A year and a half ago I weighed 365. Through better portion control, some weight training and walking I got down to 295 after about a year. I plateaued at that point and began to slack off with the walking and weight training and got back up to 315. A month or so ago I started doing some cardio (running stairs/hills, light jogging, and fast walking inclines on the treadmill), and a little over 2 weeks ago I began keto and not eating between 8 PM and noon. I'm back down to 295 already, which I assume is mostly water weight that I've lost.
For the most part I'm feeling great. It seems like my energy levels are up, my knees are liking not having the extra weight, and I'm not getting hungry in the mornings or evenings anymore. However, when I run my legs cramp something awful (well over the last few days anyway). I drink lots of water through the day, incorporate spinach to several meals for the potassium, season meat with salt, and take a multi-vitamin. I probably don't have the best understanding of the nutrition piece, but from the reading I've done it's important to keep up the salt and potassium input since your body flushes more water and you naturally get less of those electrolytes than you would on a non-keto diet.
My questions are this: 1) Is this something I will overcome in time, once my body gets acclimated to this diet; 2) Is there something better I can be doing to get more electrolytes; and 3) Should I possibly eat a few extra carbs than what is recommended to have a better energy source for my muscles to use?
The training program I'm following has me run a mile, rest for 10 mins, and run another mile (over time the run distance goes up and rest time goes down). Today, I ran the first mile no problem, did a slow walk for 10 mins, and as soon as I took off running the 2nd mile it felt as if every muscle in my legs began cramping. I felt really good at the end of the first mile so this came as a huge shock to me. Typically over the previous few weeks my lungs and legs burning were more of the problem, but I was running hills and stairs in shorter distances then. Now I'm running flat ground and my lungs feel great, but my legs can't keep up.
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