I’ve been keto for five years. I recently started doing some very high intensity workouts 3-4 times a week. It’s a kickboxing fitness workout and it is VERY fun. I think it stresses my middle-aged body a bit, because I’ve actually started getting a little thicker around the middle since I started doing it. (I’m also heading into menopause and that doesn’t help.) I’ve been wondering if adding some carbs in around the high intensity workouts would help with the “stress”. Like I mentioned it is a VERY fun workout. I have found I like punching and kicking stuff. I don’t want to stop doing those workouts. Any ideas?
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lfod14
#46
I think it’d make a night and day difference, especially with the high intensity stuff. Only takes a little playing around to find your limits. Only thing to keep in mind is having muscle glycogen again will show on the scale which freaks some people out, but clearly doesn’t mean anything and you usually look better with it 
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Not sure how your mindset is with chemically screwing with yourself, or things like optimization docs, but the menopause and the fun that goes along with it can (almost) be optional. I’m an anti-aging freak, so I’m all about that stuff. I know “normal” people aren’t, I’m weird. But as long as people keep guessing I’m almost 10yrs younger than I am, I’m doing something right!
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#48
But isn’t the inability to shed fat a symptom? That’s all I’m saying. And you’re right; if there are symptoms when thyroid is low, then the notion I mentioned is debunked.
lfod14
#49
For me, it means Testosterone (for just that) Nandrolone for my joints, GHK-Cu (a peptide) which makes skin regenerate, even a little more than HGH does, HGH (because what anti-ager doesn’t want the fountain of youth) And recently for more energy NAD+ and Glutathione.
In my wifes case, she’s also on NAD+ and Glutathione for fatigue issues, but also Testosterone (yes), Testosterone in woman is 100% overlooked in the mainstream, her energy went way up, fat burning jumped, her performance working out, and of course sex drive. On the Menopause being optional-ish, that’s usually just HRT, whether it be Estrogen / Progesterone being added, and in many cases Testosterone, there’s a million ways they can go about it. But everything is tweaked to be optimal, and the standard lab ranges aren’t that much of a limit or consideration with them, clearly depending on what it is.
lfod14
#50
I’d say it is, but if I didn’t think the Thyroid #'s matters that’d be ignored, that’s my problem with the mindset that Keto somehow ignores every norm of how we work. Some stuff is different, yes, but I feel a lot of excuses are made when things don’t look good. In the case of a Thyroid that’s more efficient, you should just have a lowered TSH, but still have good T3/T4 and conversion. Either way, more T3 equals a Thyroid that’s burning more. We don’t escape that, so I can’t see the logic of thinking it only applies in one direction.