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“Flavor” of the Week February 5-February 11: 10% off sale on all flavors of 2.0 samples
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“Flavor” of the Week February 5-February 11: 10% off sale on all flavors of 2.0 samples

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“Flavor” of the Week February 5-February 11: 10% off sale on all flavors of 2.0 samples

This week’s a bit odd but we’re going to do it anyway. For the next week, you can get 10% off the single meal “sample” size of all the flavors. Unlike most of the “Flavor of the week” sales, this one I actually can show a “you got 10% off” message in the cart, it’ll be nice to not have to answer that question for a week =)

You should check out our store reviews on Google, and the reviews of Keto Chow. Here’s a “taste”:

I expected the typical chalky flavor that’s common with any meal replacement powder. I was very pleasantly surprised when I got a flavors that were good with no chalky aftertaste. I prepared as instructed, making the shakes the night before and refrigerating overnight. Will be buying more.

Here’s another, should be noted that I publish all of the reviews that come in – bad or good – as they are, typos intact. The only ones I remove are spam posts from people wanting you to buy pills to “enhance performance” and such:

I have been using Keto Chow for breakfast and lunch, dinner I cook from scratch. As a commercial electrician I was concerned if this could keep me going; it does. I used to rely on heavy breakfasts and lunches, many take out. The combination of health effects and cost made me curious about a better option. Besides take out and fast food I have tried salads, sandwiches, and leftovers, all of which just didn’t quite work. Keto Chow does, I mix two servings the night before have some when I leave the next morning and some more over lunch, with 1 serving of MCT oil I feel good, productive and energetic all day. You know the stuff works when you buy 4 new flavors after your first pack is done. Great job to the Keto Chow group, keep up the good work! Also, no more muscle cramps. Double thank you!

By Chris|2018-02-05T07:00:53-07:00February 5th, 2018|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: Keto Chow, ketochow2.0, Flavor of the Week|0 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 28
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42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 28

42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 28

This entry is part 28 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

Huh, I’ve been doing this experiment for 4 weeks now. That’s funny, I hadn’t even realized that until I started this post and wrote down what day it was. It seems that the previous 4 week experiment I did was WAY harder to do, maybe because I wasn’t chewing gum or drinking diet soda. Last night I mixed up the final 3 meals with Macadamia Nut Oil and also mixed up tomorrow’s Coconut Oil ones. I’m really looking forward to switching!

Only eating Keto Chow for this experiment hasn’t been terribly difficult aside from the social aspect. I was at the store today buying food and such for my family (without a dishwasher and with the kitchen under construction, we go through a lot of paper plates and such… we also go through a 5lb bag of shredded cheese a week it seems). Anyhow, I passed by the frozen chicken wings and was a little sad that I wasn’t going to be making any chicken wings for the Superb Owl get together we’ll be having this Sunday – you know, the one where everybody watches a bunch of rather funny advertisements with some football sprinkled between? We’ve kinda made it a family tradition with my parents, and often my brother, coming over. We have a bunch of amazing snacks, predominantly keto ones for the last 2 years, and have fun. This year my dad and I are both only eating Keto Chow and we’re the only ones that eat the wings, so none of those this year. I think one of my kids is going to try making Keto Peanut Butter Bars – I might help her a bit =)

By Chris|2018-02-01T12:19:56-07:00February 1st, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: Macadamia Nut Oil, experience, Oil, Keto Chow, 42dayExperiment|0 Comments

Flavor of the Week January 22-January 28: 10% off sale on Vanilla 2.0 week packs
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Flavor of the Week January 22-January 28: 10% off sale on Vanilla 2.0 week packs

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Flavor of the Week January 22-January 28: 10% off sale on Vanilla 2.0 week packs

For the next week, you can get 10% off the 21 meal “week” size of Vanilla 2.0. Didn’t we just do vanilla a few weeks ago? Yes, we did, but that’s what we have the most in stock, so that’s what’s on sale =) Check out the reviews of 2.0 Vanilla!

Speaking of reviews, you should check out our store reviews on Google, and the reviews of Keto Chow. Here’s a “taste”:

Amazing product for the price. Doesnt cost much more than the items Chris uses to make it. Ingredients are publicly available. Chocolate Peanut Butter tastes so much like Reece’s is insane.

Here’s another, should be noted that I publish all of the reviews that come in – bad or good – as they are, typos intact. The only ones I remove are spam posts from people wanting you to buy pills to “enhance performance” and such:

I was introduced to Keto Chow by a few coworkers who had used it before. I bought the salted caramel and the cookies and cream to try my first week (doing 2 meals a day of Keto Chow, and 1 Keto Meal). The product is super easy to use. I do 1/3 a cup of heavy cream and the rest water for my caloric needs and the shakes keep me SO full. As far as taste, I’m not overwhelmingly in love with the flavors but they aren’t bad. I definitely recommend preparing your shakes at minimum 12 hours beforehand, but I noticed that the longer the time between preparation and drinking, the more the flavors come through. Either way, I bought 2 more bags to continue! Lost 6 pounds my first week and ready to keep going.

By Chris|2018-01-22T06:16:10-07:00January 22nd, 2018|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: Keto Chow, flavors, Flavor of the Week|0 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 15, back to heavy cream, self employed, history of Keto Chow shipping
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42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 15, back to heavy cream, self employed, history of Keto Chow shipping

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42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 15, back to heavy cream, self employed, history of Keto Chow shipping

This entry is part 15 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

In a fitting end to my week doing grapeseed oil for my fat source, last night my blood ketones were 3.9 mmol/dL (again: not chasing ketones but it’s nice to see those rise, especially since I got another person that emailed me yesterday claiming that you can’t do keto while consuming sucralose… whatever =) Why did I get higher ketones (5.5) when I did avocado oil before? It may have something to do with that I was also using MCT oil at the time and this round I’m not – in a few weeks when I do the week of liquid coconut oil (which has a LOT of MCTs) we’ll see what happens then. For now, I’m back on 400ml of 40% fat heavy whipping cream per day. Confession: the week I started this experiment I went through cron-o-meter and added EVERYTHING I would be eating for the following 6 weeks, it’s really easy to copy and paste. Each day all I have to do is enter my ketone level and mark the day as complete =) It’s kinda like cheating but not really.

I can feel my plantar fasciitis starting to act up again in my right foot. It could be psychosomatic but I’m guessing that it’s legitimately acting up due to the inflammatory properties of the poly-unsaturated grapeseed oil I’ve consumed all week (1323 ml over 21 meals). I’m really quite happy to be going back onto heavy cream again, it’s like an old (non-inflammatory) friend. In case you need a refresher, here is the breakdown for heavy cream (mine is a little different as it has a slightly higher fat content at 40%):

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I went in for my weekly blood test this morning and then did my exit interview at my ~~day job~~. Exciting and scary all at the same time, I’m now officially self-employed full-time. To top it all off, the post office just delivered a pair of shipping cages for Monday. They’re going to start picking up our mail every day instead of us needing to take it to the post office and unload it manually. I’m pretty stoked!

Hey, tomorrow we’re hosting a Keto Meat-up here!

By Chris|2018-01-19T14:33:19-07:00January 19th, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: blood test, Keto Chow, science, 42dayExperiment|2 Comments

42 Day of Keto Chow – Day 13: week 1 blood tests

This entry is part 13 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

I got the first round of results back from the blood tests I did on January 12. For the most part, I’m not seeing anything particularly interesting but that’s mainly because these are the “baseline” ones to show what a week of eating only Keto Chow and heavy cream will look like. HDL is 52, LDL is 116, LDL-P (particle count) is 1242 (which is high). Glucose is normal and my fasting insulin is 4.4 which is quite good. You can see all the results of all my tests here.

My Hemoglobin A1c (which acts as a measure of the amount of glucose my red blood cells have been exposed to over their lifetime) has been steadily going down throughout my experiments. Glycated Hb A1c is the measurement typically used for the diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus (not to be confused with “diabetes insipidus”). In the US it’s expressed as a percentage with numbers higher than 6.5 signifying diabetes, elsewhere it’s in mmol/l with values > 48 signifying diabetes. Typically you want lower numbers with <6% or <42 mmol/l. My first test in October 2017, my A1c was 5.1; In November 2017 it was at 4.9, and now in January it’s at 4.8. I wasn’t diabetic before I started doing keto, though I had a “deranged metabolism” that didn’t handle carbohydrates properly (you can tell because I was fat) and likely would have gone that direction in a few more years.

The 2 Keto Dudes do a better job of explaining what’s going on with diabetes but the interesting thing is that most doctors will prescribe enough insulin to keep blood sugar “low” but not in an ideal range. If you use insulin to bring down blood sugar and you go too far, you’ll actually end up in a coma. The problem is that (I’m working on memory here and a search didn’t find where it’s discussed at length) for each percent of HbA1c there’s an associated increase in all-cause mortality. Meaning if you use insulin to come down to a 7.0 – you are likely to die more than a person with a 6. Dang, I’m going to have to find the reference – it may be this but I’m not sure.

People with Type 2 diabetes make too much insulin and still have high blood sugar, those with Type 1 don’t make enough. The cool thing is: insulin is just a part of the regulation of blood sugar in your body and if that’s broken, guess what? there’s a backup! Your liver is able to synthesize all the glucose needed by your body. Provided you don’t introduce extra glucose into the equation, it’ll do a very good job regulating blood sugar all by its self. This is why people can go for month long fasts and not die without eating glucose.

By Chris|2018-01-19T07:12:06-07:00January 17th, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: cholesterol, 42dayExperiment, blood test, Keto Chow|2 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 11: soaring ketones, thoughts on exogenous ketones
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42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 11: soaring ketones, thoughts on exogenous ketones

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42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 11: soaring ketones, thoughts on exogenous ketones

This entry is part 11 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

Day 11. I still haven’t had “breakfast” yet today. At 07:30 I went in to get a crown, 3 hours later it’s done but I’m still numb and not particularly hungry yet. Fortunately for me, when I do eat I’m not going to need to chew. Got the crown today so I could squeeze it in this last week of my “day job” before I quit on Friday. It’s a little scary but mostly I’m looking forward to only having a single full-time job next week.

My blood ketones are predictably coming up with the insanely low net carb count I’m doing with the oil. Yesterday I got up to 3.2 mmol/dL:

Now, your level of blood ketones is NOT an indicator of how much weight you’ll lose, and unless you are doing a ketogenic diet for treatment of epilepsy or Alzheimers you really don’t need to stress about ketone levels. Still for my own tests, it’s cool to see the levels going up. It’ll be interesting to see if/how they go down when I start on heavy cream again this Friday. Speaking of Ketones, let’s talk a little about taking artificial, or “exogenous”, ketones.

To start off with: I’ve been doing a ketogenic diet for over 3 years and to date, the only exogenous ketones I have taken were in a competitor’s keto “meal replacement” (at 200 calories I wouldn’t consider it a meal but whatever) that had beta hydroxy-butyrate salts in it (ketones). It wasn’t very good and I didn’t even finish the one drink (and I still have 11 in a box somewhere). Aside from that, I’ve never bothered. I figure I want to use my own fat to make them, and doing it that way is cheaper anyhow. I’ve heard a lot about exogenous ketones and I think they do have their place with:

High-performance athletes that need a jolt of energy faster than MCT oil can provide
Treatment of epilepsy or Alzheimers
People new to Keto that aren’t making enough ketones themselves yet but they also don’t have enough glucose left.

For that last group using exogenous ketones could be a good way to get through that first week in conjunction with extra electrolytes. The problem with exogenous ketones is there are a lot of unknowns right now in what the long-term effects are, mostly due to the “handedness” of natural vs. artificial. Within organic chemistry, you’ll often have molecules that can be assembled in two different ways, one a mirror image of the other. When life on earth creates the molecule, generally it’s always done the same way due to RNA sequences and other proteins that are running things. When you create a molecule in a lab, all bets are off and you will often end up with both types. Our enzymes know what to do with the ketones made in our livers, they don’t really fit the mirror image ones. Another problem is that in our bodies you have all 3 of the ketones being produced in concert, with the ratios of each tightly controlled. When you take only one of the ketones artificially it can mess things up because ketones aren’t just a fuel, they also act as a powerful signaling pathway that tells our cells what to do. This is of even greater concern when you take artificial ketones while still eating a carb-heavy diet full of glucose. We are not designed to have high glucose at the same time as high ketones, it’s simply not how things work.

So, in case you’re wondering if I’m going to add ketones to Keto Chow: the answer is “No.” =)

By Chris|2018-01-19T07:13:16-07:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: Oil, Keto Chow, 42dayExperiment, Exogenous Ketones|3 Comments

Flavor of the Week January 15-21: 10% off sale on Salted Caramel 2.0 week packs
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Flavor of the Week January 15-21: 10% off sale on Salted Caramel 2.0 week packs

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Flavor of the Week January 15-21: 10% off sale on Salted Caramel 2.0 week packs

For the next week, you can get 10% off the 21 meal “week” size of Salted Caramel 2.0. Check out the flavor reviews of 2.0 Salted Caramel!

Speaking of reviews, you should check out our store reviews on Google, and the reviews of Keto Chow. Here’s a “taste”:

I have purchased twice from them so far and both times have been a great experience. Ordering is straightforward and shipping is very fast!!! They let you know what’s going on with your order status every step of the way!!!

Here’s another, should be noted that I publish all of the reviews that come in – bad or good – as they are, typos intact. The only ones I remove are spam posts from people wanting you to buy pills to “enhance performance” and such:

I have been sort of stalled with my Keto progress and the winter holidays weren’t helping. Decided to try Sample all the Things! along with 16:8 fasting to jump start me.

I haven’t tried all of the flavors yet, but I’m really happy with the product so far. I use the shake to break my fast and the mixture of the ‘sweet treat’ indulgence feeling and the ideal macros seems to help me keep calorie intake moderate during my feed window.

After three days of this, experienced a whoosh (sudden drop in weight after a stall)! Feels like I’m back on track, cravings are under control, focused and energetic … all the good things are happening. Once I figure out what flavors I like, I plan to order more to keep on hand.

By Chris|2018-01-15T05:57:15-07:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: ketochow2.0, Flavor of the Week, Keto Chow, flavors|0 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 09

This entry is part 9 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

I wasn’t very hungry at all yesterday doing Grape Seed Oil, so I drank my 3rd one after we went bowling. This morning I woke up to my guts making gurgling noises – which was kinda weird. Anyhow, today I spent almost all day getting speakers installed into the walls of our family room in the basement. Working like that I usually don’t get hungry either but I remembered to eat to keep the data from the experiment valid.

Tonight I mixed up 7 meals of Keto Chow with grape seed oil using a test batch of Keto Chow 2.1. Didn’t take long to mix (which is good since I’m rather tired).

Doing oil instead of heavy cream has my net carbs for the day exceptionally low and my blood ketones show it. Last night I hit 1.8 mmol/dL and tonight I was up to 2.2!

By Chris|2018-01-14T21:08:48-07:00January 13th, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: Oil, blood test, Keto Chow, cron-o-meter, 42dayExperiment|5 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 07

This entry is part 7 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

Day 07 – going well still. Ketones are still steady at 0.6mmol/dL Tomorrow is my first blood test for the experiment and today is my last day of doing heavy cream only in my Keto Chow. I’m mixing it up a bit by adding raspberry flavored Torani sugar-free syrup (which is one of the tips you’ll find on the flavor hacks page AND you can use it on Keto Pancakes) since vanilla can get… boring sometimes.

Taking the probiotic yesterday worked like a charm (it always does for me, which is fortunate) though I did find out that at least one of my kids has a stomach bug that’s unrelated to doing Keto Chow for all his meals (which he isn’t doing ANY of his meals as Keto Chow), there’s a possibility it’s unrelated but who knows?

By Chris|2018-01-12T07:17:42-07:00January 11th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized, 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: experience, video, Keto Chow, saturated fat, User Experiences, 42daysofketochow|2 Comments

42 Days of Keto Chow – Day 06

This entry is part 6 of 44 in the series 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment

Day 06. I had a pretty bad dehydration headache this morning. I actually stopped on my way to work and grabbed a small jar of pickles, ate them all and drank the juice. USDA reference database says it had approx 33.6 calories with 3.7g net carbs. I’m still counting it as “Keto Chow only” though. I do feel better, pickle juice always makes me happy =)

My blood ketones are still hanging out in the 0.4-0.6 mmol/dL range. I expect in 2 days that’ll jump up quite a lot when I start my week of GrapeSeed Oil. (more…)

By Chris|2018-01-12T10:52:53-07:00January 10th, 2018|Categories: 42 days of Keto Chow Experiment|Tags: experience, video, Keto Chow, science, saturated fat, cron-o-meter, 42dayExperiment|0 Comments