Lesson Learned on Carbs

(Hugh Walter Jennings) #1

Started my day with a blood ketone reading of .3 mmol.

Wasn’t expecting that but I think I know what I did. I’m becoming addicted to natural peanut butter. Yesterday after work I went to Trader Joe’s to stock up on Valencia peanut butter.

Ate a bit more that 3/4 jar from around 4:30 pm - 10:30 pm. Also ate a bag of riced cauliflower with garlic powder and EVOO.

I walked 11,000 plus steps yesterday.
I’m guessing the carbs did it.

I’ll fast today. Also hit the treadmill for a couple of 25 min sessions as well as a full body w/o on my old Health Rider. Pretty useful machine.

A friend gave me one. After I found out what they sell for I offered him a hundred bucks and he declined. Every once in awhile you’ll see one at the yard sale on the cheap. Not my video but the best one I’ve seen.

Edit : just checked again. Blood ketones .06

(Cathy) #2

So it appears from your post that you are/were hypoglycemic. From what I understand, your blood glucose is low… very low. Are you diabetic. Are you in touch with health care? I hope you are ok. Maybe I am misunderstanding your situation?

(Brian) #3

I confess, I was puzzled by the post. It sounded more like binge eating being more of a problem than anything. 3/4 of a jar of peanut butter is a lot of peanut butter. I eat a little but not large amounts of it. Same with riced cauliflower. For me, neither of those are stand-alone foods but rather something more resembling a condiment or side dish.

But I might have missed something. I know I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer…

(Bob M) #4

Nuts are one of those things that many people have problems with. They are easy to overeat. I avoided them for years because of that. A “serving” of nuts for me was multiple handfuls. But that is the case with bacon, too, for me: I can eat bacon and eat it and eat it…

I have learned to eat fewer nuts when I do eat them, but it’s taken a long time.