A quick google images search shows some variation - like everything that gets measured and interpreted.
Some show nutritional ketosis beginning from anything over 0, others from 0.3 or 0.5. Optimal from about 1 to 1.5. Optimal doesn’t mean it’s not happening at all below this though just not as efficiently perhaps.
Is the goal weight loss of bgl control (or both)?
Basically I’ve always struggled to low carb and work because every few weeks I would feel rotten for about a week, no energy etc. So when working id end up eating things I shouldn’t to get me through the day.
Not horrendous things but things that weren’t overly perfect.
I figured it was probably that every few weeks my overall sugars in my body would drop, my body would have a hissy fir at the lower sugars and do everything it can to get me to put them back up. The one thing that will get me to eat something I shouldn’t is making me feel ill if I’m working.
So during this lockdown I thought, this is the perfect time to really force things down. If I feel rotten it doesn’t matter because I’m home.
I also know that weight doesn’t help diabetes so wanted to lose weight anc well nothing works so thought going strict and going into ketosis might help. That’s why I started the intermittent fasting. So sugars were first then weight.
so basically yes I have put myself under time pressure because I should be back at work on the 12 April and do I wanted it sorted by then, so I would have those weeks where I struggled and felt rotten because my sugars were already down.
hence why I was so disappointed last week because I’m going to be going back to work having failed to reach that point.
So possibly going to go back to having times where I feel lousy and struggling to do the hours I need to do.
having said that, having now been so strict although I didn’t like the food as it was so plain and Samey, I did feel better, I slept a lot better.
but it needs to be sustainable and I think to be honest the restrictiveness really played into old eating problems so it was all or nothing. So need to be careful with that.
so that’s why I think I struggle now with getting my head around increasing carbs but having a varied diet. Also because I’m very much a throw in ingredients rather than a weigh and measure everything kind of person. I knew exactly what I ate before as it was the same. Mixing it up means being far more methodical and careful.
so in terms of why I chose to be strict it was to do with both. Because both are linked. But overall the priority was my sugars to see if I could get them to a level where my body wouldn’t punish me every so often because it decided it wants sugar.
but in terms of going back to work and not getting sucked into the restrictiveness etc and be able to sustain this for longer I need to go a bit higher.
I’m also very anxious about going back to work and trying to do all this food stuff well and work etc. I am very much a home person and so being in lockdown is fine for me. It’s the going back to work that causes the problems
map sorry yes mainly sugars to get rid of the feeling lousy but weight as well so I feel better in clothes and feel fitter