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<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-27305 size-thumbnail" src="https://info.ketochow.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/beverly-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" />My 100-day experiment of eating &#8220;only Keto Chow&#8221; continues with today being Day 78!!  We are well into the final quarter of the challenge.  When hearing Chris say in <a href="https://info.ketochow.xyz/2019/03/100-days-of-keto-chow-day-78/">today&#8217;s video</a> that there are 22 days remaining, I felt like &#8220;only 22 days&#8221;?  Wow, this is really almost finished.  Three weeks is nothing compared to 14!  At this point, I feel I could continue indefinitely.  This has once again become a comfortable habit and routine for me (I have done this before and for longer than this!).  However, I am certainly looking forward to incorporating a few of my favorite keto meals into each week.  My thinks-he&#8217;s-being-neglected husband can’t remember the last time we ate out together, and I know we will both be looking forward to that.  I honestly can&#8217;t remember the last time we ate out either.  We went out to eat a few times during the first month (well, he ate and I drank a beverage) but we have not been out recently.  I find myself contemplating which meal (or meals) I will enjoy that first weekend&#8230; sausage and cheese omelet, pizza toppings, buffalo wings, chef salad, cheeseburger, taco toppings, grilled chicken caesar salad?</p>
<p>This week was the first week of the science phase using MCT oil.  This ingredient has posed no problems or challengers for me.  I notice absolutely no difference between using avocado oil and now using avocado oil and MCT oil.  For each 3 shakes, I use 6 tablespoons of oil to get the right amount of calories for me.  So for this phase of the experiment, I am replacing 1 tablespoon of those 6 with MCT oil.  I have not noticed any change in energy level nor any digestion concerns (I am still taking a probiotic).  There is no flavor difference.  The only thing I have noticed is my daily ketone level has increased significantly.  This number is not necessarily important to me but I do find it interesting.  I have never seen readings in the 3s before.</p>
<p><strong>AVERAGE DAILY KETONE LEVEL</strong><br />
Week 1 of science with cream: 2.5<br />
Week 2 of science with cream: 2.7<br />
Week 1 of science with avocado oil: 2.5<br />
Week 2 of science with avocado oil: 2.8<br />
Week 1 of science with avocado oil &amp; MCT oil: <strong>3.2</strong></p>
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So what will the average be next week?<br />
What will the average be while on butter?<br />
I am curious.</p>
<p>My personal dietary journey this week has not varied.  I am a creature of habit (aren&#8217;t we all?).   I eat the majority of my 1200 calories between 4:00-8:00 p.m.  I do allow myself one 16 oz. coffee with 1 tablespoon heavy cream (50 calories) in the morning, and I drink bouillon pretty much any time I want to (5 calories per cube).  I drink lots of diet soda and sparkling water.  I go to yoga 3 or 4 times each week.</p>
<p>My weight loss remains at exactly <strong>-15 pounds</strong> as of Tuesday morning (same as last week) but I did see -16.8 pounds a day or two ago so I continue to be hopeful to keep going in that direction but I am not holding my breath.  It is very likely that my body is finding the final weight where it wants to stop losing.  I have heard that can happen.  Or maybe it is just “pausing” again before the next stretch.  Time will tell.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-28503 size-medium alignright" src="https://info.ketochow.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_1925-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" /><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-28502 size-thumbnail" src="https://info.ketochow.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IMG_1924-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />My husband is traveling on business this week so I have enjoyed a few rare, quiet evenings alone at home watching movies he might not want to watch.  As always, I enjoy my mug of warmed Keto Chow as my last meal of every day.  I call it my daily &#8220;dessert&#8221;.  It is thick and rich &#8211; I slowly eat it with a spoon, savoring every bit.  This week, I have been <em>loving</em> on the Snickerdoodle flavor.  I have found that cinnamon does not mix in well if I add it right before drinking my shake so, instead, I add an extra amount of cinnamon while the shake mixture is in the blender and it&#8217;s perfect!</p>
<p>My husband and I have a weekend away planned for March 29.  I had been thinking in my mind all along that I would still be on oil as my fat source so I would just have my pre-mixed shakes ready to go the night before to put in my lunch box like last time we traveled.  But… uh, oh&#8230; March 29 will be Day 1 of using BUTTER as my fat source.  <em>This will not be as easy as I thought &#8211; I can’t pre-mix shakes with butter! </em> So I called the hotel to inquire if a refrigerator and microwave were provided in each room.  Good thing I called because those items were NOT already included.  (Really?!)  For a fee of $20 each, they can be reserved and added to the room.  So, whatever.  I will pay another $40 per night since both items will be necessary as I will be making my shakes on-site at meal times.  I am looking forward to the two-week butter phase though.  Not only will it signal the closing of this experiment, but I think it will be delicious!</p>
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