I can relate to a lot of your symptoms. I was working 12hrs a day and getting no sunlight because I worked in an area without windows. I was under a lot of stress at work so slept poorly. I lost concentration, became seclusive, ate poorly. in the end I too gave up work because I was emotionally unstable. Once I gave up work I went into a sever decline. I live alone, always have. My Dr diagnosed my diabetes type 2 a year before I left work. Roll on 7 years later when I decided enough was enough and I had to do something to snap me out of my depression. I started looking at why I had no energy and felt life was too difficult to manage. I went for a blood test and yes I needed to start taking my diabetes medicine and start taking better care of me. More importantly I found out I was extremely low in vitamin D. I took a prescribed vitamin table for 2 weeks and then 1 every month to keep it topped up. I can not tell you how big a difference this made to my depression. I had more energy than I had in a long time. My mind fog (as I now call it) cleared practically over night. Please get your vitamin D levels checked by a Dr to see if this is causing you an issue. Too much and it could cause calcium problems but not enough clearly muddles the brain in my case. With this change I started looking at what I ate and how I could improve my diet. I must say getting rid of carbs also helped me feel more energised. Its hard to start off when you cut out all of them and harder still if you want to keep "treating" yourself to high carb foods but in the long run I do feel better for reducing them. High protein and good fats - plant/fish</p><p> based best occasional meat fats (not margarine which is only 1 ingredient short of plastic (fact)). I think by cutting fats out of our diets we have actually stopped digesting the fat soluble vitamins which help us lose fat. I have come to the conclusion, you are what you eat, is a very good saying. Keep those vitamins and minerals up and keep the carbs down and hopefully you will feel a lot better</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kyi, post: 1251713, member: 211285"] Hi I can relate to a lot of your symptoms. I was working 12hrs a day and getting no sunlight because I worked in an area without windows. I was under a lot of stress at work so slept poorly. I lost concentration, became seclusive, ate poorly. in the end I too gave up work because I was emotionally unstable. Once I gave up work I went into a sever decline. I live alone, always have. My Dr diagnosed my diabetes type 2 a year before I left work. Roll on 7 years later when I decided enough was enough and I had to do something to snap me out of my depression. I started looking at why I had no energy and felt life was too difficult to manage. I went for a blood test and yes I needed to start taking my diabetes medicine and start taking better care of me. More importantly I found out I was extremely low in vitamin D. I took a prescribed vitamin table for 2 weeks and then 1 every month to keep it topped up. I can not tell you how big a difference this made to my depression. I had more energy than I had in a long time. My mind fog (as I now call it) cleared practically over night. Please get your vitamin D levels checked by a Dr to see if this is causing you an issue. Too much and it could cause calcium problems but not enough clearly muddles the brain in my case. With this change I started looking at what I ate and how I could improve my diet. I must say getting rid of carbs also helped me feel more energised. Its hard to start off when you cut out all of them and harder still if you want to keep "treating" yourself to high carb foods but in the long run I do feel better for reducing them. High protein and good fats - plant/fish based best occasional meat fats (not margarine which is only 1 ingredient short of plastic (fact)). I think by cutting fats out of our diets we have actually stopped digesting the fat soluble vitamins which help us lose fat. I have come to the conclusion, you are what you eat, is a very good saying. Keep those vitamins and minerals up and keep the carbs down and hopefully you will feel a lot better [/QUOTE]
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