Carb counting

Counting carbs is not something I have ever really done, when we started the diet we just avoided all foods that might be high in carbs or anything that was heavily processed. I think that when we started we were, at most, on 20g or so of carbs a day. Nowadays with running 40+ miles most weeks I do allow myself a bit more leeway but it is mostly in the form of fruit. I know many people count carbs which is fair enough however I do feel that with the right food supplies you shouldn’t need to. Avoid everything you should and in theory you should remain in ketosis.

Breakfast:

Almond flour bread - bacon sandwich <5g carbs

Lunch:

Greek Yoghurt, nuts and fruit (today pear) - At most 20g, mostly in pear, which I would avoid early on or when not exercising.

Dinner:

Mexican Chilli and cauliflower mash - < 10g

Pudding (if done 7 mile run):

Yoghurt and berries <5g

So in total you are looking at around 40g at the top end and that is a “bad” day because of having the pudding as I went for an evening run and having the pear in my lunch is again because I am running and because of the issues I have had with what might be hypoglycemia. Cut out the fruit from my day and replace with one of the many other low carb options and you are back to around 20g. I feel the above is pack with nutrition as there is some fruit and loads of vegetables in the dinner, we sometimes swap the bread in breakfast for egg or leek and mushrooms but at the moment we are experimenting with it a little bit to save time.

Speaking of time, the bread was made at the weekend un under 40 minutes (most of that is cooking time used to cook the bacon), the lunch is just sticking bits in a box and going and dinner was all cooked at the weekend in about an hour. Total cooking time was a couple of hours and I have enough food for most of the week.

Evening run

My evening run went much better, yay. Low carb lunch of ham and cheese did me good and for recovery had a lovely low carb dinner. Both new recipes that were modifications of recipes I had before. 

Low carb cottage pie 

Low carb mexician chilli 

Low carb run - 21/05/2017 - 7am

This morning I went for a fasted run low carb run which is fairly normal for me. During low carb marathon training we would regularly do 18 mile long runs on nothing. Recently I have been building my miles back up after getting the all clear on my heart from the cardiologist. I have found it really hard so actually ended up splitting my run into two. I sill have the second half to go. 

I did also find that my knee was playing up a little bit so I am going to rest it for the day, put some ice on it and also wear different trainers when I go out later and see if that makes a difference.