Weight: 207.9 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L Today I have a doctor appointment, time for my 6-month recurring check-up. I have to get a blood test to check testosterone levels. So I’m going to go into it fasting and figure I might as well just continue fasting until dinner since I’m going with a bunch of friends […]

Weight: 208.3 Blood ketones: 1.0 mmol/L Weighed in for the city weight loss challenge – 210.4 with clothes on. Now I get to get rid of all the water weight I’ve accumulated over the last few days. For breakfast and lunch I have the orange jello+vanilla Keto Chow I made earlier this week, it’s all I […]

Weight: 207.6 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L I haven’t been overly concerned with how much weight I have lost thus far because today is weigh-in day for a weight loss contest my city does. So all the water weight I’ve gained recently because of eating lots of yummy salty meat will serve to make my initial […]

Weight: 207.9 Blood ketones: 0.1 mmol/L 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. The meat had a lot of salt so water weight was way up again and the protein killed […]

Weight: 207.5 Blood ketones: 0.9 mmol/L Wow, that’s a LOT of water weight! (3.5lbs) Having food with a lot of salt will do that to you I guess. Weight: 206.0 Blood ketones: 0.2 mmol/L There I go, back down =) Yesterday I made jello using keto chow and some sugar free jello. Put it in […]

Here is a followup experience to an earlier post about “Golden Oldies.” Caution is always advised when considering a new diet and I read all the studies, comments and concerns about [moderate] protein/low carb combinations.  I did not factor in my response to the protein powder because I did not realize my kidney function was diminished.  […]

Weight: 204.1 Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L Yay, my ketones are coming back! I’m down nearly 5lbs in the last 13 days – not bad. Got a family function today, probably going to be all desserts. I’m going to drink a Keto Chow (Cookies and Cream) on the way and snack on the smoked gouda we’re […]

Weight: 204.7 Blood ketones: >0.1 mmol/L The plan was to do Keto Chow for 3 meals a day for 100 days though I decided I wasn’t going to kill myself or stress about it. Yesterday evening we went out to dinner at a Chinese Buffet. There was a Mongolian grill so I was able to find plenty […]

Weight: 205.3 Blood ketones: 0.5 mmol/L Looks like I’m properly hydrated again since my weight went up just a little. One thing I’ve noticed about losing weight and winter: I’m cold. Like all. the. time. This is odd since I used to be the big fat guy that wore shorts all winter. I bought a […]

Weight: 205.0 Blood ketones: 0.4 mmol/L (04:50) Hey hey, I’m 10% done! The experiment with Intermittent Fasting seems to be a success, though I did have a headache when I woke up this morning. Some of that could have been mild dehydration. Still I’m happy with the results.I didn’t do Intermittent Fasting today because I […]

Weight: 205.9 Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L (04:50) Yesterday I tried Intermittent Fasting again. I’ve done it in the past but usually did regular keto food (half a pound of melted cheese and some bacon). With Keto Chow being a liquid, it complicates things. My approach was to skip breakfast, skip lunch and then drink 1 (Chocolate […]

Day 7 (Sunday) Weight: 206.9 Blood ketones: 0.8 mmol/L Day 8 (Monday) Weight: 206.4 Blood ketones: 0.3 mmol/L Uh-Oh, my ketone level is on a downward trend. I’m going to have to do better (I swiped quite a bit of the chicken we made the kids for dinner, probably jump started gluconeogenisis). Whatever, let’s focus on the […]

Weight: 206.6 Blood ketones: 1.3 mmol/L Woo Hoo! Blood ketones are almost to 1.5+ (1.5-3 is “optimal range” for nutritional ketosis). That’s great. Made Keto Chow pancakes for breakfast, they were quite yummy. We ran out of our silver bags that we use for the weeks of Keto Chow yesterday and had to use my “backup” […]

Weight: 207.6 (again) Blood ketones: 0.6 mmol/L Weight’s the same and ketones are down a bit. Dangit. This is when you “Keep Calm and Keto On” (KCKO). Ran on the treadmill again, I switched back to a fitbit Charge HR for tracking that. Yep it’s better than the chest strap, plus fitbit talks to cron-o-meter. The […]

The methodology used to develop and update this Pattern continues to be grounded in that of the food guides USDA has developed for the last 30 years. “we didn’t cause the deaths of millions of Americans by telling them to eat more carbs, so we’re going to continue the same way. But you should limit […]

Weight: 207.6 Blood ketones: 1.0 mmol/L Totally got trolled by my scale today. For review, yesterday I was up a bit at 208.9; today I weighed myself and it said 202.4 – I doubt I lost 6 lbs overnight. So I tried again, same thing, so I picked up the scale and shook it a […]