Day 24, Ketones = Fat adapted?

Context has a great influence on what a term means.
A high carb athlete will train to become fat adapted by doing long or fasted rides. This will increase the amount of fat they can burn, ketones will detected in their blood, can they, do they consider themselves fat adapted?
When entering ketosis the body starts to burn fat as its main fuel, so once the blood ketone level remains constantly above 0.7/1.0mmol/l, is this fat adapted?
When exercising and the body has been trained to "predominantly or preferentially" use ketones over carbs, is this fat adapted?

Well of course they are all levels of fat adaptation, however in the case of an "athlete", I use this term very loosely, or any person looking to improve their athletic performance through ketosis there is an important difference.

I have been in ketosis consistently since day 2 with pretty high ketone levels and within that respect my body is fat adapted, it has shifted from burning glucose as my primary fuel to fat. However what is very important is that the rest of the body has to adjust. I have seen improvements in my rides but my power and endurance is still significantly reduced. My muscles have not yet adapted to burning the ketones efficiently.
It is reported that endurance adaptation takes 6-12 weeks, within 6 weeks you should be able to train properly and not be far off your high carb levels, but at 12 weeks the benefits should really start to kick in. One of the benefits is that the % of fat burned at all heart rates, but particularly sub-threshold (80%) can increase from about 30% to 80%. This enables these efforts to be fueled more efficiently and performed for longer time periods.
If you take a step back and think about physically training your body, weights, running, cycling, swimming we all know that after 6 weeks you can see progress but after 12 weeks a real difference can be seen. It does not take a great leap for me to understand that this same process and time lag will occur when re-training our muscles to "predominantly or preferentially" use ketones. 

So, me included, be patient don't worry about the lack of performance, it will come back. Despite experiencing this powerful force last year I am still questioning what I am currently going through. I know several people, me included on several occasions, who have not managed to make it through this stage, they have given up and gone back to carbs.

I was inspired to write about this after watching and reading the links below, which include and expand on these topics which I originally found in "The Art and Science of Low Carb Living", thanks Reinette.

http://alessandroferretti.co.uk/blog/hrv-ketogenic-diet


http://alessandroferretti.co.uk/videos (measuring ketones)

Glucose:    4.6
Ketone:      1.9
Breakfast:   Broth & butter, handful of mixed nuts
Lunch:        Slow roast meat, coconut oil, cheese, 2 M&S mango & mangetout salad, almond butter 60g
Dinner:       Slow roast meat, cheese, guacamole 
Snack:        yogurt, cream, MCT, blueberries
Ride:          84k, 137aHR, 157aW, TL146, 2050kcal  (training load strava, similar to TSS on Training peaks)

Still waking in middle on the night, I hope it will settle soon. Was on our late shift today so went for a ride after dropping kids to school. It was a lovely sunny but cold day 1degC av, these sunny winter days are some of my favorite days of the year, they are bonus "we don't expect to see the sun days". 

After reading the links above and reprocessing the info I when out for an easy ride. Like all training you can't smash it all the time and the body need time to adapt. A longer enjoyable ride I am sure will be doing a lot of good.

The rest of my day was fairly quiet but I would have liked some more food at work in the evening. Although late, I had another pudding like yesterday's when I got home, yogurt, cream, MCT, berries. I doubt I will get a chance to eat appropriately tomorrow, I will be flying to Belfast and back for my Grandmother's funeral.