Oh I remember my first liver eating on carnivore… It was super odd to imagine it without onion (I never ate it with ketchup, that is only for fast food here I think while liver is traditional. and I was already low-carb no-sugar since ages at that point anyway and I disliked to make exceptions, I only did it with pickles. well those disappeared somewhat quickly after my first carni trials… I can’t handle the sweetness)… I even made onions separately in the first few times but it was easy to go without later. It’s amazing how much we can change. Onions are very very sweet and I dislike my meat sweet so I couldn’t use much anyway. I only use onions in my stews (oh my, it was AGES ago I ate stew the last time…).
Once or twice in 2021 I ate my old fav, eggs with onions… It wasn’t nearly as good as in the past and I used WAY less onion (1 big onion per egg, I totally did that as a kid). It’s just too sweet. I rather put some pork belly into my scrambled eggs
Oh here I am, talking about carbs again.
But I just talk! I obviously was super good on my day #1, it was nice. Pork shoulder roast, eggs. Added fat too (leftover fried sausage fat) as my scrambled eggs (with extra yolks) almost required it and it added variety and fun. I wasn’t sooo happy with my meat, it was nice, sure but it wasn’t over 7/10… But it’s good enough. Strong enough sudden hunger at 14:40, tiny appetite, it worked well.
I ate a quite small meal… I just tracked (it was too simple, of course I did…), it was about 1500 kcal, small but not THAT small, yeah it was tiny but dense… And there are people who eat less than this, I still can’t wrap my head around it. I only could pull it off because I had a seriously overeating weekend. I am very fine now. Except this stupid headache I have now but I messed up my sleep… It’s tiny but stubborn and annoying.
76% fat so I ate very little protein. Guesstimation is 83g, I am usually safe over 120g but I can do this for one day sometimes. I had a workout, my performance was so-so but my shoulder exercise went quite well, another good workout and I can raise the weights again!
I don’t wanna talk much about it… Except what is obvious: fruits! They were quite good, well a tad too sweet… I still ate lots of eggs and meat (and cheese as we bought new nice ones), what else but I had desserts (I have a keto-ish lovely soft cake Alvaro’s Mom reminded me of) and put a little cassava gari into my scrambled eggs. It’s not as fun as I remembered, oh well. And I did worse and overate like crazy. But I feel pretty good, it was worse on the actual days especially when I wasn’t at home and couldn’t eat a bunch of fatty protein after the fatty carbs, my body dislikes that. Still nothing serious, I can’t reach the bellyache level with a couple of carbier days. I just felt my body isn’t as happy as it could be. And it is right, I am an undisciplined little idiot sometimes. I blame the tension I had inside when I was bored with my food before, not every day but I don’t handle well if I don’t enjoy my food every day. It wasn’t particularly hard back then but my displeasure piled up. I even relaxed my ways a bit but it wasn’t enough. I don’t understand why it was like that, I am supposed to be okay with my food.
I am cautious now and won’t be strict when I feel some little extra (I mean some tasty added fat, dairy… not plants) would help to make my meal more pleasant or better macro wise.
Oh I ate peanuts too. I usually fall back to eating it when I go off… I never miss it on carnivore but when I go off and need a little extra something… I see the jar multiple times every day in the kitchen. I don’t know how to rearrange my mind to avoid it all the time but it’s better to stick to carnivore anyway. I do try, I just am too bad at it. But I have so much time to do it now. January had its problem after the never good December but there is February, March, April and May. And June will be a very interesting month, the new me vs all my fav red fruits (the heavier days have an hour fruit picking at least). I eat less fruit every year so it shouldn’t be a big problem but I won’t do carnivore weeks there. While the other months until then have way better chances.
I didn’t buy horse, we only have sausage from horse, no other meat. It’s a thing here, there were various horse sausages. I ate pork-horse sausage before, it tastes normal but it’s full with paprika and there was pork too… I don’t know what horse meat alone tastes like.
Salt…! It gets more and more ridiculous. I salt all my food multiple times and it’s still not salty enough… I really desire more salt now. Still didn’t count how much sodium I ate this year but I have notes (mostly about the weight of my salt containers so it’s simple) and I will figure it out.
By the way! My beloved peanuts… They have a few great tempting properties. One is salt. One is CRUNCHINESS! I so, so, so love that. One is being roasted. And I guess I like the taste too but I wouldn’t eat it without a bunch of salt, perfectly roasted. It’s not tempting and way too sweet like that. No wonder I dislike peanut butter, it loses some great properties of roasted peanuts.
Chips are nice because crunchy and salty though I always loved the taste of potato. But it’s easy to live without it. I made a nice potato soup (one of my old favs) in the first week of January and didn’t taste it (it was the first week so I wasn’t tempted at all)… Okay, potato loses a ton of charm if it’s not fried and crunchy… And no way I will make chips, no matter how off I am, too much work and it’s carby, I can do better stuff!
Oh I remember, I ate sweet potato too, after… Years? It was nice but I can live without it just fine. So no more in 2022 I suppose (I never can make promises about my Decembers… though I hope the next ones will be way better than the previous ones).
I really need some almost fully carnivore months. I need some changes inside me. Sometimes I can eat a little carbier extra without problems but I tend to go a bit too crazy, less and less as time passes but still too much. And it’s… NOT enjoyable. It’s compulsive. Wrong. So I should keep myself safe and the new evolved one should be okay in the wildest times. At least this is my educated guess hypothesis.