Ketogenic Soylent

Revised labels

This entry is part 71 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I changed the Keto Chow labels to include a 3 columns: no cream/oil, 50ml of heavy cream, and for 119ml of heavy cream, representing approximately 454, 1300 and 2000 calories/day (3 meals) respectively.

Here are the new labels, you can expect to see them appearing on packages probably around the time I get back from vacation:

Butter Cream Toffee Label
Cafe Mocha Label
Chocolate Fudge Label
Chocolate Mint Label
Cinnamon Bun Label
Cookies and Cream Label
Gourmet Vanilla Label
Pina Colada Label
Rich Chocolate Label
Smooth Banana Label
Strawberry Blast Label

Here are the macronutrients for just 50g of keto chow powder with no oil and no cream:
Keto Chow - just 50g powder

By chris|2016-10-13T07:28:09-06:00June 16th, 2015|Keto Chow, Ketogenic, Soylent|2 Comments

Coconut Cream as a possible substitute for heavy cream in Keto Chow

This entry is part 72 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

A comment on another post asked about the feasibility of using coconut cream for Keto Chow.

It just might work.

I looked into “Trader Joe’s Coconut Cream”:

coconut-cream-facts

I calculated for 250ml of this Coconut Cream for a target kCal/day of 1300 (same as 50ml of heavy cream. It ups the NET carbs from 12g to 20g/day which isn’t optimal but should work fine. It is significantly more expensive though, the 250ml costs around $3.50 a day, compared to $0.75 for the same amount of calories from heavy cream. I also don’t have figures for the Omega 3 and 6 content so those end up red on the recipe editor.

Still, I’m going to grab some and give it a try, see how it goes. For those that can’t handle heavy cream, this might be a viable option. Update: here are the results.

By chris|2016-10-13T07:28:08-06:00June 19th, 2015|Soylent, Keto Chow, Ketogenic, Preparation|2 Comments

Keto+8 months=55

This entry is part 73 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

Yesterday marked 8 months doing ketogenic “soylent”, and the day before that was my 20 year High School reunion. At the reunion I kept getting “wow, you look exactly the same!” probably because the organizers made us name tags that had our Senior portraits on them. If I remember correctly I was about 200 when I started my senior year and about 210 when I graduated. so technically I weighed a bit less then 20 years prior. I was really working on hitting One-derland before the reunion but didn’t quite make it =( It was nice to be the skinny(er) guy for a change. It was also nice that the dinner had keto friendly foods: Prime rib, as well as some meats and cheeses. Should have gotten a second plate of prime rib.

About a week ago I finally broke through my stall. I had been moving up and down between 206 and 211 for nearly a month. I’m thinking the likely culprit was Malitol which is a “sugar alcohol” that isn’t absorbed and used as quickly as glucose but it still eventually gets through. Other sugar alcohols are much better (Erythrotol and Xylotol) and aren’t a problem. Unfortunately most “sugar free” candy uses malitol so I stopped eating any of that and my weight started moving again.

Weight progress up until today. 55.4 lbs down in 8 months.

Taken 4 days after I started Keto, weighed 257.8 lbs when I started

Weighed 202.4 lbs this morning, if all goes well I’m going to hit <200 this week!

High School senior portrait. Taken back in 1994. I think I was somewhere between 200 and 210 at the time.

The smaller blender bottles work fine for Keto Chow

This entry is part 74 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

For kicks last night I mixed up some Keto Chow in one of the smaller blender bottles that I got a loooong time ago. Turns out they work just fine for Keto Chow with the only “issue” that you end up with a noticeably thicker mixture, which isn’t really a bad thing. I’m going to start using the two small ones I have on a regular basis, especially for when I’m going somewhere and need to bring keto chow in a cooler.

Super awesome review of Keto Chow

This entry is part 75 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

Every few days I check my web stats and see where people are coming from. Got a fun surprise today: http://www.insignificant.info/blog-native/2015/6/24/ketochow-diet

Includes quite entertaining commentary (make sure you click the numbered notations, I missed them the first time, they’re really funny), along with a super official “Appendix” where he ranks the different flavors. Personally I think he’s wrong about Rich Chocolate (it’s one of my favorite flavors and my biggest seller) but that’s a matter of personal taste =)

Coconut Cream with Keto Chow: possible, but I didn’t like it

This entry is part 76 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

So I tried using Coconut Cream in my Keto Chow instead of Heavy Cream. It works but it wasn’t very pleasant. Since many people do Keto Chow at a higher calorie amount (2000 calories a day instead of 1300) I decided I would try using enough coconut cream to hit 2358 calories/day to see if it’s something that a rational person would try. I’ve done keto chow at the same calories before, it was more creamy but otherwise wasn’t very different from the 1300 cal version.

So I ended up using 250ml of coconut cream in one blender bottle, it filled more than half of the bottle by its self. It mixed up OK but after letting it chill out for a few hours I tried it. It was thick, like crazy thick, like nacho cheese sauce thick. After I drank about 1/4 of the bottle I added more water to dilute it a bit. The coconut flavor came through pretty strong (I used vanilla Keto Chow) and wasn’t very pleasant. I finished the bottle but it’s not something I want to ever do again. So while it’s possible to replace heavy cream with coconut cream, unless you really like the taste of coconut and only want 1100-1300 calories a day I would recommend against it. It also costs quite a bit; the 250ml I used works out to be $5.65 (for just the coconut cream alone!).

199.1

This entry is part 77 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

This morning the scale hit under 200 for the first time since… well, probably 1998. For kicks I tried to take a picture but the scale was acting up and gave me numbers higher than 200. I’m going to live in denial and accept the first pronouncement. And hows about a photo? On the left you have two pictures (from the same day) taken in mid October 2014 during the “DreamForce” conference I weighed about 255 at the time. On the right you have yesterday.

Great write up about mixing Keto Chow

This entry is part 78 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

Same guy who did that excellent review of Keto Chow posted another (hilarious yet informative) write up about how he mixes up Keto Chow: http://www.insignificant.info/blog-native/2015/6/29/ketochow-prep-accessories

It’s a good read, make sure you don’t miss the footnotes.

Back from vacation, getting out the backlog

This entry is part 79 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

We got home from our vacation Saturday evening (the kids didn’t even notice it was “free Slurpee day”) and we had a few hours after unpacking to get some orders out. The week before we left I built up inventory in anticipation of a lot of orders and that’s what I came back to =). I didn’t have enough on hand to fill all of the ones that came in while I was on vacation (In particular, I’m like 10 short on Strawberry and I won’t have more of that until Tuesday) but 75 out of 95 isn’t bad! I filled up the night drop boxes of the 2 post offices nearest me so the packages would be going out first thing today. I’m anticipating I’ll have the backlog completely gone by Tuesday when I get a new shipment of protein powder in.

Glycemic Load and Index

This entry is part 80 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

There is a pretty interesting thread on Reddit about the glycemic load of the official Rosa Labs Soylent 1.5 and how it has twice the glycemic load as Coca Cola. It got me thinking: I wonder what the glycemic index of Keto Chow would be. I already know that it has virtually no detectable impact on blood sugar levels (at least in my own n=1 test). How would I test?

This is from http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/1/247S.full

The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of the blood glucose-raising ability of the available carbohydrate in foods defined as the incremental area under the glycemic response curve (AUC) elicited by a portion of food containing 50 g available carbohydrate expressed as a percentage of the AUC elicited by 50 g glucose in the same subject.

OK, so in summary: you give 50g of pure glucose to a study participant and check their blood sugar at intervaals for 2 hours. Then you wait a long time (you have to be fasting for quite a while before hand) and do it again but with 50g of “available” (NET) carbohydrates. I don’t think I could test using the generally accepted testing procedure since Keto Chow only has (depending on the flavor) 12g of non-fiber carbohydrates per day. So you would need to consume 4 days worth of keto chow (again, I’m not talking about 4 meals, I’m talking about 12 meals!) to get the 50g necessary. That’s nuts.

The Rich Chocolate flavor of Keto Chow has one of the higher net carbs with 6.0g of net carbs per meal. or roughly the same as 1.5 teaspoons of D-glucose (aka: “Dextrose” which is the same as glucose). So I suppose I could test 1 meal of Rich Chocolate and compare it to 6g of D-Glucose. But again, it’ll be a n=1 test and not of much value other than “gee whiz!”. I’ll still probably do it but not for a while.

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