Cheryl's 90 Day Carnivore Challenge: Started on Nov 01 going through to Feb 29, 2020

[Bubby1]

omg B, yea drinking it, not swimming in it LOL too funny!!

Yeah, you must have thought I was a lunatic before you read the end of that post xxx

[Marknel]

Food yesterday
some sort of amount of beef.
lots of coffee
some water
bag of pork rinds (salt and black pepper only)

So friken busy its SEEMINGLY hard to take moments to write things down.
I say that in caps because I’m pointing out to myself that I’m doing my old habit of deciding things are to difficult, or I don’t have time when in reality, I do.

One thing I notice I’m doing when reading others threads on this and other sites is seeing how many decisions are being made on thoughts and feelings. I find myself saying in my head “but get the data!”. Of course This applies to me too, so here I am typing this out so I see it and get it out of my head. It helps me realize I need my data to make informed decisions and not emotional ones!

Heading to Vancouver tonight for an overnight with a partner who has a scale so I’ll get a weight measurement tomorrow morning. I realize it’s just one data point, but psychologically if I can break below 220 it’ll be a big boost!

[Fangs]

nah no lunatic, I kinda followed what you were saying with a head tilt and a hmmm…then I got it HAHA

[Bubby1]

Lol, yeah i read it back after and thought oh F#ck time to edit that one . Another night of insomnia for me right now. I’m getting a terrible headache, I don’t get them often but when I do it hurts like hell.. I’ll be ok though. Guess I better have some aspirin. Oh shit, that means MORE water . Xxx

[Fangs]

and that now becomes a ‘thing’ for you in that you don’t need to track food, limit food, pretend in any way you are not eating good enough and you are doing one darn thing that is vital.

you are not taking care of you. now this goes literally to the balance of work and your life. A VERY hard combo to manage but for all that time you might deem important to whatever, could you give that time to you to get a darn steak, sit and enjoy your meal and take literally a 1/2 hr for your own darn health and life? I KNOW, I know LOL it is hard but we must must must put our health first or in the end thru it all we have 0…zilch…nada…nothing.

So I don’t truly know if this applies to you or not? please take it with a grain of salt cause you sound super busy but life will not ever give you a pass in your health. The physical being is just that and if we deny or excuse the ‘real basis of life’ for our bodies we can put ourselves right where we never want to be…plus the mental side of the worry of ‘I should be doing but ain’t’ and then we got that total…what the hell? overall horrible thing happening to us.

So just some thoughts cause I feel like you are on that turning point of ‘DO I hold strong on my health’ or 'do ‘I deny/pretend/excuse’ my health for _____…fill in the blank.

Now again, if this is not you and you ain’t here then I get it LOL
just some suggestions cause once I put ME before every darn thing in life, even my kid asking for whatever, which could wait, but being a mom ya know it is a priority LOL I found ME in all this mess of my life!!!

so just think a bit and calm it out a bit and think about YOU thru it all. Cause from what I see Mark you are one darn fine dude!! Love your personality and spunk thru all this and you are just a nice guy!! I just hope you put a bit of you in your day and make it all about you and what you need. Life can run us over at times, oh yea I been there, til that little bit of ‘hey what is life all about? and can I find me truly and what I need in it all for my best’ does it start to kinda make that better sense…hey and what I wrote was a lot about me LOL if ya get anything out of it cool but take care of yourself please!

[FrankoBear]

Let’s swap seasons Fangsy.

Don’t you be giving our Upsydownsyland summer away Aimee!

I might as well keep writing.

Back to work in the city. So great to see @Marknel posting again and mentioning the wider ripples of attempting carnivore in the wild (not a metabolic ward) with the distractions and disruptions of daily work life balancing.

Daily approach is:

Black coffee with cream in the morning (this is drug not food; self medicating)

You know @Fangs Fangsy, if the carnivore diet is not eating plant foods, and if coffee is a pharmaceutical, a drug, and not food, then coffee fits into carnivore as a non-food? The slippery slope here is if one considers chocolate as a drug rather than a food (which it is).

After Noon:
5 eggs scrambled
4 slices bacon
@Fangs look away
1 large mushroom
1/2 small avocado

6 hrs later about a few hours before bed:
meat

last night it was 3 types of fish cooked in butter
night before it was racks of pork ribs to the horizon (4 racks)
night before was roast lamb

In there I had 2 fork fulls of leafy salad or cooked veges (brocolli) to disperse gazes of staring extended family. But there’s also Dr. Ted Naiman’s thoughts on extended satiety with a small dose of carbs. Fangsy has a thread about fiber in which I posted about that.

Fiber, never needed!

Understanding that this is a zero carb / carnivore thread and topic, and that “toxins” tend to be refined carbohydrates, chemically created food-like stuffs and industrial refined seed oils (“light machine oil” as Ivor Cummins has come to call it), all those toxins are not found in the carnivore eating approach. So the nuance here is that fibre is needed or superfluous based on the underlying base way of eating. Here is another angle to look from about fibre. Many well-read keto-carnivores und…

I have had some oxalate dumping signs with eye crusts, minor heart palpitations, interesting cramps (memorable one in upper abdominal), aching joints in fingers. So have upped the magnesium citrate another 30% to 900mg per day (recommended dose is 150mg - 300 mg, or 600mg if paleo) and that’s sorted out the heart arrhythmia signals.

Brain clarity is good at work. No afternoon slumps. All those around me yawning with their “energy” drinks clattering from their hands.

Carnivore is still challenging.

Happy unAustralia Day @Bubby1 Aimee for this long summer weekend. Lamb on the menu? Or rock lobster?

[Bubby1]

Let’s swap seasons Fangsy.

Don’t you be giving our Upsydownsyland summer away Aimee!

Happy unAustralia Day @Bubby1 Aimee for this long summer weekend. Lamb on the menu? Or rock lobster?

LOL, Rock Lobster?? That’s hillarious because I’ve been playing that damn song on repeat for two weeks . Happy UnAustralia day FrancoBear. Probably will be steak though, T bone or Ribeye. Am in a food coma right now after a big steak. Lol.

[Fangs]

Brain clarity is good at work. No afternoon slumps. All those around me yawning with their “energy” drinks clattering from their hands.

This is a good feeling isn’t it? I do like leaving that slump in our day behind

Ok, I looked away on that little bit LOL You are doing great!!

Coffee. Yea coffee is fine. So many can’t and won’t give it up but it is a personal thing for each of us. I never liked coffee at all and never drank it, my first drink of the day back then was a diet pepsi. I was a diet pepsi addict, no doubt about it HAHA

[Fangs]

food yesterday was

1 lb. ribeye steak

Done. Boom. Not enough food at all. I felt tired, slumpy, blah yesterday. Not sick but feeling a bit sick? Kid says some virus bug is going around school and I let her stay home yesterday cause she didn’t feel well. I woke up feeling ‘ok’ but not stellar. Can’t pinpoint any major thing to say I am sick but I feel low and slow. Ugh. Kid woke up feeling better so she is going to school today, I am just doing some errands etc. thru the day. Just let this day go on by and hope none of us go down with some crappy buggy sick thing.

Hope everyone else is staying healthy out there

[FrankoBear]

Motion in the ocean… ooo, ahh!

Crustaceans are very close to insects. Are insects vegetarian? Am I about to invent…

Insectivore CarniVegetarianism!

I’ll start writing a book and launch a podcast and YouTube channel and replacement food products…

This feels a bit like Déjà vu

Cheryl's 90 Day Carnivore Challenge: Started on Nov 01 going through to Feb 29, 2020

It’s non-stop cheese adventure here. 3 egg omelette breakfast 3 slices streaky bacon 1 sheet nori seaweed 50g nutty Norwegian 60g vintage cheddar Large butter knob Black coffee with some dodgy cream Then tonight a neighbour came over. She had tried to make “Keto pasta” with cheddar cheese and egg yolks. She found it would not cut into noodles and offered a sheet to try for us. So I …@Fangs (look away now)… cooked up some very non vegetable (but maybe plant?) No, they are not, mushrooms …

[FrankoBear]

I’ve always given in to the cheats one way or another.

I need to watch this video after hearing Dr.Ted Naiman talk about a glycogen hunger in a no-plant diet. Not sure of his exact words. But the “Cravings on Carnivore” video may have another point of view, or interpretation of a “new to me” concept.

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Just gotta sneak in here and say how glad I am to mark my 3 months carnivore/PKD (Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet) date.

I couldn’t have done it with all I have going on without you all. Thank you, guys!

You are indispensible and inspiring in this thread Renee. Congratulations on 3 months carnivore PKD. The observations, updates and problem solving are really helpful. Keep 'em coming.

[Bubby1]

Ski-doo-be-dop-eww, Ski-doo-be-dop-eww, we were at a party, his earlobe fell in the deep, someone reached in and grabbed it…Was a rock LOBSTER!! . . I guess when you really think about it (which I havnt until right this second) they do resemble insects!!

[Bubby1]

food yesterday was

1 lb. ribeye steak

Done. Boom. Not enough food at all. I felt tired, slumpy, blah yesterday. Not sick but feeling a bit sick? Kid says some virus bug is going around school and I let her stay home yesterday cause she didn’t feel well. I woke up feeling ‘ok’ but not stellar. Can’t pinpoint any major thing to say I am sick but I feel low and slow. Ugh. Kid woke up feeling better so she is going to school today, I am just doing some errands etc. thru the day. Just let this day go on by and hope none of us go down with some crappy buggy sick thing.

Hope everyone else is staying healthy out there

Awww Fangsy I’m sorry that your not feelin your top self today. Just try to take it a bit easy. I had a down day yesterday so didn’t eat enough either. Then because of that my stomach was gurgling at 4am and I had to have a peice of salami shut it up. I made up for it today though. Omg I was f#cking full . Take care, care bear xxx​:heart:

[Fangs]

also wanna say WEE. Dropped .4 on the scale to a new low.

I lose very slow now on carnivore but I don’t care about that anymore at all. weight loss of ‘whooshing’ fast down the scale doesn’t interest me anymore. I am fine with just less than 1/2 a lb. gone. Whenever it wants to leave my body that is fine. I just keep eating carnivore. I eat big, as much as I want at all times, I am never hungry, I am never restricting food in any way at all on carnivore and I lose weight. My body is still leaning up in composition.

See for me now it isn’t about drop lbs. as fast as I can. I want like another 20, or 25 (those final 5 vanity lbs, haha) to be gone now. So another 20/25 is my goal area but we will see where carnivore takes me. I just eat carnivore and it will happen on its own good time. I don’t track weight loss, I just get on the scale every week or so and check in and see if any little bit has left the building LOL So today I was down a little again.

Thing is carnivore is my plan. I won’t restrict it. I won’t track it. I won’t monkey with it in any way. I eat as I need at all times. Means slower weight loss without manipulating and starving etc. to get results? sure probably but I don’t care about that. I know it is more important for me to ‘eat well daily’ and thrive than it is to have a darn lb. off the scale. My lifestyle requires good meat/seafood daily and be happy or I wouldn’t hold to any eating plan. Carnivore suits me to a T of allowing me to be me to eat as I need and the scale gives it up a bit.

So all pressure is off me in the ‘I must lose lbs instantly’ cause I ain’t there in that realm anymore. I am in carnivore zone to feed and heal my body and it releases the lbs as it wants, when it wants, as little or big as it wants. I am cool with just that

so just some carnivore chat on how I am approaching ‘weight loss’ on carnivore and how my mind is now about just eating plan and thriving while doing so and letting the body drop the weight as it sees fit.

And it is, little by little, with all the time I am eating so well and content and satisfied. This is the type of plan I needed my whole ‘insane dieting’ years and now I found what works so well for me.

I like the calm on carnivore. It fits me. Calm to just eat well and lose lbs as they just go little by little and just chill thru my changes I am making for my health and lifestyle.

just ranting it out a bit, chatting it out. I am cool now with not having to wrestle every darn lb off my body as fast as I can and usually struggle and go nutso crazy trying to do just that and end up flailing and failing. I am so past that now and happy about it. LOL

just throwing out some thoughts on how things are going down for me and how I am changing my mindset and more on my plan. I like it all, all good benefits, results and changes for me on carnivore. Not a newbie on carnivore at all…so these changes to me personally took some time to kick all in but I am in good form on plan right now. So have that 20/25 I want gone and will let carnivore do its thing and just wait for it to happen for me.

Curious is anyone else having decent weight loss happening in their plan for them? I am just slowly inching down the scale and the inches are leaving the body also Anyone else still holding the clean carnivore challenge and seeing good results? Some of us have been here since the beginning, wondering about anyone else check in and report a bit?

[Ketodaisy]

Curious is anyone else having decent weight loss happening in their plan for them

When I finally went 100% zero cheating carnivore at the beginning of January, I swore to myself that I wouldn’t step on the scale or take measurements for AT LEAST 30 days. So my plan is to take some measurements next Wednesday, but I think I’m going to push off the scale for at least another 30 days. But I feel good. My clothes fit better, there is OBVIOUS fat loss in my mid section (my most troublesome area) and my whole body is firming up some.

Yesterday I was omad with some eggs and an abundance of pork belly. This was my “breakfast” around 10 am and I fully expected to eat dinner. But when dinner time came, I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat. What a marvel concept! Lol. I’m trying to start listening to my body more. Not even just listen to my body, but to speak kindly to my body. I’ve NEVER been good at doing that. But I’m trying to work hard on my mindset.

Today is going to be a beef day. I’ve been doing a lot of pork and chicken lately. I need some beef. So breakfast will be some ny strip and dinner tonight will be at the Texas Roadhouse.

[Ketodaisy]

Mmm that was perfect. Just over a lb of super super fatty local grass fed/finished Ny strip. The fat cap was as thick as the meat lol. But it was delicious and I am quite comfortably stuffed.

[ReneeRC]

Pork belly one day and a NY strip the next! What’s not to love?!

[Marknel]

food happened - all carnivore based
scale this morning was 221.2 still not below the magical psychological number yet but time will tell.

Feel good over all physically, mentally (super important) and the two reasons I got into doing carnivore, arthritic thumb pain (greatly reduced and mostly not noticeable now) and and eczema (zero itching!) are good indicators that things are working.

[Marknel]

Oh work did a Chinese New Year celebration lunch today.
I may have ate a bit to much.

[Fangs]

This was my “breakfast” around 10 am and I fully expected to eat dinner. But when dinner time came, I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat. What a marvel concept! Lol. I’m trying to start listening to my body more. Not even just listen to my body, but to speak kindly to my body. I’ve NEVER been good at doing that. But I’m trying to work hard on my mindset.

I saw your other post on the other thread and now this one and I love love love both of them I am so happy for you Daisy.

I think something clicked so good for you now. You got that connection with your body starting and you know the mindset is now gotta change to suit you and your lifestyle and all in a great positive way. I think you hit your sweet spot. And hey when any of us do that, we just find it all so much more calm on plan. We just find that ‘it factor’ for ourselves and I think you are right there!!!

Wonderful update report D!!