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Had a bunch more salt today and more calories and went over my carb limits to eat 1/2 a banana and I feel better, except I’m thirsty, lol. I doubt I’m still in keto today but we’ll see what the test strip says in the am. @PaulChasinDreams your hike looks beautiful. I haven’t learned how to do fat bombs yet. My previous…

@Sunny_Bunny_ I’m going to have to do something. After riding my bike yesterday on >40 carbs I felt so bad I couldn’t eat dinner. Everything I ate yesterday just made me feel sick and I woke up today to some muscle cramps. I still feel dizzy today even though I’ve upped my carbs a little already. I’ve had more salt and…

@tcunbeliever thanks for the advice and the book. Very helpful. Just what I needed.

@tcunbeliever how many more carbs do you add on your up days? And did you go into keto for a few weeks before you added them back in? I’m the same as you. Hungry the day after and I get DOMS, soreness 2 days later.

I haven’t been doing anything about electrolytes except using salt to taste in my food or and adding a sprinkle of salt in my herb tea. I will start researching what else I need to do. Sodium is easy to add, not sure what to do about the other salts like potassium and magnesium or whatever else.

Thanks everyone. I feel encouraged to keep going for the next few weeks to see how I feel then. I’m not having very many “keto flu” symptoms except feeling slower, running out of energy during workouts. I hope I can experience all the great things successful keto -ers get. Energy, mental clarity, not hungry all the time,…

@Kathy98513 if you can afford it, I highly recommend hiring a trainer to teach you some exercises specific to you and proper form. I’m 55 and I’ve always worked out on my own (biking, skiing, jogging). I started lifting weights a couple of years ago because I’m older now and believed I had better put on some muscle to help…

Keri is a prescriptive diet, originally used to treat epilepsy and now used for other metabolic disorders. It may make you feel great or not and that’s the key. A lot of people find it hard to stick to long term (it’s easy to slip out if fat burning mode for a couple of days, even if you just have 1 beer). But if it makes…

Do you have any evidence that the way you’ve been eating is negatively impacting you? High cholesterol or triglycerides or pre-diabetic leanings or whatnot? It sounds as if your body has very clearly told you what it wants to eat to be healthy. Every nutritional study has one absolute result and only one: the same diet…

We all just have to be wherever our body is. I had to quit doing back squats because they were killing my low back. Some days I have trouble with front loaded squats too and my trainer is like just stop. You are already getting expert advice. My thought for you is to do single leg stuff. One leg bridges to activate those…

Here are a bunch of Vegan recipe bloggers. Plus, try an app called Yummly which lets you search recipes for any diet or cuisine you want including vegetarian (vegan + cheese) or pescatarian (vegetarian + fish). https://www.culinarynutrition.com/top-50-vegan-blogs/ I’m not vegetarian but I eat a lot of plant based recipes…

I do homemade hot cocoa. 6oz hot water, 1T unsweetened Hershey’s cocoa, 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk and, if you need, either a tsp of coconut oil or a T of full fat coconut milk. Stevia or whatever your go-to keto sweetener is, to taste. Satisfies the sweet tooth and the chocolate cravings with almost no carbs and not…

@KimmySmellsbee wow, so odd that on a calorie counting support site you are being told to forgo support. Go ahead and talk about it and ask people to support you. Whether you have 100 pounds to lose or 2 pounds, whether you are a beginner athlete or an Olympian trying to shave 10th’s of seconds off your time, you start…

As other people have said, for me it’s also about learning portion size. I’ve always eaten healthy foods. Lots and lots of them, lol. Now, I’m figuring out what a six ounce piece of fish is and its macros and calories.

So, you don’t eat any veggies all week? A cup of kale has 6 grams of carbs5 net. And what kind of workouts do you do during the week? I’m just curious as my problem is balancing carbs/hunger/cravings and some of my training fitness goals. I’m a mountain biker and I never got the nutrition right to do some of the long…

There are tons of whey protein powders you can buy and veggie protein powders that have no sugar. Some have no sweeteners. Others use some form of stevia and xylitol. That’s a sweetener that doesn’t really get absorbed or raise blood sugar. My favorites are Garden of Life plant protein and Neocell Collagen Sport (a…

Same thing was happening to me. My daughter bout me a Good Grips Greensaber storage container and it’s working great. You have to buy new filters for it every couple of months but they aren’t expensive.…