KETONU

When you stop eating carbs, your body starts using fat as energy. The liver creates ketones and you become ketonic. This blog is about my trip into health, fitness and day to day in full nutritional ketosis!

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The Perfect (Keto) Scrambled Eggs + Bacon

I just had the perfect scrambled eggs and bacon. Cooked it myself. So, I’m doing the Keto Cycle program and measuring my kcal and macros. Out of laziness, I wanted to use the lard that comes from the bacon, so it doesn’t go to waste. We’re trying to use all the fats, right? But how do I keep them crisp?

So, I fry the bacon (ecological bacon) without any butter on low heat. For a longer time. If I fry them too hard, they will leave these burnt flakes that I believe is not healthy or tasty to consume. So if you cook the bacon on low heat for a longer time, they still become crisp, but not burnt. This also helps for making the scrambled eggs. After the bacon is done, you pick them up and let them dry on a plate. Then you cool off the pan for a while.

Then I added 27 grams of butter (eco, of course) and with 4 eggs (eco, yes!). Might be possible it’s even better not adding butter, but tried adding extra for the 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% net carbs ratio of the Ketogenic diet. The trick with making the perfect scrambled eggs is patience. You put the pan on again with full heat, then in sessions, you start to putting the pan onto the heat. But always, always stirring it with a wooden fork or spoon (not plastic, heated plastic is not good, my brother told me last time he visited). When the eggs is starting to get white and firmer, you need to remove the pan from the heat and stir it some more. You keep doing this until you have it exactly as you want. You remove it from heat, a little before, because it will cook some more, even if you have it off the heat. Now, you add a spoon of sour creme or creme fraiche. Some sea salt and grounded pepper. Done!

I ate it all up and it was so damn tasty...

With the app LifeSum, I just scanned the bacon to get it’s 120 grams split up into fat, protein and carbs. Since I used all of it for the scrambled eggs. Added butter and 210 grams of eggs too. Done. :-) 

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Keto Cycle - measuring

I’ve had a 3 weeks trip to Iceland, 2 weeks in Spain but now I started with another ketogenic diet again. I’m gonna try the Keto Cycle program. When I was over there, I have been eating everything from noodles, pizza, burgers, fries and fruit. Doing intermittent fasting and KinoBody’s Body Weight MasteryProgram have helped me not to gain any more fat. But I still long back to being ketogenic though… This time, I do have some more energy to do something differently. I never measured my macros. This time I will, I’m on day 1 now of the Keto Cycle journey. It’s actually kinda easy to track. When starting, it feels hard to follow a 75% fat, 20% protein and 5% carb macro, while also following a calorie limit. It’s crazy how adding a little more butter increases your fat macro. It’s easy to forget that fat is double the amount of calories of protein and carbs - so hitting the caloric limit is not so hard. Remember doing keto and almost forcing myself to eat so much more fat. I think I overdid it many times! I probably overdid my caloric limit every day as well. Never really became fat, but I also didn’t reach that lover body fat limit where you start seeing your abs. I think for myself and getting a visible 6-pack, measuring my macros is a must. At least in the start, cause I can make different meals and remember how much they are and what works. For that, I started using MyFitnessPal for iPhone. But then I found LifeSum and found it much cleaner, cheaper (for Pro version) and more logical.

On another note, I stopped paying for my domain name: keto.nu. The tumblr address is still around though, so I will post to ketonu.tumblr.com Cheers!

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I heard this so many times before, but I never really understood the Insulin Resistance and how that works... This is a very good explanation!

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The Tim Ferriss Show by Tim Ferriss on iTunes

Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show by Tim Ferriss for free.

Podcast to listen to while working. Interesting! Talks about ketones, fasting, health, muscle growth, how to best combat cancer or decrease chances of getting it. Avoiding age related diseases. The episode there (now nr 10?) with Dom D'Agostino.

The product, the keto powder, is out. A friend just sent a link. Check it out: http://prototypenutrition.com/ketocana.html

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From what I have read about longer water fasting, is that after 2-3 days of eating nothing, drinking nothing of caloric value – only water. Your body starts creating lots and lots of new white blood cells. It’s like a reboot or recharge button of your immune system. Here is a video of a white blood cell that chases and attacks bacteria. So amazing how our bodies work...

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Day 4 water fast ends

Aah.. There. Just ended a 4 days (94h) water only fast. Now had an avocado with lime juice and sea salt. Some fatty yoghurt with blueberries and walnuts. Some crackers with feta cheese dip... Soooo good. :-)

Was thinking of waiting until tomorrow, but too difficult for me. This is enough! Maybe I will do longer next time.

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Water fast day 3

Had bad dreams about fainting in the gym or while biking to work. I read that it's OK with strength training while I'm fasting, I didn't really believe I could do well in the gym when I had not eaten anything for 3 days. To my surprise, I beat several of my records! One of them being chins with +25 kg hanging under me. Been stuck on a repetition of 5 for many weeks. This time I managed to do 6!

Yesterday morning, I weighted 76 kg. This morning 74,5 kg.

Felt very weak when I started my bike ride, so I was a bit worried. But after the gym session, entering the sauna - I felt awesome. After the sauna, a cold shower. That wasn't a problem either. I am dressing warmer while fasting though. It is Sweden, so it's cold here. Having two pairs of socks, Long Johns and t-shirt + sweater. How come muscles don't break down while fasting? I don't actually remember/know. I think it's more in the line of, if you don't do anything, that's when your body thinks you don't need 'em... Anyhow, it doesn't hurt me to try. I'm doing this for the white blood cell renewal. To repair my immune system and loose some extra fats. Now for the next challenge! Do well at work during fasting.

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I’ve been back into ketosis for more than a couple of weeks, it feels great when you actually get past the point, getting stronger in the gym and with running. I’m beating records again at the gym and last Sunday I ran 30 km on an empty stomach - well, two teaspoons of coconut oil. Went great actually. Also, I just recently read a book by Christian Vlad Zot about fasting. Periodic fasting as well as longer water fastings.

Tried periodic fasting and keto, but still finding it a bit troublesome. I think it’s easier doing it in the morning, skipping breakfast, than skipping dinner.

Two weeks ago I did a 40 hours fasting, but with some teaspoons of coconut oil. I imagined it would be easier, but now today doing my second attempt at a longer fast, drinking only water actually feels easier. I tried adding a little lime juice, but that triggers my hunger. Simply only drinking water was easier. The topic of fasting usually gives people the freaks. This video presentation helps you understand the benefits and how-to. If you wanna go deeper, buy Christian’s book on Amazon Kindle!

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“Carbs are for the weak.” Hehe.. Not often I find this perspective out there!

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Is salt good or bad for you? Well, if you don’t have time to watch this video (where all big studies about salt are concluded), there a good and bad salts! Eating good salt is very good for you, eating no salt or bad salt is bad for you. ;-)

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Healing Brain Cancer with a Zero Carb Ketogenic Diet by Andrew Scarborough

Two and a half years ago, at the age of 27, I was working as a personal trainer and was physically very active. However, I was forced to stop working towards the end of 2012 because I was experienc...

An interview by Andrew who I met while trying the Zero Carb diet. An amazing story. PS. I’m back in keto, have kept in all vacation by ordering no-sugar-Mojitos or drinking wine when my friends been drinking beer.

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My break-up with veganism ... I'm now an ex-vegan • Erika Awakening

Found this blog post interesting (and provocative for vegans).

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Zero

I’m no longer fasting. I’m no longer eating carbs. I’m eating zero carbs. I found this blog: 

http://eatmeatdrinkwater.wordpress.com and decided I wanted to try it out. Have probably tried every other diet on the planet, from traditional to Raw Food Vegan, the Master Cleanse, the Hollywood Physique, Vegetarian to LCHF, 5:2, Eat STOP Eat, Intermittent Fasting, Juice Fasting, the keto diet and now Zero Carbs. There is a Facebook group called Zeroing In On Health, that is probably where it’s at for this diet at the moment.

It’s the simplest of diets. Eat meat. Drink water. That’s it. No vegetables. I tried it for 11 days, failed, went back to traditional, then Cycling Ketogenic and now I’m on day 4 of Zero Carbs again. Going to give it 30 days.

Pretty stunned I never ever thought it would be possible to not eat vegetables. I see this as a temporary thing though. Experiment! But through this group, now I understand that it is possible and probably even healthy for you. There are vegetarians, so why not meat eaters? Go check out that blogs interview of many others living and thriving this way. The first thing against it is probably boredom. Who would want it? But you quickly loose cravings for other things when you start it... And people have gotten rid of lots of health problems.

UPDATE: All though I read about many who experienced health benefits, I certainly did not. After 8 more days, I got a serious throat infection, caused by virus. Very sick for a week. That kinda stopped me from trying a third time. :-)

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Fast #2 (on a workday)

Have a date on Sunday, so took this week’s fasting day yesterday instead. The first half of the day, I was very focused at work! Worse on the second half, more difficult, some hunger alerts. Drank lots of water.

You get these alerts, where you start thinking of eating lots of food. But they always pass after like 5 minutes.

This morning, still fasted, I lifted weights in the gym. New personal record for deadlift, 110kg x6. So it doesn’t seem to make me less strong. I took a little BCAA before, just in case.

Breakfast at work afterwards, the first thing I ate was some blueberries. I moaned so loud, my colleagues had to comment. It’s like the sense of taste increase x10 times!

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Eat STOP Eating...

After reading the book Eat STOP Eat (again) and since I'm eating a bit more carbs now... Started yesterday with fasting one day a week. So on Sundays = no food! Lets see how many times I'll manage to do that? :-) Went surprisingly easy first time. Did get some hunger alerts, but whenever that happened, I had some water and it passed after a while.

Went to the gym this Monday morning, took some BCAA just because I have some and lifted some weights. No problem at all with lifting in fasted state. 

“Predators in the wild only hunt when they are hungry”

Then low-carb breakfast at work. Two lambas, some Kvarg with nuts, seeds and blueberries. A cup of coffee with cream.

Here are some of the health benefits from short-term intermittent fasting:

Decreased body fat & body weight

Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass

Decreased blood glucose levels

Decreased insulin levels & increased insulin sensitivity

Increased lipolysis & fat oxidation

Increased Uncoupling Protein 3 mRNA

Increased norepinephrine & epinephrine levels

Increased Glucagon levels

Increased growth hormone levels.