100 Days of Keto Chow

Here we are, day 85, 17/20 through my experiment! Everything is going fine on the nutrition front – nothing much to report on that. I did answer a relevant question on the keto subreddit yesterday from a person that wanted to know if they can eat the same thing every day: https://bit.ly/2JHEboZ

This morning I received my most recent blood test results. They’re interesting, to say the least. This week I was recovering from a cold AND I was using 45ml of Avocado Oil + 15ml of MCT oil in each shake. Compared to the previous 2 weeks where I was using only avocado oil, there was a MASSIVE change in my LDL (particularly small LDL) and my Triglycerides. My HDL has continued to go down (and likely won’t come up until I begin the butter portion later this week). You can get the full data from my shared spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/2HMIMUo

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSJhZxs47tBqgJOHEEoM_y2h44AO4IY3iYMcivH71AQFg-Ztdzf8D0g84t643iyyi-Bq-QhHhUMLWac/pubchart?oid=394107758&format=interactive

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSJhZxs47tBqgJOHEEoM_y2h44AO4IY3iYMcivH71AQFg-Ztdzf8D0g84t643iyyi-Bq-QhHhUMLWac/pubchart?oid=1649903602&format=interactive

I’m stalled out a little on my weight loss – holding steady at a 38.7 lb loss since I started this 86 days ago. Today is my final day of doing all of my fat in the form of 45ml of Avocado Oil and 15ml of MCT (per meal), starting tomorrow I’ll be doing 66.67g of salted butter per meal (200g per day) and continuing that for 2 weeks to finish out the experiment. I prefer heavy cream to Avocado Oil and I’m guessing that I’ll quite enjoy the butter. I’m planning on making a video showing how we mix up the butter so it doesn’t separate out when refrigerated.

One of our friends asked yesterday why I think I’ve lost 38+ pounds doing only Keto Chow compared to normal food. Here are my answers:

Yesterday I finished cutting together the “behind the scenes” footage from the commercial shoot. We’re planning on showing that, along with the commercial, in a week or two – doing it on YouTube as a “premier” so that everyone can watch it together for the first time. Should be cool stuff!

Butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, butter, BUTTER!

Last night we mixed up a bunch of meals of Keto Chow with butter as the fat source, 3 meals at a time using an immersion blender and warm water; then we poured them out into blender bottles and stuck them in the fridge. I think I did 6 meals of Creamy Tomato Basil, 6 of Chocolate Mint, and either 3 or 6 of regular Chocolate. I tasted the Chocolate Mint in the video that accompanies this post, it was good. Keto Chow with Avocado Oil is fine, especially if you mix it with a blender, but I personally like the Heavy Cream more and I think I like it with butter best. I have an empty mug of Chocolate Mint on my desk that is making me pretty sad. I’ll be having some of the tomato for lunch later today, that’ll be happy times (until it’s gone too).

Went to LabCorp this morning to get my latest blood draw. The phlebotomist started recognizing me finally and remembered my weird experiment. So that was fun =)

Hey there, welcome to day 88! I did start losing weight again after about a week-long stall. As of now, I’m down 39.7lbs since starting this challenge on January 2.

I’m here at the office for just a bit and then on my way to help my dad. Today for lunch I’m drinking Chocolate Keto Chow with BUTTER as the fat source. Didn’t even bother heating it up, I’m just drinking it cold and enjoying it. Because you have to heat the water to get the butter to emulsify, the heat causes the cocoa powder to separate once it cools. A good shake fixes that right up but it’s interesting. The Chocolate Peanut Butter and Mocha should have the same issues but none of the other ones likely will. Here’s my Breakfast, Dinner, and Lunch: Creamy Tomato Basil, Chocolate Mint, and Chocolate.

Before Shaking	After Shaking

Hoo boy, day 89! I did Chocolate and Chocolate Mint Keto Chow with butter for breakfast and lunch, didn’t even bother heating them up – the butter was fantastic. I think when I’m done with the 100 days, I’m going to stick with using butter a fair majority of the time. I think butter would also be a great option for travel, TSA doesn’t care about butter ?

See you all on day 90, I have some cool stuff for tomorrow so watch out for it!

Wowsers, here we are at 90% of the way through my 100 days of only eating Keto Chow for all of my meals! I have to say: using butter in Keto Chow is absolutely fantastic. Chocolate is a little weird because if it’s heated, the cocoa powder settles over time (I covered that in depth on Day 88) but it just needs a good shake. I’m going to need to mix up some more Keto Chow with butter tomorrow and I’ll have the camera at home in order to do the weekly Facebook Live so I’m planning on recording a short video showing the process that I’m using to mix it up. The short version is: use warm water, melted butter, and a blender/immersion blender; pour it into containers for storage (we use blender bottles), and either drink it cold the next few days or you can reheat it.

It should be noted that today we launched a new flavor of Keto Chow and the Chocolate Keto Chow is the Flavor of the week and correspondingly 10% off for the large 21 meal bags.

Quick update today, we’re going to go set up a booth at a local conference this morning so I gotta be done really quickly.

Not much to report, the experiment is still going well. I got a crown on one of my molars yesterday, for whatever reason (likely because it’s on the top), my teeth don’t hurt at all today. That’s cool.

We’re at the Associated Foods show, it’s mostly store buyers wanting to get wholesale information ?

Getting my meals ready involved stopping for 5 seconds at the fridge and grabbing 2 blender bottles of Keto Chow to throw in the cooler. Easy stuff!

Can’t believe it’s day 93 already (and not butter… actually it is butter, yum!). It’s been interesting talking to people about Keto Chow, they’ll frequently ask if you can eat it for all of your meals if you’re just too lazy to cook. I’ll chuckle and say “actually yes, I’m on day X where it’s the only thing that I’ve eaten for all of my meals – since January 2” They usually blink a few times and have a TON of follow-up questions. Using your own product like this REALLY has some serious benefits for showing people that you mean what you say and truly believe in the product and what you claim it to be.

I got up and going early so I could come into the office and get a little bit of work (and this post/video) done before heading to the show again today. I’m not sure what we’re getting out of the convention. It’s more for large food manufacturers that are showing their stuff to supermarkets. The most frequent questions we get asked are “are you in the [associated foods] catalog?” and “are you in the [associated foods] warehouse?” Nope, we are not. We are in OUR warehouse and we have a forklift to load trucks. The prospect of going for retail is interesting but comes with a lot of overhead (figurative and literal) and I’m not sure it’s where we should devote some of our time and energy. Interestingly enough, one big takeaway for us is that the Ketogenic Diet (or “keto”) is now hitting the mainstream in a big way. Many of the people that we talked to were ones that are currently doing keto and were interested in Keto Chow for their own personal use (including people running bakeries and caramel businesses). We’re not allowed to sell at the show but several of the other smaller “local” vendors placed orders on our site last night, a few we’re shipping direct and one we’re bringing her order with us to the show today =)

Hello and welcome to Day 94! I have my penultimate blood test today and I received the blood test results from myself and Beverly yesterday – those are both up on the spreadsheet (look for the “100 Days of Keto Charts” tab for the easy to read graphs): https://bit.ly/2HMIMUo

I’m quite happy to be back from the convention. Every time I do one of these it seems like my email inbox explodes. I prefer to keep it completely empty with every message taken care of. When I’m at a convention, there are a lot of things I simply can’t address on my phone and need my actual desktop, so it sits there and festers, gnawing at my brain.