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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.

Most of today so far was spent picking up 1400 more of the “Super Secret In-Development Test Product” – we also visited the production facility where our electrolyte supplements are packaged. That took up most of the morning and now it’s a sprint to see if I can get everything done I needed to get done today in the few hours I have left!

Still going well on my 100 days of Keto Chow. Most days it’s not even an issue, even cooking food for the family that I’m not going to eat – yesterday I arrived home from work and launched immediately into clearing the driveway approach which had quite a lot of heavy and wet snow/slush that would be frozen solid in a few hours. When I finished up, I came inside to discover dinner was ready: low carb meatballs covered in Rao’s marinara sauce and cheese. Smelled absolutely amazing. I drank a Root Beer Float Keto Chow =)

Let’s talk about protein and your body’s glucose/insulin response to the protein. Years ago, I was misinformed about protein consumption and thought that if you overconsumed protein on a keto diet, your body would convert the excess into glucose. I also thought that any time you ate protein it would cause an insulin response. Last year we went to the Low Carb Breckenridge conference and sat in the presentation by Dr. Benjamin Bikman. You should give it a watch:

I’m not going to summarize it because he does that himself. Cool, cool stuff! As for eating meat, especially red meat. Here’s an excellent article that refutes some of the misconceptions.

The 100 days of Keto Chow only is still going well. I had some Keto Chow soup last night at dinner and totally put some cheese in it. The kids thought I was cheating but hey: it’s still only Keto Chow! Since I’m adding heavy cream, adding some cheese is well within reason.

It’s a really snowy day here today. As soon as I finish up this post I’m going to run home with the 4-WD truck and pull the kids around on sleds before the snow plows ruin the fun. Hopefully, that’ll give the people that are finishing up the Electrolyte Drops and Fasting Drops some time to get it finished and delivered down to us.

The challenge is still going fine. Last night I warmed up some of the Costco smoked pulled pork, dang that smelled good. It’s one of the few times thus far that I’ve been truly tempted in the last 18 days to eat something besides Keto Chow. Instead, I warmed up some Chocolate Keto Chow and enjoyed that.

I mixed up 12 new meals of Keto Chow today, that should last 4 days. With me doing this and 3 other people in the house regularly eating Keto Chow, we tend to go through it rather quickly. We didn’t get the Electrolyte Drops and Fasting Drops yesterday but they’re scheduled to come on Monday.

We have our monthly Keto Meat-Up tonight – I’m going to bring some of the prototype Creamy Tomato Basil and the Spicy Taco soups for people to try. Should be a lot of fun. I’m thinking we’ll be watching Dr. Berry’s analysis of Gillian Michal’s comments about Keto – we try to find a short-ish video that’ll get people talking and spend most of the time just talking to each other about keto in groups. You should check to see if there’s a Meat-up in your local area and if there isn’t, organize one!