Bulletproof Day #1 – A Giant Stick of Butter in My Coffee
As the title suggests, I put a giant slab of unsalted, grass-fed butter in my coffee this morning. Why the hell did I do this? As of last night, I’ve started my trial of The Bulletproof Diet – a high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb diet.
I like to describe it as a mix between a paleo-and-ketogenic-diet-type-thing. It’s meant to increase mental clarity and help sustain energy throughout the day. It’s controversial, but being the open-minded person I am – I decided to give it a shot. And the first step was to feel like a weirdo using my electric blender to fuse a humongous block of butter with my amateur-made coffee.
To bring the coffee to life, I kind-of YOLO’d it. I bought this thing called a french press, apparently a well known device among coffee lovers. Apparently it helps bring out the flavour in the coffee or something. I grew up using instant coffee – I thought all you do is put the hot water in, it dissolves – and boom! You have a coffee. Turns out there’s a lot more to coffee than I expected.
I also manually ground my beans with a good-ol’ fashioned pestle and mortar. I felt like I was upgrading my herblore level in Runescape, but this was real life.
Once I french-pressed the coffee, I went to blend it however, I couldn’t get the bloody magic bullet blender to work. When I pressed down on the thing, I smelt and felt an aroma of burningness. Something wasn’t right. It was grinding against itself. I gave-in and bolted down to target and bought a classic stick blender (the ones you hold, push a button, and mix things in a bowl).
My room-mate came out a little later and got the blender to work straight-away. He sure showed me. Nonetheless I finished making the coffee. Here it is.
It tasted delicious. I don’t drink coffee often, but this one tasted much less bitter. It was creamy. 3 hours in and I felt full. It was an odd feeling. I drank coffee and didn’t feel the need to eat. 6 hours in and feel pretty much the same. Turns out Dave Asprey wasn’t lying when he said Bulletproof coffee is satiating.
As I’m writing it’s 6 hours in. I do feel light-headed which is meant to be a natural reaction. It will take at-least 3-4 days for me to enter a state of ketosis where my body and brain is running off ketones rather than glucose. If all goes well, I’ll be running on different ‘petrol’.
For those interested, the ingredients I used are…
WAY TOO MUCH BUTTER (, 100 grams instead of 37 grams)
Bulletproof XCT Oil – 1 tbsp
Bulletproof Upgraded Coffee – 2 tbsp
That’s it for now. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. BUT whatever you do (see what I did there? But? Butter? But-ter?) don’t try this without reading about what on earth you’re doing. You can find more info on Dave’s site or in his book, The Bulletproof Diet.
I’ll talk more about the meals I eat in the next post. See you there.
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