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Keto absolutely works. The first time I did it was from sedentary and about 60lbs overweight. It felt like a life hack how fast I was losing weight. Fast for
by herghost 8y ago
Keto absolutely works. The first time I did it was from sedentary and about 60lbs overweight. It felt like a life hack how fast I was losing weight.
Fast forward to a new, leaner, me and I try exercising properly. On Keto there's no way I can exercise. Whilst I felt fine day to day and had a clear head, anything more energetic than walking was a huge effort.
Years later, having dropped keto, a friend and I were very heavily into mid-distance running (10k and half marathon). We weren't particularly fast, but we were doing probably 50k per week training and several events per year.
We decided to do a burst of keto to try to drop a few more pounds whilst maintaining the running since we'd seen some blog posts claiming it was possible to avoid the lack of energy.
First run post keto went from us running routine 55minute 10k to me abandoning the run altogether part way through at 64minutes because I was in agony.
tl;dr keto + exercise may not work for everyone
- mft_ 8y agoI had a similar experience when trying a keto diet - I struggled to cycle up a single short hill on my commute home, despite being a moderately-fit regular cyclist. Bringing the carbs back in solved this. YMMV. It's interesting that even some of the more pro-keto/paleo/primal blogs often recommend carbs (albeit appropriate quantities) to support any significant level of exercise.