Monthly Archives: January 2016

Day 006 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 7 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 206.6
  • Blood ketones: 1.3 mmol/L

Woo Hoo! Blood ketones are almost to 1.5+ (1.5-3 is “optimal range” for nutritional ketosis). That’s great. Made Keto Chow pancakes for breakfast, they were quite yummy.

We ran out of our silver bags that we use for the weeks of Keto Chow yesterday and had to use my “backup” bags I bought a while ago. I thought they were short and wide, which would have been perfect; instead they are tall and narrow and difficult to get the powder into. So, if you buy Rich Chocolate pre-mixed for the next week or so, you’ll probably get one of the brown bags.

By |2016-01-11T04:53:16-07:00January 9th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 006 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 005 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 6 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 207.6 (again)
  • Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L

Weight’s the same and ketones are down a bit. Dangit. This is when you “Keep Calm and Keto On” (KCKO). Ran on the treadmill again, I switched back to a fitbit Charge HR for tracking that. Yep it’s better than the chest strap, plus fitbit talks to crono-o-meter. The Image above? one of my co-workers fumbled a bit and called my drink “Cheeto Cow” – surprisingly you can find a video of a cow eating cheetos. Who knew?

 

By |2016-01-08T07:08:08-07:00January 8th, 2016|Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 005 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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New US Dietary Guidelines out; not much changed, I’m apparently still dying

This entry is part 114 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

The methodology used to develop and update this Pattern continues to be grounded in that of the food guides USDA has developed for the last 30 years.

“we didn’t cause the deaths of millions of Americans by telling them to eat more carbs, so we’re going to continue the same way. But you should limit added sugar. Saturated fat and salt are still going to kill you”. In Appendix 7 they list out the new nutritional goals. Let’s see, for me they’re recommending:

  • 2200 calories
  • only 56g of protein
  • 130g of carbohydrates
  • 48 to 85g of total fat with less than 24g of saturated fat despite the evidence that saturated fat has nothing to do with heart disease
  • There’s no recommendation anymore on cholesterol but they want to you know they still think it’s bad (even though the previous link says it’s not)
  • I should keep my sugar below 55g a day
  • RDI of 2300mg of sodium

So… apparently I’m dead or dying because the only one I adhere to is <55g of sugar a day. Goodbye cruel world or something.

By |2016-01-07T12:49:08-07:00January 7th, 2016|Ketogenic|Comments Off on New US Dietary Guidelines out; not much changed, I’m apparently still dying
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Day 004 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 5 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 207.6
  • Blood ketones: 1.0 mmol/L

Totally got trolled by my scale today. For review, yesterday I was up a bit at 208.9; today I weighed myself and it said 202.4 – somehow I doubt I lost 6 lbs overnight. So I tried again, same thing, so I picked up the scale and shook it a bit. Now it said 182? OK, so finally I picked it up and stuck it in the middle of the tile…. and it finally decided to cooperate =)

Yesterday I ended up with 1 peanut butter Keto Chow and 2 banana+chocolate. People ask me frequently if Keto Chow tastes good. Last night my wife was drinking a Chocolate Peanut Butter one and our 6 year old saw it, then pled with her to let him drink the rest; which is exactly what he did. I’d say: yes Keto Chow tastes good =)

Interesting personal experience: for several months I’ve been eating Keto Chow at least 2 times a day, often 3; though on weekends it averaged 1 since we were making keto friendly food with the kids. I started 100% keto chow (with hardly anything else except diet soda) on Monday, January 4.

TMI warning!

I didn’t expect to have a run with “never trust a fart” since I was regularly consuming Keto Chow already but it may have a lot to do simply with being deep in ketosis again, I don’t know. So yes, yesterday whenever I needed to step on “barking spiders” I would do it seated. A couple times it was a false alarm, others I was happy where I was. The good news is: it appears to be going away, just like it’s supposed to. Hopefully everything will be hunky-dory today. So for future reference, if you’re having bowel problems: try eating regular keto friendly food for a meal each day.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:55-06:00January 7th, 2016|Weight Loss, Keto Chow, 100 days of keto|1 Comment
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Interview I did about Keto Chow and Ketosis

This entry is part 113 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I linked this in another post but didn’t want it to get lost in the shuffle, so it’s getting its own post! Check out the interview at http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20160105

The interview was done via email, which was nice since it gave me time to think well about my answers and re-read them. My responses were largely completely unaltered, just some minor tense changes so it would fit an interview style. I should have added more hyperlinks =)

By |2016-01-07T04:50:09-07:00January 7th, 2016|Weight Loss, Soylent, Ketogenic, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Interview I did about Keto Chow and Ketosis
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Day 003 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 4 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 208.9
  • Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L

Water weight is so fun, up and down daily. I’m not too concerned, my blood ketones are still going up. I ended up drinking three blender bottles of banana (keto chow) mixed with chocolate (keto chow) yesterday. Ran on the treadmill again and the heart rate monitor was still acting up. The contacts kept not working or something so it only recorded my actual heart rate half of the time. It was pretty funny though, I had 3 phones on the “magazine” section:

  • Galaxy S3 running a video that controls the treadmill via an audio cable (I used Camtasia to record the screen of  i2Workout so I could have a nice portable video file)
  • Galaxy S5 that was trying to track heart rate
  • Nexus 6P that was playing video (Limitless Season 1, Episode 8 in case you’re wondering)
By |2016-10-13T07:27:56-06:00January 6th, 2016|Weight Loss, 100 days of keto|4 Comments
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Day 002 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

This entry is part 3 of 81 in the series 100 days of keto
  • Weight: 208.5
  • Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L

Blood ketones are increasing and hey hey, I’ve only got 10lbs to go before I’m back down to what I was in September. I didn’t overtly eat anything carby Thanksgiving through New Years, I was actually pretty good during the holidays but I think too much sugar alcohols (specifically malitol) got to me. I’m not eating any of that now so everything should work out well. I ran on the treadmill last night but the heart rate monitor was being sketchy so I don’t have anything quantitative to show for it (no pretty graphs or data). I’ll see if I can get it happy tonight.

An interview I did was published at http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20160105 this morning.

By |2016-01-05T07:37:36-07:00January 5th, 2016|Weight Loss, 100 days of keto|Comments Off on Day 002 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)
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Day 001 – 100 days of Keto (Chow)

  • Weight: 209.0
  • Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L

Well, yesterday was the first day of “100 days of keto“. I have a batch of chocolate+banana and another batch of chocolate peanut butter keto chow in the fridge that are all mixed up, I ended up with 3 peanut butter ones for the day. I started tracking my eating again, using Cron-o-meter this time around since it shows net carbs. I’m doing a blood ketone test every morning along with trying out a breath acetone analyzer. I bought it a few months ago but have gotten pretty inconsistent results. I’ll check to see if there’s any significant correlation between blood ketones and breath acetone.

By |2016-01-05T07:22:44-07:00January 5th, 2016|100 days of keto, Keto Chow|2 Comments
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