Hey Everyone,
I am promoted to make this post because of something I read in another post about keto and euphoria.
Some years ago when I first started my low carb/keto journey I most definitely experienced this phenomenon, at the time I think I linked it to becoming fat adapted?
I’m a bit frustrated now that I wasn’t much of a record keeper then.
I can clearly recall experiencing profound physical and mental sensations I had never experienced before. I would feel a sense of calm that I had never known, I would experience positive feelings maybe even happiness that I had never known before, which I would now classify as euphoria.
I looked different too, people would comment about how fresh and serene I appeared.
I experienced almost super human energy, the sort of energy that compelled me to move, workout and I slept like I have never known
I also responded to music differently too and this one is a weird one, my perception of time changed too, very hard to explain.
Anyway way back then I went from being ultra strict back to crappy diet because I believed some inaccurate information about fasting blood sugar and pre diabetes.
Since then I have been on a journey to try and reclaim that state I experienced then. I made so many tweaks in trying to understand what the factor was that enabled me to feel that way.
Having read the information about how similar BHB and GHB are this all makes very good sense, I feel I’ve found the missing piece.
I have just changed jobs and I now have a stable shift pattern and perfect control over my food environment, so I’m going to give it another go, to get back to that state of being that was so intoxicating.
I can recall back then saying to people that I felt so good on the diet that it was akin to feeling high, and I knew (way back) what it’s like to be high.
So in making this post I’m curious as to whether anyone else has experienced these outcomes?
Look forward to hearing your responses.
Mito