NoCarbvember Adventure!

#221

@FrankoBear, not posting as much, work and more getting tougher I take it? Really miss your chatting up alot LOL :slight_smile:

(Kellyn ) #222

I had a really good weekend. I went to a women’s conference at a local church on Saturday that focused on forgiveness and worry. I felt like that conference was made for me. I feel so much better this week. My weight is up one pound this week, but I feel good so I am going to focus on that. I saw a redheaded woodpecker walking my dog this morning along with a flock of geese passing overhead and I can’t help but think how beautiful God’s creation is. I had eggs this morning along with coffee with cream and plan on steak and sausage for lunch. I am already thinking that after the holidays I will go back to eating just meat and water for awhile. I don’t want to give up my coffee with cream while trying to make it past all the holiday desserts and foods lie around in my office and at holiday get togethers. I have a roast in the crockpot for dinner and lunch tomorrow. I have enjoyed getting caught up this morning reading all your posts. It sounds as if everyone is going great so far this week. Don’t let all the craziness of this year knock you off track of your health goals. I have learned to find other ways to deal with my stress as food is no longer something I use to feel better. Love to you all!

#223

I feel the same way, every weekend.

(Kellyn ) #224

One of my physicians here at work just made me feel so good. He said, “Kellyn, where is the rest of you? It’s like you are the incredible shrinking woman.” :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I just blushed and thanked him for noticing. I really need to hear that ya know, because the scale had been hovering around the same weight, give or take 3 pounds the last month.

(Daisy) #225

Woohoo! That is the best!

(Edith) #226

This morning I had a breakfast sandwich made with my carnivore bread. I added chicken liver pate, bacon, and a fried egg as the filling. I am still going on strong, and the way I feel at the moment, I won’t need to eat again until dinner.

Sometimes my husband is a little disturbed by what I can eat in the mornings. He’s more of a breakfast traditionalist, nothing exotic in the mornings for him.

(Daisy) #227

Here’s today’s meal: brisket, eggs with whipped tallow, the last from the package of bread cheese, chicken liver pâté and salt pork. I didn’t eat all the brisket and I air fried the salt pork too long so it was mostly inedible lol
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(Alex) #228

Checking in now I’ve got 72 hours of strict zc under my belt again :slight_smile:

That caffiene binge and crash really took it out of me and it’s taken about two weeks for my body to recover. I tried to go straight back into zc but I was getting constant cramping in my calves and weird heart rhythms so I went back up to about 150g carbs a day for a week while I supplemented electrolytes and let my body rehydrated itself.

Not gonna lie, I am jealous of people who can drink coffee and enjoy the high without the crippling side effects I get, but eh, it is what it is. Same goes with me having just a little bit of anything that sets off my immune system, can’t do it. Autoimmune disease sucks. But, I’m grateful I’m no longer in crippling pain all the time and I feel like I have a chance at living a full life and not just breaking down physically in my 30s.

So yeh I’ve been avoiding the thread as I’ve been in a negative place and it was getting me down to read about people living their best zc life and eating eggs and cheese and condiments and coffee and all the things I can’t have without later suffering.

But, now I’ve managed to stick with just lamb and beef and their fats long enough for the autoimmune foggy depression to clear I can catch up with the thread and be happy for all you wonderful people :smiley:

It is quite striking how different my whole outlook on life is on zc, I guess due to lowered inflammation. I went in hoping for my eczema to go away, and it might in time, but my depression clearing has been a surprise blessing.

Food for today was 1/3lb lamb mince fried in tallow, 2x1/2lb burgers spread with tallow, 1/2lb rump steak, and another burger. Hungry day for me!

(Alex) #229

All your boards of food look so delicious!

I’m definitely whipping up my batch of tallow this week, excited to try it :smiley:

(Daisy) #230

Thank you!! I really enjoy it. I plan to make some flavored whipped tallow in the future. But I enjoy just eating it plain off my finger :joy:

(Edith) #231

Hi Alex, you are not alone. I don’t have quite the reaction to caffeine that you do, but my body does not handle it very well. The amount of caffeine in a cup of tea in the morning will cause me to have trouble sleeping, so I avoid caffeine. I also cannot handle dairy, not butter, not even ghee.

I actually tried ghee a few weeks ago. I hear that people with dairy intolerances can handle ghee because the milk solids have been removed. I finally got enough nerve to try it. I guess my digestive tract did not hear that news. Let’s just say it was not happy.

I do eat eggs, but I have a hard time with most seafood due to the high levels of histamine it contains.

But that’s why most of us are here on this thread. We are not necessarily limiting our food to only meat for fun. We all have our reasons. You are in good company. And none of us is perfect, either. Well, I know I’m not. :blush:

(JJ) #232

I have to say, was a little alarmed hitting the link. Didn’t know if I would find a raunchy pic of you, or a pic of a meat smoking device. Luckily (or maybe unluckily??? :wink: ) it was a smoker. So hot. Smokin’ hot.

#233

Trust me, that’s as smoking hot as I get. :slight_smile:

#234

I understand this. I was there where you were when I was having struggles on zc but I didn’t put into a negative when I read how well others were doing and what they were eating…what I did was spin it all positive about me. What meat/seafood/fish I thrived on I ate a ton of it and loved it LOL You find all those good foods you can do. Remember alot of us don’t drink coffee like me, I drink water only.
I don’t do eggs anymore. I limit my cheese to a very low amt.
What you see us eating is what we do thrive on ya know…sometimes that won’t be you or what you can have but you have to say ‘what can I have’ and you go at that food hook line and sinker :slight_smile:

Plus we have different amts of time on plan. So that makes it vary alot from a more new person learning and healing and changing to an older timer like me who walked that path, I went thru all that so I seem alot more settled and I did my ‘what foods work for me’ experiments.

You come on here and rant a bit. Vent things out. Chat up any way you need, we got your back, you have support here :slight_smile: Hold strong, we can all make it work for us if we just focus on us with what the zc plan can provide us as individuals.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Don’t compare to any other zc person, you be your own zc person ya know :wink:

#235

Heya Peeps. Just checkin’ in. Eats have been good, and done in conjunction with fasting. I do best with some good EF and OMAD days.
had a TBone, a Ribeye, and two beef hot dogs for supper. Had collagen-y beef bone broth for lunch. Feel fab.

(Murphy Kismet) #236

That is an awesome compliment! :grin: Congratulations!

(Alex) #237

I found your response really upsetting. I do compare myself to others and I do put things into a negative. Having had autoimmune diseases from birth and ptsd from childhood I struggle a lot with bitterness at the hand I have been dealt. I know everything I feel and think is filtered through my mental negativity, and I really see that now I’ve had a few moments of that shroud being lifted. I am currrently eating cold beef and lamb mince with cold fat and salt because I react to bloody everything else.

I have no joy for comparison to steal. And I find it really frustrating to see you say things like ‘do zc your way’ and then in another thread attack some newbie in all caps for asking if the slice of pickle with their burger means they’re not a carnivore. Sharon was really upset in the carnivore info thread. I understand the frustration of people not getting it, but putting them on the defensive just ensures the message doesn’t get through.

Zc is incredibly restrictive and causes changes to our enzymes and microbiomes that mean eating off plan will likely result in digestive distress and other symptoms. I think for certain types of people it can be a lifesaver, but for most people who just want to lose weight they can get just as far with a meat based ketogenic diet, and keeping a little bit of plant matter should keep the microbiome able to process vegetables better should the person want to eat them. And eating them is fine, yes not strict zc, but a healthy body is able to deal with the plant toxins. Whether our bodies are already overwhelmed by environmental pollution and toxins and stress is a salient point, and I wonder if this is where a lot of the benefits of zc come from if our systems for dealing with toxins are already overloaded.

Anyway, I avoid all other social media because one of the fallouts of my ptsd is that I always defer to other people’s opinions and struggle to give myself permission to make my own choices. Waking up to being told not to be negative made me cry and feel ashamed for how I feel. Being this way has caused me to be socially isolated for most of my life, and last time I reached out to share how I was feeling I got told not to bring others down when I was having a bad day, and as almost all of my days are bad days, at least that’s all my mind will let me feel, I feel it is my responsibility to deal with this mostly alone. I can see that I write and feel differently when the fog is lifted and in those moments I can be happy and feel connected, but those moments are still rare.

I agree that comparison only leads to feeling less than others and this thread is not a place I think I can visit without feeling less than.

I will keep doing my own zc thing, and probably stumble a lot, but just coping with my own stupid brain is often more than I can handle, and the internet cripples me in it’s ability to expose me to the minds of so many more others than my brain has evolved to deal with. It’s back to an analogue life for me for a long while.

Best of luck on all your zc journeys x

#238

I am sorry my advice of trying to flip negatives into positives was upsetting to you. I definitely did not mean my post to come off in a bad way to you at all. I meant it in good spirit.

not sure on this part but I can say that if one is voluntarily eating pickles then they are not carnivore, you just have to put another label on their eating plan. Ketovore, carnivore adjacent etc. A zc plan is eat no plant matter. Simple as that. Just real facts are real facts about plans people attempt to tackle. No use pretending the plan is not the plan ya know. Giving advice on what is zc food and not zc food in a carnivore plan is just obvious info. to share with one. LC plans etc are wonderful plans for some if they want to eat plant matter. Nothing wrong with that.

I am again sorry you got so down. I obviously did not know the bad extent of your personal issues. I tried to give a good positive response but I guess it fell backward because of your personal medical issues and how you deal with situations with others in your life, like chatting on a forum.

I can only say these are things you know about yourself obviously and if this thread is not something you can handle then I assume you know it is not the place for you. I didn’t feel that from your posts but I guess I don’t know your deeper issues.

I am sorry if my zc advice and all was not up to your liking and it wasn’t meant in a bad way at all. Wish you nothing but the best of luck in your journey.

#239

food was

12 oz NY strip steak
2 chicken breasts
1 cheeseburger patty

HIP HIP
lost a whole lb. on the scale. scale gods treated me well.
that is 1 lb more toward my goal. ever so slowly, inch by inch, step by step :sunny:

(Vic) #240

Why not join in…

Food was:

2 pig cutlets with jong cheese on top
1/2kg scrap meat cooked of bones
2eggs
1 horse steak
2 cups of bone broth

And for full disclosure:

A spoon of mayonnaise
8 cups of coffee