All Animal August---Triple A

#182

I am so tempted by the Ninja.

Migraines are tricky, but I found adding a significant amount of salt to my diet made a huge difference to mine. There are other factors (sleep, artificial light, stress etc) so I won’t claim it’s all salt - but I used to have one at least every 3-4 weeks, and sometimes as many as 1-2 a week.

I’ve been adding salt to my water, and it’s been months since I’ve had one. In fact, the last one I had was after my first dose of the vaccine - it was really slight and didn’t last long, so may have just been a stress response.

Worth a go, I’d say. Paul was the first person I saw mention it on here - and Carnivore Cast did a podcast or two on salt and migraines if you want to find out more. Otherwise, add salt to your water to taste; if I think water tastes insipid, then I’m low on salt - just add it until it tastes right. You’ll know.

#183

@Septimius
could be that combo…take away food triggers from the plant world and all that other junk, then ADD in some more salt as a balance and —boom–we hit a compromise and more healing on it all.

hubby does the migraine thing…he is not even low carb…he is ALL crap and he goes down alot on those but alot of times, that darn ‘strobe light’ or ‘chrome flash off a car while driving’ can trigger him instantly or a ‘very strong smell’ can hit him into a mirgraine…but see I never had any of that stuff ever in my life so I can’t say anything thru experience on it and your info was great info for someone to try!! Ya never know, it could be the extra ummpffft to work for them! Love your post.

but ya know what is wonky, I am a ‘super salter’ person thru my whole life. I suck down alot of salt ALL the time and even as I try to ‘cut my salt intake’ I still can’t do it to a NO level and I find that I MUST have monster big salt intake…so a correlation I never had headaches? hmmm no clue but cool LOL just thinking on it all.

#184

@Shatz:
Not south, middle. Still hot especially now. It’s a very bad summer, quite hot almost all the time instead of 2 weeks, we never had this before. Sadly, the weather gets warmer, proper snow doesn’t happen every winter either.

Alvaro is my SO (we have a significantly more serious relationship than the average married couple but the bar is very low, people are often incompatible and divorce after a short time), I wrote that a lot in the beginning but nowadays I just use his nickname :slight_smile: I can’t help mentioning him a lot as I cook for him and we have some effect on each other. He follows my eating changes as long as he can keep his high-carb and sweets for basically every meal. He has his limits just like I have them. We have a lot in common eating wise, it helps. And we never want to tell the other how to eat, we just want the other to do almost their best to eat healthy. We aren’t perfect but pretty good at that, both of us.

We went to see an old ruined castle today, it was an ancient plan and it’s so close but somehow we never did it. But it happened today… I basically melted and drank all the time but there was some shadow, trees, cool rocks and it wasn’t 40 Celsius… But at this point I just feel smoldering even in 25C (well it’s the temperature where I start dying even if I don’t move… but in summer I am usually borderline okay with it. not now, I had enough. I want a COLD September :smiley: not too cold but cooler than usual, at least for a little while for me to regenerate). I don’t care about mozzies anymore (but they seem pretty lazy too), I keep my window open at night…

1 more month, oh my god.

But I hear news about south sometimes, yeah, it could be worse, sure. My body still feels hot and nauseous and my headache came back (thankfully it’s a little normal headache, not migraine. for a hedonist who has problems it’s more than horrible already). My brain never worked well in summer (not even if I was a cool building) so that’s nothing new.

But I am home now, so much better. So I better don’t whine but I barely can focus on anything now.

I ate lunch at 2pm, I was hungry. I probably will have a smallish but satiating dinner and that’s it.

I had scrambled eggs with cheese and sour cream until I was waiting to the grilled sausage to get ready (we have a small kitchen grill/sandwich maker/waffle maker but the last function is unusable, dough stuck to it)… Then some prosciutto crudo, not my cup of tea but we will eat it up eventually… And sponge cakes. Then the sausages with mustard and some coffee with my tiny leftover cream. Today the sour cream was much sigh. It’s quite hard for me to keep my dairy low. I am fine with the cheese, it wasn’t much and had to try the second Italian cheese Alvaro opened.

I just want the leftover pork stew for dinner and that’s it. Alvaro is nice (or bored with it or rather the sausages were more than enough meat for him for a day) and won’t eat any of that.

I still suspect I don’t keep enough meat around me and it’s not conscious… I automatically started to spare my tiny stew and it’s hard to get satiated that way… I need to remind myself of things but I get better. I already am aware I need to get out another slab of pork out of the freezer. No, some chicken liver and eggs and processed stuff isn’t the best I can do tomorrow. If I will be bored with my pork, I just won’t eat much on that day, it doesn’t spoil easily… But it must be available, ready to eat. I usually remember this.
It’s especially important now as I am not soooo much into eggs right now. It’s fine, I eat enough meat not to get bored of eggs but I need a decent amount of proper meat as well. Nothing new information but I still may forget it sometimes.

We still have no problems with Covid here, yay. That’s other parts of Europe. Alvaro will get his 3rd jab in the mildly near future. I don’t need it as a healthy hermit, of course. Probably Alvaro neither but we are super careful.

(Karen) #185

ahhh everything is really lean. I couldn’t imagine eating everything lean. When I eat Chicken, I find I just don’t have any energy to do the workouts I do and also to get me through an active day at work. I have to also eat some fatty meat too to get the energy levels up. My beef is always as fatty as I can find and if I buy mince beef I totally avoid the leanest, reduced fat variety on the shelves. I wasn’t looking to lose weight but 8 am gradually getting leaner and work trousers feeling more and more loose around the waist … quite a nice side affect to eating so much :slight_smile:

(Karen) #186

I don’t understand how that all adds up to that few calories. Do the photos make them look bigger than they are? 4 beef burgers are over 1500 kcal on my cronometer, a salmon fillet is at least 169kcals and then there are the eggs etc? Not that calories matter but just saying ???

(Daisy) #187

Is that just like a ninja actual air fryer?? I have the ninja foodi grill and it is LIFE :joy: I’ve never seen your beautiful, shiny contraption before! But it looks magical!

#188

Its the grill, it can air-fry, roast,bake, broil, dehydrate and grill, ive only grilled so far. Im in Norway, maybe thats why it looks a little diffrent?

(Daisy) #189

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The pictures make them look bigger lol. I also meticulously weigh out everything. Burgers I weigh cooked because I drain all the fat and it completely changes the macros. The rest I weigh raw.

(Daisy) #190

You are going to love it so much!!! But warning :warning: I burn myself at least weekly on it and have an arm full of scars, as does my daughter :joy:

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(Karen) #191

I replied to this but somehow it appeared above the previous reply to you! Not sure what went wrong there lol its too tech for me hahaj

(Daisy) #192

I’m doing a specific program in order to lose weight. I’m almost 2 years into carnivore, and spent the first 1.5 years gaining unneeded weight. so now that I have done the majority of the healing I needed to, I’m honing in the weight loss. So I have spent the last 5 months doing trial and error to find a program that will work for my goals. I’ll pm you my before and after from April to now!

#193

I wasn’t expecting carnivore to fix them - if it’s done the trick, I will shout it from the rooftops.

I was keto for many years and had consistent migraines, and then standard diet and they persisted. All attempts at migraine diaries came back with no common triggers - there was no pattern.

I can identify a lot with the flash or strobe. In my experience, the strong smell doesn’t trigger the migraine, but you’re already destined to have one which means that you’re overly sensitive to smell. You’ll smell something very strong and then think that triggered the migraine, but you’re already due a migraine which is why the smell is so pungent. Generally, other people won’t notice much of a smell if you ask them.

The interesting thing for me was that although I can get them anywhere / anytime, over the last 5 years, I seemed to be increasingly hit with them in the early hours. At first I thought it was a lack of food issue (pre-keto / pre-carnivore / when eating every few hours) so I would have a bag of crisps before bed and 9 times out of 10, that would work. At the time, I thought I needed the carbs - now I think I needed the salt.

The podcast I referred to had a discussion about how people who have migraine need more electrolytes and how active their brain is during sleep (which requires more salt). So they say that’s what causes the early morning migraines - literally running out of salt at that point in the morning. Their recommendation is to have salt before going to sleep and immediately after waking.

I don’t do it that strictly. I go by how the water tastes glass to glass. It can be quite striking to have salted water and it not taste salty at all, go away and eat and do other things, come back to it and the same glass then tastes incredibly salty (because evidently I’ve re-balanced my salt levels). I’ve learnt a lot about my own body and what it needs.

If I make it to 6 months migraine free, I’ll let you all know!

(Karen) #194

Funny how we are all talking nigranes at the mo. I used to suffer badly with them though they never were the type to go on for days and were generally remedied by taking migralieve. Then they increased to daily and sometime twice daily but that was definitely due to stress as it was the time I was trying to get my ex husband out of the house which took over 3 months. Then they subsided and I have gone for a few years with very few instances until yesterday and today when I had one. Yesterday started very shortly after CrossFit and I noticed my left hand suddenly got pins and needles in it but that may have been down to the gripping of the rig and barbell during the workout. Todays started when I went into the Company Shop after CrossFit and I put that down to the sudden change from sunshine to indoor lighting.

I always carry some migralieve with me in my purse just in case but both days just missed the signs of the onset and so it stayed a while. I get the blindness and nausea, horrid feeling. The store cashier was really lovely and asked if I was alright as I was a bit wobbly on my feet while the blindness was affecting me. Obviously the half price steaks made it all worth while hahaha

#195

A year ago, I’d have said, “Yeah, sounds right.”

Now I’d be more inclined to say, “I wonder if you lost a bit too much salt?” Think I’m a bit more north than you, but it’s been hot and humid the past two days + exercise…it might’ve just tipped you over. I might be 100% wrong, but maybe worth experimenting with.

Auras are horrid. I get nausea as well - but I also developed gastric stasis, which is a nice fun complication, as it means that any medication you take isn’t absorbed. Marvellous. :rofl:

(Karen) #196

Well a better night’s sleep, each time I awoke and went to the loo I was like in such a heavy sleepy state. Must be cos of all the bad nights I have had recently. I am thinking that perhaps this is down to the pork as I have eaten it every day since Monday and i haven’t eaten it for so long… could also perhaps be why I have had migraines???

Anyway i decided to go to CrossFit although I can’t say I was feeling it after my stair runs but I bit the bullet and went. Had one of the best sessions in a long while, definitely my type of workout … no barbell lol., just rower, db hang snatches, db overhead lunges, d ball cleans and a run x 5 rounds and managed to do it in the 28 min time cap yesss.

Brunch was the last of the roast pork shoulder. I really enjoyed it but not sure it enjoyed me lol went stop me buying and cooking another one though! Followed it with a bit of cheese.

Dinner was a replay of yesterday’s steak eggs and bacon. Followed by a bit of cheddar and stilton.

Early night tonight as I am the early start at work tomorrow but fortunately it is the girlie early and I finish at 1230pm Yay!

(Vic) #197

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Got a plate fork and knife now.

Supermarket food again.
I enjoy it, its all habbit in the end, isnt it?

(Karen) #198

Hmmm I will definitely take note of the salt but I have had quite a bit of salt in my food lately, the bacon is very salty and so is chorizo . I also saturated the pork crackling and flesh with added salt. But maybe I will add a bit of salt to my water bottle or have some salt water before going.next time. I did notice today that my lips tasted a bit salty after the session so would that be too little or too much salt in my diet?

(Linda ) #199

@Ketodaisy that is my concern with psmf being pushed so hard on so many forums … so many ppl are trying to live on it day in day out and even steffasan found doing that actually makes you sick you need and even he stated to the hospital their diet without percentage of fat would make him sick and within three days he was… not saying that’s you cos you have refeed days but I often think is it going to come back as a thing ppl blame carnivore for
But I certainly hear you on the weight Gain which is why I’m tinkering with it how I’m eating…I like Dr blake Donaldsons plan which I’m tempted to try…

Food today 6 slices of bacon … but I had to do blood work and so I think I’m going to run the meals as one meal today cos I’m still hungry since I didn’t eat til 2.20 pm… ok so I added a sausage on a deep fried egg white wrap I cooked two but I could only eat one…

(Daisy) #200

For sure!! That’s why I try not to go more than 3 days without a refeed. And I only do psmf macros 2 days a week. But people have to have something to blame when things don’t work the way we expect :joy:. Right now, the “carnivore” community is feuding so much over fruit, honey and believe it or not white sugar!!! Influencers are literally telling people to eat these things on carnivore and it’s imploding.

#201

Yeah, I always felt the same about my food - I am liberal with salt and I didn’t shy away from salty foods, but it definitely seems to be ‘salting to (what feels like) excess’ that counts. If you dig out the podcast, I’m sure they explain it better than I am doing!

But it might also be electrolyte balance. They talk about the balance between salt/potassium/magnesium - and how that’s driven by salt, but all elements are important. If you could taste salt, maybe it was dehydration, or maybe your electrolytes were slightly out - or maybe it was a combination of all of those (that a drink with electrolytes would’ve fixed it).

Or maybe it’s one of those which had a different trigger. Nothing is impossible when it comes to migraines. It’s just that this has been such a game-changer for me I felt it would be lacking communal spirit not to share my experiences in case it helped someone else reading. :grinning: