I gave up after 30 minutes on Day 1.Ī week later I finally got it to work, but by that time, I wanted to chuck the fucking thing out the window and never use it again. I tried multiple times to get it to accept my breath - each time, it said I was either breathing too quickly, or not quickly enough. I guess there’s a reason why soon-to-be fathers are at risk of so-called “sympathy weight,” especially in the second trimester. She (excuse me, the bab y) has to eat an extra 300 calories a day, she reminds me, and dammit if I don’t want to eat 300 extra calories a day, too, in, um, solidarity. A few tears, maybe a couple of bodily noises ( “It’s the progesterone!” ), but otherwise pretty, pretty easy.īut the food. And life in isolation with her has been pretty easy. The Hardest Part of Living Under Quarantine With a Pregnant Person: My girlfriend is awesome: Witty, tough, smart, unapologetic - there’s no one I’d rather be hanging out with on a lazy Sunday than her. Personally, I think they like keeping it jargon-y sounding because it sounds more scientific, but they do have a few studies on the site if you need more proof of the device’s bona fides. Sounds cool - lemme get a PhD real quick so I can understand what the hell that means. This indicates the type of fuel your body is using to produce energy.” The Science: According to the Lumen website, instead of measuring ketones like the Keyto, the Lumen “uses a CO2 sensor and flow meter to determine the CO2 concentration in a single breath. Unfortunately, the keto diet basically gives you every reason to eat nothing but cheese and meat as long as you’re on it, and I’m too young to keel over from a heart attack. I lost about 10 pounds in a month using the Keyto. Last year, around this same time (funny how summertime can make you feel weird about your body), I tried another breathalyzer tracking device called the Keyto, which claimed to measure the ketones your body produces (for the keto diet) to give you a similar metabolic score. In addition to the metabolic score, Lumen also provides a daily nutrition plan based on the score you receive from that first blow, tracking for all of your personalized data points, a food library to find macros, healthy recipes and article after article designed to help you along your metabolic journey.īut Didn’t You Try a Similar Device Last Year?: Sure did, you eagle-eyed reader, you. The Lumen works like this: Every morning, and then more throughout the day, you breathe into the device (it’s the size of an extremely large thumb), and the app-enabled Lumen spits back a metabolic score between one and five, one being good (i.e, you’re burning fat), and 5 being not good (in that you’re still burning carbs). The Potential Cure-All: A nutritionist… in my pocket! No, seriously, Lumen’s website says the Lumen device - “the world’s first hand-held, portable device to accurately measure metabolism” - is like having a nutritionist in your pocket. The Problem: I wish I had a nutritionist in my pocket. Might be - if I could get the infernal thing to work. But for all its “It’s like the iPhone of metabolism tracking devices” vibes, is it the magic bullet I’ve been searching for? Which is why I’m pretty sure the Lumen, a space-age gadget that purports to measure your metabolism levels in order to help you hack your diet, was meant for people like me. Well, if I can lifehack my way into getting smart about my diet - and use a gadget to do it - I’ve basically hit the trifecta. What do these things have to do with one another? (Don’t worry, I’m fully aware of how basic I am.) I also, however, loooooove a good lifehack - and gadget. Thankfully, my perception that I’ve let myself go these last four months isn’t the same as my girlfriend’s - she says I look basically normal - but I can’t help but wish I had a better handle on my diet than I’ve had recently. Not to mention, my girlfriend is pregnant (thank you, thank you!), and I’ve found that with pregnancy comes food - lots of it. My girlfriend and I do take long walks a few times a week after work, but it’s not like it was pre-COVID. Not sure about you, but I’m not exactly getting out and about these days like I used to.
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