8 August 2012, Diet tweaking, low carbs and brain fog.

I decided to listen to my body today and stay in bed, the low calories/carbs and strength training is really knocking my ability to recover from workouts.  As well as a day off I have added some extra calories back into my diet and removed some more carbs by removing the apple and replacing it with another 200ml of coconut oil (so adding another 400 calories).  The changes feel like they have made a difference today with my head being a lot less foggy (although this could be me just getting more used to the low carbs) and I didn’t feel as tired so early.  If I’m honest weight loss has been probably a little too quick (200g overnight) so adding some extra calories should help slow it a little.  After doing some reading on Ketosis I think my protein/fat ratios are a bit out (protein too high) so I may have a few more tweaks to come.

Weigh in this morning puts me at 74.4kg with the second row of abs just about starting to poke through.  I hope I don’t have to lose too much more as I don’t like the feeling of being smaller.

3 August 2012, Diet tweaks – low carbs and ketosis

So with my time off I’ve played with my diet a little and cut what little carbs there were down from 80g to around 30g per day.  I’d like to try to get in to Ketosis for the fat loss and as an experiment.  Gone is the rice, soy protein (I was trying to use it up) and flax seed to be replaced by eggs and coconut milk.  I’ve also figured out the macro content on the sauce I make to make sure it wasn’t full of carbs :)

I don’t seem to eat at specific times at the moment, but do try to finish eating early in the evening to try to get the intermittent fasting thing going although I probably only get about 14 hours so its below what the IF gurus recommend.  Also I do try to eat bigger meals in one go rather than grazing like I used to (so although the nuts and apple are at the end of the plan below – they do get eaten well before bed!).

Anyone that has known me for a while will know just how different to how I’ve eaten in the past.  Obviously the switch from Veganism to full on meat eater but also having done the 80/10/10 so the switch from extremely high to very low carbohydrates.

And yes, I DO lose weight with this many calories

WeightFoodCarbProteinFatCalories
250gLean Mince0g51.75g30g475kcal
Sauce2.77g0.98g0.06g18kcal
300gChicken Breast0g92.10g2.70g417kcal
Spinach
2Tomatoes
1Boiled Egg0g8.50g7.60g102kcal
250gLean Mince0g51.75g30g475kcal
Sauce0g0.98g0.06g18kcal
300gChicken Breast0g92.10g2.70g417kcal
Spinach
2Tomatoes
1Boiled Egg0g8.5g7.6g102kcal
25gCashew Nuts8.25g4.5g11g138kcal
200gCoconut Milk4.6g3.4g46.2g448kcal
150gChicken Breast0g46.05g1.35g209kcal
1Small Apple14.64g0.28g0.18g55kcal
Total33.03g352.39g131.85g2771