Thanks,

Angela

It was a long post, I’ll try it again later.

Trish, your experience is fairly common — the headaches seem to last for several days. One thing that helps is to break the oil down into two doses, half each dose, until your body gets used to digesting it. Also, I used a 50/50 mix of olive oil and grapeseed oil for a while, which made it easier.

I feel quite hungry, hungry enough to eat a ‘normal’ plate of food, but I sit down to eat and find I can’t finish it. On Thursday I couldn’t finish a sandwich, and I’ll usually have a sandwich and then maybe an apple and then maybe some cookies with my coffee. Crazy.

That has been my experience for the past six months. It has been a strange reversal of what was normal for me.

I’ve been having one dose of oil (Wed & Thur at 11am and Fri at 4pm) and I have stopped doing that thing where I stand in front of the fridge/cupboard and search in vain for something to eat. That used to be one of my favourite things to do, but now I’m just not that hungry. Right before mealtimes I feel quite hungry, hungry enough to eat a ‘normal’ plate of food, but I sit down to eat and find I can’t finish it. On Thursday I couldn’t finish a sandwich, and I’ll usually have a sandwich and then maybe an apple and then maybe some cookies with my coffee. Crazy.

Side effects? I have a headache. It wont go away. I haven’t had much sleep this week and I’ve been a bit stressed with work but this is a pretty bad headache and I think it’s related to the diet. If it doesn’t settle down in the next few days I might have to rethink things. I’m running out of Tylenol.

I take the oil with a glass of water. The oil floats on top of the water so when I take a big gulp the oil gets washed down and I barely taste it. I’ve been having Grapeseed Oil. The sugar thing makes me nervous because there’s a family history of diabetes.

So that’s my progress report. I’ve set myself a goal to lose five kilos by the end of June. I’m about to go on a two-week business trip, and have two more week-long trips before the end of June, so it’s going to be a challenge. But this diet seems to have simply supressed my appetite so I’m actually not too worried about putting on weight while I’m away, because I’m just not eating as much.

(Someone followed the link from my last comment to my blog, but I haven’t blogged about it yet. I’ll write something at the end of June if I reach my goal weight.)

Best luck.