Cinta
Silver Member
Hi everyone & thanks Waterworks for noticing my going AWOL.
The truth is for quite a while now I haven't been feeling very good. It started after my op for IBS damage in June. I blamed it on that, then on my mum dying at the very end of last year, then selling her house etc, etc.
I then thought maybe I was having a break down. My mum suffered with her 'nerves' & had panic attacks from when she was pregnant with me & was on valium to the day she died
I thought maybe she had left this to me in my will
For months now I have had the shakes & been 'not quite with it'. Friends have been so supportive, saying "what do you expect?"
It stopped me socializing with Steve because I couldn't pick a glass of wine up :O! & made me very nervous about everything. As a hairdresser you can imagine how I felt about cutting hair & I was frightened to drive.
Well today I had had enough & started googling. Was is PTSD? Was it stress? Was it a brain tumour (killed my dad)? Was it the start of the menopause? (sorry lads )
Well finally I googled Atkins & hypoglycema (low blood sugar) & found my answer!!!
Yep, I have been successful with my weight loss (I think), but Steve kept telling me I was eating less & less & I said it was because it made me feel sick (it did).
I had every symptom & realize I haven't been eating enough to keep a child alive. My carbs have been practially zero
Obviously I don't want IBS again & my surgeon said I had to change my eating, but I can't feel like this again.
Because I can't have so many things, I bought a 'free from' loaf of bread (12.4g per slice) & had one with butter & marmite. I less than 15mins I felt normal, something I haven't felt in yonks!
My tummy is gurgly, but we will see what happens.
I think I was frightened to eat after my op it triggered my OCD big time (I know...freak!)
My brain is clear for the first time in months. Sorry to waffle on, but this might help somebody. I thought it was good that I couldn't eat much & couldn't understand how most other people didn't feel like that.
I feel a bit of a tw@, as does Steve. He has been feeling like this sometimes &, before this diet the first thing we would say if you felt strange & shaky would be to have something eat! How did we not think of that? Or was I so befuddled that I couldn't think?
I'm back Hoorah
Love to you all xxxxxx
The truth is for quite a while now I haven't been feeling very good. It started after my op for IBS damage in June. I blamed it on that, then on my mum dying at the very end of last year, then selling her house etc, etc.
I then thought maybe I was having a break down. My mum suffered with her 'nerves' & had panic attacks from when she was pregnant with me & was on valium to the day she died
I thought maybe she had left this to me in my will
For months now I have had the shakes & been 'not quite with it'. Friends have been so supportive, saying "what do you expect?"
It stopped me socializing with Steve because I couldn't pick a glass of wine up :O! & made me very nervous about everything. As a hairdresser you can imagine how I felt about cutting hair & I was frightened to drive.
Well today I had had enough & started googling. Was is PTSD? Was it stress? Was it a brain tumour (killed my dad)? Was it the start of the menopause? (sorry lads )
Well finally I googled Atkins & hypoglycema (low blood sugar) & found my answer!!!
Yep, I have been successful with my weight loss (I think), but Steve kept telling me I was eating less & less & I said it was because it made me feel sick (it did).
I had every symptom & realize I haven't been eating enough to keep a child alive. My carbs have been practially zero
Obviously I don't want IBS again & my surgeon said I had to change my eating, but I can't feel like this again.
Because I can't have so many things, I bought a 'free from' loaf of bread (12.4g per slice) & had one with butter & marmite. I less than 15mins I felt normal, something I haven't felt in yonks!
My tummy is gurgly, but we will see what happens.
I think I was frightened to eat after my op it triggered my OCD big time (I know...freak!)
My brain is clear for the first time in months. Sorry to waffle on, but this might help somebody. I thought it was good that I couldn't eat much & couldn't understand how most other people didn't feel like that.
I feel a bit of a tw@, as does Steve. He has been feeling like this sometimes &, before this diet the first thing we would say if you felt strange & shaky would be to have something eat! How did we not think of that? Or was I so befuddled that I couldn't think?
I'm back Hoorah
Love to you all xxxxxx