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*Upping Calories on Keto*
I've been doing keto for about 9 weeks now. 20 or less grams of net carbs, 75 to 80% fat. My calories have stayed pretty low. I was doing low calorie before but it's gotten a little lower.
Every few weeks, I felt weak during work outs. I've heard of "carb up" days. This is supposed to help your muscles store glycogen. I didn't go crazy with the carbs but I at lest tripled or quadrupled my carb intake and lowered my fat for a few days.
What happened? Well it would help my workouts a little but I also felt bloated and dizzy the rest of the day. Plus, it takes a few more days to dumb that extra water that attached to the carbs and bloated belly. I'm really not feeling this cycle. I feel that I need more carbs but cycling them isn't working for me. I think it should be more steady.
So I'm running this test.
A lot of keto advocates tell us not to count calories. Just keep the percentages right. So I've decided to up my fat and carbs(my protein is evening out to being about the same). My calories are going up with them. Which seems counter intuitive but I'm giving it a shot. There's a ketoer YouTuber I watch who keeps saying to focus on the fat instead of carbs. To get 200 grams in. It seems arbitrary but so does the 20 grams of carbs everyone tells you to have. According to her, this teaches your body to run off of fat. That's what I'm going for.
I got about 200 grams of fat yesterday and 30 net carbs. My scale went up a little already but I only weighed myself out of curiosity. I know there's more food going threw my body. I gotta be patient. I'm going to give this at least a couple weeks. If I go up to 200 grams of fat a day, I should be able to have 60 net carbs. I'm not rushing to get that but I'm working my way up.
It's a little scary to up my calories but I have to find a way to keep my workouts up and spare my muscle, while losing fat. I gotta think long term and not just immediate scale results.
On another note, there's also theories about upping calories to lose weight. The theory is, if you're cutting calories for a while, your body "thinks" there's a lack of food available. So it starts to hold on to the calories coming in. Once your body gets more calories coming in it "says" "Ok. There's plenty of food around, it's ok to let some of this storage out."
So I'm taking my time on this. I'll keep it up dated. ☺ Thanks for reading.
Diet Calendar Entries for 06 July 2018:
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2210 kcal
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Fat: 191.85g | Prot: 101.58g | Carb: 35.28g.
Breakfast: Body Fortress Isolate Protein, Spectrum Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, Coffee, Silk Pure Almond Milk - Unsweetened Vanilla, Apricots. Lunch: Basil, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Corn, Classico Four Cheese Alfredo Pasta Sauce, Freshness Guaranteed Ground Beef 73% Lean 27% Fat. Dinner: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Monterey Farms Sharp Cheddar Cheese. Snacks/Other: Monterey Farms Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Apricots, Spectrum Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, Butter, Apricots, Kroger Sliced Canadian Bacon, Beef Tallow (Fat). more...
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2111 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
steps - 6 hours, Weight Training (moderate) - 40 minutes, Weight Training (Bodybuilding) - 40 minutes, Housework - 30 minutes, Resting - 8 hours and 10 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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