Taylor Keto

Around here Sunday's are usually fairly busy. So, no breakfast which works great with Intermittent fasting and I'll probably only eat lunch today. So, for lunch I had left over pizza casserole with a salad and Italian dressing and some pork rinds for a snack afterwards. 10g carbs, 900 calories. Sorry, I didn't take any pictures of the pizza casserole.

Saturday's are my long run days, so up early at 5:00 am and went for six mile run.  We had a late breakfast I just fixed a two egg omelet with some sausage, bacon, and onion. 1g carb maybe,  580 calories For dinner we fixed pizza casserole with hamburger, Italian sausage, pepperoni, green pepper, jalapeno and pizza sauce.  I fixed my helping of the casserole without any cheese, but I put some cheese on everyone elses. Pizza isn't the same without cheese. I planned on making a fathead pizza but we were out of almond flour and doing the squeaky clean keto challenge kinda rules out fathead dough. 10g carbs, 530 calories. On a bright note, after three weeks of doing the squeaky clean keto challange I'm down about another 12 pounds.

For lunch I had bacon burger with a 90sec keto bread bun and a salad. 11g carbs, 520 calories. For dinner we decided to go out and eat at Texas Road house.  I had a grilled chicken salad.  Not sure how many carbs but it was a total of about 800 calories.  It was a few more calories than I wanted, but hey, I have a long run scheduled for tomorrow morning so I'll run all the calories off.

Lunch Hamburger patty with a pad of melted butter, 4 slices of bacon, fried egg, salad, oil and balsamic vinegar dressing. 2.5g carbs, 48g fat, 35g protein 600 calories Dinner Pepperoni Chicken with Spaghetti sauce, Broccoli. Normally the pepperoni  chicken would also have mozzarella cheese on it but with the squeaky clean keto challenge I didn't put any cheese on it.  It was still good, but will be even better with some melted cheese on it. 11g carbs, 50g fat, 50g protein. 720 calories https://kalynskitchen.com/low-carb-pepperoni-pizza-chicken-bake/

Tonight we had a Mexican themed dinner.  I had a taco salad.  Used pork rinds for chips, lettuce, tomatoes,  pork steak cut into fajita strips seasoned with taco seasoning , peppers and onions.  Normally I would of also added shredded cheese and sour cream, but with the squeaky clean keto challenge I skipped the sour cream, and cheese. Also, I would of added some salsa but we didn't have any tonight. 2g carbs, 21g fat, 28g protein. 306 calories

Today for lunch, it was just a simple salad with a boiled egg, cut up slice of bacon, a about 3oz of left over chicken.  Sorry no pictures. Then I made an oil and vinegar salad dressing. I used about 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1 tsp yellow mustard, salt, and pepper fir the dressing.  When I calculated the macros it surprised me the balsamic vinegar had about 2.5 carbs per tablespoon.  Carbs are sneaky. Also. I had a few pork rinds right before lunch. 4.2g carbs, 37.4g fat, 16.8g protien. 426 calories total.  I forgot to check my blood ketones before eating lunch.  But, I took just as soon as I finished and my blood ketone level was 3.9 mmol/ L . I'll try to post tonight's  dinner if I can remember to.  We are planning on having Mexican tonight.

I just finished a three day fast and feeling pretty good.  Went out for lunch today with my wife. Just had some salad and soup.  Unfortunately. I'm thinking the soup, vegetable beef soup, may of had a lot of carbs.  It tasted pretty sweet, but I can't be certain how many carbs it had .  But it may just be my taste buds readjusting.  I took a blood ketone test before lunch and the meter just said high. Yesterday, the ketone blood test showed 3.3 and the day before that was 1.1.  So, three days of fasting put me in a very high rate of ketosis. Now to finish the rest of the month doing squeaky clean keto.  The restraunt we went to today had a salad bar.  I put some shredded cheese on my salad just by habit before I remembered I was doing the squeaky clean keto challenge.  So, instead of eating the cheese I just pushed it to the side.  A lot of the keto diet is really just about breaking old eating habits and creating a new relationship wi...

This month I am going to be taking part in the squeaky clean keto challenge.  For one month I'll be removing nuts, dairy, and sweeteners from my diet.  I've been working on losing the last 10-15 lbs and they seem harder than the previous 120 lbs all together. If you are interested in the challenge go to the following link. I am starting this week with a 3 day fast to kick the challenge of with a bang. Squeaky Clean Keto Challenge

Today for Sunday afternoon lunch we had grilled chicken, broccoli, and mashed  cauliflower. The store bought mashed cauliflower was something new we tried today. Per serving, it has 3g carbs and 3g fat and 60 calories.  It was just ok.  It was a little thin and still had that cauliflower after taste. We have tried to make our own  mashed cauliflower before.  Other than the fact it still has a cauliflower taste to it our biggest problem with making it from scratch is just that it makes the entire kitchen smell like cauliflower.  Total calories for lunch 300 calories, carbs 5g, fat 5.7g, protien 35g.  As I was making lunch, I also snacked on some cracker cut cheese squares.  220 calories, fat 18g,  protein 14g, carbs 0. Then after lunch I whipped up some heavy whipping cream and added a little swerve sweetener and cocoa powder to it.  4oz heavy whipping cream.  480 calories, carbs 1-2g,  fat 48g,  protien 0g.  The bigge...