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<blockquote data-quote="ziggy_w" data-source="post: 1560032" data-attributes="member: 323454"><p>Hi [USER=94045]@Bluetit1802[/USER],</p><p></p><p>You are right -- having higher fasting blood sugar levels shouldn't be too much of a problem. Btw, another explanation for higher fasting levels on a ketogenic diet is that the muscles become insulin resistant to spare the glucose for essential processes, which absolutely require glucose (brain and production of red blood cells if I remember correctly).</p><p></p><p>What worries me a bit, though, is that when my fasting levels are higher, my glucose levels are higher all day. So, today after having only about 10 really small strawberries with cream, I saw absolute blood sugars that were higher than any reading in the previous three months, even though the absolute rise was not higher than usual. Honestly, this scares me a bit.</p><p></p><p>In the pursuit of lower ketone levels, I had a lot of protein for dinner tonight. I actually had to physically force myself to eat so much protein -- and it really wasn't enjoyable. I did measure my ketone levels a couple of hours after dinner and they decreased considerably to something between trace amounts and weak ketone levels. At a minimum, this puts my mind at rest that my ketone levels are only high after fasting or doing strenuous exercise (i.e., when my body is not producing insulin). </p><p></p><p>However, I still wonder why my urine ketones are this high after almost two years on ketogenic diet -- since many low carbers seem to observe that ketones in urine virtually disappear after keto-adaptation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ziggy_w, post: 1560032, member: 323454"] Hi [USER=94045]@Bluetit1802[/USER], You are right -- having higher fasting blood sugar levels shouldn't be too much of a problem. Btw, another explanation for higher fasting levels on a ketogenic diet is that the muscles become insulin resistant to spare the glucose for essential processes, which absolutely require glucose (brain and production of red blood cells if I remember correctly). What worries me a bit, though, is that when my fasting levels are higher, my glucose levels are higher all day. So, today after having only about 10 really small strawberries with cream, I saw absolute blood sugars that were higher than any reading in the previous three months, even though the absolute rise was not higher than usual. Honestly, this scares me a bit. In the pursuit of lower ketone levels, I had a lot of protein for dinner tonight. I actually had to physically force myself to eat so much protein -- and it really wasn't enjoyable. I did measure my ketone levels a couple of hours after dinner and they decreased considerably to something between trace amounts and weak ketone levels. At a minimum, this puts my mind at rest that my ketone levels are only high after fasting or doing strenuous exercise (i.e., when my body is not producing insulin). However, I still wonder why my urine ketones are this high after almost two years on ketogenic diet -- since many low carbers seem to observe that ketones in urine virtually disappear after keto-adaptation. [/QUOTE]
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