Did a really good job at not chewing anything all day yesterday… until I made jalapeno poppers wrapped in bacon for my wife – I ate a couple of those. Bad idea, my jaw hurts again now =(
We finished up a marathon session mixing last night, We’re almost completely out of protein powder to mix now but we should be completely stocked up for the coming week. It’s nice to have some evenings for other stuff =).
Again with the running! I went to my dentist yesterday to see if the pain in my jaw was tooth related, got a panoramic x-ray and everything looks good. Based on my description and the way my jaw was closing, the dentist posits that I hurt the “disc” in my jaw somehow and it needs some time to get better. He prescribed 800mg of ibuprofen and told me that although it would be hard, I needed to try to limit biting down for a week or more “try to stick to soft foods”. I literally laughed out loud and then had to do a really rough explanation about my mostly liquid diet =). So for future reference, Keto Chow works quite well when you have dental/jaw problems.
I did awesome yesterday and the only non-keto chow calories I consumed was a little bit of cheese, I’ll see if I can act on the advice of my dentist.
Last night I was reading a post on the /r/ketochow sub-reddit where someone had gotten a DEXA scan. Down the rabbit hole I went! A while later I had found a company here locally that does them, they charge $99 for 1 scan and have in the past given discounts if you sign up for multiple ones at a time, so I have an appointment for Monday, March 14 (Pi day). EDIT: I was looking at their “Sample Report” and laughed out loud at “Android fat is associated with visceral (unhealthy) fat” – that darn android fat!
On a final note, today there was a new “study” published that claims a high fat diet (in mice) causes cancer. There is an excellent discussion over on /r/ketoscience about it but the TL; DR is
Low quality fat sources: 55% lard and 5.5% soybean oil. 32% of the fat is PUFA, omega6:3 ratio is 14:1.
Low quality protein sources: 20% casein that is poor in glycine and taurine, which are needed for metabolic health.
Low quality carbohydrate sources: 12% maltodextrin and 7% sugar that are completely unnecessary and just there to hinder fat metabolism.
Turns out that if you put mice on a diet of sugar and lard, the mice get fat and sick.
Ran again last night, there was a comment yesterday about my routine, Looks like I’m doing a 4 minute warm up, then 5 rounds of 2 minutes running+2 minutes walking, followed by a final 2 minutes of running with a sprint and then 4 more cool down. I use a program that makes the sounds necessary to control certain treadmills that I did a screen recording of so I can play the video on an old Samsung S3. Works pretty well. For kicks I’ve combined a screen capture of the routine along with a heart rate graph as recorded by my Fitbit Charge HR.
Did 3 keto chows again yesterday and I’m planning on it today too. I’ve got some odd pain in my right jaw, near my ear. Since I’m doing a almost completely liquid diet it hasn’t really bothered me too bad, it only hurts when I bite down or open my mouth really wide (when I do something crazy like yawning). Anyway, it feels like a muscle issue but it’s been going on long enough (5 days) I’m going to the dentist today.
Not much to report today, drank 3 keto chows yesterday (Peanut Butter & Cookies and Cream). My weight is still coming down nicely. I was able to run last night, I’m doing the slightly more intense workout now: running for 2 minutes then walking for 2 (last week was run 1 walk 3). One of my friends doing keto got his blood tests back yesterday, I’m working to get him to make a blog post about it.
I like finding reviews of my stuff around teh Intrawebs. This morning I was looking through my server logs and found Hey Keto Mama’s review of Keto Chow, along with her recipe for a Keto Chow “Shamrock Shake” (which is the photo for today’s post) – seriously, go read the review. I’ll wait.
I finally ate “breakfast” yesterday around 1 or 2 pm. I did almost make a serious mistake: I needed to go to home depot to get conduit and wires to hook up the RV power box I wanted to wire up on my house. I had already gone to several stores (including Dunford Bakers to get bread, and some doughnuts, for the kids – I haven’t had a doughnut in like 18 months) while fasting and decided it was time to eat. Drank a Chocolate Peanut Butter keto chow in the car, I even remembered to take it out of the car, but I left it next to the wood pile where I was drilling holes in my house to attach the box. about 3 hours later when I came back (after my second trip to Home Depot, naturally) I saw the mostly empty bottle on the ground and washed it out immediately. Leaving a blender bottle with traces of Keto Chow on it is a very bad idea.
This weekend went great, mixed a bunch of Keto Chow powder and completely filled up all my recycle bins with Dymatize 5lb tubs (the picture is after I was already half done crushing the ones from Saturday). I finished off a week consistently losing weight by… gaining some water weight. Meh, I’ll have that gone in a few days easily. Today I’m doing stuff in the yard and I completely forgot to eat breakfast until just now, maybe I’ll use that to my advantage and just Intermittent Fast today.
Weight stayed the same, I’ll take it. I totally called it with the food yesterday, lunch was a bunch of food trucks – while I’m sure it was yummy, everything either had a sugar glaze or whatever. The only ray of light was breakfast there was a giant bowl of bacon (and no plates) so I grabbed a half dozen slices in a cup and ate those. I was happy I had brought my own food =)
Today I have off my “day job” so I’m just at home prepping ingredients for Keto Chow. Went through eight 12lb bags of psyllium husk already – fun times!
Weight is still going down and my ketones are getting up into happy territory. At the weigh in yesterday I was down 5 lbs compared to the week before, which wasn’t hard since I was up 4 last week. Today I’m going to be at Snow Force – I’m guessing there won’t be anything I can eat so I got two HydroFlasks full of Keto Chow, a bag of macadamia nuts, some pork rinds and some diet root beer in my backpack. That said I might just do intermittent fasting and not eat until dinner. Going to see how it goes.
Yesterday this was posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_Ejb29bJ0 He does actually mix up some Keto Chow about 2/3 of the way through. It’s surreal seeing stuff I make reviewed in a vlog.
Still down compared to last week, sticking to (almost) 100% Keto Chow is working well. I have another weigh-in for the city weight loss challenge today, shouldn’t be hard for me to be lower than last week since that was +4 lbs compared to the prior week. Even though I was terribly tired I ran on the treadmill last night. I’m still tired today but at least it’s my last day at work for this week (tomorrow I’m going to an off-site and I have Friday off; four 10s FTW!)
This morning I got a chance to test out the ketone strips on the Precision Xtra blood tester. I’m worried the ketone strips for the Nova Max aren’t being accurate so today I did both. The Precision Xtra uses a LOT more blood so to do both from the same “poke” I needed quite a bit of blood, that wasn’t fun. End result:
That’s close enough, looks like it might be accurate – which is a good thing since I still have about US$100 in Nova Max ketone test strips for the reamining 48 days of this “experiement”
Probably going to I.F. (Intermittent Fasting) until this afternoon, might not though – we’ll see if I get hungry or not. The revised formulation of my custom vitamin mix is ordered (with magnesium citrate instead of chloride to see if that removes the metallic aftertaste), hopefully it gets here soon!
I recently switched over to using ShipStation for order logistics and it seems to be working quite well so far. It has some really nice features and speeds up the process of shipping stuff out. It also supports multiple carriers which hasn’t been an issue but is nice just in case I need it down the line. There was only one really big issue I saw: I’m using woocommerce product bundles for the “build a week”, “build a month” and “sample all the things” bundles and they kept coming through into shipstation with a “Part of: Sample all the things” tagged onto them. It was all well and good until we tried to use the ShipStation picking list – the list that gives you a run-down of all the inventory you need to fill the current orders. The problem was the bundled products showed up separately from the non-bundled items so we would end up with something like the image at the top of this post, but for every flavor and size permutation. Didn’t fly and we went back to using the old “variation report” (on a side note, I’ve sat through enough aquanauts that we’ve taken to calling it the “creature report” – it’s a whole syllable shorter).
I got a response from the WooCommerce support guys on a ticket I opened and they gave me some code that disables the bundle metadata. The basic premise is you follow this guide and add the following code, using whichever of the 3 methods you prefer:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_bundles_filter_order_items_part_of_meta', 'wc_ninja_disable_bundled_part_of_meta', 15 );
function wc_ninja_disable_bundled_part_of_meta() {
return false;
}
I ended up doing the “write a custom plugin” option since it can easily be activated/deactivated and will survive changes in themes and other tomfoolery. In case some random internet search led you here because you have the same problem, here’s a handy plugin, ready to go: woocommerce-disable-bundles-filter.zip