Should you exercise while in ketosis on the atkins?!
Question: I started a few days ago and I can feel myself in ketosis. If I don't eat because at school I don't have a lunch I feel like my body is going to shut down on me. But now since I've eaten when I got home I feel fine. Should I still exercise even in ketosis?
Answers: I started a few days ago and I can feel myself in ketosis. If I don't eat because at school I don't have a lunch I feel like my body is going to shut down on me. But now since I've eaten when I got home I feel fine. Should I still exercise even in ketosis?
You can exercise lightly to burn a little extra calories. You know that your body is not running off of readily available blood sugars while your in ketosis, so it is hard to have great bursts of energy for working out, but it is possible if you do it lightly. Just make sure your eating plenty of protein (complete proteins) to keep your body from going catabolic on your muscles, and defeat your exercise.
UGHH!. Get off that unhealthy diet and get on one that's healthy.
http://www.drfuhrman.com/default.aspx
The poster above has a point about the dangers of that diet. It's fine for a minority majority of the population who have an O+ blood type and a normal immune system. However, A and B types as well as O- blood types are served much better by a vegetarian whole foods diet.
As far as exercise goes, yes, keep it up, just like brushing your teeth. Heavy, heavy lifting, hypoxic (underwater) swimming, and sprinting are the only three things I would stay away from while in ketosis.
Also remember when you're eating a primarily meat diet, stick primarily to organ meat and offal and keep flesh, steaks, ground meats, and sausage to a minimum -- the way a predatory animal eats, not a scavenger.