Ketogenic Diets – Page 20

Day 25 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 6, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight: 184.0
AM Ketones: 0.3
AM Blood Glucose: 89
Hours of Sleep: 6:38
Energy Level: Good!
Physical Activity: BJJ

As I suspected from last night, given my falling off the wagon during my trip to NYC, I was definitely out of the nutritional ketosis range of my blood ketones.

To further support this was the fact that my fasting blood sugar, while in the normal range, is still higher than the 70-80s it stayed stable at when I am in ketosis.

After my BJJ workout today, I felt the typical bonk I normally get when I’m hypoglycemic, manifested with an irresistible urge to nap and a throbbing headache. … Read More

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

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

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

Day 20 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on January 1, 2013October 10, 2014 by BJJ Caveman

Weight: 180.2
AM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose: 80
Hours of Sleep: 8:04
Energy Level: Excellent!
Physical Activity: Does looking for a post drink snack count?

On vacation in NYC with no ketone strips. I did a good job following the ketogenic diet allll the way until we hit the New Years Eve party in a bar… it was at this point where the proverbial wheels came off the wagon.

I thought I could keep things in check by limiting my imbibing to dry red wines… but somehow this degenerated into shots… and champagne ..and… Read More