I love food too but it has nothing to do with fasting
(Except I can afford big meals if I fast longer. I need to get the balance as the longer I fast, the smaller my meals tend to get. I never could make OMEOD work even if having not similar days would be my thing. I have mealsize problems with OMAD after days!) Fasting is enjoyable too (if it’s not forced but I don’t do that) and I really can appreciate long term satiation as sometimes I get hungry all the time and/or can’t get satiated easily (not too easily, that’s the worst as that leads to 5MAD with lots of hunger and little chill)…
But now I think I got the hang of carnivore and all will be well (especially my immortal and ridiculously sturdy optimism).
I do love eating too much to do very long fasts ever but as I wrote last time I would have other problems with that.
I had my hopefully only meal. Poor Alvaro’s bicycle broke down and in the beginning at that so we had lunch a bit later than usual (though it’s even later when shopping is involved). I went and helped him to bring back the bicycle. We were hungry. Good, I thought, at least it will be easy to eat an OMAD sized meal. Though even I know it doesn’t work like that… But getting hungry definitely helps. I had to eat beyond satiation (it’s very normal in my world), I didn’t even need breaks but then I tracked, okay so still not enough (I had a plan but changed it a wee bit and it reduced my protein intake) so I ate more. Now I feel full and almost satiated (my satiation is a crazy thing, no one can follow it, it wildly changes and often only calms down when I am well into my fasting window).
I ate this all, 4 more sponge cake muffins and a tiny ice cream:
I ate according to plan so minimum protein. And 94g fat so it’s low-cal again, we will see. I planned more butter but I just didn’t want it today. I had whipped cream though.
386g meat. Tomorrow won’t be much meatier as I still have leftover lean pork, leftover smoked pork chuck but afterwards I get out some fatty “scrap meat” from the freezer (and cut off much fat but it still will stay at pork chuck level).
Pork chuck fattiness is perfection, I always say, it suits my taste best AND it gives me great macros. No need to balance it out with leaner or fattier items. Not like I don’t love to add fatty items but I don’t always want it. Just almost always. But I need to be careful or else I overeat fat from dairy alone. Following a plan is tiresome if one keeps changing it so a new good plan should be made…
Pork chuck is totally great. Smoked or not. The smoked one isn’t hit and miss as the fresh one but it’s processed so I can’t depend on it much, it’s for accent, extra joy, balancing act
It’s very good with my plain sponge cakes. (I mean, I had quark ones today. And cheesy ones but apparently 2g Grana Padano isn’t noticeable in a little bun… It’s so flavorful though. But it has to compete with the great egg flavor.)
Okay, satiation arrived. I want almost a day of blissful fast now. A bold wish with a smallish lunch, biggish dinners have the best chances. But I had satiating food.
Btw, people, how do you handle runny eggs? Alvaro is okay, he puts it on his grains and those soak up everything but I don’t have that. Okay, I have my sponge cakes so I can wipe the leftover yolk but what others do? Meat can be used too, of course but it still doesn’t seem so great… I almost never ate easy over eggs or runny sunny side ups and my poached eggs always are in my soups (yep, that works too) - or we have eggs in purgatory, not carnivore but not too far and pretty good - as I didn’t like the yolk making a mess and I am being forced to make some bread type thing to wipe the plate. I was quite fine with other egg dishes, I even had runny ones, my soft-boiled eggs, I just use a cup and a spoon there, it’s a mess so I don’t do it very very often…
I try to remember but I can’t… I am pretty sure I never could have satiated by some liver alone. I would need a ton of it! Carbs don’t count, they just made me hungrier. Though a tiny meal between 2 bigger ones, it could work there…
How big a pack is? It’s 500g here and I did my best to eat one in every fortnight as it’s too nutritious. But I probably wouldn’t get harmed by one per week… I just would get bored of it, chicken liver is very very strong flavored and somewhat bitter. But I would miss it if I skipped a month
Or not if I had other organs and enough variety in my meats. I really depended on liver in the past when I just couldn’t eat a whole pound of fresh meat a day especially longer term…
Tongue was odd as I LOVED it and a few times later I got bored and now I need to skip several months. I never liked chicken liver near as much but I gladly eat it twice a month… And if I get bored of it, I still like it in pâté.
But it’s different to eat something regularly as I want it - and almost being forced to it. See my decades long subtle trauma due to eating chicken every Sunday. I am fine with chicken now but it took a long time to be okay with it more often than, like, twice a year.
I have beef liver and pork spleen now but next time I buy some chicken hearts, they are so, so good
Lovely flavor, tiny whole hearts, pleasantly chewy texture, ideal for stew mixed with liver… Or with anything nice, probably…
I try to be scarce and tomorrow I plan to bring photos if we get sunshine. It’s the time when many plants get quite colorful!