I started the harcombe diet yesterday and today I feel sick as in, nausea, dizzi!
Question: I started the harcombe diet yesterday and today I feel sick as in, nausea, dizziness is this normal ?? Thanks?
Answers:
Hi Maya - this is not uncommon. Hopefully you've got one of my books? "Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim" or "Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight" - either will explain what is going on. If you've just picked up the 'what you eat' part of the diet from somewhere this would be quite worrying!
The diet came about trying to answer the question - why can't we stop eating when we want so much to be slim. I had the problem myself! I came across three common medical conditions that cause insatiable food cravings: Candida; Food Intolerance and Hypoglycaemia. Phase 1 of The Harcombe Diet is the 'perfect' diet to overcome all three and the books fully explain why etc.
The condition most likely to be causing nausea and dizziness is Candida - when you start attacking this parasite through diet it causes it to die-off. The symptoms of die-off are so well known in the world of Candida that they were given the name of the doctor who discovered them - Herxheimer's reaction. Withdrawal from foods to which you may be intolerant can also make you feel worse in the short term. The dizziness could be your blood glucose levels adjusting - depends how 'bad' your diet was before starting real food. If you ate lots of cereal, bread, fruit, cereal bars, low cal/low fat/processed stuff - real food is a good shock, but still a shock.
Hope this helps!
Best wishes - Zoe
p.s. the books also explain about cravings (they're pretty much all about cravings) and why they go particularly wild when you start the diet. After just 5 days, they can be very different!
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