Tag: nutritional ketosis

Day 21 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 21Weight:
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

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Day 19 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 19Weight: 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

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Ketosis and Fatty Liver

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Fatty Liver

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

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Day 18 – Nutritional Ketosis

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Day 18Weight: 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

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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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