Here is the 10th week update on my fat ratio experiment.
68%F/32%P 80%F/20%P 80%F/20%P 80%F/20%P
Baseline 21 Days 42 Days 70 Days
BG Daily Avg 106 94 92 87
BG Hi/Low Range 90/120 92/103 80/100 71/98
BG rise after meal 25 10 6 12
Urine Ketones 0-Trace SM/Lg Trace/Mod Large+
Resting Heart Rt 58 63 60 59
Weight 162 159 165 160
BMI 21.4 21.0 21.8 21.1
%Body Fat(calipers) 11.0 12.3 13.9 10.8
BP 110/70 105/67 98/63 103/65
Average Daily BG has dropped a good bit to 87. The daily BG high/low range has expanded from a 20 point swing 28 days ago (80/100) to a 27 point swing (71/98). The good part (I hope) is that the over all numbers are lower. I hope this holds I’ve noticed over the last couple of days that BG is staying in the mid 70’s range during the day until I eat my meal and then it usually rises into the high 80s but did reach 98 once. The rise in BG after a meal dropped during the last period but has risen again and is now about 12 points or so, up from the previous 6. For the past couple of days my BG has been in the mid 70’s upon arising and surprisingly it has stayed there much of the day until I eat my meal in the late afternoon and then it rises into the mid to high 80’s.
Urine Ketones were previously running between level 1 and level 2 throughout the day. Now they are maxed out at level 4+ throughout the day and have been at this level for most of the 4 week period. Not sure what this means. Average BG has dropped over the last 4 weeks but ketones have sky rocketed. I now think it’s pretty clear that I’m not using them to any real extent to fuel muscle activity, especially since I don’t see a drop after jogging.
Resting heart rate has dropped slightly over the last 4 weeks from 60 to 59. This may have been helped by the jogging I started several weeks ago. BP is pretty stable. The overall average this period was about 103/65. It varies from 90/60 to 115/70 or so.
Weight was a real yo-yo this period. I had a 6 day period where I was unable to eat my normal food and had to do my best on cafeteria fare. I ate mostly breakfast foods – eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, and a little cheese. I drenched everything in as much butter as possible to try to assure that the fat was very high. The effect of the week was significant water retention to the point that my ankles swelled up to about 3 times their normal size. They were so swollen that I could feel the skin stretching – very uncomfortable. I’m glad to report that after a full week back on my normal diet of grass-fed beef, everything has returned to normal and I’ve even lost weight from last period down to 160 from 165. Caliper measurements show that much of this weight was body fat which dropped from 13.91% to 10.8 this period which is a 3.1% decrease. Could it be that I was losing body fat during the week that I was gaining water weight from the less than optimum diet? Surely I couldn't have burned away 5 lbs of fat in 7 days, there just wasn't that much difference lifestyle to cause such reduction and much of the weight lost over the last week had to be water from the edema. I guess the added activity of jogging must also be contributing to the overall reduction of weight and fat as this has been an increase of actvitity for about 3 weeks which could account for significant additional fat loss.
Original Caliper measurements were Chest 6mm, Abdomen 10mm, Thigh 11mm
Caliper measurements at 21 days Chest 8mm, Abdomen 12mm, Thigh 11mm
Caliper measurements at 42 days Chest 9mm, Abdomen 14mm, Thigh 13mm
Caliper measurements at 70 days Chest 6mm, Abdomen 8mm, Thigh 12mm
As you can see things are still very dynamic. I was hoping that increasing my activity level by jogging would shake things up and it seems to have done just that. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Lex
