Low carb fatigue

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  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    eat more carbs?
    This. Carbs give you energy.

    So do ketones - carbs are optimal though if your training is in anyway anaerobic. If you are depleting your muscle glycogen stores with your workouts, a small increase in carb intake will likely taken up by the body to replenish your muscle glycogen, quicker than than it would through just gluconeogensis.

    It may just take some experimenting.

    20grams does seem quite low - are you on an introduction program into fat adaption?
  • iPlatano
    iPlatano Posts: 487 Member
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    Low carb diets are for people who cant handle carbs very well in my opinion.
  • thelowcarbrecipes
    thelowcarbrecipes Posts: 89 Member
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    Im doing keto at the moment [been doing it on and off for a couple year] and I get fatigue after cardio if I have not been eating enough. say I should eat 2000 calories to maintain weight per day. I eat say 500 under to lose weight. then on the days i do cardio I burn an extra 600 for a good run. I have effectivly just had 900 calories that day which just isnt enough for my body.

    these are made up numbers just to get the point across.

    could just be too big of a calorie defict, actually I feel the same way weather I have carbs or not when im on a calorie deficit that large

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