This is so interesting (and exciting) to hear about all of your coconut results. That latte is such a great idea!
I had been fantasizing with my sister this weekend about making coconut milk+chocolate icecream, pudding, I had a chocolate protein shake yesterday with the milk in it. YUM!
I will buy a thermometer soon and start testing, I haven't been able to find one the last 4 times I've been shopping.

Keep up the posts, I love to hear about this!
Meg

OK< so real Coconut Oil will have like 14g fat, 12.5 saturated fat per serving (notice the HIGH saturated fat). So yours has a little but below this ratio, so I suppose it is like 90% pure, so more or less the same exact thing, just a little bit less 'pure' (did I just sound like a drug dealer?). But you are right it you other post about coconut oil sold at health stores being 'hella expensive'




Did you look at my movie theatre coconut oil link? They sell coconut oil for popcorn popping (what real movie theatres use I believe) and not for health food reasons, and it is like 1/6th the price. Look at my previous post in this thread for that link, you are right about being expensive.


PS, thanks to Zeus for the lowfat Poptars carb-up advice. This is the perfect carbup food, 80g carbs per 2 poptarts, with barley any fat, and these are good too!! The brown sugar ones make me feel happy when I eat them. I couldn't find any Entimans low fat things, everything was 'full-fat' so to speak at the store I went to.

I'll check out that link, but off the top of my head, I'd be worried about all sorts of dyes (that wierd yellow color of movie popcorn), chemicals and salt. If it's just the coconut oil, it's a great find! The gallon size might be hard to store, tho.

Cheers,

Friday

I'm back from my week in the windy city(Chicago) so now the great coconut oil experiment continues.

So far the coconut oil is definately increasing my metabolism and energy level when I take it. Last week the only thing I took was the coconut oil and on the days when I took it my energy level was up. A few days when I forgot to take it my energy was low.

Bill

It's working for me as well. I take a dose in my am coffee and another after dinner. My AM temps are now in the 97.3-5 range - up a whole degree. My daytime temps have ranged from an almost normal 98.4 to a whopping 99.3.

I'm sold!

Friday

Hello all, I have a concern about the coconut oil.
Trainer Dan mentioned something, now I know I am probably going to get it all wrong, but it was along the lines of your temperatures are probably going up because you're burning MCT's instead of ketones, which is obviously bad for fat loss.
<smile> this is after I ordered a gallon of oil!

Does anyone know what the deal is?
Meg

NO, it's a good thing caus your body temperature being higher is a sign of an increased metabolism, which means your whole body is using more energy, kinda like when ya take ECA stack your body temp rises? As far as the calorie thing goes, its OK caus you need to get calories from somewhere....hope that covers everything

so, you're not actually burning the MCTs instead of ketones?
That was really the only thing I was worried about.

I am still pretty confused about this. Normally I would think that the body temp going up is a good thing on low carb. However, after a carb binge my temp will also soar .. and at that point it doesn't mean much to me because I am burning carbs instead of my own bodyfat. At least the stuff tastes great

Sorry if I seem so dumb about this! Eventually it will click.

Meg

NO, besides you have the concept of ketones wrong. Ketones are utilized by certain organs as a replacement to glycogen. Your brain cannot use fatty acids for energy, only ketones, that's why we need them. So ketones and fatty acids serve different purposes.

On page 276 of BodyOpus Duchaine mentions Chromium, Vanadyl sulfate, and phenformin will hasten the descent into ketosis. He also said Cinnamon and brewers yeast will do the trick too.

Unfortunatly I didnt get my ketostix until today so I dont know how long it took me to reach ketosis.

THe people that use them, whats the earliest you have hit ketosis?

Hi Beaver,

I always hit ketosis within 24 hours of the end of carb up. I don't really need the sticks to know when I'm in, though. I get that nasty, metallic taste in my mouth--it gets worse all week until carb-up comes around again!

Fernie

I used to hit ketosis between 24 and 36 hours before. Now I am back in it between 12 and 24 hrs since starting coconut oil. Within a few hours of taking it I get a strong metalic taste in my mouth.

It could be that since the MCFA's in the coconut oil are burned very fast that our systems are being flooded with ketones as a result. It also seems to have increased my weight loss the first few days after carbup. I dropped 5 pounds between Tuesday and Wednesday and 2 pounds between yesterday and today.

Bill

I started taking a tsp. of the stuff(X 2) in my coffee this morning, and let me tell you, there's somethin' to this. I ran a 10 doing HIIT at 7.2 mph. that's truely unheard of for me.
peace,
brenda

7.2!!...that's fast!

This stuff is amazing isn't it.

Did UBW last night and it was awesome.

Dropped 2 more pounds since yesterday.

Bill