I’ll cover the science further below, and there is some debate around this product and its claims yet from my year-long usage, Lumen ‘feels’ like it’s broadly correct and importantly there was a good verification between Lumen and my blood ketone samples. Be mindful that the diet it recommends for athletes may well be too carb-lite for those heavy training days, that said Lumen does adjust its recommendations based on your planned future workouts. If you feel like you need to be mentored through a move to a lower-carb, Keto-style diet then Lumen pushes you sensibly in the right direction with occasional carb-rich days. My partner has a degree-level qualification in nutrition and is supportive of the direction that Lumen points us from the diet perspective. Is Lumen correct? I can’t say for sure but, sadly, it probably is correct as I suspect I eat too many carbs at the wrong times of day! Now I have the support I need to make changes and achieve my weight loss & athletic goals. As a generalisation, Lumen reports that I am sometimes burning more carbs than I would have thought. I have completed extensive endurance training for many years (UK Ironman) and so I should be mostly fat-adapted. I stopped late-night eating and introduced slightly longer fasting periods which together made a material difference and I lost 1kg quickly. I tried to lose a stubborn 2kg half-heartedly for a while Lumen helped me prove what worked. Both are good and give you easy access to your carb & fat-burning state and the Apple app also logs carbs. Lumen has an app for Garmin watches and another for the Apple Watch. You see exactly what is happening with your body and the food you consume.Ī lot of thought and effort has gone into the friendly-looking smartphone app and it is also good at guiding you towards a flexible, keto-style diet. You might have previously counted your consumption of carbs and calories or you might have looked at your fitness watch to see estimates of fat/carb/calorie usage based on effort levels but you’ve neverhad any idea about your body’s true ability to burn fat at any given time of the day. This is important, new information to all of us. It then takes 2 weeks for Lumen to understand your metabolic flexibility which is your ability to switch quickly between different fat/carb-burning states. Lumen gives immediate feedback on your fat-burning state (metabolic state) and, after 4 days of readings, Lumen mostly knows your breath signature and how it varies through key events in your day. It takes a minute to complete both of those and ‘tag’ the result in the app. #Lumen chart plus#The Lumen ‘breath analyser’ is simple to use and for each rested, check-in breath you will usually need one reading plus a verification reading. How well you burn fat is critical to helping you lose weight more quickly and critical to becoming a good endurance athlete.
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