BJJ Caveman

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

Day 19 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on December 31, 2012January 8, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Weight: 179.6
AM Ketones: 2.0
AM Blood Glucose: 70
Hours of Sleep: 5:59
Energy Level: Excellent!
Physical Activity: None

Great to see my last ketone strip being put to good use. A ketone level of 2.0 mmol is my 2nd highest level in all my AM measurements, and 3rd highest in my overall measurements. Looks like the benefits of my Crossfit work out yesterday carried over to this morning, another sign that Crossfit is something I should continue.

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Another new low in my fasting blood sugar measurement. … Read More

Ketosis and Fatty Liver

Posted on December 31, 2012January 8, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

I was doing some searching on PubMed and came across an article describing the benefits of a ketogenic diet for patients with fatty liver and fibrosis.

They placed 5 patients with biopsy proven fatty liver on a ketogenic diet for 6 months and guess what… the mean weight loss was over 25 lbs. At the end of the study, they did biopsies of the liver, and they found that there was overall improvement in inflammation, degree of fatty liver, and fibrosis.

Pretty amazing isn’t it?

This is probably due to removing the inflammatory influence that chronic carbohydrate ingestion has on the body and liver.… Read More

Day 18 – Nutritional Ketosis

Posted on December 30, 2012January 8, 2017 by BJJ Caveman

Weight: 179.4
AM Ketones: 1.2
PM Ketones:
AM Blood Glucose: 72
PM Blood Glucose:
Hours of Sleep: 7:56
Energy Level: Excellent
Physical Activity: Crossfit

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I didn’t measure my PM ketones for two reasons.

1. I don’t think it provides an accurate reflection as to what’s going on in my body since it’s taken so close to when I eat dinner. And since I include coconut oil and other fats in my dinner, that can skew the measurement of ketones since the liver breaks down medium chain triglycerides immediately into ketones. … Read More