Please tell me how long this exhaustion will last

[Jellybeanfeels]

I'm day 5 keto.
Staying under 30 net carbs per day and going from a very high sugar diet, an actual sugar addict (seen myself eating chocolate for days instead of meals type addict)
Anyway I'm absolutely exhausted, I know about the keto flu, but typically how long until you felt that energised and clear headed way. Already feeling less hungry than I usually would which is good. But just so tired!!

Wait till you start weeing lots

Drink lots of water, it helps.

I have underlying conditions, so not sure, keto flu is pretty much how I feel 'normally'.

however, having spectacularly thrown myself off the wagon, I can confirm I feel SO much better low carb than not.

drink lots of water & stick with it!

also try some lo-salt.

I'm def sticking with it as I've come this far, I had to have a Coffee earlier with a little sugar just to get through the evening!!
Cannot wait to feel better.
Have to say though tmi but I've suffered from constipation for years and I've never been so healthy in the last few days so my body is definitely liking this diet

4/5 days for me.

Im 6 weeks in and feel amazing. I’ve lost 15lb, losing my double chin and every part of me feels better.

I'm passed the exhaustion now.
Feeling good. Not lost one pound yet though so I'm upping my fats this week

Careful in upping your calories OP. Low carb is just one way to lower your daily calories. There is no metabolic secret. The only metabolic difference is the usage of water to create ketone bodies, which shows on the scale, but when it comes to body fat, there isn't really any difference between low carb or any other method.
Any time you go low-something (carb, fat, gluten, .....) , you have no choice but to stop buying convenience food or takeaways, so people start eating real food and not processed crap.
If you are struggling to control chocolate (which is a mix of sugar and fat) going low carb is a good thing. When people say they have a sugar addiction, unless they hit the sugar bowl with a spoon or eat jam straight out of the jar with their fingers, it is more often than not, a processed food addiction when sugar is mixed with some sort of fat to create an irresistible product. So sugar and cocoa butter to make chocolate , sugar and cream to make ice-cream, sugar and butter to make cakes and biscuit and so on.

So which sugar addict are you? Jam or processed? It is important for you to understand it because it will give youth freedom to pick the diet on which you thrive.

And more importantly, what are you swapping your carbs for?
There was this interesting map created recently . The country that eats the most carbs (Italy, pasta at least once a day, biscuits or pastries in the morning, bread at every meal...) is also one of the slimmest compared to the carb-phobic countries, such as UK and US.

Low carb or low fat when proteins are maintained equal has absolutely no difference whatsoever . What makes the difference is diet sustainability. How long people can stick to it. For some, it is low carb, for other it is low fat, low cal, .... In all comes down to how much people eat and the quality of the food they eat

Give low carb a go @Jellybeanfeels and if it works for you, great, if it doesn't, there are other options for you.

@KingIrving

That’s really interesting because I’ve read nearly the opposite.

Could you point me to some reading because I thought there was a big difference so I’d be interested to understand more.

While low-carbohydrate diets have been suggested to partially subvert these processes by increasing energy expenditure and promoting fat loss, our meta-analysis of 32 controlled feeding studies with isocaloric substitution of carbohydrate for fat found that both energy expenditure (26 kcal/d; P <.0001) and fat loss (16 g/d; P <.0001) were greater with lower fat diets.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28193517/

Feeding studies are studies in which people are locked up in a clinic without access to external food. They are given fixed calories amount with the only variable being either low fat or low carb.

Kevin Hall works for the NIH (national institute of health) , doesn't sell books, programs, doesn't earn money with YouTube ads, ..... in other words, he doesn't benefit financially from his gospel.

Another professor to look at is Christopher Gardner , a Stanford University professor. He is extremely charismatic and several of his webinars and lectures are available online. His very famous diet fits paper on healthy low carb vs healthy low fat, shows both are work for some and don't work for other as shown by the graphs I am attaching here .
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5839290/
On the low fat some people lost a lot , other gained, and the same for the low carb, some people lost a lot, other gained.

What I am trying to say is that there isn't a diet that fits all. And you have the freedom to create the one that works for you. Of course if you have an abnormal glucose metabolism (diabetes) you should control your carbs, but for the general population, you won't know what is best for you until you try it.