High Protein Diet and Energy

Question
I am on a weight lifting regiment. I go to work at 6 am and return home around 4:40 pm. I hit the gym and lift hard for an hour with 30 minutes of cardio. I eat healthy (high protein diet) and go to bed around 10 pm. I have been doing this quite some time. I am slimming a bit and firming up. My problem is that I am exhausted all the time. From the time I go to work until the time I go to bed, I am beat! I have had every energy drink known to man and none work. What can I do?
Thanks.

Answer
Hi Richard,

Often a high protein diet "feels" similar to higher-carb diets resulting in the lack of energy. This is partly due to the gluconeogenesis, when almost half of the protein is being converted into "new" carbohydrates but partly due to too low good fat consumption -- so the solution is often a higher-fat, low carb diet.

Read more about it and see if you can use it:

http://www.dietandbody.com/banta/inside/fat_burning_index.htm

Mood/energy:
http://bestlowcarbs.com/article1027.html

Mood Effects of Low-carb Diets
http://bestlowcarbs.com/article1012.html
People on this plan invariably report energy increase!

= TZ

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