You Have Started the Diet & Feel Like Crap - Normal?

So, you have decided to start losing weight, you are following the Dukan Diet and you feel... well like crap.

Yes, this is normal.

Dr Dukan says that the feeling tired should go away after day 2 of the diet, and the feeling should be replaced with 'dynamic energy'.

Neither Prawn or I experienced any 'energy', especially not dynamic, at all in this diet, up to this day.

In fact, I could get 12 hours of sleep and still feel tired, I promise. It's ridiculous.

I started taking vitamins to see if it would help and I will be honest, it did. Just a multivitamin, no big deal.
So now I don't feel completely exhausted, just a little tired all the time.

Is it normal to feel cold during the diet, to feel freezing?

Yes! It is. I am always cold. & I actually know why this is. Your body goes into a 'hibernation' mode when it is experiencing rapid weight loss. It tries to save on energy by doing a couple things:

Your hair and nails start growing less rapidly, you feel tired all the time because your body now needs more sleep and your body stops spending energy to keep you toasty warm. So you are just absolutely freezing constantly.

Also, in my experience, you bruise easier and if you get cuts or scrapes they heal very very slowly.

Don't get a piercing on this diet, I promise it will take AGES to heal. Ridiculous.

Also, being cranky. Yes, the diet makes you crabby, and easily irritated. I wish I knew why.

I have talked to several women and men who have gone through minimum a couple weeks on the diet, they all say the same thing, in a bad mood, irritable, easily upset.

I don't find this has gone away with time either.

(Thanks to a reader for the question)

xo