A local Brazilian Grill had a “kids eat free” promo yesterday so we decided to take the kids. I ate a LOT of bacon (it’s Bacon Fest!) along with other meat which had a lot of salt so water weight was way up again and the protein killed my ketosis. I did reach an important milestone: I ate all of the fat on my meat and it was delicious. I’m finally getting over my aversion to fat, only took a year doing keto =)
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.
2 Comments
Dave
January 19, 2016 at 4:16 pm
How does eating protein knock you out of ketosis? I wanted to do a Keto bulk by eating more protein and fat, but I’m not sure if that’s the best course of action. Also, what are you using to measure your blood ketones? I’ve used the strips which you urinate on in the past, but heard those were not reliable.
I’m using a blood glucose/ketone monitor with the ketone test strips ($2 each test!), I’m also using a breath acetone tester (Ketonix) and I’m going to compare the two results when the 100 days are over so I can see if the Ketonix is reliable.
How does eating protein knock you out of ketosis? I wanted to do a Keto bulk by eating more protein and fat, but I’m not sure if that’s the best course of action. Also, what are you using to measure your blood ketones? I’ve used the strips which you urinate on in the past, but heard those were not reliable.
Great article to explain it: http://www.ketotic.org/2013/01/protein-gluconeogenesis-and-blood-sugar.html
I’m using a blood glucose/ketone monitor with the ketone test strips ($2 each test!), I’m also using a breath acetone tester (Ketonix) and I’m going to compare the two results when the 100 days are over so I can see if the Ketonix is reliable.