Two weeks on low carb

[LGARCIA11]

Hi Everyone! My name is Laura and I have been on the low carb diet for 2 weeks now. I just started researching low carb diets and running because I am a runner and really did not know my capabilities of running and this diet until today. I did not run the first week of the diet although I really felt pretty good. I began to run 3 mile runs the second week and felt great! I had a fresh tingly feeling that I have never really had...this during my run and after. Toward the end of the week I decided to take a 6 mile run and was slightly nervous about this because my whole life I have been programed to believe we must have lots of carbs for long distant running. I Felt GREAT the whole run! Here is the really interesting part....my recovery was atleast 75% easier! This blew me away...Why is this? I am all alone on this diet in my social circle...most people think I am nuts to cut out all the grains. I have lost 4 pounds in 2 weeks. I only started running one year ago and I am 45 years old. Today was my first day trying out running for speed sense I have been on this diet ..and I beat my record! I have been trying to take off 9 seconds of my mile for 4 month now making it an even 8 minute mile...I did it today! I have had energy the whole two weeks! How can all those health professionals be soooo wrong?

[liv]

That is a qood question. I think they get stuck in a rut when it comes to thinking and they are not able to see different perspectives. There may be more than one correct answer to the same question? Maybe scientifically inclined persons do not like to think about that possibility.
Way to go on your running. I started running last year (I was 46). It has been really good. Not quite as speedy as you are though.

[imagood1]

congratulations Laura -- your numbers are fantastic! I know what you mean about being the only one in your social circle doing Atkins -- it's hard when everyone around you thinks you have dove off the deep end of the pool! I feel better than I ever have since starting this WOE, my energy level is through the roof and I have lost weight while never being hungry. I wish more people would listen to us instead of the mainstream doctors and media - this is a wonderful way to live!

I wish you much continued success on your weight loss and your running.

[LGARCIA11]

Thank you so much Carol! I really appreciate your kind words. Today I did my second 6 mile run and took off 2 minutes without even trying! Congratulations on your success too!

Laura

[LGARCIA11]

Thank you Liv! I agree with you on the one mindedness, interesting how this is with everyone of them...Do you think if they give you a few directions it would take more time for them? The root of the one mindedness maybe. Anyway....
I'm still blown away by all this energy on very little carbs! Here is something interesting from esolve.com...Ask most health experts how athletes should eat, and you’re likely to hear about a high carbohydrate diet—fruit, pasta, bagels, granola bars, rice. But if all this is true, how do you explain the Inuit of Northern Canada and the Arctic, who could run 30 miles a day beside their sleds, eating a diet that was 85% fat, 15% protein, and carbohydrate free? How do you explain an explorer named Stephanson who lived among the Inuit, ate what they ate, and stayed healthier than explorers eating European food? What about the professional cyclists who ate Inuit style? The more they adapted to a high fat, very low carb diet, the more they could exercise just as fast and long as they had when they were eating mostly carbs...

Thanks again,
Laura

[CATEYES222]

Hi Laura, it feels good when you have more energy when you just make a little change in your carb intake. Congratulation on your finds!!!!

[LGARCIA11]

Thank you Actually it has been a huge change on my carb intake...almost no grains ever. Every couple weeks I might have one bite of a brownie or something but the best part is, is that I really don't miss it!
I have been running for a year and 1/2 and was always itchy, I just firgured it was increased circulation or something. Two weeks after I went on the low carb diet it went away! This has been 9 weeks now...I great surprise Thanks again
Laura

[Goodbyefat27]

First off, congrats on your weight loss! It’s funny how doctors dismiss Atkins; yet the conventional ADA diet can't even control most individuals diabetes! I know this first hand from being in nursing school and seeing case after case of unmanaged diabetes. The patients are often frustrated because they feel like they are doing everything right and I'm by far not saying everyone is compliant. Atkins works and it’s often seen in patients’ blood panels; you can't argue with objective data!

[LGARCIA11]

Thank you! That is so interesting coming from a nurse...do you have an opinion as to why the medical community seems to reject this diet? I did not know this about their standard diabetic diet...I have a friend who is so frustrated because he has diabetes and he has no family history of this...he said the diet is not working. I believe this might have come on from his high blood pressure drugs. He is very physically fit as well. It is very difficult to trust a doctor when he or she rejects something that has proven results.