Crash diet Warning!!!

[Julesb67]

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

 

[catherinecherub]

Hi JUles,

What a horrible experience.

Did the doctor explain what had happened?

There are people here who do the 5.2 diet and I hope they will answer you.

 

[Andy12345]

hi, you may have taken it a little far but you did that trying to lose the weight get your numbers down and be healthy, you was doing it for the best of reasons and that isn't stupid at all, i haven't tried the 5:2 but I've heard good things about it from some here.

best of luck

 

[paul-1976]

I wonder if lack of food combined with the bodies produced stomach acid having nothing to do brought on gastritis or a peptic ulcer which can cause pain and vomiting blood or substances that resemble coffee granules?

 

[Julesb67]

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

 

[Julesb67]

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.

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