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Hungry & Tired, please help!

Mrsmac247

Mrsmac247

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi there, I am entering my third week of LCHF. At first, things were going good, my BG numbers were coming down and being steady in the 6's with occasional 5's and 7's. Then something happened only thing is I'm not sure what:(

Over the weekend we were really busy so ended out alot. We had a good breakfast/brunch eggs, bacon, beefburger (oven cooked), tomato, cheese and mushroom. Dinners were chicken fried in coconut oil with broccoli and cauliflower and green beans and salad.

After the chicken dinner last night, i finished my plate and was full. An hour later I was ravenous! i drank some water and then decided to have some greek yoghurt with a couple cherries in there.

Today I had a beefburger (oven cooked) with cheese and tomato, a celery stick with cheese, a roman lettuce leaf and chicken leftovers and i have now had to have some yoghurt with fruits as i was and still am hungry, my stomach is growling hungry!

I don't know what I am doing wrong, the last few days I constantly feel hungry and eat good portions so not sure why. In addition, the last 4 or 5 days I have been feeling VERY tired, if it wasn't for the little ones, I would spend most of the day in my bed!

Any ideas where I may be going wrong?

Thank you
 
I will try and increase my water intake and see if that helps. I usually drink a few cups of tea a day and some water. Hmmm lately I have been having more diet coke etc
 
I'm not doing really low carb, more lower carb. But I have some observations - in the early days I felt pretty rough - I think the point where your body adapts to the new regime is about the three week mark, so maybe you just haven't crossed that threshold yet. I too find I need to drink more - and yet I'm not thirsty, I have to consciously drink more than I want - when I don't, I feel groggy. I read somewhere recently that although coffee and tea are fluids, they're also diuretics, so if you drink a cup of tea, it's only equivalent to a smaller quantity of water, as fluid intake.

I also think I need more salt, as I've seen suggested - in an afternoon if I'm flagging, I have an veggie oxo cube as a hot drink and that seems a good pick-me-up. I often find that one of those followed by a long cold drink really improves how I feel - although less so now I've settled into the new eating habits.

I also personally have reservations about diet pop - I don't drink it myself as I just can't tolerate alternative sweeteners, but I do worry about the effect on your body of flooding it with something that tastes sweet, but doesn't deliver glucose - can it cause a reaction in the glucose/insulin process that's inappropriate? It could also simply be a bad reaction to those artificial/alternative sweeteners? They make me feel truly horrible, even a mouthful is enough.
 
It could well be the diet coke making you feel hungrier too. I'm sure it did this to me. I agree drink more water and when I'm hungry I tend to add butter or cream to everything, or fry in lard. Then there's cheese for a snack which usually does the trick for me. Whatever you do don't be tempted back onto the carbs, you will feel hungrier.

You are doing really well, I'm sure this phase will pass soon. :)
 
I will definately up my water intake and go lower on the fizzy pop lol funny thing is, i never used to drink much fizzy drinks but I have an occassional glassa at dinner or if out and about as I am not sure about dilute juice
 
Artificial sweeteners can also mess with your gut bacteria which I'm guessing could do weird things to your digestion. Another idea is to review your fibre intake - not only does it fill you up & give a longer/lower bs rise but some fibres act as a prebiotic which feed/keep happy the good bacteria.
 
I was thinking about fibre the other day because I wasn't sure which vegetables have it, I only knew about grains etc
 
Have you tried any of the flax/psyllium 'breads'? They are excellent sources of fibre, both soluble & insoluble - I think its the insoluble type that acts as a prebiotic. If you are going to increase your fibre intake I would advise you to take it slowly - too much, too quickly can have very similar effects to not enough. If your keen to just get it from veggies then I'd just google the fibre content of the ones you like & take it from there.
 
mrsmac247, I agree with others here. Could be the artificial sweetener. Another thought is that it might be too much protein. That's what happened to me a few weeks into the diet. Cutting back how much meat, poultry, or fish I had for lunch and dinner to 3 ounce servings, cooked, for a while helped.

Sometimes, I still get really hungry after dinner though, even now. So I'll eat an ounce of cheese, then an ounce of nuts, then some olives, or maybe a slice of bacon.

What I've been trying to do is have a cup of coffee, tea, or warm salted water with or after each meal to replace what normally would have been fruit, berries, chocolate, or a cookie. It helps.

Let us know what you figure out. :)
 
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