{"id":7698,"date":"2020-12-27T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T04:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2022-12-18T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T05:14:42","slug":"2020-annual-food-for-thoughts-cyclical-ketoif-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/2020-annual-food-for-thoughts-cyclical-ketoif-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Annual Food For Thoughts: Cyclical Keto+IF (1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
DISCLAIMER
\nYou are reading someone else\u2019s in-depth account\/s of nutritional & life intervention\/s spanning across ONE YEAR. Covering everything from nutrition, psychology, supplementation and fitness training. All intertwined into both socio-economical and self-scientific (explorative) perspective. This is NOT a light reading. Don\u2019t like it? Then go somewhere else.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n

A summary.<\/h1>\n

I am unable to write this extensively as intended because of so many overlapping obligatories. From the very recent completion of\u00a0Self Enquiry Journalling tool for 2021<\/a>. Then there's the strain from more academia studying. Which that interestingly brought me some 60+ hours work towards\u00a0re-branding<\/strong>\u00a0contemplation<\/a>. Then there's my next book\u00a0<\/a>and the Youtube channel<\/a>. The latter despite reaching thousandth of hour still somehow remains invisible.<\/p>\n

Besides, there's my five-year anniversary writeup . This may not interests you. Sooner or later, everyone has their own contemplative \"deadlines\". This is no different ~five years of lone work. Beyond \"work\".<\/p>\n

At least, I'm glad having done the three laborious\u00a0presentations on expired<\/strong>\u00a0food guide + experiences.<\/a>\u00a0Unpretentious, yet deep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

COVID19: opportunities for more Intermittent Fasting challenges<\/h3>\n

This year <\/span>allowed me tinkering with longer days of IF. Whilst surviving the lowest glucose reading in recent memory<\/span><\/span>. Though my \"sentiments\" on high vs low readings is far from black or white<\/strong> (more on this later).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Occasional 26-27 hour fasting windows, and no full day of eating refeed attempts <\/strong>were indeed passable.<\/strong>\u00a0Gratifying? Yes. Meaningful? Yes. But do I \"feel good\"? Subjective<\/strong>. Hunger levels were indeed slightly more apprehensive and anxious. But once nearing towards my sleeping hours ~ such concerns were certainly behind me.<\/p>\n

As we get to discuss later down in the \"training\" section - the pandemic certainly teaches one how to be productive elsewhere. TLDR; resistance bands has now become a permanent accessory into all my proper (volume depletion) training days.<\/p>\n

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For the non believers ~ these are 2 tests done 4 minutes apart.<\/p><\/div>\n

Survived the lowest Glucose reading. But higher amidst hotter seasons if less mineral accessory supplementations.<\/h3>\n

It seems I got over the lowest glucose reading so far on record =\u00a02.7 MMOL<\/strong>. This was when things were at the busiest mentally and physically as I slowly returned to full training after a second (mandatory break) due to switching gym\/s. The above shows unretouched, grime and dirty original shots as they were; including the Pentax\u00ae original DNG timestamps.<\/p>\n

What I learned from all this is to neither glamorise nor condemn ~ low glucose readings. I am slightly more confident now that low does not always equate \"better\" livelihood. Particularly fitness training episodes. 4 to 4.5 MMOL at least half hour before training seemed to be<\/strong> the most \"reasonable\" at maintaining able, rigorous productivity. That is: exhausted, no-time-to-talk, average rating of 6-7 out of ten on the RPE scale across a 250+ repetition volume depletion. \u00a0Lower than 4?<\/strong> Expect me very<\/strong><\/em> struggling on compound exercises without \u00a0ligaments or resistance joints pains. Even amidst supposedly lower-back \"friendly\" trap bar deadlifts.<\/p>\n

There are however, two things I have learned thus far on interpreting fasted glucose readings.<\/p>\n

Firstly a pattern of conviction on\u00a0higher readings amidst hot seasons<\/strong>. Current consensus<\/a>, as well as general literatures<\/a> ~ suggest that\u00a0lower<\/strong> readings seemingly occur only at summer weathers<\/a>, yet lower on winters. Close to two years now ~ for reasons still unknown ~ I frequently seem to experience the opposite.<\/p>\n