Category: Nutritional Ketosis

Weight: 181.6
AM Ketones: 1.1
PM Ketones: 1.8
AM Blood Glucose: 81
PM Blood Glucose: 81
Hours of Sleep: 6:45
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Tabata Intervals x 3.  First two sets alternating between 60 lb kettlebell swings and burpees.  The last set alternating between body weight squats, bent over rows, and kettlebell swings.

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Even though I didn’t get the full 7-8 hours of sleep today I felt fantastic!  Something about sleeping in your own bed just makes everything better.  My weight is still in the normal range.  … Read More

Weight:
AM Ketones: 0.2
PM Ketones: 0.2
AM Blood Glucose: 83
PM Blood Glucose: 89
Hours of Sleep: 5:51
Energy Level: Poor
Physical Activity: None

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Notes:

Finally — home, sweet home. The main activity of the day was walking throughout various airports trying to get home.  So good to finally be in my own bed after another bad night of sleep.

It’s pretty hard to get any working out done on these travel days when most of the time is spent buckled into the airplane, or waiting to be boarded.  … Read More

Weight: 179
AM Ketones: 0.8
PM Ketones: 0.2
AM Blood Glucose: 80
PM Blood Glucose: 91
Hours of Sleep: 6:23
Energy Level: Poor
Physical Activity: BJJ

Overall pretty bad day.  The 6:23 hours of sleep I got was completely disrupted and I woke up feeling like I only had 4 or 5 hours.  I’m pretty sure this doesn’t so much have as much to do with my diet as it does my new sleeping environment over here on the west coast.

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Started the day with BJJ… and ended it at a holiday party where things were eaten that probably weren’t the best for this diet.  … Read More

Weight: 179
AM Ketones: 0.8
PM Ketones: 0.5
AM Blood Glucose: 84
PM Blood Glucose: 90
Hours of Sleep: 7:59
Energy Level: Poor
Physical Activity: None

Reviewed the book I’ve been reading, “The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance” and came across something that I didn’t quite sink in the first time.  The fact that consuming medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), the kind that I put in my “fat hot chocolate” (grass fed butter and coconut oil), are actually absorbed by the gut pretty quickly, and are processed right away, either being used by muscle cells as fuel or to be converted by the liver into ketones.… Read More

Weight: 179
AM Ketones: 0.7
PM Ketones: 2.0
AM Blood Glucose: 87
PM Blood Glucose: 80
Hours of Sleep:
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: BJJ

Happy with my ketone levels and blood sugars.  Curious to see what my HbA1c will be with these sub 90 sugars.  I read somewhere that optimally blood sugars should be in the 80 range.  I’ll try to find that source again.

Had a Cold Stone creamery  ice cream today, the smallest size, because we were celebrating some good news, and I wasn’t sure what effect that would have to my ketones.  … Read More

Weight:
AM Ketones: 1.9
PM Ketones: 1.1
AM Blood Glucose: 77
PM Blood Glucose: 86
Hours of Sleep: 5:46
Energy Level: Poor
Physical Activity: None

Was tired all day.  Slept later than intended last nite because we were out with some friends, and for no reason in particular, my body woke me up at my normal time.  Hence the short amount of sleep.  Felt sleepy the entire day and took a few small naps.

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Good ketone levels.  I was a little worried because we ate out today at Din Tai Fung… a chinese food place famous for its juicy pork dumplings.  … Read More