Snack help!

[strawberrybella89]

I've been doing a low calorie diet for months now and losing weight with no breakfast just fine. Lately I've been getting headaches inbetween my two meals and had to start adding snacks to take them away. I know snacking isn't suggested to make girls is there anything else I can do to prevent the headaches?

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[ksmom]

Maybe add in a third meal or even a fourth if you need to. It would be better than snacking and might help with the headaches. Your blood sugar may be getting too low and triggering headaches. Make sure you're drinking plenty of water too. Sometimes we get so busy and forget but staying hydrated can help ward off headaches (if that's what the problem is). Sometimes I find myself drinking coffee all day long with no water then bam! awful headache. Are you having any other symptoms or is it just headaches?

[gafan]

You probably already thought of this but watching the caffeine could also be important in terms of tracking headache triggers. Making a snack into a small meal sounds more in line with a pink sway. I wonder how much we would aim to meet to make a snack a light meal. Maybe that means just making sure to have more than one food, including a protein during the mini meal?

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[strawberrybella89]

Maybe add in a third meal or even a fourth if you need to. It would be better than snacking and might help with the headaches. Your blood sugar may be getting too low and triggering headaches. Make sure you're drinking plenty of water too. Sometimes we get so busy and forget but staying hydrated can help ward off headaches (if that's what the problem is). Sometimes I find myself drinking coffee all day long with no water then bam! awful headache. Are you having any other symptoms or is it just headaches?Just headaches usually right when I wake up or in between lunch and dinner or after workouts.

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[strawberrybella89]

You probably already thought of this but watching the caffeine could also be important in terms of tracking headache triggers. Making a snack into a small meal sounds more in line with a pink sway. I wonder how much we would aim to meet to make a snack a light meal. Maybe that means just making sure to have more than one food, including a protein during the mini meal?

Sent from my SM-G930U using Tapatalk That's a good question what's the difference between a snack and small meal? I only have one cup of coffee in the morning

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[ksmom]

A snack would be more like eating something shortly after you ate a meal for example. It doesn't mean you need to eat more than one food for it to qualify as a meal. Just don't eat then 30 minutes or an hour later eat again because that's snacking.

[atomic sagebrush]

3 meals is fine on LE Diet. That isn't cheating or snacking. Both 2 and 3 meals is a-ok, just do whichever option works better for you. Even going to 4 meals a day is ok - it is still better than doing the all day every day kind of munching that a lot of us who have all boys do.

[strawberrybella89]

3 meals is fine on LE Diet. That isn't cheating or snacking. Both 2 and 3 meals is a-ok, just do whichever option works better for you. Even going to 4 meals a day is ok - it is still better than doing the all day every day kind of munching that a lot of us who have all boys do.I ate all day getting my boys and over 2000 calories lol so now I have lunch dinner and dessert under 1500 calories.

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[strawberrybella89]

A snack would be more like eating something shortly after you ate a meal for example. It doesn't mean you need to eat more than one food for it to qualify as a meal. Just don't eat then 30 minutes or an hour later eat again because that's snacking.Ah ok so maybe I'll make my meals a little bigger so I don't get the headache an hour or two later

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[strawberrybella89]

3 meals is fine on LE Diet. That isn't cheating or snacking. Both 2 and 3 meals is a-ok, just do whichever option works better for you. Even going to 4 meals a day is ok - it is still better than doing the all day every day kind of munching that a lot of us who have all boys do.Also is low calorie low protein enough ? I stay in limit for protein most of the time but carbs and fats vary. I'm losing weight weekly

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[atomic sagebrush]

A snack would be more like eating something shortly after you ate a meal for example. It doesn't mean you need to eat more than one food for it to qualify as a meal. Just don't eat then 30 minutes or an hour later eat again because that's snacking.

Yeah the way I like to describe all day snacking is like the Hobbits in LOTR - first breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, afternoon snack, teatime, dinner, supper, bedtime snack, midnight snack. Just munching all day long. It's still really different than eating 3, or even 4, evenly spaced meals. :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Just headaches usually right when I wake up or in between lunch and dinner or after workouts.

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The morning one is often caffeine or low blood sugar, I'd try adding in a small breakfast (just for a couple days) and see if it helps. Usually once you see that it's low blood sugar you can not worry about it so much...it's the wondering "geez why am I having all these headaches" that gets people down! Same with exercising, that can definitely be blood sugar related. might want to plan on eating before or after your workout if you aren't already.

Another thing that can cause headaches is cranberry if you're taking that, and also artificial sweetener. If you were for example having artificial sweetened drinks at lunch that could possibly cause a headache a short time later.

[strawberrybella89]

The morning one is often caffeine or low blood sugar, I'd try adding in a small breakfast (just for a couple days) and see if it helps. Usually once you see that it's low blood sugar you can not worry about it so much...it's the wondering "geez why am I having all these headaches" that gets people down! Same with exercising, that can definitely be blood sugar related. might want to plan on eating before or after your workout if you aren't already.

Another thing that can cause headaches is cranberry if you're taking that, and also artificial sweetener. If you were for example having artificial sweetened drinks at lunch that could possibly cause a headache a short time later.Oh that makes sense I do drink Crystal light with my lunch and I exercise before I eat lunch which is my meal.

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[atomic sagebrush]

So you're not eating anything all day before you exercise? Yeah I'd consider going to 3 meals and putting one of them before exercise to see if it helps (I don't mean a LOT since that can upset your tummy before exercise!)

[strawberrybella89]

So you're not eating anything all day before you exercise? Yeah I'd consider going to 3 meals and putting one of them before exercise to see if it helps (I don't mean a LOT since that can upset your tummy before exercise!)Yup I don't eat till around noon and use my treadmill around 10 or 11!

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[atomic sagebrush]

Oh gosh that would give anyone a headache. I like you guys to eat before or after exercise anyway, but especially in the morning it's ok to bend the rules if you're exercising.

[gafan]

Oh gosh that would give anyone a headache. I like you guys to eat before or after exercise anyway, but especially in the morning it's ok to bend the rules if you're exercising.Good to know! If I ate before morning exercise sometimes that would mean less than 12 hrs between dinner and 1st meal but it sounds like this is preferable to a fast then exercise.

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[atomic sagebrush]

If you can get thru the exercise without eating, hey great. But if you can't, then eating something is not a dealbreaker.