Lose 10kg in just a week! Doctors hate him, Eidrm’s one quick trick..
One week down, I’m ecstatic, I’ve lost 10kg (22lb)! Don’t celebrate too much I tell myself, for I know this is the ketosis honeymoon period. Most if not all of that 10kg is water weight. (Keto FAQ for more info)
Why is that? Well from my sub-par understanding of human biology (feel free to correct me in comments), eating carbs causes the body to store water like a camel in the fat cells. So when we migrate our body into ketosis the body no longer stores that water and we flush it out. This mean you wee, a lot. This is also why it is easy to become dehydrated when in Keto, and making sure you get enough water is important.
The best piece of advice I can give post week one, is don’t expect this kind of a loss to continue. It will slow down next week, and for me stabilised at an average of 1kg (2.2lb) per week.
Back to our Honeymoon! It’s not all false positives! You’re still lighter than you were, hopefully you are getting a handle on your new diet and avoided the Keto Flu. The best part is, if your anything like me you start to notice the other affects of Ketosis around week 2.
Engery, Focus and Endurance.
At around day 10 I noticed I would wake up feeling great, better than I could ever remember. I would always say I wasn’t a morning person, well Keto changed that. Now I was bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to go. Then to add to that as the day wore on it didn’t fade.
As 3-4pm rolls around, do you start to feel…”Meh”? Where everything gets a little bit harder, you start mainlining coffee/coke/energy drink into your veins but just never feel awake again. I was one of these people.
This is where the endurance came to play, not only is the 4pm slump a think of the past, I can go and do a physically demanding task, rest afterwards for a few minutes and then I’m good to go again.
I was also noticeably more alert and focused on what was going on around me. I was smashing through my daily work tasks and hungering for more to keep my mind active.
But wait, this is a honeymoon. It must come to an end.. Sadly I found you adjust to this new version 2.0 of yourself and it becomes the norm. You don’t lose your new-found abilities, but you adjust and it begins to feel normal. So other than losing the excitement, your still a much better you.
