Day 3 - Beef
Again, feeling very good and energetic today
Daily Stats:
- How does gut feel? Great! No issues
- Hunger level? Honestly, I didn’t want to eat…AGAIN. But, this test must go on as planned. Otherwise, I would have fasted.
- Mood? Awesome
- Energy level? Pretty good!
- Sleep? Good deep sleep.
- Delta weight since start of test = +0.4 lbs (no change from yesterday).
Today, I went to a microbrewery/restaurant with friends at lunchtime. I ordered a burger (told waitress don’t bother putting a bun on it). Then she asked what I would like in the burger, I said “nothing please”. She looked perplexed. Then she insisted I get the side salad, to replace the bun. At the end of lunch, all I ate was the burger meat, and was left with a whole plate of salad. I didn’t want to go into a long explanation about the ZC test trial, so I had the waitress pack up the salad. I fed it to my garbage bin when I got home.
When I got home I made some meatballs. But, first I rendered some beef fat to make tallow. Here’s a beef fat scrap a local butcher donated (they throw all their fats away…crazy, I know).
Cubed fat goes In the pan (I should mention that it has a very thick bottom…this is important for heat control).
Crank up heat and it starts to render.
This grease spatter gizmo comes in handy. Or else my entire kitchen would be grease coated.
Cracklings removed, and then there is hot tallow ready for meatballs
Meanwhile, as the fat was rendering, I prepared the ground beef mix. Just salt, pepper and very small amount of dry thyme.
So, meatballs go into the smoking hot tallow.
Result is brown crispy crust, and raw meat core. I ate two, and they were OMG delicious!