![]() On those days Lumen asks me to eat more carbs in the expectation of a carb burn reading after a meal, which I don’t manage, the next day the recommendation will return to medium- or low-carb intake. ![]() I eat loads of carbs and don’t seem to shift into carb burn, but still get a high Lumen Flex Score because, presumably, I wake up in fat burn. If that is the case, I’m a little baffled as to what Lumen offers me. I asked Lumen why this might be the case and the suggested explanation is that I use all my carbs up with my training and so I am replenishing my glycogen reserve’s with each meal, so my body doesn’t burn the carbs but stores them. Every morning I woke up in fat burn too, despite being a late-night snacker.ĭespite this failing to enter carb burn at any point, I have been rated at 16-17 on my score for the past two weeks. However, even after the carbiest of meals I would find that at most I’d hit level 2, which is still fat burn. I’m a very keen runner and eat a substantial amount of carbs to fuel my training – a frankly grotesque amount at times, such as while carb-loading before a marathon, which was when I was using the Lumen. Each day there’s a suggested breakdown of the number of 15g portions of carbs you should have, and the app has portion size examples to help you eat the right amount too.Īs someone who always woke up in fat burn, but struggled to shift into carb burn, I would sometimes be recommended high-carb days where the Lumen asked me to take a reading after a high-carb meal to see if I then moved into carb burn. Lumen is not simply a passive experience though – it will actively help you to achieve better flexibility. (Lumen is planning to bring in a daily score, which will help make the experience more engaging.) The Lumen Flex Score is out of 21, and the higher the score the better – 0-6 represents low flexibility, 7-14 medium flexibility and 15-21 high flexibility. The process could easily stretch to five minutes or more, which isn’t very long, but feels it in the middle of a busy morning.Īfter a week of taking the tests the device generates a Lumen Flex Score, which is updated weekly. ![]() ![]() It’s also possible to mess up the breathing part of the test and have to repeat it, and initially Lumen requires two breaths for each test. Finding a couple of minutes each morning when trying to also dress and feed a one-year-old before taking them to nursery turned out to be pretty inconvenient. The morning breath has to be done a little after you’ve woken up, but before you eat or drink anything other than water or black coffee. Fitting the test in at Lumen’s recommended times was not always easy in practice. ![]()
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