Week 2 - Day 1 - 500g of carbs later…
Here we go again. Yes, it’s week 2 and I am still here, hoping that the worst is over. The rest of the week went by according to plan/schedule but let me tell you how drained I was when it came time to carb up on Friday night!
Wednesday I ended up feeling pretty good so I went to the gym and did an hour of some low intensity cardio. But Thursday was a disaster! I was beyond tired. I pushed through the leg workout, and I stress PUSHED. Again, I did the weights and reps that I set out to do but it wasn’t easy. Friday was a little better, still had to really push myself but it wasn’t as bad, maybe it had to do with the fact that the carb up was literally hours away; something to look forward to.
As for the carb up itself, it was rather enjoyable! I didn’t carb up on too munch junk, most of the stuff I ate was what I would normally eat if I wasn’t doing the CKD. After getting home from the depletion workout I had a whey protein shake with chocolate soy milk, and an hour later began my "carbfest." When I woke up Saturday morning I was CRAVING carbs like crazy! However, I found that the quantity of food I had to eat during those 30 hours was a lot, so next weekend’s carb up is going to have to take a bit more planing.
This makes sense tho, if I’m eating 1500 cals/day, high fat, for 6 days, my portion sizes are rather small. Now going from this to eating about 2700 cals, low fat, my portion sizes pretty much doubled, if not tripled. That’s why I found that I had to drop the diet pop and drink the real stuff, just to get all of those carbs in within the allotted time. I’m thinking next weekend I might even just get up extra early on Saturday, eat and go back to sleep because by the end of the day I felt so bloated and full from practically stuffing my face all day that I was actually looking forward to going keto the next day! Sick isn’t it?
But anyway, I feel great today and I’m ready to do this all over again, so hopefully I won’t be as tired as I was last week.
