Thanks!
The open question is whether strength is an adequate representation of the glucose-sink that skeletal muscle should be.
My moderate research doesn’t connect strength with mass. I don’t see a direct connection between mass and a glucose sink either but it makes more sense to me.
Moderate low fat ~ 13% (men) = hormonal health
High muscle mass = glucose sink
Both support longevity with less disease.
Those are my goals.
The trip was a bit of a dud… we went out for 3 hours hoping for mahi-mahi and caught one barracuda after 2.5hrs… and both girls seasick overboard… and dirty looks from wifey… yay drama!
Still the 3 mins of excitement catching the 4.5’ barracuda was good. It was a nice daddy-daughter bonding experience.
The trip ended in a rain shower until we ran to the hotel room and it stopped… more wifey drama…
In all the excitement, I didn’t measure last night or this morning. Pre-lunch was 87G, 0.3K so I’m going to skip lunch. I’m not super hungry anyway and with a big breakfast and sitting in a boat all morning, I’m fine with it. 
Ok. Still another half day of fun and exercise…
Ok. I lied. I was tempted by a tiny plate of salmon and tuna sashimi…
Like 2 slices each but still… honesty in reporting 
Alright, this is delayed, I found it in the text file I keep all the time for misc. notes and stuff (between fried hardboiled eggs and keto yumyum sauce recipes lol), meant to respond and never did.
@Karim_Wassef
Also - as usual - my lean mass loss is almost exclusively in my legs again. Not glutes, since I’ve been focusing on those, but quads and hams…
It’s like a lie detector test… I haven’t not been doing squats (double negatives are fun) but I haven’t been pushing like the other muscle groups… and the results show it…
Since the lean and fat came from the same place, don’t you think it’s possible that some of that lean was something that needed to be lost? I mean fat doesn’t live alone, you know? It lives with fluid, and protein (fibrous tissue) and so on. So maybe when someone loses fat, especially if the fat is relatively close to the skeleton (because you are so much leaner now), maybe it’s a given they’ll lose some lean but that doesn’t have to mean they only lost it because they did squats but not ENOUGH of them. I feel like you are forcibly correlating the two things together (gosh I didn’t try hard ENOUGH on leg day) (I lost lean mass in my lower body) when in fact one of them (lean mass) may be correlated with something entirely different (fat loss in that region) and NOT actually much related to the first (somewhat less exercise there).
I think I used too many words to say that but I hope it was sensible in the end
Edited to add: just saw another post with a ref from Fung’s book that I think well addressed this:
PJ
That’s my point exactly. Many here are able to gain lean and lose fat simultaneously. I cannot.
Whether I eat high fat keto or high protein keto… the rates change but the relationship is the same… both go up or both come down together.
Dinner was grouper confit
Just the grouper 
After a long day of fishing, horseyback rides and reef snorkeling - and a light sashimi lunch, I am hungry and exhausted… think I’ll call it a night and start fresh tomorrow
That looks like an awesome vacation! May I ask which resort you’re at? I want to run away to there later this year now. I’ve stayed at one of the Secrets properties before and had a good time, but I’m sure there are lots of other good options too!
This is true. But you are taking from this that the lean mass that you are losing is “good mass” that you’d rather keep. Other possibilities are that you have more lean supporting your fat mass than some others do, or that your body is actually doing a more efficient job of ridding you of said supporting lean.
I still haven’t seen anything that supports the notion that increasing glucose sink isn’t first related to strength and only secondarily correlated with any measures of ‘lean mass’. In fact, I can’t even imagine how lean mass, when it includes things like the protein matrix of fat cells and blood vessels that support fat, could be anything but secondarily correlated with the amount of glucose sink.
Secrets is right next door but it’s for adults only…
We’re at the Akumal Bay Resort. It’s all inclusive and decent value if you buy early enough.
We don’t know and I can’t find evidence.
My hypothesis is based on “more mass” = needs “more energy”. In fact, more strength may indicate a superior efficiency in using the available mass = more efficient energy usage = less glucose sink… maybe.
As far as good lean mass vs bad lean mass… again unknown… I’m not paying for an MRI to find out but I’ll keep trying to improve my numbers. Eventually the bad lean should go away enough.
Ok… off to the reef and kiddos
You’d think that with a view like this:
That I’d have low glucose… but it seems both stress and excitement have a high glucose effect.
Good to know… also catching teeny tiny fish from the sargassum… there’s baby puffers and jacks and more… so exciting with the kiddos
We put them in the red bucket for videos then we let them go.
It’s a series of nice resorts, usually adults only…
But you’d go to the dark side as usual 
It’s the 6th day in Cancun and I’m still not burning.
I will say that my skin is starting to tingle though… I think it’s the food here. I’m still keto but they use oil in everything and I’m pretty sure It’s PUFA…
I’m using a cooling gel but I might have to start wearing protection if it gets worse.
Today’s meals… I am trying for high protein but it’s not easy while traveling
Breakfast was my three eggs, a cheese and meats omelette (3 eggs) and two scoops of scrambled eggs (2?) with blue cheese and chorizo sausage + smoked salmon and fish roe (2 spoons).
Lunch was calamari and mayo with 2 hamburgers and cheese
Dinner was an octopus appetizer and pork loin main
I feel like I’ve been cheating all week. I’ve been keto and carnivore but eating three times a day…
I can’t get my weight or composition accurately… but my weight has been pretty stable between 78 and 79kg ~ 172lbs to 174lbs…
My glucose has been anywhere from 74 to 100G and ketones from 0.2 to 0.6K…
Every day, they offer dessert and my girls pick chocolate and ice cream. Wifey is good some days but goes for coconut ice cream and chocolate fondant other nights…
I’ve been very good- no desserts but I have to admit that it’s wearing me down to be offered sugar and pasties daily.
I have a jar of egg whites waiting at home for me to make keto macaroons and meringues so that’s holding me together…
