I have been lifting weights for the past 4 months. I decided 2 days ago that
I wanted to lose a little of the flubber so that muscle definition could be
seen, and read up on low carb diets. I am currently 198lb, and roughly
20-25% body fat.
So on that day (Wednesday) , my last carb meal was at 2:30pm . At 6pm, I had
a steak (cow) roughly 200grams, and one egg, with a little bit of tomato
sauce (3g carb per 15ml). At 9pm I had fried chicken (150-200grams) with 2
slices of cheese. At 12am I had a protein drink (WPI) with water which had
20 grams of protein. Then I went to sleep.
On Thursday at 10am I had 2 eggs and 2 strips of bacon. 10:30am I had
another protein drink. Then I didn't eat at all until 6pm. Strangely I
didn't feel the same hunger pains as I usually would after not eating so
long. At 6pm I had a slice of cheese and my protein drink. Then at around
9pm I had 2 chicken burgers (4g carb each). I then cooked some lowcarb
cookies i got from the shop in my oven, and had 2 of them. They contain
roughly 2g of carb each. And that was it for Thursday eating wise.
At 12am I tested for ketosis in my urine using the keto sticks, and it
showed a large amount was in my urine. One notch under the maximum amount.
Now, can I assume I am in ketosis or was it due to the fact I didn't eat for
7 hours? I would have thought it was because I didn't eat, but your body
doesn't keep burning fat when you have not eaten for a while, then you eat
2-3 meals, or does it? I felt kind of woozy on the first night and during
thursday due to no carbs, but I feel fine now (mid Friday), slightly "sore"
if that's the correct term in my muscles. They feel kind of blunt or lazy,
if thats a good word to describe it. I've probably had around 30g carbs in
48 hours so far.
I also feel like my sleep last night was good, but not sure if that's
related to the low carbs or not. When I first started the low carb diet, the
very first low carb meal I had in fact, I was feeling very hungry due to not
eating for around 3-4 hours (my last meal was roughly 80g carbs). So my own
theory is due to my hunger when starting, and the fact I missed another 7
hours the next day of not eating, my glycogen stores were low, and it took
less time to enter ketosis. I also walked a bit on Thursday, which might
have also helped.
I am currently in my "off week" of my HST cycle, where you rest for 10 days
after doing 8 weeks of weights, 3 times a week. So hopefully when I get back
into my weights on Monday, I will be able to do them as well as I have
before.
I'll report back later with some more results.