You might have seen success stories or heard from a friend how amazing they feel on a ketogenic diet. Why am I exhausted on the keto diet? The usual culprits leading you to be so tired on a ketogenic diet include a lack of electrolytes, eating too few calories, and not being keto-adapted fat adapted. Your body can only store upwards of about 2, calories of carbohydrates. Compare THAT to even a lean individual who carries at least 30, calories of fat on their body available for energy. Compared to a carbohydrate-based diet, you are teaching your body to use this fat both from your food AND your body for fuel while on a ketogenic diet. You should have steady energy levels on a ketogenic diet because there are no sugar spikes and dips compared to your Standard American Diet SAD. If your body needs fuel on a ketogenic diet, it can easily convert stored body fat the fat on your body into ketones and provide that energy. A diet high in healthy fats helps delay gastric emptying basically helps slow digestion of food. Ketones themselves might also promote feelings of satiety, but through what mechanism exactly is still unknown. The symptoms of keto flu last anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks, but we can generally avoid or shorten that with the tips below.
You went on a keto diet to improve your fatigue. I see this phenomenon happen regularly. There are three specific points you need to be very aware of when you start a ketogenic diet. Read on to find out why you are exhausted on the keto diet. Your body comes equipped with two different ways to produce energy. Running on glucose can be compared to a gasoline engine. And for the most part, it works. When you enter ketosis, you turn off the gasoline engine and start running on your electric engine. In ketosis, your electric engine is much more efficient at producing energy for your body with little effort and waste especially when compared to the gasoline engine.
Twenty diet of carbohydrates is not many. It has to do with your carbohydrate tolerance. I energy around low carbs or less daily. Keto this article helpful? By Julia Guerra. Those carbs sneak up on you quickly!