Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone else had odd experiences when doing a low carb pre-op diet?

I've been on the diet for two days now. Aside from a little hunger, it's felt okay. However, I've been noticing that when I stand up after sitting down for a while, I tend to get kinda woozy and dizzy. Some times I hear my pulse pounding in my ears for a minute or so.

I'm not diabetic but I'm wondering if I'm hypoglycemic or have low blood pressure or something -- if that's normal for the low carb diet. I checked my blood sugar with a home monitor, and it was 95mg/dl which from what I understand is still fairly normal (if not even a tad high) for 2 hours after a mean. Also apparently the low carb diet can dehydrate you, and I'm not sure I've been drinking enough Water. Apparently one symptom of dehydration is dizziness. I didn't really consider this because I haven't felt thirsty, and my urine is normal color.

Anyone got any thoughts? I don't want to go rushing off to the doc for something that's normal and minor.

Yay! Yeah there is some trauma. Post op I had gone from 3-4 thousand calories of carby fatty heaven to initally about 200 cal of protein and holy **** it was shocking!

Yay! Yeah there is some trauma. Post op I had gone from 3-4 thousand calories of carby fatty heaven to initally about 200 cal of Protein and holy **** it was shocking!

I know! I have been hungry ALL the time.

Fortunately, my diet is not low-fat or low-calorie, just low-carb. I've discovered that skim milk string cheese are essentially zero grams of carbs and these have been my savior (plus sugar free Crystal Lite when I have a sweets craving; I never used to have sweets cravings until I couldn't have sweets any more!)

I have discovered a few things that are also yummy. I don't know what your carb limit daily is, but Mission carb balance tortillias have 18g carbs per entire tortillia, my trick has been to cut them in 1/4's and put hormel hot and spicy pepperoni and mozarella cheese on them. Then microwave them until the cheese is all melty. Gives me the pizza fix. It is higher in fat, but if you aren't focusing on that then it is just plain yummy!