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29 April 2014
My blood sugar stayed too high with the additional carbs from the paleo diet. Going back to what has been working, which is the ultra-low carb keto diet. The “targeted” part of this diet simply means that I will consume some quick absorbing carbs (16g of dextrose) prior to weigh lifting.
Weigh-in:
175.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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25 April 2014
175.2 lbs
110/68 Blood Pressure
68 Pulse
129 Blood Sugar @ 3:45am (15min after waking up)
120 Blood Sugar @ 5:45am (30min post work out and WO shake with 16g dextrose)
120 Blood Sugar @ 9:30am (nothing eaten since 5:45am, drank PowerAde zero)
Whoops! Turn the bus around! We are headed in the wrong direction! My weight is up and so is my blood sugar. I think my weight is up because of the way I have been entering my exercise into the diary over the past few weeks. I was doing great until I added 1 hour of standing and slow walking to my daily exercise list. I just figured that through the course of the day that I stood and slow walked at least an hour. Previously I had not entered those items and just had the time recorded as resting. I think the extra calories I thought I could eat to maintain a 500 calorie deficit were not really there. I have probably been eating at maintenance or a little over each day for the past couple of weeks. I have removed the walking and standing from diary, which takes away about 300 per day that I should eat.
I am going to go along with this plan for another week despite my higher than normal blood sugar readings and see what happens. I expect to see a morning blood sugar level at 100 or below, which I was able to maintain with the ultra-low carb keto diet. Maybe my body needs some time to adjust to the extra carbs since it hasn’t really had to use any insulin when I ate keto during the past 7 months. Insulin resistance sucks. I wish I would have known 5 years ago when I might have had a better chance of correcting the problem. I think it will just take time, some trial/error and some serious determination to ward off diabetes with exercise and diet. I am determined more than ever to figure this out and win!
Workouts are still going great! I feel like I have gained some muscle mass with the additional calories I wasn’t supposed to be eating. Always gotta look at the bright side! :) I’m feeling pretty darn good these days, I just wish my numbers were better but I'm working on it.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Weigh-in:
175.2 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
15.2 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(2 comments)
gaining 3.5 lb a week
23 April 2014
My work out rocked today! I completed everything that I was supposed to and for the first time I completed the full three sets of stepping lunges. I also went up on my deadlift weight again too. My legs are a little wiggly wobbly now, but I'm taking that as a sign of a job well done.
Have a great day everyone. Make it count!
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22 April 2014
I’ve been doing some more reading since I decided to up my carbs to 100g per day and now I’m pretty sure that I don't want to sick with that plan. I also know that I do not want to be on a pure ketogenic diet since I have already lost most of the weight that I planned to lose and I feel like the ultra-low carb diet is lacking some in basic nutrition. This leaves me where I am now, uncertain.
I do not want to go back to a high carb and low fat diet since I really enjoy the ultra-low carb ketogenic lifestyle. If I eat 100g of carbs per day, this is close to the point where I would need to be concerned with keeping the fat down and it is not really “low carb” in the scope of things. I am going for optimal health, and I know that high fat combined with too many carbs can be a recipe for disaster. (high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.)
I also want my body to remain “fat adapted”, which means that I want to keep all the systems in place to easily run my body on fat or sugar, not just one or the other. I did a lot of hard work to get my body burning fat as its primary fuel and I want to keep it mostly that way because it feels awesome and keeps you burning fat instead of storing it.
From what I have learned, the term “fat adapted” means that when your body’s glycogen supply runs out, it easily switches from using glycogen as fuel to using fat for fuel. All of the fat burning mechanisms are already in place to do this as a result of prolonged low carb dieting. When one is fat adapted and skips a meal, the body simply switches to using fat for fuel without the ravenous hunger associated with skipping meals on a high carb diet. When you eat a high carb diet your liver stores glycogen to fuel your activities. When your liver runs out of glycogen and your muscles still need more, you must eat again (and your body definitely lets you know you need to eat) to refill the depleted glycogen or you will “crash”, “bonk” or “hit the wall” so to speak. When fat adapted your body can easily switch to burning fat instead of “crashing”. This may not be optimal for performance, but I am not a hard core athlete nor am I trying to break any weight lifting records. I just want to be healthy and fit. So, with that being said, here are my revised macros that I plan to stick to for the rest of the month and see where it puts me.
Workout days: 80g carbs (max)
Off days: 50g carbs (max)
Protein: 155-165g
Fat: The rest of my 500 calorie deficit
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21 April 2014
98 Blood Sugar
108/71 Blood Pressure
71 Pulse
These are my Friday 4/18 weigh in numbers. Up in weight due to the extra carbs I added to my diet. I am walking around at 175 right now, I assume its mostly water. Let's see if I can loose some weight this week with my carbs at 100g/day. I feel good and I am enjoying some new foods so I hope I can make this work.
Weigh-in:
173.2 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
13.2 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(1 comment)
gaining 1.0 lb a week
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