Hi all, in an effort to shift some weight (again) I have been on the paleo diet… aka caveman diet… or maybe that should be caveperson diet! Very high protein and very low carb. A bit like Atkins actually.
Anyway I’m just into week 3 and quite enjoying it. It’s SO great to eat and not be hungry all the time! But I had a very bad night last night. Woke up feeling like I had a bad dose of flu and couldn’t get back to sleep again.
Finally at 5 am I got up and googled ‘Paleo diet and ache all over’ and would you believe it, there’s a thing called ‘low carb flu’ aka ‘Keto flu’ (Keto is another high protein diet… and don’t know what the difference is).
Apparently once the body stops burning carbs for energy it starts burning fat (that’s the point of it of course) and some people get flu symptoms when it happens. Just my luck. I’ve felt dreadful all day AND I’ve got builders in doing a bathroom replacement. Poor Dickie the Cat isn’t pleased.
Just wondering if anyone else has tried Paleo or Keto and what you think?
Hi Bouds… it only lasted a day and I’ve been fine ever since. Weird!
I know they say on media that Covid wasn’t in this country until late December, but at our church we KNOW we had it in early December. Lots of us had a bad ‘flu’ and were coughing with a fever. Two people ended up in hospital with pneumonia. One woman with asthma had a very bad cough for weeks and GP said if it carried on she would have to go to hospital. I had it myself and was down for 3 weeks with it.
One of the women who had it got tested recently and they said her blood is loaded with antibodies. Some of us have still got after effects. I find I’m quite breathless sometimes and my fatigue is worse than usual. Another woman is still very poorly 9 months later.
So it seems we still don’t know the whole story of Covid 19! But saying that, I’m still being careful because they don’t know yet if you can get it twice.
I had the ‘low carb flu’ Pat a few week ago as i have been diagnosed with diabetes and cut all carbs out too quickly.I ached all over for a day and felt very flu like.I googled it as i dint have a clue there was such a thing as carb flu lol.I lost 3 stone this last 18 month on slimming world.