Bwahahahaha!

Hi, James. The first thing I would check would be blood sugar. Does
anyone around you have a meter you could use? If not, Walmart has a
Relion brand that is fairly cheep. Anyway, if you can check your blood
sugar when you are feeling woosie, you might find that it is running
low. If it's normal, check it after meals and see if it is high.
Sometimes after having high blood sugars for a long time, getting to
normal levels feels like a low. It did for me, anyway.

Good luck. I hope you figure it out. That's no way to feel.

--  
Jean M.
New food of the week: black olives.

Do away with flipfloping to e-mail.

With the name James *Adkins* it is hard to take you seriously.

If you are a troll, I would say you need better crack....

If real, I suspect your calories are too low.  Do you have lots of nice fat
in your diet?  How many calories does FitDay say you are having per day?

Cubit

Go to the doctor and get a checkup before starting any new way of eating.
If you get a green light from the doctor (and you aren't a troll), then you
simply need to eat more. Instead of having taco bell you should have eaten
some protein, fat and LC vegetables. Drink water and take your vitamins.
The withdrawals pass, but if you give into them by eating high carbs and/or
sugar you'll be defeating the purpose of induction and never get over that
hump.

I know the withdrawals are tough as I have blood sugar issues myself
(reactive hypo), but they certainly go away. You need to plan and keep
plenty of induction foods on-hand.

~miette

I had the same problem and I still have it every once in a while.  Today is
the last day of the second week for me and I weigh in again Monday morning.
Last monday when I got on the scales, I had lost 12.3 pounds and 2 1/2
inches off my body, it totally turned me out!  I got blood work done just to
make sure everything was OK and everything is fine, in fact my cholesterol
levels are excellent at 174 and my dr. couldn't be more happy for me.  He
told me the dizzy spells, feeling like your going to pass out etc, usually
means your not eating enough greens and possibly protein.  Also, some people
on Atkins need to eat more then 3 meals a day to keep themselves from
feeling like this, for instance for breakfast if you have eggs and bacon,
eat the eggs first, then a few hours later eat your bacon.  Start out with
breakfast first and then eat lunch and dinner as u usually do and see if
that brakes the cycle, if not, then the next day, split breakfast up into 2
parts, and lunch in 2 parts, etc...  The breakfast split seemed to work for
me perfectly.  My friend who did Atkins last year only lost 4 pounds the
first week, so when I weighed in last Monday and dropped 12.3 pounds I
couldn't believe it, I blew him out of the water.  Now I read your thingie
and you beat me by like 2 pounds, it's amazing, isn't it?  :)  What you lost
this week should only push you to continue this, come the end of the summer,
you should be about ready to be hired of A&F!  Seriously, that is exactly
how my friend looks now, it took him 6 months to lose exactly what you and I
STARTED with when we started the diet, although I am 6'1" and you are only
5'10".  If anyone on here tells you not to do induction for longer then 2
weeks, put them on your kill file list and ignore them, because they are
telling lies and they are just out to ruin everyone elses self esteem.  A
good one to put on your kill file list NOW is "JC Der Koenig"  As you can
tell by his/her response, 'it's' nothing short of a troll!  Then I remember
some idiot posting about how I was excited when I took my ketose test
because it was all dark purple, trying to make me believe that had nothing
to do with fat burning, yet if anyone can read, it says right on the net
what they are used for with Atkins and hey, look at my results...yet I
wasn't in fat burning...LMAO, thats another one to block as well!

Good luck and keep going, don't stop!

Some people need slightly higher carbs than others - try upping your carbs a
little - maybe aim for 40g per day and see if that helps - then if you feel
okay you might be able to drop them back down a bit and see how you feel,
until you find the right level for you.

You haven't failed!

cheers
Rachel
(New Zealand)

Please get your blood sugar checked (fasting blood glucose) ; this sounds
very much like hypolycemic symptoms. That observation is reinforced by the
fact that you felt better after ingesing sugar.  Low-carb eating can have a
wonderful effect on stabilizing blood sugars; but you need to know if you
might be hypoclycemic, diabetic or pre-diabetic.  Please go to a doctor and
get it checked out asap.

I'm going to go way out on a limb here and ask if you've had any long-term
exposure to chemicals such as pesticides.  The reason I ask is because I HAVE had
that.  I lost about 50 lbs in the mid-90s and was sick for most of that time.  I
had set off Combat Roach foggers in the enclosed garage under my apt about once a
week for several months in a row over the course of 3 years and got sicker and
sicker and sicker.  Eventually I became hypersensitive to a multitude of
chemicals and VERY sensitive to scented things.  It really whacked out my
thyroid, too.  I later read that toxins such as pesticides are stored in body
fat.  I was HORRIFIED.  I immediately started eating ONLY organic food and lost
20 lbs simply because there just wasn't that much organic food available.  If I
ever lost more than about 1.5 lbs in a week, I would get some of the same
symptoms because the toxins were being released back into the bloodstream as I
lost the fat.  

My environmental doctor later put me on an anti-micotoxin diet due to systemic
yeast.  THAT was one RESTRICTIVE diet (although I now know it WAS low-carb).  I
could not have any sugar, fruit, dairy (except butter) or anything fermented such
as vinegar.  I pretty much subsisted on vegetables, chicken and turkey (and
vitamins).  I do remember that I COULD have bread, but I didn't eat a lot of it.  
That's when I started using rice bran syrup for sweetener.  I lost another 30 lbs
that way, but MAN did I get sick during the first few days.  I remember having to
stop and lay down between the living room and the bathroom because my energy
would suddenly just drop out from under me.  Part of that might have been due to
die-off of yeast and other fungi since I was also taking Diflucan at the time.  I
had BIG TIME digestive problems and OFTEN got dizzy and would feel like I was
burning up, despite being cold and clammy.  I HAD to go through it, though to get
RID of most of the toxins I was carrying around with me.  

I realize that this is certainly an UNUSUAL case, but you never know -- I'm
certainly not the only person in the world with chemical sensitivities.  I did
NOT experience the same degree of sickness on Induction, though.  I lost energy
for a few days, but that's pretty normal and it was NOTHING like when I was
carrying around all that poison.  

Folks, I don't care HOW safe pesticide companies say their products are:  they
are NOT safe.  

I did some reading online and I agree that those seem to be textbook
symptoms for hypoglycemia. I have made an appointment with the doctor to
check it out. I'll guess I'll up the carbs, but still avoid starches and
sugars and wait to see what happens.

I'd like to thank everyone who replyed. You have helped me a lot. Since this
is the first time I have had anything like that happen, you may have even
helped me find out about it in enough time to do something.

Thank You.

James