100 Days of Keto Chow

Funny how weight goes up and down, I had a LOT of salt yesterday in order to get my headache to go away (which it did) but that caused my weight to go up almost 3lbs, mostly water weight, since Friday. Meh, it’ll come back down again soon enough. It’s been a busy morning so far, I’ve spent most of it putting Root Beer Float on sale, answering questions, installing SSDs on laptops for new people we’ve hired, all sorts of fun.

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We’re getting ready for Low Carb Denver that’s coming up next week! We have a new booth backdrop and other stuff coming (maybe) today with the new logo. We’re going to be driving there from Utah which will take 8 1/2 hours – I figure that’s about how long it takes to drive to the airport, wait through security, wait for the delayed airplane, fly for 45 minutes, get off the plane, and get a rental car – and this way we can load up an 8 foot truck bed with all the stuff we need.

I 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:

• down 2.75 inches in my lower waist
• down 2.25 inches in my upper waist
• chest is down 1.5 inches
• hips are down 1.25
• left thigh is down 1 inch while my right thigs is only down 0.75 inches
• my neck is also down a half inch.

Yep, it was water weight. Either that or I somehow lost 2.3lbs in one day =) With that corrected, I’m now down 28.1lbs in the last 56 days.

We have everything lined up to make another round of Keto Chow samples and I just ordered 2350lbs of 28% fat light roast peanut flour to make more bags of Chocolate Peanut butter. While that’s being made, we’re going to try a different machine to see if we can finally get some samples of the chocolate peanut butter made but don’t hold your breath.

Well, I did my final weigh-in for the city weight loss challenge this morning. I don’t think I won the city competition but I won my own personal competition: 28.4 lbs lost (among other things). One way I know that I didn’t win is we had a guy come in yesterday that picked up some of the Keto Chow samples we donated to the city competition last week and wanted to know more as he’s doing keto. If I remember correctly, he said that he’s down like 40 lbs. Winning this competition was so much easier before everyone learned about keto =)

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We did our weekly Facebook Live last night. We had a special guest: Amanda of @amandaeatsketo fame as well as many of the recipes that use Keto Chow. I have the 4K version of that video encoding right now, I’ll get it onto YouTube as soon as I can. Anyway, TTFN!

Well, I’m nearly 3/5 of the way done with my 100 days of eating only Keto Chow for all my meals. Yesterday I received my second blood test, it records what’s going on after a week of using ONLY heavy cream for all my fat calories. You can view the results on this spreadsheet. In my expert analysis, I conclude that I am still alive! What a relief =)

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We had an outage with our shopping cart yesterday. That sucked. Depending on your internet service provider it was either up or down for nearly 6 hours. I believe I have the infrastructure changed enough that it won’t be a problem in the future… maybe. I did get more shirt designs up on Amazon Merch – including some that have the Keto Chow logo on the front and the keto food pyramid on the back. They are $5 more expensive because of the additional printing, I still have them priced as low as possible without us losing money on each sale.

The 100 days is still going fine. Last night we had some neighbors over for ice cream, that meant stopping by a local grocery store called “Harmons” – they have the distinction of being one of the very few grocery stores that carry Rebel Creamery keto ice cream, it was even on sale for $5 a pint. I had Chocolate Mint Keto Chow whilst everyone else was eating ice cream.

I’m going to be heading to LabCorp this morning for blood test #3. After that, I get to swing by the sign place and pick up the new graphic for the front door. Along with the new logo we needed the hours changed on the front door since we are now open until 5 pm on weekdays.

Here we are, 3/5 of the way done. 60%. I’m down to 40 days left of eating only Keto Chow for all my meals. I did get the final results from the Riverton city weight loss challenge, ultimate I ended up losing 12.40% of my starting weight and ranked 6th place. Not bad for no calorie restriction, no running/biking/serious working out (we did do P90 but that’s not overly strenuous).

Today marks switching from Keto Chow with Heavy Cream to Keto Chow with Avocado Oil. I was actually supposed to switch yesterday but forgot and had a bunch already mixed up in the fridge with heavy cream.

It’s rather funny: I usually mention in many of these updates how much weight I’ve lost so far, though that’s not the only thing I’m reporting on each time. Still, anytime I fail to mention how much I’m down, invariably someone posts an almost frantic comment asking how much I’ve lost. Everyone is going to lose, or not lose, at their own pace and according to their personal metabolic state so my results will not foretell how you or anyone else will react.

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All that said: welcome to day 62 of my 100 days of only consuming Keto Chow for all my meals. As of this morning, I am down 30.4 lbs – averaging very close to half a pound of weight loss per day. Let’s do a breakdown of how it’s going so far:

• Saturday my blood ketones were at 3.5 mmol/L, my average for the last 30 days is 2.6mmol/L.
• My Ketone/Glucose index average for the last 30 days is 1.7. A ratio of 1 means there is exactly the same mmol/L concentration of glucose and ketones in my blood, you want that number below 1 for treating cancer, epilepsy, and other therapeutic treatments. More info about the glucose:ketone index here.
• I’m down 30.4lbs since the beginning of the experiment, 11.5lbs in the last 30 days.
• I did NOT get enough sleep last night. I woke up early on Saturday and Sunday, based on how bad I’m dragging this morning I think I would have slept until 9 instead of when the alarm went off at 5:20. Looks like I’m averaging 6.48 hours of sleep per night over the last 90 days.
• I finished the day yesterday with 1.8g of net carbs, today I’ll end up with 1.7g.

Speaking of yesterday, I didn’t drink my first bottle of Keto Chow until nearly 3 pm. On a typical nonscience experiment day I probably would have stopped there and not eaten anymore for the rest of the day but I’m tightly controlling variables right now and drank two more, the final one at around 7:45 pm. I REALLY do not like eating that late, and that might have something to do with how tired I am this morning.

Oh, and by the way, “Keto Crotch” is not a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB5idKKh34g

I still ended up eating dinner late last night but I didn’t feel crazy super full all day like Sunday. Looks like I’m down 31.0 lbs as of today. I did take new measurements on Sunday, those are on the Zozo Suit sheet of my blood test results spreadsheet. I expect I’ll be getting my most recent results either Wednesday or Thursday, I don’t know if I’ll be able to update them into the spreadsheet until we get back from Denver though.

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I got my teeth cleaned yesterday, I’ve been doing really well at flossing but I also haven’t chewed food hardly at all since my last appointment. They did think I’m a little crazy, but a surprising number of the hygienists and the receptionist there at my dentist office are using Keto Chow, some daily. Anyhow, I had less plaque buildup than normal and my gums were doing much better with very little inflammation at all. I do need to get a crown put onto a tooth that has a filling that’s starting to split.

Tomorrow’s update (and the ones until next Tuesday) may be weird. We’ll be driving to Denver tomorrow, at the Low Carb Denver show Thursday-Sunday, and driving back next Monday. So I won’t have my usual suite of tools and equipment.

On the road. I’m actually typing this up Tuesday night so I won’t have to do it while in the car on Wednesday. We did our Facebook live last night, answered a lot of questions, had a good time, enjoyed kicking back and relaxing =)

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No idea what my weight will be Wednesday, probably lower than Tuesday but who knows. Anyhow, I should be able to do a better post tomorrow and the video that accompanies this is likely much longer and in-depth. TTFN!