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Day 095 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 78 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 206.0
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

Had an awesome time at the IFT Food Suppliers trade show yesterday. Met some great people and might have found some new suppliers for ingredients. It was funny to see some of the places I’m getting some of my current ingredients from too. I happened upon one supplier that does fiber and asked if they have psyllium husk powder. They don’t but the guy asked what I was using it for, I gave a quick explanation to which he responded “wait, you’re doing Keto? so am I!” We had a rousing conversation that went all over the place but the end result was I’m going to be getting a sample shipment of their acacia gum fiber and their thickener to test in Keto Chow. Allegedly it’s a far better source of fiber than psyllium so I’m anxious to try it out. We’ll see!

By |2016-04-08T14:42:54-06:00April 8th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|1 Comment
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Day 094 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 77 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.8
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

Yesterday I only did two keto chow shakes – we got a new waffle maker and my wife made keto waffles, figured we might as well go all-in on “breakfast for dinner” so I cooked a bunch of bacon and sausage. Also yesterday I got some preliminary figures for the costs of the protein for keto Chow 2.0. In the early stages I had asked for a blend of Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein isolate and Casein Protein (milk). Casein has some advantages in that it’s slower to absorb which can keep you feeling full longer, it’s also beneficial for weight lifting with a higher glutamine content. The problem is: it’s three times the cost of concentrate, it also adds an additional allergy possibility. From the looks of things we’re going to be using a blend of whey isolate and concentrate that is very similar to the Dymatize and I’ll probably add a recommendation that anyone doing body building use casein to supplement the protein in the Keto Chow (which is likely going to be just a touch higher than the current recipe).

This evening I’m going to check out the IFT Food Suppliers event, with any luck I might be able to find some additional industry leads for production/packaging or ingredients. Only problem: I’ll have to do it quick because weigh-in for the Pinewood Derby is at 6:30 and I don’t want to miss the event!

By |2016-04-08T13:47:01-06:00April 7th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 094 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 093 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 76 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.7
  • Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L

I launched the new front page yesterday, overall the reactions are positive; should have done that a long time ago =). Yesterday I did 3 keto chows, it’s awfully convenient to have when you’re really busy and have to work through lunch.

I got a letter from my health insurance, seems they looked at my most recent lipid profile test (strangely enough, that’s from nearly a year ago). They wanted to mail me to let me know that they think  I have hyperlipidemia and think I should be taking statins. They also say I should stop eating cheese, red meat and eggs, eat more fruit and use low fat dairy products. So… I should ignore the last 50 years of ACTUAL scientific study that show dietary cholesterol does not affect serum (blood) cholesterol and start poisoning myself with carbohydrates again. Yeah, no thanks.

The fact that my Triglycerides are about half what they used to be, my HDL is up I guess the next step to do is get a VAP or NMR test, I’ll probably arrange for that during my next doctor appointment.

By |2016-09-01T13:19:37-06:00April 6th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Day 093 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 092 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 75 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 206.0
  • Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L

More Vanilla for breakfast, lunch and dinner today, that’s all pretty unremarkable. The fun part for today is I just launched a new home page. Hopefully this should give people more information in a nicer format. Let me know what you think!

By |2016-04-05T19:22:47-06:00April 5th, 2016|Site or Store Stuff, 100 days of keto, Keto Chow|1 Comment
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Days 090 & 091 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 74 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.7
  • Blood ketones: dunno
  • Weight: 205.3
  • Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L

Had a fun(ish) weekend – we did a lot of mixing and packaging on Thursday and Friday so we could go for a drive on Saturday. Our family gave up trying to drive up the snow and mud after seeing the snow getting worse and decided to hike, our friends had new tires and made it up further, then they broke through the ice crust and got buried up to their axles. We had to dig it out. Memorable trip! The kids had sandwiches and I had a vanilla Keto Chow with some peanut flour (yum!) that my awesome wife made.

Looks like my order for 100kg of the vitamin pre-mix is confirmed and should be shipping by April 18th (to me), still no word on the protein and flavorings though. Baby steps to Keto Chow 2.0!

By |2016-04-04T09:15:00-06:00April 4th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Days 090 & 091 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Update to Keto Chow review, seems he liked it

This entry is part 124 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

In his own words:

Overall, I would probably give Keto Chow a 4 out of 5. The top flavors are fantastic, and I only give 5 out of 5 for things that really blow my mind. Chris commented that the “build a month” deals are cheaper, so I’ll take a look at that. It comes to around $4 a meal after shipping, so there is quite a bit of value in ordering Keto Chow.

Honestly, if you are looking for a keto soylent option, you are probably more worried about time and health than money. The amount of hassle saved from fewer dishes, decreased time going through security at work, and cooking is worth the money. Don’t listen to me though. I’m a guy that prefers Five Guys over Eleven Madison Park and has a suitcase that hasn’t been unpacked for half a year because I hate laundry.

Jefferey Zhou posted a review of Keto Chow back on March 19. A few days ago he posted an update. While I think he’s completely crazy for scoring SnickerDoodle lowest =) it was a nice review. The clumpiness he mentions does indeed happen if you don’t mix it up a second time:

I find that after 10 minutes or so, the fiber collects in the bottom; give it a good shake to stir things up. If you don’t mix it up, you might get some clumps of fiber which are a bit weird, it’s also the #1 complaint so make sure you mix it up!

By |2016-04-01T12:20:02-06:00April 1st, 2016|Ketogenic, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Update to Keto Chow review, seems he liked it
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Day 089 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 73 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.6
  • Blood ketones: I’ll measure this evening

So after yesterday’s post where I was befuddled with the lower ketone levels in the morning, a nice redditor pointed me over to an article about the Dawn Phenomenon. That article was really cool and explained a lot, I also found a bunch of outer really interesting posts on that site. If you have some time and want to learn some really cool stuff about metabolism, insulin and fasting I would recommend checking it out.

The take-away from that article is that in the morning your body releases glucose, which in turn will lower ketones. This is normal and natural, even in ketosis. So measuring ketone levels in the morning turns out to be a bad idea. So 89 days into this experiment I’m going to start measuring ketones in the evening after I get home from work. Wish I had known that earlier.

After the crazy fasting I expected to gain back some water weight and I did not disappoint =)

Also: http://radiopaedia.org/cases/cactus-disease-paleo-induced-mineral-periostitis and http://www.questnutrition.com/quest-protein-spray-tan

By |2016-10-13T07:27:41-06:00April 1st, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 089 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 088 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 72 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 202.9
  • Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L

Alright, so I made it to 46.4 hours without eating – let’s analyze how it went!

Mood and how I felt. First off, my lack of sleep yesterday was the biggest detrimental factor in the experience. If that had not happened (thanks a lot brain!) I probably would have gone longer, maybe 48 hours, maybe 72 – dunno. I don’t think I’m going to make not eating for several days something I do often since it was rather extreme (obviously); I’ll likely continue doing intermittent fasting here and there. I think I might have also been low on electrolytes since I was feeling sluggish, then again that could have been the sleep (or lack thereof).

Let’s look at the blood results. Tuesday morning (~8 hours) I was at 0.2 mmol/L of ketones in my blood. That evening (~18 hours) when I tested myself again I was up to 1.1. The next morning (~32 hours), even though the only thing I had “eaten” was two fish oil pills the night before, I had gone down to 0.9. When I came home from work that evening and tested again (46.4 hours) my ketones were all the way up to 3.5 mmol/L. After which I had two Keto Chows (Chocolate Peanut Butter), 4 pickles and a couple spoon fulls of ham soup my awesome wife had made. When I tested my blood again this morning, my levels were all the way down to 0.6. Honestly it makes no sense why it’s down again, it just further re-enforces the notion of “don’t chase ketones, just keep calm and keto on” – or don’t do what I’m doing and test your blood every day, just keep doing keto (no cheating!) and it’ll work out. You also shouldn’t get too anxious about the scale, which brings me to…

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Weight results. Well, I came into this from a rather large (keto friendly) Easter dinner which loaded me up on salt and lots of water weight – all the way up to 208.3 lbs on Monday morning. By Tuesday morning (8 hours fasting while sleeping) I was only down to 207.8. lbs. By Wednesday morning I had dropped to 203.6, a slight up-tick Wednesday evening when I weighed myself again and as of this morning I was down again to 202.9 lbs. Monday – Thursday difference is 5.4lbs. Now it will be interesting to see if I can stick with it and continue going down. On a happy note, yesterday was also the weigh-in day for my city’s weight loss challenge. According to the scale there, I was down 6 lbs from the previous week. Nice.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:41-06:00March 31st, 2016|Keto Chow, Weight Loss, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 088 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 087 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 71 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 203.6
  • Blood ketones: 1.1 mmol/L

Looks like I had inexplicably stored up a bunch of glycogen – the difference between yesterday morning (~8 hours fasting while sleeping) and this morning (~32 hours fasting) is dramatic: 4.2 lbs down and 0.9mmol/L of ketones higher. That’s a lot of water weight! I’m still trying to decide what I’m going to do regarding eating today. I feel fine, pretty good aside from being terribly tired; but that doesn’t have anything to do with fasting, it’s the fault of my brain.

I got an email yesterday evening where a user reported getting a time-out during payment, they recommended I try a different shopping cart. I looked at a few, then went to bed. Then around midnight my brain turned on, sleep was a lost cause so I decided to research a bit since I was awake anyway. After spending a few hours setting up and then decommissioning test shopping carts with various providers here’s what I have gleaned: Shopify is a crowd favorite, until you need to calculate shipping based on dimensions (which I do). Most of the other ones also can’t handle dimensions. WooCommerce handles it just fine, it’s a standard “out of the box” feature that takes the box sizes you provide and “packs” them, then gets a shipping quote with the weight and box. I (wrongfully) assumed this would be standard with other shopping carts. The only one I found that supports it is BigCommerce, which looks fine until you get into the pricing – their highest plan allows for 3000 orders a year after which it’s and additional $80 per 1000, PER MONTH. Based on my order volume over the last year, my monthly costs would be between $500 and $700; assuming no growth. That’s nuts.

Anyway – yesterday the clouds broke for a few hours after I got home and I was able to do some work on the shed, which was a good thing since I didn’t eat dinner (the kids ate Hot Pockets, my wife had a Keto Chow) though I also fell over backwards twice, got a real nice bruise on my rear. I also ran again. I did “mess up” and technically broke my fast when I took two fish pills after brushing my teeth – 15 calories each. CRON-O-Meter says I could eat 2892 more calories to reach my weight goal. Fun Stuff =)

Here’s the first time I fell over, bonus points if you can find the second time in the video.

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By |2016-10-13T07:27:41-06:00March 30th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Day 087 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 086 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 70 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 207.8
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

Today I’m doing intermittent fasting, but for kicks I’m going to see how long I can go without eating and just running off the copious stored energy I have. I’m planning on possibly eating tomorrow, not sure though. Going off my DEXA scan I have approximately 220,000 calories stored, and going off my Resting Metabolic Rate test that means I have enough for almost 70 days. Yeah, not going to do that =) 24+ hours should be just fine. I am still drinking water (today it happens to have “Blackberry Lemonade” Crystal light in it, I also added “ElectroMix”) as dehydration would stink.

I planned on building the shed yesterday, unfortunately it was snowing pretty much all day. I did have some time to make some test batches of Keto Chow and to play around with the potential packaging. I stopped in at the container place on Friday and picked up some plastic containers to test out, of note I got the half gallon and 1 gallon square bottles. I was able to fit 30 meals of Chocolate Peanut Butter into the 1 gallon and I’m assuming I can fit 15 meals into the half gallon.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:43-06:00March 29th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Day 086 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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