hi guys in today’s video I will let this
little device control my life for 30
days this is called Lumen and it’s
device that measures your metabolism
basically at any given point it can tell
you whether your body is burning fat or
carbs for energy based on the amount of
CO2 in your bread it’s supposed to help
with weight loss maintaining your weight
and becoming metabolically flexible
which means that your body will be
equally as efficient in burning carbs or
fats for energy depending on what you
have in the moment when you are
metabolically flexible you can consume a
high carb meal and your body would know
to use that for energy rather than store
it as extra fat so in the next 30 days I
will follow the recommendations of the
Lumen device and the Lumen app to see if
I can improve my metabolic flexibility
and also get in better shape hey guys
it’s my first day on Lumen it’s also my
first day back from vacation first day
back at work if I look tired it’s
because I am I’m a little bit jet black
I’m still getting used to Lumen I did a
couple of basic measurements just
because I learned that in the beginning
you’re supposed to measure as often as
possible so that the device can learn
about you and like what’s normal for you
and your body so far I’m doing well the
first measurement that I took this
morning was a two which said it’s really
good to wake up with it too because that
means your body is mostly burning fat so
it has burned all the carbs that I had
with dinner last night I had a salmon
Rice Bowl so it was pretty heavy on the
carbs for breakfast this morning I had
two scrambled eggs and a piece of bread
which is pretty moderate in terms of
carbs the recommendation for today is to
eat 90 grams of net carbs which honestly
is pretty below for me I feel like I eat
more like 150 or so but as I said in the
intro of this video this month I’m gonna
follow everything that the device says
to see if I can get the maximum results
I definitely I think I gained a little
bit of weight on vacation because I
wasn’t really paying attention to what I
was eating I was just indulging in
everything that I had missed so I really
want to get back in shape and just start
working towards getting in even better
shape after having a baby which has been
my goal for a while now so I have a
really busy day today but I’m gonna be
vlogging as much as possible and just
explaining everything that’s happening I
have a meeting right now but after that
I’m gonna measure again to see how my
body is processing the breakfast I had
okay guys I got tied up in my meeting so
it’s been a couple hours after I ate but
I will still measure inhale deeply your
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currently burning both carps and fat
which is a little bit weird for me
because my breakfast was pretty low carb
and I am starting to get hungry at this
point I expected to have a lower number
but it’s fine
so the Lumen app also gives you goals to
do every day and for today I chose to do
a 20 to 60 Minute resisting workout and
have a snack free night
and that was actually my first workout
in the last three weeks because I was
traveling on vacation and I didn’t
really feel like exercising but now I’m
slowly trying to get back to it and it
was really hard to motivate myself to do
it but I feel so much better now that I
have done it
and I definitely want to start
exercising again consistently like at
least three to four times a week and I’m
gonna be really curious to see how my
Lumen level is gonna change after the
workout so I’m gonna check in again in
30 minutes to show you guys just for
reference I ate a burrito so pretty high
carb meal for dinner not a great idea
according to Lumen but I was at four
before dinner and I was at four after
dinner so I’m curious if that’s gonna
change after my workout
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so having that burrito last night really
kind of derailed my day today I’m only
getting like four and fives and I’m not
sure if that’s the reason but maybe I
woke up with a level of three which
means I was burning fat and carbs at the
same time and then my measurements
started climbing to four and fives
and I’m keeping it pretty low carb today
at least that’s what the app is
recommending I need to do 90 grams of
carbs
it’s pretty low but we’re gonna do it
good morning guys it’s Thursday I woke
up a little while ago and I measured
with the Lumen and even though I had a
pretty low carb day yesterday I even ate
less carbs than my plan recommended just
accidentally I really expected to wake
up with a low Lumen level this morning
but I didn’t I was at a three
so I’m a little bit disappointed but
it’s not a huge deal I’m still like in
the learning process just trying to
figure everything out and I don’t know
I’m a little bit surprised but I guess
it is what it is towards the end of my
30 days I actually learned that carbs or
I realized that carbs are sticking
around in your system for a little bit
longer than I initially thought at first
I thought that when you have a high carb
meal it will be around in your system
for about 24 hours and then after 24
hours of low carb eating the carbs will
magically disappear from your system but
in reality it’s a little bit different
and it usually takes about four days for
me personally I was measuring a lot in
the last couple of days just to make
sure that the device learns about me and
my metabolism as much as possible as
quickly as possible
but I’m not planning on taking as many
measurements like moving forward I’m
still having a lot of questions
sometimes the numbers don’t really make
sense to me but
the app is good about like trying to
analyze and you know address your
questions and give you an explanation
why
hey guys it’s 9 p.m and I had dinner I
relaxed a little bit so now I’m ready to
complete one of my Lumen goals which is
10 to 15 minutes of high intensity
exercise and I want to measure before my
workout to see how they work out is
going to impact my metabolism so let’s
see what my result is going to be right
now
here
hi guys I am done with my first week on
Lumen and wanted to give you a little
overview
overall I’m pretty happy with how it
went I actually waited myself this
morning and I was down 1.5 pounds which
I’m happy with overall it was relatively
easy to follow the device is pretty
straightforward to use there was a
little bit of a learning curve in the
beginning until you get the hang of how
to breed into it but I thought it was
pretty well explained on the app and
there’s plenty of opportunities to
practice so I I think I’m pretty much an
expert now I measured my levels pretty
often in the first couple of days to
give it as much information as possible
and make it more accurate but going
forward I plan on taking maybe one or
two measurements definitely one after I
wake up in the morning to get an updated
meal plan for the day and then I will
probably take one more measurements
before or after a workout in the
afternoon or before bedtime for the most
part I can say that I follow the
recommendations for carb counts and it
was relatively easy to follow I I
probably went over a couple of days but
it’s no big deal I’m not like that set
on whatever the app says I’m just using
it as a guideline overall so far the
biggest lesson that it taught me is that
I need to eat my carbs during the day
and not for dinner and I also need to
ditch uh late night snacking like after
dinner snacking so I’ve been trying to
follow this rule basically
um and to be super honest I already knew
that
um even though I wasn’t really following
it but seeing it on the app and just how
it impacts my metabolism and how it you
know actually prevents my body from
burning fat just made it really click to
me and it motivated me to really
implement it and follow it a little more
strictly as a rule so that’s why that’s
the big thing that I’m trying to change
right now
good morning guys it’s Tuesday of week
two and my measurement this morning was
good it was a two which meant I am
mostly burning fat and that has been my
result I’ve been one or two in the last
three days so I get to have a high carb
date today and I’m really excited I
actually just had breakfast and my
breakfast was oatmeal with apples and
walnuts and cinnamon I know it’s pretty
fall but apples were the only fruit that
I have in the house and now it’s been
hour and a half since I had breakfast
and I’m gonna measure my levels and the
goal for today is to make sure that I’m
burning carbs after a high carb meal so
we’ll see
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fat and I don’t understand why so I just
took a shower and I measured again I’m
not sure what’s happening probably I
feel like oatmeal is probably like a
slow carb so it doesn’t like spike your
like blood sugar and everything as much
as other carbs so I’m I wonder if that
makes any difference okay I just read
this uh information about the Boost days
on their app and I know why my level was
low it’s because I ate too few carbs so
I guess I just I only ate like 36 grams
of net carbs and I had to eat like 60.
so maybe that’s why the numbers were the
way they were
for lunch I’m planning on eating pasta
so this would be definitely high carb
and we’ll measure after that and we’ll
see how that’s gonna go
hi guys I am done with week two and it
went well I had my first high carb day
which was kind of a struggle weird I
also got my period And I assume because
of that I was craving way more carbs
every time when I measured it looked
like I was running on carbs
I wasn’t burning fat when I was waking
up in the morning and the app told me it
might be because of hormones during my
period as I said I was craving more
carbs and I decided to listen to my body
so I wasn’t super strict with my daily
plans and as a result I’ve been waking
up with a higher score I had a three
yesterday morning today I’m at a four
which
it’s not great so the app put me on
extra low carb today so 75 grams of
carbs which is lower than my usual 90.
um I don’t know how I feel about that
but I’m gonna try and follow it I also
got my personal Lumen score which
measures the flexibility of your
metabolism I was at a 13.8 which is kind
of in the middle the maximum is 21 so if
you have a 21 your metabolism is
extremely flexible so you your body
knows very well how to burn fat and
carbs so as I said I’m in the middle and
I’m working towards improving that
number and we’ll see how that changes
throughout my Lumen Journey so I guess
my main goal right now is to go back to
burning fat instead of so many carbs and
I’ll let you guys know how it goes hey
guys I’m
three and I
I’m struggling with my Lumen situation
since I I since my period started my
measurements are just like all over the
place I have not been able to wake up
with a one or two like the weeks before
and I have like higher score in the
morning versus right when I’m going to
bed
um and it’s just really frustrating
because I don’t understand what’s
happening
and today what I measured I was at a
four like this morning after fasting for
more than 12 hours
and the app suggested that I should eat
even less carbs that I’ve been eating
which I find kind of annoying because
what it has been recommending to me like
90 grams of carbs has been okay but I
don’t want to go lower than that like
it’s just very limiting to me and it’s
just it makes me miserable so I don’t
know if I’m gonna follow that but I
think adding exercise would be really
beneficial and it will help me get into
that fat burn again
just because I’ve been so busy with work
and that I’m so tired at night in the
evenings that I have not been working
out in the past week or so
so I think adding exercise can be like
the missing link and what will help me I
don’t know if I’m gonna go to 60 carbs
as the app is saying is just
if I go there
organically that’s fine but I’m not
going to be striving towards that
because it’s just I don’t know it’s
limiting I think
hi guys I woke up this morning and I did
my Lumen reading and I got a level four
which is not great to have in the
morning but as you can see I’m sick and
apparently the device assumes or the
device suggests that this might be the
reason because when you’re sick your
body is under stress and every time
you’re stressed out in some way your
body will prefer to burn carbs for
energy so that might explain my higher
reading this morning
now that the month is over I am ready to
share my final verdict for now and I’m
saying for now because I don’t think 30
days is actually enough time to see
major results and major difference so I
plan on continuing to use Lumen at least
for the next six months and then I’ll
probably make another video to give you
guys a final update but I’m happy to
talk about my first impression during
the 30 days and the pros and cons that I
came across with this device to be
completely honest my life got really
crazy in these 30 days so it was really
challenging for me to fit in exercise in
a lot of the days that I wanted to
so I think my results would have been
much better if I had the time to
exercise at least like four times a week
but it is what it is hopefully I’m gonna
be better in the next few months
basically in the last 30 days I was able
to lose five pounds with little exercise
and not a lot of restrictions I know
it’s not a lot but to be honest I didn’t
lose any weight during the week where I
had my period and the week that I was
sick and I basically lost in the first
week and then kind of in the fourth week
but anyways let’s get into the pros and
cons of this device for pros I would say
one aspect of lumen that I really
enjoyed is the data I really am
interested in learning as much as
possible about how my body functions
because when it comes to diet and
exercise it’s everything everything is
really individual things really vary
from one person to the next so I really
enjoy the personal overview of my body
and how it functions I really enjoyed
learning how different foods impact me
how different types of exercise impact
my metabolism so I think that was really
useful and that would really help me
plan for my weight loss journey and what
to do what are some best practices for
me personally I think the app really
helped me see how my body responds to
some things like in real time and when I
saw the impact of some things that I was
doing that really motivated me to stop
these behaviors and I’m talking about
having high carb dinners and also
snacking a lot at night
so when I stopped doing that it’s just I
started getting better results in the
morning and you know just seeing that
seeing the impact on the app just the
way that I’m failing to reach fat burn
in the morning
um and how I’m always in cardboard and
that really actually motivated me to
change these behaviors and kind of like
distribute my carbs during the morning
and lunch meals versus dinner so I think
that was really helpful to me just
seeing the impact in real time another
thing it sounds silly but honestly it’s
important to me the next thing is
battery life I think this device has
amazing battery life I didn’t have to
charge it at all for the first two weeks
then I charge it once and I’m still
using it and it’s at 90 this is a huge
Advantage for me because we have so many
devices that we have to charge on a
daily basis so one less to worry about
it’s honestly amazing and I use it every
day so I expected for the battery to
drain faster but I’m so happy that it
doesn’t another advantage of this device
in this program is that there is a lot
of helpful information in the app there
are a lot of seminars a lot of videos
articles just a lot of things to read
and watch and learn they also host a lot
of Zoom seminars that you can attend
with nutritionists and other Specialists
so it’s really an educational journey
and you can learn a lot for yourself and
just how nutrition and the Lumen program
works in general so I really love that
part of it and then the final thing that
I can say is I like the flexibility of
the diet I basically could eat
everything thing on any given day even
on the days where I had very low carb it
still was enough to eat at least like
one or two meals with moderate carbs in
them so that was pretty good I think I
didn’t feel deprived or restricted for
the most part there was one frustrating
thing about the diet plans but I’m gonna
get to it later in the comments section
of this video I can say that during the
30 days I mostly looked at the app as a
guide and not so much a strict rule so I
think that also helped overall even
though I didn’t have a crazy progress
with the scale I feel in a better place
when it comes to my weight loss and I
know exactly what to do for the next
couple months and I feel like what I’m
doing right now is really working for me
as a whole this device really helped me
with coming up with a game plan for
myself that I’m confident that I’m going
to be following for the next months okay
let’s talk about the cons so there is
one thing that I really struggled with
on some days and it was the carb
recommendation especially the days where
my body was under some kind of stress
like I was either on my period or I was
sick and even though the ab acknowledged
that my body is under stress and that’s
why I’m burning more carbs it’s still
recommended that I lower my carbs
further which was something that I
really struggled with I feel like when
your body is under stress and it finds a
way to burn carbs and prefers to burn
carbs why would I deprive it from carbs
even more like I feel like that alone
like stresses it even more and I just
really was failing to see the you know
the reasoning behind that so even on the
days where I was sick or I was on my
period I was still recommended really
low carbs maybe about 60 grams which
on the days where I didn’t feel like it
I didn’t follow it just because I prefer
to listen to my body and I just
I just failed to understand it to be
honest so that was probably the biggest
con for me I didn’t always see the
reasoning behind it I didn’t see the
logic behind it so I was less compelled
to follow it so I feel like in some
cases the app is just oversimplifying
things like oh you’re not in fat burn so
I’m gonna put you on super low carb no
matter how you feel no matter if your
body is under stress and you’re
struggling with something so this is
definitely something that I’m not a fan
of my other struggle was with high carb
days and even though they are advertised
as part of the program I barely had high
carb days during the 30 days I had one
which I really struggled on I was
constantly in a state of fat burn and I
couldn’t reach the cardboard that they
wanted me to and then I had another high
carb day a few days ago which went much
better but I guess I’m a little bit
disappointed because I feel like I
didn’t have enough high carb days but on
the other hand I get the the reasoning
behind it I guess my metabolism was not
flexible enough so I couldn’t really
take advantage of that benefit at this
point in time and then the most obvious
disadvantage of this program and this
device is obviously the price it’s very
expensive for the cheapest program which
is a six month subscription and the
device together it’s 250 dollars so I
think this will be a turn off for a lot
of people I personally really enjoy the
device I will continue using it but if I
had to pay for it myself
I would have a really hard time
justifying this price but if you have
the money to spend if you enjoy looking
at data and analyzing how your body
works I think it’s a good investment in
your health and wellness okay guys that
was it for this video if you have any
questions about Lumen about my
experience and anything in between just
let me know in the comments down below
and I will do my best to respond I will
continue using Lumen for the next six
months and I’ll definitely be making an
update video so stay tuned for that if
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