Karen has had several people complain of headaches. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, this is natural.
Story #1. Two years ago I did the famed "Lemon Juice" cleanse. I actually enjoyed it. Did it for 7 days. It's designed to detox your body and cleanse out your belly. Well, at day 3 I started to get a really bad headache.
Story #2. I had the flu a few years ago and was taking advil to keep the fever down. Well, after about 4 days, the fever went down but I had this nagging headache. The cure? More advil of course!
Well, headaches are a withdrawal symptom. When you are not getting something the body "thinks" it wants, it tells you need it. Just as when we have low blood sugar, we get a headache. That's the body saying "eat a candy bar or I am going to shut down!"
On the cleanse, my body wanted all of the chemicals and crap found in the fast food and processed food we eat every day. Thus, a headache.
After reading the bottle of advil, it said stop taking after 5 days. Oh... This is why doctors tell us to alternate between advil and tylenol when we have pulled muscles or fevers. Advil is adictive to the body and after 5 days it wanted more. When I stopped, headache.
So, the weight loss program I am on now does a lot of the same things that the cleanse did. In fact, when I started, I anticipated the headache, even wondered when it would start. Sure enough, day 4...headache. But, I worked through it, took a couple advil ( I know, funny, right) and haven't had one since.
So, to anyone getting a headache, don't stop. Its not the nutritionals creating the headache, its your bratty body wanting the crap you usually feed it. Boosting metabolism and getting healthy requires your body make certain changes. It rebels in the form of headaches and other aches and pains. You just need to fight through it!!
Cheers!
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