So instead of checking my keto blood level have switched (or alternated) to checking my sugar level. I found this chart online (below) I have a question… I eat no sugar right, right… and am strict keto for the most part. My glucose level is normally 90-105… this chart says that’s super bad… sooooooooooo what do I do?
The only thing i had this morning was my bpc my sugars are 100 right now… any help would be appreciated to make me understand this a bit better
How do you check your sugar level ? I would like to know so I can do this as well lol
Your chart is inaccurate. It even says 65-90 is the fasting range and then says we should aim to be in that range 24/7. Well, we can’t fast 24/7. 90-115 is not too high. It might be too high on keto if the person also had a normal range of 65-90 and it suddenly spiked to 115. Personally, I think you’re fine. What matters more is how quickly your blood glucose goes down and whether it goes way above your normal after eating something. Way above normal (probably 130 or more for you) would be a sign of something causing a glucose response. And, coming down from that level multiple hours later would be insulin resistance.
This paradigm just isn’t valid. For most people, being above 115 means you likely ate something with a glycemic affect. But it could also mean you exercised heavily anaerobically. Or it means you have dawn phenomenon or are experiencing glucose sparing if its in the morning. I’d trash 100down.org chart.
Blood glucose is checked with a glucometer or blood glucose meter like diabetics use.
I stay around 95 - 98 while fasted. I think that’s normal since we’re burning fat and releasing sugars in the process.
My 10 hour fasted blood sugar used to be around 120 mg/dl. After a year of keto it dropped to about 95 mg/dl. After nearly another year it now is typically 65 to 85 mg/dl depending on my state of glycogen depletion. Fasting has been the most potent thing for bringing my blood sugar down. Even when my blood sugar was over 100 after 10 hours of fasting it would continue to drop over the first 4 or 5 days of a fast until it would be in the low 60s. And after each extended fast it would settle in at a slightly lower baseline. I expect that weight loss just through keto without fasting probably achieves the same thing. And exercise probably also helps. But I don’t lose weight fast on keto alone and I don’t exercise enough to produce the quick noticeable change in the way that fasting did.
My carb tolerance is improving more slowly and is still fairly low. When my blood sugar is down around 60 mg/dl I can eat 50 g of carbs in a meal and stay below 100 mg/dl. But when it is at 80 mg/dl that much carbs will shoot me up to 130+ mg/dl for a couple hours or more unless I exercise heavily.
My fasting blood sugar and carb tolerance both seem to be impacted by the amount of protein I eat. I have about 50 kg lean body mass and when I was eating in a more recommended protein range of 60-80 g daily both were noticeably better than they are now while eating ~140 g protein daily and using whey concentrate.
Thanks Ethan, I was stumped like what the heck am i doing wrong.
