Day 9.
7 pm. Still hungry. Leftover porterhouse minus 3.5 oz bone.
Brenda's personal 30 day steak challenge journal
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#34
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#37
Day 10
this is the day I made a focused effort to eat a higher fat to meat ratio from now on in this challenge
One pound ribeye, extra fat cap.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#39
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#40
Day 11.
About an hour later.
Wanted a bit more.
Grilled a 12.5 oz NY strip.
Gave 4 ounces of the lean away leaving a 8.5 oz piece of meat that was half fat. Ate only 6.5 ounces of that. Definately hit my satiety point and stopped. That makes 22 ounces total of much richer steak today, and as yesterday, a much more balanced ratio of fat to protein like I was aiming for.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#42
Day 13
Hungry early at 11 am. Cut some lean off of half a sirloin and fried up a fatty 4.5 ounces of it.
5:30 pm. 12+ ounce ribeye, grilled rare.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#45
Day 14.
Confession time.
I am not “sick of” steak, I am not growing to dislike it, but I REALLY MISS OTHER FOODS. LOL
Although I did a 7 month stint of animal products only in 2015(ZC), I was eating dairy and seafood and offal of course. I also did include a tiny bit of spices on occasion, and also ate a bit of non calorie sweeteners…
Never in my life have I eaten the same thing for so long. This is day 14 and I am getting positively AGITATED.
Beef steak.
Black coffee.
Eeeerrrrrrrgh!!!
Holy hell can I make it to April 1st???
…mind you, I am NOT hungry. I am not craving anything. My health is STELLAR.
Missing the flavors, the variety, I don’t know. Damn humans are spoiled. What if I were a hermit living in the middle of thousands of acres of forest, and all I had to eat were moose steaks? Would I go insane? No. Because I’D BE EATING THE OFFAL TOO!
This is inhuman torture! Lol
@Donna , my meaty twin, be sure and read this, my first exposé of deep thoughts. Lol
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#47
Day 14 continued.
10 oz of beef shank meat and marrow, braised in its own juices until tender.
No photo. It’s ugly anyways. Lol
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#48
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#49
Day 15. Fini.
Cut some lean off of a NY strip. It was the perfect amount of food to end the day, along with a small grassfed ribeye.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#50
Day 16.
I am finally settling in. No desire for other foods or should I say craving or boredom wanting change.
This challenge is good for me in so many ways. It forces me to view food as fuel, not a source of entertainment as our society tends to condition us to do.
I am much more in touch with hunger signals, actual hunger, and most of the day I am not hungry at all. That is very freeing.
I am eating a much higher fat to meat ratio now, and that has been a very good decision. I am choosing fattier cuts of meat, and am staying sated much longer and wanting MUCH less food.
Important lesson here. I may love lean meat, but too much of it is NOT ideal! Luckily I also love fatty meats, and am enjoying my luxuriously fatty ribeyes each day that Hackenmueller’s meats provided. I’ve been cutting away the leaner parts of the sirloin and tucking it into the freezer. When I’m off “steak only”, I’ll deep fry it or cover it in bearnaise sauce. 
When I started I was eating on average 30 to 35 ounces of steak, and at times eating in the morning. That is over 2 pounds of steak a day. Much more protein than I need to maintain and repair my lean body mass. It seemed like such a waste, and it really was. Upwards of 200 grams of protein a day? Ludicrous. Besides that, the last thing you want your body to do is burn protein for fuel. Trust me on this. The higher fat I am eating now has kept me sated and satisfied and NOT thinking of my next meal. And although I remained in ketosis (I have a blood and breath ketone meter), my numbers were lower than I wanted.
Now, I am achieving the ketone range I prefer.
Optimal range.
Protein now is closer to 125 grams a day.
It may be why I ate so much more protein the first week or so. Eating too much lean meat led to continuing to eat too much lean meat!
Fat is magic on the ketogenic diet, and it’s best to heed it’s call.
Overeating of protein stops, fat to satiety heeded, ketones go up. #winning.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#52
Day 16.
Two 4 ounce beef shank steaks, slow cooked, and an 11.5 ounce very fatty sirloin end piece.
19.5 ounces total steak meat today.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#53
Day 17.
I had an especially exciting day yesterday. My first DEXA scan. The results were lovely. Apparently I am very dense. Lol. As I suspected. My LBM was fabulous. I was told I have 40 pounds more muscle than most women, my arms and legs being double the muscle of average. I always knew I was very strong. I still haven’t seen a woman lift as much as me at the gym, or most guys. Lol. It was nice to be validated. My goal weight is MUCH higher now, and that is a wonderful relief.
Get a DEXA scan if you at all possibly can. Knowing your body composition helps TREMENDOUSLY. Plus, now I have a baseline, and can work towards even more improvement!!!
Today:
Woke up hungry. This isn’t normal for me. Maybe it was from my exciting day yesterday! After a few hours it did not go away, I ate an end piece off of a sirloin steak that was 3/4 fat cap this morning. It was 4.5 ounces. Going to be at work out of town from 8 am to 5 or 6 pm today. Maybe later. Brought a 10.5 ounce piece of nicely marbled chuck steak with me.
No photos of the days food.
Maybe I’ll grill something pretty later. Lol
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#54
Day 17. Continued.
15.2 oz Tbone. Minus bone, 13.5. Still hungry! Also had 4.4 ounces of sirloin that was 3/4 fat. A lot of fat today. Probably 20 ounces of meat and another half pound of just thick steak fat today.
Brenda
(8 year Ketogenic Veteran)
#55
Day 18.
My first day was February 28.
Waited until 630 pm to eat because I was out. I was fine today. No hunger until my normal IF window approached at 4. I grilled one of those beautiful Tbones again, along with a piece of sirloin that was mostly fatcap since I seem to be needing a bit more fat. It was the perfect amount of food.
