Weight Loss

I’m on Day 51 of 100 where I’m eating ONLY Keto Chow for all 3 meals every day. Why am I doing this? A couple of reasons =)

1. I wanted to lose weight and possibly win my city’s weight loss challenge (I’m in 8th place as of last week)
2. I wanted to prove a point. I represent that Keto Chow is nutritionally complete. I think that if you’re going to claim something like that, you should have some sort of proof. Who better to have fun with such an experiment than me? To the best of my knowledge, the only similar thing that has ever been attempted in the keto world is when the founders of Nui ate their Keto Kookies for 7 days. Not complete nutrition but it was a start! =)
3. I wanted to do some intense science by changing the type of fat that I’m using in my 3 shakes every day.
   1. Starting February 15, I switched to ONLY using Heavy Cream. I’m currently doing 100ml per shake of 40% fat Darigold.
   2. March 1, I’ll switch to ONLY avocado oil for the fat in my shakes, that’ll run for 2 weeks.
   3. March 15, I’ll start using Avocado Oil with a tablespoon of MCT Oil in my shakes, that’ll run for 2 weeks.
   4. March 29, I’m planning on switching to Butter. This will require me to be doing the savory flavors of Keto Chow that are meant to be mixed and consumed hot. This will also run for 2 weeks and will be the final portion of the experiment.
   5. Every Friday I’m getting a blood test, on Wednesday r Thursday of the following week I should be getting the results of the tests. I’m checking my lipids and several other biomarkers. I’m also checking my blood ketones every day.

https://youtu.be/6ZPPCuLmjFQ

Anyhow. Today I had a “shower thought” – because I’m currently using heavy cream for my fat source, I’m essentially getting ALL of my calories from dairy right now. The protein is from milk protein isolate, the fat is from heavy cream, the little carbs I’m getting are also from the milk protein. It’s like I’m drinking milk that has had the sugar removed and vitamins and minerals added. I am subsisting on the byproducts of rangeland carbon sequestration and grass fermentation by ruminants. Cool!

Halfway! I am officially 50% done with my 100 days of eating nothing but Keto Chow. Honestly, it’s really been quite easy. It’s been a drag when I was cooking amazing Keto food for my family but other than that, I’m not bored with what I’m eating, not suffering any debilitating problems, the only real issue I’ve had the entire time was that I needed to take a probiotic when I switched to eating Keto Chow for all my meals to get things happy in my tummy. My first blood test of the experiment should be available for me to look at tomorrow afternoon. I suspect it will say that I am alive, my triglycerides are low, my HDL is normal, and my LDL will be quite high, not that LDL being high matters.

https://youtu.be/_lZ3dhHVWp4

We did our Facebook live last night, had some technical issues but it was great to hear from Taffiny. I think I have a solution for the technical issues so this won’t be a problem in the future, looks like https://www.golightstream.com/ is the answer. We have the Blender Bottles with the new Keto Chow logo on them up on the site, that does mean that the $1 Blender Bottle party is over =( We do still have some of the old ones but they’re now $6.50 each (which is still a really good price)

Oh man, we are so close to the half-way point! As of today I’m down 25.4lbs, my blood ketone levels were on the low side last night at 1.9mmol/L but today they are up to 2.3mmol/L (not that that really matters, still cool though). I’m still really enjoying the “just heavy cream” part of the current section, it’s really yummy.

https://youtu.be/7yzHtXs44g8

Spent all morning moving Miriam’s computer, we’re going to put Steve up front to handle walk-in customers now. I need to put up a bunch of recipes on the site today, especially since we’re going to be having Taffiny (the lady that made many of the recipes on our site) as a guest on the Facebook live we are doing tonight. Be sure to join us at 7:30 pm Mountain time!

Had a fantastic Meet-up yesterday, I think we had over 30 people here. Lots of fun! I drank my Keto Chow =)

So close to halfway! =) We’re going to go to Buffalo Wild Wings for Valentine’s Day lunch today. I’ll probably drink my Keto Chow beforehand and just tell the server that I’m fasting, that’s easier than “Well you see, I’m doing this weird experiment where I am only drinking a high-fat ketogenic meal replacement shake for 100 days and I’m currently on day 44 so I can’t eat any of your delicious wings that are deep fried in BEEF FAT and have fewer than 2g of carbs in them, so I’ll just have a drink please.” I told Miriam that I would be quite willing to go out for food but she’s been reticent to do it – something about social conventions and it being weird that I’m not eating. I’m perfectly fine not eating, it’s a lot like doing keto when there’s no viable food available and so you just don’t eat – same thing =). Speaking of beef fat, I did finally get the squares of rendered beef fat that I made from the trimmings off the brisket, cut up and put into the freezer. So I have probably 2-3lbs of those now that I can use for cooking in the future and it was way better than throwing all that away! I’ll probably use some to deep fry chicken wings sometime after April 12.

Only got a kinda half-dinner yesterday, we were doing some short videos to promote Keto Chow and part of it involved drinking some Keto Chow – except I didn’t drink a whole one because I only have my breakfast and lunch ones and the one we were using as a prop was half full. All-in it was a good experience though we were inordinately tired after it was all done. Normally the videos I shoot are just me improvising in front of the camera, these had a bit of a script and took a bunch of takes.