I’m about sold on the Keto diet. It was time to lose some weight anyway. I’m sure I’ll do ok on the Keto diet. I’ve always been good at losing weight once I set my mind to it. I’m equally as good at gaining weight to though as it’s always been feast or famine for me. Haven’t had any high carb stuff since Monday. Felt like junk Wednesday. Frequent urination all day yesterday. Feel back to normal today with exception of still peeing a little more than normal but not like the 15 or more times yesterday. I’ve been trying to stay around the 20g of carbs every day and around 1800 calories. I have to say without just guzzling oil it’s tough to get that many calories with no startches and moderate amounts of protein. I was going to add intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast in a couple weeks but woke up this morning and wasn’t hungry so I skipped today. Still not hungry but will have to cram it in at lunch to get even close to the calories I want to eat today.
I’m about sold on the Keto diet. It was time to lose some weight anyway. I’m sure I’ll do ok on the Keto diet. I’ve always been good at losing weight once I set my mind to it. I’m equally as good at gaining weight to though as it’s always been feast or famine for me. Haven’t had any high carb stuff since Monday. Felt like junk Wednesday. Frequent urination all day yesterday. Feel back to normal today with exception of still peeing a little more than normal but not like the 15 or more times yesterday. I’ve been trying to stay around the 20g of carbs every day and around 1800 calories. I have to say without just guzzling oil it’s tough to get that many calories with no startches and moderate amounts of protein. I was going to add intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast in a couple weeks but woke up this morning and wasn’t hungry so I skipped today. Still not hungry but will have to cram it in at lunch to get even close to the calories I want to eat today.
Carbohydrates cause systemic inflammation. Excess urination during the first week or so of a keto type diet is just the body adjusting to less inflammation. An example would be if you banged your elbow on your desk hard. Your elbow would swell. That is inflammation. It's water weight sent to protect that area. Carbohydrates cause this same function, but systemically over your whole body. Remove the carbs from the diet, and the stored carbs in the body get used (carbs are the body's first choice of fuels, and will always be used first to exhaustion if present before using fat for fuel), leaving no need for the water weight associated with those carbs.
Many people also notice whats called the "low carb flu". I think this happens for 2 reasons. First, your body is used to sugar ( all carbs are sugars) for fuel, so it is inefficient using fat for fuel. The process to change energy substrates takes some time, and during this time the body is in a slight energy deficit. Secondly, our bodies store some toxins in our fat. Fat isnt "burned" off the body like many people think. There isn't combustion. Fat loss is just the body consuming fat for fuel. Many times, this makes people feel sick, as they are reingesting those toxins, and all at the same time. This will pass.
A big benefit of using fat for fuel vs carbs (sugar) for fuel is that carbs produce lactic acid when digested in the body, which is what makes your muscles burn when they are used more than normal. Fat does not have this biological mechanism, and causes much less buildup of lactic acids in the muscles. Sugars generally are good for "burst" type strength, such as 1 set of lifting weights, something like 10-20 seconds. Fats are very good for long term, "slow" energy.
I switched to a very high fat diet once, and on top of losing most of my bodyfat and looking shredded, my endurance and performance skyrocketed in the martial arts gym. I was more clear mentally, and did not have any issues with endurance.
Hope this helps.
I think the overall enemy we're fighting is sugar and carbs(which turns into sugar).
