I've actually researched this recently. About 2 years ago I drastically changed my diet, dropped quite a bit of weight, cut out carbs for the most part and noticed after about 5 weeks my headaches were getting easier to deal with. It feels like I've leveled back out, but I definitely notice changes in the headaches/migraines tied to diet, which is why I'm constantly researching options. I have been tested for celiac disease, came back negative, but I have an endocrinologist that says there are still sensitivities to gluten that might be causing me issues.
I only drink water, 24/7, tons of it. And yeah, Goody's powder is my go-to which is not good.
I'll dig in more - what you've described is where I want to be. Thanks for the info!
The low carb diets are good for fat loss, and have some health benefits. And the Keto is similiar, only it's no sugar(aside from a few grams naturally occuring in food/vegetables).
Sounds hard to give up sugar, and it is, but as most Keto diets say, it gets easier, and after a couple weeks, the cravings go away, really.
There's also peace of mind that it's not a life sentence. After your body gets into ketosis(3 days, 2 wks, whatever, depends on the individual), you can have a cheat day and eat what you want. After, and as soon as you go back to the keto diet, your body will quickly readapt to it.
Short answer on your body's transition from a suger burner to a fat burner is; we are biological machines, and our cells are tiny machines. Those machines are built to burn suger for fuel. They cannot burn fat for fuel the same way(why so many struggle with fat loss), so when you put your body into a ketosis state, your body begins destroying your sugar burning machines at a celluar level, and builds fat burning machines in it's place, ketone producing machines.
This is why there can be temporary transitional side effects for some people.
So once your body is running on ketones instead of sugar, and you have a cheat day, it's easier to bounce back into ketosis, as your body hasn't had time to restructure itself back to a full time sugar burner.
The body stores glycogen from carbs in our muscles too, so, depending on the person, every 3-6 weeks roughly, we need a clean carb loading day to replenish that, so 2-3 times the 50 grams of carb daily limit. Good carbs, like a sweet potato.
Keto diet is 2-3 meals per day, same amount of food as well, just pushing breakfast meal into lunch meal gradually.
I also do the 18-23 hour fasting between meals 3-4 days a week. Between dinner and the next days first meal.
The idea behind that is supposedly before the 18 hr fast time, your white blood cells start to rapidly die...causing new ones to be generated. This is said to help destroy cancerous cells and other diseases.
As someone who has been hypoglycemic for many years, eating sugar to maintain blood sugar levels, having peaks and lows and lots of issues, no sugar sounds counterintuative.
I then read that ketosis is cure for hypoglycemia. Ok, we'll see. Amazingly, all of those symtoms and issues that have plauged me most of my life, vanished in a couple of days, and as I've said, I can't belive how good I feel.
Also as a man that works out, most of us agree that we should consume 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body weight.
Keto says 80-100 is all that is needed.
I was 173, and have cut to 164(mostly water weight and viceral fat, the fat under our muscles).
I am noticeably much stronger already, and too much protein on ketosis and your body will turn the excess into sugar.
Sorry for the ramblings, as I had a couple questions on this already, so as I typed I thought I'de throw some basic info out here and my experience so far.
I'm also no authority on the subject, still learning, but thrilled with how I feel!
I hope it can help someone else.
Sugar tastes great, but anything other than small amounts has the potential to wreak havoc on our body's.
If I drop dead from all of this tomorrow...my apollogies, lol
