It’s been a crazy morning. First I went and did my first blood draw for the science portion of the 100 day experiment, got another 6L of liquid nitrogen, and then proceeded to have a bunch of intensive business meetings. Didn’t even get my daily video recorded until almost noon!
Everything is still going swell here on day 46. I made a bunch of the Keto Chow drop biscuits this afternoon, they’re pretty much freaking awesome. I did taste a little, and spat it into the garbage. Although it does have Keto Chow, it’s also almond flour and eggs and I’m in the science portion of the experiment now so I need to maintain clean variables. Would be absolutely fantastic with some keto sausage gravy!
We’re hosting a keto meet-up here in just a few minutes so I gotta run!
Had a fantastic Meet-up yesterday, I think we had over 30 people here. Lots of fun! I drank my Keto Chow =)
Had a fantastic dinner last night – even me =) Everyone else had a bunch of Lasagna. We octupled the recipe – actually had half left over this morning which the kids made short work of that. As for the 100 days of Keto Chow, still going great, I’m in the middle of my “just Heavy Cream” phase, which is delicious. I think I’m currently down 24.5lbs since I started on January 2.
Got a ton of crazy stuff to get done today, I migrated the blog to a new host, switched email services for ketochow.xyz and other fun. And by fun, I mean lots of work.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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 =)
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!
I received my “Baseline” blood test results back yesterday. If you’re interested you can see ALL of the results I’ve gotten from ALL of my experiments on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s04vZU7XzmHtIzkx3U8LV-iLlNYuiMVeIzAYWhX8tlE
So let’s see what they say… Last year, about this same time, I had just done a week of liquid coconut oil in my shakes, and then finished up the experiment by replacing all of my fat with candy. I’m not going to be doing that again! =) Anyhow, My LDL Particle count is a little higher than I’d like it to be at 1062, but if I wanted to hack that down I got it to 567 with the coconut oil. My HDL is also lower than I’d like at 45 and my triglycerides are far higher than I’d like at 160. On the other hand, my fasting insulin is down to 7.2 and my HbA1c is steady at 4.9. Overall the only stuff I’m at all concerned about are the HDL (which is about average for my previous tests) and my trigs (which I like to be below 100, still better than the 200 I got doing the candy).
These test results are after 44 days of doing only Keto Chow, mostly with heavy cream, but also routinely using MCT oil – which tends to confound lipid panels quite a bit. Hence why I’m doing ONLY heavy cream for this week and next week. I’m getting another blood test today, should get those results sometime next week.
In un-related news, Miriam and I are meeting a friend for dinner tonight. It’s at a steak-house which would be perfect any other time that I’m not doing a crazy nutrition experiment, I think I’ll just tell everyone I’m fasting and leave it at that =)
Getting ready to go for the day, had a great dinner with the “Sodfather” Dr. Ballerstedt last night, I drank water =) My 100 days is still going great. I’m currently down 27.8lbs and drinking Eggnog Keto Chow for breakfast. Going to cook some taco meat (again) for an extended family dinner tomorrow.
I’m going to get more stuff to make more of the simple scrambles – the kids have been enjoying those this week.
Had a dehydration headache this morning, finally got that taken care of. I think that’s the second one I’ve had since I started.
Made some amazing deviled eggs with bacon this morning, 3 dozen eggs so 6 dozen halves. Add that to the list of awesome food I made that I won’t be eating ? Looked at the results of measuring using a Zozo suit (you put on a black suit covered in dots, it takes pictures and creates a 3D model with measurements). Comparing my measurements from January 17 to February 24 it appears that I am:
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