baskington's Journal, 02 October 2018

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with the blood meter readings of low glucose at morning fasting level and glucose dropping near the end of the day 3pm, it seems that part of what I have been feeling is all about my blood sugar. This may answer a lot of my concerns about weird symptoms I have had for years. This is not something new for me, just unknown what it was all about. I work up at 2;30 again even though I overate last night. I was so excited about finding a possible cause that I did not pay attention to how much I was eating. I was a little over my calories for the day. The calories did not last past the 9 hour mark and I needless to say woke up needing water and could not get back to sleep.

I ate almost immediately this morning. I did not feel bad but I knew my blood sugar was low. 45 minutes later I checked my glucose and ketones. 4.2 glucose and 1.9 ketones. It takes an hour after I eat to get the full raise on my blood sugar. over the coarse of the next 6 hours I expect it to level out and stay in the 4.5 to 4.9 range. I am definitely and have been in ketosis for a long while and I would think my keytones should be feeding my body and not have these things going on. Exercise in the past has normally made me feel better with these symptoms. Today I am going to make sure I eat within my normal preferred times. I like to eat at 3pm at the latest and it seems that is the time my blood level drops from breakfast. then make sure I have a good sized snack before bed to carry me through the night.

Tomarrow If I have a good night, I will experiment with exercise before breakfast and see if that pushed my body to use the ketones. Past experience with feeling better after exercise to be explored with science!

Diet Calendar Entries for 02 October 2018:

1246 kcal

Fat: 94.13g | Prot: 99.92g | Carb: 2.19g. Breakfast: Farmhouse Cage Free Brown Eggs, Aldi Ribeye Steak, Organic Valley Heavy Whipping Cream, Coffee. Lunch: Aldi Ribeye Steak. Dinner: Beef Fat, Publix Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs, La Victoria Salsa Brava Hot Taco Sauce. more...

1581 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Bicycling (very fast) - 17.5/mph - 16 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 44 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...

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What happens if exercise doesn’t bring the ketones up? Would you have to add in a little processed sugar to get it up at times when it generally falls too low? Can that be done and keep you in ketosis? In school I would feel faint weak and get the shakes. A nice lady my friend and I would stop to visit was diabetic. She checked me once and said I was low normal and I had a snickers about an hour before and was drinking a coke at the time. She was under the impression that I probably had low blood sugar. I never checked into it then as we didn’t have insurance and if I have issues now I just eat something. My blood tests always show 94-99 when I’ve only had coffee with Splenda and mostly when I had a coke. Once was 104 after I’d eaten before. Effects on blood sugar interest me 🙂.

02 Oct 18 by member: peeperjj

Blood sugar spikes are very interesting. There's a lot of variations (which shows just how differently each of our bodies react to food). I haven't tested mine very often. Mostly ketones. I couldn't map out a set pattern at all. Up and down within the same 2.5-4.5 range almost the entire time I was testing. I got really sick of poking myself LOL

02 Oct 18 by member: CrashtestDawnie

I really think you are on to something with this. That is why I measure my blood sugar.

02 Oct 18 by member: adefwebserver

Dawnie, my BG meter generally shows a range of 75 to 100, what scale is your calibrated to that you get readings 4.2 to 4.9? When I test for ketones, I also test BG so I only do one "poke" (two different strips, same meter).

02 Oct 18 by member: gz9gjg

Mool/l versus mg/dl My ketones are 2.5-4.5 but the bs was 3.6-5 (high 60s to high 90s).

02 Oct 18 by member: CrashtestDawnie

My bs is much lower and much more steady now than when I first tested after eating when I started keto (before I started fasting). I think that shows how much healing I have accomplished.

02 Oct 18 by member: CrashtestDawnie

Sure hope you find something that helps you get a good night's sleep on a consistent basis! Have fun with your science!!

02 Oct 18 by member: nikeit

Peerperjj I just eat. it takes about 40 minutes for the food to take care of it and now that I know about it I can eat to offset the effect. I felt better after exercise today but needed to eat earlier. I ate lighter this morning and knew I was probably going to need to eat earlier so I was prepared. I waited until a couple hours after exercise and tested my blood and it was going down again. lit the grill and 10 minutes later I was eating. I could have some emergency stash for when I miss it. this is all new to me.