It’s ok Fangsy. Thank you for your sorrow. Your concern is appreciated. But it is part of the challenge. The title in the thread is 90 day challenge.
Since the AFib magnesium supplementation has continued plus Himalayan pink salt. The weather has cooled. But I’ve had a few hard days physical work on a building site and the waves have been too big to go surfing. Heart rate has been steady.
I’ve had some oxalate dumping pins and needles in hands and feet and some painful teeth. 1 strong coffee per day greater than 3 hours before breakfast in mid afternoon. I didn’t move to chocolate or tea.
Food has been based on bacon egg (3) and cheese omelettes. Yesterday I ate the left over lamb ribs cold as a side to the omelette, or the omelette was a side to the ribs, anyhow they were side by side and now they are inside. I love day after cold cooked meat. Quite close to OMAD. with only a dose of about 50g of double cream Brie last night to keep my wife company while she ate her salad after her work day. The cheeses on the omelettes has been a mix of mature cheddar and Jarlsberg.
My wife and I talked about a type of hand cramping that hot yoga practitioners can get, called ‘the claw’. @Madeleine, might know some more? It’s apparently an electrolyte depletion symptom. The yogis find that supplementing potassium helps relieve it. I’ve had the claw the last two days despite high magnesium dosing. It happens when I hold a water bottle or the iPad, and I have to prise my fingers apart, if it happens in both hands at once I’ll be stuck doing a bad imitation of a crab. I’ll see if I can source some lite salt when I venture down into the village today.
My fasted blood glucose is 5.7mmol/l and blood ketones are 0.2mmol/l. This is closer to my ‘normal’ numbers on waking during carnivore.
Today I’m in the mood for a sardine and cheese omelette. While in the village, I have to find some quinoa. It’s for Christmas lunch. We are making the quinoa salad. When I say we, I mean the wife. I bought a lovely serving bowl from a local artisan potter who has uniquely mixed a red copper glaze with a titanium based local mineral sand to get an amazing sky blue glaze. The quinoa salad can go in that bowl and the bowl becomes the hostess’s Christmas present. We are having Christmas lunch with my sister-in-law, the hostess, with her sister-in-law who is travelling from England and is a vegan. Apparently there is no set seating arrangement for lunch except one, I have to be nowhere near the vegan. Bummer.
The surf has dropped, that is dropped from dangerous to surfable. It’s Saturday, so breakfast may have to wait.
