Early Ketosis Question...?

[DJLegacy2k1]

I know when your body is switching over you sometime feel tired and out of it sometimes, I know this because Ive ran a CKD before.

For the last 3 days Ive had my diet under 20 carbs along with 30-35 mins of cardio and weights. Within the last hour or so, Ive been feeling really out of it, I was planning on going out but now I just feel...I dont know foggy and a little warm. Not sick or fevery, but my face feels warm to me at least. I havent taken Thermorexin since early afternoon...I have no appetite or motivation to get up and go out or nething tonite now.

Think its just my body switching over or does something sound off...Just curious.

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

^Bump just to get an opinion

So I know what may be going on...

 

[superman40229]

I had some of those same symptons but i would get bad headaches. I dont function well on less than 20g carbs.

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Yeah ive had some headaches and all before, but never really felt warm and foggy....maybe its just cuz I upped the cardio this time...I dunno.

 

[Lifterforlife]

Many folks do not function well on a CKD. This diet is not for everyone.

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Ive ran this diet before...And did fine, lost 22lbs in 2 months...before hurting my shoulder and screwing myself over :-D Its normally just the first 2 or 3 days, it was just worse last night...I feel better this morning.

 

[Lifterforlife]

Glad it worked for you, this is fine.

It does not change the fact that some folks just cannot do it.

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Yeah, I still think it's all mental...:-D

 

[Aries13]

Ketosis is relatively a very unhealthy way to lose weight. It has a lot of fast gains after you begin to eat like a human again. It also does a very bad job on your liver,kidneys and pancreas(this is b.c you are flushing ketone bodies to make up for the non existent carbs in your diet ) Also, once it really hits you, you will have acetone breath which sucks! Overall, it will make you lose a SHIT load of weight. However,to make sure you are actually in ketosis, get some of those ketosis strips(at wal mart or any other store w. a pharmacy)....and check them out to see you are actually in that state.

Ketosis will make your brain cloudy-fuzzy...you will start to feel like a different person and almost unbearable to be around. Some people can do it fine while some cant...and often crash pretty badly. If you are feeling that your work outs are affected by this, then you might consider doing carb cycling instead. It works great....b/c for example say your body is getting 100-150g carbs/day and you do that for one day, then for the next 3-4 days you drop them to like 60-70....your body will think that it is getting 100-150g b/c it takes a while to get used to it. What will happen is that since your body will think you are getting 150, it will use up the 70 that you took in that day and the remaining 80 will get from your fat stores. Am I making sense? Once you start to feel fuzzy-weird and very low on energy, it means that your body figured out that you are no longer getting 150g/day, and it will slow your metabolism down(this is usually the 3rd or 4th day) On the day this happens, you just bump the carbs back up to 100-150 and start the cycle all over again.

This is just in case you are interested. It should help with your low energy and focus on working out. Good luck!!!! And hang in there

 

[Lifterforlife]

Yeah, I still think it's all mental...:-D

Well, mental may not be a bad way to look at it.

though the body could easily go into ketosis in a matter of a couple of days,
the brain can take 2-3 weeks to adapt to using ketones for fuel.