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#104 - KETO MARATHON WEEK 10 | What I've Noticed Being Ketogenic For 10 Weeks · Callum Walker | Figuring It Out

• 0:03
  Callum Walker: If fear is the only thing stopping us from achieving our dreams and we only fear what we don't understand, then the antidote to fear is knowledge. All we have to do is find out who has the knowledge that we need to conquer our fears and achieve our entrepreneurial dreams. My name is Callum Walker, and welcome to the podcast that will help you figure it out and conquer this lonely entrepreneurial journey. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the podcast. So I am officially four days, four days away.
• 0:36
  Yeah. Four days away from running marathon. Well, where are we? It's Tuesdays today. So I've got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• 0:41
  Yeah. So in five days time, not four days, five days time, I'm going to be running the marathon completely on a ketogenic diet. So I've been fully ketogenic for I think it's ten weeks now. It's nine or ten weeks, and I promise you I have not cheated once. The only time I had, I don't know, a slight desire to want to cheat was when we were in Lisbon on holiday.
• 1:09
  And do know what it was? It was actually a slice of sourdough bread. I was like, oh, I would absolutely love some toast with my eggs. But apart from that, I have been absolutely spot on. And that in itself is a real achievement for me, real achievement for me because I yeah, I mean, for anyone to go on a ketogenic diet is challenging enough, but to have gone on a ketogenic diet for ten weeks, Brain of mind, I had a wedding throughout that time and I've had like a holiday throughout that time and multiple other things.
• 1:43
  Pretty proud of myself. So what have I noticed over the last ten weeks? Well, I guess it's tough to say because I'm very fast adapted anyway. So, you know, in the sense of over the last what the last ten years, on average, I've been eating about 50 grams of carbs a day. I definitely noticed the difference between the transition from low carb to ketogenic.
• 2:11
  I definitely noticed that, but I I would say that the effects that I've experienced aren't as profound as the effects that you would probably experience if you're going from, you know, being very carb adapted to going ketogenic. You would experience these these feelings significantly more. But I I think that, like, that the main sort of things that I've noticed, and I'm gonna start off of, a physical point of view. So I ran 34 kilometers last week. So that's the longest run I've ever done.
• 2:45
  Like, I'm not I'm not really a runner normally. You know, me running a marathon like I'm not normally a runner, but the previous length, my longest distance I'd ever run before that was 22 ks. So just over half a marathon. And and I did that four weeks ago. And then two weeks later, I ramped that up to 34 ks.
• 3:13
  And I've ran that on a bowl of Greek yogurt in the morning. And when I say a bowl of Greek yogurt, it's probably 100 grams of Greek yogurt, a couple of berries and a few nuts. Then I ran for four hours and I had 10 chorizo rollitos during the run. And the chorizo rollito is slice of chorizo covered. Sorry, a slice of cheese wrapped in chorizo.
• 3:40
  So a ten ten of those and loads of water. And yeah, it was really quite cool, actually, when I got to the two hour thirty mark, because based on conventional nutritional wisdom, at two hours of thirty of high intensity exercise, I should have broken down without any carbohydrates and be absolutely battered. But when I got to the two hour thirty mark, I was like, yes, I was right. You can run ultra endurance exercise without carbs. So that was really cool.
• 4:15
  And then yeah. So I just carried on. And and I mean, like, how did I feel? I mean, like, don't get me wrong. My knees hurt.
• 4:24
  Like, I just ran for four hours. Of course, my knees hurt, but it was really astounding. Like, I'd just eaten 10 slices of chorizo and some cheese, and I just really wasn't very hungry. Like, when I got in, I was like, know I need to fuel, but I wasn't like, I need to get get it down me. And, you know, I ran half a marathon a few years ago completely, like, you know, with more carbs in my diet.
• 4:48
  I remember running that half marathon and after being like, I need to get some fuel in. I didn't have that feeling at all. That was really bizarre. But I tell you the thing that was more bizarre, like, I mean, my knees hurt immediately after, but I was expecting to wake up the following day and not really be able to walk very well and again like I had a little bit of knee pain but apart from that I was just fine and then like two days later like I just didn't have any DOMS. It was just really weird, really weird, like no Dom's at all.
• 5:21
  And, you know, you can look at that and, you know, most people were like, who are runners who'd like, well, I don't really get Dom's running 34 ks. But I'm not a runner. Like, I'm not I'm not a regular runner. Like, you know, six weeks ago, the longest I'd ever run was a half marathon and that was three years ago. Apart from that, I've just been running 10 ks's for the last, like three years.
• 5:43
  So let's go from a 10 k to 34 k. You'd expect your legs to be fucked, but I haven't really experienced anything. So, you know, I had a little bit of soreness, but I just kinda cracked on. And then like my heart rate variability, like, it definitely plummeted the next day, but it snapped back very, very quickly. Yeah, just noticed the overall recovery side of things fascinating.
• 6:10
  So, yeah, so, you know, I'm well, I'm running on Sunday and Alice asked me as well, she's like, what are you going to do afterwards? You know, my mind wants to go like, I just want to eat whatever. Like, I'm just going to eat anything. But but next week, actually, what I am doing, which is really cool. So I'm running a marathon on Sunday and then the Sunday after that, I'm actually going to Sweden on the Wim Hof expedition.
• 6:36
  So I'm actually going on an expedition with Wim Hof himself in Northern Sweden. So I'm so excited for that. But I'm almost like, you know, I'm running the marathon on Sunday and you could think, alright, it's over. So I'm just going to go and eat loads of shit. But to be honest, like I said to Alice, it's like, I'll probably like stay ketogenic for at least that week before Wim Hof anyway because I just wanna make sure that I can recover the best that I possibly can.
• 7:02
  So I'm actually gonna continue going ketogenic during that time. And then I said to her, I said, I'm just gonna see like what it's like when I'm in Sweden because the only thing with being in Sweden, I'm staying in a hotel, so I don't know what food is going to be available to me. But I don't know, like, I can't say I have found this ketogenic diet very hard at all like and bear in mind I'm what ten weeks in I I can't see myself breaking that next week. I don't know. Like I almost kind of feel like I want to carry it on.
• 7:41
  Also, like I've been very fat adapted and I put on a podcast a few weeks back. I think it was like week four just around like the challenge of getting enough calories in and I've definitely cracked that. You know, I've I've like I've been nailing so many calories. Like, I mean, yesterday I had some yogurt and I put a 120 mil of double cream in that yogurt. That was an additional like 600 kcals.
• 8:06
  I'm doing that every day. And, like, I'm just getting leaner. Like, I am getting leaner, and I'm actively trying to put more calories into my system. And I'm getting leaner. And you could be like, oh, you're running.
• 8:22
  And I'm like, I've only been running once a week. Yeah. I've only been running once a week. So, yeah, I don't know. Like, the whole, calorie deficit stuff, like it's just so outdated because there's so much more to it.
• 8:37
  Like I've actively tried to eat as many calories as I can and I've got leaner and that's the power of what happens when you are on a ketogenic diet. So, you know, dismiss it at your peril. Like just don't don't be an idiot and dismiss it like everyone does. People who dismiss it don't know anything about it. And that's an important thing for you that if you're dismissing it, maybe you don't know anything about it.
• 9:02
  So don't dismiss something you don't know. It's almost like when I was younger, my mom would be like, you know, do you want some carrots? And I'm like, I don't like carrots. But have you ever had them? No.
• 9:11
  But I know I don't like them. It's like, oh, ketogenic diet doesn't work. Have you ever tried it? No, but I know it doesn't work. All right.
• 9:20
  So, yeah, so so, yes, I'm really excited to run that, but I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. I think I'm definitely going to make sure that the week the week afterwards I am going to stay ketogenic for recovery periods and then I'll just see how I go. I'll see how I feel. I think the only thing I have missed has been more kind of sentimental things. So as an example, me and Alex love Thai food.
• 9:41
  We absolutely love Thai food. One of my favorite things to do is to go out for dinner, sit opposite the love of my life and eat a Thai and specifically share some noodles with her. And I have missed that. I have missed that. So I depending on how I feel, if my recovery goes the way it did after my 34 k, I definitely think we'll go out for a tie on the Friday, and I'll have I'll have some noodles and some rice.
• 10:09
  That'd be the nice thing to potentially break it. But I'll just see how I go. But then after, like, after my Wim Hof, and I'll do a podcast episode on this. After my Wim Hof, I, yeah, I'll definitely I'll definitely see how I go. I'll definitely see how I go in terms of the dietary perspective.
• 10:27
  So so yes, that's your update. We're five days out. And yeah, to be honest, I'm just like I don't know, I'm just making sure that this week it's just all about just being in a healthy state from a nervous system perspective. That's my whole point. The whole thing for me is my muscles adapted to be able to deal with it.
• 10:49
  Fueling wise, I'm adapted to be able to deal with it and I'm just gonna make sure that my nervous system is as healthy as it can possibly be. So I'm doing some walking, doing yoga on a daily basis. I've been meditating daily, getting my sunlight, My caffeine has gone down significantly as well. So, yeah, I'm really excited for it. So, I'll keep you updated, but never forget, for every one of your clients gave you one new client, you've doubled your business.
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