January 2013 – Page 8

Day 24 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 5, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight:
AM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose: 93
Hours of Sleep: 9:24
Energy Level: Excellent!
Physical Activity: BJJ

Had a perfect ketogenic diet today. Minimal carbs, medium amount of protein, and lots of fat! This coupled along with my great BJJ session at Marcelo’s should hopefully get my body prepped to resume being in nutritional ketosis.

Unfortunately my ketone sticks were left with our leasing office rather than in my mailbox so I couldn’t check my ketones this evening. Guess what the first thing I’m going to do tomorrow is? … Read More

Marcelo Garcia’s New Academy – Part 2

Posted on January 4, 2013January 4, 2013 by BJJ Caveman

Just got back from another great day of training in Marcelo Garcia’s new academy. There were fewer people this time around. I overheard some people saying that on opening night when I went, there were 70 people on the mats! That’s pretty crazy.

Today I’d estimate about 40 students on the mats. We started the class with a warmup session that includes running around the periphery of the mats with variations that include, skipping, jumping jacks, side to side, and running backwards.

One of my favorite parts of the warmup is when they incorporate an obstacle course that includes everyone at once, where you get to play the part of the obstacle and then of the person running through the obstacle.… Read More

Day 23 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 4, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight:
AM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose:
Hours of Sleep: 4:17
Energy Level: Fair
Physical Activity: Walking through the city.

Another day where I forgot to check my blood sugar this morning. Being on vacation in a different location has really screwed up my normal routine.

Diet was another day of damage control. Trying to stay on board with a few thing sneaking back in. This will make my meeting with the ketone strips tomorrow very interesting.

Given my estimated carb intake over the past few days, I’m predicting my ketone levels to be around 0.2 mmol. … Read More

Marcelo Garcia

Posted on January 3, 2013November 13, 2016 by BJJ Caveman

Today was a very special day for me. I got to train in Marcelo Garcia’s brand spanking new permanent academy on the first night they opened! I was so lucky that their new academy opened during the week that I’m here in NYC.

Having the opportunity to train with the best BJJ practitioner in the world is my favorite reason for visiting NYC. Food? Meh. Shopping? Meh. Clubbing? Meh. Training with Marcelo Garcia? OMG OMG OMFG!!!!! I’ve told people before who questioned my school-girl-like obsession with MG that having the opportunity to train with him would be like having the opportunity to shoot hoops with Michael Jordan at the peak of his powers.… Read More

Day 22 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 3, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight:
AM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose: 81
Hours of Sleep: 7:49
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: BJJ

Feels kind of weird not having many measurements to report. At least my blood glucose is still on the low side. I’ll be positive and take that as a sign that my body is doing something right.

In terms of diet, today was one of those days where I just tried to do as much damage control as possible. We pretty much ate out the entire day, and I had to employ a lot of the methods I used when following Tim Ferriss’ “Slow Carb Diet” to minimize my carb intake..… Read More

Day 21 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 2, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight:
AM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose:
Hours of Sleep: 7:17
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: Outlet Shopping

Still a little ‘affected’ by the effects of yester-year I completely forgot to check my AM fasting sugar before I ate something today… so not much data to report.

No scale where I’m staying either.

As you can see the first meal of the day was a burger and ice-cream (not pictured). Not quite what Volek and Phinney had in mind. Oh well, such is life! The remainder of the day shaped up to be pretty good.… Read More