All Animal April

zerocarb
carnivore

#121

Finally a no reply post.

The kitty was out of it all night, poor thing. I tried to keep her free but it was super tiring and stressful so she spent some hours in her box. But I set alarms for the night and checked on her… Even slept downstairs with her in the end, she is a climber and got into my face a lot but she is a cat… :slight_smile: She carefully eats now, a little at a time but looks almost fully okay.

Yesterday I had a huge eating window and a meatier day after the super low-meat ones so no wonder I ended up higher cal and higher protein, it sounds right. I am very satiated now but it’s only 1pm, of course I am.

The sun is shining but colder days will come, 11C for maximum? That’s not much…
But no frost so the leanders go out, finally, they take up so, so much space even pruned and bound a bit.
But yesterday was 19C and it was so uncomfortably hot for me while walking on the sun, I am not used to this yet! :smiley:

My ankle is improving at a snail’s space now, does sprained ankle do that? But no real pain ever, I am just so slow. Probably way below 5km/h and I am normally a pretty quick walker. I know many people can’t walk as quick as I do now, I wonder what Alvaro’s Mom can do now. She was extremely slow and had to stop all the time in the end but she had her hip replacement before Christmas and she said things improved just fine. But we visited her ages ago.


(Linda ) #122

Sorry to hear about your friend dying …but great that you got a chance to catchup and say good byes a good way to remember him…

@Shinita glad to hear your kitten is doing well hopefully it won’t be too many days before she back to her old self.

Yesterday I ate a lamb chop plus some shrimp salad also a slice of meat loaf for first meal.
2nd meal I cut off a big chunk of beef fat from brisket and grilled it and ate that for 2nd meal that was at about 3pm. I haven’t eaten anything since and still not hungry…


#123

@FrankoBear . Very sorry to learn about your friend’s passing. It is difficult to process when people we love and care about pass away before they should. It is a wonderful thing though- getting to spend time together and hug. A great way to remember him.

Its been a couple busy days here. Since the day off with the big family dinner I worked 2 8s-5p shifts. Stayed all carnivore, which most definitely helped the energy level. Tweeked the eats to get more fat, and now I’m feeling more energetic. Totally killed it at work yesterday. We’ve been down 1-2 people every day due to vacations or illness. Despite that, I got all of my tasks completed, all the receiving dept. tasks completed, took the 100 question exam for the pharm tech job- and got a 97%. (I forgot to go back and correct an answer before I hit submit.) Anyways, all that plus 2 burger patties and some cheese just prior to the test made for great fuel. I was a little tired when I got home, but that was more due to mental exhaustion.
Hubby arrived home from a 2 day business trip, and had made an Aldi run for me. (I love that man!) He got butter, bacon, eggs - but the frozen chicken was all sold out. OH well. The eggs were still under $2/dozen - while at my own work location (different company) they went up to $4.79/dozen - or somewhere thereabouts. Over $4 - which is INSANE!
Doing a little light cleaning here at home in the morning, as the work schedule is switching to afternoons now. Found a garbage can and pancake flipper on a coffee table this morning- cannot figure what that was all about. I just don’t ask questions anymore. Anywhooooo…going to go search the freezers for some beef and see what we can whip up. Short ribs have been on my mind as of late.So, we’ll see.

I hope you all have a fabulous day and enjoy life!


#124

Well she annoys me to bits now, she is back to her attention demanding original state and fought our sweet gentle Caroline… sigh And climbs into everything (top of me is her fav), makes noise with everything, makes her claws super sharp on Alvaro’s slippers and chair and finally puts them into me. And sometimes she bites my hand.
So I guess she is fine. She just barely eats and she was thin to begin with. Licked some aspic, ate a tiny meat and egg… And then dry cat food Alvaro could buy now that we run out of their normal beloved food that disappeared from the supermarket… And the silly thing ate the dry cat food happily while the meat soup and meat wasn’t good enough for her… It’s a very abnormal behaviour but I guess she had enough of the soft food and wanted to go back being a badass healthy one. Or I have no idea.
She loved the chewy parts of my pork and turkey though.

So she is tiresome kitty but she surely will go back to her soft little “mostly napping in my bed all day” state. Why my bed is (more like plural actuallly as I have a nice beanbag too) so enchanting when there is nice spring outside I can’t imagine but everyone loves it. Them. Everyone. Evening comes and I have about 2 cats and an Alvaro around me. The latter has sleeping problems due to headmiles so he starts his sleep on my beanbag and it helps even though I listen to music and sometimes say something to him. Or put cats next to him, that happens too, I imagine a nice purring cat is a good thing especially when sleep is the goal…
My daylight naps/rests often happen in his bed but normally I prefer my own bed too, it’s very very very comfy. And piece and quiet.


I tracked my lunch that I planned some light one? I wasn’t sooo hungry but not fully satiated and satisfied… I ate scrambled eggs with my leftover soup meat in it, with some spice as the meat lost much flower and was meh. It was quite nice! Had a tiny leftover turkey piece and some pork roast (not bad! I still think the city pork is better but it’s shining as roast especially the outside and fattier parts I attacked now), sponge cake with a little dry sausage and some quark cake like thing, I used yolks and egg powder. Guesstimation says it all was about 120g protein so maybe the dinner should be small? I kind of reached boredom with everything anyway, just the “during the day” part so it will disappear until tomorrow.
I ate all my quark, it was so nice. But now I have zero dairy to make my days more interesting.

I better go out, there is sunshine and we won’t have much of it in the near future… And without my usual walks and sleep and kitty problems my energy is quite low.
Tomorrow I try to do my workout as well.


#125

fast post

super busy

SO freakin’ hungry LOL

early morn, just got home and got my 1.5 lb of crab legs cooking
and frying up a 1/2 lb. cheeseburger to inhale.

dinner, not sure, got chicken but after the above, I ain’t worried I will be too hungry…but darn I am famished right now HAHA

ZC on strong thru April everyone!


(Karen) #126

@VirginiaEdie re RHR yes I know a lot of people say that, even the Stroke Consultant and nurses were surprised and asked if it was generally that low. Not sure whether they believed I could be on the road to 65 and still be incredibly physically fit! And they do say fitness is reflected in a low RHR. The PEI’s at work said same thing when taking BP prior to fitness test. Mine fluctuates between 47 and 54 but sometimes goes as low as 45 and high as 58. Sometimes on my stair runs my HR rises to 147 but returns to normal within a min of stopping exercise so my recovery rate is pretty good. I understand it does seem strange.

@JJFiddle oh I have had a right giggle when I read about your grass fed cheddar … I was just imagining a chunk of cheddar with arms and legs munching on some grass :rofl:

@Shinita no spices in the meatloaf but I did say I might add some next time… it was very nice though and I quite like plain food since turning carnie. Happy to hear that your kitty is okay… pets can be such a worry xx when I used yo sit for my daughters first cat (sadly got run over) she used to climb over my face during the night to wake me up to play!!! Between kids animals and ex husbands it’s no wonder i have sleep problems :laughing:

I got my sleep quota last night but I did give myself a big window of opportunity as I was up at silly o’clock… 4.45am. Did my stair runs in a good time, felt pretty good, bath hair done and off to work. What a glippin crappy day though and not just the miserable blustery rainy day but the computers have been updated and of course didn’t work. I always wonder why they try fixing whats not broken! Anyway, by about 1.30pm my head was about to crash let alone the computers. My neck started aching, there had been far too much noise and distraction for me to cope with and it felt like the balloon was being pumped up inside my head. I just wanted to go home so I left about 3/4 of an hour early…makes up for getting out late on monday! Nice to just sit with a cuppa at home, out of uniform. I had reheated cooked chicken with butter and the left over meatloaf for lunch and it didn’t half bloat me up. Couldn’t wait to strip off and get pj’s on. Went to the loo when I got home and soon felt better :wink:

Dinner was a small sirloin steak and 3 small lamb chops which were tasty and I am satiated now. May have some scrambled eggs before bed.

When I looked out my bedroom window after getting changed my 2 new greenhouses had been tossed across the garden by the blustery gustery wind :astonished: will be tethering those tomorrow. I did think I may have to but having put heavy slabs in the base of them I didn’t expect them to take off!!!


#127

Crab legs/claws!

I almost had forgotten about them.
Probably the most delicious meat on the planet.

Fresh from our coast here, a fishing neighbor used to supply us. Just very tasty, we never even seasoned.

Must try that again. :+1:


#128

ahhhh so lucky they are so close to you. being inland and my location I have to pay dearly for them

yes they are decadent and delish to the ultimate!!! When cheaper I ate them all the time. Ahh, the good ol’ carnivore days HA


(Judy Thompson) #129

@Shinita I’m also making everything without spices now because I’m so new to carni, just shy of 3 months in. I want to be sure of adaptation to the food itself before purposely adding any plant substances, even Italian seasoning which I always bought by the pound! Garlic is especially disgusting both by itself and on people. Carnivore is cleansing by itself, but adding herbs could slow that down for me.
All that being said, I do find myself in restaurants and just do my best.
Today and tomorrow we’re having our meal at Silver Diner, a relatively vegetarian leaning restaurant. We go at breakfast time but breakfast is normally awkward - until I thought about a bacon cheeseburger, no bun, no sides but 2 eggs with it. Eggs are listed as a hamburger topping so that worked great!

We had gone on the morning to our tax guy, then after eating I went to the base to grocery shop, then came home and ate a little bowl of raw hamburger. Tonight I cooked 3 eggs and a couple strips of bacon.

I’ve worn glasses since I was about 40 I guess, and now I realize I need to let my eyes breathe. My distance vision is still good so I’m trying to keep the glasses off whenever I’m not actively reading or using the phone. Any condition caused by carbs/insulin spikes should naturally reverse on this woe, it seems to me, and who’s to say vision disturbances couldn’t be caused by pressure exacerbated by insulin spikes? If @Ketodaisy can reverse Raynaud’s (wow!) then anything is possible.


The only thing about this burger today was that it was overcooked, ugh, but tomorrow I’ll be more clear.


(Karen) #130

When I went to the cafe on Wednesday I couldn’t really eat anything off menu except an omelette and as I am staying off cheese it would have been too bland so I just ordered off the sides menu… 2 eggs 2 bacon 2 sausages… and I thought the cheapo sausages would bloat me but surprisingly they didn’t. Not keen on sausages they were just a filler.


#131

another fast busy day for me. I don’t like them. I like my early retirement, do whatever, when I want days HA

yesterday I inhaled those crab legs and butter with a 1/2 lb cheeseburger and felt great and thought, not much later. WAS I WRONG. I hit into ravenous.

flash fried a 12 oz ribeye and ate that. Still wandered the kitchen so I ate a big chicken breast fried in butter. Down the hatch that went and STILL wandered toward the kitchen LOL

then I went nibble, 2 beef sticks, few slices salami til I thought, eat dessert…a tin of sardines. That shut me down. I mentally ‘finish dessert’ sometimes with sardines and when I do that, it signals in my pea brain that I am done eating…I don’t get that sardine brain correlation for me at all, lol, but it fits that way. So sardines finished me off in good form.

woke up ever SO not hungry :slight_smile:

store got NY Strip steaks on low sale price. hitting store early in a bit to stock freezer. I need alot of these steaks for my beach trip on the 17th as a go to for zc on the road so this sale worked out good…hope the selection is decent? ugh…we shall see

Soldier on ZC strong!


#132

@JJFiddle: Yeah, garlic is something we almost immediately lose the appreciation for :smiley: I knew I liked it so we made a roast with it… Ew. Never again. Carnivore did these instant changes, it was SO SURREAL. I used the word surreal all the time in the first several months :smiley: I lost interest in my beloved vegs (except a few that goes so well with eggs and meat)! In chocolate :smiley:
I tried some stricter carni days (for me. I never could eat meat only), I tried no spice too (as long as I love eggs and have fresh roast after some low-meat days, it’s pretty easy. otherwise not) but I saw no benefit (I do these for challenge but lose interest when I saw it a bad deal) while it reduced variety and I NEED that. I can’t even do carnivore for “long” due to it, maybe one day. Though I am very happy with my carni adjacent woe now.
And when I started, I ate mustard with my eggs every day :smiley: When that disappeared? I still use it here and there (goes well with sausages) but quite rarely.
If I could just eat scrambled eggs and roasts galore without boredom… I barely would eat anything else as I rarely specifically want something extra, I just am unsatisfied and can’t stomach my normal no-spice food.
Each of their own, obviously. I always went stricter with time (I mean the trend, I had short strict times after I relaxed my ways again), not the often advised reverse order (I think about starting keto below 20g carbs and raising it later too. nope, I started with 40g net and lowered later, only that was possible and logical to me).

I got glasses at 11? It already was -2… Sigh. Sometimes I wonder if I should heal my eyes, it’s my body, I should be able to… But it rarely bothers me and my glasses look cool. And I have zillion times more important things to do with my life. And it’s not that easy, obviously…

I can count the legs on tiny fruit flies, I see better than the average person if my target is very close. 20cm is already too much. I take off my glasses for everything close, drawing traditionally, reading, even eating nowadays.

I like your thinking :slight_smile: I wonder if I can bring my normally huge optimism to be less sceptical about things I do. I wore down the poor thing but it’s immortal…


Now that I am here, I write down my current thoughts and experiences.

Well. My near carnivore woe is smooth and great now. I still want to be stricter but if I am bored with my food, I can’t. OMAD probably would solve it but I can’t always do it.
AND! I actually could pull off 2MAD (or basically 3MAD) without hunger more than once a day (it’s typically 0) and without eating too much or being unsatisfied while not wanting any food in existence :smiley: So I totally used it and ate lunch every day lately. Maybe not ideal but no harm was done this time :smiley: So it’s pretty chill and the food is enjoyable now and I don’t feel my rebellious inner self has any reason to rebel in the near future (apart from for the rebellion’s sake but I don’t feel it now so it probably is calm and asleep right now).

I wondered about my low-meat days and that I always jump my roast on the first day after low-meat days… I couldn’t resist it last night but it’s fine, I didn’t eat much of it during the day (I had other meat but that’s not nice roast with a cute fat layer outside!).
I really, really should keep some roast around ALL the time. I will keep making roasts until I can put some of it into the freezer… And if I almost run out, I make another. I know I need break from it but probably a shorter one than before and I feel the need for some ready-to-eat meaty food sometimes when I don’t have it. Sometimes I plan a roast for dinner and my body decides it wants it earlier. My roasts take 2 hours. So, after deciding it several times in my past, I really, really make it happen. Seriously now. Something in me likes to live dangerously… But it’s not hedonistic in this case, at all. I can do challenges with some safety measure in the freezer, much better. Naive lil me thought having some soft sausage in the freezer and canned fish in the cupboard will help me out in emergencies. Well, they are great and needed but nope, they aren’t good enough. I need my roasts.

Do we know yet if scotch eggs are freezable? Even if not perfect but still okay in need?
Or I just put the same without eggs into the freezer and grab a boiled egg with it…

I still need my roasts too.

My big shopping is postponed as our order didn’t arrive (we pick it up in some big town or in the city, we dislike courirs, more like they are troublesome in multiple ways here)… We will cycle to the bigger town with supermarkets to buy cheese, I can live without it just fine but Alvaro can’t. I kind of need my quark and sour cream though and the latter is better and cheaper in towns. And we can use the exercise.
We just hope there won’t be rain. There is a big chance. Okay, Sunday then, it’s so great supermarkets these days are open even on Sundays…
Our shopping next week will be tricky as Easter interferes but maybe not on Saturday, that’s a normal day. Friday is holiday (new development! probably due to the strong Christianity here combined with the government wanting cookie points), Sunday and Monday obviously is that but not Saturday…

Sunny day and my second plum tree has its time to shine now. I don’t have a single proper one, this one basically never bores fruit (or just 1-2, it’s huge, spherical and nice though) but it doesn’t mean it’s not one of the prettiest things in the garden when it has its zillion white flowers! It comforts me after I realized I didn’t look at the not-proper-plum tree (greengage? but google says it’s supposed to be good. it’s the lowest level plum with zero to little taste here) when it was the prettiest thing ever, that’s even symmetrical and wonderful. This one had branches at the wrong place, some other branches died so we cut those off the tree itself isn’t that pretty. But with the flowers!!! :smiley: Looks great.
My daffodils and last hyacinths are still pretty and I almost have tulips! Red ones will be the first ones, it seems. And I have daisies! It’s always a joy as I envied people with many and I had so few but now I have them.

I really should bring photos. I don’t even have one of my roast and the leftover is ugly, I cut off the nice outside, it turned it it needs more time, I roasted the whole thing in one as I needed space for the turkey too. It is tender and pink in the core, yay, still needs a weeee bit extra time, not much.


(Rebecca ) #133

I’m not sure about the beef price right now. We get 1/2 of a local grazed cow so the cost is per pound over all. We buy local eggs for $3.99 per dozen (US dollar).


(Karen) #134

Yesterday really frazzled me! I went to bed at a ‘normal’ time, not too early nott too late. I lay there and had a brief dizzy turn, it passed, then I got up for loo a couple of times and did the usual wall nudging, got up this morning after a pretty good sleep (lots of dreaming) and literally fell into the bedroom wall! Very very dizzy albeit last only a few seconds but I had to stay leaning against the wall i fell into for a second or two before feeling confident to move. It shook me up a bit tbh. BP was about normal for me, for a rest day, 155/72. Anyway I am now sitting waiting for my lovely pharmacist man to phone me so I can have a chat about my BP again. See if he thinks we need to change things up a bit.

I still got on and did stair runs and felt fine with those. No CrossFit today, I tend to have Friday off because I go in on a Saturday morning.

About 11am I had a couple of eggs scrambled in butter just to see me through while I had chicken wings in the oven. 2nd of the portion bags I made up, this one had some jerk chicken spice on it but a lot of the spice rubs off in to the freezer bag so there is probably a third of the amount I put on them still attached to the wings. There was enough to give them flavour. I left them in the oven longer than the last batch and singed them a tad bit. I got pottering out in the garden, putting the greenhouses back up, cleaning the bird baths and replenishing the feeder and forgot them. Then the smell wafted outside so I guessed it must be time to get them out. They were very nice and the skin was quite crispy.

Got some mince (ground) beef for dinner later.


#135

YIkes, @Karen18 !!! That is scary, for sure! Glad you have a pharmacist you can chat with and tweek your meds though. Any chance your electrolytes might have been out of balance?
And nommy nom nom nom…those wings looked DELICIOUS! Crispy skins are the absolute best! Hope you get things sorted out with the pharmacist. And, do take it easy! Hugs!


#136

Yesterday went well especially considering the afternoon/closing shift. When working that shift, I tend to get up a little later - maybe 45 mins to an hour later than normal - since I’ll be up late. But instead, I got up a little earlier than normal so that the hungries-meter would want to eat BEFORE going into work. So, had a nice big plate of turkey-cheddar brat pieces, chicken thighs and butter. Wasn’t really starved by the time dinner rolled around, so just ate a couple slices of beef bologna.

Woke up today feeling like the tummy was flatter. Trying not to use the scales all the time- because I don’t believe they always tell the whole story. Working to assess my health based on how I FEEL more than what the numbers say. Going to do some planks and push ups to get the blood pumping, deep breathing exercises, stretching…all that good stuff. Then tidy up the kitchen. Work today is another 1-10p, so…I’ll try to eat before leaving the house at 1230.

Noticed that our regular grocer had increased egg prices yet again. $3.99/dozen for the small sized eggs. Noticing all over that the sale prices now are what the regular prices were a few months ago. When I got home last night- too wide awake to go to bed - so after changing clothes, I went downstairs and cleaned out the baby fluffies house so as to keep them all happy and healthy. Gonna need them eggs! :joy:

So glad I don’t eat carbs. They are just too flippin expensive now.


#137

So agree. Live life, not on a piece of metal junky scales terms :slight_smile:
OH don’t get me started for the grocery store HAHA!!

@Karen18, very scrary but cool the meds needs adjusting so you know issues nailing you. being a ‘healthier’ eater coming into your med issues, that BP meds can mess with so many on them, so glad you got a focus forward!!

---------------so hit grocery fast. other stuff to do and will get it started in a bit but I nabbed 12 steaks. Not a fan ever of how trimmed off they are tho but I required steaks and I got them. Got 6 packs, 12 total steaks. 10 for me and 2 for family? HA should hopefully work that way but IF I FEEL like another store run before going off sale might go get a few more packs to shore up my zc way of course. Happy they WERE fattier inch cut then those stupid ‘thin cut’ options so at least ya ‘get a decent piece’ of meat :sunny:

at sale of 7.99 I do have to grab while the grabbing is decent :slight_smile:


#138

Eggs still below $2 per dozen here! :smiley: Alvaro came home with 80…

I had certain problems with the camera as Alvaro changed the settings and even he barely could set it back… And I was hungry too so no roast pic (you saw them many times anyway but it never kept back us and never will)… Look at my midly boring though unusual lunch (not the full one but the way bigger part of it) yesterday instead (not like it hasn’t the overexposed problem but it still looks better):

That is my fav plate and it looks good but any tiny fat or whatever on the edge looks so super dirty in pics… Oh well.
This is scrambled eggs with leftover pork and turkey meat from the soup (so not so good alone but they made the soup really great), leftover turkey roast and the skin I tried to make crunchy and it refused to cooperate, no matter my big effort. Still was edible, mostly and the cats loved the rest.
And my sponge cake muffins I use as bread (I had some sausage with those).

Today I ate a boiled egg and a smaller than usual scrambled eggs (only 5 eggs), some pork roast and a cake type thing. Egg yolk and egg powder is a pretty good start for a tiny cake, some flavoring is needed though (I used anise) and Alvaro still wouldn’t touch it and it’s a bit meh indeed but I had coffee with yolk with it (Alvaro still wouldn’t touch it, obviously but I am not him) and the texture of the cake was great. My tiny microwave yolk cakes always are wonderful like that (well they do need sodium bicarbonate) but I used a tiny walnut until today. 5g per yolk? Perfectly fine in my world but I try to be stricter than just use walnut and poppy seed without an emergency or real temptation. But they are still awesome.

I left plenty of my scrambled eggs and meat so my dinner will be easy. I just don’t know what to do about dessert, I am so dessert dependent lately… Well maybe not now, with the roast but it’s not fatty enough…

I need to do something about it. My days are too lean. They are fine just very much unneeded protein on my not low-cal days and it’s costly and unnecessary. Except now, after low-meat days, yay! I would have eaten the same high protein using fatty meat but with overeating.

Oh well. I will calculate the cost later. And buy some fatty dairy. I am not into the fatty meat options now. Maybe I should eat more yolks, I like them a lot, after all.
And eggs are still cheap enough ~
Alvaro says experts guess the big egg price raise will happen in the autumn now… I still suspect Easter will have an effect, it usually has I think. But it probably won’t be much, eggs are already more expensive than before (just a bit though)… People are usually super sensitive to egg price and many complained all my life about the price. And it wasn’t expensive… It’s EGG. It is worth it so much, it’s protein, it’s nutritious, good for so many things, quick to fry and so on.


#139

Yes that is some proper packaging if one must use plastic trays.
We have those horrible cases (I surely mentioned it a few times) when there is a big, thick, deep plastic box without lid. And they manage to put a few tiny slices of meat inside. Sometimes 80% of the box is empty. It’s horrible… This isn’t the typical thing but it happens and I hate it. I like when I get my big slab of pork or many turkey/chicken whatever tightly wrapped. I don’t need even a box, just some plastic around it.
And the boxes often can’t be even thrown out as selective garbage (that is pretty mysterious if it does any good but one must try and hope and form good habits… and some of it is surely used up again…?).
I try to buy meat where only some nylon bags are involved but I am not social enough for it to be easy… Okay, I can talk to a seller but it’s still a chore. Even shopping is a chore. But too much plastic, very unnecessarily pains me.


#140

I still love this word for them so, so much. Very simple and descriptive but still. Some childish part of me smiles like a fool now :smiley: Well okay I do that too. No one sees me and anyway, I smiled too little lately.
Good luck with the fluffies :slight_smile: