There’s an interesting reddit thread over on /r/keto about a NPR article that talks about the potential of keto for cancer treatment. The basic premise is: cancer cells aren’t doing what they are supposed to do, particularly metabolically. If you deprive them of readily available glucose they don’t grow/shrink. More research is needed but it’s […]

Weight: 205.0 Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L Did a really good job at not chewing anything all day yesterday… until I made jalapeno  poppers wrapped in bacon for my wife – I ate a couple of those. Bad idea, my jaw hurts again now =( We finished up a marathon session mixing last night, We’re almost completely out […]

Weight: 204.6 Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L Again with the running! I went to my dentist yesterday to see if the pain in my jaw was tooth related, got a panoramic x-ray and everything looks good. Based on my description and the way my jaw was closing, the dentist posits that I hurt the “disc” in my jaw […]

Weight: 204.9 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L Ran again last night, there was a comment yesterday about my routine. Feel free to try what I do. Looks like I’m doing a 4 minute warm up, then 5 rounds of 2 minutes running+2 minutes walking, followed by a final 2 minutes of running with a sprint and then […]

Weight: 204.5 Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L Not much to report today, drank 3 keto chows yesterday (Peanut Butter & Cookies and Cream). My weight is still coming down nicely. I was able to run last night, I’m doing the slightly more intense workout now: running for 2 minutes then walking for 2 (last week was run 1 […]

Weight: 205.1 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L I like finding reviews of my stuff around teh Intrawebs. This morning I was looking through my server logs and found Hey Keto Mama’s review of Keto Chow. I also found her recipe for a Keto Chow “Shamrock Shake” (which is the photo for today’s post) – seriously, go read the […]

Weight: 204.8 Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L Weight: 204.1 Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L Weight: 205.7 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L This weekend went great, mixed a bunch of Keto Chow powder and completely filled up all my recycle bins with Dymatize 5lb tubs. The picture is after I was already half done crushing the ones from Saturday. […]

Weight: 205.0 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L Weight stayed the same, I’ll take it. I totally called it with the food yesterday, lunch was a bunch of food trucks. While I’m sure it was yummy, everything either had a sugar glaze or whatever. The only ray of light was breakfast there was a giant bowl of bacon […]

Weight: 205.0 Blood ketones: 0.8 mmol/L Weight is still going down and my ketones are getting up into happy territory. At the weigh in yesterday I was down 5 lbs compared to the week before. This wasn’t hard since I was up 4 last week. Today I’m going to be at Snow Force – I’m guessing there […]

Weight: 205.3 Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L Still down compared to last week, sticking to (almost) 100% Keto Chow is working well. I have another weigh-in for the city weight loss challenge today. It shouldn’t be hard for me to be lower than last week since that was +4 lbs compared to the prior week. Even though […]

Weight: 205.5 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L Probably going to I.F. (Intermittent Fasting) until this afternoon, – we’ll see if I get hungry or not. The revised formulation of my custom vitamin mix is ordered. It was ordered with magnesium citrate instead of chloride to see if that removes the metallic aftertaste, hopefully it gets here soon! […]

In a recent thread on reddit I was directed over to an excellent journal article from 2004 “Metabolic Effects of the Very-Low-Carbohydrate Diets: Misunderstood ‘Villains’ of Human Metabolism.” It does a really great job explaining some of the actual science behind a ketogenic diet and debunks several myths including “you need 100g of carbohydrates a day […]

Weight: 205.4 Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L Weight: 206.4 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L Still down from last week, last night there was asparagus and really good salad so I ate some. It’s funny: trying to do 100% keto chow what I consider “cheating” is still eating keto friendly food =). Last night I made 2 batches […]

Weight: 205.9 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L Hey, only up 0.1 and still down like 3 from 2 days ago. I’ll consider that a win. Today I’m trying something new: powdered coconut oil in my Keto Chow. Cost wise it works out to be $0.89 per day compared to $0.59 for the same 301 calories. $0.30 isn’t […]

Weight: 205.8 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L I did a good job at mostly only eating Keto Chow yesterday and so far today. My wife is making spaghetti squash  with chicken alfredo for dinner tonight, gotta stay strong =). Posting later today because it’s been so busy. I got the formulation revision sent off and approved, hopefully […]

Weight: 208.5 Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L Yesterday was interesting, I received in the mail the sample of the new vitamin/mineral mix. I made a 1 day batch, split it between 3 blender bottles. Put it in the fridge for 3 hours. When it finally came time to taste it I was disappointed to get a […]