It truly is and we all ‘got paths’ to final goals we want. What are those goals are very personal of course to each of us. We have to remember that! As long as we finish well in a challenge is fab but what is our lifetime goal and ‘how do we find’ that is important also…best thing for me on that one is LISTEN to you and your path is definitely clear but we again, have to listen to our bodies and seek that healing it wants…once we ‘get it’ ya know…we go so into a great future! And of course, for ALL of us it is super personal on how to roll 
Nice thing is we have that freedom to do just that! 
NoCarbvember Adventure!
Fangs
#671
Ketodaisy
(Daisy)
#672
@Shinita I am so glad to hear the report on Alvaro!
@FrankoBear I’m sorry to hear you couldn’t connect with your goddaughter over the weekend. Hopefully soon! Was there supposed to be a link for the woman’s journey back to flexible eating? I couldn’t click anything.
Today was back to work after 8 days off. Ugh! 
I had a beastly, fatty chuck roast that I prepared as a steak. It was bigger than my hand and I made it through most of it! Plus the last portion in that container of liver pâté. I still have loads in the freezer. I have a jar of broth in the fridge that I just have had no desire to consume. I go through phases with it…
I hit a milestone this weekend in that I fully accepted my body for what it is and what it’s not. I have always been very hard on my body and it’s always been very frustrating that I’ve not lost a lb in a year of carnivore. But I’m embracing my body and my flaws, loving myself for how God made me and wants me to be, and letting go of what I can’t control!
FrankoBear
#673
It was the podcast link to the Low carb MD podcast (click the ‘play’ button).
We can all learn from that.
Fangs
#674
FAB POST KD! TRULY!!
in that with more clear thinking when we eliminate foods that ‘wreck our bodies and minds’ we SEE ya know. I have seen just like you have.
my life when I gained more later down the line older I did get, it was ‘get back to age 18 body’ and thru the journey I realized that is not doable or even a ‘true normal thought’ if ya think about it.
health and vitality and vibrancy and clear thinking and nutrition for the body not being hungry to be ‘on a diet for life’ and thinking I HAD to be there or I was less than…zc gave me all of it back. Real life and real truths and what we must ‘hand over to our God’ as we see fit and let life happen and enjoy this time on this planet.
I think of it as when we pass will I think I wish I lost a lb or will I think of what I did on this earth and my loved ones? And what purpose I had to contribute and then I also know that no one in their life should ever put all their life into ‘their body and their scale’ and it truly made me think way more clear of a great path in life.
zc zen and clarity is fab and when it hits ya full force, you get it 
just like your post! I loved what you wrote here KD!
Karen18
(Karen)
#675
Last day of NoCarbvember and looking forward to the twelve days of carnivore.
Today I started with the remaining beef rib for brunch which was lovely cold especially with some of the dripping that was on the top of the juices in the pyrex dish.
Just had 2 fried eggs, streaky bacon and 3 pork sausages followed by king prawns fried in butter and melted cheese on top, followed by 2 cold pork sausages. Now I can see how to get the calories in… pork sausages lol! My calories were significantly higher!
I am not a big eater of pork and bacon and just re started eating bacon since starting Keto. Today I bought the sausages though I am not a fan of them. Was shopping in Lidl and really wanted beef ones but could only find pork. I had to cook them all as the use by date was 1st Dec. Not a problem as I can take some to work tomorrow. I have to admit to thoroughly enjoying my meal hence why I ended up eating 2 more sausages. I surprised myself! Only ate the prawns cos they were reduced! The sausages only had 0.5g carbs which was much lower than any of the other sausages on the shelves.
So on to another month YAY 
Karen18
(Karen)
#676
Ooops it was 1g carbs per sausage!!! I have eaten more carbs in those 5 sausages that on any other day this month 
VirginiaEdie
(Edith)
#677
I have recently listened to a podcast with a micro biome expert and an interview (recently uploaded to the carnivore videos thread) with Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride, the originator of the GAPS diet. Both of these people said 100% of people get leaky gut from gluten. Some people just don’t get digestive problems from it. The problems may manifest differently such as insomnia, anxiety, or something else. It may not be psychological in any of them, but purely physiological after all.
Shinita
#678
The last days were quite odd. I barely eat a few bites sometimes now. Well, it can’t last for long, I am not that type but it’s very weird.
It’s after 8 pm and half of my small packed box (a chicken drumstick, about as much pork, a slice of sausage, some cheese) is there. Well I ate a boiled egg and a bowl of meat soup (no meat pieces). And cream in my coffee. I am a bit stressed and have headache, not like it has anything to do with my hunger. And I am even more stressed. Yep, I understand theoretically that we have different days… But it annoys me that they are that different. This meat is the same meat I brought last time. And the majority of it in my freezer anyway.
I will stop with the coffees as I have no problem with fasting at all. But these bites… Nope. I actually got hungry at 3 and ate. Half an egg and about 3 bites of meat and a little piece of cheese. And I don’t feel any urge to eat since then, more like the opposite though I managed to have a similarly big second meal. At least I can drink soups almost any time. Liquids are way easier.
What if my headache is because my negative appetite turns off my hunger? Why am I this miserable? I have nausea too. My emotional state isn’t so great, I want to feel right at least physically.
I got offered cake today, by the way, I don’t remember this happening here, we both can make good cakes and Oti prefers the same sweetness Alvaro and me do (or me 1 year before). Store-bought ones. I liked that type in the past (bought from proper cake shops, at least and I never valued that very high either) but I never made it myself on keto, it should have been super easy though, it’s mostly filling, whipped cream and egg… Well, it would be if I made it. The stuff has about 20 rows of ingredients, it’s scary. I wanted to count how many ingredients but the necessary work wouldn’t worth it.
I saw cooking shows in the tv today. Things are overly complicated to me. I never really was the type who needed zillion spices and wild combos and even some sauce and other things. And they did it to some wild meat. I wondered about gastronomy, I often do it lately.
There are nice combos, of course. Cooking is (was? I am sure I am still interested to some extent) my hobby, I get it. But many competing flavors… Unnecessary to me, even distracting, chaotic.
And I enjoy simple too much lately.
So I see even my old style of complicated dishes (they were simple but not what I have now. I don’t even call it cooking) very unnecessary.
I wonder how I will think later. I probably would gladly taste fine dishes if they are heavily based on animal products but spending more than minimal time and effort to make them? No.
I wonder how I will cook for Alvaro when he comes home. He is very adaptable in his comfort zone. I am the cook, it always affects his woe, no matter how willing I am to make whatever he wants. Often I don’t even need to be the cook for a change. If my woe changes, his changes too if he can get closer to mine in his comfort zone.
VirginiaEdie
(Edith)
#680
My goodness! I can’t believe today is the last day of November. I am halfway done my six month carnivore experiment. I am definitely still on the fence about it.
It’s been about two weeks or almost two weeks since I stopped taking extra salt as a supplement along with magnesium and calcium. I am still salting my food, but I’m even trying to decrease that. Today I have a headache. The kind I get when I need extra salt. The headache could possibly be from a mild oxalate purge cause I also had peeling lips yesterday along with cloudy urine. I’m going to ride it out and see what happens.
My back is doing somewhat better, but I also stopped jogging and I am only doing strength training for now. The back improvement could just be from not running.
Can I say that I feel amazing on carnivore at this point? No, but it’s probably safe to say that my body is still adjusting, especially since I’ve dropped any supplementation. My digestive tract is becoming more stable than when I first started. That’s a plus.
Oh, and only two diet cokes this month, one being caffeine free. And I have to say, I think Diet Coke has lost its appeal. I didn’t really enjoy them. I have a feeling next month will be no Diet Coke.
Today’s food for the final day of NoCarbvember:
Breakfast: a few ounces of ribeye roast, 3 slices of bacon, 2 fried eggs.
Lunch: chicken wings
Dinner: ribeye roast and egg pudding.
See y’all next month!
P.S. Hey, @Carnivoor, what was in the tin for your last NoCarbvember meal?
Shinita
#685
Sausage means many somewhat different things here.
I like dry sausage. One lasts for weeks if I keep myself in check. I use a slice a time, my egg sandwiches are hard to imagine without them.
But there are softer sausages, still eaten as it is.
There are soft sausages, one is for dishes, it mostly cooked in them… The other is to bake on the oven, that’s my absolutely favorite if good quality and spices according to my tastes. Once I tasted a homemade one. It probably was good… Somewhere below the insanely much rosemary… I want lots of paprika in my sausage, not herbs but probably a tiny amount is fine. It had rosemary flavor, mostly, it was horrible.
And there is a special sausage that is to be boiled and eaten with mustard and it’s my other (or third as good dry sausage is great. the pig farm sometimes has it. sometimes they make them too soft or the flavor is different. they say the recipe is the same but my tastebuds disagree. maybe I am super sensitive to something and pork itself isn’t the same and the softer ones surely had less time to dry) fav.
As far as I know, all sausages has meat, fat and some spices.
The blood and liver things are always full with rice though. But we don’t call them sausages as they are very different and inferior.
I have no sausage right now except the tiny pack with sausage and the rice-filled things, I wait for Alvaro with that. He STOOD today! It was painful, even breathing is painful with broken ribs but still 
I was super stressed yesterday, couldn’t calm down, I can’t imagine how someone does anything but lying when full with broken and cracked ribs and vertebrae and how they surely don’t cause problems… But they surely know what they are doing and the human body is quite amazing… Sometimes I seriously underestimate it and gets surprised. Once, as an extreme case but still, a dinosaurus survived a broken JAW in the past (they found the remains with healed jaw). Poor animal, no help, no feeding for a long time… And it did it.
In the end, I got hungry and ate a lot. Yep, it always happens eventually. I ate aspic too and will eat more There is plenty as Oti’s other son is into low-fat things now, at least if it has anything to do with meat and while the aspic itself isn’t very fatty, these have lots of fatty skin and some fat at the surface. Not much but some. It’s perfectly fine for me if I don’t need to eat it all alone. Oti even likes this amount of fattiness, she happily ate some from the warm pig feet when they made this interesting dish.
I told her about the existence of the carnivore woe. It’s very extreme to her. But she is the one who never learned I don’t eat added sugar if possible and Alvaro and I both do this since a decade or almost. Even she eats added sugar (rarely. like the cake yesterday as a snack) and she has diabetes.
Fangs
#686
Health is 1/2 body, 1/2 mind. You can be eating the best diet, but if your mind is in the wrong place you won’t heal. Focus on the Zero Carb Zen and health will follow.
Focus on the Zen | Zero Carb Health | Zero Carb Health
Yup, focus on the ZC Zen and it is a mental flip we seem to hit and share
Karen18
(Karen)
#687
They caused terrible bloating… yesterday my work trousers felt a size too small … first time in 17 years!!! I have one left which I will eat today a little later as I cant stand to see anything go in the bin but I doubt I will buy any more even though they did taste nice.
Fangs
#688
yes I absolutely get this. when we are dealing with processed for us foods like sausage or any other packaged type meats like that they truly can play havoc with it…nice thing is we find out fast LOL and think, hey I ain’t buying them again
FrankoBear
#689
Belly tape measure on morning of Dec 3 = +6cm. I’m wondering how much more it would have been without NoCarbvember. Reset. Start again.
Fangs
#690
yea I get this too in my life. It took me about a few years of losing and gaining back the same damn 60-70 lbs over and over and then finally I hit the reset button and lost the weight and am finally hitting goal and hanging on LOL Many of us have many resets in our time, work in progress all of us sometimes Happy NoCarbvember and that challenge is helping tho!