Tomorrow I will experiment with carnivore biscuits. The desire wore me down and in the very end, my day became only keto. I need some tasty, crunchy carnivore biscuits. But at least NOT eating cheese every day so a whips could be acceptableā¦ But I didnāt add other keto items, itās something. I focused on what I really wanted and made it tiny. And then I ate some smoked cheese, the last bite should be something rich and I wanted to be satiated enough so the day is DONE already, at 9pm
I talked to Alvaro about my biscuit plans and he just couldnāt follow me when I mentioned pork skinā¦ No problem, I told him. You donāt need to
I tracked but IDK why Itās impossible. I had 280g meat - and whatever was in 80g scratchingsā¦ Around 130g protein, thatās fine and I canāt possibly have much idea about my fat intake but it must have been below 180g as that is the number for fatty, not meaty scratchings. The pieces were plenty fatty in the beginning but the fat tissue lost most of its fat and all the nice meaty parts emergedā¦ Good stuff, just totally impossible to track. No problem, the upper estimation shows it wasnāt a particularly bad day. For a Saturday. After meaty days, I just didnāt want much meat today. But I did ate a few bites after I skipped dinner. I have this even on carnivore sometimes, I am not hungry, per seā¦ But I want something little and preferably different from the things I had beforeā¦ I was restless. And I usually want crunchy or at least crispy biscuit-like things when it happens.
I ate my little ice cream but it needed a bit more cream to be nicely sweet and I used my fav instant coffee powder, it was very lovely. I have an ice cream phase, well as much as I can have such a thing. I wasnāt interested in the last years, only made some to use up leftover yolks and cream - but I really like it now. I donāt need or crave it but itās nice when I want something creamy and different. And I have these huge, 500ml whipping cream boxes, it would be hard to use them up without ice cream. Though I could freeze it alone I supposeā¦ I did it lately and it worked. Or I should remember creamy ragout soups are a thingā¦
Oh poor thing. I donāt think you can be obnoxious if you helpfully points out some useful steps and nice low-carb items and dishesā¦ There are SO MANY!!! I went low-carb first, my limit was 80g net carbs. It was super easy and highly enjoyable, it was pure win, without any sacrifice whatsoever. As I could cook my own food just fine and could handle eating off occasionally. I know itās not so easy for everyone, it was a nice fit for me. Going even lower was where it got tricky. But 80g really wasnāt too low, I still had plenty of food to eat, I was a tad lost in the beginning though, had to change my recipes, make new onesā¦
I am with Robin, if low-carb sounds scary, try with baby steps Or big steps but only with the easy sounding ones. I would start with skipping added sugar, it was very easy for me and my SO but if it isnāt for your sister, at least not drinking sweet drinksā¦? They often contains SO MUCH sugar and I donāt even understand why to sweeten drinks at this point as I slowly trained myself out of it. And I have found a sweetener that is tastier than normal sugar anyway. But I used sweeteners for sweetness, not flavorā¦ And as little as comfortably possible. I had that with sugar, people so overuse it! They put it into everything, even sweet fruits and meats, crazy! (Okay, some people must love sweetened meat, I hate it. It is not really a thing here unlike in some countries.)
Maybe she looks at your food and are afraid of that but some more ānormalā low-carb would seem doableā¦? She probably could find ways to lower carbs without even making her diet change so much. Not elimination, just reduction, choosing some lower-carb option if that sounds good enoughā¦ Thinking about doing a tiny little sacrifice to help her bodyā¦?
I really canāt resist temptation but I still could change my diet a lot and I never even gave up food joyā¦ I would have if my health demanded it, health is the most enjoyable, after all. I was healthy enough, not in a hurry so I didnāt do a single super huge jump. I did a few pretty big ones though but I had plenty gradual changes. Oh my, originally I had my coffee with some dairy AND sweetener! It took years to go down to zero but it was easy at least. One can do a lot if determined, stubborn and consistent. I choose no sacrifice over speed. I just trained, pushed myself a wee little bit, it was fun. Less sweet is fine? Maybe yes, if no, I added more sweetenerā¦ But eventually it went down. Now my preference is very different from my original one.
I feel things much sweeter too but it happened to all my family members who stopped eating sugar. Alvaroās Mom who got diabetes (that was the point where she stopped eating sugar, with exceptions because the doctor told her so. Alvaro and I were off sugar since years already. she is the type who can make such changes immediately and smoothly if she has motivation), Alvaro who stopped eating added sugar but kept eating natural sugars and stayed a high-carberā¦ And I who went low-carb. We all felt everything much sweeter in months and it was the same level for us three despite our wildly different woe!
Then I tried out carnivore and evolved further If I eat sweeteners, I go back to the original lowered level I thinkā¦? But never further back, not even if I eat very sweet, sugary things. Good.
These things are interesting! Itās not just giving up stuff. Itās a new world, with new dishes I would love to know before and interesting revelations.
Good luck for you and herā¦ I am pretty sure there could be done useful, not bothersome steps right away! She can think about this. Checking out new (or just old low-carb) recipes. Maybe some will be tempting?
There are even very traditional dishes with a lower than usual carb contentā¦ And if a food has a fat+protein part (like normal meat, without adding a bunch of carbs without a good reasonā¦) and a starchy part, one may eat a tad less of the latter and maybe extra salad or something. Just pushing it where it is still okay, these can shift as time passes like the sweetness in my coffee did.
I have too many ideas now but I stop. I donāt even know what is important for your sister. I knew what was important for me and I didnāt give that up until I was ready and didnāt mind (I am lucky I didnāt need to push too much or go quickly as I was healthy enough, I just wanted to keep my health and feel even better). Itās important for many of us. Make the easier but helpful choices first And skip added sugar if possible. That just isnāt good especially if diabetes is a highly possibly thing in the future. But itās not good anyway. But amounts matter. Little because itās too hard to swallow elimination is still better than much!
People shouldnāt suffer a bad diet when they can change itā¦ It doesnāt need to be very sudden or extremeā¦
I really stop now but I am very enthusiastic about this topic.
By the way, @E_P, your photo is very tempting, again. I like your food pics