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I’ve been taking my measurement roughly every fortnight since I’ve been in ketosis. My chest has been around 33.5" for a couple of weeks now and I can’t see it getting too much smaller. I wouldn’t want it to either. I don’t want to end up really skinny just to be a better climber. I could try riding up more hills first!

As well as measuring my chest, waist, legs, biceps every fortnight I’m also recording my weight, body fat and ketones every day. They don’t change that fast but you can certainly see patterns with my weight and ketones when I’m exercising. My ketones seem to be going up lately so I’m hoping that means I’m adapting. That means I’ll have an uninterrupted source of fuel for muscle growth and other important things like drinking tea. Sounds like some weirdo magical diet…. My main concern is losing muscle but I’m certain that’s not happening. Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek in Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance say that you’ll gain muscle and lose fat as long as you’re in ketosis, are doing some exercise, and have a well formulated diet. For us that means plenty of good quality organic food, plenty of greens, mushrooms, meat, fish, cold pressed oils, coconut fat, butter, cream, and free range eggs. You must also increase in your sodium, potassium, and magnesium and keep protein around 0.5g-1g per kilo gram of body weight, which we’re doing by popping electrolyte tablets in our water bottles, always making and eating the gravy from roasts, not being scared of salt, eating loads of mushrooms and avocados, and just eating a few eggs and normal portions of meat most days. There’s no need to go silly with protein by eating loads of meat (that seems to be a common misconception). It’s all good right now. Although I could really do with buying some new clothes…

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since i hadn’t done a whore shot in a while, here. the shirt was mailed off to a desert elf a while ago, along with some other treasures. this was taken slightly more than six months after this shot. quoting from the epic typefest in the description:

the shot also reveals a bit of what cancer does to a body, which is why i used it. not being able to use my legs the way i used to means more body fat and less muscle. that gut alarms me, and the time i’m allowed on the bike or in the pool at the gym isn’t enough to make me lose the fat yet. another six months or so and i should be in better shape….

the last six months was full of physiotherapy and time at the gym. i allow myself one day off per week (and sometimes don’t take it), and do one physio session and one workout each day, for a total of between three to four hours, plus stretching. a lot of the work is intended to build core strength (recovery from heavy surgery really diminishes this, and it’s tough to gain back when you’re old) and leg strength. because of the knee troubles i lost a ton of muscle, particularly in the quadriceps, and while it won’t come back in mass, i’ve gained back most of the strength needed to get around.

losing the gut was the big challenge, but adapting diet (everything from changing the type of foods to portion size and times of meals, no simple and easy change) and tailoring some specific exercises for cripples, along with an increase in energy has lard central under control. having the knees replaced also means that weighing north of 100 kilos or 220 lbs is unwise, so when i began i aimed to get down to 90 kilos (198 lbs), something i thought highly unlikely, but today’s weight (which i hit three weeks ago and have maintained) is 83 kilos, or 183 lbs.

cancer is a fucking pain in the ass (and everything else) but it’s not impossible to kick it back and regain control over parts of your life that were thought to be lost – even after a terminal diagnosis, treatments, invasive surgeries and losing a deli counter’s worth of body parts.

i’m also yapping at the cat here, since he decided that the forbidden computer desk was his now that i’d moved from it.

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