Keto My Way

[argentus]

How big is that second freezer you have?  Can you use an inverter and then keep the batteries as a backup if the power goes out for a while?

With our freezers, if the power goes out for a day and a half, I hook up a generator to each one for about an hour each, and everything stays frozen.  My generator is only big enough to do one freezer at a time, the surge of two freezers at a time turning on is high, and it pops the breaker.  So I do on at a time, which is also easier with just two freezers.

The wife and I like those good deals on food and live on our social security checks without a need to use our savings.  We eat about eighty percent of our meals made from scratch, but do have some things like shake and bake and Drakes seasonings, plus of course we also have a type of fish coating called shore lunch that we use with Panko bread crumbs/W oil after coating.  We make some of our stuff from scratch, but enjoy some of the mixes available too.  The only thing we use our deepfryer for is homemade french fries cut from local potatoes.  Cooking fries in Corn oil sure gives them a great taste.  Learned that from a local vender that told me what they use for frying their home fries.

The freezer is a SunDanzer and it is 14 cu. ft.   We have a 1400w solar array and a 500w wind genny.  The Sun Danzer needs only tiny sips of the energy we can generate.   We get a good wandering wind most of the time, and, of course, the wind is 24/7.  We do have a very good inverter;  I've just not gotten around to wiring the new batteries and getting everything online.   The wind genny is currently laying down, just awaiting me to replace one guy wires and two clamps on the gin pole that the whole thing sit on.   Easy for me one to raise it and lock it down. 

We eat mostly fresh, but, like you have some mixes and seasonings that we like, such as 'Slap 'Ya Mama' seasoning.   Water spinach is much of our salvation.   It's like collard in texture, and spinach in flavor.    Almond Flour is expensive.    We have almond trees, but not the right kind.   I can and have made coconut flour, but man, that is labor intensive.   Would only do that if I had to.  I make my own coconut oil.

[rickymouse]

The freezer is a SunDanzer and it is 14 cu. ft.   We have a 1400w solar array and a 500w wind genny.  The Sun Danzer needs only tiny sips of the energy we can generate.   We get a good wandering wind most of the time, and, of course, the wind is 24/7.  We do have a very good inverter;  I've just not gotten around to wiring the new batteries and getting everything online.   The wind genny is currently laying down, just awaiting me to replace one guy wires and two clamps on the gin pole that the whole thing sit on.   Easy for me one to raise it and lock it down. 

We eat mostly fresh, but, like you have some mixes and seasonings that we like, such as 'Slap 'Ya Mama' seasoning.   Water spinach is much of our salvation.   It's like collard in texture, and spinach in flavor.    Almond Flour is expensive.    We have almond trees, but not the right kind.   I can and have made coconut flour, but man, that is labor intensive.   Would only do that if I had to.  I make my own coconut oil.

I thought about getting some solar panels but decided not to, we have a lot of trees over a hundred feet high here, mostly white pines, and there is not a safe place on our land.  Acorns beat up my subaru hood from parking under the oak tree next to the house.  fifty one dents the first time, over five grand to replace the hood and do the painting and fix some damage to the roof from a branch.  Been parking under that oak tree for years...good protection from Hail when we have it.....but not good for aluminum subaru hoods.

Branches break off everywhere here and come crashing down, with enough power to break a solar panel.  Two trees far from the house hit the house one year, just the tops, the tree went down a hundred feet from our house...good thing the other trees dampened the blows, one took out the bbq in back and that birch tree was partly sitting broken off on our roof, but not one holel  The other pine tree took off our power line, and pieces of it broke off on the front of the house.


I thought about getting some portable units, but no room to store them, everything is full of tools and equipment, can't park our car in the garage, the old buick is sitting on the lift.  I suppose I should get rid of the second tractor and the antique car and truck...but my daughter wants the sixty seven buick and the grandson wants the forty seven dodge truck

So I rely on generators.  Have three ac generators and one DC old unit.  The big generator is like six thousand watts and two twenty, but it is heavy to haul around so I just grab the little one which works with one freezer or one ten volt appliances.  Thought about putting in a backup automatic generator, but that would unlock our taxes...which would raise our taxes two grand a year....not worth it.  Got lots of cords, and actually we got everything covered except for the freezer.  we got kerosine lamps, and have a kitchen woodstove that will heat our house.  Just got to go in to get water or stick a hand pump down the well to pump out some water if our stock runs out. 

Sounds like you got a good freezer there.

We have been considering buying a gas freezer that runs off of propane.  But if a tree knocks off the chimney, it could be a problem.  Got a five hundred gallon tank for propane.  Don't want to vent it into the chimney with the woodstove.

[argentus]

Well, I'm off keto, and here is why:

1) After 40 lb. weight loss, I have stalled.   I'm super happy with that, and consider it a big time win and worth the sacrifice.   I only have 25 more lbs. I'd like to lose, and feel confident I can burn that off with my newfound health and energy. 

2) Some people develop skin problems with ketosis.   I am one of those people.   I have had Seborrheic Dermatitis for decades, which prevents me from wanting to grow facial hair.   I have been treating it sucessfully with application of homemade coconut oil.    After a couple months of ketosis, it kicked my SD into overdrive, and I developed deep pimples (ew!) and rashes.   Enough is enough.  

3) I am ready for real food.   I will continue with a general low-carb diet, because I think it is healthy to shoot for mostly complex carbs and belay the simple carbs like chips/crisps, crackers, sweets, etc. 

4)  Thanksgiving coming up.    To contemplate a keto Thanksgiving would be a unpardonable sin.   This, actually was the first reason, when I saw "fresh" cranberries in the store.   I bought two bags and never looked back.   

So, there is the journey.   Thank you all for participating.   I might still pop some recipes in here now and then and welcome anyone else to do so.   I find that I don't hate cauliflower, and in fact plan to still keep using it.    Today was the first day that I had real rice and it was soooooooo good.

[Quantum12]

You should be super proud. 40lbs is amazing. I bet you feel amazing too. You might need some new outfits!

[argentus]

You should be super proud. 40lbs is amazing. I bet you feel amazing too. You might need some new outfits!

I'm not buying new clothes until I'm down to my fighting weight - 225.   I cannot find my leather punch.  Really pisses me off, because I'm in between belts.   One of my best friends has given up on belts and gone the way of suspenders.   I get that.   I suffer from basotrouserphobia -- the fear of your pants falling down*.     I was in the local store and reached up for something and felt my pants slip down a bit and I thought, "it has begun".   





* this is a completely made up term

[DontTreadOnMe]

Well, I'm off keto, and here is why:

1) After 40 lb. weight loss, I have stalled.   I'm super happy with that, and consider it a big time win and worth the sacrifice.   I only have 25 more lbs. I'd like to lose, and feel confident I can burn that off with my newfound health and energy. 

Amazing results!!!
Congrats ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​

As for the eventual maintenance, may I suggest a modified Intermittent Fasting?  Once my body found its level, I find I can eat pretty much whatever I want.  Although I still limit carbs....mostly due to my gluten issues.

[Quantum12]

I'm not buying new clothes until I'm down to my fighting weight - 225.   I cannot find my leather punch.  Really pisses me off, because I'm in between belts.   One of my best friends has given up on belts and gone the way of suspenders.   I get that.   I suffer from basotrouserphobia -- the fear of your pants falling down*.     I was in the local store and reached up for something and felt my pants slip down a bit and I thought, "it has begun".   





* this is a completely made up term

I heard through the grapevine that you went speedo shopping! 

[argentus]

I heard through the grapevine that you went speedo shopping!  [Image: https://denyignorance.com//images/addsmilies/mj.gif]

I have almost no natural modesty.    If I went that far, I'd just go commando, although I do worry about my dangle looking like a lure.   Oh, nobody needed to read that.

[argentus]

Amazing results!!!
Congrats ​​​​​​​

As for the eventual maintenance, may I suggest a modified Intermittent Fasting?  Once my body found its level, I find I can eat pretty much whatever I want.  Although I still limit carbs....mostly due to my gluten issues.

I will look into that, Thanks!   I think along with low carb and vociferous exercise, Intermittent Fasting might just be the jewel that makes it all work.   ​​​​​​​

[Quantum12]

I have almost no natural modesty.    If I went that far, I'd just go commando, although I do worry about my dangle looking like a lure.   Oh, nobody needed to read that.

Lol