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Fat Burning - Is Your Body Trained to Burn Fat or Sugar?

Fat Burning – Is Your Body Trained to Burn Fat or Sugar?

Fat Burning – Are you a fat burner or a sugar burner?

Most athletes don’t know if they are good at fat burning or a sugar burner. This is important information. If you enjoy endurance sports and value your health you want to be a fat burner. Fat burners are called keto-adapted or fat-adapted.

An athlete who is good at burning fat can train for hours with little or no fuel. If you are a sugar…

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Carbs, are they needed to build strength and power?

Do you need carbs to build strength and power?

Endurance athletes want strength and power. They want to climb hills and sprint to the finish. But they typically don’t big and bulky muscles. Power to weight ratio is an important factor in being a good climber. A ketogenic diet is a perfect combination to help an athlete build strength without gaining much muscle mass. There is information out on the web that implies that you need carbs to…

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How Fat Bombs Help To Keep You Thin

I know, I know…I didn’t wait for your responses, but to be fair, no one had one about my name change except for my son’s girlfriend who didn’t see my blog before I did the name change. She liked it and so do I…for now, I will leave it and see what happens. So today I thought I would post a picture and a recipe of one of the easy fat bombs I’ve been making and then tell you about one of those…

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Sickness and Keto update.

So I'm sick for the first time since starting keto (back in early May) and woah nelly I forgot how crappy it is. I am 7 pounds away from my first goal weight, and I can certainly tell my body is wanting the calories to fight this cold. I can also tell it's craving the vitamin C, because all I can think about is orange juice and strawberry yogurt. I've eaten a bunch of red peppers to feed this craving, had some beef broth, eggs with coconut oil and franks red hot as well as a LOT of cheese today. I'm still craving a butt ton of food. Might as well give in, since this has been the norm the past few days and so out of the ordinary for my keto-adapted self. I have a feeling once I hit that goal of 140 I'll set one final goal of 130 before I start lifting weights and increasing my protien and calories. Can't wait to feel strong and have some rad shoulder muscles and the booty :O Also: Being keto-adapted is awesome. I don't have carb crashes and I don't get miserable when I don't eat. I can function well on very little food, and my immunity has been impressive over the summer. I like knowing I won't need a "carb-up" before I work out, and I love that the foods I need have become the foods I want. :O I know it's not for everyone, but man I'm so glad I did it. It's been so easy these past few months.

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making it work

Tuesday and Thursday I kept my promise to myself to go to the gym. 30 days to make a habit right? And then Wed I went hiking after work. My friend threatened to push me from behind up the hill (how embarrassing) if I slowed down so I kept up a good pace this time. Tonight, Thursday, I challenged myself with high resistance and incline on the elliptical. That really wiped me out! It's perfect for what I need to be training for which is long hikes with steep hills, carrying a heavy Search and Rescue pack. I'm doing this all in a good keto-adapted zone. Tonight's post workout ketones (2 hours post) are at 1.8 mmol/L which is right in the range I want to be.

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Winning

In my blog intro I write about how I’m trying to “win my life back from metabolic syndrome.” I was thinking about last week and all the things I did beyond just showing up to my job: USAR building shores (Sat), hasty search after hiking with a friend (Tue), going to the monthly team meeting (Wed), going on a large search for a missing girl (Thur), working a medical detail(Sun) and even having a fun time at work (Sat) along with some heavy duty yard work, mowing my large yard and raking out messes of leaves that have piled up in the back spots after years.

I realize I’m doing it right now. I am winning my life back. I think the pic from Sunday really captured it - happy and feeling alive and out doing things again with all my regained keto-adapted energy.

I wish I had understood how insulin and carb spikes worked a long time ago and then I wouldn’t have had to have gone through the miserable years of gaining and gaining and not feeling like I was able to control that without starving myself (which I never could keep up for long).

I also wish I knew more about how to describe this to others. It’s hard to talk about keto. It’s met with a huge wall of resistance (ironic, resistant to the cure for insuin resistance). “Eating so much fat is bad.” ”Not eating carbs is imbalanced.” yadayada. Tell me why? “It’s what experts say in the books.” And my favorite, “Ok, you are doing great losing weight but it’s unhealthy.” Huh? I’ve never felt better. My cholesterol is down and even my blood pressure is finally going back down to normal on most days. My skin looks better too. So how is “unhealthy” measured these days? Maybe, I really am missing something but as long as I’m feeling so much better, I’ll keep on keto’ing on.

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Finally! My FBG (fasting blood glucose) is back down in the 70s. 76 today.

My FBG been in the 80s and even a few days in the low 90s (yikes!!) since March when I stopped being fully keto-adapted. Just eating low carb isn't enough for me to control my insulin resistance. Maybe if I had caught this earlier, eating low carb under 100 grams a day would have kept me healthy. Now I have to be very strict and keep carbs under 30 grams and stay keto-adapted. Not that I mind. Once I get in the rhythm of being keto-adapted I feel so much better!! Yes, it's difficult to eat out at restaurants with friends and wine is off my menu but feeling better wins out over that.

I wish doctors would get on board and have their overweight metabolic syndrome patients start monitoring their own daily glucose levels to put their BG in check before it gets to the damaging levels of pre-diabetes and diabetes. Once blood sugar (glucose) stays consistently high, blood vessel scarring begins to occur and that compromises blood supply to organs, and then, well, it'a not a pretty spiral downwards from there. Once a year fasting blood glucose testing at an annual exam is not enough once a person shows the obvious sign of metabolic syndrome - the large circumference of the abdomen (over 35 inches) paired with high blood pressure and high cholesterol numbers. I'm fairly certain these added symptoms I had were also related to my underlying insulin resistant problem: frequent migraines, inflammation, gassy bloated stomach, slow healing of wounds, and chronic fatigue. These went away with the control of my blood sugar and they started to come right back last month when my blood sugar levels started creeping back upwards. Noooooo Not going there again.

Amazon sells a Freestyle Freedom Lite monitor that comes with a starter set of test strips and lancets for about $12. ->link to monitor on Amazon Haha, I just saw that you can even order it with gift wrap! A treat for yourself!

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Measuring glucose and ketones

Wow. My body seems to be quickly bouncing back. On the second morning after my disneyland chocolate fudge sugar rush, my fasting morning ketones are already at 0.6, up from 0.2, and fasting blood glucose has dropped from 101 to 85. And in the last three days, I've dropped 3 pounds from 151.2 Saturday morning to 148.2 pounds today (Tuesday)! woohoo!! It's not dropped fat though yet - it is weight dropped from my water and glycogen storage as I get back into a state of keto-adapted.

Value ranges over the last 3 days:

ketones: 0.2 -> 0.6

fasting glucose: 101 -> 85

weight: 151.2 -> 148.2

At first, when my incoming glucose levels are going down because I'm eating less carbs, there is still some glucose available from what was stored away in the liver. My brain will run off of both ketones and that stored glucose. My muscles will run off of the ketones and leave the glucose for the brain. That's the early stage of ketosis I'm in today.

When measurements of ketones are higher and the blood glucose is lower, it shows that the glucose storage has been largely used up and the liver is cranking up the ketone production to meet the brain's daily requirements of fuel. At this point, without enough glucose available for the brain to run on, either from incoming carbs or from what was stored, the brain greedily grabs the the ketones for itself. The muscles will now turn to circulating fatty acids for fuel. Fat- burning! (fatty acid catabolism)

I measure my fasting blood glucose along with my ketones levels so I can see when this shift into full keto-adaption happens. For me it occurs when my fasting blood glucose is in the low 70s and my ketone B-OHB levels are around 1.8.

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