Nope. Symptoms of hypotension are: dizziness, blurred vision, lightheadedness, fainting, (rarely) palpitations.
Symptoms of hypoglycemia are: sweating, shakiness, dizziness, blurred vision, hunger, tingling hands or lips, slurred speach, headache. If left untreated, hypoglyemic attacks can lead to loss of consciousness.
See a doctor. Self-diagnosing ("I think it was...") can be dangerous.

As for your "reported symptoms" list, the survery was skewed in that PETA (aka Atkinsdietalert.org) only solicited (and reported) comments from those that actually experienced negative side effects from low carbing. If they had actually factored in ALL reponses, or did a random survey of low carbers, those results would have been drastically different. PETA is hardly an accurate OR unbiased source of information when it comes to low carbing.



BTW...you did know that overexercising coupled with insufficient intake to support that excercise does more harm than good, right? Going all day without eating and then excercising strenuously on top of it = bad idea.

who needs the blessings of anybody when my body is having the time of its life.

It's like deja vu all over again!

OK, I've got it now. 24YO + education = immortal.

Since you've heard all the warnings from the others on this forum, I'm not gonna add any more, because it's pointless. Enjoy your thinning self, and I'm outa here.

Vicky

I believe that when a person has lived a lifetime on a low carb diet, fasting does not become an issue...it is natural and necessary for survival. I recall reading in my history class that Native Americans commonly spent winters without a whole lot of food. The early settlers thought that they were too lazy to hunt for food.

Methinks those mice basically were put on CAD.

Instead of eating lots of sugar all day, like the other mice, they ate a tremendous amount in one sitting.
If you are going to consume a relatively high sugar diet, like the sort fed to mice in a lab, it's of course better to eat less frequently. Your body produces less insulin when high-carb meal frequency is reduced, even if the same amount of carbs are consumed with less frequent meals (there is a physiologically valid explanation for this).

This isn't news to LCers.

Now the question is, is eating more frequently from a low carb diet bad for insulin sensitivity as well? I seriously doubt it. The benefits of meal condensation are relevant only to sugar. This is only relevant in a high carbohydrate context. If anything, skipping meals on a very low carbohydrate diet can be bad for your health. Low carbing puts your body in a state which makes catabolism very easy, unlike a high carb diet. By "easy", I mean your body has no problem shifting over to synthesizing muscle into glucose via gluconeogenesis and body fat into ketones via lipolysis without one iota of protest. On a higher carb diet, your body will beg and plead for food first, making meal initation more likely. Furthermore, it (muscle and fat from the body) is the only place for the body to get energy from during a fast on a LC diet. On a high carb diet, the body will consume glycogen first before attacking muscle.

For these reasons (your body gladly consumes itself and is unlikely to ask for food via hunger pangs, also your body has no stored sugar to draw from and goes straight for muscle in absence of dietary protein to fill sugar needs), going a long time without eating when carbs are very restricted is a recipe for muscle loss.