Like the other commenters say, it'd be difficult to replace my entire cream consumption with coconut oil. Adding a little bit here and there might work, or if you mix it into a ganache or something of the sort.
But apparently heavy cream is 11% MCTs, so maybe I don't even need more coconut oil?
If you can find even a single morbidly obese person on the planet who is capable of voluntarily sticking to a diet that consists almost entirely of coconut oil, you deserve some kind of prize. I'm not positively asserting that such a person cannot and does not exist, but this is one of those places where absence of evidence really does imply evidence of absence. Every time I see one of these posts, I am tempted to sign up as a test subject, especially given how much I love butter and cream. Then I visualize taking a one pound package of meat and cutting it into thirds, and I feel a kind of existential dread like that I get imagining putting a round into the cylinder of a revolver and spinning it for russian roulette.
Yea the 1/3 pound of meat was way too small for me at the beginning. Now I've gotten used to it, and even eating 1/2 pound feels like it's too much on my protein refeeds.
I think the trick is eating to satiety/ad lib on something. For me that's cream. That makes it so I can limit everything else with a shrug and not feel bad about it. I know I won't be going to bed hungry.
Heh. I'm a ganache guy, so I was imagining melting a bag of Ghirardelli 72% chocolate chips into a couple of cups of coconut oil, not eating it straight. And yeah, I tend to eat meat half a pound at a time too; trisecting is geometrically problematic, right?
I'm not morbidly obese, but I was one of those kids who is described as living to eat rather than eating to live. I have a large frame and when I eat my 1 meal for the day, a really good dinner is about 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs grilled and a couple of sweet potatoes with close to a stick of butter. I've made two separate efforts to do keto and failed both times because I was eating too much protein. I didn't try eating copious amounts of whipped cream, and the last effort was years ago, so perhaps I would do better this time.
Back in the olden days - what my whippersnapper nephew calls the 1900s - 6' 200# was a big guy, at least in Chicago. These days in Austin TX I am short and frail. I was happy as a 250# powerlifter for a decade; stupid A1c, grumble grumble.
Huh. Ever consider replacing heavy cream with coconut oil?
Like the other commenters say, it'd be difficult to replace my entire cream consumption with coconut oil. Adding a little bit here and there might work, or if you mix it into a ganache or something of the sort.
But apparently heavy cream is 11% MCTs, so maybe I don't even need more coconut oil?
If you can find even a single morbidly obese person on the planet who is capable of voluntarily sticking to a diet that consists almost entirely of coconut oil, you deserve some kind of prize. I'm not positively asserting that such a person cannot and does not exist, but this is one of those places where absence of evidence really does imply evidence of absence. Every time I see one of these posts, I am tempted to sign up as a test subject, especially given how much I love butter and cream. Then I visualize taking a one pound package of meat and cutting it into thirds, and I feel a kind of existential dread like that I get imagining putting a round into the cylinder of a revolver and spinning it for russian roulette.
Yea the 1/3 pound of meat was way too small for me at the beginning. Now I've gotten used to it, and even eating 1/2 pound feels like it's too much on my protein refeeds.
I think the trick is eating to satiety/ad lib on something. For me that's cream. That makes it so I can limit everything else with a shrug and not feel bad about it. I know I won't be going to bed hungry.
Heh. I'm a ganache guy, so I was imagining melting a bag of Ghirardelli 72% chocolate chips into a couple of cups of coconut oil, not eating it straight. And yeah, I tend to eat meat half a pound at a time too; trisecting is geometrically problematic, right?
I'm not morbidly obese, but I was one of those kids who is described as living to eat rather than eating to live. I have a large frame and when I eat my 1 meal for the day, a really good dinner is about 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs grilled and a couple of sweet potatoes with close to a stick of butter. I've made two separate efforts to do keto and failed both times because I was eating too much protein. I didn't try eating copious amounts of whipped cream, and the last effort was years ago, so perhaps I would do better this time.
Back in the olden days - what my whippersnapper nephew calls the 1900s - 6' 200# was a big guy, at least in Chicago. These days in Austin TX I am short and frail. I was happy as a 250# powerlifter for a decade; stupid A1c, grumble grumble.