cjr-
We've been going to the gym a couple times a week like normal.
I tend to do weights and my other half does the crosstrainer.
Not really noticed a difference in the calories the machine calculates for her or my weights and reps before failure.
Neither of us have ever really gone that hard in the gym though, not sure either of us have ever really done anything properly high intensity to be honest!
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In my experience you have to build up to high intensity exercise as it takes a while for your body to adapt to burning fat for it. It's very easy to bonk if you do high intensity stuff with not a lot of glycogen in your system. I found (slow) running fine with it but with cycling I had to be careful as it was easy to push your HR and move from fat burning to glycogen burning.
@Drokk Have you had any issues with sleep? I found it hard to drop off without having some carbs in the evening.
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First week was a little rough with how your body deals with switching its energy source from mostly carbs, but after that it's been fine.
No 'keto breath' for either of us luckily.
The only 'supplement' we are using are High5 Zero tablets to get a bit of a electrolyte boost which helped getting used to the diet initially, but these seem to be less and less important as the weeks are going by.
Had to switch out some 'normal' salt use for 'lo salt' as cutting carbs often means your potassium intake can be next to nothing (I had no idea that much salt was in everything!).
Really feels like something we will be able to keep up long term.
The increased fresh meat and produce intake has even prompted us to ditch Tesco and start getting most of our shopping from Farmdrop which is definitely tastier for us, and better for the livestock.
The reddit keto board was full of good information for starting it off.