Category: Nutritional Ketosis

Weight: 179
AM Ketones: 0.5
AM Blood Glucose: 85
Hours of Sleep: 5:38
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: BJJ
Nutritional Ketosis Streak: 24 days

Still barely hanging in there.  I’m scared to imagine what would’ve happened if I didn’t do a little bit of exercise last nite… I definitely would have fell out of ketosis!

My sleep hasn’t been very good these past two nights because of some personal stuff going on.  I wonder if the stress I’m under coupled with the lack of sleep caused a spike in my cortisol (a stress hormone).  … Read More

Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.5
AM Blood Glucose: 91
Hours of Sleep: 5:55
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Incline walk x 25 min
Nutritional Ketosis Streak: 23 days

I almost broke my streak of remaining in nutritional ketosis!  I have to admit that I was a little disappointed to see my ketones fall to the 0.5 mmol level.  My best explanation for this is that I had 2 consecutive days of minimal physical activity.  Day 47 was spent sitting in airports and airplanes and Day 48 was spent at my job which is primarily sitting at a desk working on a computer.  … Read More

Weight: 180
AM Ketones: 0.8
AM Blood Glucose: 86
Hours of Sleep: 7:56
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: None
Nutritional Ketosis Streak: 22 days

Ketones didn’t drop as much as I expected.  Good to be back home.  It’s much easier to eat within the parameters of this diet when I’m at home.  I cook more and have more control over what ingredients go into my meals!

Since I was relatively inactive today but did well with my macros, I’ll guess that my ketones will be stable tomorrow at 0.8 mmol.… Read More

Weight: 181.8
AM Ketones: 0.9
AM Blood Glucose: 83
Hours of Sleep: 5:31
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: None
Nutritional Ketosis Streak: 21 days

Happy with the ketones this morning!  The Chinese food last night didn’t screw me up too bad today.

Spent most of the day traveling and hanging out in airports since one of our flights was delayed (to the left is the view from our delayed flight).  While my breakfast was pretty good, I ended up needing to eat in the airport because of the delay and just picked something up from McDonalds.  … Read More

Weight: 182.6
AM Ketones: 1.0
AM Blood Glucose: 88
Hours of Sleep: 5:31
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: BJJ

20th day of consecutive nutritional ketosis.  Pleasantly surprised to see that my ketones actually went up!

My diet was pretty good today until dinner.  We had a family dinner at a nearby Chinese restaurant which pretty much screwed everything up.  While I only ate broccoli and beef (again I had them hold the corn starch) and some lamb and green beans, as we’ve seen before, you can never be too sure what else they added.… Read More

Weight: 181
AM Ketones: 0.9
AM Blood Glucose: 86
Hours of Sleep: 6:28
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Surfing x 2 hours

19th consecutive day of nutritional ketosis.  Wasn’t too far off with my guess last night, ketones went slightly higher.  Today was also our last day in Hawaii.

Spent the morning surfing and now my body is pretty exhausted.  I’ve essentially had 7 straight days of water sports which is more physical activity than I’m accustomed to.. but completely worth it.

My macros took a bit of a hit today since I ate quite a bit more carbs, up to 85 gms.  … Read More