Deep Ketosis

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Today I made Saurer Kraut, there are tons of benefits from eating fermented foods, but you should make them yourself. I don't know of any store-bought fermented food that isn't processes, chemicals added, sugars added, and the good bacteria killed in the process. Not too difficult to go to a farmers' market and pick some veggies up to ferment. You can learn how just by watching YouTube while you walk on the treadmill. I will have to make it a weekly habit on Sunday to make a batch since it takes 4 weeks to ferment. My plan is to eat a 1/2 cup everyday PLUS I really love the taste ❤

Good morning, so today I will start what I started yesterday !!! Trying to do a deep dive into Vitamin D3. So, there has been a lot of studies on high doses of vit d in the early 1900's and some even more recent, high dose is actually just an opinion I guess. So far what I have seen is when taking Vit D the dangers associated with high doses is the buildup of calcium in the blood, but if the K2 (MK7) is in a certain ratio it is absorbed correctly along with magnesium, and boron. From National Library of Medicine

This is interesting, but there were studies in the 1920's that I want to read about also

Feeling good but I feel like pushing this hard for 5 to 10 days so I think I might go to 3pds 90/10 ground beef and see how my body reacts and if it pushes my fat loss further!!! I'll start in 3 days because I have food already prepped.

Yes, I do realize energy in energy out, but protein is a *kitten* energy source and has a high TEF.

But my thought is if I consume 2 meals a day of 80/20 ground beef at 500 grams per meal for let's say 10 days, then 85/15 for 5 and 90/10 for 5, each one set at the same weight/volume of ground beef ie 500 grams.

Then you would have a caloric deference, plus if your calories are low for too many days, it may affect the metabolism and keep it going and if it does, I can make adjustments and change my course of action. Lossing mass affects the metabolism, but I will continue to track my body weight and composition so after the lean days go back to 80/20 or the equal amounts of macros and calories and see how my body adjust. So similar idea to a PSMF or just a fast one day a week.

The body can make all the glucose it needs

Woke up, jump out of bed feeling amazing again. Workouts have been great just going in with the mindset of crushing every set. Mindset is a huge part of it. I was for the last almost 3 months drinking LMNT during my workouts for the electrolytes and the sweet taste which does trigger a glucose response from the liver during exercise, there is an interesting study on exercise, low carb and depletion of muscle glycogen where they allow the person so swoosh around a sweet tasting substance in their mouth then spit it out. But the last 10 days I have just been doing salt water, Celtic salt and feeling great. Thinking about this and how much I am enjoying this challenge and really, it's not a challenge if you understand but my whole mostly, I have set goals and challenge and have faced adversity like so many other people have, I have never been able to quit when I was young, so they transferred well into adulthood. Now sitting back at almost 50 yrs on this earth and looking and hearing/reading about celebrities or millionaires and how they turn to drugs (Alcohol is a drug) and prescribed drugs to make them feel good, and the self-destructive behaviors and I think maybe it's because they aren't facing real adversity I'm sure for most of them to get to where they are was a challenge but once you are on top of that mountain you wanted to climb, then what, sit down enjoy the view. You need we need new mountains to climb so we get out of bed in the morning. Again, we all face challenges it's our mindset that determines the outcome. Accept and embrace that challenge and kick its butt.

PSMF is basically what I will start doing. After ready about some coaches using, it and seeing so result videos and I just finished a podcast on one where the 2 coaches use it in their practice. They have their clients do 1 day sometimes 3. The weekly overall caloric intake is what they are looking for and there has been some that did it 21 days straight. Lyle McDonnald wrote some very interesting articles and 2 books on it.

Here it is…I'm sure this will not be to shocking. So, I estimate conservatively my TDEE is around 3000 calories, and yes, I think calories is a good foundation or starting point even when doing Keto or carnivore I know some people say they don't count or we aren't combustion engines, but it is what we have as a measuring tool and if we can measure and track we can make changes. Moving on, my weekly calories work out to be 21,000, so some days I eat more somedays I eat less. Kind of like that whole tree and forest thing. So, in 1958 a scientist Max Wishnofsky is the one who came up with the idea of reducing calories by 500 a day for a week and losing a pd of fat/weight equaling 3500, which he was pretty right and with fat, 454 grams equaling a pound equaling 4100 calories, the thing is a fat cell is made up of more than just fat and not all the fat is used. His theory works but you end up painting yourself into a corner because your body is always trying to get to homeostasis and if you keep reduce calories you end up under fed or starved or not eating anything eventually. The idea of calorie cycling, carb cycling and/or PSMF is you eat around your maintenance calories for 3 days and on the fourth day go to 1500 and repeat this cycle again and that is where you get your calorie or energy reduction that the body has to make up for by releasing fat to be used. Now this can be done in multiple different ways and multiple different theories of how and why you do this. The way I will do this is by regulating the leanness of the meat I eat or by how much butter/fat I add.