Recovering is HARD
I haven’t blogged for a bit after the PSMF. Why?
Well, my lbrain was fried.
I didn’t realize how hard it is to commit to the whole process. For me it was even harder because I had been asked to be the chef for an event a friend of mine was having and that event was, in fact, NOT a PSMF event. Nor was it Low Carb. I was in full cooking mode and yet I couldn’t eat any of it. It was hard.
I had never been so happy to Low Carb in my LIFE after I finished those 6 days. Actually, I didn’t do 6. I did 5. On day 6 I was mentally broken like a prisoner of war. I would’ve answered anything anyone asked me. Fact is, I was doing a much harsher version of PSMF than most places suggest and they say THAT is hard.
Of course 4 days after it I was up 3 pounds. I started eating just any and everything that qualified as low carb. I wanted to put the theory of “If you’re in Ketosis you will have a very hard time gaining weight” to the test. I taught myself how to make Beef Braciole. Its just beef stuffed with cheese and more meat. Its ridiculous.
I ate it for like 3 days straight.
Then add smoked salmon (I love it) and Rib Eye steaks into the mix. Oh! I also started wrapping any and everything in bacon. Chicken, Shrimp, Scallops. I ate, and LOVED it. So then right around 216 (I was a steady 211.8 for the last 3 days of PSMF) I decided maybe I’ve gone nuts and started my weight gain, so I needed to put some brakes on this train. I decided to do a fasting day to get myself back on the horse.
Day after fasting weight? 210.8.
Woah! What? What now? How is that possible? I actually lost weight? After that deluge of food? And my bodyfat has been hovering between 24 and 25? I don’t know if I should give the PSMF any credit but it made me reconsider the torture that I went through. I dropped 2 percent bodyfat during 5 days that seems to be staying off and that is amazing.
So I decided to try it one more time. Currently I’m on day 3 of my new PSMF cycle. I don’t know if I’ll go past today since, as I’ve said over and over, This be torture. But this morning I was somewhere around 208. If switching up things with my body works then I’m about it. I’ll try to do the week on/week off thing. Staying low carb on the week off I think has a very good effect on this. It ramps up the metabolism while not allowing me to store fat since im continually in ketosis. I may pick up a bit of water from sodium intake rising but it seems that’s easily flushed.
So lets see how it goes. I’m not updating my weight on the sidebar here until I quit this round of PSMF. But I’ll say this. Being within 18 pounds of goal is an amazing feeling. I don’t think “I” believed I would get here.
