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Loss of appetite?

jacqui-anne

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Has anyone else experienced a loss of appetite on lchf? I'm currently halfway through a cheese omelette with buttered mushrooms and am really struggling to eat it even though it is really yummy! This has also happened a few times when eating my salads at lunchtime. I eat a few bites then simply cannot force myself to eat anymore. Is this normal? I worry that I'm not eating enough. Something I've never been able to worry about before!!
 
That can happen. I go off food at odd times but you should take a snack or two. Cheese slice or two might be a good idea
 
I am getting this a lot at the moment. Little appetite until after dinner time actually.
 
Me too. Often feel really hungry but then a few mouthfuls into the meal and I've had enough. Myfitnesspal keeps telling me I've not had enough calories too but how do you add calories without carbs? I don't eat raw cheese because it gives me migraine (it's ok if it's cooked for some reason). I've started taking a Multivitamin tablet as it lectures me about getting enough nutrients.
 
@jacqui-anne - One of the big wins of LCHF is how well it satisfies the hunger, and therefore for many people, it significantly reduces the urge to snack and nibble.

If you have any weight to shift, I'd just go with the flow, whilst recording everything I was eating and drinking in something like myfitnesspal, so that you can look back and see what you've actually eaten and assess the impacts of that.

When I was newly diagnosed, and on diet only too, I just reduced my carbs, but didn't actually deliberately increase the amount of fat I had been eating, aside from swapping some low-fat options (like yoghurt) for full fat versions until I neared my target weight. At that point, I upped the fats a bit, to stop the weight loss I experienced.

I didn't see any point in force feeding myself, when I didn't feel I needed it.

At diagnosis, I only ever had one goal, which was to bring my blood scores into a decent place, so I was eating to my meter. The weight loss I experienced was an added bonus. Such was my focus on the blood scores that I didn't weight myself for about 3 months after modifying my diet; by which time it was quite clear I had trimmed up, as my clothes no longer fitted.

If you don't monitor your blood scores at home already, I suggest you consider it very seriously.

Good luck with it all.
 
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