Clenchy cold feeling

(Al) #1

New here. Hope I’ve come to the right place.

I have been fasting since a few months. After a few weeks I started noticing that in fasted state, I had this clenching feeling in my jaws, kinda like the feeling you have with chattering teeth.

After another few weeks this feeling scattered throughout the rest of my body. A kind of clenching feeling resembling what you have when you have the chill/shivers, although I’m not really shivering. It’s also not really cramps.

It’s very annoying, but went away with eating or when turning the heat up.

Now, another few weeks later, the feeling doesn’t go away so easily anymore, not even with eating, and not when turning the heat up.

So what’s up? And what to do?

(Allie) #2

Fasting stresses the body and what you’re describing is the body’s naturally reaction to that stress. I get it too. I have a constant focus on self care and stress minimalisation but still get this with fasting and when it gets too bad, I just take a break from fasting.

(Janelle) #3

Stop fasting. It may not be what your body needs. What is the main reason you’re doing it?

(Al) #4

Weight loss…

Feel great otherwise. Only this last weeks this chilly feeling (is it just a feeling?) has gone up and endurance is suddenly harder with higher heart rate for same exercise.

Are their lacking nutrients that could be causing this?

(Carl Keller) #5

Besides, stress and anxiety, I’ve read that lacking calcium in your diet can lead to jaw clenching/grinding your teeth when sleeping. The lack of calcium makes it more difficult for your muscles to relax. So you can try to increase the amount of calcium you get in your diet. Just make sure you are getting Vitamin D as well. Vitamin D helps you absorb other minerals. This may or may not help but it certainly wont hurt to eat more of these:

Calcium on keto

  • Oily fish , kale , turnip greens , bok choy and broccoli .
  • Bone broth and Almond milk are also excellent ways to get calcium on keto.
  • One can of sardines is 33% of your calcium requirements.
  • And a cup of collard greens is about 20% of what you need each day.

and for Vitamin D: fish, liver, eggs, sunlight and cheese.

(Brennan) #6

I would think making sure your electrolytes are in order while fasting is the first step.

Are you supplementing while fasting?

How much weight (fat) have you got left to lose?

Are you feasting in between fasts?

(Heather Meyer) #7

I actually had the jaw clenching thing before and it actually went away when i started adding in a good dose (600mg) of megnesium citrate every morning. Turns out i was deficient in Megnesium abd my body was experiencing mini spasms.

(Al) #8

I do take in extra Mg but not 600 mg. Doesn’t that give you diarrhea?

(Bob M) #9

I’ve switched to magnesium oil, as all of the pill/powders magnesiums (and I’ve tried them all, magnesium orotate, mg taurate, many different powders) cause me intestinal distress.

I’ve researched this issue and there are no good answers. Some believe getting cold is simply what happens, and in my case that was true at least in part. Some believe it’s your metabolic rate slowing. I kept getting colder and colder with shorter and shorter time frames. Was it not enough calories in the feeding phase? Lack of iodine? Something else? It’s not clear to me. Taking a break from fasting and also adding iodine has helped, but I can’t tell whether one of those alone would have helped.