A symptom I’ve had persistantly since starting keto is a sort of warm fuzzy feeling in skeletal muscles post exercise, particularly lower body. This is in contrast to stiff and sore in my younger days of exercising. I’ve had some persistant stiffness in other muscles, not related to exercise, which seems to be clearing up. I’ve had a persistantly sore left hip for 30 years (sports overuse) that only starte being a bother a few years ago. I could walk when and where I wanted but it was uncomfortable enough to minimize my walking (very bad trend). Lately I’m walking 5-6 miles 5 days a week. The left hip still tires before the other one but that doesn’t stop me from walking all those miles. I wonder how an injury of such long standing could be improving after all these years. So, is there any evidence that burning primarily fats and ketones is less inflamitory overall than burning glucose? That’s the best explanation I can think of for these novel sensations.
This morning I scrolled through the fasting thread and realized I used to eat at least 35 times a week, 3 meals per day plus a couple of snacks, and now I eat 12 times a week, twice a day for six days and nothing on one day, zero snacks. I’m hungry before all 12 meals and very full after regardless of calories. The only price paid is an hour or two of hunger in the morning, some but not all days. I’ve never enjoyed food more, even though it’s simpler fare than in the past.
How many times a week do you eat? May be it’s a useful number to know.