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Message: <blockquote data-quote="danziger" data-source="post: 2444316" data-attributes="member: 543439">I’m keen to eat as few carbs as possible because although my blood sugar is well controlled, I’d like to come off linagliptin and lose weight to reduce my blood pressure (I’m on 4 meds since being hospitalised for it), Covid risk, and general inflammation issues. I can’t exercise due to disability so my approach needs to be diet only. I lost about 6 pounds at the start of low carb and since then have been putting on and taking off the same 2lbs. Looked at a few online calculators and they said under 20g carbs a day would be ideal. About three weeks ago, I went from around 30g to roughly 10-20g a day and since then, I’ve had horrific constipation — including two episodes lasting about 48 hours each where I had repeated bowel spasms followed by immense difficulty “going”, pain, lots of bleeding, had to take (unpaid) time off work as couldn’t sit up, etc. (Tried stool softeners which seemed to make it even worse.) (Yes, my life IS very glamorous.)Was already drinking loads of water, adding fat and Lo Salt to meals, eating broccoli and cauliflower so not sure what else I could have done. Have added a few more carbs back (25-30g a day) and am on the road to feeling better, but feel stuck now.It seems like if I go below 20g I’ll have this experience a third time which I can’t cope with, but if I stay as I am I won’t lose weight or get the health benefits of keto. I guess I could cut fat to try to lose weight which worked (unintentionally) prior to gallbladder surgery but that was miserable and I craved food all the time. Did I cut carbs too quickly, or is keto just not for me? I really wanted to be one of those miracle success stories, but it’s been more like a horror movie…</blockquote>

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