NUTRITIONAL KETOSIS WEEK 5 RESULTS

Its been five weeks since I started my experiment with nutritional ketosis.  I am eating higher fat, lower protein and very low carb.

Here are some of my charts:

In summary, in the past 5 weeks:

I lost 1-1/8" around my midriff, 2-1/4" around my waist, 1" around my navel and 7/8" around my hips.

I lost 4.8 pounds on the scale (lost 6.5 pounds of body fat and gained 1.7 pounds of lean mass).

I went down 3.3 percentage points on my body fat.

I went down 0.039 points on my waist-to-hip ratio.

Although I ate pretty much the same way for the whole week, I only tracked my food for five days.  If you want to know exactly what I am eating, look here, and then you can click the page numbers at the bottom to see each individual day.

Here are the averages of what I ate this past week:

1560 calories

138.8g fat (80.1%)

58.2g protein (14.9%)

19.6g carbs (5%)

This was my goal, and I was not too far off:

1539 calories

135g fat (79%)

54g protein (14%)

27g carbs (7%)

I will continue to eat this way for the next week.

I tested my blood ketones one time this past week because the strips are so expensive, and I can see that eating this way is keeping me in nutritional ketosis.  In order to stay there, my level should stay between 1.0 and 3.0.  My average of all the times I have tested is 2.2.  Here are my results since I started testing:

 Because I can see that the way I am eating is keeping my blood sugar stable, I am not testing it every day.  I did test two times this past week.  Here are my results since I started testing, and these numbers are excellent:

I am continuing my experiment.  I am in nutritional ketosis, and my blood sugar is normal.  I am not hungry during the day, and I think I have hit on a good amount of fat to be eating.
 

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