Spinoza
Never give up
For those of you who know me.
I started eating little tiny bits of food over a week ago, and now have ended up sort of half LTing/half eating. Very careful only to have small amounts of low or no carb foods - my ketosis is too hard-won and too precious to waste! Having 2 or 2.5 shakes a day too, depending on what I've eaten.
But it's going really well - I can't eat much, but I get the benefits of being able to pop something in my mouth without having an absolute fit afterwards. And I've lost 5lbs this week doing it, so I'm doing something right.
If I had my way and could turn the clock back to last week I never would have let food past my lips - TFRers, read that sentence again, LOL! It's like breaking a spell or something! But, this is what I'm able to do now, and I'm definitely running better and further on this regime than I was able to on TFR - just kept running out of juice at about 5 miles, and this is mostly what's kept me eating this time.
I still want to lose another stone, but am stopping the shakes in 2 weeks time as that's when the funds dry up, but am happy to lose the rest much more slowly by low carbing.
I'm now planning to run the half-marathon I was going to walk at the end of September, so my 'best of both worlds' diet is working for me and I just thought I'd share. It's just like living day 1 of refeed for weeks actually!
Hope this helps someone, sorry it turned into such a long one!
I started eating little tiny bits of food over a week ago, and now have ended up sort of half LTing/half eating. Very careful only to have small amounts of low or no carb foods - my ketosis is too hard-won and too precious to waste! Having 2 or 2.5 shakes a day too, depending on what I've eaten.
But it's going really well - I can't eat much, but I get the benefits of being able to pop something in my mouth without having an absolute fit afterwards. And I've lost 5lbs this week doing it, so I'm doing something right.
If I had my way and could turn the clock back to last week I never would have let food past my lips - TFRers, read that sentence again, LOL! It's like breaking a spell or something! But, this is what I'm able to do now, and I'm definitely running better and further on this regime than I was able to on TFR - just kept running out of juice at about 5 miles, and this is mostly what's kept me eating this time.
I still want to lose another stone, but am stopping the shakes in 2 weeks time as that's when the funds dry up, but am happy to lose the rest much more slowly by low carbing.
I'm now planning to run the half-marathon I was going to walk at the end of September, so my 'best of both worlds' diet is working for me and I just thought I'd share. It's just like living day 1 of refeed for weeks actually!
Hope this helps someone, sorry it turned into such a long one!