Keto Success Stories & Experiments

I’m tired this morning – doesn’t have anything to do with what I’m eating, has everything to do with not enough sleep in the last 3 days. I’m REALLY happy it’s Friday and I get to sleep in tomorrow. Or at least that’s the plan, typically my brain wakes up at 4:30 on weekends and won’t be quiet, too much stuff to do. Anyhow, here’s to hoping! Driving to and from Heber, Utah was interesting yesterday – a few hours after we came back an avalanche closed the road, that’s how hard it was snowing. We went to the Real Salt offices where they package the Redmond salt for human consumption as Real Salt. At other facilities they make industrial and equine products (salt licks, horses LOVE them). It was interesting because the horses like the stuff that’s higher in minerals – almost dark red, humans like the salt with less of that so they use the purest white (which is still quite pink) areas of the mine for us. We’re going to take our kids on a tour of the mine in a while, should be fantastic.

I brought along a bottle of Keto Chow because it was a lunch (though technically, I was eating breakfast) and I wouldn’t be eating any of the food they had. Surprisingly, they actually had some legitimately keto food there. Real Salt has been getting bigger into keto and the people making the food for the luncheon knew what was going on. One of the highlights was meeting Caitlyn McCleery of caytsmeatsandmeals on Instagram she does keto off and on but mostly makes amazing meat. We’re planning on attending some of her cooking classes and seeing if we can bring her on a Facebook LIVE in the next while.

I think today is finally the day that for realsies we will be getting the large bottles of the reformulated Fasting Drops and the Electrolyte Drops (which used to be called Fasting Drops), looking forward to that. We’ll get the smaller pocket bottles later

My 100 days of nothing but Keto Chow are still going well. I’m down 14.4 lbs from my starting weight 16 days ago. Yesterday we went to the Ice Castles, to get there in time the kids ate dinner before I got home and I drank my Root Beer Float Keto Chow while driving, worked out great. I always tell people that if they’re having digestive problems on keto; or with Keto Chow, specifically: take a probiotic. I finally took my own advice. The probiotics fixed up any issues I was having within hours.

Today, Miriam and I are driving back up to Heber, Utah (right by the ice castles) to visit the Real Salt people. They’re coming to the Keto Salt Lake conference and invited us up for a tour of their facility, and lunch. I’ll be drinking Keto Chow =) We’ll need to leave early to get up there and I’m trying to have everything ready in place for if/when the electrolyte drops and fasting drops get here so they can go live right away. I’ll likely need to do some clean-up and photoshopping and such when we get back from Heber.

We did our Facebook LIVE last night, you can check out the recording here. The 100 day challenge is still going fine – This morning I grabbed two Chocolate Mint out of the fridge for breakfast and for lunch, should be yummy! Yesterday we launched our new logo and I’ve been busy putting that in place everywhere I can remember. If you see the old logo somewhere that isn’t on an old package photo, let me know!

We’re supposed to be getting the reformulated Fasting Drops and the Electrolyte Drops today, though it may be tomorrow before we get those. Still, I get to change the pages around and all that so that people are aware of the changes. Aside from that I just finished making a backup image of my laptop hard drive and getting ready to reinstall everything from scratch either later today or tomorrow.

2 weeks down, a bunch more to go. Things are still going well on my “only eating Keto Chow” challenge. No boredom, no desire to “cheat” – I had Chocolate Mint, Raspberry Cheesecake, and Root Beer Float for my meals yesterday, it had been a REALLY long time since I had the root beer, it was really yummy. Yesterday I tested my blood ketones using my Keto-Mojo and it showed 4.0 mmol/dL – that’s really getting up there! In the past, I’ve seen as high as 5.8 but I doubt I’ll get that high using heavy cream because it has more net carbs compared to doing oil.

Speaking of which, let’s talk about net carbs and tracking. Way back in the day I was using MyFitnessPal – they have some interesting social stuff and a really large database of user-submitted data. They also have a really large database of user-submitted data, and it seems like the majority of the user-submitted data is, well, trash. When there are 5 entries for “Salted Butter” – each with completely different data, especially the number of carbs, it gets a little old. So, several years ago I switched over to Cron-O-Meter. Unlike MFP, Cron-o-Meter uses a curated database so every entry is verified as accurate. It also has a “Keto” setting and will calculate your net carbs (with or without sugar alcohols). Really cool stuff. I have a full article about how to track your net carbs and set up Cron-o-meter, you should check it out. Here’s my Cron-o-meter entry for yesterday:

New week, Mondays are always fun ?! My scale says I’m down 11.2 lbs since starting 13 days ago, probably because I mostly did a water fast yesterday.

Yesterday we had some of our neighbors over for dinner. The lady does keto, her husband… he eats what she cooks =) Anyhow, we made beef with broccoli and a Ham fried rice cauliflower that Carrie Brown happened to have made the recipe for last week, perfect timing! Everybody seemed to love the food, I drank my Keto Chow ? – I did plan ahead a bit and made the Spicy Taco Soup flavor, when I went to drink it from the Hydroflask it was still crazy hot so I poured it into a mug, it was still hot so I added a bit of cheese. Still Keto Chow! It was the first (and only) thing I ate yesterday so I figured it was a good idea.

Before I went to bed last night I mixed up a bunch of Keto Chow for this coming week. I got a bag of Chocolate Mint and one of Root Beer last week (two of my new favorites) so I used those along with some Raspberry Cheesecake and plain Chocolate. Looking forward to having my Chocolate Mint hot for breakfast today!

Not much of an update (you should expect such on Sundays =)