Day 37 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 37 aWeight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.9
AM Blood Glucose: 88
Hours of Sleep: 8:11
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: BJJ

Looks like another spot on ketone prediction from last night.  The fact that I can get pretty close to predicting my ketone measurements actually tells me that I have a reasonable understanding of how the things I do affect it.  My rough measurement includes how well I ate in terms of my macro breakdown and whether or not I had an intense exercise session.

Since I had a pretty intense BJJ session tonight and I ate close to ideally, I’ll predict tomorrow’s measurement to be around 1.5 mmol.… Read More

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Nutritional Ketosis Tools

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For anyone who is getting started nutritional ketosis or interested in how I track everything, I figure I would write a post showing all the tools I use.  Something like this would have been helpful for me when I was just starting.

Precision xtra

Precision Xtra Blood Glucose and Ketone Meter: This is the system I use to track my daily fastingmorning blood ketones to determine if I am in the range of nutritional ketosis (0.5 mmol- 3.0 mmol).  I’ve gotten pretty good at predicting what my ketones will be the following morning based on my diet and activity level.  … Read More

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Day 36 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 36aWeight: 181.2
AM Ketones: 1.1
AM Blood Glucose: 83
Hours of Sleep: 7:11
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Walk in the park.

This is my 10th day straight of being in nutritional ketosis it looks like my guess from last night was pretty on the mark.  I also had another slice of my cheese-mousse today with no GI problems, so it doesn’t look like I consumed the requisite amount of xylitol to elicit an intestina response.  1 slice ok… 2 slices not ok!

My diet was going splendidly today until I came across this beautiful roasted pork belly.  … Read More

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Open Guard Pass

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Back in California, so I got to revisit Babalu’s gym for another great training session.  I attended the class at 11 am (I prefer midday because it seems like there are less students and thus more individual attention) taught by Professor Pedro Munoz (black belt).

We went over an open guard pass, that involved using knee penetration as the primary tool.

Open Guard Pass Set Up

1. Start with opponent on his back in open guard.
2. Step right foot forward between his legs
3. Left hand underhand grips his right ankle (for better control as opposed to grabbing pant leg) and right hand grabs his left lapel (at a very low level, almost at belt line)
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Day 35 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 35aWeight: 179.6
AM Ketones: 0.7
AM Blood Glucose: 90
Hours of Sleep: 7:11
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: BJJ

Ketones have come back down to Earth… I guess the good times couldn’t last!  I’m surprised by my blood sugar though, but one thing I forgot to track was that in the midst of making the blue berry cheesecake pictured, I was snacking on some blue-berries along the way and may have gone a little overboard.

Last night I was feeling ambitious and felt the urge to give in to my sweet tooth a bit so I went ahead and made (with help from my sister) a blue berry cheesecake according to a recipe suggested in “The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance.”  … Read More

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Day 34 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 34Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 1.7
AM Blood Glucose: 77
Hours of Sleep: 10:00
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: None

Just like I could tell that my ketones would be low yesterday from my blood glucose reading, today I could tell that I’d have good ketone numbers after seeing a blood glucose of less than 80.

Ate breakfast and lunch at home so my macros look pretty good.  Did well also when I ate out at a dinner party.  My legs are a little sore from the basketball so I figured it’d be good to rest a bit.… Read More

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