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Today's Workout - ETK

• 5 ladders 4 rungs clean and press Rite of Passage style with 28kg in 33 minutes
  
• walk 4 miles

I am dropping to the 28kg to compress the workouts to smaller and smaller time frames. I had hit a wall of about 55 minutes with the 32kg and could not compress further.

Today's Workout - Run

• Ran 3 miles
• Walked 7 miles running errands and walking the dogs
  

Low Carb Religion

I have a lot of experience with low carb diets...from ketogenic to mildly ketogenic low carb. I have also lost a lot of weight in the past and I understand the process fairly well. Here is what I learned about low carb:

You appear to drop weight fast because your body loses it's glycogen which is stored in fluid, so when the glycogen goes so does the fluid that holds it. I have lost 15 pounds in 5 days on a 10 or 15g carb a day diet before. You will lose fat if you keep your calories low after this, but no faster than if you eat carbs. AND you can gain weight if you over eat the low carb stuff. However with the low carb diet that initial 10 to 15lbs happens all at once and makes you think that you hit the magic diet, BUT is doesn't happen again. And you keep trying to repeat it. Here is the catch, AS SOON as you eat carbs and the bodies glycogen refills you get a 10 to 15 pound weight gain all at once...maybe even in one or two days. It is also hard to stay ketogenic for very long. I have lost most of the weight I have lost with a traditional low calorie diet with fairly equal nutrient ratios. The weight loss is slower to get going, but it is just as rapid as low carb. You just don't get the 10 or 15 lb glycogen loss which is an illusion anyway. My experiences with low carb would always give me that initial weight loss and I would become a believer in that "religion", but it has consistently led to disappointment with the low carb lifestyle.

Right now I am eating about a 33% fat, 33% carb, and 33% protein average overall and my weight does not fluctuate up and down rapidly even though I went off my diet 2 or 3 times recently, and I am starting to drop weight. Low carb is not a magic bullet, but exercise IS.

I know many will disagree, but this is my experience. I am trying to discard all diet "religioins" as I realize that there is NO magic ratio.

Today's Workout - ETK

• 5 ladders 3 rungs clean and press 32kg
• 5 minutes swings 32kg, 23 at the top of each minute
• 3 mile walk
  

I am recovered from my weird bought of altitude sickness or whatever that was. Had to cut the swings short due to aa meeting this morning.

Today's Workout - No Workout

I took another recovery day, but I walked 6 miles doing errands and walking the dogs. I figured out what got me was altitude sickness, not overtraining. I am mostly over it now. Tomorrow back to ETK.

Today's Workout - No Workout

I'm taking a day off. I am beat from the last 2 days. I did walk 6 miles today to run some errands around town and give the dogs a walk.