Day 17 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 17Weight: 179.6
AM Ketones: 1.0
PM Ketones: 2.3
AM Blood Glucose: 76
PM Blood Glucose: 80
Hours of Sleep: 6:07
Energy Level: Fair
Physical Activity: BJJ

Total Calories: 1962
% From Fat: 77% (167 gm)
% From Protein: 20% (97 gm)
% From Carbs: 7% (33gm)

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My food log looks just like it did from yesterday!  That’s because I ate the exact same things as part of my experiment to see the effect exercise has on my ketone levels.

Well after BJJ at least in the PM, my ketones shot up.  … Read More

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What happens to my ketone levels after BJJ?

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BJJMy BJJ class with David Boehme, was scheduled for the morning today, so I couldn’t eat breakfast at my normal time.  Since I didn’t want to throw up or start burping in Dave’s face during the class, I decided to just go without eating anything.

With my prior experience  I knew that since I’m ketoadapted (my AM ketones today were 1.0 mmol), I wouldn’t bonk out from hypoglycemia, so I felt pretty comfortable going in a fasted state.

We had good training with some reviewing of techniques, position specific drilling, and some light rolling.  … Read More

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David Boehme

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Dave BoehmeThis is one of the instructors I’ve been working with, David Boehme, a brown belt who trained under Megaton.

He is a super nice guy and always willing to help.  It’s good to train with him because he knows when to go hard and go soft, so that I’m not always being smashed and can actually walk away learning something.

He’s also around my height and my size which also facilitates the learning process.

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Today we reviewed escapes from mount and side control.  … Read More

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Day 16 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 16Weight: 180.6
AM Ketones: 0.6
PM Ketones: 0.7
AM Blood Glucose: 79
PM Blood Glucose: 87
Hours of Sleep: 6:01
Energy Level: Good
Physical Activity: None

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Was pretty meticulous about logging my diet today to make sure I didn’t go overboard with the calories.  All in all, I’d have to say it was as ideal of a diet is possible.

Total Calories: 1962
% From Fat: 77%
% From Protein: 20%
% From Carbs: 7%

I’ll be curious to see if this affects my ketones tomorrow morning.  … Read More

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BJJ Open Mat

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This past Saturday, the first thing I did after waking up was go to a BJJ open mat, always a good way to start the day.  Had some good rolls with a black belt, purple belt, and 4 stripe blue belt.  I felt like I started moving better and was able to put up a reasonable fight before ultimately getting tapped out.

Also I didn’t get caught in any triangles so that was another positive since that is one of the things I’m trying to be more cognizant of as I train. … Read More

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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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