Carnivore 30-day Challenge - Carniv-August 2024!

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August swept in like the finish to an Olympics running race. The athletes are complaining that there is not enough protein in the Athlete’s Village as a Games organiser somewhere thought that a more plant-based menu would be contemporary for the 2024 event. They were wrong.

Well, we are not going for Olympic Gold, maybe in a metaphor, maybe that should be a meataphor, we are here aiming like casual Turkish pistol shooting competitor at the target of improved health, better movement, increased strength and general healthy glow.

What are your August goals for your 30-day challenge? Any tweaks from July? Are you ready to drop another dairy item beside the marathon track? Is it time to give up coffee?

Welcome everyone. Bring your stories. Share your ups and downs. We are here to hear and catch you if you wobble.

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The concern was overloading with the amino-acid called glycine that is in a high concentration in cartilage and collagen. And the key part is overloading. If you are supplementing for treating a deficiency, then the supplementation is warranted. But there are people who take collagen supplements when they may not need to so much, then they overload with the glycine which is reactive and prone to oxidation, if in oversupply. That oxidation then leads to joint pain and inflammation. Yep, it seems antithetical but the overload is the key.

Just check that your dose is correct and you should be in the therapeutic range.

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(Liz ) #3

Ok that’s interesting, thank you.

I take two scoops of collagen a day, as directed on the package, have no idea if that’s the right amount for me! I don’t go to any medical or nutritional experts. I’m winging it.

For years I used a bit of glycine to take the bitter edge off tea, but this year I’ve warily switched to Allulose because of reports of folks saying it helped with cravings. Not sure yet. Certainly doesn’t spark any cravings. I use about 1 tsp a day. Glycine didn’t either but I got concerned I was confounding my fasting with protein.

Since going carnivore June 8 I’m up to 172 pounds, a good 10-15 pounds higher than is comfortable. Definitely flab not muscle. I don’t blame the food, just my poor discipline at meal timing. And probably dairy. I’d like to get on a schedule and food selection that help me drop the weight, but I’m under loads of stress as a caregiver and I try not to pile vanity projects on top of that.

(Myth Buster ) #4

My report :

Started mid June

So far so good.

Only odd thing, bathroom visits are like once in 10 days.

When the first visit did not come after commencing carnivore in mid June, I start to worry. So I took a spoon of castor oil, but even then very little waste.

Not feeling constipated or bloated.

Diverticulosis pain still there but progressively and slowly getting less.

(Karen) #5

I read somewhere that the British athletes took their own chefs and food with them😀 good thinking Beefman! Wham bam kapow!

(Karen) #6

Saturday i ran to CrossFit…first session of the week …busy busy… it was a pairs workout with lots of running so after a coffee at the end and plenty chatting I walked home via the shops. Meant to be dancing saturday night but Raymond felt unwell so we cancelled.
Today my daughter and family went to Italy for a friends wedding so i am sitting the girls again till Thursday. My neighbours come home tomorrow evening so last feeding of the piggies in the morning. I have just walked to my daughters to feed the girls… takes me 40 mins or less if i am force marching!

Food … sirloin steaks… nicer than the horrid rump i had a few days ago, herring rollmops, tuna with mozarella, pork riblets, chicken with cheddar

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Ren, the fussy one :heart_eyes:

(Geoffrey) #7

Well about four days ago I quit drinking tea. So my goal for August and for that matter forever, is to stay off of caffeine. I’m doing fine without it so far. The first couple of days I had trouble getting my eyes to pop open but the desire to drink tea was minimal. The cravings haven’t been bad at all.
For my morning hot beverage I’ve been mixing a half cup of bone broth and a half cup of water and after boiling blending in butter and MCT oil into a delicious frothy mixture.
That’s the last of the addictive things in my life and as much as I can figure that may be the last of the plant matter that I use on a daily basis unless you count the MCT oil.

Today I ate 4 ounces of pork belly and six guinea eggs.

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Then for dessert I had some carnivore bread slathered in butter.
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(KM) #8

That carnivore bread and butter just made me realize how hungry I am! What is it?

(Robin) #9

“… Saturday I ran to CrossFit.”

Whaaat? Can’t imagine either one, frankly.
:raised_hands:

(Karen) #10

Oh Robin I had to read that twice before i got what you were saying :rofl::rofl:

(Karen) #11

FItbit email report on last weeks exercise and i had done nearly 90,000 steps … over 30,.000 on Monday alone! Probably be about the same this week with feeding Sians girls …i have done a brisk walk over, then same again to CrossFit then again home and repeated that in the evenings… though not repeating another CF session lol I am here now sitting with them. Still very warm out! Have done yesterday and today at CrossFit but missing tomorrow as too much bar work which is not being kind to my neck and back! Back in on Thursday morning.

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Ate loads of chicken yesterday plus a tub of herring rollmops and 2 Black pudding in the evening. Today i had a cheese omelette at the cafe with Raymond and then at home this afternoon i had another tub of herring rollmops…they are on offer at Sainsburys with their clubcard…a £1 off! Probably eat some more chicken when i get back home later. All this walking malarky exercise works up a hunger :grinning:
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(KM) #12

Curious about these! I love herring in wine sauce, but the jarred varieties I can get here all have a significant amount of added sugar in them. What are “rollmops” like?

#13

Sigh. I looked at a jar in the supermarket again. Of course, sweetener. :frowning:
I even consider sugar borderline acceptable at this point (if I am desperate at the moment and the amount is tiny) but it’s ALWAYS full with those horrid, inedible sweeteners :frowning: (Or the worst from both word: sugar AND horrid sweeteners.)
While I fail to understand WHY to sweeten a fish to begin with… Or a pickled vegetable or almost anything… I understand people want sweetened desserts but that’s about it…
I would LOVE eating proper rollmops though. Oh and half of the jar is vegs anyway but it’s a moot point, they scare me away with all the sweetener. I want the fish in a sour way. No sweetness, no vegs. Maybe a tiny bit of onion but it should be mostly fish. But food industry doesn’t share my views… It’s a pity. But I can live without the thing.

My other pain is that we don’t have black pudding. If I want to eat blood, it’s the non-sausage with rice in it, there are no other options. Blood is lovely though. But I need to live without it.

{I still don’t do carnivore, I keep trying and failing. But I feel fine and I can eat a nice amount of meat again. Still not my usual carni amount but the surprisingly long time of barely wanting any is over… It’s very thoroughly fried pork shoulder for now. I only got a bit of lard out of it, I need some fattier meat. The pork shoulders I saw lately weren’t fatty enough.)

(KM) #14

Uh huh. Someone gave us a packet of chili seasoning mix, sort of a souvenir type thing. I was really pleased, the ingredients were all ok with me, no sugar and nothing strange. But I had to shop for the recipe ingredients on the packet, which included 10 oz of tomato soup and 10 oz of beef broth. In an entire grocery store, literally 20 options or more for each one, I could not find One Can / box / packet / cube of either without unwanted crap in it. Finally gave up and made my own, which was a lot of work for a “simple” premade chili recipe! WHY! Why is there corn syrup in the soup, yeast and starch in the broth, maltodextrin in the bone broth and the bullion?? Why does the list of ingredients in plain tomato soup take up half the can? ??? !!!

#15

I often have these wonderings too. There are ingredients I really want to avoid, ingredients that the dish really don’t need, at all so WHY?
But this world is like this at the moment, that’s why I just gave up buying nearly all more than one ingredient food items when I went low-carb (and if I was at it, ate way healthier. for me, lowering carbs was already a big step but I wanted to take many more! and I did). It’s good to make my own stuff for more than one reason, my recipes are evolving with me. But I understand that we don’t necessarily want to make absolutely everything from scratch… Surely even I have such moments. I do buy fish soup concentrate as I simply can’t make it myself. I mean, I would need to buy various fishes and it’s very hard with our options here. It would be WAY too much work. I don’t make fish soup with it, I just use it as a flavoring here and there (once I realized it makes chicken soup way better. I normally just add pork but variety is nice). One tiny box lasts for many months. I eat worse things, sadly…
I am way more strict with my staples as I should.

Wait, yeast in the broth? Why? What does it do? Do I wanna know?

If I am here, I talk about my food a little bit too.
I forgot some fried pork shoulder in the air fryer for… 2 days? My time sense is non-existent. It didn’t spoil but it was pretty much dried meat :smiley:
I ate up the pork shoulder (not much meat today for me, it was one of my quite common eggy-cheesy-creamy days), tomorrow it’s green ham again. Will it be fatty enough for some nice soup with cream? I have opened 500ml cream again and I don’t drink lots of creamy coffees nowadays. So I make dishes with cream for a while.

And I air fried the smoked pork hock, nope, it must be cooked for an hour in a pressure cooker, there is no way around it (okay, more time in a normal pot would work too). It’s already cooked so edible but I LOVE it when it’s falling apart, super soft… :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: It’s blissful every time, at least when it’s still warm! :heart_eyes: And it’s a bit too salty so it does good to release some of it.

I may be in a bit too intense love with milk powder but it’s not the worst I could do so I don’t worry about it yet.

#16

Lamb loin chops tonight after watching Instagram. My feed is mostly about feed.

(Karen) #17

Rollmops are cured herring in dill/vingar. You get 6 good sized herrings in the Sainsburys tubs. Yes they are sweetish and probably have sugar added… i don’t want to look really hahaha but i suspect that is the case. I don’t have anything else in my diet that has sugar added. I eat so clean 99.9% of the time and these don’t make me want anything else sweet which is good as i have such an addictive nature! If i ate a bikkie i would have to eat the full packet so i don’t touch them or cakes. Plus i don’t buy these for months, poss a year or so then i see some and buy and get hooked for a while. Probably won’t buy any more after i finish the tubs left in the fridge at least not for another year or so :grin:

(Karen) #18

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#19

So much wonderful energy Karen!

#20

Here is that storm in a bone broth cup.

I wonder if there are carnivore Olympians?

Is it time to reduce the “carbohydrate footprint”?

Not eating like an Olympian here = egg and butter breakfasts and ruminant red-meat dinners. The lamb chops were delicious. Rib-eye tonight. Plus air-dried raw beef (biltong), if needed.