On my way up this morning I passed The Runner near the bottom of Lurline as she headed up; I thought I would see her again when I was walking but I didn't. I did see Laure and The Dog Pack, once on the circle and once again as she was coming back up Sierra. I also saw Lynette & June both going up Sierra & down Lurline. In the distance I saw Calvin the Recycler checking for cans and Lorraine as she made her way up Sierra.
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| Twenty-four minutes before sunrise on Waiʻalae. |
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| Thirteen minutes before sunrise on Maunalani. |
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| Three minutes after sunrise on Sierra. |
Later during my cool down stretches I saw Lorraine walk by as well as Tina with Massimo, Ink, & Chloe Bacon. I hope they all made it to a dry place when the rain shower began! I remembered a little late that I had left my windows ajar to let the hot air out of the car.
Dad is still confined to his room so he was in bed eating breakfast when I arrived. He only ate 1/4 of his fried egg sandwich but all of his papaya and banana. He only drank 120 ml orange juice.
Today my mid-morning walk was very quiet. I saw no regulars and there were no ambulances & firetrucks. But I did find part of an egg shell and I saw another Halloween ornament.
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| I'm going to watch them to see if anything changes. |
Lunch today was Chicken fettucine Alfredo, Mediterranean vegetables, Tossed salad, Orange pound cake, and Minestrone soup. Dad ate all his 1/2 peanut butter & banana sandwich and 2 desserts. He drank 120 ml orange juice but no water.
If part of a meal is not in the Fitbit or Carb Manager app I look it up on-line. Do you know how difficult it is to find the nutritional value of just the chicken Alfredo sauce? (I don't eat the pasta.) I was expecting to have difficulty in finding nutritional information for the Filipino food, but did not. Finding the info for just the chicken Alfredo sauce was more problematic; a lot of the sites had the nutritional information from pre-made meals. I finally settled on the nutritional information from a recipe for making your own low carb chicken Alfredo sauce; it is made without added flour to thicken the sauce so I think I probably got more carbs from the version I ate today.
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| Chicken Alfredo sauce with pasta. |
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| Chicken Alfredo sauce without pasta. |
On the way back from Dr. Ching's office I stopped at Kokua. I picked up some additional supplies to make Fat Head Pizza, a low carb alternative for one of my cravings. I think it is the fat in regular pizzas that I want; this pizza satisfies that craving! It was very filling; I should have only eaten 2 pieces.
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| I shouldn't have eaten that 3rd piece. |
When I checked my ketone level this morning it was back down to 15mg/dL. So it appears that when my body is doing a lot of work that requires something to burn, the level of metabolites, e.g., acetoacetic acid, in my urine increases. I should have taken the test strips with me today to see what the level was after both my sunrise and mid-morning walks. If they shoot up after the walk that could be an indication that the fat in my body is being used as the fuel source since I don't eat a meal until after the mid-morning walk. Since I drink the cranberry juice before the sunrise walk, carbs might be providing the energy for that; but I won't know unless I check for ketone bodies in my urine. If its significantly higher than the 1st morning level then I think I can safely assume that fats stored in my body are being burned.
I've been doing some reading and have found that ketogenesis can start in as little as 3 days of being on a diet with less than 50 g carbohydrates. So it is possible that the reading I took on Saturday was the result of ketogenesis.
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