chris

Did a new “official” weigh-in for DietBet today, it’s actually for exactly what my 4% is supposed to be to “win” DietBet. You always weigh more with clothes and stuff on – I went back and weighed myself again after taking a shower and it was 2.7 lbs lower =)

I got the results from the city weight loss challenge last night, according to them I’m in 13th place with a 3.84% loss. I expected a lot of people to lose REALLY a lot the first week, mostly of water weight and the #1 person is down 7.67% or 14.9 lbs. We’ll see how well persistent loss works out =)

1/10 of the way done, see that was easy, right?

Yesterday we did the taste tests. It was actually a lot of fun and REALLY interesting to watch. We were on one side of a two-way mirror in a darkened room, watching people taste different keto meal replacements for nearly 6 hours. Some people would react visibly, others showed no signs of what they were thinking at all. One of the biggest confounders was that one of the products uses a lot of ground nuts and such for the fat and those settle so quickly that the participants had to stir up and swirl each cup before testing – and some didn’t so they just tasted the watery part. From what we saw, Keto Chow is definitely going to come out as the winner but we won’t have the statistical analysis for a few weeks.

Today I’m drinking one of the new test flavors: Spicy Taco Soup. I think it’s a nice change and I also think we have all of the 3 that we’re going to do finalized. We tested the Beef Stew flavor and the Clam Chowder flavor again today, they were good but I think people will want to add beef, veggies and such to the beef and will want to add clams, cauliflower, bacon, and such to the clam chowder. Then we thought “hey, what if we don’t have any added flavor – then people can use it as a base for whatever they want” BOOM. We tried that, just the full mix including the beef protein and beef bone broth and it tasted actually pretty good, without an overpowering flavor you’d need to overcome with the stuff you add. So now I get to start working on the 3 we decided on:

• Beef Soup Base (the unflavored one)
• Spicy Taco Soup
• Creamy Tomato Basil

Let’s see how quickly I can get it all done =P

I’m still going well on the “just eating Keto Chow” – Oh Hello Bakery brought by some of their stuff yesterday, they feel bad “tempting” me with it – meh; I’m a big boy, I can handle it! This morning I mixed up a couple test batches of the Spicy Taco flavored stuff I’m experimenting with, we’ll see which flavor concentration tastes the best. Yesterday’s test of the Creamy Tomato Basil went really well, the consensus was the one with more flavoring was better – the only problem is it uses 33% more flavoring which will increase the price accordingly. I did get detailed nutritional information on the ingredients I’m playing around with and each meal of the Tomato Basil should have 0.96g of net carbs – that’s actually far better than I had anticipated, adding heavy cream adds another 2-4g, using butter or bacon fat should add virtually no additional carbs.

Today we’re going to be doing our blind taste test, REALLY looking forward to it! It took quite a long time last night to mix up all of the stuff. 4 different products in 2-liter pitchers, one in the bottles they come in.

Went to the city offices for my first weigh in today. Got on the scale, it said I was down 9.0 lbs from last week, NICE! (that correlates to the 7.6 lb loss I’m showing on my own scale) The guy doing the weigh-in said: “wait, that’s not right…” Apparently, the lady who wrote down my weight last week messed up and wrote down the wrong weight. The guy was wondering how on earth I had GAINED 30 lbs in a week. I attribute it to the severed limb I had reattached (not actually) on Friday. Anyway, he fixed it.

We did our weekly Facebook LIVE yesterday, we weren’t even late! You should watch it. I’ll wait.

Just before I left work yesterday I was able to mix up a batch of the test Beef-based Savory Keto Chow so I could do some more flavor testing. This morning I have two different variants of the Tomato Basil Soup mixed up. I’m testing the flavoring concentration to see if we need more or less of the flavoring and/or the powdered tomato concentrate. Mixing it up this morning went really well. I cannot recommend ENOUGH how well it works to mix up hot Keto Chow in a HydroFlask, especially compared to how difficult it is in a Blender Bottle. I should probably do a video about that…