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1 month in 3 days doing Ketosis – Time for an update.

This entry is part 11 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I had a crazy huge lunch of pizza on October 22nd, that night I tried the “induction” recipe for the first time and then went full-bore the next day on Thursday, October 23, 2014. I’m expecting to hit at least 16 lbs down at the month mark and I’m gunning for 18. Today I took a drill to my belt and added a couple new holes so my pants won’t fall down.

new belt loop

Since I have the data, here is the last year of my weight. TMI, I know. I’ve labeled notable changes in the trend with what was going on at the time.

Last year of weight data, click to "em-biggen"

Last year of weight data, click to “em-biggen”

By |2016-10-13T07:28:27-06:00November 18th, 2014|Soylent, Weight Loss|Comments Off on 1 month in 3 days doing Ketosis – Time for an update.
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The Nuclear Option: Ketogenic soylent.

This entry is part 3 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I started consuming People Chow back in January 2014 for a variety of reasons, but primarily to lose weight. Initially it did an excellent job of doing just that with around 14 pounds going away over about a month. The main reason for the loss was I was exceptionally good about only eating People Chow with maybe 100-200 calories of other stuff a week. Unfortunately I didn’t continue losing weight because I got lax in my adherence to People Chow only. I did do a fairly good job of maintaining my weight for the next several months with a sharp uptick more recently due to a bunch of parties. I had been planning on trying a Ketogenic diet for some time and the imminent Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas trifecta of overeating seemed like a good time to start.

The last year in review

The last year in review

It’s pretty easy to see where I started People Chow, where I failed utterly to lose weight in mid-October (thanks Dreamforce parties) and where I started Ketogenic soylent. The most fun was one day when I weighed 4.2 lbs less than the day before (yes, that would be water).

Last Month

Just up-to and the start of Ketogenic soylent

I’m going to do a series of posts about my experience thus far with Ketogenic soylent, Ketosis and other factors. Let me clarify one thing though: doing a ketogenic diet, using soylent or regular “muggle” food is kinda a big deal and not something you can or should do willy-nilly. If you go for ketosis, you’re going to run into “ketosis flu” which feels a lot like having the flu. It’s a difficult diet to maintain with all of society blissfully chowing down on sugar and carbs. Let me put this into perspective: if you’ve heard about Atkins, South Beach or any other carbohydrate restrictive diet: those are modified Ketogenic diets (though they emphasize protein too much). The closest thing I’ve had to candy for the last 2 weeks was a single raisin that I ate without thinking.

Anyhow, be ready for some Ketogenic diet, ketosis and ketone information; whether you want it or not!

 

By |2016-10-13T07:28:30-06:00November 4th, 2014|Soylent, Weight Loss|1 Comment
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2 months Lab results, most looks good except Vitamin D

This entry is part 15 of 39 in the series DIY Soylent

(I originally posted this at the Soylent Discourse Forum and forgot to post it here on my own blog, so here it is)

I started on DIY (People Chow) in early January. Didn’t get blood tests to start (I know, very unscientific of me). Looks like I need to increase my Vitamin D.

lab resultsSince getting the test my doctor put me on a 5000 iu Vitamin D supplement. I’m also getting more sun.

 

By |2016-10-13T07:28:37-06:00March 20th, 2014|Soylent|1 Comment
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