Nun habe ich doch noch was Positives am Tag erlebt. Und zwar ist es positiv, dass ich mich heute endlich wieder ernsthaft mit der Planung meiner Ernährung beschäftigt habe. Das wird dann nach Fasten und Aufbautagen los gehen und wird einige Änderungen beinhalten. Neues Jahr, neue Wege.
🔵 Ernährung geplant und Nährwertberechnungen gemacht
Dann ist hiermit der 5. Fastentag im #NeujahrsFasten2024 Restart geschafft und bekommt ein :check:
Jetzt im vierten Fastentag habe ich nach langer Zeit erstmalig wieder gemessen. Ergab 11 PPM was bedeutet, dass ich in einer guten mittleren Ernährungsketose bin. Jawoll, erster Meilenstein geschafft \o/
Sagte ich schon mal, wie ich das Fasten liebe ? Besonders weil es einen nahezu in die Ketose katapultiert.
Fast geschafft. In ca. 40 Minuten bin ich safe. Um die Restzeit zu überbrücken und um Kurzschlussentscheidungen zu vermeiden, werde ich jetzt noch ne kleine Tasse Kaffee schlürfen.
GUYS! I am SO excited! I am not going to share it all here - too much to write - but I WILL share excerpts from where I wrote it all down, as it was happening (so it's quite lengthy)...and IF you are interested after you see this you can read the rest at ChiaChow (http://chiachow.net/?p=346), but here are the highlights:
"So I've been sick for about a week +/-, and craving toast. When I was a kid my mom always made us toast and soft-boiled eggs when we were sick, so maybe that's why?...I made a small amount of toast recently but this time I want a LOAF of bread to make toast. Going by the seat of my pants (and a lot of successful experiments in breads over the last 20 years) I made a loaf that is in the oven right now. Below is what I did, before I forget, if it works out; if it doesn't, you'll never see this anyway!"
*** blah blah blah ***
"Sliced the loaf into 18 slices. And this is what the macros look like, for the online calculator I used, and the brands of ingredients I used:
Calories = 651 (36/slice)
fat = 33g (< 2g/slice)
carbs = 36g (2g/slice)
fiber = 20g (1g/slice)
protein = 82g (4.5g/slice)"
I only used stuff that most low carbers/keto folk would have around the house anyway...STOKED!
I used my other 2 slices of my animal-based bread to make a grilled-ham-and-cheese sandwich. And it was DEEEE-VINE! Crispy and buttery, with some thin-sliced deli ham surrounded by sharp pinconning and havarti cheeses...ahhhh.....
Guys, I just made TOAST! Carnivore TOAST! There's a whole story about it on my site (link below) but if you're like me you'll skip to the recipe anyway - hahaha - so here it is, copied & pasted:
"I don't measure anything. I rarely follow recipes. I go by the seat of my pants when I cook. So I can share the approximate amounts of each ingredient that I used. But it's only a guide and certainly not written in stone. Feel free to use your own pants if you try this!
"I have a limited selection of baking dishes so I just chose a regular (Pyrex) loaf pan and buttered it, then set it aside. And I preheated my oven to 350°F.
"In a bowl I mixed together thoroughly about 1/3c of egg whites, 2T of full-fat Greek yogurt, and a Tbsp of oil (avacado in this case). When it was smooth, I added about 1/4c of chicken flour, 3 turns of pink salt, 1/4 tsp of xanthan gum, 2 tsps of beef gelatin, and 2 tsps of yeast (for the scent), and mixed it all until very smooth and creamy. Finally, I added a rounded teaspoon of baking powder from which I'd smashed out the clumps; mixed that into the batter quickly, scraped it into my loaf pan (it was only about an inch high), and put it in the oven.
"20 minutes later it was done and I put the whole pan on a cooling rack; about 20 minutes after that I was able to easily and cleanly lift the loaf out, cut it in half across the middle, then slice each half through the center to create 4 slices of more-or-less square bread."
(which I then toasted, the way my Gram taught me!)
Even I am impressed by what I made for Pete to take to his Christmas party with his "hamster" friends! Wish I could have gone just so I could eat some hahaha!
Good evening, keto, low carb, and carnivore compadres!
Today we ate at a restaurant and I took the opportunity to write a post about it...what I ate isn't that important, but I do share the most helpful tips I use to keep myself from straying way off the track. Below is the Reader's Digest version of those tips; if you want to read more, I'll provide the link below; if not, we'll still be friends!
1 - eat right before you go
2 - decide what you want before you get there
3 - order less than you want
4 - give yourself a LITTLE grace, within your own plan, if you can without doing damage.
Well, shrinking friends, it is up!
http:chiachow.net
I have been putting some content up for the last few days, and trying to work out any kinks - there may still be a few, hope you will let me know if find any! Anyway, I've got my daily eating and recipes for what I've eaten the last few days, plus a few actual posts. Still need to move the last couple of years' worth of content from my chia.owly.net site, which will now be just for personal posts and fun stuff, but that might take more time.
I will now be using only this site for updating pages and adding new content.
#keto breakfast sausage gravy with eggs! Recipe card attached. Normally I add the heavy cream however today I didn’t have the cream so just doubled up on the cream cheese. It’s so tasty. ( sorry for the dirty recipe card) it’s been used a lot 😊 @KetoPlus
@KetoPlus
I love Mexican food (or rather, our local interpretation of it) but between the tortillas, the beans, and the rice it is off-limits.
Today went to Qdoba - a fast-food Mexican place - and I was able to get the vibe without the carbs.
I ordered a bowl - no shell - with the seasoned ground beef, lettuce, tomato salsa, cheese, sour cream, and guac. Then I splurged on some corn salsa*. That was very filling and darned good!
(Tonight I had a leg quarter.)
It can be done, friends!
My daily carb limit is 50g total. More or less. What kind of carbs those are (as well as maintaining my IF/eating window) is most important in controlling my inflammation and pain levels - I don't eat for weight loss.
I made a strange and wonderful discovery today! For my meal (OMaD day) I had some pork tenderloin and delicata squash.
The tenderloin had all of the fat trimmed off it, so I cut it into 6 big chunks and packed some pork fat that I'd gotten from a local store around them, then roasted it.
This pork fat is white, no pieces of actual meat mixed in, and looks otherwise like freshly-ground beef. Wait...I'll go take a picture...
So when I took the roasted meat out of the oven, I thought the pork fat would be melted away as I didn't see any meat mixed into it - but it wasn't! And when I tasted the little pieces that were left, they had the distinct texture of RICE! They didn't have much flavor, and I felt like I was eating pork and rice for supper...AMAZING!!!
@KetoPlus Dinner tonight is this awesome #keto chilli! A big thank you to @ValerieAnne1970 on X for sharing her recipe! It’s so delicious I bet it even taste better the next day! #ketodiet#ketovore if your on X please follow her she is amazing https://x.com/valerieanne1970?s=21
Oh yes! My first meal today is quite a pleasant surprise!
Ya know those 90-second microwave "breads" that have been around forever? I wanted toast, so I was going to make one. But I just didn't want the almond flour, so I subbed it with a 1:1:1 mix of green-can-parm, pork panko, and whey protein instead, to carnivore it up. SUPERB!
But wait! There's more! I "toasted" (fried) it in some leftover burger fat from last night...and then melted butter over it. WOW! I can't wait to try it in duck fat. Or bacon fat.
WOW!
(I can't' find my phone or I'd attach a pic. Next time.)