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Tracking Energy and Ketones During Intermittent Fasting: Data from 3 Days with No Food, Only Wine
I’m obsessed with eating.
Probably addicted. I do it multiple times every day.
I finally had the good sense to quantify just how obsessed I am. I collected lots of data, ran that data through a complex regression algorithm, and plugged it into a state-of-the-art graphing application.
Here’s what popped out:
That graph shows very clearly that, yes, I do appear to be obsessed with food. That’s especially true as the day goes on.
Below is a story that I originally told at my local Quantified Self meetup. The data and graphs get a lot more serious than the one above. And even though I love eating as much as the next person, I am going to talk about abstaining from food.
Two Insights
This article is a continuation of an experiment I did last year tracking data while I was on a ketogenic diet.
[Editor’s Note: The goal of a ketogenic diet is to achieve a metabolic state that emphasizes burning fat as the primary source of energy. It is often marked by the presence of ketones in the blood. This family of diet is most often performed either with regular periods of fasting or by restricting carbohydrates…