I’m so excited and energized! After 8 Ketogenic weeks, I finally feel I have become Fat Adapted!! It’s hard to describe unless you experience it. I noticed an increased clarity and energy yesterday that followed into today. I have also realized that I’m not very hungry and really don’t even think about foods!! Hot diggity!!!
It's Finally Happened!
Aqua_chonk
(Stickin' with mammoth)
#3
This is the part I wish more people knew about. It’s quite remarkable but so hard to describe. Congrats!
OldDoug
(Doug)
#4
That sounds great, Rebecca. I think I know what you mean; there are so many things that go on, but that’s a GOOD one.
gingersmommy
(Marianne)
#5
Good for you! I agree, it’s hard to describe, but there is no question that it has happened once you experience it. Very cool! Good things are happening internally!
Shinita
#6
Yay! Good for you 
Isn’t it great, I appreciated fat adaptation myself 
It’s still useful to describe as it’s something we experience differently. I didn’t got more energy and I don’t understand the clarity thing, I had no problems with it and it didn’t change, I got my cute soft keto hunger back then. Others seems to get it right away in ketosis as I have read but many of us need to wait.
And things may keep changing, of course.
Rebj
(Rebecca )
#7
Thank-you! The best way I can describe the clarity is I feel like my brain has turned on! I can think clearly, figure out what needs done, and then I have the energy to do it!
Shinita
#9
But I never know that how it’s compared to my usual brain. I don’t have foggy brain on carbs, it’s exactly the same on every woe. So either you folks have something super cool I don’t really feel the need for but never experienced so who knows… Or I have clarity by default (not always, I can be a zombie under certain circumstances, tiredness or super hot weather affects my brain but I never had clarity problems in my life so I don’t get the hype).
Corals
#10
You’re not alone, @Shinita. Einstein did relativity on carbs! I guess there was no brain fog involved in the making of that ground breaking science!
Almost all the things you use nowadays, technology wise, were created and built by people on carbs.
So, carbs, or keto, brain fog is an individual thing. Some of us are lucky to not experience it.
But I’ve given a big “like” to the OP. If one lives with brain fog, we can all celebrate when it is over!
Shinita
#11
I agree. I rarely have brain fog but it’s not nice. But as it’s so rare, I don’t even feel how bad it would be long term. Getting rid of it is a HUGE thing for sure.
Brain and some energy, I have that. I would need a better mood quite often, passion, desire to do things… People often seem to get it together with energy. I am not like that, I can have energy and no mood to do much with it though there is a tiny correlation… And I am doomed with super low energy, that kills mood for sure.
(But it’s quite possible that it’s just my bad personality treat. I don’t force myself to do things I don’t feel like to do. But I have mood problems with my hobbies and that’s tragic.)
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#12
Hate to burst your bubble, but Einstein was long before the government started encouraging people to eat a high-carb diet. Back in those days, people knew that sugar and grains were fattening, so they ate mostly meat. They were probably in ketosis a lot more of the time than people are today, that’s for sure.
Of course, candy, soda pop, and ice cream had been on the market for a while and were starting to become part of the regular diet, but the diabetes epidemic had only just gotten started about thirty years before Einstein, and the heart attack epidemic that got everyone worked up about arterycloggingsaturatedfat wasn’t even on the horizon yet. Though granted, it was only a matter of time, as sugar, refined grains, and industrial seed oils became more and more a part of our diet.
Shinita
#13
I don’t know how Einstein ate (except I’ve read he was a vegetarian in the end and had moral problems regarding meat before) but I guess only rich folks ate mostly meat in the past.
I am very interested in food, food history too and watched very many videos about it and people definitely didn’t eat only protein sources especially the poor ones who often don’t even ate meat often. I know little about very old times but a few centuries ago bread and sugar was very popular in the diet of the rich…
These idiotic super sugary snack things in the stores happened later, in the modern times (of course Einstein lived in modern times already) but people ate high-carb before.
My anchestors at the time of Einstein and before too ate a high-carb, high-fat diet as basically everyone. It didn’t really change, probably most people eat HCHF here now too. It takes a very conscious, determined choice to eat differently, after all. Normal food is fatty and carby. Sometimes only one of these but people don’t eat only one type of food.
Corals
#15
People ate lots of bread and potatoes. These are still staples nowadays. No need for governments to encourage it. In europe, bread and potatoes are still staples and have always been: a dish of a protein source (beef, pork, fish, or sausages), potatoes and another veggie. There’s bread in every meal. And that’s what people ate in Europe, if they could afford, when Einstein was there and wrote his good works. Breakfast of eggs and sausage and bread, at the time. Some sources say he also liked beans.
Shinita
#16
Depends on the meal but it’s VERY basic and many people have bread with “everything” (and truly almost with everything).
Bread, pork fat and booze, that was a very very common breakfast here (in Hungary, I don’t know much about other countries), probably still is to some extent, mostly for workers (and peasants but they mostly disappeared after the lands were taken away after the WW2)… Bread, lard and onion still is a very traditional and common hiking stop food, it seems. I just don’t get how people can get satiated without protein… I never could.
And indeed, potatoes are basic too. And pasta. Potato and pasta, that’s a strange dish, it totally lacks proper protein (at least traditional pasta is eggy)… But we have multiple traditional dishes with potato and pasta/dumplings and the dish may or may not contain more or less meat as well.
Rebj
(Rebecca )
#18
Thank you, Janie! I’ve also broken away from eating after dinner. I’m just not hungry…if a thought pops into my head (out of habit) I remind myself “you’re going to bed in an hour, you don’t NEED anything!” Works like a charm so far!
Hallie
(Butter Withaspoon)
#19
This is so fantastic Rebecca! We all encourage a new person to stick to it, that it will be worth it, yet until you experience this feeling of mental change it can be hard to be confident in the longer plan.
Congratulations on becoming a highly tuned dual-fuel engine again. It’s great to get around in one of these!!
I feel it as a calm alert serene brain, rarely fatigued.