So, after a week of a low carb diet, I'm not sure if this is sustainable for me. I don't know if I was in ketosis or anything, or even how long it takes, but Monday to Friday I ate no more than 40g of carbs a day, that I know. Fat was quite high but protein was quite high. I like the low carb through the week, and really like the higher fat, the food choices do seem to work for me. But I'm training 7 days a week at the moment. 5 days weight training and usually swimming on Saturday and a 5-10km run on Sundays. Sometimes after my weight sessions too there will be 10-15 minutes cardio.
My swim on Saturday was fucking awful, felt terrible. Saturday night, I upped the carbs with some rice, potatoes and some lower calorie ice cream and a little bit of chocolate. Under what I would normally eat. My run yesterday was atrocious. I had a few more carbs Sunday night. I'm not sure if it's just the lack of calories considering what I would normally eat but training this intensively, I never felt so bad come the weekend. Monday morning now and I'm going to try again this week and see how my week goes. Not sure if it's in my head, lack of carbs, withdrawals from the amount of sugar I was consuming or I just hadn't replaced the number of calories well enough. I'm not starting calorie counting again or anything, that took my focus off my training a little. I want to stay quite intuitive. Bottom line is, if my performance is decreasing, this is what I don't want. I've been there in the past and believe experienced quite a bit of muscle loss.