This dexascan was taken the same time as that last blood test, one week before the half marathon, first week of Jan 2025
I am surprised I was able to do an 8m/mi average at 17% bodyfat, that is a lot of dead floppy saggy weight to carry for 13miles
These past two weeks I’ve been dieting down kinda hard for summer. It hasn’t been too bad though. Before I was doing like 4 eggs, toast, or big egg sandwiches, which I switched to 2 hard boiled eggs and a low sugar greek yogurt for breakfast. And instead of huge plates of rice and chicken/steak from places like panda for lunch, I switched to just like a salad wrap with extra chicken, and later in the day a power bar if my stomach feeling hungry and some fruit (berries) when I get home from work
And at night always just chicken, veggie mix, and a tiny half cup of rice. Along with a half cup of mixed nuts. It ended up coming out to like a 3/4 reduction in carbs and like an ~600-800k reduction in calories per day from my prev eating
And I figured with so little carbs my workouts would suck and I’d have no energy. But after only a few days my body seems to have switched to burning fat as alternate fuel source and completely disregarded carbs. I feel like I have even more energy than before. I have been losing a lot of fat, I just never realized how well of a fuel source that is
And with the tons of protein (I do 2-3 protein shakes/day at 25g per) and 3x the normally daily Metamucil fiber powder, I pretty much never have any hunger pangs on this. I would normally say this is amazing and I’ll do it for the rest of my life, but once I run low on fat, my body is going to either start crashing or eating muscle I’m guessing. So dunno what I’m going to do then, but something will have to change when I don’t have a plentiful fat surplus (which is actually amazing energy when burned!) to draw on
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