Carnivore ZC SurfTurf-tember! 30-day September Challenge. 2022

#443

I wrote this a few hours ago, planned to shot my new flowers but forgot. So I just send it now.

80/20 isn’t fully new for sure :slight_smile: I knew that as 1. therapeutic keto with extra rules, PKD or what? 2. Obviously it suits many people wonderfully, either because their protein and energy need leads to it or they simply feel best with this ratio (or maybe it suits their taste if they are lucky enough to have a big wriggle room but choose this ;)).

No wonder I always were around 65% fat as it suited my tastes and ALL my staples were there… I often went higher as adding some very fatty bites were lovely… Hence my 65-70% times. I was there very nearly all the time, automatically. If it started to stray, I immediately desired something to balance it out.
It’s a bit odd that I ate too much there and now I can pull it off… But I can go lower too, 55-60% is easy and nice here and there but I inevitably go higher if I don’t focus on leaner protein. I can’t even try to go lower than this, what would I eat, 1 kg lean fish? I don’t like that near that much. I surely would get hungry anyway due to the lack of energy - and possible, I would specifically miss fat, if not the first day then the second.

I did 80% fat once, I like fat and overeating isn’t a challenge either so it was easy for one day but I probably would need time to get used to it longer term. I would fail a lot first, I am super bad at eating according to plan.

I never followed anyone and I still am unable to watch videos about eating (I am better with articles where I set the pace. some quick videos are lovely but those usual huge ones? I can’t watch them) but I don’t need that anyway. I listen to my body and experiment, that’s how I roll.
But as I wrote in another thread with that video about this old/new style, it’s good to hear about such things. I had no idea it was a THING (and not PKD) that helped certain people. Or that metabolistically ill people respond to protein way differently (it makes sense though).

Meanwhile the cemetery talk is postponed but it will be okay. I can calm down now. Alvaro bought me pansies! Yellow ones, I always find them the most cheerful :slight_smile: I mentioned they are cheap and lovely at the village greengrocery several days ago, I just couldn’t buy them then as I didn’t want to held them in my hands during my 5-6km walk home… But it was car day again (rainy morning) and he remembered :slight_smile: I love these cheap common beautiful flowers soooo much!

(Megan) #444

Yea ZIOH has changed over the years. Anyway, most important thing is what you are doing is working beautifully for you so no reason to change it.

(Megan) #445

Wow Karen, that’s amazing. I really hope it’s the 1st of many!! Your pics have inspired me to buy an air fryer and some chicken wings :crazy_face:

#446

I have listened to a video from Steak and Butter Gal. Wow. Even black pepper can cause problems due to oxalate? But one normally eats such a tiny amount of it… Not the slightest idea how much oxalate it has and how much may cause problems though… For some reason I stopped eating black pepper when I started to eat meat and pretty much stopped eating vegs. Vegs are very delicious but still not nearly as good alone when cooked as meat and even eggs… I add spices to my eggs sometimes but never black pepper, I don’t know why, I LOVED black pepper before, I used it generously. Oh well. I liked garlic too and I stopped eating that too. Carnivore did stranger things.
Oh wait my sausage spice mix does contain black pepper, it’s mostly paprika though. I rarely use it nowadays as I am way more content with roasts and fried meat for a long time but it happens here and there.

And salt may cause tiredness… :astonished: Okay, sodium is pretty important for the body and who knows what it can change for whom… But it was still surprising.

I don’t have night eating today, no wonder after my pork. Except I couldn’t resist and ate a little piece left, not the bigger one, despite being perfectly satiated. Pork is just too tempting when I don’t have much of it in my immediate past… Maybe I should put it into the freezer after my second dinner (or the first if that is OMAD sized)…

Tomorrow is city shopping. OMG. So many shops, we even need a new water tank, poor water pump is working all the time when we use water and the flow is changing all the time. There are parcels to send and pick up too… Shopping is stressful if too much but it can’t be helped. Or we can cycle to the big town to diminish the city shopping load but the weather isn’t so good for it lately. It’s good I glued the seed grinder cups (temporal but not super short living solution and I can do it again) so we can postpone buying another seed grinder. We need it all the time, mostly for Alvaro’s dishes of course but I can grind anything properly dry with it, I used it for dried ham and even dry sponge cakes before. When it’s proper and not glued by me, it can even grind drier cheese parts, I dislike grating cheese so it comes handy and the pieces are tinier too.

#447

Hi everyone,

Let’s continue and move the chat over into the October Rocktober thread.

(Judy Thompson) #448

We’re at Union Station in Washington DC tonight playing for a big dinner. We just played classical music for cocktails and will play pop and rock music after dinner, so we have a 3 hour break which allows me to catch up on the tail end of SurfTurf-tember!
Crazy schedules haven’t allowed me to post daily but I’ve been good. No time to shop this week but in the fridge is a whole cooked chicken and the end of the beef tenderloin, and lots in the freezer. At 9½ months carnivore I’m sailing along easily and doing well.
@Karen18 Congrats!! So happy you’re out of there and the benefit shows in your sleep already.
@FrankoBear Glad you can take leave and get home to recover. Hope you get this all sorted, you’ve had more than your share of discomfort this year.

#449

Hi everyone and @robintemplin (who has thread closing power)

Let’s continue and move the chat over into the rock solid and rockin’ October Rocktober thread.

I know I live in the future. it’s October here :grinning:

(Karen) #450

8 don’t use an air fryer I do the wings in the oven.

I hope this sleep pattern continues, marginal difference last night … awake a little bit longer but still a good deep sleep only slightly down from night before, I can handle that :smile:

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