Monthly Body Scan Data
qweck3
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Each month I go for a body scan so I can monitor my true progress on keto beyond the bathroom scale. I believe it is important to share this data because the at home scale cannot give a true breakdown of how a person is doing. If you feel down about your progress please never forget that lean mass could be replacing body fat and that isn’t a bad thing.
Important changes in the month of September:
Calorie target: 2221 (I do not generally eat back workout calories and am fat adapted. (Calorie needs/confirmation of being fat adapted determined using RMR testing)
Weekly Exercise: 2 days of Crossfit / 2 days of Power Hot Yoga / 1 day of Yin/Light Yoga
Protein/Fat Macros were set to 45%
Carbs increased to 10% of my diet (56g)
Net carbs averaged around 35g-40g per day
9/1 Body Fat %: 33.16
9/29 Body Fat%: 32.58
Loss: 0.6% Body Fat
9/1 Body Fat Weight: 81.2
9/29 Body Fat Weight: 78.9
Loss: 2.3 Pounds
9/1 Total Weight: 244.9
9/29 Total Weight: 242.2
Loss: 2.7 Pounds
My lean mass only went down 0.4 pounds which is critical as I want this to be in gain to replace the fat or at least minimal in loss which it was this month.
2.7 (Scale weight loss) – 0.4 (Lean mass loss/not good) – 2.3 (Fat loss) = 85% fat loss / 15% lean loss
I also did my 3-month blood work for the diabetes which showed the best result of all since being diagnosed with Type 2 six years ago. Note: This is on no pills at all for 3 months after starting a protein focused keto.
6/16: 5.7 A1C (Average blood sugar of 117-126) - Pre-diabetes
9/12: 5.1 A1C (Average blood sugar of 100-104) - Normal Blood sugar
Cholesterol is still in a good range even with the slightly higher fats.
Does Keto work for Type 2 diabetics? Yes!!
Important changes in the month of September:
Calorie target: 2221 (I do not generally eat back workout calories and am fat adapted. (Calorie needs/confirmation of being fat adapted determined using RMR testing)
Weekly Exercise: 2 days of Crossfit / 2 days of Power Hot Yoga / 1 day of Yin/Light Yoga
Protein/Fat Macros were set to 45%
Carbs increased to 10% of my diet (56g)
Net carbs averaged around 35g-40g per day
9/1 Body Fat %: 33.16
9/29 Body Fat%: 32.58
Loss: 0.6% Body Fat
9/1 Body Fat Weight: 81.2
9/29 Body Fat Weight: 78.9
Loss: 2.3 Pounds
9/1 Total Weight: 244.9
9/29 Total Weight: 242.2
Loss: 2.7 Pounds
My lean mass only went down 0.4 pounds which is critical as I want this to be in gain to replace the fat or at least minimal in loss which it was this month.
2.7 (Scale weight loss) – 0.4 (Lean mass loss/not good) – 2.3 (Fat loss) = 85% fat loss / 15% lean loss
I also did my 3-month blood work for the diabetes which showed the best result of all since being diagnosed with Type 2 six years ago. Note: This is on no pills at all for 3 months after starting a protein focused keto.
6/16: 5.7 A1C (Average blood sugar of 117-126) - Pre-diabetes
9/12: 5.1 A1C (Average blood sugar of 100-104) - Normal Blood sugar
Cholesterol is still in a good range even with the slightly higher fats.
Does Keto work for Type 2 diabetics? Yes!!
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Thanks for sharing this! I'm a total data nerd and would love to get a scan to monitor progress but I will have to do it a bit later - they seem a bit pricy in my city.1
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Do you have one of the fancy scales that gives you body fat, etc.? I wonder how it compares with the body scan.0
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I have an "advanced" (LOL) home one that gives a few points of data but outside of overall weight it isn't perfectly accurate when compared to the full scan I get monthly at Dexafit. Body fat % is the next closest point within 1-2 percentage points in either direction which alone may not seem like much but it really is. All other data is useless. Kind of my personal gripe with home scales:They truly are a piece of junk that do more harm than good.
In my town (Orlando) these scans cost me 5 a month (prepaid for 54 a year).0 -
I enjoy reading the updates / results0
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I'm glad some like reading the updates. My goal of this is to hopefully encourage people beyond those garbage home scales. I'd rather push someone towards trying on the same tight clothes each week to see real progress than judging their success/failures by some random number on a machine that could not even be level and calibrated correctly. A basic bottle of water alone can add over a pound of weight to the body!
The cross-fit owner at the box I go to was so blown away by the data when I showed it to him that he just purchased one of the machines for his gym. He feels it could be a game changer for his members and others in the Cross-fit community to eat/train more effectively. I'd say eyeball those type of places as the company that makes the machines are targeting crossfit gyms aggressively to put their machines into.0
