I made it, today marks the end of 6 weeks of being on a keto lifestyle. Going in to this I just wanted to see if I could do a keto diet for 6 weeks and then re-evaluate. To be honest, I thought it would be a lot harder than it turned out to be. I really didn't know what to expect.
6 weeks later and I'm planning to keep this lifestyle for the foreseeable future. While I miss beer, sweets, and bread, ultimately after being away from them for 6 weeks I'm okay without them. As I've studied and learned more about nutrition and ketosis along the way, I don't know if I want to put the sugar and alcohol in my system. When you look at how these substances affect your body it's hard to justify going back.
I'm noticeably slimmer and slimming more each day. Veins are starting to show throughout my legs and arms and the outline of my core and its various components are starting to show. Even though the scale isn't showing me the numbers I want to see, the mirror is. I'm very happy with the progress I've made over these last 6 weeks.
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Week 6 was an interesting week. I saw my weight come down from 225 to 223 and then hover at 223 most of the week. This morning I had a huge keto present, my blood ketones were 2.9 and my weight was 220! I haven't seen 220lbs in well over a year. That's a total of 23lbs in 6 weeks. While it hasn't necessarily been steady, when you do the math, that's almost 4lbs a week in weight loss.
Food wise the calories took care of themselves. I eat when I'm hungry and I eat to satiety (maybe a hair past satiety) and my desire to eat habits are slowly disappearing. On multiple days this week I skipped a meal because I simply wasn't hungry.
The last three days (Friday through Sunday) I've had more carbs than normal. I'm wondering if this has something to do with this morning's weight loss? It's definitely something to consider as I play with the macros again this next week.
Food Log Week 6
Training wise I had planned to do a recovery week and take it easy this week. I did several easy zone1 rides early in the week. On Wednesday, I went on our weekly group ride and even though I knew it was a recovery week I went out and got caught up in a hammerfest. I know better than to go with the group when I'm trying to ride easy and yet I went anyways. I felt really good though, fresh, and very strong while mixing it up with the guys. It was pretty incredible how well I felt especially while attacking.
I needed a recovery week because last weekend I did the road race and in the weeks leading up to that race I had upped my training time and intensity each week. Further, I wanted fresh legs for the crit races I had planned to do this weekend. For the most part it was a recovery week and on Saturday I was pretty fresh for the crit races. The crits got their own blog write-up. You can see in the logs below I spent a lot of time last week in zone1.
Training Log Week 6
Volume Log Last 5 weeks
6 weeks down and 23lbs lost and still able to race. The keto lifestyle is legit!
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