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All tagged Ketosis
In Spring 2017, I wrote an article about my first experiment with the Keto Diet. "Going all Keto" is to date one of the most read articles on Life-Sparring.com. While my body composition improved a bit since 2017, my weight sadly crept all the way back up over the years, reaching old heights. Time to revisit the Keto diet! So here we Goose again!
The quest to understand the roots of my appalling running performance is an ongoing topic of this blog. In two previous Life-Sparring rounds I looked at possible reasons like age and weight and my running form. In this article I dive deeper, literally going more than just skin-deep, doing a professional athletic fitness assessment at the Institute of Human Performance of the University of Hong Kong. If you are a regular reader, you can imagine that it was a humbling experience with a lot of insights.
Tired of gaining weight despite a high level of physical activity, I decided to pull the nuclear option and go on a full-blown ketogenic diet. As there are a lot of useful resources on ketosis, but not many detailed jargon-free reports for beginners, I tried, to sum up the experience of my first week on the keto diet in this article. Enjoy!
