Weight Loss

Well, the DietBet is all finalized and done. Looks like each person that lost 4% or more of their body weight ended up getting a grand total of $13.41 from their $10 entry fee. what is that? A 34% return after 4 weeks? It’s not a TON of money but it’s better than nothing I guess. I did another challenge that was $30 entry and I won $36.16 and the 3rd one I did was a $100 entry and I got back $100 – I’m guessing that means that enough people “Won” that the split for each person was less than the entry so DietBet was true to their word and we got back all of the entry fee.

I’ve been going through and verifying everyone’s weights to determine the 3 Keto Chow prize winners – I’m waiting just a little bit longer for any stragglers. If you still need to put in your entry, please hurry! Here is the form: https://goo.gl/forms/ybjOvsYjG5jsNfB32

For any that have met up at trade shows: Steve is now working here at Keto Chow full-time. We have some stuff coming down the pipeline in the next few months and we need to get ready to go so we’re not slammed =). Steve thinks we need a smoker here at the office.

Day 30. I had someone on Reddit ask how it’s been doing an all-liquid diet for the last month. Really the only issue I’ve had is that I needed to take a probiotic to deal with the digestive issues that cropped up (finally did that on day 16). Other than that, it’s gone just fine. I haven’t overeaten anything, I occasionally get hungry until I get distracted by work or something and then finally eat like 6 hours later when I remember I was “hungry” (actually more like I was BORED). I haven’t had to take vitamins, though I do still need to take magnesium due to a fun family trait of needing rather hefty supplementation of magnesium. My beard was getting longer until I trimmed it, don’t think that has anything to do with my diet though. As of yesterday, I was down 18.3 lbs since I started all this. All-in-all I think the experiment is going quite well. I did remember yesterday that I’m planning on doing some longer fasts right before the final weigh-in for the city contest. Guess I need to get working on preparation for that.

We did our weekly Facebook Live broadcast last night. I have the video for that encoding on my laptop in UHD 4K right now, I think I need a faster computer. Maybe a Ryzen Threadripper. That sounds like a totally legitimate business expense. On the live, we talked about doing Chocolate Keto Chow hot with butter, so I mixed that up this morning, looking forward to trying it! Update: it tastes AMAZING!

Did my weigh-in for the City contest, going off what I remember, I believe they have me losing 1.58% of my body weight since last week. I grabbed the PDF table they sent out last week, turned it into a spreadsheet, and calculated where I was last Wednesday in the total loss – looks like I’m in 11th place last week with a 7.16% loss, 8.89% if you include today.

I also did my final weigh-in for the Keto Chow DietBet challenge this morning. When I started the challenge, I assumed (incorrectly) that as the organizer of the DietBet I would be able to see a leaderboard or something so I could easily determine the winners of the additional prizes we are giving out. Yeah, not so much. I have to look at each person’s public profile and see what percentage they’ve lost, one-by-one. To help accomplish this and maintain my sanity, I have a google sheets form for people to fill out right here: https://goo.gl/forms/ybjOvsYjG5jsNfB32

The form will take you through each step of getting the info I need. If you participated, please fill out the form, even if you didn’t lose the 4% and don’t think you’ll win the grand prizes, I’m going to email everyone that participated and fills out the form a consolation prize (OK, it’ll be a coupon for Keto Chow). So please do it!

Happy Monday everybody! There’s only one day left in the Keto Chow Diet Bet Challenge so get ready and remember: if you’ve been weighing yourself “unofficially” you will likely weight 2-3lbs more when wearing clothing. Speaking of which here’s how we’re going to figure out the winners of the Keto Chow gift cards:

When I started the challenge, I assumed (incorrectly) that as the organizer of the DietBet I would be able to see a leaderboard or something so I could easily determine the winners. Yeah, not so much. I have to look at each person’s public profile and see what percentage they’ve lost, one-by-one. To help accomplish this and maintain my sanity, I have a google sheets form for people to fill out. You can access that here: https://goo.gl/forms/rpoRT58qYuYtk9RH3 You’ll want to fill out the form AFTER your final weigh-in is approved, sometime after tomorrow when the challenge ends or it will not have the last official weigh-in which is the one that counts

The form will take you through each step of getting the info I need. If you participated, please fill out the form, even if you didn’t lose the 4% and don’t think you’ll win the grand prizes, I’m going to email everyone that participated and fills out the form a consolation prize (OK, it’ll be a coupon for Keto Chow). So please do it!

Alright, enough about that. Let’s talk about the Keto Chow I mixed up last night: I’m switching from 100ml of heavy cream + 15ml of MCT oil in each Keto Chow shake to 60ml of heavy cream + 20ml of avocado oil + 15ml of MCT oil. That will modulate my net carbs for each day from 10.3g down to 6.7g. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects my ketone levels. Also, the avocado oil will make the kids less likely to steal my Keto Chow from the fridge. I’ve started mixing up 5-6 just for them to have, we’ll call it “cannon fodder” =).

Customary short Sunday update. We’re having family over for tacos tonight, I’ll be drinking Keto Chow ?

Not to name drop or anything =) but I just got a call from Dave Feldman who had questions about mixing up the Savory Chicken Soup Keto Chow – For any that have the same question, you go here: https://old.ketochow.xyz/keto-chow-preparation/ and then click on the orange button for the Chicken Soup instructions. Dave can call me any time he wants, though I may not answer if it’s 1 am and I’m sleeping.

Today is day 25. I’m 1/4 of the way done with my 100 days of Keto Chow only challenge and 59% of the way done with the 42 day weight loss focused segment. According to my bathroom scale, I’m currently 16.7 lbs down from January 2 following a bit of a stall last weekend. Weight loss is not linear and speeds up and slows down a lot. If I were to extrapolate out my 16.7lb loss to the remainder of the 100 days, that would be almost 70lbs and there’s no freaking way I’m going to lose that much so I’m not going to get worked up about it and set myself up for disappointment when my unrealistic goals aren’t met =)

Anyhow, I’m drinking Strawberry Keto Chow (regular) this morning and I think I have Banana and maybe some Chocolate Mint for the remainder of the day. As soon as I get done with today’s post I’m going to get a package of pork ribs going for dinner tonight. I’d do them in the smoker but:

1. It’s covered in 2 feet of snow right now
2. I have a bunch of stuff I need to do today and I want to just put them in the oven, wrapped in foil, and get on with my day
3. I don’t want to be missing out on smoked ribs – yes I’m that selfish =P

I keep forgetting to report on my weight loss. As of today (day 24) I’m down 15.8 lbs from my starting weight. There are only 4 days left in the DietBet challenge!

I blew a 233 ppm breath acetone on the LEVL this morning, my blood Ketones were 2.1 mmol/dL – so I’m still doing well on all that. Dinner was leftovers so that wasn’t an issue =) I do think that I might have used some heavy cream that was borderline and the bottles of Keto Chow I mixed up with it are getting a bit iffy. They are still OK to drink for today but I might have to toss out 5 or 6, which sucks =( So goes life. Sometimes people will contact us because their Keto Chow tasted wrong, most of the time it’s due to heavy cream that went bad on them. Easiest fix is to simply taste the heavy cream by its self and see if anything is wrong. I guess it’s good for people to know that I’m not immune to having it happen to me too. I think that carton of heavy cream went bad quickly because it was the one that was used at the most recent Keto Meat-Up for making diet root beer+heavy cream Italian sodas. The time without refrigeration shortened its time.

Here at the Keto Chow office, we’re getting all official and stuff. Yesterday we put up a KanBan board so that we could manage what we’re working on and the backlog of stuff to do. This morning we’ll hold our first “Stand-up.” Late last night I enrolled in the “Keto Chow LLC 401(k)” plan. In about a week, the group health insurance plan begins, I’ll finally be off COBRA – took almost exactly a year.

The 100 days of Keto Chow are still going really well. I ended up drinking breakfast and lunch between 1 and 3 with dinner at 7 last night. The probiotic is still doing an amazing job. I think I have the “Garden of Life” one that I got from Costco. It says to refrigerate after opening and despite being like 2 years past the “best by” date, it’s still working great.

For any that are curious, I finally got the floor of our closet completely cleared and I vacuumed last night.

There was a discussion on Reddit recently about high-oleic sunflower oil. Normal sunflower oil is very high in poly-unstable fats that rapidly oxidize and cause problems, similar to soybean oil that the AHA loves so much because of how much they get paid by the soybean industry. High oleic sunflower oil comes from modified sunflowers that make more mono-unstable fats, similar to what you get from fruit oils like avocado and olive, that’s a good thing. The bad thing about high oleic sunflower oil is that it is much lower in saturated/stable fats compared to avocado or olive. Based on my own experiments, I try to get as much saturated/stable fat as I possibly can; with the rest mostly as mono-unstable, and as little poly-unstable as I can possibly get – with most of that as Omega 3s. The cool thing about all of this is there are actual math and science that you can use to determine how healthy a fat is for you. Dr. Michael Eades had a fantastic presentation at Low Carb Breckenridge last year that explains it all.