The Effects of a Year in Ketosis (video)
Jim McCarter gave an interesting presentation at the Quantified Self Conference this year. You can check out the video at https://vimeo.com/147795263
My Graduation Pants are WAY too big
I was going through my closet last night and an old pair of pants fell out. They’re the Guess jeans I wore the last day of High School – way back in June 1995. Guys signed my year book, girls wrote on the pants. Yes I know, not the best idea. We’re all stupid in retrospect and I really need to throw them away now that they’ve apparently served their purpose (and before my kids read some of the stuff written on them).
Anyhow, I hadn’t looked at them in years and was surprised to find what size they were: 38. I must have carried the weight differently back then because I’m fairly certain I weighed about 220 at the time and 38 is the size pants I was wearing last year when I weighed 250. Decided I might as well try them on one last time and do a “bathroom mirror selfie”
Yep. WAY too big! I’m currently wearing 34 and even those are starting to get big. I doubt I’ll ever get to 30 but you never know.
“Golden Oldies: Impressions and comments on the keto chow solution for Senior citizens.”
I have another user experience to share (with permission):
- Gender: Woman
- Age: 66
- Length of time on keto chow: 4 weeks.
- Results: very positive.
A favorite blouse fits so much better than it did a month ago, just before starting Keto Chow. I tried the Atkins diet several years ago and was moderately successful. Losing weight is much different than maintaining a lower weight. We are hopeful that this approach will do two things, keep weight off and avoid diabetes.
I have often called myself a sugar addict and restricting carbs has clearly put my addiction in the spotlight. The flavors and formulas of keto chow have made the transition less traumatic and I have not experienced “keto flu”, to date. Mood swings and any food challenges seem to be resulting from extended family problems more than dietary adjustments.  My former knee jerk reaction to self medicate with sugar has been offset with the immediate benefits. Swelling has gone down in my face, hands and feet. I can hear better, too.My husband has joined me in this lifestyle change and the mutual support is a tremendous benefit. We encourage each other, rather than trying to sabotage improvements. We also did a month of preparation. We cleaned non compliant foods out of the cupboards and freezers, except for snacks to feed grandchildren. We studied the keto chow blog to grasp preparation, and bought helpful equipment such as shaker bottles. My first challenge was to decide how much “real” food to eat and how many keto chow to consume. This is probably very subjective, according to the weight loss goals. I settled on one to two shakes a day, leaning toward one.  Fasting is less difficult, because I do not feel as hungry when I have not had anything to eat.Favorite flavors:  Pina colada, cinnamon bun, toffee and strawberry blast.I will continue to do periodic updates on my progress. No weight posts, taboo to ask a lady what she weighs.
User experience on Keto Chow (age 47, down 50lbs in 5 months)
This is from a dude in California:
I just wanted to thank you for your Keto Chow diet. On June 18th, I bought a Fitbit and received your first shipment and started the Ketochow diet. I initially did 2 shakes and 1 meal for about a month. I later changed to 1 shake and 2 meals.
Anyway, it’s been about 5 months now and I’ve lost 50lbs on your diet. I started at 228 and today I’m 177.5!!!
I’m 47 years old, 6″ and previously, whenever I start gaining wait, I would cut back on my calories and start to exercise more. However, for some reason, it was much harder for me to drop the weight on a lower caloric diet. I spent a month at 1500 calories with moderate exercise and only lost 2 lbs???
On your diet, I lost 12lbs in the first month and continued to lose about 10lbs for the next 4+ months.
Now, I need to go on Maintenance Mode, I still have a little flab on my belly which I want to completely get rid of. However, I’m worried about losing too much weight. I’m worried that my face will look gaunt. So for now, I’m gently increasing my carbs from 20-40. And gently increasing my calories so that I will be stick around 175lbs. I’ll continue to make adjustments up or down to my carbs/calories.
Anyway, that’s my story and I wanted to say thank you again. Today, I just made another order for $275.00 and I love it.
Scaling up meals of Keto Chow (6 at a time!)
Whilst replying to a thread over on reddit I remembered something I had pondered upon a few weeks ago: I was making 12 blender bottles of Keto Chow for my wife and myself (lasts a whole 2 days if we both eat 3 meals a day) and thought that making Keto Chow for 2 is workable though kinda tedious. What if ALLÂ the family was on Keto Chow? Granted, the smaller kids wouldn’t drink a full one but the big kids would and I would still probably need 7 meals worth just for the one meal. Mixing them individually doesn’t scale well, so how do you scale it?
Others mentioned it before but I hadn’t ever tried it: mass mixing 3 or more meals at a time either in a blender or in a pitcher with an immersion blender. Last night I tried it. I target 1400 calories a day so I’m using 50ml of heavy cream per meal. I like the thickness when I mix it up to be 16 fluid ounces (about 475ml). At that volume I could fit 8 meals into a 1 gallon pitcher. Figured it would be nice to have some room at the top to avoid spilling so I decided to do 6 meals at a time. The math was easy enough, just multiple everything by 6. 50g of powder = 300g. 50ml of heavy cream = 300ml. 13ml of MCT oil = 78ml.
- I stuck it all in the pitcher then added water to about the half point.
- I blended it for a bit with the immersion blender to get it going and then finished filling with water to the 3 quart mark.
- Kept the blender going for about 5 minutes.
- Finally I measured out 16 ounces into individual bottles and stuck them in the fridge.
The time stamps on my camera say it took 7Â minutes from start to finish. Awesome!
Family Photos, 1 year later
We recently had family photos taken, the last time was 11 months (and 60lbs) ago, just 4 days after I started doing Keto back on October 25, 2014. Time for a comparison.
Strangely enough, I’m wearing the exact same pants, but in a 34 instead of the 38s I wore last year.
And for kicks, here is a comparison from just before I started Keto and about 3 weeks ago:
Awesome results from a Keto Chow user
I got a great email from a Keto Chow user this afternoon, I asked permission to share it (since I’m always seeking confirmation). I’ve edited a few spelling errors but that’s it.
TL;DR Male/28 5’7″, start weight 185, hit goal weight of 130. (I’m small framed/boned).
I just wanted to thank you for this product, as it allowed me to lose 55 pounds of fat in 6/7 months (probably more since I’ve gained some muscle from new gains). It made dieting easy and quickly since I hate preparing food, and this took 5 minutes of prep for 3 meals of the day. I was doing three shakes a day for 80% of days. During this I was lifting 3-4 days a week, with no cardio, except for some hikes on the weekends.
I had many naysayers and mocking during lunch in the office, however ignored it and kept on trucking. The fact that I was never hungry was pretty amazing, compared to most other diets I’ve been on. Toward the end however, when my body-fat percentage was getting near 10% I did start to have cravings which was difficult to deal with, and which slowed down progress immensely as I found myself always snacking.
Just wanted to say thanks for the abs! haha
So there’s a lesson for all of you: when you get to 10% body fat you might get cravings. #firstworldproblems =) I have a bit to go before I hit 10% (OK a lot. I started all this at around 36% and am hovering around 25% according to my scale that does it using electricity).
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