Yeah I hear you a vacation just chilling and eating, laying around maybe having a beer or 2....sounds real good.
Yeah it sounds good...I've just got to figure out where I want to go.
I will have to admit I found the diet pretty easy, using the high protien, moderate to high fats, way low carb diet was a brezze. Once into ketosis it is very easy, tons of energy, not always hungry, plenty of food and no cravings for the bad stuff. I stayed a little too lean after the show, cause it was so fun being ripped and after about 2 more months of that my system ran down some. I stayed out late one night to see a show and was thrown off my routine. Then with minimal sleep went in the gym the next morning and hit a hard leg session. That was it my immune system and CNS said enough and I got sick, that was my bodys way of stopping me, making me take a break.
For myself concerning energy on a keto diet, I'm not dragging but I wouldn't say that I'm full of high energy either. It's been more of a steady state, nice and smooth, no crashes, no ups and downs with one exception. Every Saturday after the 1 cheat meal, the next day I feel phenomenal, but by Monday it all levels back out to normal.
The getting sick thing, I had a similar thing happen a few yrs back. I stayed out one night until 5 in the morning...this was not at all a regular thing, but I let myself get swayed by the ever so alluring female species. The next day at the gym I felt horrible, when I got home that night I just shut down and threw my guts up...I stayed in bed all the next day and it took a couple more days to feel normal again. I had, had my BF checked 2 wks before that and was at 6%, so I was down there and my body just absolutely could not handle the abuse of that long late night.
I dont think I will change much for this next one, I will just diet for a shorter time, maybe eat a few more calories, which I never count. I may throw a higher carb day in there once a week or so. But we will see, from what I can tell time on the diet is most important. You may have heard of that cat Disgusted on here, his diet is very similar to Daves but he does not add carbs or cut the water. I found that on very low carbs, low sodium you can drink tons of water and still be very dry and full. I could not beleive how vascular and dry I was after eating 2 NY strip steaks, 15 grams of sweet potato, asparagus and drinking a gallon and a half of crystal lite one night.
Just remember, if you throw in a high carb day you will be throwing yourself out of ketosis and it will take 3-5 days do get back into it. My old training partner had a show he just did this past June and he followed a diet very similar to Dave's diet except for the fact that he had a high carb re-feed day 1x every 5 days. This ended up being a huge mistake, his energy levels were all over the place, and he was constantly crashing and he payed for it. He's done several shows but he did not come in as well as he's capeable...he'd have been better off following his old dieting method of carb cycling.
BTW, for those wondering, 1 cheat meal is not enough to throw you out of ketosis...assuming it's only 1x per wk.
