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Ketosis and Liver Dumps

borofergie

borofergie

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So, three weeks into my ULC experiment (I'm trying not to eat any carbs, apart from those that come in salad dressings, a small bit of ketchup and any veg that I eat), and things are going wonderfully: I'm never hungry, my BG never goes above 6mmol/l, I'm losing weight every day and my ketostix are turning a lovely shade of purple.

I have one big question though:
All of the Atkins induction stuff warns you about eating enough carbs to knock you out of ketosis (Steve Phinney reckons that it can take 5-7 days to recover from a small carbohydrate snacking incident). But how come when I came back from running yesterday, my BG was suddenly at 9mmol/l, obviously as a result of a huge liver dump. Won't this knock me out of ketosis too? Isn't releasing that amount of glucose into my blood exactly the same as me socffing down a mars bar and some chocolate hobnobs?
 
Hey Stephen

That's a very good question. When it happened to me a while back (went from low 3's to 7.something in 10 minutes) I noticed I was back down in the 5's again within another 20 min or so. I wonder if it is your muscles soaking it up as presumably its them that are in need of the energy at that point? Alternatively have no idea! Are you still peeing purple?
 
xyzzy said:
That's a very good question. When it happened to me a while back (went from low 3's to 7.something in 10 minutes) I noticed I was back down in the 5's again within another 20 min or so. I wonder if it is your muscles soaking it up as presumably its them that are in need of the energy at that point? Alternatively have no idea! Are you still peeing purple?
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It's hard to tell xyzzy - it was very purple last night (my run was at 9am), but back to beige today.
Ketostix are very tricky though, eats easy to flush the keytones out by drinking too much liquid.

You're probably right that the increased BG is soaked up quickly after high-intensity exercise, however it must have provoked an insulin response to do that, which is what I was trying to avoid.
 
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