[Small rant] Ratio Keto yogurt is made with sunflower oil

Just pulled a 42h fast to restart my keto diet, and I (26F) ended the fast with a small meal of a Ratio yogurt and 2 eggs.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on this subreddit, but now I’m getting back on track. The homemade holiday foods and treats weren’t worth the water weight gain.

Preprandial GKI was 1.77 points, with 58mg (3.2mmol) blood glucose and 1.8mmol (32.4mg) blood ketones. For those of you who don’t know, the glucose-ketone index is a ratio score of 1-9 used to measure the level of ketosis. A high level of ketosis is between 1-3 points.

GKI is always measured with mmol units, glucose divided by ketones. But American meters measure in mg, hence why I listed both units for all readers.

Urine ketones were 40-80mg (mod-large). That’s equivalent to 2.2-4.4mmol, with 3.3mmol at the median, so I’m assuming it was just my body shedding the excess ketones from fasting.

I’ll provide a bit of an update. Doctor wants me at about 98-100 pounds (4’8” tall) with about 23-24% body fat. For me, measured by my impedance scale, every 5 pounds of TBW loss is about a 2% reduction in fat.

And we figured out why my temp was dropping after eating high protein and why I was getting cold hands and feet with pale nail beds: Postprandial gastric hyperemia.

Due to my intestinal dysmotility, my stomach was working so hard to digest the food, that it was excessively drawing blood away from my extremities, much more than what’s normal. Think of it like a Raynaud episode after eating.

So I’m going to do my best to keep my protein intake at a moderate level and take digestive enzymes if needed.

Currently, I’m at 117 pounds with 30.5% BF and 81 pounds FFM. The scale is calculating my BMR at 1269 kcal, so an additional 20% is 1523 kcal minimum for sedentary activity.

Or, if I use the rough formula of “1 pound LBM = 26 kcal” (from 35 kg / 77 lbs LBM = 2,000 kcal) then my 76.5 pounds of LBM = 1,989 kcal.

High calories are crazy, y’all, coming from previous (cough) keto CICO recommendations, but I learned from here that CICO isn’t a fixed formula. Fewer calories isn’t better, regardless of a person’s short height. That will take a bit of time to disregard. So for me, 2,000 kcal a lot of cream or cream cheese.

Anyway, now that I’m trying to align my diet choices with more SFA, I looked at the yogurt once I was finished eating it.

15g of total fat, with 6g of saturated fat, which means that the remaining unlisted fat content is 9g of unsaturated fat from “high-oleic sunflower oil and/or avocado oil”.

Mono fat? Poly fat? Who knows, because it’s not listed! I guess I can even put keto-specific yogurt in the category of “seed oils” now.