hello and welcome to today’s a live
coaching call and community conversation
today we are going to be talking about
the lumen
the uh new metabolic tracking device
what’s that’s not actually new but it is
kind of like a new little craze going
around the especially the intermittent
fasting and
kind of
metabolism health kind of arena and
we’re going to talk about it here today
i’m gonna give you guys a little bit of
a rundown of what the lumen metabolic
tracker does why it’s important to us as
aging women and i’m gonna share with you
a little bit about how the app works and
also how i
use this device to help keep myself
metabolically flexible as well so
welcome if you are new my name is diane
parham i am a fasting mindset coach so i
help you
manage your decision-making process your
thoughts your emotions your lifestyle
around what it is that you say you want
with intermittent fasting and how it is
we can use it to age successfully and i
am a huge fan of the lumen and yes you
can use the lumen and still intermittent
fast we’re going to talk about that a
little bit today as well so do me a
favor in the comments section let me
know if you’re familiar with the lumen
maybe you’re a user of the lumen or
maybe you have no idea what the lumen is
but you do want to track your metabolic
flexibility or know if you’re
metabolically flexible just leave me a
little comment and kind of let me know
where you stand on this subject so that
way i’ll kind of know how to address a
little bit of the discussion today so
this is going to be an informative
discussion but we’ll open it up at the
end for some conversation as well
if you are using the lumen and you’re
feeling frustrated hopefully this will
help settle some things for you and
clear up some maybe some frustrations
you might have and then again always
feel free to put your questions in the
comment section i will address those at
the end so we are you uh going to have
today’s discussion
as a beginners to the lumen type of
conversation and so what it is how to
get started and some some advice that i
give to women who are wanting to track
their metabolism don’t know where to
start and don’t know what to do with the
numbers that they’re getting from their
lumens so that’s how we’re gonna address
today’s conversation as well okay so i’m
gonna present some slides and i also
have a little video like i said of how
the app works on your phone and how to
breathe and all that kind of stuff i’ll
do that at the end but let’s get started
with
what
metabolism is or what metabolic
flexibility is and why it’s important to
us
especially as aging women right so we
know as we age our metabolism just
naturally slows down on us that’s one of
probably the most frustrating aspects of
going through this perimenopausal
menopausal post-menopausal season and
just aging in general is everything just
seems to start slowing down on us but we
do have the opportunity to be in control
of our metabolism and that does come
through being more metabolically
flexible and that just basically means
that we’re able to utilize the energy
that our body has in storage so we’re
able to pull out energy from the right
resources and be able to switch between
carb utilization and fat utilization
now everyone thinks that metabolism is
just a combination of what you do with
your exercise and what it is that you’re
consuming when you eat so it it kind of
has the
almost the likeness of calories in
calories out but there’s so many other
facets to metabolic flexibility that i
think that we we don’t consider when
we’re really trying to either lose
weight change our body composition or
just be generally overall
more healthful in the state or season
that we’re in so there’s five things
that i really emphasize with metabolic
flexibility that we have to take into
consideration
sleep i believe is probably the most
important and probably one of the
biggest influ influences of our
metabolic flexibility especially when
using something like a lumen we have
nutrition we have our fitness hydration
and stress so all five of these areas
will be affected
when you’re using something like a lumen
and you’re really trying to
figure out from the inside out via
information that’s provided to you
what’s going on with your body
internally right so those are the five
things i really like women to look at
and really be honest about in their life
when they’re using especially something
like a lumen that’s going to give them
feedback the other thing that we have to
take into consideration is our current
health status right so if you are
currently
managing a sugar-related disease or
you’re currently managing an autoimmune
disorder those things also affect our
overall internal health and those could
be
indicators from something that’s going
to provide you feedback like a lumen and
where your numbers are and this is where
i want us to really get back to the
mindset aspect of why it is we would
purchase something that’s going to give
us feedback and we’re going to talk
about that here in just a second so
those are the five areas that i say we
really want to think about right the
other thing we want to consider and i
know this is one of those hot topics
when you’re using something like a lumen
the feedback that you’re going to get
has to do with your macronutrients right
the energies that’s going into your body
and how your body is going to convert
that energy and utilize it is going to
determine what readings you’re getting
on a lumen so macronut macronutrients
quick review are carbohydrates fats and
proteins and each one of those
macronutrients carries a caloric value
right so that takes that would make up
your total caloric intake for the day so
just a quick a quick review of that for
for those of us who are maybe frustrated
with some of the feedback you’re getting
from your lumen we got to go back and
figure out like why is it we’re getting
this feedback right so the two things
that are really manipulated when using a
lumen are carbohydrates and fat because
those are the two things that we’re
getting feedback on when we breathe in
to this device what i’ve noticed for
myself and tracking how my
macronutrients vary from day to day is
my protein suggestion is pretty constant
like that one pretty much stays the same
and i believe that’s based on the the
track that i’m on with my lumen and i’ll
share with you guys how you figure that
out here in just a second but we want to
remember that macronutrients are the is
the energy that’s going in right and
then how our body converts that is how
we utilize energy coming out and that’s
going to be the carbohydrates and the
fats that is red when you blow into your
lumen what i really like to recommend
for women especially for those of us who
don’t like to count macros or manage
macros or don’t want to have to bother
with calorie counting all of those kind
of things is once you get a general idea
and what i have experienced with my
lumen is that my numbers are pretty
consistent they just vary between how
many carbohydrates i take in a day or
how much fat i take in a day based on
the feedback i’m getting when i breathe
into my device and so once you get a
general idea of what the recommendations
are for your metabolic flexibility what
you need to do is just rinse and repeat
those same type of meals throughout your
week so that you don’t have to worry
about measuring and weighing and doing
all those things that we don’t want to
do anymore you just get a general idea
and if you’re pretty close you’re going
to be pretty good about making sure that
you’re utilizing the right energy
sources and you’re becoming more
metabolically flexible so i encourage
rinsing and repeating for sure
so there are three tracks to get
yourself to being metabolically flexible
within the lumen one is are you just
like sustaining or wanting to improve
your overall metabolic health the other
one is weight loss so maybe you’re
wanting to lose some weight and the
other one is fitness performance so are
you maybe an elite athlete or someone
who’s training for something and you
want to make sure that you have the
proper fuel coming in and you’re
utilizing the proper fuel to make sure
that you can stay in the game with what
it is you’re doing with your fitness so
three tracks it’s really important to
make sure that you actually choose the
right track because the recommendations
that the lumen is going to give you is
going to be based on which track you
selected the fitness performance track
does have a variable with protein in it
so depending on whether you want to just
improve endurance or you want to improve
body composition or you’re trying to
build muscle
will make that protein variable and your
macro nutrients different based on again
what it is your desired result is so
make sure you pick the right track if
you’re starting out with lumen so that
it’s giving you the feedback that’s
going to get you to the what it is we
hear we say here in this community all
the times what it is you really want
right so we want to make sure that we
are clear on that
okay so what i did is i tracked today
for you so this is very very current
information and i’m going to break down
what my readings are on a lumen and how
it is i understand what’s going on with
my own body chemistry so mondays for me
i almost always wake up a three on my
lumen and i’ll explain to you in a
minute what that means if you’re new to
the lumen and it’s usually because i get
a shortened amount of sleep from sunday
to monday because my daughter’s usually
up getting ready for school late on
sunday night and we stay up with her and
she gets up early on monday morning to
go to her cross country practice and
last night i happened to get about six
hours of sleep i know because i track my
sleep also that sounds about an hour and
a half short of what i really need to
get a full restorative night of sleep so
i woke up in a three which basically
means that my body is utilizing
carbohydrates and fats as energy and
ideally what we want with the lumen is a
two or a one meaning you’re burning more
or utilizing or converting more of your
carbohydrates into a fat energy so i
know that going in it doesn’t freak me
out as soon as you know tonight rolls
around and we go to bed a little earlier
and
my body shifts into this to the week
night uh sleep schedule my lumen numbers
come down naturally because sleep like i
said at the very beginning is one of the
most important aspects of really
becoming metabolically flexible because
when you’re sleeping is when your body
does the best converting of energy so
then i worked out right i had an hour of
a low zone 2 low zone or lo zone 2 low
zone 3 training again this is what i
talk about here all the time right that
endurance type of training where you’re
at a lower intensity for a longer period
of time so you utilize the energy that
you have in storage my lumen number came
down so i went to more of a fat
utilization i used up the carbohydrates
that i had available through my exercise
session i had some black coffee and then
about i was like two hours later i
tested on my lumen again and i’m in full
fat utilization so this is where i
really like to encourage my intermittent
fasting ladies to understand how your
own body chemistry works right there are
a lot of people who don’t think that
intermittent fasting is good for
metabolic flexibility and i always like
to encourage you to do it works for you
do uh live a lifestyle that allows you
to empower yourself around food and what
it is you want to live and my body just
does better in a fasted state than it
does in a fed state so i stay fasted
post workout and you can see from those
numbers i naturally came down and now
i’m in full fat burning mode so why
would i want to break that and then eat
something after i just got done working
out right my numbers would have went the
other way they would have gone up to
like a four again
and i’m explaining to you what that
means here in a second as well
so don’t be afraid to practice
intermittent fasting what we want to
make sure that we’re doing with
metabolic flexibility is not going into
extremes on one end or the other right
so we don’t want to become so
extreme with fasting that we don’t allow
enough opportunity to get the
macronutrients back in our body that we
need so we don’t want to drain the tank
so much we don’t have energy to sustain
what it is that we want to sustain but
then we also don’t want to consume so
much right that we have this backup and
we can’t drain the tanks so we have to
find that happy medium now i’ve been
intermittent fasting for about six years
my body just knows what to do in a
fasted state it’s not a stressed out
state for my body so i thrive there and
i can really control how i want to
utilize the energy that i have in
storage okay so let’s talk a little bit
um let me see who i have here
i bought one last month but haven’t set
it up or started using it okay awesome
so we’re gonna go ahead and and go
through how to get started and all that
just bought one had it for two weeks
awesome why considering selling it okay
don’t consider selling it until we’re
done for today okay so the lumen it is
very very scientific right this is high
end science for the everyday person and
that’s where i think a lot of people get
really frustrated right this is
literally like having a nutritionist
in your hand i think the problem and the
frustration that comes from
the community in general of population
is that we don’t do the research and we
don’t treat this like it’s a hobby right
we blow in this device and we think it’s
going to give us a magical number
that we want it to to read but we don’t
consider
why it is we’re getting the readings
that we’re reading i can tell you that i
don’t have perfect metabolic flexibility
and that’s because i don’t live a
perfect life right i have some nights i
don’t get enough sleep i have some
nights i’m i’m you know stressed out i
have some days i don’t feel well and
those numbers are always
indicating how my body is feeling so i
generally
uh
come in at about a 12 to a 15 on my
metabolic flexibility and i’ll show you
what the ranges are in a second so i
highly recommend letting go of
perfection or trying to have the best
most perfect consistent metabolic
readings with your lumen i highly
recommend using this as feedback as to
what is going on with your body and then
adjust accordingly so this is very very
high-end science type of stuff that is
in the everyday person’s hand so it
starts with a breath right so you wake
up in the morning and you breathe into
your lumina it’s going to give you
feedback as to what happened from the
last time you ate until you decided to
breathe in your lumen in the morning and
that is the energy conversion or the
metabolic flexibility that’s probably
the most important for us right we want
to know how our body is converting
energy when we’re sleeping again
sleep amount right and the uh the
quality of sleep that you’re getting is
going to be a big influencer in the
number that you get in the morning it is
not just about what you ate it is also
about how your body is resting and
recovering so make sure you’re tracking
your sleep as well especially if you’re
feeling frustrated with your lumen
numbers
okay one of the things that i don’t like
about the advertising
that is used uh to the general
population is that um this is advertised
as something that will hack your
metabolism and what i want to tell
everyone is that this will do nothing to
your metabolism this is going to give
you feedback