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Experimenting with a Keto Diet – Blog#10

Day 20

It’s Day 20 of my Keto Diet.

How I’m Feeling

I wrote the other day how I was finding that the Diet wasn’t uncomfortable like it had been in the beginning. That still stands. I’m not aware of that same buzzing throughout my body some time after eating a meal. Sometimes I have a lot of energy, and other times not as much, but I never feel really lethargic for no reason. So my energy levels are good.

Headaches

I’ve had a few headaches, albeit very mild headaches since I’ve been on the Diet. So mild that if I were to describe them in terms of pain level, I would call them a “pre-headache” – Continue reading “Experimenting with a Keto Diet – Blog#10” →

Experimenting with a Keto Diet – Blog#1

Beginnings

I started a Keto Diet at breakfast on the 21st October 2018.

Leading up to this date, long before any commitments to start it had been made, I began mentioning to people that I wanted to try it, and I did some online searches about the diet, foods to eat, and recipes.

What I knew, or thought I knew, at this point was:

  1. A Keto Diet could be used for fat loss;
  2. Fat loss could be extreme and rapid;
  3. Ketosis was the name for the process of metabolising fats, and that ketones were produced;
  4. Ketosis could be measured with strips that you urinate on, which I knew as keto sticks. My mum had done some sort of Keto Diet using supplements many years ago;
  5. There were health benefits purported about eating ketogenically;
  6. Ketones could be toxic to the body.

Some of the things I read and heard in this period were:

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