Ferocious Fix February - Carnivore Challenge (Fit it In - Fit in It! ) Feb 2022

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#221

Oh I talk a lot if I have an audience but I only have Alvaro. I don’t meet people. And he comes home tired and watch videos and play games in his own room. We spend time together, of course but I could talk way much! :smiley: But I have this place and a chat with a friends. I was a lonely child without friends so I am actually not used to talk at real speed while thinking (let alone have any resources to notice anything from the other person). I am comfortable with writing though, I have my own pace (it’s pretty quick though. if I would want to be perfect, that would take forever but I am usually fine with being as clear as I can be with my too complicated thoughts and things and I try not to butcher poor language I actually use… but it’s English in more than 99% of the cases)…
Writing is a form of thinking for me. I usually think with words anyway.


I ate lunch again… This was my tray… Not my actual lunch. I had a tiny leftover roast so I fried liver too. And the usual scrambled eggs, not so scrambled, I cooked various things at the same time, whatever.
6 PSMF sponge cake bread muffins, all are different, I experimented. And they actually contains fiber but I am sure it can’t change anything for me, the carbs are negligible (not like I ever cared about total) and I have not enough meat so I need something else. Not like I got the firm texture I got the first time… Hmmm…

I didn’t eat it all (just almost) but I ate 6 more sponge cake muffins (they had more yolks) and quark as dessert :slight_smile: And eggy coffees.

Guesstimation says 1800 kcal but I didn’t ate it all. The food in the pic is about 1480 kcal. A very bad sized lunch, too small for OMAD and tricky for satiation, too big for a proper TMAD… I probably will have a tiny early dinner very soon.

It was an okay lunch. It’s my 3rd good enough carnivore-ish day, I am waiting for the usual carni satiation and chill to kick in, for a few days before I get bored…
But at least I won’t cook in the weekend, today was a bit rough, coooking multiple not extremely simple dishes in the same hour… And ONE of them was my 24 sponge cake muffins and almost every 2 were different from the others… I try to be more careful in the future but such things can happen. It would help if I ate only dinner though I would need 2 cooking sessions a day then. Sigh. I can’t simplify it much more. Well 2 of the more complicated dishes (I didn’t even do one of them) is all because we have vegetables and Alvaro don’t use them. Of course I don’t do it either but eventually I must. Alvaro could have eaten eggs in purgatory or chicken liver, he is fine with both but poor vegetable was in the bottom part of the fridge since too many weeks. Next time I will just pressure can it, that’s easier and the first 2 steps of a future dish is done. Alvaro actually used poor thing, half of it, that’s why he bought it. And the other half can just die or whatever. I can’t let it even if it’s just a (half) vegetable.
Stupid vegetables, only good for making my life harder. I don’t even eat them. Good vegetables are crunchy, juicy and require absolutely no work (maybe peeling if they are that type but it’s done by the one who actually eats them)… And they disappear quickly, basic every day items for Alvaro and occasional joys for me.

My freezer is more than half empty now, tomorrow is shopping day! And we try to get fancy tasty chewy worm medicine for Caroline who refused the normal medicine mixed with eggs, sour cream and some of my own precious grounded pork. Tofu had no problem but Caroline… It’s stressful and the vet doesn’t always keep that thing. Caroline keeps trying to get inside, airing the house is less easy this week. At least the weather is awesome, I walked a lot in the sunshine and in a t-shirt again. Found no pasque flower leaves yet. Or any other flowers.

@Karen18: These are snowdrops and hellebores but crocuses will come later, I obviously have them as they are great :smiley: One of my favorite flowers. They never multiply, in the contrary :frowning: So I keep planting some as I want more than a few one day but keeping the population at its normal level is the minimum! IDK why they are like that, the tulips and daffodils and the others are quite fine, we have many every year. Well I could use some more fancy tulips, there are sooo many different lovely kinds… And I don’t have very early or late ones either.

I have the spring mood. Weather has the spring mood. And the forest I visited today was so, so bare! Not even snowdrops! :frowning: Come on, Nature! Show me something! :smiley:

I’ve read the posts since last time (there are still some unread from before but things are so busy here I almost never get to go back even if plan to) but I just have no words for your difficulties… Our best friend is in a bad place too and she just don’t chat, not to bring us down… We are down enough all by ourselves anyway except I have spring mood and a very good inner hedonist and self-uplifter or something… I have a bright interior (oh. we spell it with e in the beginning so it was a new word for me) most of the time with darker, somewhat suppressed things inside. Alvaro is gloomier but he is still a cinnamon roll. I can’t say it differently, sorry :smiley: Sometimes I call someone I love (cats included) sugar (we don’t say honey) and I feel off as I don’t LOVE sugar, actually… Oh well.
I usually call everyone vole though (it sounds WAY cuter in Hungarian!). It’s odd for the cats but Tofu has a stupid food name anyway (very good name choice there, she is a silly cat. I love her way more than tofu though. I don’t even understand why tofu exists, it isn’t good for anything IMO. if I was a vegan, I still wouldn’t eat it, I would have so many better ideas).

Sorry, next time I try to avoid non-carnivore food items but it’s pretty hard especially that I cook with such things. I already avoid most of them but some find the way into my comments.


(Daisy) #222

@Karen18 the “rules” that these companies have been enforcing, I just can’t. My husband works in the medical industry and they have THE most ridiculous rules and I get so frustrated! I’m so thankful for the company I work for. They do some things that make no sense sometimes, but usually very easy going.

meal one was ground lamb/beef soup. Haven’t had it in forever! Not since I was doing my lower fat experiment. Meal two was raw round roast and some raw suet. I ate probably half of the roast and a couple chunks of suet. If I get hungry again, I’ll eat more of it (for some reason, raw doesn’t keep me full for long). Sleep last night was crappy. I had done the relyte all day yesterday and just felt dry and puffy. It translated into poor sleep. Went to bed at 9:22 and was so tired. Up at 10:46, 11:53, 1:30, 2:30, 3:41, then up with my alarm at 5:28. I think the electrolytes are not for me. I’m finishing the half packet that was in my bottle from last night. I just keep adding water to it, so it’s diluting more and more with each refill. I’ve given myself a workout challenge at work. I gave it to my team too, but they haven’t been sticking to it. But I have and I’m so sore! Feels good though and I feel like I’ll see great improvements if I keep it up. I’m on day 3.


(Karen) #223

I learned long ago that one is very indispensable and you get no thanks for being reliable, coming in when a bit off colour and working all hours passed your time. I wasn’t shocked at my letter … I was more shocked over the last 3 months seemingly having so much support from them hahahah. You know my daughter said that I am not allowed to let things get to me or get angry about things and I am doing like I have been told else I will be in big trouble with her :smile::wink: she is quite right though, it’s only me that will end up poorly with high BP and possibly another stroke and where will I be then? I should have learnt this abstaination from the wrong type of energy and emotion along time ago… it is quite liberating :smiley:


(Karen) #224

Of course silly me I meant snowdrops :smile:


(Robin) #225

Bless your heart, with everything you are dealing with, it’s no wonder your mood could be misunderstood in post. Plus, we’ve had Remorse after hitting REPLY. Just this week, I abused my role as an admin and snarked at someone for being snarky. Yikes! I quickly deleted it. And I didn’t even have any good reason, like yours.

You are in what I think is one of the hardest parts of life. It sure was for me. my mom also had dementia the last couple of years and it made everything a bazillion times harder. So in a way, you have said goodbye to your mom (as you knew her) many times already. So hard.
Hope YOU have good support!


#226

Never ever heard about such a thing!

At least you can go back to sleep, it’s something (it still quite bad, I can’t even imagine, I never woke up more than once a night in my life but it’s typically zero. until a few years ago I thought most people sleep through the night but it seems waking up is super common. my SO does it every night, very early and he goes back to sleep at that point, it’s fine enough). If my SO wakes up (later than his usual no-problem time, of course), that’s it. It’s not fun when he does that at 3am… He never can go back to sleep. If it’s a weekend day, he still stays up and has a nap after lunch or something.
How you folks can function like that? My sleep isn’t its perfect uninterrupted 6-8 hours and I am a zombie. If it’s perfect, I still wake as a zombie but it passes and at noon I feel kind of living.
I am bad with go back to sleeping now too (oh 10-20 years ago, it wasn’t even a challenge. I effortlessly and immediately slept on command) but I almost never wake up, not even when morning come. I still only have 6 alarms, I need to make more, maybe some will wake me up? The last ones actually do the trick now but sometimes I sleep over all.
Stupid sleep, it’s probably a rarity for a human to get it perfect… Most of their life as I imagine many kids has it perfect as long as their mothers don’t get them out of bed at stupid o’clock. Being a kid was horrible for me in the mornings. Waking up 3 hours before I wanted and eating breakfast… Poor past me.

Wise advice. It’s understandable if you aren’t 100% affected but you really shouldn’t harm yourself with reacting too badly. But you know that as you wrote it, I just wanted to agree enthusiastically.


(Judy Thompson) #227

I just want to say I’m here, I’m good, slept well lastnight (resorted to melatonin). Took that roast out of the sous vide and had cooked it as beef but it was pork! OMG weird tasting. Seared and ate some with chicken livers left from a few days ago.
So much to comment on your posts but we have a gig in an hour and a half so I have to rush around and get ready now :roll_eyes:
Beef shank steaks and chuck roast are in the sous vide for the upcoming week. They take 2-3 days he I started them frozen with duck fat and smoked sea salt! Should be yummy come Sunday night or Monday.


(Linda ) #228

Crazy all the silly rules of work environments…I’d have laughed too… you had medical issues and needed medical clearance another rule lol.

Meat first meal was 4 slices of bacon and 1lamb shank but with the bacon I couldn’t finish all the shank…
Tonight I’ll prob eat more lamb rack and rest of lamb shank
Weight wise I’m still at 5lbs down …


#229

Thanks!!!

So you know the emotions are going batsh** flippin’ off the charts for me right now, cause you went thru it too. Yes in that I feel like I have to let go but on mom’s part it is easy and non-complicated thru medical ya know, for me it is in my face and it is very hard. We are very close. Just a tough issue to live thru and having no experiences like this, it is navigating deep open water full of man eating sharks it feels like…every nerve just on edge all the time and on alert ya know. Thanks for your understanding!

finding your zc sweet spot, so cool!
also super congrats on selling the NE house!!
You are in full great mode with things being so positive for you now. Love that!

---------------------my wings and pork yesterday were super delish. Like I never had that taste before and was a great change from beef but that day is done and woke up this morning just hankering for big ribeye beef!

so that is it today, got a nice big 1 lb ribeye steak and burgers are easiest for second meal since meal 1 just makes me so content and satisfied, so steak and burgers for me today :slight_smile:

Beef on everyone! :100:


(Karen) #230

Oh my goodness, i am with you 100%. The last 5 or 6 years with my parents were so hard. My dad got a rare form of Lung Cancer and lived 2 years with it, my mum wouldn’t accept he was as ill as he was and was totally dumbfounded when I had to go into her bedroom to wake her and tell her he had passed. She had started drinking heavily and as soon as dad passed started smoking after stopping for many years. Then had to come to the realisation that for her on safety she had to go into a care home. The emotions were all over the place. My parents lived an hour and 3/4 away so the constant driving back and forth got me so tired. Going in the care home actually prolonged her life by a further year because she would have either drunk herself into oblivion, set the house on fire or fallen down the stairs.

I just hope I keep compos mentis so my daughter doesn’t have to go through it with me! Scary.


(Robin) #231

Yes, it’s scary to think we’ll follow our parents path. My great grandma turned mean and needy for her last several years. My grandmother (her daughter) swore she would NEVER. And of course she did.
MY mom (her daughter) said she would never never never! And of course, she did.
So I have warned my daughter to confront me the instant I start down that path. Although, I swear I will never EVER! (Sigh)


(Linda ) #232

Today I started out with small 1/4 rack of lamb then I had two scoops of ketochow Icecream fat added was butter. And mixed with water
Dinner was two lamb shoulder chops.
(Almost for got to take the picture)


(Daisy) #233

meal one was lamb chops, meal two was beef ribs. Meal three was burger patties and beef bacon. Sleep last night was pretty bad. I still had drank the relyte yesterday. Went to bed at 9:46, up at 11, 12:30, 2, 5:30, and then up for the day at 8:30. Was awake several other times.

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#234

I’ve got no idea what the convo is about between you @Karen18 and @robintemplin, but I love plants like vegans love animals; they are useful and lovely, just not to eat.

I am enjoying @Shinita documenting the Earth waking up with snow drops in Her eyes.

@Fangs I hear you about parents with dementia, it’s Crap!

Yesterday I did some gardening. My little brother (huge Viking, like me) is visiting and helping with some big jobs around the property. He is a great catastrophizer as he is right into the main stream media reporting, so I get to catch up with what crap people are being fed through their eyes from TV and tabloid newspapers. But I’m not totally innocent because my inputs are Internet connected. It’s good to sit and have a coffee and a brotherly debate with him. Just saying it’s lucky we modern Vikings don’t so readily have our swords, axes and shields to hand for punctuation purposes. Little brother is an unmonitored, so not well-controlled T2D and leans (in more ways than one) toward a plant-based diet because he is in love with a Spanish girl who is vegetarian.

Staying on plan here, using eggs for a work stress coping food, I like them too much, all 3 of them, each NOFUN breakfast cooked in the tallow/butter base of the beef from the night before. Coffees with measured dose cream that is then easier to cut in increments because it is in a measured dose like the medication I take, for example I can cut down to 1 cream cube per day, then every second day etc, while watching out for other sneaky dairy like creeping cheese. @Karen18, watch out for creeping cheese, it can be the stuff of nightmares.

It was rib eye steak again last night, and that one was hard to get through. Mrs.Bear offered me some nanoguy (a prized local white fish) omelette, and I could not even face a mouthful. Satiety can mean that any forced food after the satiety point tastes like eating candle wax, like we all used to as kids. I did eat 3 sardines from a can as an appetiser for the steak. Still finding surf&turf a really good plan, just wish there was more surfing involved. Swam with some stingrays yesterday late afternoon. Swimming is my fitness scaffold to bring me back to surfing. My shoulder pain is reducing with each swim.


(Karen) #235

Beautiful photo again @FrankoBear gorgeous sky. Yes the cheese is a nightmare I can’t get out of. Had some soft goats yesterday and oh my goodness ì am glad I didn’t buy more than one as it was so lovely I could have eaten it all day! Sounds like you are having a great time with your brother, its good to catch up but I bet its hard for you to watch him going down that plant route. Does he eat meat while he is visiting you?

Water therapy ahhhh super… I love swimming but I find it messes with my neck. I am not the best swimmer though I have to say I have got better as I have got older but if I am social swimming with someone else I will breast stroke and I only have to do a length in a pool and the neck is crunching like a good’un! My osteomyologist tells me I have arthrosis of the spine at the top of my neck and base of my spine so my neck and shoulders are always crunching. Not so much if i do front crawl but that isn’t very sociable is it… cant swim and chat at the same time hahaha.


(Karen) #236

Dinner yesterday late afternoon chicken wings.


Then later I had some smoked ham and a tin of salmon and finished off the cheese.

Dreadful night. Up in the early hours for an hour or so. Head far too busy with that damn absence warning letter. Should I appeal, shouldn’t I? Started reading up on statutory rights and stroke info. Starting wondering whether I should have taken 3 months to recover. All silly stuff cos I know in myself I wasn’t ready to go back any earlier. Annoyed that the prison was so supportive and now contradictive. Stupid thing is I wasn’t bothered when I got it but now not sure whether I should appeal. I think it is because I am so consientious and am never late to work and have good work ethics and integrity and you sort of feel like they are tarring you with the same brush as those who don’t give a damn and who are always off sick. I can remember way back when I had only been in the service a couple of years staff used to get close to the end of the year and if they hadn’t been off sick they would go ‘sick’ to use up the 11 days they would have been allowed had they been sick! I couldn’t do that, not in my make up!

Oh well a tired day today. When I was sitting down in the kitchen at 4.15am, even though it was dark outside I could tell my date palm was not there​:astonished: the wind had blown it down! We are having some right gusty weather. I thought being in the heavy pot it would be fine :cry: couldn’t do anything about it at that time so I have been trying to sort it out this morning. It is not very happy but I have used a pair of tights to secure it to the drain pipe and just have to hope the drainpipe doesn’t come down! Fortunately the pot hadn’t tumbled fully but fallen against the sleeper step up and not broken. I think I need to get a bigger container, maybe a half barrel keg will be better. Mustn’t get upset over it.

Brunch was chicken but I could eat it all so the carcass went into the big pan and has been boiling for a while on the hob and the chicken meat will get chopped up and I will pop it into the stock and have it as a soup.20220213_113806

I have a steak out of freezing defrosting for later. Looking forward to that.


#237

What does the warning letter mean?

In places where I’ve worked, the warning letter is automatically triggered if you hit a certain number of days off or a certain number of instances. They don’t care the reasons why - if you cross over the threshold, you’re given a letter (this happened to my friend who had cancer).

But are there any consequences to receiving the letter?


(Robin) #238

Hey @FrankoBear, wondering if you might be open to a daily “dispatch” type post just like today’s. I love my morning routine with coffee, catching up on emails and this forum and then reading a random selection from a poetry book (never fails to feel like a horoscope; meant just for me).

I would like to include a daily beautiful photo and musings from you. Always just right. No problem, right?
Think about it! I’m sure you have nothing else to do other than appease me, lol.


(Robin) #239

You and your tights! LOL
You should write a book. 101 Ways to Use Tights.

I hope you can move beyond that stupid warning letter. I know it’s hard, especially when you take pride in your work performance and dedication.

Hang in there!


(Karen) #240

Yes this is same. Just annoying when you’ve worked 18 years in same place and never been sick to have a stroke and need to recover for 3 months and get a warning letter. I will be interested to see if my friend gets a warning letter when she returns after her cancer treatment. A lot of the time there is a rule for one and another for someone else. My daughter has said not to bother appealing . I have only 17 months left before fully retiring anyway.

@robintemplin hahaha I had forgotten that I used tights for the bird feeder before the rascally rats devoured them lol. I also saw a good hack using tights to store all the plastic plant pots in then hang them on hooks in the shed :wink:

and yes I know I have a good work ethics and am conscientious and that won’t change any. I am sure I can move beyond that laughable bazaar letter. Thank you x

@Septimius thank you… I know I am not alone in this stupid situation and there are many who have been or are going through such unfair treatment. The thing is that last week the #1 Gov said to me that if my BP spikes too high before work then to phone and say I have medical issues and not to go in and it won’t go down as sick … how can I trust doing that now? not that I would actually need to do it as I am controlling the BP to a certain degree and I am not the sort to think I could get away with saying that it was too high just to get time off! Don’t know what yo think but hey ho it is what it is !