So I have been training a lady for the past few weeks and I want to share with you her journey because I feel it will resonate with so many of you. This woman has been trying to lose weight for a very long time. she has not been able to stick to any kind of exercise /diet plan and she was just feeling completely defeated. She is in her late forties and is seeing the weight gain around her middle and NOTHING and I mean NOTHING was working. She called me in complete desperation. First off let me say this, all the things that used to work for her in the past were no longer working: Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, juicing etc.
So what to do ? Well first off we started with working out 4x a week. 2 days on her own and 2 days with me. Great now she’s moving, feeling better, but still no weight loss. sound familiar? WTF? It seems for her as it is with most my clients following through on the food was just so challenging. She would work hard all week, but then of course on the weekends she would allow herself some drinks and a few cheat meals and boom time to start over on Monday
I really had to go into the diet aspect with her because the working out was not cutting it. I reviewed her meal plan and we made some major adjustments the first one being her carbohydrate intake. We needed to have her body switch over from carbs as her source of fuel to fat.
She felt really sick at first but it started to work.. finally. So sick how? I call it the Low Carb Flu
For some, it kicks in immediately. For others, after a few weeks. For a particular few, it never happens. When you cut your overall carbohydrate intake, chances are you’ll experience flu like symptoms. The more drastic the cut, the harder it hits. It feels like you’re having the flu, only you’re not sick–you’re just cutting carbs. Low-carb flu can include any one or combination of the following:
- You feel fuzzy and foggy, like your brain just isn’t working right.
- You wake up or can’t go to sleep because of persistent headaches.
- You’re exhausted, cranky, and irritable for seemingly no reason.
- You feel empty, lost, depressed even.
- Going to the gym feels like an insurmountable challenge. If you do make it, your performance is hampered.
- You feel ravenously hungry, even after consciously eating more than enough of the good stuff.
- You experiences non-stop cravings for anything with carbs – fruit, soda, bagels, pasta, pizza, sandwiches, mashed potatoes, candy, chocolate.
Trust me ladies… I have really been studying this stuff and I am in awe at the changes I have seen in myself personally and my clients that are following through with this. If your ready to give a low carb diet a try I am here for you reach out now and lets get started doing this together.