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The Bulletproof® coffee experiment ended after only five days.  Here’s a breakdown of my experience:

• Day One: I did in fact feel bulletproof.  I had a super workout and bottomless energy all day.  Might have been placebo effect.
• Day Two: I was so non-specifically angry that my workout was unfocused and I had to spend a half hour meditating in order to get my head sufficiently together to go to work and be around other people.  Very scary and unpleasant.  I’m a happy-go-lucky guy and it freaked me out.
• Days Three and Four:  Better, but sill cranky and irascible until noon.
• Day Five:  A forty-minute morning workout felt like the Bataan Death March.  Mood almost as bad as day two.  As I got into the truck to go to the office I hit my head on the visor.  Didn’t even hurt, yet it took every bit of self control I had to stop myself from ripping the visor off and hurling it into the street.  End of experiment.
• Final waistline and weight results: Zilch.  Waist and weight measurements exactly the same on Day Five as they were on Day One.

I can only guess that the destruction of my mood was caused by hormone changes (testosterone boost?) and/or crankiness caused by ketogenesis.

This stuff might work for some people, but for me it’s Kryptonite.

Ever heard of Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof® coffee?  I read about this stuff almost a year ago, and then I stumbled across a mention of it again the other day.  Since the claims people are making about this stuff are unreal — radical weight loss, increased focus, etc. etc. — I decided to give it a try.

Now, when I say ‘give it a try’ what I mean is that I’m going to have this stuff for breakfast every morning for two weeks.  I’m taking a measurement of my waist at the biggest point — right around my muffin-tops — every day.  At the end of two weeks I’ll blog a graph of my waist measurement and blog about the affects the stuff had on me.

To be clear, I can’t afford the fancy coffee and MCT oil the creator of this concoction is selling on his website, so I’m making the most common substitution made by proponents in the same financial boat.  Here’s Dave’s recipe compared to mine:

Nutrition info for my recipe: Calories: 420, Fat: 52, Protein: 0, Carbs: 0, Fiber: 0.

I just had my first cup.  The first thing I noticed is that it’s delicious.  If anything remarkable happens — like it makes me feel awful, or gives me an upset stomach, or what-have-you — I’ll report that as it happens.  Otherwise you’ll have to stay tuned for the final results in two weeks…

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UPDATE:  I didn’t make it the two weeks.  Read the details here.