Not sure why my ketones are down today. I did really well yesterday. The only hiccup was I didn’t have any Keto Chow ready for dinner time which was OK since my wife had gotten me a bunless burger from Five Guys (with the free extra bacon and extra cheese, naturally). Whatever. Today was spent mostly mixing and packaging Keto Chow for the coming week. We got enough done today we won’t need to do much tomorrow so I might actually get something done around the house!
Chris Bair is a computer geek and SalesForce.com system administrator for his "day job". He became involved in the powdered foods (aka "soylent") movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since. Conversely since starting Keto, he has added 6 new holes to his belt and recently bought a far smaller belt. He has also eaten far more bacon and cheese than in all his previous years combined trying to avoid fat but still slowly gaining weight. Chris has lived in Utah for most of his life, except for a few years living in Chile where he learned Castillian. Chris and his wife have two sets of twins with a couple singltons thrown in for good measure.
4 Comments
Jeb
March 11, 2016 at 11:24 pm
You always have 0.1-0.5 ketones. Doesn’t this mean you’re never really in ketosis? Shouldn’t it be around 1-3?
chris
March 12, 2016 at 8:58 am
It means I’ve been a bit of a slacker, for optimal ketosis you want it in the 1-3 range. When I do very strictly stick to my diet it gets up to 1.5.
Jeb
March 13, 2016 at 5:31 am
I see. I should get me one of those meters, just to see where my levels are. I feel like I must be deep into my ketosis now, but seeing the cold, hard facts would be cool.
chris
March 13, 2016 at 7:54 am
You can usually get the meters for free, the test strips are insanely expensive though: around $2 per test.
You always have 0.1-0.5 ketones. Doesn’t this mean you’re never really in ketosis? Shouldn’t it be around 1-3?
It means I’ve been a bit of a slacker, for optimal ketosis you want it in the 1-3 range. When I do very strictly stick to my diet it gets up to 1.5.
I see. I should get me one of those meters, just to see where my levels are. I feel like I must be deep into my ketosis now, but seeing the cold, hard facts would be cool.
You can usually get the meters for free, the test strips are insanely expensive though: around $2 per test.