So again, as you mentioned as upset, I've given you great feedback. You
do a lot of really good work in terms of remaining disciplined and in fact
decided you needed to back off a little bit on the keto diet. You want to share
share why you did that, while you needed to back up a little bit?
Yeah, I mean two reasons. The first reason. So I went from a keto diet along like I
ever come into just and that's where I had the kind of the lean mass hyper
responder response like just crazy numbers. Not so crazy when you look into
lean mass hyper responders. So what I did is, with your blessing, I changed it
more or less that. Kind of a Mediterranean keto diet where I got the
majority of my fats from avocado, nut, olive oil, and stuff like that. And
meanwhile, I went on some medications as well. So I I did start taking a statin uh
ten milligrams of rosuvastatin and started doing the niacin supplements
as well. And that brought my numbers way down like significant but still not within
you know where I wanted to be. And so I ended up modifying even a
little bit more, like eliminating coffee and things like that. But I got away from
the full fat, full... very full saturated diet of keto, and we did the
Mediterranean. And then when I eliminated some of the like outlined stuff and
maybe it just took that long for it to take effect but the coffee and whatnot,
it went down to pretty reasonable numbers. And then that being said, I was
super happy with the numbers that I ended up with. In fact, I can look
him up real closer. There's 141 total HDL was 56 tri's for 85 and LDL was 68. And
that was phenomenal, best numbers I've ever gotten in my life. And so I was
pretty resolved to stay on the Mediterranean keto as I call it.
That being said, I got sick of avocado, and I got sick of olive oil, and I ended
up super hypoglycemic one morning to the point where my wife almost called the
ambulance because I was losing parts of my vision and I was trembling. My hands
are shaking so bad that I couldn't control him. I was starting to get seen I
wasn't making a lot of friends and gratefully my wife is a health coach
what search for Humana and she recognized I
have so called all my ketones very closely but it was a glucose glucometer
as well. And so I checked my glucose, it was down 48 I think. And anyway, long story
short, I had a bowl of ice cream inside o maxi felt on top the world in about 15
minutes and from that point on, I... you know like... I realized that I as much
discipline as I have, I couldn't sustain the keto diet the way I was
doing it, you know as a heavenly mess I were stronger so very integrated back
into slow carbs and whatnot my oatmeal and fruit and brown rice and sweet
potato things like that nowadays. How many carbs per day would you say
you are on what you're calling the Mediterranean keto? When I was on the
Mediterranean keto, it's like standard low 60. Okay, yeah, so I did, and I was using
that app carb manager and so I was aware that you know I was still staying
very much in ketosis and my millimoles were right around like
usually between 2.7 and 3.5 or so of ketones.
But my blood sugar never had much of an issue. But once, I didn't have enough
carbs and I didn't have enough fat and I had burnt off pretty much every ounce of
fat that I had and obviously I don't have a lot to lose anyway, I think that
my body just didn't know what to do with itself from an energy perspective and
my glucose monitor had one night and it was a kind of a slow process. When I
look back, it was probably two weeks of low low glucose levels. I just didn't
realize it and you know I saw I'm sick to my stomach with RJ or a bunch of
different things. So anyway, so nowadays, for the last I don't know a month and a
half or no more than that by three months, I've been doing just kind of like
so garbage and I still don't have a lot of sugar in my diet, you know, no soft
range or anything like that and no white breads, the processed food, all that but
definitely way more carbs than I did when I was doing keto.
So but you say way more a lot of people called very low-carb down around 50 or
even a hundred. So you're still all the carb compared to the low that underlines
the discipline that you bring to your lifestyle you know. Again, you've
shared great information and as you and I've discussed, this is information
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