NUTRITIONAL KETOSIS WEEK 6 RESULTS

As Robert Burns once said, "The best laid schemes o mice an men gang aft agley."  In other words, we can plan and plan and do everything right, but it sometimes does not work out, despite our best efforts.  After doing very well for five weeks, my progress hit a wall and bounced off in the opposite direction.  This happened, seemingly, because of one meal at which I ate too much protein and too many carbs, including some fresh strawberries, as part of a birthday celebration for my husband.  Now, the results were not devastating, but still.  Come on!  If the only way to maintain weight loss is to eat PERFECTLY at every single meal for the rest of my life, its pretty discouraging. 

On the other hand, I did lose 5/8" around my navel in the past week, and that is substantial to me, visceral fat-wise.

Im now looking back to see if there is anything else I have changed since I started, to see if there could be some other reason why I am gaining again other that one day of overeating.  For the first week or so, I ate really, really high fat, and although it worked at first, it stopped working, and decreasing my fat by 50g per day got me losing again.  The only other thing I can think of that I have changed is that I am not eating coconut oil the way I was when I first started this.  As a matter of fact, I have not made my coconut candy in over a week, and I have been getting in the habit of cooking my eggs with butter about half the time instead of coconut oil.  Also, I have been skipping my MCT oil cocktail on some of the mornings lately, in favor of having a little bit more fat with my meals.

Just in case this lack of coconut/MCT oil may have something to do with my weight gain, I am going back to making sure that I have it on a daily basis.  Today, I will make some coconut oil candy and start having a piece or two every day and I will make sure not to skip my oil cocktail in the mornings.

Its been six 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 6 weeks:

I lost 1-1/8" around my midriff, 2-1/8" around my waist, 1-5/8" around my navel and 1" 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 0.033 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, and, on one day (the overeating day), I estimated my food.  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:

1543 calories

133.2g fat (77.7%)

57.4g protein (14.9%)

28.7g carbs (7.4%)

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

1539 calories

135g fat (79%)

54g protein (14%)

27g carbs (7%)

One setback is not enough to discourage me that much, so 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.  My average of all the times I have tested is 85, which includes after meals.  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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