Accelerating Goals April: Carnivore Chat 2025

#41

Lamb chops for dinner with some pan-fried halloumi cheese. Eggs at breakfast. A few bits of air dried beef Biltong this afternoon. Didn’t even think about Easter chocolate. Except to write that. Still looking into incretins and certain fat metabolites, and how they may synergise to create food satiety. Wondering if food satiety extends out into life to feel satisfied with other aspects. Not quite at the level of gratitude. If I wrote the things to be grateful for, they would lack substance, and gratitude would not be satisfying.

#42

We ate all the smoked ham and shoulder… And some boiled eggs, Camembert, quark, lots of sour cream and beef tongue. It was lovely.
I ate other things as well but behaved well enough for off times… It’s time to go back. For real. I do my best to be serious. I LOVE carni food, I ate plenty of it lately with not so very much else, I can do it… Right?

I have some very lean tender pork soaked in spicy milk for tomorrow, leftover beef tongue, cheese and eggs. It should work. I wish to have some fat fast days afterwards. I mean, single ones separated with meaty days. I will roast pork loin and 2 huge chicken legs very soon.

(Bean) #43

Easter was fine. My cracked rib is much better, but my shoulder on my other side has been having a howling, roaring, flare. Needless to say I haven’t been sleeping. Sooo. Pulling back on the intros and carb creep that goes with it. Therapeutic Keto just works better for me.

Seeing the rheumatologist on Monday, thank goodness. I originally made this appointment last October. ETA: I am 36 hours into a version of PSMF and my flare disappeared. I’m going to step off the thread for a couple of days until I’ve tapered my steroids and put my habits back in order.

#44

:frowning: Best wishes! I should appreciate I just need to battle my habits and mental weaknesses now… Even if a tiny nudge when eating off could motivate me, I prefer my body feeling good on every diet I may do.
I am pretty determined at the moment, no way I can’t do a carnivore day today, seriously now! This winter was the worst in the meaning that I didn’t really do carnivore. Some extras always snuck in and I couldn’t bring myself to care enough. My diet probably wasn’t too bad, I can handle some extras super well and I always ate plenty of good carni food (not always much meat but I have low meat days even on carnivore sometimes) but I still lose benefits and overeat and have a bigger eating window (well the two are correlated) waaaaay easier.

Today isn’t so great this far, I had coffee and cheese wisps at 11am… I will be better tomorrow!

#45

It wasn’t hard. 3MAD but my lunch was the biggest meal by far. Lazy to bring the photo (it’s in a CF card downstairs) but I made a photo, yay! :smiley:
About 1800 kcal and 150g protein. Protein minimalization is hard. Well I was doomed when I got a bit hungry for dinner… :upside_down_face:

I am into marinated tenderized lean meats now! Be it chicken breast or pork, it becomes something very enjoyable (pork is still tastier :stuck_out_tongue: ). Even when I just used spicy fat, it worked well, too bad I don’t have lard now, I need some fatty meat soon…
I was a tad lost at dinner as I ate all my normal pork for lunch so it was processed pork, egg and cheese in the end.
Very chill day and no need to cook for Alvaro as he has his own veggie dish (with beef tongue though his lean share run out). Zero temptation, that’s nice. The first few days aren’t always this easy though they are rarely hard, I have my starting determination. But I can thank my super delicious pork it turned out well enough despite the way too many meals.

#46

Yes.

#47

Finished off a carnivore stew I had cooked up with beef heart and lamb. Then packaged into meals. It was a good feed. I poured it over some cubed goat’s cheese. Tiny cubes. As it was heating in the saucepan I made a central hollow in the chunky stew, it also had whole meat sausages that contained liver and spleen. In the hollow, I cracked two pastured chicken eggs and some salt. It was a hearty dinner. I wonder how the term ‘hearty’ originates?

This morning was a four egg chicken egg omelette with some grated Jarlsberg Norwegian cheese cooked in local butter.

Keeping the rhythm of 2MAD. I had a busier day of jobs to do yesterday, and a meeting and a cloudy sunset drew me out for a walk along the coast. It is a challenge to limit physical activity to regulate my heart rate when I am feeling good and well. Today has been blustery winds and wintry weather, so an easier day to rest and read, or listen to podcasts.

I do have a slab of bulk beef in the fridge. So, I’ll be carving that into steaks next. I pack them up and freeze them for about a fortnight’s worth of carnivore dinners.

I have a big event heart scan coming up in just over a week. It’s CT angiography to check my heart vasculature. It’s the next level heart test from the standard CT coronary calcium score. The test will also be an accurate comparison on the shape and structure of my heart. Comparing it to the ultrasound I had a few weeks ago.

Then I have a surgery soon after that, the treatments just fell into the calendar like that. The surgery is for skin cancer excision. As a surfer in Australia we spend our golden years of surfing having skin cancers identified and removed. That one is done under local anaesthetic. Then stitches to look after for a week. It means another road trip to the city. Always an opportunity for a face lift.

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(Bean) #48

Okay. I’m reset; pain and steroid free and back on track. My flare is managed and the reality check was probably needed.

I know my injured rib and eating eggs triggered this flare, but I suspect there were dietary accomplices.

DH is at the end of his rope with his gastro issues. Since I had a colleague who died this week from a colonoscopy- introduced infection, doing a carnivore diet for a month before proceeding with any kind of surgery suddenly seems like the safe option. He’s on board.

Taking @Pjam’s advice and following Dr. Ede’s Quiet Carnivore as a beginning place for DH. We’ll probably consider pork an intro to try after 7 days, but otherwise do it as written for him.

(Bob M) #49

Yikes. I did not know that was possible.

I think carnivore is a great elimination diet, which can help with a lot. I guess your DH will have to watch out for things like oxalate dumping. I don’t believe I’ve ever run into that, but I also eat some oxalates.

(Bean) #50

Anything that is surgery (including colonoscopies) comes with some level of risk. There are some nasty bacteria in hospital settings. She was only 61 and in relatively good health.