Category: Ketogenic Diets

Day 15 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 15Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.5
PM Ketones: 1.2
AM Blood Glucose: 80
PM Blood Glucose: 81
Hours of Sleep: 6:43
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: 60 lb kettle bell swings x 200, pushups x 100, jump rope

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Glad to see that I’m barely in the range for nutritional ketosis!  Today I wandered into the low carb friends forums and wrote a post asking people there what they thought of my results so far and if they had any ideas as to why my weight loss has seemed to stall and why I’m so inconsistent in staying in nutritional ketosis

They had some great ideas, the most valuable being: keeping better track of my intake… in terms of calories and macronutrient composition.  … Read More

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Day 14 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 14Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.4
PM Ketones: 0.4
AM Blood Glucose: 85
PM Blood Glucose: 84
Hours of Sleep: 7:10
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: None

Ack!  Again I somehow popped out of my desired range of 0.5 – 3.0 mmol ketones to maintain nutritional ketosis.

When I saw the AM level of 0.4 and how different it was compared to last nights 1.8 I wanted to figure out what the cause of this variation is.  While my initial intention wasn’t to track my diet very thoroughly (I never liked counting calories or calculating exact amounts of macronutrients), I think I’ll probably need to start keeping a food log.… Read More

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Day 13 – Nutritional Ketosis

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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

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Day 12 – Nutritional Ketosis

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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

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Day 11 – Nutritional Ketosis

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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

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Day 10 – Nutritional Ketosis

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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

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