Keto Chow

Day 060 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 49 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.9
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

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.

By |2016-03-03T08:22:35-07:00March 3rd, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|2 Comments
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Day 059 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 48 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.5
  • Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L

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.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:48-06:00March 2nd, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|6 Comments
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Day 058 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 47 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.1
  • Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L

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.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:48-06:00March 1st, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|2 Comments
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Days 055, 056 & 057 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 46 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 204.8
  • Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L
  • Weight: 204.1
  • Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L
  • Weight: 205.7
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

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.

By |2016-02-29T08:54:40-07:00February 29th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Days 055, 056 & 057 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 054 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 45 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.0
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

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!

By |2016-03-01T06:54:29-07:00February 26th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 054 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 053 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 44 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.0
  • Blood ketones: 0.8 mmol/L

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.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:49-06:00February 25th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Day 053 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 052 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 43 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.3
  • Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L

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:

  • Nova Max – 0.5mmol/L
  • Precision Xtra – 0.6mmol/L

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”

By |2016-02-24T07:50:14-07:00February 24th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 052 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 051 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 42 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.5
  • Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L

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

 

By |2016-10-13T07:27:50-06:00February 23rd, 2016|Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 051 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Days 049 & 050 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 41 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.4
  • Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L
  • Weight: 206.4
  • Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L

Still down from last week, last night there was asparagus and really good salad so I ate some. It’s funny: trying to do 100% keto chow what I consider “cheating” is still eating keto friendly food =).

Last night I made 2 batches of 6 Chocolate Peanut Butter Keto Chow, looking forward to it. I would have made 3 batches since it only take a few more minutes but I didn’t have enough clean bottles in the cupboard. Turns out there were two in my backpack from THURSDAY. Fortunately for me I always try to wash out my blender bottles at work and then let them dry so the bottles have a slight dried residue instead of really nasty 4 day old keto chow.

By |2016-02-22T08:24:21-07:00February 22nd, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Days 049 & 050 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 048 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 40 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 205.9
  • Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L

Hey, only up 0.1 and still down like 3 from 2 days ago. I’ll consider that a win. Today I’m trying something new: powdered coconut oil in my Keto Chow. Cost wise it works out to be $0.89 per day compared to $0.59 for the same 301 calories. $0.30 isn’t bad. In a previous post I talked about a powdered MCT oil that used maltodextrin as a “powdering” agent – maltodextrin is essentially pure carbs and isn’t suitable for ketosis at all. Quest, the makers of the ever popular Quest Bars makes a powdered MCT oil that uses corn fiber as the powdering agent. In theory it has 0 net carbs. The MCT oil powder is a little pricey but their powdered coconut oil is a larger container (20 oz. vs. 16) and it’s less expensive. The only problem: regular coconut oil doesn’t like refrigerated liquids and turns into big clumps; maybe powdered coconut oil is different?

Last night I made a test batch of 6 blender bottles in a gallon pitcher and replaced the normal 78ml of MCT oil with 86g of powdered coconut oil. The immersion blender did a fine job of mixing it all up, then it was into the fridge overnight! This morning I tested the result and it was completely unremarkable. Win! Now if I could only find this in large bulk bags that would be awesome. I’m still wary of the “corn fiber” not impacting ketosis but I can test that.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:52-06:00February 20th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|1 Comment
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