Is my diet making me depressed?

#1

I’ve noticed my 2-year-old has been super annoying in the last 2 weeks. It also happens that I’ve cut my calories by quite a bit in the last 2 weeks. I feel like everything and everyone is annoying the last few days, to the point where I wonder if I’m a little depressed. Then I wondered if it’s the calorie deficit that’s causing it. I know it’s not the keto bc I’ve been on keto for 6 months now. Anyone else?

(Running from stupidity) #2

In general, being irritable with things isn’t anything like being depressed.

OTOH, it DOES sound like you’ve become quite irritable!

#3

Irritability is a classic symptom of calorie restricting diets. The more you restrict the worse it gets. Iirc, Mark Wahlberg had issues with irritability when he had to lose a lot of weight for a role.

#4

Ugh…maybe I need to look into some supplements or something.

#5

Are you trying to break a stall or something? Generally the point of keto is that if you fix the hormonal issue, the calorie thing takes care of itself.

#6

I overate and gained weight on keto (I don’t mean a stall, I mean I wound up 8 pounds above my starting weight). So for me, calories matter. Now it’s entirely possible that my deficit has been too high some days because I was trying to overcome a cheat weekend.

#7

I feel better now that I posted this and you guys responded it’s probably not depression and just grumpiness. That’s something I can control…I just need to get used to the diet, at least mentally. Also, I wonder if I’m still suffering some sugar withdrawal from my cheat weekend over Labor Day weekend. I don’t feel like I’m in carb withdrawal, but I admit I’ve been daydreaming about sweets a lot more than I did before. So, maybe I’m still readapting to keto. That would certainly explain things.

#8

Well this is interesting…I fell completely off the wagon today, more in terms of calories but also with a decent amount of carbs. First time in weeks that I didn’t eat at a deficit. And my two year old decided to throw a complete fit at bed time. And I COMPLETELY kept my cool. Usually, especially lately, I am a horrible mom and just start yelling as soon as she misbehaves. Tonight I wasn’t hungry so I exercised the utmost patience. Too bad she has to have a mom who’s usually on a diet except for the rare cheat day :frowning: