Ok, the fun of doing something new and crazy, eating keto, is wearing off. In fact I’m having a major “cheat” moment with a raspberry scon at Starbucks! First bread with n two weeks. Need to stay strong. Got to get some more varied “go to” recipes / foods. Bacon and eggs is fun for only so long.
New Eats & Drinks
The Keto saga deepens. Bulletproof coffee is now a daily routine and I’m enjoying it! Actually, after you push by the idea of drinking butter, it’s very good.
Today’s breakfast (sorry no pictures) eaten after 11am as per the program, was three scrambled eggs and 1/2 a tin of sardines in olive oil! I like sardines fortunately but even I found the initial smell a little “rough”. Thankfully, the tase was much milder that the smell.
Next up on the new program was an exogenous ketone supplement.
This stuff is brutally expensive at almost $10/per serving so I’m not sure this will be a regular part of the diet. Today, as recommended, it’s 1/2 a serving to allow my body to adapt and avoid what Keto folks call disaster pants :-). Apparently a lot of exogenous ketone supplements taste pretty bad. While Pruvit apparently has the best taste on the market, there was one online comment that said it tasted like “death”! Fortunately, this seems to be quite an over reaction. The Raspberry Lemonade was quite acceptable, if fact I found it very tasty and surprisingly sweet. I considered the sweetness a “treat” because not much on the Keto diet is sweet. Learn more about the product here. It’s only been a few minutes but I have an inner warmth feeling in my stomach. Who knows what will happen next.
What’s for dinner? Pizza! S is making a cauliflower/rice crust and I’m going to make the Fathead Pizza Dough crust. Perhaps there will be a post later about how that went.
Happy Halloween
My 1st attempt at a more sophisticated pumpkin carving as opposed to the basic scarey face.
Keto Krazy?
Well, hopefully not too crazy, but I’m getting into the Ketogenic Diet and doing a lot of reading, listening & research in general. It seems to have some fabulous benefits with the usual problem of making a big change in eating habits, and this will be a big switch!
I’m not planning on jumping in hard core but more of a gradual adoption of a new way of eating. For sure there will be some major breaks with the plan over the next week or two. For example, we’re committed to an event at
DeLuca’s where it will be unlimited pasta, bread, desserts and wine, not exactly a Keto friendly environment.
So, what have I been looking at and doing so far? Here’s a few lists:
Books
- Keto Zone Diet – Dr. Don Colbert – reading now.
- The Case Against Sugar – Gary Taubes – on hold at the library
- Why we get fat and what to do about it – Gary Taubes- on hold at the library
- Good calories, Bad calories – Gary Taubes – on hold at the library
Web Sites & Podcasts
Web
Podcasts
- Tim Ferris #117 with Dom D’Agostino Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer
- Tim Ferris #172 with Dom D’Agostino — The Power of the Ketogenic Diet
Things I’ve tried so far
- Bulletproof coffee
- Butter in coffee!?! Sounds weird but tastes pretty good. Plus MCT oil.
- Keto Breakfast Taco
- Proclaimed a success by my breakfast buddy. Chopping up the bacon makes it a little easier to eat without destroying the egg taco shell.
- Stevia, well actually Truvia
- Dropping Splenda & sugar for Stevia. Tried this a while back but the taste was uggg! They must have improved the tase or I’m more tolerate now. Actually in the Bulletproof Coffee, a sweetener is optional for me, it’s good without.
- Cut the Carbs
- Bye Bye to bread etc. This most likely will be a little tough to get used to. So used to lots of carbs.
Planning or thinking about trying
- Exogenous Ketones
- Specifically the pruvit Keto OS product. – on order 🙂
- MCT powder
- Supposed to be easier on your GI trac and more easily transported for use on the go.
- DCA (?)
- Precision Xtra Blood Glucose & Ketone Monitoring System
Gutenberg – Taking the plunge
A lot of controversy about WordPress 5.0 going to the Gutenberg editor and the block concept, but I’ve taken the plunge and installed the editor on both my blogs in a current but pre-5.0 version of WordPress. So far, so good and I’ve really not had any problems and I kind of like the block concept. Seems like we’re going there anyway so best to ride the horse in the direction it’s running.
Bike Activity
Not exactly a stellar month, but it’s something. Looks like it will be indoor training until fatbiking in the snow kicks in.
If today was your last day
Fall Fishing – Is it really the best time?
This week at the lake I went out fishing twice. Both times had some similarities and some differences. Both times nobody caught any fish. 🙁 however, one trip was way nicer that the other!
Last Wednesday it was warm, sunny and calm as Shirley and I went out so when we didn’t catch anything we at least had a nice time on the lake and enjoyed the fall scenery on the lake.
Yesterday, the weather was a different story. Roy invited me to go fishing and in spite of the cool 3°C with drizzle / rain I was up for the adventure. I layered up in some warm clothing and headed out to Roy’s place on Blindfold lake. What I wasn’t prepared for was the high water level on Blindfold Lake and what that would mean in terms of going over the boat lift into Lake of the Woods.
On the way over to the boat lift there is some casual talk about how the water might be flowing over the road! Sure enough the dock and road are under about 2-3 inches of water and I don’t have boots. So it’s shoes and socks off, roll up the pants and wade around in the water to get the boat over the lift. Going over is not too bad. The water is 60°F and we’ve only been out for 15 minutes. Two hours later we’re much colder, it’s now raining and coming back up to Blindfold is a little more involved.
Step one, get the boat on the dolly and use the hand winch to get it started and then hook on a rope to use with the power winch.
Step 2, use the power winch to get the boat up the steep side and onto the flat section
Step 3, here she comes.
Step 4, pack up the rope & power winch back into the boat and push the dolly over to the Blindfold Lake side, which of course requires more walking around in the cold water.
A quick 10 minute but frigid boat ride back to Roy’s and were in the cabin where it’s toasty warm and having a much welcomed hot coffee.
White Balance
I came across this PetaPixel article on using Plumber’s Tape as a Cheap Way to White Balance Photos. Sounded like a good idea so I gave it a try.
Here are my findings, you mileage may vary.
Three pictures all taken with the Canon 7D on a tripod with shutter release, same exposure & lighting. The comparison would be the 7D’s auto white balance, the plumbers tape white balance corrected in Lightroom and using an expo disc to set the custom white balance in the 7D before taking the shot.
Plumber’s tape, too warm. expo disc too cold, 7D auto WB, just right. For my money, the 7D auto white balance nailed it.
Out on The Lake
It’s a calm day at the lake with a sun/cloud mix that is quite pleasant with temperatures in the low 20°Cs. A perfect day for some boating and fishing!
After picking up some minnows and catching up a bit with Al of Smith Camps I’m back at the dock picking up Shirley and we head out.
However, the fish were not cooperating! We try a couple of spots with no success. At some spots the fish finder shows lots of fish, but the end of the line is still empty.
We cruise through Eagle Pass, Moore Bay, The Hades, Copper Island and our very own Needle Point before returning home. A very enjoyable couple of hours out on The Lake.
