Day Two.
We've lost six of the men due to the storm. Briggs, the helmsman, has come down with cabin fever. We've had to restrain him against his will, and keep him under guard for his own safety, and the safety of the crew. We've struck the sails to save the masts from the storm, and hopefully when this ends, IF it ends, we won't be too far off course.
To quote Han Solo: "I feel terrible". My friends on Keto, and people on the internet really didn't prepare me for this. They said things like "some people get keto flu, some don't." Unfortunately, like with every other illness out there, I seem to get it worse than my friends.
Aching, weakness, fatigue, nausea, upset stomach, all of it and more. The nagging cough that I've had for years now hurts my throat, and I'm dizzy a lot. I apparently slept 8 hours last night, then took off the fitbit, poked around online for a few minutes via the bedside netbook, and fell asleep for another 7 hours or so.
I made the mistake yesterday of going out into the world with Cheesius. I was feeling a little crappy when I left. Had breakfast at Carl's Jr.. which was awesome, but the bus ride there had massively increased my nausea. We diddled around in a couple of thrift stores, where I found a new strap for my purse/satchel/whatever.. finally found a pyrex pitcher to fit my blender (I only had the plastic one), and a hand crank cheese grater (which although I have a food processor, will be much easier to grab and use, and easier to clean.. especially when 'adding cheese' to a dish is a last minute idea.
We headed back to Cheesius's house, and by them I was really much weaker, and much sicker. The cold of the day was biting into me, and my normally mild rosacea was kicking up a storm. Cheesius, the sweetheart that he is, made me some chicken broth eggdrop soup, and then we spontaneously watched "Zero Hour", the serious airplane disaster drama that "Airplane!" spoofed.
I headed back home after that, and my housemate wanted salad, so we went to WinCo, where they have pre-made salads, but no nutrition information. So I winged it as best I could with myfitnesspal, and assessed that with that salad, I'd gotten just about a proper keto balance for the day, and enough calories.. so hopefully my body will have enough 'stuff' to work with to bring me out of this soon.
When I finally did get up, I made 3 strips of bacon and a couple of poached eggs. I've never poached eggs before, so they didn't come out perfect, but they weren't bad. I made some mayo-mustard-lemon juice sauce, and had that with it. It was good. I actually wished I'd made more.
Thinking about trying a flax-seed-meal based pizza crust, and see if I can toss together something like a pizza.
I weighed myself today, and I'm down 6lbs from my starting weight. I know it's mostly going to be water weight, but I don't care.. as shitty as I feel, I need signs of progress. I also did a ketone test strip, and dear god I've got so many. So I'm officially "In Ketosis" now.
Yay.
Haven't gotten dick done in SL in a few days.. but between researching, and trying things, tracking my fat, protein, and so on, and shopping for things I need, and now being sick.. I really haven't had a lot of time. I'm sure I'll get back to it soon tho, I'm starting to feel the itch, and miss people.
I am amused that my anti-spam word was "gadget".
ReplyDeleteFirst, if you don't know about sunchoke pasta, you need to. DeBoles is the largest maker of pasta, mostly found at health food stores (though can be ordered online), but occasionally at larger markets too.. Basically, they're high-protein, high-fiber, inulin-containing tubers, and it's pretty damned good for those gotta-have-pasta days.
The other one...not sure if this will be a you think or not, but look into shirataki noodles. Essentially, think of pale, wet, translucent cellophane noodles, but if that doesn't squick you, then you'd be good. We mostly use them in stirfry, but since eating them is pretty much all fiber and actually costs you more calories to eat it than it gives you (by a LARGE amount), then all you really pick up, dietarily, is whatever else you've got in with them.
I will highly recommend rinsing them first in cold water, because they do come in a liquid base, which is...odd-smelling. But it rinses off, and then you can cook them in any recipe you could use fresh pasta noodles in.
(Also, since I'm only catching up on this tonight--I tossed your blog to friend Alex. She and Hank have been trying a very high protein, low- or no-carb diet, and I figure at the least, you can exchange tips.)
Hiya!
ReplyDeleteSunchoke pasta has "way too many" carbs, as you can see here. The way that Keto (and Atkins induction phase) works, is that you ideally want about 20grams of carbs per day. Now, you can subtract any 'dietary fiber' from the total carbs, and in Atkins's case you can subtract any "sugar alcohols" as well. As you can see though, even just a 1/4 package contains 42g of net carbs. That's like the equivalent of 2 days worth of carbs.
The big-deal alternatives for flour seem to be Flax-seed meal, a meal/flour made from psyllium seed husks, or almond flour. Since Almonds are one of my 'stay away from' foods due to allergy-like reactions, that limits me to the other two which I haven't tried yet. I may also try the Almond flour, but I'll be testing my luck with actual almonds first to see if I still have that reaction.
As you can surely imagine, the primary source for those alternative 'flours' is going to be Bob's. I'd be happy if I never gave them another penny, but I may be forced to now and then if I can't find alternatives.
As for Shiritaki, now's probably not the best time for me to consider anything that has a description that applies to snot or clotted grease. When I'm feeling better, I'll check them out. I think I may actually have had them before thanks to my housemate's indian and east-oriental food proclivities.
Thanks for the suggestions. I feel absolutely awful today, but I am sure I can get through this if I'm just patient with myself and drink lots of fluids. the idea of eating is a real turn-off right now, so I'm taking it light and easy. 12-24 hours of fasting won't kill me. Not that I consider eating poached eggs and bacon 'fasting'... but I mean since then.
We hold nothing against Bob's, and they DO have a great selection of flours, but keep in mind unless you're doing mass flour replacing with flax seed, you'd be better off getting a cheap coffee/spice grinder, and then getting packages of whole flax seed to grind into flour on your own. 1 lb of flax seeds last about a year; 1 lb of flax seed meal lasts about a month.
ReplyDeleteI did not know about the high carb content of sunchokes! Eep! I will keep that in mind. They're still on my list, because they're things the girls can compromise on--most of the time their idea of "low carb" is still "whole wheat".
They're apparently Employee-owned now (since 2010), and that's about the only reason I'd be willing to bend on this. You two may not hold anything against Bob, but I've got my own frustrations concerning that whole brouhaha.
ReplyDeleteGood idea on the 'make my own'. I've got a blender that never sees enough use, and a full compliment of food-processor attachments that connect to it. Not sure how well it would do making flour.. so you may be right on the coffee grinder idea. I'll keep my eyes open next time I'm at a thrift store.
Meanwhile, Winco sells Flax Seed Meal in bulk, as well as Flax Seeds themselves.
Hi Winter :)
ReplyDeleteI'm the "friend Alex" that Emi mentioned. Hank and I are doing low-carb diets ourselves. I'm following more of the "very low carb" idea (20 carb limit here as well), that's Hank's goes, but more of a challenge for him as he likes breads and flour-y stuff too.
Drawing a blank on the author name, but the concepts that we're basing this on were discussed in a couple books called "Why We Get Fat (and What To Do About It)" and "Good Calories, Bad Calories". There's currently some flux as we're also trying to counter some Candida issues (which takes even further modification, ugh) but it's still low carb concepts.
The "why we get fat" book mentions the Keto Flu/Atkins Flu idea, and suggests that daily boullion (low carb of course) is one way to counter that - the issue seeming to be not enough salt intake to counter the lack of sodium in the low carb diet. Going low carb here, due to all the sugars and a few various food dislikes/intolerances, means a distinct LACK of pre-processed/pre-prepared options, so there's less salt in the food to begin with. I don't know if that holds true at your end as well.
Soy flour is one of the lowest net-carb options I've seen, but to us it all tastes vile - both organic and conventional - plus if you have issues with soy in general (like the estrogen compounds, or the thyroid something-or-others it has) that can present a problem as well, even with the organics.
Coconut flour is a respectable option that we've gone to here. Very high fiber content (so it's also low in the net carbs department) plus it actually tastes GOOD in various things. I've used it for friend chicken, taco sauce mix, meatloaf, and I actually have a coconut muffin recipe that might not suck too badly once I get the kinks worked out.
I can point you to a few non-Bobs brands for coconut flour on Amazon if you like, or if you want you can catch me inworld (same name) for lengthy chatting.
This is true, but remember that flax meal goes stale or rancid faster than whole flax. Still, that might be a way to experiment with it, because we are also near a WinCo. Also contemplating experimenting with coconut flour. (And STILL trying to talk the girls into a cauliflower-crust pizza one night!)
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