Thanks for starting the new thread! I’m going to have a think about my top three goals for january and 2025… looking forward to it being a year of recovery and personal growth 
As a mini introduction, I’m currently a Brit in recovery following hospitalisation for drug induced psychosis in 2023. 2024 was a difficult year, broke up with my partner of ten years and lost my house and my two cats in the process. Now hoping 2025 is a better year. I’m back living with my parents which is a lot but i’m really grateful for the quality time I get to spend with them and that they’re so supportive of my recovery.
I’ve been keto on and off since 2017, mostly on autoimmune paleo since 2016, was strict carnivore from 2021 to 2023 (all meat plus lots of drugs including weed so i guess technically still dirty carnivore as i consumed a lot of one particular plant
), fell completely off the wagon in hospital and after for most of 2024, went from 120 to 210+lbs on my antipsychotic med olanzapine due to hunger and prediabetes side effects, tapered back to low carb and was still ravenous and tired so took the plunge and have been back on consistent dirty carnivore keto for 6 weeks now. Slowly rebuilding my life and loving the relative stability and physical wellness I get from combining keto + autoimmune paleo + “dirty carnivore”. Animals for food, safe plants for flavour and fibre is my motto.
Overall for the year, I’d like to get as close to a healthy bmi as possible, heal my eczema, and reduce my psych meds as low as possible.
I’m starting at 200lbs, which at 5ft6 puts my bmi at 32.3. I’ll take being overweight rather than obese as a starter goal, and I guess realistically, if I can average a 1lb a week I could get pretty close to a healthy weight by the end of the year. I don’t want to set a goal weight for the year though, as I’m not sure how much my medication will slow my weight loss.
My january goal is to reach a 32inch waist (currently at 33.25inches). And then once I’ve weighed myself at the end of january, i’ll have a better idea of a realistic rate of weight loss for me.
Second january goal is to stick to my dirty carnivore meal plan. Two meals a day, about 1600 calories. Brunch is 4 eggs, 25g butter, 150ml goats milk and a two inch chunk of cucumber. Dinner is 400g meat (pork, beef, chicken or lamb), 25g butter, 150ml goats milk, and a spoonful of leeks. Aim for this goal is to support autoimmune health and metabolism.
Final january goal is to reduce my antipsychotic med olanzapine back towards 10mg. I had to go up to 12.5mg and it’s making me hungry all the time, so I’m planning to start tapering back towards 10mg in a week. Doing a split day taper, so I’ll start by alternating days with one at 12.5mg then the next at 10mg, then progress to 12.5mg one day then the next two days at 10mg, then hopefully by february I can be at 10mg with 12.5mg once a week.
Oh and I ordered some sugar free plastic free mint chewing gum, to help with my hunger cravings while I try to lose weight whilst dealing with my med side effects of being a bottomless pit of hunger.
Looking forward to my beef stew dinner tomorrow! Slow cooked brisket with a tbsp apple cider vinegar and a pinch of leek and garlic, but 99% dense delicious beef
I can tell I’m always hungry as I only just finished today’s pork dinner and I’m already thinking about the next meat time!
It’s a super quiet time of year here, not much going on, so it’s a good stable time for health experiments. I’m keeping busy going for two walks in the park every day, playing sims 4 and watching tv with the parents. Recently moved back home after a difficult breakup so it’s a weird time and I feel like a teenager again! Also I guess ongoing sobriety is a goal as I’m six weeks sober. It’ll hopefully be a little easier now the season or drunken merriment has passed.
So in summary, waist trimming, sticking to a stable fatty meaty plan, med tapering and staying sober are my january goals!