October 17, 2009
Day 8
Weight - 220.8 (-4.2 lbs)
Nothing much to note except that even three starches a day (muesli for breakfast, garlic mashed potatoes at lunch, pita at dinner) is still leading to weight loss. I even had a bowl of ice cream. Incidently, have you ever measured out a true serving of ice cream? It's worse than a true serving of wine. 1/2 a cup of ice cream ain't much. I turn it into health food by dumping cocoa, not hershey's chocolate milk stuff, 100% cocoa powder in addition to walnuts and coconut (unsweetened as I'm obviously counting calories with my dessert). That rinky dink half a cup probably runs 300-400ish calories.
And my exercise capacity is abyssmal. About 1 mile of jogging and I'm about to keel over. I'm going to have to up the healthy carbs just a bit more because the 2nd block exams are coming up and I've got to be able to use my brain. I don't have time to train my brain to work on ketones. My gluconeogenesis process must be off, which is to say, I could have less efficient burning of fats or catabolism of proteins.
And now the weekend where I tend to not really fall off, so much as jump off the wagon. Last weekend was the Renaissance Festival. Two words - funnel cake. I think I ingested 8,000 calories that day. This week is OU vs UT. One word - beer. Maybe I'll touch that light beer crap. Yeah, right.
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A glass of wine to me is 7 oz, not the four ounces in some references or the amount served at a high-dollar restaurant.
Go Sooners!
Regarding poor exercise tolerance: is it possible you're just out of shape, rather than carb-deficient?
I'll admit I haven't done any vigorous exercise since starting my very low-carb kick 48 days ago. Will start some rigorous hiking soon, however, now that it's not blistering hot here in Arizona.
-Steve
I'm not in the best of shape but I started running again about 3 weeks ago. Instead of getting easier, it's getting harder. I know my body well enough to know that's not normal for me. I know there's exercise phys literature out there about decreasing exercise capacity with a low carb diet.
And that was one ugly game. Despite going to UT-Houston med school, I'm not a huge UT fan. I just like seeing a good game. While being a close game, it was definitely not pretty. UT being ranked 3 should be worried about struggling against a #20 ranked team with a freshman backup qb.
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