Wow, I didn’t realize I was officially at the 3/4 mark until I was talking about it at dinner tonight. Only 25 days left. As customary on a Sunday, this is a really short post, I’ll probably wax philosophical about it all more tomorrow. Enjoy your night!
Looking at the scale I’m now down 37.1 lbs from when I started on January 2. More importantly, I also took off the buckle on my rachet belt and cut off 2 inches, then reattached the buckle. Turns out that many good quality belts can be trimmed this way.
We have our Utah Keto Meat-up today, I’m making Keto Chow biscuits and also making sausage and heavy cream gravy so everyone can have biscuits and gravy. Should be stellar. The meat-ups are always fun and we’ve had a steadily increasing number of people coming each time. Do yourself a favor and head over to meetup.com and see if there’s one in your local area, and if there isn’t: make one! That’s what I did about a year and a half ago.
So I’m really quite glad that I am doing an all-liquid diet right now. I got a crown on one of my molars yesterday (failing filling FTW!) and haven’t needed to chew anything. This morning I grabbed some sugar-free gum and it’s still quite sore, not a problem at all! I believe I’m also coming down with a cold or something, probably picked it up last week in Denver. The interesting thing is that illness is very likely to massively change my blood test results so the blood test I did this morning before I came into work is likely to reflect the illness.
Today I have a bunch of stuff to finish up, I also picked up the ingredients to make Keto Chow Drop Biscuits for the biscuits and gravy I’m making for tomorrow’s Keto Meat-Up. I’m editing down an interiew we did with Megan Ramos about our electrolyte supplements, it’s really fantastic stuff. Finally, at Low Carb Denver we met a really nice lady from Australia that seemed to quite like Keto Chow. On the final day I made sure to let her know that we were going to need to either pour out the samples we had for people to drink or it would be wasted so she got quite a lot. Turns out she’s Jessica Turton, I’ve even listened to her on several podcasts and simply didn’t recognize who she was. I’m claiming the dental braces made her look really young so I have an excuse. She posted on her personal blog today and gave us a shout-out, which was very nice:
Between talks there was plenty of time to chat and network with the presenters, vendors and attendees. And if you are a lover of food samples (like me) then you would have been loving the vendors at this event. There is nothing better than a vendor that has almost an unlimited supply of food samples… Never trust anyone selling food that is stingy with their samples! I have to give a massive shout out to the team at Keto Chow for keeping me so damn satiated across the three days. These guys do keto meal replacement shakes that actually taste good! If you have had a consult with me you’ll know that I don’t like recommending protein shakes or meal replacement products, but since working long hours in clinical practice myself (and having braces…) I have come to realise the important role that high-quality meal replacement shakes can play in many of our busy lives. The team at Keto Chow continued to fill my little sample cup up with delicious flavours like choc mint, eggnog and pumpkin pie (oh my gosh yum!).
This morning I need to go to my dentist and get a crown put onto a tooth, that’s fun stuff. I was just there 10 days ago! I did look at my logs and I’ve lost 4.5lbs since the last time I was there at the dentist, that’ll be fun when they ask =) I’m actually down 39.4 lbs from January 2 at this point. I also donned my Zozo Suit this morning and took measurements. I have those in the “Zozo Suit” tab of my experiment spreadsheet, key takeaway: I’ve lost about 4 inches from my mid-section. I also got my lab results back from the blood test I did in Colorado last week, turns out I’m still alive. My LDL (C and P) have come down quite a lot, unfortunately so has my HDL. I don’t really care about LDL but I do care about triglycerides (which are coming down, that’s good) and HDL (which should be much higher). I suspect it’ll continue down during the remainder of the avocado oil portion and come up drastically when I switch to butter as a fat source.
Yesterday I mixed up the next week’s worth of Keto Chow for the Avocado Oil plus MCT oil phase. I’m replacing 15ml of the avocado oil with MCT, so 45 + 15 = 60ml of oil still. I did notice something during our trip to Colorado. When we mixed up the Keto Chow for people to sample, we used a 2-quart pitcher and an immersion blender to mix 3 meals at a time. When I mix up Keto Chow with avocado oil in a blender bottle by hand, just shaking it, the color comes through really strong compared to how it looks with heavy cream. When I mix up Keto Chow with avocado oil with an immersion blender, the oil is emulsified a lot more and it looks really close to the same as the heavy cream. It also has a better texture and doesn’t separate out as much. Anyway, that’s how I did my mixing yesterday. I would put a little water in the bottom of the pitcher, measure 3 meals worth of the oils and add them, add 3 scoops of powder, add water and blend it up, then add the rest of the water to the 2-quart mark and finish blending it. It was quick and effective.
Day 71 has been interesting so far. It’s snowing. A Lot. I went to leave for work and there were about 3 inches and it’s still falling hard. From yesterday (Day 70), to today, I apparently lost 2.8 lbs. That brings my total loss to 33.7 lbs. I’m using the same scale as always but it’s like I had a temporary increase that is now gone. Anyhow. I totally forgot to eat breakfast Yesterday, ate around 2, then at 5, and then at 9:30 I realized I had only eaten twice. Under normal circumstances, I would have called it a night but I’m maintaining caloric intake during this experiment so I ate at 9:30 pm. I don’t like eating that late.
We did our weekly Facebook live last night. Answered some good questions, talked about the Carnivore Conference and Low Carb Denver. Today we get to go sign our taxes and get those sent off. Love it! We also have a new employee starting here today.
Welcome everyone to day 70! I’m now 70% of the way through this experiment. For those that are only concerned with how much weight I’ve lost so far: I’m down 31 lbs… again. Despite eating the same thing at the same calories every day, I went up 3-4 lbs and have been coming back down steadily. The last 6 days were spent traveling to, attending, and traveling from the Boulder Carnivore and the Low Carb Denver Conferences. Both were really a great experience. I got to see nearly all of the presentations at the carnivore conference (key takeaway: plants are not your friends and want to live so they often utilize toxic chemicals to dissuade eating them), and only one presentation from Low Carb Denver because the booth was constantly busy with people (which is a good thing). I think I’m going to need to dedicate an hour every day for the next several weeks to watch the recorded presentations.
On our drive home from Colorado yesterday we didn’t have to stop for food at all. I had my 3 meals of Keto Chow that I ate, and everyone else had the remaining bacon and sausage for breakfast and the leftover heavy cream in some Keto Chow for lunch on the road. We had to stop for fuel once in Green River, Wyoming and to go “potty” a few times too. Here we are, safe and sound and back at work!
The conference is DONE! We finished last night, packed up, came back to the rental house, washed some stuff while Steve was cooking the steaks we bought on Friday (I had Chocolate Toffee Keto Chow), and then we went to BED. My Oura ring says I slept for 8 hours and 42 minutes. That doesn’t even come close to making up for Saturday night but it’s a start =)
Today we’re driving back home to Salt Lake, I have my 3 meals of Keto Chow mixed up and ready in a cooler with some ice packs. I think the rest of the crew is also drinking Keto Chow for lunch. Anyhow, I’ll be back to high-production-value videos tomorrow =)
We went to a party last night, I drank my Keto Chow on the way to the place. Made not eating the prime rib and keto pasta more bearable.
I woke up with a bit of a headache today. I think I had nearly a full small bottle of the Electrolyte Drops in a water bottle that I keep refilling. Final day of the conference!
Enjoying the conference, haven’t had a chance to watch very many of the presentations because the booth has been crazy busy. I have my food in the sample cooler for today, yesterday Holly and Steve forgot to bring any for them and Steve had to go get lunch. We went to Outback Steakhouse again last night, everyone got yummy meat and I just drank ? – Steve did a shot of melted butter, it was pretty funny.
The 100 days is still going fantastic. It’s been really interesting to talk to people about Keto Chow and how it’s nutritionally complete. Then I tell them it’s the only thing I’ve eaten for the last 2 months, gets about the reaction you would expect! Does give a lot of credibility to what I’m saying though.
Well, another short update. We got in late last night and needed to be at the conference at 6 am. I did bring a bunch of video equipment to the show but I had to run off to the nearest LabCorp right after the conference began to get my weekly blood test.
I also forgot to get some cash for of people want to pay via cash. Bit of an oversight. Right now I’m waiting for a Credit Union to open so I can get some small bills. Fun stuff!
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