Today's post is a public service announcement. Over the last several days I have been googling like crazy and have not found one person who has written about what happened to me on the Ketogenic Diet.
I had been planning to write a post on how incredible I felt, my philosophy about Keto and why I think it's a good medicinal approach for healing severely damaged metabolic systems. And maybe there will be time for that eventually. But right now I need to talk about something way more important - how terrible Keto made me feel.
The first few days were ok. I was expecting the "keto flu", "low carb flu", "detoxing" symptoms (whatever you want to call it really). Sluggish, headache, body aches, nausea... but about Day 4 things started to shift a bit. I wasn't really tired or sluggish anymore, and I felt overall fine... except for those pesky body aches.
I was doing everything by the book. I was taking extra minerals and salt for electrolytes and staying hydrated. I would...