I'm here with Tyler and he's agreed to do an interview he was telling me about
how much did you run today? I ran 16 and a half miles. 16-1/2 miles and what has recently changed with your diet? I went fully ketogenic about 3 weeks ago.
So 3 weeks into the ketogenic diet and you're training for a half marathon or a full marathon?
training for a full marathon a full marathon and so I just thought that
he's also dairy-free which is a question I get all the time. So about how many
calories did you say you eat a day? On a rest day I'm eating about 3000 calories.
today with the exercise in the mix about 4,500 calories. Isn't that just amazing?
You're also intermittent fasting, aren't you?
Yes, so intermittent fasting so I try to practice at least 12 hours overnight without eating at the
same time with the intensive training and the ketogenic working on lowering my
portion size and because I'm tracking it I know that I'm getting enough food
yeah and so I feel like I've made my body run more efficiently and not only
water intake but food intake seems like my body is utilizing that for
energy better. And so have you done a marathon before? no I've done a half
marathon and previous to today I've only run that distance like once before.
Okay, so can you tell me the difference between training before for like a half vs now training on the keto diet?
oh I think it's smoother I felt like when I was carb heavy for me in
particular I think that it made me think that I needed to eat more and so more
often than not I had to push really hard through walls of like really lethargic
feelings so this seems smoother to me in like less less of an effort to
get the energetic feeling you need when you try to get a distance running.
That sounds perfect! So what prompted you to make these changes?
Just long-standing brain fog and all sorts of food sensitivity issues
and trying to navigate that and just going through a variety of trying to go
vegan and concentrating on an anti inflammation diet which helped a lot and
You know, I kind of rode through a year and a half and got somewhat better but
it wasn't until I really discovered that starches and sugars and carbs were
really at the root cause of this so I've been close to ketogenic for maybe about
six months and then deciding to just fully go into it and start tracking my
food just to see that data behind it I think was big for me because it's like
oh you're super skinny like are you getting that food you shouldn't starve
yourself you know if the fasting and the going ketogenic so being able to see
that data and then okay cool I'm getting enough food. Good! Can you tell us a little
bit about what you do for electrolytes um so I just do there's an electrolyte
sub supplement that I take and it's just well-rounded it also has some trace
minerals in it and I got some advice from a nutritionist who is also
ketogenic that with the uptick in exercise that I would be burning more
electrolytes so I think that I maybe go you know a little bit above the
recommended dose per day I think if the recommended dose was like you know six
of these particular lozenges then I take eight and so the uptick in the
electrolytes I think has avoided any sort of cramping issues and
removed the stigma that I had heard that you can't crush athletically on
ketogenic diet. Which you obviously are! I'm so impressed which is why we're doing
this right now Can you tell us like a typical day what you
eat you get that amount of calories and be dairy free on keto? so I do like either a hemp
milk flax milk or there's also like a pea protein isolates milk that I get so
mostly a plant-based milk and I get the majority of my calorie load in the
morning and that's pretty much a seed porridge basically hemp seeds chai seeds
and sunflower seeds and sometimes I'll mix in flax seeds in that as well and
basically I have all of that in combination with the milk and I'll
either do raw cacao powder or spirulina and some protein powder if I'm you know
feel like I have exercised a lot the day before I know I'm gonna exercise a lot
the day of but I've also found by tracking it if you look at you know the
stats on hemp seeds chai seeds and sunflower seeds they all have protein in
them and from what I've been told from my nutritionist is like so even if the
protein counts on those are lower it's a very soluble easy for the body to
utilize protein okay so yeah that's basically where I get like you know if I
do kind of like a cup or half a cup of all of those
may be equating to like two full cups of everything with everything all
included that's probably almost 1,500 to 2,000 calorie meal.
That's a lot of work to get all that in! Yeah but it doesn't you know like it doesn't really
like weigh me down whatsoever like if I was to go and do 2,000 calories of
say Burgers and Fries it would be like okay I need a nap and I don't feel that
good okay so you almost tend for plant-based
that's kind of the morning routine and then
there's basically so I try to do that in two other meals and then my
other two meals are dominantly meat and veggies and so that's kind of like where
I do more of the meat veggie things so I guess yeah I plant load in the morning
you do but that's like half your calories from plants like that's really
impressive yep and then but you know I think I probably still eat a pound of
meat a day okay and just a variety of vegetables I basically have you know a
revolving door of like eight different vegetables so at any time it's like five
different vegetables all just lightly steamed with whatever means it might be
that I need a lot of grass-fed beef and chicken is in there a little bit of turkey
but anything that I'm eating it's all like you know very high quality stuff ninety percent of the time it's organic I think that's important
you know there's definitely like you know it really depends on what your
source has eaten as to how you feel afterwards I think that's very important
exactly you know you consider yourself like your body's hypersensitive you were
telling me, it has adrenal fatigue and all this stuff. Yeah yes that's kind of our generation has that I feel like oh yeah
yeah yeah so it's like you found that this can work for even if you are really
sensitive yeah yeah cuz I went through a period of just feeling like I was allergic
to food general yeah maybe I should just stop eating. Right? Fasting works if you have body fat....
can you tell us how you know if you are or are not in ketosis have you kicked
yourself out of ketosis so you can tell us if you see the difference?
I don't know if
I'm that attuned. I haven't really gone into the full
you know keto strip testing or anything like that but if I eat something that is
carb based I have been very strictly on my program I immediately switch from
feeling like I am mentally clear by you know my 'emotional deal' is level and
the biggest thing for me is like feeling hungry when I know I'm not which was
what was happening that was carb heavy and when I'm in full keto I'm not that
way like I eat I actually feel satiated and good but then if I eat something that is
carb base which leads me to believe that maybe that's kicking me out of ketosis-
light switch- I am mentally fuzzy I can't think very well and then I am just like
I it's like I can't get enough food so I think that's probably the marker yeah.
yeah I feel like it's different for everyone but yeah that's great is there
if you could recommend keto to one type of person who if you recommend it for
the most I think if somebody has brain fog where they are just noticeably you
know they're like why can't I think clearly or if somebody is really having
to overcompensate with caffeine a lot then I really think it's time to check
into ketogenic diet because I really think that carbs and
other junk that's involved with processed food or deep fried food or all
of that stuff is what's really weighing your body down and you know as as well
as being ketogenic I haven't had caffeine in probably a year and a half
and I couldn't feel more energetic. That is awesome. I have not permanently kicked my caffeine habit. It's
good to know that people can yeah I used to be a caffeine junkie like you know
five six seven eight shots of espresso a day or something. Wow that's alot. I'm glad you're off of that Or like a
pot of coffee yeah and like the good stuff too yeah not the watered-down
coffee. Yeah, that's great
Thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time to do this with us!