How long have you been doing it?

If only one week, you need to give your body time to adapt. If 3-4 months, then you need to look at whether or not you're eating enough and are meeting all your nutrient needs.

I used to feel tired until I started taking a multivitamin.

If you take a multi-vitamin, take it with food. Or at least after you've eaten. I know that I tend to get very nauseous when I take one on an empty stomach.

You are eating more protein than fat. Good luck staying in a Keto. Read the book by Volek and Phinny, they talk about people feeling sluggish when they over eat protein. Again every one is different but it something to consider.

One of them worked, because I am already feeling better. Now we are planning a camping trip (not the hard core kind, but the glamping kind....).

Glad to hear you're feeling better. And WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO for camping!! One of my fav things to do. It's VERY easy to camp and stick w/ low carb, but planning ahead is definitely a good idea. Don't know how long you're going to be gone, but let me know if you want some ideas that have worked well for me in the past. :-)

I would love some ideas...going for about 3 or 4 days...and we are going to the state park and using one of the rv sites, so we can cook and use the truck to carry food and coolers to store it.

Things I've done in the past (all requiring prep ahead):

Use a couple 2 liter or gallon jugs filled about 3/4 way w/ water and freeze. Much more convenient than loose ice in cooler and you can use the water as it thaws for drinking/cooking. You'll probably need to get fresh ice by day 2, but at least you'll have kept the cooler cold and have fresh water out of the deal.

Freeze all of your hotdogs, burgers, sausage patties, etc. to be added to cooler on day of trip. You can quick thaw your hotdogs for dinner that night in a bowl of cold water. The rest will gradually thaw in cooler as you need them.

Take a whole fryer chicken and stuff w/ cut up carrots, celery onion. Season outside w/ butter or olive oil and your choice of spices. Wrap in multiple layers of heavy duty aluminum foil then put in large freezer bag and pop in freezer. On day of trip, put frozen bird in cooler. Mine was thawed by day 3, so that's when we built an awesome fire w/ lots of good, hot coals. Take bird out of ziploc but leave in foil, and place in coals. You'll need to move it around about every 20 minutes or so, exposing evenly to the heat. I think mine was done in about 1 1/2-2 hours. I swear this will be one of the moistest and most delicious chickens you've ever tasted. :-) If you have another day of your trip left, you can boil down the carcass for chicken stew, adding in a bag of frozen veggies of your choice and whatever meat is leftover.

Faux-tato Salad: Your favorite potato salad recipe subbing cauliflower for potatoes. Store in a ziploc bag to conserve space in cooler.

Hard boiled eggs: Just boil 'em up and leave them in the shell. Keep in a ziploc. Peel and eat or whip up deviled eggs or egg salad on site, since you'll probably have mayo/mustard w/ you anyway.

Precook bacon and store in ziploc for quick snacks or to wrap in lettuce leaves w/ a slice of tomato and mayo for breadless BLT. Or to add to your burgers.

Make a crustless quiche in a 9x12 pan. Portion into serving sizes and wrap in heavy duty foil several times. Freeze and store in ziploc. These can reheat easily in the fire...only takes a half hour or so.

Nuts, pepperoni sticks, roast beef and cream cheese roll-ups...all good. Can you tell I end up coming home from camping w/ too much food EVERY SINGLE TIME?!? lol

Well, there's a few...if I think of any more tonite, I'll let ya know. :-)

I initially had a burst of energy so much so that i could sleep at night for about a week and than suddenly I became really tired and now I feel like I'm back to normal. I had enough energy to excercise but that burst of energy I initially had is gone. I can't say that I miss it because it really ruined my sleep pattern.

after 8 weeks of vlc you can add 25 g carbs in the last meal of the day. This is key for hormones necessary to regulate the thyroid and nervous system. If you don't you will destroy your seratonin and dopamine levels - the hardest hormones to reproduce! Carbs are essential for them.

No one can maintain 25g carbs a day for more than 6 weeks without destroying mental health.

best wishes, happy training.

after 8 weeks of vlc you can add 25 g carbs in the last meal of the day. This is key for hormones necessary to regulate the thyroid and nervous system. If you don't you will destroy your seratonin and dopamine levels - the hardest hormones to reproduce! Carbs are essential for them.

No one can maintain 25g carbs a day for more than 6 weeks without destroying mental health.

best wishes, happy training.

Lol. Ok. That's all I have to say.

My mental health must be in shambles. I'm over the limit by about five times that!

LOL

as and advanced CPT my professional tip is free to you . You obviously expect me to give you references... I gave you a tip. Help yourself or keep destroying your seratonin levels. Not my problem.

For all of you who want to use Keto as a fad diet but don't want to pay a certified medical or certified fitness nutrition professional for legit medical help, go right on ahead asking for free advice here on mfp. Free means it's only worth that much.

There's so many scam artists touting misinformation and you all keep believing their lies..... *shakes head*

Busywaterb, why do you come to the forums if you don't want to participate in the discussion? I am really curious because I have done a lot of research and haven't heard that before. I don't think it's odd to ask where you learned that and expect at least a cursory answer. Thanks for the info.

as and advanced CPT my professional tip is free to you . You obviously expect me to give you references... I gave you a tip. Help yourself or keep destroying your seratonin levels. Not my problem.

For all of you who want to use Keto as a fad diet but don't want to pay a certified medical or certified fitness nutrition professional for legit medical help, go right on ahead asking for free advice here on mfp. Free means it's only worth that much.

There's so many scam artists touting misinformation and you all keep believing their lies..... *shakes head*

No offense, but I'm not impressed by credentials, for CPT or otherwise. I have a master's degree in my field (an allied health field), along with years of internships, a passing score on a Praxis examination, and a year of mentored and supervised practice before I obtained my state and national licensure (not to mention years of clinical practice after all that), and I absolutely welcome the people who seek my services to request citations. In fact I generally precede about 50% of my advice with a discussion of the specific studies which support the strategy I am recommending and the other 50% I can supply citations on if requested.

By 'scam artists' I can only imagine you mean researchers, and by 'lies' I can only imagine you mean evidence from peer reviewed studies.