Here's my deal...

I'm a fairly new low-carber. Have gradually "eased" my way into it. I
started off taking smaller carb portions. At this point I do not eat
bread or pasta. My diet includes meat, eggs, cheese, nuts. I freely
eat green veggies/squash and eat only very small amounts of tomatoes
and *very* occasional low GI fruits.

I am probably going to go Atkins, but I'm waiting until after
Passover. [Before the trolls step in, Atkins himself advised to clear
two weeks out of the calendar where there wasn't anything else going
on.]

Here's the deal.
I initially started low-carbing to control the awful headaches I was
getting.

The first two days, as I was easing into it, I got incredibly sick
from blood sugar issues... it was also the beginning of "my time of
the month". I had the hypo that wouldn't quit. I ended up breaking it
and eating some carb food, and I decided to more gradually ease into
low-carbing. It took about three days before my low blood pressure
symptoms faded away. My partner said I "smelled weird".

At the end of that, I had a tremendous burst of energy... for about
two days.

Cheated, had cake and Japanese noodles the day after getting
married... crashed and burned, slept about three hours, had a raging
headache. This was about a week and two days ago now.

So having learned from that "cheat" I have quit all that and stopped
eating *all* foods that "set me off". A piece of cake is NOT worth
feeling sick!!

I feel like I haven't quit recovered after the cheat though. I haven't
gotten my energy back, despite eating only meat, cheese, a *small*
amount of nuts, and green veggies.

This fatigue manifests as fatigue in my arms and legs; I can feel
perfectly energetic otherwise but my arms/legs will be tired as if
I've been doing heavy lifting. Feels like tremendous effort to climb
stairs, or lift my arms to type.

I need the energy back so I can get back to exercising.

I'm wondering if this is common/normal. What did anyone else go
through?

And yes I am getting checked for diabetes - probably next week. I'm
going to ask the hubby tonight to *please* get me a blood glucose
checker.