Weekender
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi @travellor
You hooked with the maths 🙂
CDC Link text book maximum heart (used by Fitbit etc) is 220 minus your age - in my case 220-59= 161
I'm not drinking atm, and exercise a lot, so my resting heart is 54 - triple this 162, so, so far I'm nodding in agreement.
But, looking back over the year, pre diet during periods of alcohol, stress, or too much meat* my resting heart rate can go up to 64 (triple = 192)
Even this month when I'm lighter and fitter than ever I have peaked at 60 (180)
So I think the your 3 x resting rule is inadvisable as your max increases as your heart is under more strain.
Now 220 minus your resting heart seems attractive, as it takes your heart health rather than age, which seems safer:
220-64=156
220-54=166
*Having watched the excellent documentary on the benefits of a plant based diet https://gamechangersmovie.com/
I went vegan for several weeks and my resting heart rate dropped to 51, add it does rise if I eat a lot of meat
Ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate responses to vegetarian meals
@Kreator
Here is the article Effects of Adding Exercise to a 16-Week Very Low-Calorie Diet in Obese, Insulin-Dependent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
Take away 'The exercise group lost more fat mass.'
But it was a small trial.
My experience was I seemed to have loads of energy during weeks 2 and 3 of the VLCD and my activity levels increased, at the same time my blood ketones were very high.
The heart rate graph for June shows my resting heart rate dropping to 53 diet week 5 (w/c 23rd June), and at this stage I was struggling to move around - my metabolism had adjusted to the reduced calorie intake. And no detectable ketosis.
It's tempting to conclude that going in hard on VLCD for 2-3 weeks yields a good return, I lost 10Kg weeks 1-3 and 5.4 weeks 4-6, 2.4Kg weeks 7-9
This Guardian article states that Professor Taylor "emailed to say my progress was so good, I could come off the liquid diet and go back to normal foods" after 11 days.
Type 2 diabetes and the diet that cured me
But the journalist was 59 and only 10st 7lb at 5ft 7in to start with
One size doesn't fit all. @abbiosbiston - one for your your GP



You hooked with the maths 🙂
CDC Link text book maximum heart (used by Fitbit etc) is 220 minus your age - in my case 220-59= 161
I'm not drinking atm, and exercise a lot, so my resting heart is 54 - triple this 162, so, so far I'm nodding in agreement.
But, looking back over the year, pre diet during periods of alcohol, stress, or too much meat* my resting heart rate can go up to 64 (triple = 192)
Even this month when I'm lighter and fitter than ever I have peaked at 60 (180)
So I think the your 3 x resting rule is inadvisable as your max increases as your heart is under more strain.
Now 220 minus your resting heart seems attractive, as it takes your heart health rather than age, which seems safer:
220-64=156
220-54=166
*Having watched the excellent documentary on the benefits of a plant based diet https://gamechangersmovie.com/
I went vegan for several weeks and my resting heart rate dropped to 51, add it does rise if I eat a lot of meat
Ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate responses to vegetarian meals
@Kreator
Here is the article Effects of Adding Exercise to a 16-Week Very Low-Calorie Diet in Obese, Insulin-Dependent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
Take away 'The exercise group lost more fat mass.'
But it was a small trial.
My experience was I seemed to have loads of energy during weeks 2 and 3 of the VLCD and my activity levels increased, at the same time my blood ketones were very high.
The heart rate graph for June shows my resting heart rate dropping to 53 diet week 5 (w/c 23rd June), and at this stage I was struggling to move around - my metabolism had adjusted to the reduced calorie intake. And no detectable ketosis.
It's tempting to conclude that going in hard on VLCD for 2-3 weeks yields a good return, I lost 10Kg weeks 1-3 and 5.4 weeks 4-6, 2.4Kg weeks 7-9
This Guardian article states that Professor Taylor "emailed to say my progress was so good, I could come off the liquid diet and go back to normal foods" after 11 days.
Type 2 diabetes and the diet that cured me
But the journalist was 59 and only 10st 7lb at 5ft 7in to start with
One size doesn't fit all. @abbiosbiston - one for your your GP


