ex150ish-8

A Short Victorious War?

28/10/24 96 36.98 132/77/57

27/10/24 95.9 36.71 0.1 0.1 132/78/50

26/10/24 96.3 36.74 0.102 0.102 117/68/61

25/10/24 95.3 0.11 0.11

24/10/24 95 36.85 0.142 0.142 131/72/59

23/10/24 94.6 36.57 0.102 0.102 124/70/58

22/10/24 93.6 36.55 0.124 0.124 127/76/59

21/10/24 94.4 36.47 0.12 0.12 123/81/57

20/10/24 94.3 0.164 0.164 129/69/58

19/10/24 95.4 36.83 0.06 0.06 127/73/55

18/10/24 96 36.64 0.12 0.12 131/78/51

17/10/24 95.7 36.68 0.11 0.11 116/72/59

16/10/24 96.2 36.51 0.1 0.1 144/84/58

So, wondering why ex150ish-7 didn't work, I tried again but was super-strict about it.

So for ex150ish-8 I tried to stick to the original plan, just ad-lib cream and a stew of tomatoes, butter, coconut oil and spices plus beef restricted to 1kg/week of 80/20 minced beef from Sainsbury's. Plus keto-electrolytes and multi-vitamin pills and some vitamin C powder for flavouring (I'm avoiding vinegar because of sulphites and things don't taste acid enough without it).

I drank the last of my milk on the 16th, and things went exactly as expected, smooth entry into ketosis, very reduced appetite, excellent mental clarity. The only trace of keto-flu was a feeling of sluggishness for a couple of hours on each of the first four days. I never got the "two fuels" problem, in fact I've generally been feeling pretty sharp and energetic.

I tried u/exfatloss’s trick of mixing cream into coffee for breakfast. It spoils the coffee but it greatly improves the cream and makes a nice start to the day.

My weight was falling extremely fast, I think both water-weight and fat-burning. I wasn’t eating very much, although when I did occasionally feel hungry the food tasted great. I lost 3kgs over the week.

Unfortunately ex150ish-8 only lasted a week for social reasons (Three consecutive lunches with old friends suddenly appeared on the calendar, don't be a psycho....)

On Tue 22nd I met some friends for a pizza. Almost immediately afterwards I started to feel woozy and got a pain in the right side of my abdomen, where my appendix once was. After about four hours that all cleared up. I wonder if that was the effect of suddenly switching over to glucose metabolism as I digested the pizza.

After that for a couple of days I had a weird mix of occasional bursts of energy mixed with occasional bouts of lassitude.

On Thursday I ate a packet and a half of shortbread biscuits in the evening at choir and went into some sort of strange state of exhaustion, that lasted a couple of hours.

I was curious about this, so the following day I had another packet of shortbread for breakfast and didn't eat anything else. Weirdly I felt amazing all day.

Since then I've been eating swampy without any problems, and feeling fine.

It feels like after even a short bout of ketosis like this I get a few days where I just can't deal with mixed fat and carbs at the same time. If I recarb on pure carbs I feel fine, if I try to eat both it knocks me flat.

Anyway over a few days of lots of carbs my weight bounced back up and seems to have stabilized at around 95kg, so I seem to have lost about 0.5kg of actual body mass in one week of ex150ish. (Decorated with maybe two full kilos of water-weight off, water-weight back on). Which is pretty much exactly the expected effect.

But after such a short period it's difficult to say whether it actually worked or whether I’m being fooled by noise.

So I'm going to do it again, ex150ish-9 starts today. And I'll try and be as strict as possible and keep it up for longer this time.