Just returned from a 3 night camping trip with friends as part of Australia Day celebrations. It’s rough camping with no facilities. We all carry our own fridges, water etc. It’s Australia so alcohol is mandatory.
I packed carnivore for the 4 days plus quite a bit of red wine (4 bottles over 3 nights - Hey! it was a celebration).
All I took was roast chicken, boiled eggs, salami and cream cheese…and wine.
Consumed the most wine on the last night (1.75 bottles over 6+ hours). Yes. I was “maggoted.”
When I arrived home about 1:30PM today after having had roast chicken, a boiled egg and cream cheese at midday, my blood ketones were 2.1 and BG 5.3.
I realise ethanol is “burned” first as it is a toxin and must be dealt with as a metabolic emergency, but I was surprised BHOB was at 2.1 given that wine has a few carbs (particularly when consumed in that quantity), plus the ethanol intake should stall ketosis, shouldn’t it?
Here are my questions;
How long (sleeping) would it take to deal with the ethanol and the carbs from that 1.75 bottles (1.3 litres) of red wine over 6 hours? Must ketosis necessarily be stalled during this metabolic emergency? If BHOB is running around 2, how low is it likely to fall during this “emergency”. It doesn’t seem right that I can cut the wine off at 11:00PM and have BHOB of 2.1 at 1:30PM the next day having only eaten 90 minutes prior to that reading.
I’m not complaining. I think it’s great, but do others “recover” a ketotic state this quickly?