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Lithium and vlcd

marie32
marie32
Hi is anyone on lithium and on vlcd iv been on the diet before and eat once a day with fruit but I wasn't on lithium can anyone tell me if it's save I really need to lose weight thankyou
dancingd
dancingd
Eating once a day doesn't sound nutritionally healthy .

Personally, I have found losing weight while taking BP meds nearly impossible , for me anyway.

I know of one member of DS who lost a lot of weight while on Weight Watchers

I know with Lithium it is important to drink lots of water...LOTS

Good luck
tommymott
tommymott
Besides drinking lots of water don't restrict your intake of sodium while using lithium. So your diet should be ok taking that into consideration but I'd throw in some snacks.
KatLin
KatLin
have you had your thyroid screened lately? mine is going nuts happens on lithium can happen due to family genetics I get both .......

If you eat once a day you are going to stop your metabolism from working properly . you need to supplement

and as tommy and dd said fluid and salts. you can get toxic with out them which is not fun by the way