Will exercise drive one deeper into ketosis?

Last time I fasted the first 12-14 hours were the same as last night. I ate at work about 8PM, worked all night, came home and tested for blood sugar and ketones. My ketosis/ketone level was 0.7. Reading a lot of information on the subject I found 0.7 was a good overall number so I assumed it would change some as I fasted. It did and around 90 hours or so I was at 3.4.

Last night I ate at work, (same meal of steak and eggs), worked all night, came home this morning and walked 3.5 miles doing 90 pushups along the way (normally I try to do at least 100 but the ketone levels were higher but obviously hadn't made it to my brain as I added wrong. Beat myself out of 10 or 20 pushups).....babbling.... My blood sugar was 80 this morning and my ketone reading was 2.0. After walking and doing the pushups my blood sugar was lower than the last time and my ketone levels were higher.

Normally I get the morning dawn effect and my blood glucose gets into the mid-90's, and sometimes the upper 90's. This the first combination of starting the fast, getting a pretty good walk and work out in and then testing.

I'm totally happy with the numbers but they just sort of caught me off guard.

Scott

It may very well be the case. I wouldn't be transfixed on being in Ketosis rather than, being fat adapted. I think that is where Saladino went wrong. Especially when you're physically active.

Again, I am not a numbers guy. I do sometimes grab a piece of dark chocolate. Not only concern for oxolate dumping, but just to give that little nudge, a little reward as well. I make an effort to NOT be in Ketosis all the time. Less worry, less perfect, but more succesful in the long run, because I am still happily carnivore, today exactly, at a year and a half.

Do not stress numbers, unless you have a condition that requires it.

Ketones are what we use for energy. If you are exercising more then the body needs more energy so the body will be using up more ketones. It may not be that your body isn’t producing more ketones but that you are using up what your body is producing. The measurement of ketones in your body show either what is present or what is being expelled so it could stand to reason that if you are burning them up for energy due to increased exercise there may not be as many show up in the test.

Thanks for the input. I am a data person not so much a numbers person, and that makes no sense at all. (working in the chemical/pharmaceutical field for thirty plus years. I am all about the data that forms trends, not so much the numbers themselves. And as I re-read that it does not make any sense at all, other than I am more into the data as it relates to the process more so than the numbers at the end)

I have not checked for blood ketones on a normal non-fasting day. I assume I am in ketosis or somewhere close because I'm still at zero carbs/zero sugars. I sort of wish I had tested myself when I gained 8-9 pounds due to allowing my fat content to decrease while trying to increase protein intake. I have come to the point I can't consistently eat that much protein every day. It is one thing to be full, and another to be overly full but to have to sit there and struggle just to eat said amount, I am not sure the view is worth the climb.

At just over 11 months I am easing into carnivore as a lifestyle and not a diet and with that, the numbers will then be just that, numbers.

Thanks for the input.

Scott