Blood sugar or dehydrated

(Linda) #1

Very often while I’m exercising I feel faint and shaky. I’m healthy and at “normal” weight and have been keto for 2 months. I thought by now I would have adjusted. Someone suggested that I could be dehydrated or have low blood sugar. I have nothing to test this. And if I did what should my blood sugar be at?

(D) #2

Lifting or cardio? I lift fasted and usually start out hungry, but the hunger is gone after a couple sets and I can keep fasting for a couple more hours after the workout. I haven’t tried cardio that way, but I bet I would be shaky.

(Linda) #3

I do hot yoga, swim and lift. I do one or more of these pretty much every day. It’s always after about a 15 hour fast.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #4

You can experience all of those things during adaption, which I often do towards the end of a 3 day fast, mostly because I don’t have adequate body fat to sustain it.

Are you eating before hand or right after?
Have you got sufficient electrolyte supplement?
Sometimes it can take upwards of 8 weeks to adapt if you have metabolic damage, do you have any of the following?

Metabolic syndrome is characterized as three of the five following: High blood sugar, Excess stomach fat (abdominal obesity), Low high-density cholesterol (known as HDL), High blood pressure, High triglycerides (fats produced by the liver when dietary sugar and carbohydrates are too high)

(Running from stupidity) #5

Don’t you mean “before I got smart and stopped doing 3-day fasts?”

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #6

Pretty sure I lost the weight before the smartass knowledge came hahah