Day 009 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 9 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto

Weight: 205.9
Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L (04:50)

Yesterday I tried Intermittent Fasting again. I’ve done it in the past but usually did regular keto food (half a pound of melted cheese and some bacon). With Keto Chow being a liquid, it complicates things. My approach was to skip breakfast, skip lunch and then drink 1 (Chocolate fudge) around 3 pm, another (chocolate peanut butter) while driving home around 4:30. My final one I drank around 7 PM, I had meant to drink it around 5-5:30 but stuff got busy. Overall I consider it a success. I wasn’t overly hungry throughout the day and I was pleasantly full once I started eating without feeling crappy. Going to do it again today, this time I brought my ketone blood test strips so I can check my ketone levels a couple times. I’m curious how high they will get when I’m at 19 hours fasting. Anyway, check out http://burnfatnotsugar.com/intermittent-fasting.html for more info on fasting, including the fun myths section where he tackles “starvation mode”, frequent small meals, breakfast being the most important meal of the day, and more.

Updates:

at 12:19 my blood ketones were at 0.7 mmol/L
at 15:18 my blood ketones were at 1.3 mmol/L – so that’s roughly 17 hours since I last consumed any calories. Not bad at all.

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About the Author: chris

Chris Bair is a computer geek and SalesForce.com system administrator for his "day job". He became involved in the powdered foods (aka "soylent") movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since. Conversely since starting Keto, he has added 6 new holes to his belt and recently bought a far smaller belt. He has also eaten far more bacon and cheese than in all his previous years combined trying to avoid fat but still slowly gaining weight. Chris has lived in Utah for most of his life, except for a few years living in Chile where he learned Castillian. Chris and his wife have two sets of twins with a couple singltons thrown in for good measure.

2 Comments

Brian January 15, 2016 at 9:48 am

Can you point me to the blood test device/strip combo you’re using? I’ve been considering using one of those but am not sure what to get. Would rather a person to person recommendation than listening to amazon reviews tbh.
- chris January 15, 2016 at 10:16 am
  
  I’m using the Nova Max. The tester is free but the test strips are crazy expensive. Like $2 per test. I’ve heard very good things about the Precision Xtra as well. If I didn’t already have a bunch of the nova test strips I’d get ones for the Precision.

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Day 009 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)