But GI symptoms; be it "issues" ranging from very loose stools, sudden occurence of diarrheas (thankfully - not of the painful type), then the intermittent "warm-like" pains in stomach - all occurring in unpredictable timing, contexts and environments. Never before I felt such a drastic series of hours in any given day just from alternating dietary regime/s. Especially when obligations, and cravings (which soon envelopes greatly of course) inevitably supersedes all my prior sensibilities and habits.

2. Morning back and lower right hip pain "freezes"

This happened to me in as little as just about two days of heavy carb eating. After heavy dinner, with only a few small sips of my whey shake/s before bed - the very next morning a (not excruciating) but noticeable - lower back pain were almost a certainty. Much akin to me slowly crawling away from a car accident.

A "frozen" like pain/s. A feeling where you just do not want to move. Just higher up from my hip or the rear/s of my lower obliques. The right side more than it is on my left.

Even with the best of probiotics and prebiotics, the enzyematic supplements and the liver tonics from home – there doesn't seem to be anything effectively quelling these pain for good. All besides from just manning myself up. No matter how comfortable or sturdy the bed, there is always a sense of overall lagging, sluggish response on my lower backs each and every morning upon waking up; to the point at times affecting/PORTRUDING my ulterior tilt / posture well for hours on during the day. 

Even on the days I returned to Australia, the morning wake-up pain/s somewhat persisted though not as clearly as bad how I was overseas; when everything almost seemed like a drag.

From this pain then comes the next "side effect" much akin to a hang over.

3. Hazy + Lazy = mental and overall drainage/s

When you get that sense where days seem to "linger" on for too long. Then you'd know and get that feeling of being hazily "overwhelmed". Not to the point of tipping your entire way of being off balance to whatever it is you NEED to be doing. But enough to notice it that you feel somewhat "tired". Or can't be bothered to move at all.

I'm not sure if the same happened to any of you who frequently carb-cycled in and out of Keto - Do you ever felt as though you are "sluggish" or "lagging" in the mind when trying to bridge and/or following up on any of your own wording - in a conversation? 

 Well, that; though thankfully only in rarities - occured to me. Of course not so bad to the point of me embarrassingly "knocking" myself out from any conversations. Thinking and coordinating what needs to be said - suddenly became noticeably convoluted, slower, lazier - as soon as the stomach is hedonically satiated.

Even on a general day-to-day sense; I almost can felt as though there is a lingering difference. I gathered this from recalling as best I could out of my Ketogenic eating life as before; and measured against anything else afterwards - as soon as I set down from that plane. And the difference in my capacity to string together conversations, was astounding.

 4. Fatigues / "Crashes" + haphazard calorie surpluses

...And that follows on to my next concern - the sugar crashes aka Hangriness. Unless if someone were to feed me something to eat, or any signal/s strong enough to me as an environment stimuli - then I'll be on my way again. Of course, this only lasts for as long as, well... not long enough.

Very similarly to when I was addicted to taking pre-workouts years and years ago as a gym newbie. First half hour? I'd jump around like rabbits. The next half hour? I couldn't even be bothered to go for a walk. My mind just "wander" itself lazily enough that in the presence of lackingly enough environmental or food/insulinogenic stimuli - sleepiness and some sort of subtle fatigue - will at some stage becomes a certainty. 

All these "hazy & lazy" fogginess happened to me about the second or third days into my vacation as I increasingly felt the need to lie down and nap during the afternoons. Which; to my previous senses on Ketogenic as I clearly remembered – sure I felt somewhat wired and WEAK - but I have never ever felt THIS SLEEPY as though I needed to take a nap.

Hence, I am back to my "15 year old" teenager habits. I am a serial Napper. For at least an hour. And still lingeringly around for days even after landing back home.

Besides also - going back on a HCLF diet with an intent to eat on a hypercaloric surplus IS SO MUCH EASIER. This however, is a either a curse or a (blissful) blessing depending to your contextual need/s. Strength gains? Absolutely. You may need that extra meal/s. Quell your hunger whenever possible. When to stop however; is a difficult exercise as a warning.

5....And very hungry too; should no food comes to me.

Yup. The same old problem returns. I truly feel "greedy" about food. The stronger you become, the more greedy you feel from within. Hunger was not only visceral. But also - lingeringly anxious from hour to hour unless I can get myself sleepy enough to pass over the time.

Otherwise, it's a long, arduous, road of looking at the clock. Either that; or that hard earned bulge in my triceps I worked just hours before starts fading away via gluconeogenesis. That feeling, that hunger once again - felt overly greedy and impatient.

I always wanted to believe everything from what is commonly perpetuated about the benefits of CKD (resetting Leptin to keep the satiations back to prior / normal) would eliminate all my worries away. From continuously intaking in carbohydrates in just one day, or two. But what happens if one were to transition briefly away from Keto altogether for an extended number of days? Weeks? or Even months? Sadly, those anxious, leering hunger - came back to me once again. From what I felt thus far in following back to a carb heavy diet however, I was not only feeling a bit "lazy + hazy" but also irritably angry - should food do not come at any moment of want, or at will. 

Unlike being hungry on Keto which I can learn to accept consciously myself to stay on without food for another half hour (or two). This? I could not bear even for half an hour. This hunger anxiety or "Hangry pang/s"as some would call it - remains both real and palpable.

In other words, wants can easily be confused as needs.

Ever so materialistically evident from just how much $$$ transactions off my bank statement I've made as soon as I've landed back in Perth.

 5. ...My time + wallet = unforgiving.

I would say this - a way of eating is simply just that - a way of sustaining and living. To legitimately determine whether one is viably or objectively healthy or not depends on YOUR Contextual Aspect's of interpreting your very own need/s and circumstances; both psychological and physiological.

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