food change
I ate this pack of link sausage first meal. fried them good and burnt LOL
ate em’ all
not sure if I want my NY Strip or just polish off that leftover chicken,
might hold steak for morning food tomorrow.
I am kinda really in that not hungry mode,
but hey I got a pic in today!!
From the carnivore expert video by Steak and Butter - interesting that Dr Bright links fat to cortisol. Hadn’t heard of this before.
I’m just hacking away via YouTube tutorial…do you have any favorite tutorials to recommend? L
OMAD class day did not go well today. I ran out of fuel at the 24 hr mark and got cold and weak. Fortunately there was a big pork shoulder with a lovely fat cap waiting in the oven at home!
sorry that hit ya like that. ain’t fun is it. Early on I got hit with some fatigue and empty tank real fast, can get dizzy and more in an instant so I am glad ya got over it fast. not fun. always be sure to get that meat in ya 
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lovely fat cap,music to a carnivore’s ears
Lamb steak and lamb burger with butter.
I ate last night’s sunset with my eyes. This was a shot getting up from working at the computer and stepping outside on to the front porch. Eye-eating, also known as intently watching, is fantastic for general metabolism regulation and the changed light waves, I call it a ‘colour bath’, tells your brain it will be time for natural sleep soon.
I was looking at the sky show thinking how it would look a lot better down the road at the beach. Then went inside and eat two lamb chops. I tried to eat them without pan-fried- haloumi or fried eggs, but the satiety was less.
Down at the beach a friend caught this picture. That is a school of migratory fish called ‘Australian salmon’ (they are not salmon), being hounded by two large whaler sharks. That’s the place where I swim and surf. It’s a seasonal thing to have the fish and sharks here, so close to shore. You just have to swim around them, so as not to become their Turf-in-the-Surf meal.
Oh I wonder what that is like… I only had pork scratchings before (and I don’t use skin but use meat, I just don’t know a word for that version) and I love lard but dislike tallow… But I like fatty beef I think and I love and need crunch…
I should do that myself. I don’t know why but it was so long ago I watched sunset… Or lay down and watched the clouds moving… It’s time to bring back my “walking/running up to the hilltop and back” at sunset. It’s quite pretty.
Bringing myself to run goes almost as unwell as quitting coffee… 
I do walk, it’s something but very very basic in my life. I need my walks.
Only 1pm here now so nothing to report yet, I only had coffees with a tiny milk powder in them…
Middle of my tulip seasons and I still have the last daffodils, my two vases look very nice right now…
Our apricot tree confuses me. It has one big white(!) flower, quite pretty. It was in bloom in February and the flowers were pink as they should be. So this single odd one is quite funny now 
It’s almost like the apple flowers next to it. But whiter.
A thought entered my mind 1-2 weeks ago. Can a human hair change color in the middle, not waiting until it falls off? I got my answer: it totally can. Sometimes I do some hair color check on myself. I know my general hair color is dark brown but my single hairs are usually from light brown to very dark brown. I even have a few white hairs since a few years but the number doesn’t change.
And today I have found 2 hairs with white ends and dark brown younger part. It took about 1cm to go from white to dark. Wow. Never knew it is a thing but apparently it is.
I never saw the opposite, going white at some point. My hairs go back to dark 
And now that I think about, there aren’t nearly as many broken ends as usual. It’s so way less I am very very sure it changed significanly. I didn’t have this on my original keto. Can meat do it? It is very nutritious so possibly…? I ate a very nutritious diet and was fine but maybe my hairs are more sensitive.
My nails are still weak though. I try to grow them (despite using nail polish is an annoying chore) but it’s not successful on my right hand. But if I will have proper nails, I will buy a kalimba It’s a cheap little lovely instrument, the basic ones, at least. I want one. Well, two, I want a cute one too with only a few notes!
(I should use my keyboard if I feel like to do music… I so neglect it. But being outside with a kalimba, that sounds great too.)
That’s almost as good as being there, thank you. New Zealand is such an unbelievably beautiful place. If I ever had the chops to up and move out of the country I was born in, that’s where I’d go.
I left plenty of meat but ate the rest of my smoked pork shoulder (Alvaro still have a nice, not too fatty piece. not too fatty for him to make scrambled eggs with it, I mean… I am quite fine with smoked pork fat as long as I get some decent amount of meat with it), it was nice while it lasted… 
I had more sponge cakes with the leftover Gorgonzola. I didn’t enjoy it this time, I prefer some proper blue cheese, Gorgonzola is more like gray and different and Alvaro left me the most blue parts and they were too much for me at the moment. I usually like it much better
The sponge cake is normally yolky but these yolks were unusually light colored (and of course the bright sunshine didn’t help in the pic).
So this time I have left enough meat to have a very proper dinner so I won’t overdo my dairy items I suppose. This far I had very very very little!
I stopped drinking coffee but I have my Irish Cream tea and I just couldn’t postpone it anymore, I opened my last glorious 500ml lactose free cream. I will be careful. I poured a bit more than usual, this is a super creamy, very good tea 
20g butter for 1000g chicken liver doesn’t make it buttery. Still good though, very soft as always after 30 minutes
I have been thinking, it seems almost all of my food takes 30 minutes lately. Sponge cakes, chicken liver, pork… Obviously scrambled eggs are quicker but I only had a tiny one this week.
Probably the boiled eggs were quicker too, not by very much as we did it outside If I do it inside in a small pot, it’s more like 15 minutes for not fully hard ones.
This guy is hilarious! I’m gonna watch more of him. Thanks @FrankoBear!
Happy April! I’ve just finished reading most of the posts, I hate missing so much.
A few days ago I watched Laura Spath’s video on tortilla making, cooking mozzarella cheese in the microwave, and ordered steel taco forms which came yesterday. I didn’t take pics. They were HORRIBLE, so hard and gross, so much for that experiment. Hubby liked them though. I just put burger and cheese in, no spices. So. Took notes on another carnivore tortilla video this morning and will try it this week.
Speaking of hubby, he did so well on his March ketovore experiment that he isn’t going back to heavy carbs now. His shirts fit, he feels better, no idea of the scale but I’m proud he’s stuck to it. He’s becoming more meat-centric all the time.
The eclipse weekend is going to kill us. They threw an extra 20 hours of performance on us for Sunday and Monday! 4 on Sunday - then get this - we are at he winery from 9-6 on Sunday! There are breaks because we’re featured as Strolling Strings with the various events, but man!
We usually work 7 hours Friday and Saturday and then sleep till Monday afternoon.
Weather on the 8th is supposed to be overcast and rainy with chance of tornadoes. Nobody is going to see that 4½ minute sun/moon event!
But we made a playlist 
I had the 1st varithane foam injection for varicose veins this week. It’s not bad but I’m in a tight bandage on one leg under compression stockings for the first 48 hours and I will be glad when the 6+ weeks of this is over; he only treats one vein per week.
There are so much food Alvaro likes and I can’t stand and vice versa It can be entertaining.
YAY!
Meanwhile Alvaro realized that he hadn’t a single meatless day last week. The fish just disappeared in the curry (next time he will put it in later, we both like the pieces. I probably would fish them out 
as I don’t want the vegs but nope, we just buy enough fish for us both. it’s a worse and worse idea for me to eat his meat+veg dishes as time passes) so he didn’t realize while eating…
He didn’t seem shocked. A few years ago he was very adamant about not eating meat every day because that is wrong for some reason. For him, at least, when I pointed out I eat meat every day and it’s good for me…
Oh the playlist is so nice, it surely will be a joy to hear!
It seems carnivore satiation or what kicked in today, at carni day #5. I had a smallish lunch and almost nothing for dinner. I was satiated. I did eat some tiny leftovers to figure out if my body wants more… But nope. 108g protein, 80g fat for today, it’s 10:16pm and I am perfectly satiated. Wow. It was long ago I ate this little.
Almost a pound of meat, a few eggs and almost no dairy! My usual hunger was nowhere to found I love this.
And we have plenty of liver to eat, Alvaro likes it, we can go and see the hopefully already blooming wild garlics! They took their sweet time… We will have cycling and a nice walk. When we come home, it will be already lunchtime for Alvaro so he is glad he can cook whenever, he won’t need to stand hunger. Just because he is very good at it when necessary, he doesn’t like the feeling. Now I am the one who can wait for some hours more, usually I mean, he CAN, it’s just pain and suffering. And when he is hungry, he must eat. When I get really hungry, I still can cook It takes my mind off of it or if not, I already making food and it helps… He can’t cook when hungry, he needs food. But he is still so choosy, he can’t just eat my food with something. His eating has its rules, protein, carby side #1 (and #2 if legumes are involved), raw veg, raw fruit, dessert… I feel I am more flexible though nowadays I do need my lean meat, fatty meat, processed meat for emergencies, eggs, some dairy… But that still seems easier and if I must, I can skip one. I am flexible, merely need a lot of food, typically even more than him for the main meal.
Dinner.
Oh, wait! That’s Stanley and Stella, future dinners. My bad.
Today’s was carnivore nachos. Shredded lamb and cheddar on clean pork rinds.
WOW super happy your hubby is walking your way and feeling great too! Well, after all, he has a great teacher
your work load is wild JJ. A day of 9-6 is very long I would think when it comes to your playing. But ya got that carnivore stamina now. lol
Sending good vibes for your vein issue and how that treatment goes. Hoping all that goes smooth for ya. I so enjoy reading your posts JJ!!
HYSTERICAL! Ya know I never named our cattle or hogs or chickens. I did name the goats and horses tho LOL
@FrankoBear, I gotta say your posts are fab and I get a kick outta reading every darn one of them…,along with such stellar pictures. I can see those whaler sharks well in that picture, very cool. Scary looking for sure but they say they aren’t dangerous, but darn, ya surf with those things around? eeeeee…well I guess when we all go into the ocean, yea there is scary stuff around, lol.
------------------keeping it simple April for me still.
scored up some good some good NY Strips steaks at low sale cost. Freezer is filled well.
I hit this markdown on chuck roast. 
See that, $18 down to $6.22—hell of a savings. This chuck is going in the oven early and will be my first meal around 11am and will also be my second meal come later
Wow i think i may have missed a day maybe 2? Too many posts to read …
pictures are nice though! 
Food over the last couple of days. Rumps were lovely… also eaten tins of tuna and some tinned corned beef. Eating the corned beef last night made my tum slightly queasy in the middle of night! Don’t know why!
Only a couple of weeks left for Sian before she drops this new life into our arms
Taking Raymond for brunch today, he’s been very up and down health wise. The consultant we saw a couple of weeks ago said that there was nothing medically they can do for him for his Diverticulitis, he will just have to manage the condition so he is suffering somewhat with that and also still having issues with the Hydrocele. His consultancy appt for that is not till July though he is trying to get them to bring it forward as the pain is spasmodic and quite crippling. The 2 issues together is almost more than he can bear. I sometimes wonder if he adopted this woe he might alleviate the discomfort? He has changed the way he eats dramatically I would say he eats more the Keto way, but i think Carnivore is just a step too far for him. At 86 he has done well to change habits of a life time!
Steak at the ready for this evening.
YAY! Best wishes to Sian, it can’t be easy for her but there will be a lovely reward
I am not good with words.
Unsurprisingly, I got hungry last evening… Early night? Soon after I wrote my last comment. So I ate some more or less lean protein and it did the trick, still a good day!
But today I got hungry early and I didn’t even exercise… We cooked outside. Rather Alvaro cooked and I fed the fire and chopped wood! The wood to burn is nicely diminishing now, not like we don’t have enough for years still… But the big ones are nicely packed away, I don’t like when we have a lot of lil branches around.
It’s 12:40 so I won’t eat super early. I haven’t even started to cook my food… (Pork chuck.)
It turned out that the random bulb in my flower box isn’t only deep purple but it has those thrills/teeth! Maybe I will make a photo if I can bring myself to stand up, I am not very energetic right now.
And even if someone can do carnivore (for a while like I do), they may need a longer time to go there. It was about 10 years for me to go from high-carb to carnivore trials. I couldn’t even do keto early, I felt unwell, I needed my low-carb times. Carnivore was trickier as I did vegetarian keto and ADORED my vegs and even felt the need to eat a little fruit every day. (I had days when I almost skipped it and I felt off. Very much vegs could substitute it but keto doesn’t allow that.)
I know I am slow, some people can do crazy jumps like vegan->carnivore But some of us need a few jumps, far away from each other. At least if we want it easy enough. Health problems may change our willingness to do extra effort though. I was already healty on high-carb and low-carb was much better so I haven’t felt the need to go further for a while.
I can’t imagine I wouldn’t want good changes at 86… Maybe Raymond will change more too. It’s already good that he doesn’t eat the usual horrid carby diet. And who knows what is his ideal diet? It’s not carnivore for everyone… Whatever is the case, I hope he will get better. It sounds bad, I surely would try to change my diet more to see if it helps… Though everyone has their limits. I never could eat only meat, for example (except MAYBE if I lived at a nice shore with amazing seafood variety and land animals would be available too. I mean, ruminants too as I almost only can get pork and fowl here. the city has beef but mutton? I didn’t see that since too many months and I have been searching for it a bit). I like my other carni food and even some non-carni food but it’s fine to keep them low and rare. But I am nothing like years ago. I am still amazed how much one can change!
eh that processed stuff can get us sometimes
CAN’T WAIT FOR BABY PICS to replace your chicken wing pics LOL
Wishing the best forward for her!!
On Raymond, my hubby had divertic. very bad also. Key for him, drinking Pure Aloe Vera juice. Yup buys it at the health food store and it ‘soothes and heals’ his guts and tamed those divert. pockets that form, so one recommendation is if Raymond can get his hands on pure fresh aloe vera juice and take a few shots a day, he could improve immensely like my hubby did. ALSO be sure he doesn’t eat alot of small particle food like nuts, grains, that get trapped in those divertic. pockets. If he watches that and does a few shots of Aloe Vera juice he might literally improve a bit but like you said, at 86 can we change a ton? mostly no but a few small changes could perk him up a hell of alot kinda. (it is tasteless btw, like water)
hubby buys this:
cause my hubby is not even very low carb, so this helps his guts plus being careful of seeds etc and he has surely improved a bad situation for himself.
hope some of that helps
very nice, sounds like a fun evening meal
when I lived up North we had so much firewood we had yrs worth stacked also alot of work involved with a many cords stacked
I totally expect @Karen18 to bring baby pics AND wing pics But I will be very fine with only baby pics for a while
I am here mostly to postpone my lunch… But my little hunger went away anyway, yay! I prefer bigger meals, not 3 small ones out of necessity… Bigger meals last longer too but it’s lovelier to have them too.
I do drink creamy coffees, oh it’s heaven, lactose free cream on carni day #6, it’s SO sweet! I may not need a sweet coffee but I have a few drops, just cream, nice… I probably always will love sweet, there is nothing with that. I don’t want it all the time or much but it’s a nice flavor. If it’s natural though good luck to separate me from my beloved walnut pancakes for more than a few months… And this far I sweetened them. But that’s among the last ones. Most of my desserts aren’t even really sweet or it’s just lactose. I have easy, slow changes. And I don’t need my biggest, best, keto old favs, I have fond memories but I can wait. I said that for (proper, very enjoyable) pizza, oh maybe I will eat one every 5 years at one of the best pizzerias I know around - and 10 years passed and I still could wait Now I make our own and I am even fine with the cheesy egg crust one. That isn’t anything like a proper pizza but who cares? It’s tasty and there is fish on it! I used to taste Alvaro’s one but it was too floury and not enough eggy, I prefer mine. His is crispier though. If that would be important for me, I would make experiments but nope. I have perfectly crispy and crunchy easy carni items. It didn’t help with my bready escapades in the last several months but hopefully this April and May puts it firmly in the past… It was bothersome, bread became my top problem item for a while (occasionally thanks to my carni times. and the complaints of my body and mind) after so much on/off carni It was totally crazy. Sometimes I have weird phases. Sigh.
Oh well, it’s April and carnivore is very natural this far. No compulsions. Freedom.
It’s such a win/win situation. I feel best, I don’t overeat, it’s the most convenient… I hope this honeymoon phase lasts longer now than usual Maybe if I don’t overeat dairy, things stay like this for longer? Or I get bored of meat easier? No, I don’t think so. I have liver now, later I will eat the tiny hen (Alvaro is looking forward to it too), I have fish in the freezer too… No way I can get bored of pork with these breaks!
I got carried away again. Sorry. Next time I bring photos and little text I hope. I will try harder than ever!
It was ready around noon, we cooked earlier than usual so it’s a lunch But Alvaro will eat it for a while. It is an old triggering food, one of the 2-3 I couldn’t resist to eat up half the pot and then got stomachache… But I don’t worry about it now. I have become so. Much. Better. (And it doesn’t tempt me so I don’t start to eat it. Stopping was the impossible thing even in the past. Well not tasting it too, probably… But it’s plants, even green leaves, one of Alvaro’s beloved plant-based dishes and I already have problems with his meat/veg ones. It’s still a bit new to me that I changed this much. It’s nice.)
Yes, I think so. It’s used medically as an elimination diet. Regarding fibre, muscle meat is in a matrix of collagen, and collagen is a fibre. Carnivores get plenty of fibre to feed the best gut bugs. He will feel better within a week if he swaps to steak, beef bone broth, salt, and water.
Otherwise make 100% sure not to eat any highly inflammatory ‘vegetable’ oils.
