Carnivore 31-day Challenge - Can't Tell A Lie Carnivore July 2024!


#1

It may not get easier, but have you found that it gets simpler?

The carnivore way of eating seems a psychological challenge at the start. You have to deal with the carbohydrate addicted gut bacteria that keep sending messages to the brain for their preferred foods. That them thars cravings! Then there is the dopamine to deal with.

Well, we have the dopamine dose sorted out here on the Ketogenic Forums. Share your stories, share your thoughts, meet some healthy strangeness, share your likes (and dislikes), and start feeling better. We look forward to hearing from you.

How did your way of life go last month? What can you improve or maintain in July?


Carnivore 30-day Challenge - Meat Chewin' June 2024!
(Bean) #2

I need to ponder this. I really did not have the June that I anticipated. I will look at my calendar to see what is a realistic goal for July.

For June, I wanted to be meat only(nope- coffee, dairy, and eggs), carnivore only (almost- one day of not), and 2:1 keto (again, all but one day- yesterday). I can feel the aches and what could quickly turn into a flare this morning, though. Onwards to July.


(Geoffrey) #3

For June I cut out dairy because I was really starting to crave it after a meal. I didn’t like the fact that I could be full but still wanted some yogurt. I don’t like things that try to control me. (Wife not withstanding)
It took about two weeks to get over the cravings. Last week I started reintroducing a little dairy back in with a small amount of cheddar and some ice cream made from heavy whipping cream. So far so good. No cravings. It’s just something I’ll have to be cognitive of and not let it creep up on me. Cheese doesn’t seem to bad but my homemade yogurt is what really triggers me so I’ll continue to abstain from that.
Other than that no challenges diet wise for me. I’m extremely set in my eating habits now. It just all come natural now. I don’t have to count anything or ask myself can I have this or that? It’s just a routine now.
I’m still working on my spiritual side things. I find it hard to align my mind with with what I believe should be a good attitude. I tend to be too quick to react and defend rather than assess. I’m working on it though. I think that all stems from my old military training.


(Liz ) #4

This is me!! My mom, 90, not too many teeth, keto, eats a lots of Greek style whole milk yogurt and that’s the thing I find myself reaching for after dinner regardless how successfully I had carnivore to satiety. I wish I could live in a house with no yogurt! But that’s not possible right now, so I need to dig deep for some self control.


(Karen) #5

Blimey July came so quick it feels like its come early!!! …oh just realised it has… still June here :laughing:

A few days have passed yet again. They are a bit cooler now too. Went dancing Thursday afternoon and had a super time then dancing Friday and poor old Raymond had painful issues during the tea break and wasn’t able to continue dancing. I am quite used to being Billy No Mates on the dance floor when there are sequence dances that Raymond doesn’t know and some that he doesn’t want to do so I get up and dance those on my own (unless some random guy wants to join me) so i just carried on dancing.

He was still in pain Saturday so we ended up not being able to go to the evening dance that we enjoy in Moulton and it was just a little too far to drive on my own as i wouldn’t have anyone chatting to keep me awake on the journey home :confounded: poor Raymond very disappointed.

Did i tell you i went to CrossFit on Saturday morning. The wod looked easy on paper but they are always the worst lol teams of 3 and just continuous with not much rest, one exercise after another…but fast pace. I ran there and walked home. Must admit I was quite tired by the late afternoon so pretty glad to be able to get an early night. I had thought i would go to the local jive night but then realised the local one was last saturday night!

Took a less pained Raymond shopping today and perked him up chatting about doing more dance holidays in 2025 :grin:

Bought myself a late birthday pressie of a new fitbit today as my old one was giving up the ghost… got me very frustrated going round in circles trying to add the new device to the app! In the end i popped round to daughters for her help…any excuse to see my little munchkin…he was fast asleep all the time i was there !
No cuddles! He is growing so big … 8 weeks old and 13lb 9oz! Nearly double in size & weight!


Food pics 20240626_165826


(Bean) #6

@Geezy56 I’m glad you were successful with your dairy removal and reintro.

I think my July goals are:

  • remove dairy for at least 21 days,
  • quit coffee,
  • no egg whites

I met my fitness goals in June (yay!). I really need to slay the coffee dragon, though. I have an impinged shoulder and I think the coffee inflames it. It seems separate from my autoimmune stuff.

Perfect weather today.

Rendered some chicken skin… tried to make chaffles with raw chicken, but ended up dumping it into a loaf pan. Long walk. Run was a bust- I’m a little flared today and the high heels yesterday didn’t do my feet any good.


#7

Too tired to avoid writing unnecessarily way too much (I know after trying to make some decent comments and abandoning both soon after) so I just say for now, I want to do everything better in July. June wasn’t my month. Sleep, activity, eating, fasting, coffee, creation, mood, everything could be much better. The bar is super low.
I have attended a 8 bit demoscene party after 5 years and now I feel I got back some of my passion and it easily helps with everything, I already tried but I was so down and kind of apathetic… I feel alive again.

I don’t really have goals for July (yet). It should be better than June (it was a bad month in general) but I don’t want to have any particular strictness (it’s welcomed if it comes naturally but I don’t feel that strict), at least not right now, we will see later. Except I do want fast until dinner nearly every day. It should be easy but of course I manage to mess it up even if it goes well first (a melted brain, being down and having sleep problems never help especially that if I wake before 6am, I always eat. very unusual from me as I normally can’t eat in the morning. maybe it’s some effort to make things better, well food does wake me up a little but I could just drink…? nope, I always feel an irresistible urge to eat eggs then. that’s my default food at dawn when I should be asleep, scrambled eggs).
I really don’t want much focus on food (not even on some effort). I shouldn’t even come to this forum every day. It probably would do good at this point.

Best wishes for you others! If I manage to have some okay days or we cook something interesting (we do have beef we should eat already), I will come back. Or when I do something with the photos I have tried to make of my gladioluses, they are so very beautiful! We both are highly impressed.


#8

Fascinating and satisfying to watch, I found.


(Megan) #9

My goal for July is to try to eat a bit more, on some days at least. This reduced appetite thing sure seems to have kicked the over-eater in me in the a$$.

I ate something non-carni in June and don’t care. It feels great not to care and even better not to have any cravings as a result.

I have a pre-op botox date at the radiology dept for 10th of July and a surgery date for 20th August. I’m half ecstatic to have such a not-far-off surgery date and half nervous. Plus hoping like heck Ruby will be ok looking after 3 dogs for 5 or so days. Moses will be 4 and a bit months old by then, and if he keeps progressing as he currently is he should be fairly easy to look after. Still, 3 dogs is a lot. I’ll organize a place he can go just in case she isn’t well.

I hope everyone has a great July!


(KM) #10

Hey, curious what you meant by that part.


#11

The community sharing a conversation and that heart ā€˜like’ button dopamine dispenser.


(Bean) #12

Thin chuck steak and a slice of fried chicken loaf/ bread/ something. Doing the same for dinner.


(Megan) #13

Thinly sliced chicken breast and lamb liver in the food dehydrator. My dogs are staying on plan! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

(originally bought the chicken breast for me when it was on a great special but it’s been sitting in the freezer for months)


(Geoffrey) #14

I follow the BB on utube. I’ve used many of their tips when processing my own animals. I even use the same knives they recommend.
I’ve watched all of their diagram videos for the animals I raise or hunt, deer, bovine, lamb, pig.
I would love to have apprenticed under them back in the day.


(Judy Thompson) #15

That is my life, cutting chicken breast and putting it on the dehydrator with liver for the pup! She knows when there’s fresh meat in the dehydrator and goes to it and waits for treats.
I think the beef liver is harder on her gut than the chicken. She let fly in the front of the church Sunday morning (oh no) and the pastor and I went running to the bathroom for baby wipes to clean it up! Eww. Hubby then took her outside. I guess I’m backing off to chicken instead of calf liver. She’s addicted to dried liver! I do add bone meal to her food to balance it.

Yesterday I made ā€œfriedā€ chicken in the air frier with the leftover chicken thighs, boned them then dipped them in egg and pork panko and air fried on each side for 15 minutes. Didn’t get a pic. :cry:


(Karen) #16

A complete rest day yesterday… just the usual morning first thing exercises and i chose not to do the CrossFit session because it was all snatch complex work and i aleays suffer with my back afterwards with barbell work. Food was half a chicken and a sirloin


Couldn’t eat the dressing on the chicken, lemon and herb …i normally cook it till most of the dressing has congealed and burnt but i was hungry so i rook it out of the oven too early! It was still cooked though.
Today i ran to CrossFit did a great workout. Not the sort i would usually fancy but i actually enjoyed it. The actual wod after the rig work was a 20minute Row. I was pleased because i kept at a consistent speed throughout, without becoming breathless and managed 4004m. Then i ran home and bussed into Beeston for a late morning hair appt. Raymond came and met me at the cafe for brunch. I had a cheese and sausage omelette which was nice and filling.
Ate 2 sirloin steaks for dinner plus a bit of cheese.

Back at CrossFit tomorrow so i will be in bed very soon!


(Megan) #17

Yea I think it’s stronger or something. Beef liver and lamb liver have a different nutrient profile and lamb liver is much milder in taste. Glad I’m not the only nut who dehydrates chicken breast for their dogs lol


(Liz ) #18

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July holiday in the USA, traditionally a grilling holiday. My husband has the day off and he’ll make himself hamburgers and hot dogs on our tiny charcoal grill while he makes me a one pound ribeye :drooling_face:


(Bean) #19

Dehydrating lamb liver and bison/ beef hearts. Nellie dog will get the bison heart as treats. It was a little freezer burnt.

I am not enjoying the dairy removal. I’m also just hungry because I took some antihistamine yesterday.

I ate a couple of burgers, some pan seared lamb liver, two small beef hot dogs (not health food- but no corn syrup), a lot of sirloin with my ā€œcompound burger butterā€ and an egg yolk.

I still want some cheese, lol.


(Liz ) #20

Need a t-shirt that has this on it :joy: