Post by spoonherder on Oct 21, 2017 17:29:58 GMT -5
Hello! New to the board and getting back on the keto wagon after a break (please excuse the rambling post)
I lost a lot of weight quickly (from 170kg to 138kg in less than a year) and stopped the process to help my skin tighten up/avoid too much loose skin.
I've kept my weight steady, I don't eat 'pure' sugars but I eat the odd bit of bread and drink milk in my tea each morning which stopped the weight loss.
Now here's the question you probably get a lot, but I didn't suffer from 'keto flu' the first time round, I adapted after about a month (that's when I felt amazing, full of energy and the keto strips were in the indigo each time, if a little 'light' at times but not by much) and the weight melted off at speed.
This time though I was on day four and suddenly took a 'bad turn', it was much like when you get out of a hot bath to quickly and you feel utterly awful, like you need to lay down and as if you're about to expire on the spot.
The day:
I'd been tired most of the day which was a good sign and feeling a bit foggy, took my potassium, Mag, B-vits, Choline, some pink salt even some k2, iron and Alfalfa and felt generally okay. Later that day I had a few moments where I felt 'weak' but just pushed through it and ate a few walnuts.
I kept to my macros by weighing everything - food items were - beef, mayo, hard cheese, baby spinach, pink salt, Kerrysgold butter, Double cream, 1 small cup of coffee and 1 'sugar free' jelly which is less than 0.5g per serving (I've eaten these from my original diet and if it did slow my weight loss down I didn't notice and the keto strips didn't alter). The rest of the drinks were water, 1 small cup of cherry pepsi max with 2 spoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 spoons of lemon juice (It's the only way I can stand the stuff lol!)
I had bath and settled down for the night, it was hard to drop off due to the 'change over' (restlessness) and just as I was dozing off I woke with a start. Heart pounding, feeling terrible as described and generally 'unwell'. I figured this might be 'keto flu' and ate a couple of walnuts, drank some slightly salted water and braced myself for a rough night.
I was like this for about a hour before I started to feel so ill I wondered if something was badly wrong, I was in pain (full body), roasting hot, confused and felt very odd.
Heart was pounding fast/hard but steady, might have been my state of mind that made me notice it (sodium levels were about right to my knowledge)
I really felt like I was about to pop my clogs lol
So unsure if I was in trouble I pretty much crawled to the kitchen and ate a couple of slices of bread....ten minutes later I was feeling much better....
Was that the 'keto flu'? Going from generally feeling okay to "Call the undertaker!" in a few moments was a bit of a surprise....
Could it have bene not enough sodium?
I don't have an underlying medical conditions, everything within normal ranges at the Docs, just obese from years of failed dieting due the food pyramid and hating being hungry
(Restarting tomorrow, love keto!)
I lost a lot of weight quickly (from 170kg to 138kg in less than a year) and stopped the process to help my skin tighten up/avoid too much loose skin.
I've kept my weight steady, I don't eat 'pure' sugars but I eat the odd bit of bread and drink milk in my tea each morning which stopped the weight loss.
Now here's the question you probably get a lot, but I didn't suffer from 'keto flu' the first time round, I adapted after about a month (that's when I felt amazing, full of energy and the keto strips were in the indigo each time, if a little 'light' at times but not by much) and the weight melted off at speed.
This time though I was on day four and suddenly took a 'bad turn', it was much like when you get out of a hot bath to quickly and you feel utterly awful, like you need to lay down and as if you're about to expire on the spot.
The day:
I'd been tired most of the day which was a good sign and feeling a bit foggy, took my potassium, Mag, B-vits, Choline, some pink salt even some k2, iron and Alfalfa and felt generally okay. Later that day I had a few moments where I felt 'weak' but just pushed through it and ate a few walnuts.
I kept to my macros by weighing everything - food items were - beef, mayo, hard cheese, baby spinach, pink salt, Kerrysgold butter, Double cream, 1 small cup of coffee and 1 'sugar free' jelly which is less than 0.5g per serving (I've eaten these from my original diet and if it did slow my weight loss down I didn't notice and the keto strips didn't alter). The rest of the drinks were water, 1 small cup of cherry pepsi max with 2 spoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 spoons of lemon juice (It's the only way I can stand the stuff lol!)
I had bath and settled down for the night, it was hard to drop off due to the 'change over' (restlessness) and just as I was dozing off I woke with a start. Heart pounding, feeling terrible as described and generally 'unwell'. I figured this might be 'keto flu' and ate a couple of walnuts, drank some slightly salted water and braced myself for a rough night.
I was like this for about a hour before I started to feel so ill I wondered if something was badly wrong, I was in pain (full body), roasting hot, confused and felt very odd.
Heart was pounding fast/hard but steady, might have been my state of mind that made me notice it (sodium levels were about right to my knowledge)
I really felt like I was about to pop my clogs lol
So unsure if I was in trouble I pretty much crawled to the kitchen and ate a couple of slices of bread....ten minutes later I was feeling much better....
Was that the 'keto flu'? Going from generally feeling okay to "Call the undertaker!" in a few moments was a bit of a surprise....
Could it have bene not enough sodium?
I don't have an underlying medical conditions, everything within normal ranges at the Docs, just obese from years of failed dieting due the food pyramid and hating being hungry
(Restarting tomorrow, love keto!)
