Crash diet Warning!!!

Hi all just wanted to say that I had embarked on a crash diet!! After 2 weeks dieting, the first week cutting calories and swimming and the second doing a shakes and bars 600 calorie a day and swimming I lost 1st 6llb!!! Amazing yes bloods down to 5.2 From 11.1 felt great until I end up in A&E vomiting blood and in excruciating pain in my abdomen!!! A swift rollicking from the doctor who tells me I'm lucky!! and sent on my way to calorie count And rest for a few days!!! Feeling very stupid and sucked in by ridiculous fads!!! I just wonder has anyone tried the 5:2 diet and how the eat on the 2 days do they take supplements or just drastic calorie cuts??? Any advice please xxx

Hi guys and thanks for support. Paul the doc did mention blood like coffee granules and ulcers but after a good poke about and stern looks she said that my guts natural balance had been stripped and I would have to give my stomach chance to rest and to eat milky soft foods for a while!! Whatever happened to me I will never risk anything like that again but I think the biggest realisation for me is that my body is not my own any more and I am in the hand of the diabetes monster!!!! I had always thought pah it won't get the better of me!!! How wrong was I! Lesson well and truly learned!!!! x

ScapeGoat said:

It sounds like your body had an extreme reaction to the diet and exercise habits you made or maybe you strained yourself/had underlying issues?

It's a good reminder that our bodies sometimes do their own thing. I recently had a reaction to an eye dye test even though i've been fine in the past.

Hope you feel better soon and find the diet/exercise combination that suits you.

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Thank you! I think you are right!!!
Jules x