Angus August Carnivore

[Karen18]

Felt a bit weary this morning. I think that my be down to the very poor sleep this week … too hot coupled with a full supermoon. I have to open a window when the night cools a bit outside and a slight breeze filters in. I pull the curtain back ever so slightly, just enough that it won’t drop back closed again and that flippin moon has been so very bright and been shining right through the bit where the curtain is open and right into my face! If it isn’t enough that its too damn hot and there’s no real air and I don’t sleep well anyway and its a full moon… what more can be thrown at me to disrupt my sleep arrggh!

Got up at 8.30am and sat outside after pottering and watering the thirstiest plants. Read some more of my books… finished another one yesterday evening so started a fresh one this morning. Then off to pick up Raymond to do some shopping and get some brunch out. I had a cheese omelette which was okay.

Wandered round some charity shops spending some pennies then dropped him off about 4 30/4.45pm. Came home and got some dinner of 2 thin sirloins half cooked (just on one side). Very tasty. Then my daughter phoned and asked if I wanted to go to a bit of everything store that had a garden centre… this is the one she told me about that I spent ages trying to find several weeks ago. Yep it was there right in your face as we turned off the roundabout! I had definitely passed it and how I didn’t see it I have no idea!

Came home sat in garden, ate some prawns and gave the garden a good doussing again like last night. It is really amazing how many dead plants came back to life! Going to be another hot hot day tomorrow.

Best shop we went into today was aldi … it was like walking into a fridge… so nice to walk out of the heat and into the chill ahhh. Just eaten another bowl of anchovies and got through the lot this time.

[x-Dena-x]

and that flippin moon has been so very bright and been shining right through t

Sorry about your lack of sleep. Me and my crystals look forward to the full moon every month. Supermoons, especially. Lots of good cleansing and charging energy to harness.

It was the last supermoon of the year, so next month maybe you’ll sleep better.

[SecondBreakfast]

Ending day 5 of a 6 day run at work. And it was a late one! So quick post
Breakfast: Coffee Scrambled eggs w butter Turkey bacon
Lunch… Tuna and coffee
Dinner … Chicken breast sliced, swimming in butter, with a bit of melted cheese.
MMM MMM MMM. -)

[FrankoBear]

@VirginiaEdie

I am probably overstepping myself since we are only forum acquaintances, but I will say it anyway. You seem to be in a similar situation as @Karen18. Your job seems to cause you a high amount of stress. Maybe you can find something you enjoy more that would keep you closer to home?

Hi Edith. It’s fine. This idea has been playing in my thoughts. No overstep. It’s a welcome prompt for reflection.

At work last week. There were some student nurses checking blood pressures for a project. My blood pressure was 150/100. They asked if I was on a statin? I wondered what they were being taught. When I get my blood pressure checked with the doctor it’s usually less than 120/80. I’d be interested to get a blood pressure reading when I’m at home.

The work at the job is what I want to do. It’s teaching. The thing that got hooked in my craw was being told by a manager, that is disconnected from teaching, that I was working at 80% according to a spreadsheet. It felt like I was working at 100% despite being allowed a reduced work rate due to a year of crawling back to being a bit healthy after some injury events and a tango with coronavirus.

I reckon it’s true when people say, you don’t quit your job you quit your boss.

Now I’m desprescribed from a stack of medications that hosted long lists of potential side effects, including mental health side effects. I feel a lot more resilient, back to a calmer state, since starting that barrage of pharma and weaning off again.

I don’t think I’ll step back from the work I like doing. I’ll work a bit harder at managing my managers. I sense that if the University needs to get more financially efficient in a looming recession, they probably won’t sack the people doing work. They’ll carve the fat out of middle management. I may be naive about that.

Closer to home I could go back to working as a pet animal veterinarian. There are job offers there, and a shortage of workers. All within half an hour’s drive, in the main regional country town. But that work is too emotionally draining.

Today I’ve been out in the sunshine. The cold front passed through yesterday. Fingers in the soil. Rich soil. Planting a forest.

2 eggs, some bacon, and 3 slices of Jarlsberg cheese broke the fast at about 4pm. I was hungry. Went out and played with the dog and tidied up the tools in the golden evening light. Then a camp oven baked rib eye over the wood fire at about 7pm. So, delicious with some salt. I nibbled some double cream Brie, and spritzed some rainwater.

[Karen18]

I always have difficulty sleeping but so much worse when there is a full moon let alone a supermoon. Happy for you though that you glean the cleansing and energy from it

[Karen18]

Hi FB I cannot recommend strongly enough buying yourself a BP monitor. The cheapest one will give you a good indication of where you BP is at. I have monitored mine and tracked the results daily since my stroke. I only have a cheap one, you can buy them here for £20 and I would say they are worth their weight in gold. I bet if you were to track your BP when at work and compare it to when you are back home there would be quite a stark difference. Your diastolic reading you have posted is way too high. Of course, one has to trust the equipment the student nurse was using. But having your own monitor may save your life one day. Obviously I didn’t realise the implication of high BP until my stroke even though I knew my BP, on occasion had topped 214/104! I know what increases my BP and when it will have increased, even though I may not actually feel any effects except panic, anxiety or stress. Tracking has enabled me to do that and if it goes too high I will just walk out, if at work and go home or sit and try to let whatever has niggled me pass and to just try and let go!

Please please please get a monitor… today! Xx

[Karen18]

So a very wakeful night again! I was finally able to switch off the fan at 7.30 this morning and then had a good sleep till 9.30 … isn’t that typical. My fitbit tells me I managed to get my full 8 hours but flippin heck just how long do I need to be in bed to get that arghhh. Not getting stressed, just thankful I am not having to rise for work till Wednesday

I decided to cook a couple of lamb shanks (they came as 2 in a vacuum pack (I bought about 3 or 4 packs from the company shop cheap half price and chucked them all in freezer) I put them in my slow cooker over night with just a smidgeon of water and had one this morning… early brunch at 11.30. Absolutely tender as … the meat just fell off the bone and lucky little pooch next door enjoyed the bone yay. So I have 1 more for later in the day.

Also got some pork ribs in fridge, couldn’t resist even though i need to stop eating pork. Still have a couple of pork joints and some chops and belly slices in freezer to eat up before trying to give it up altogether.

It is getting realy hot as the sun is moving across and my shady bit is getting smaller and smaller… both legs now catching the sun and boy it is hot! Thing is there is no real breeze so the sun is searing down and no reprieve with the normal windy gusts! Phew… I will be in doors pretty soon.

[Fangs]

Chicken breast sliced, swimming in butter, with a bit of melted cheese

I am doing that tonight kinda. sautee’d butterfly chick breasts in butter and melting provolone cheese over them with a tad of bacon crumbles. I call this ‘my Stacked Chicken’…yum, me and you, yes we know what is good, lol

@FrankoBear
I loved reading your posts and your thoughts on how it is going down for you and what you want as your career and maybe ‘online teaching or tutoring’ or ANY angle to get ya ‘out of the city’ but again, guessing if any of that is a draw to you

You said it clear. Great employees are over used and ‘the middle’ reaps rewards drawing life out of the ‘workers’ and I get what you wrote. I think SO many of us lived it in our working careers, I know I did!!

Take care of you. Keep that big pic of life. Our health is 1 as it as to be cause without it we have 0. Point blank so I know you will figure out your best way forward!!

I will be in doors pretty soon

yea you watch extremes in temps and more K til ya know how you truly do on it all. You went thru big med issues, but such a wonderful adjustment, recovery but finding YOUR NEW you still

-------------feel for anyone with sleep issues. I have small ones but mostly my life is ‘don’t need alot’ cause being ‘farmer mode’ I am sun up to ‘reasonable time’ to shut down during hottest part of day and then can be on call thru the night with livestock issues and more so I am kinda in that zone which ‘suits me’ I guess. I sleep great when I go down. Anything less than 5 hrs and I do bad…5 is great, 6 is outstanding but now, life is ok on those hrs because of my ‘early retirement’ that we did so I can say I feel in that zone of lucky azz me for how it is going down for us. Always grateful in the good I keep getting at all times and appreciate how it happens for our daily lives now.

Today is 2 thick cut pork chops.
tonight is Stacked Chick. big ol’ breast, melted cheese and ‘maybe’ bacon, not sure if I wanna bother making bacon, seems like alot of work but I will see if I want it bad enough, lol.

Clarity of thought. One of THE BEST benefits we get on carnivore.
Use it to help our daily life as we want it to play out, use the brain cells to make daily grind suit our lives in a way we can do well living!!! Takes time, nothing big changes overnight in big life changes, but darn think of it like this, we ARE carnivore and holding our eating plan, something some of us didn’t think we would accomplish, now use that great health and clarity to reflect and change other issues in our lives. Face them and find solutions, we are fortunate we can do just that!!!

ZC Strong!!

[SecondBreakfast]

Nice quiet Sunday morning. Youngest had to work–driving herself there finally! Its been so nice not being a taxi driver! Hubby and oldest daughter went to church together. I have to go to work AGAIN and work until 10ish. Got Monday and Wednesday off. Tuesday, I’ve just got a 4 hour training thing to do, but itll be nice for the footsie to get a break.

I wasn’t experiencing sleep issues for a while, but then…all of the roosters have now learned how to work their cock-a-doodle-doers - and that is a problem. A 430 am kind of problem. Worked late last night, so by the time I crawled into bed, I was pretty tired and ready for a long sleep. But then, 430 rolls around - and could not fall back asleep, and so I found myself out on the back porch at 5 am begging them to just shush for a bit a longer. And hubby accidentally made decaf this morning. Tough start for this girl.
After I re-caffinate, it will be time to head out and feed and water the gang, collect any eggs, and take a walk through the garden. Its so nice walking through even with the weeds. I love seeing all the bees buzzing around. And, my little flower garden in the center has finally come to life. The reds, oranges, yellows, and blues…I think there are still some sweet pea flowers yet to blossom.The nasturtiums have this fiery red flower that is just stunning!
Not at all sure what will be on the menu today. I really am not hungry. And to me, that is one of the great benefits of eating carnivore…my tank stays full for such a long time. I don’t have to bother to refuel. Energy level stays steady.
On a more difficult note, coming up this month will be the 4th year since my brother’s passing. His health conditions, decline and death right before his 53 birthday was much the motivation behind me getting serious about my own health, and delving into Keto, then Carnivore and fasting. I hate that he dealt with his emotions through abuse of food and alcohol. I hate that he left behind his wife and children. I hate that he didn’t feel enough support from those around him to make the necessary changes in his life, and he died. I refuse to go down that same road. So, I’ve chosen a different road, and I’ll go down it alone, as no one else in my family wants a part of it. I know I’m not completely alone 'cause I got all you WONDERFUL PEOPLE to walk with. But it does get hard sometimes. Those times are when I pull up Jocko Willink on YOuTube and listen to his talks on Self- discipline. Good reminders. Solid advice. That, along with the carnivore way of eating and fasting - help me stay strong and focused.
Thank you all for being here. You’re da best!

[Shinita]

I think I haven’t sent it yet because I wanted to include the photo but my multicard reader ATE the CF card. it’s rare but somehow happens.

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I ate lunch, slept, woke to being hot (with a reason. I shouldn’t be in my room all the time especially not when sleeping as it always makes me warmer…) and Alvaro asking me about how to fry the catfish… As if I have any idea, I would just throw it into the pan. So he said okay, he will throw it into the pan then. I go and look at the result
(He was afraid the fish will disintegrate for some reason.)

[…]
It turned out nice and… I don’t understand. I felt it SUPER FATTY. According to my data, it’s very lean (not full lean as many fish but still pretty lean). It’s fried in fat but it is not so much…
Oh whatever. It’s nice and fatty for me but I ate pork while it was frying and it was hot afterwards and it was already my second meal anyway so I will eat most of it tomorrow

[…]
And it’s tomorrow and yesterday wasn’t carni in the end but I ate much meat but I don’t want to track for a while now. Just going back to full carni. It’s hot and I am still not healthy just almost.
Super hot
I made quiche again. Nom. I probably will do it often in the future.

Tomorrow I roast another bunch of leanish pork and bring with myself to our holiday. It works now.

And we still didn’t see meteors.

And I still drink coffee. Many coffees but tiny ones, now I use a salt shaker and it lasts for long.

I can’t even read comments properly now.

[Fangs]

frying up now and eating 2 of these bad boys and see where the day goes on my Stack Chick

I personally can’t yell from the rooftop enough, ZC SUITS me so well, took a while to get here but my arse ain’t leaving ever, lol

[Karen18]

Couldn’t sit outside anymore but it wasn’t so bad I couldn’t walk to the shop and get a couole of packs of cold water prawns which I was unable to get yesterday. Also returned a pair of trousers that were definitely not the size on the label unless that particular brand do a very generous cut! (I did offer them to my daughter yesterday but although she liked them she said they were more like work trousers and she could only wear plain dark blue, these were stripes) I don’t ordinarily take stuff back to the charity shop unless I am donating but as I had spent a fair amount in there yesterday I thought £4.50 yep they can be returned for a refund… and promptly bought the shorts I had umm’d and arr’d about yesterday. They fit perfectly and i still came out 50p better off hahaha.

Returned home, had a nice cool bath and hair wash and read a while then ate the 2nd lamb shank followed by one packet of cold water prawns and 2 scrambled duck eggs. I will eat some anchovies later

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Decided against the pork ribs for tonight, I can eat them tomorrow.

[Shinita]

My card reader got fixed so I have photos.
The lovely catfish (still have a bite left. I am quite fine with a little at a time) and Alvaro’s usual cheesy whipped egg whites. The smoked cheese was pretty tasteless, a disappointment… But we bought another, that looks more promising…

I took a cold shower, the hotness was unbearable for me…

[coopdawg]

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Had to bring this over here too to show off!
Is this a taste of what is to come…?
12 oz medium rare sirloin with two runny sunny side up fried eggs.

[Karen18]

That look good and tasty x

[Karen18]

Well I finished off with the anchovies although just a few mins ago I really fancied s beef burger as I wasnt sure I was properly satiated … I resisted the temptation and came up to bed instead. Well done me, it might have kept me energised for hours lol

[Fangs]

keeping eating super duper simple today

got a nice 1 lb. ribeye steak for later and got 2 pork chops leftover I cooked yesterday. I have chick or tuna for back up if I require more food.

1/2 way thru Angus August, everyone eat well and live the lifestyle!!

[Karen18]

Cooler weather today although first thing was pretty hot with no breeze and I thought we were in for another horrendously humid sweaty day! However over the past hour a cool breeze picked up and the threat of rain which turned into a drizzle of sorts … you know is it or isn’t it going to throw it down and then you go in doors and it stops … had you stayed outside it would have bucketed down! hey ho. I was expecting a tel call from my stroke psychologist but she hasn’t called as expected and I am wondering whether she is okay as she is so on the dot when calling. Oh well I will not stress and pray she is okay.

Just had a late brunch because of waiting for her call. I had pork ribs that I picked up from lidl a couple of days ago. They were supposed to have hoisin sauce poured over them prior to finishing in the oven but that promptly went in the bin … didnt want any icky sweet sauce over them. The instructions were to cook covered in oven proof dish for 40 mins (they had been pre slow cooked for 2 hours) where normally I would be instructed to put them on baking sheet so wasn’t sure how they would turn out. Well they were flippin tasty and the meat just fell off the bone. The box they came in stated there were 2 portions but, as per, there was just 1 carnivore portion and it was nothing to nom nom nom my way through them

I am now back outside as it is a bit too dark in the kitchen with the cloudy sky and it is lovely and cool with the breeze, so sitting and reading it is.

[VirginiaEdie]

How is you knee?

[Karen18]

Well it got hot again soon as the sun popped out but has threatened rain on and off. We keep getting thunderstorm warnings but haven’t had one yet. Now it was meant to rain today, proper rain and now it forecasts it for about 8am tomorrow to last all day. Tempted not to water the plants as they are still a little damp. Took a walk down to lidl while it was overcast and thought I would risk a rainfall but as I say the sun came out and it felt hot walking back. Picked up some more cold water prawns and some chicken for work on Wednesday and Thursday, I am sure I have some of my own chopped chick in freezer I can pull out for Friday. Also got another of those pork ribs that I ate for brunch and some chilli and cheese big sausages. Wasnt sure about them but the carbs were pretty low and I cooked a couple with a pork chop and thin sirloin steak for a mixed fry up … never grill anything lol. Well those sausages were scrumptious considering I am not keen on sausages. Just needed something other than plain meat today and they hit the spot.! May have to get some more for the freezer … lidls motto is once their gone their gone !

Only one on my plate and one was left in frying pan so I ate that straight after. Feel good and satiated now.

So I am back in the garden watching the wood pigeons chasing each other, little beggers, one has won this battle, the other got fed up being chased and pecked and has flown off, now the other one has just flown off so what was all that territorial stuff about lol! If they don’t watch out I will be having pigeon stew … some are looking quite plump from all the food they have been eating off my feeders!