My son is on a ketogenic diet for seizure control, so I know a fair amount about the mechanics of ketosis. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/magazine/21Epilepsy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I tried an Atkins variation last year. It worked well, but it was hard for me to maintain. I quit after about 8 weeks. Transition happens around two weeks in. There were two or three days of sluggishness, much like days that I maybe didn't get as much sleep as I like. Right in the middle of those days I had one day-—more like 8 hours—where I felt outright sick. Not severely so, but enough that I spent the day on the couch. It's possible that I was just sick. For a while I had really sore legs. Enough to keep me from sleeping. Turned out that's a common side effect, and is correctable with a potassium supplement (works fast-take them from the get go and you'll have no problems). After transition, I always felt good. Plenty of energy for short daily jogs and whatever biking I wanted. If your fat and proteins are in the right ratio and carbs are essentially eliminated, excess calories are not really an issue. You can eat how much you want and still lose. You probably won't, though. My appetite declined and I didn't mind feeling hungry. I was not in an environment that encouraged success in this, though. And I really, really missed veggies and any sort of little bit of sweetness. My question for Grant has been this (it's a tough one for me): without toast, what do you use to soak up egg yolks at breakfast? Been meaning to send him a postcard just to ask that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
