you’re not dirty carnivore, you are relaxed carnivore. Dirty is eating plants and you aren’t there so you are good on that one
And the few times you ate other stuff is normal will changing over to zc…we all have a few backslides as we transition and if you want zc, in the end you will hold it well and move forward on it like you are, I think you are doing fab!
Kinda balance your thinking a tiny bit here cause you got 2 situations happening. A big step cutting coffee and cream AND going into the holiday season. So if keeping that coffee and cream means you can easily get thru the holiday in fine zero carb form, then maybe you require this crutch right now? As in with Jan. coming, tackle it then?
But you might have that constitution that can do both? These are personal decisions ya know and based on you and what can you tackle.
For me early on with zero carb plan, I had to not take on alot at all or I was gonna cave back to carbs in a flash. My only goal was get time under my belt on this plan OFF carbs and the only way I could do it was to hold plan tightly, eat a ton of meat/seafood and ‘not think too much’ cause when I tried to tackle more, like cut out all salt I went a tad ballistic, as in my thinking changed more to ‘omg how much more do I have to lose in my life from my foods’ and still be able to handle this big transition…so my mind went a bit wonky. I had to tell myself tackle getting and staying on the plan and get alot of time under my belt and mindset and body changed more before I could go all in and tackle stuff I wanted different. What changed me was time on plan…I dropped tea cause my body went weird on it, my mouth would kinda go dumb so I said this is gone. And some spices I started to just dislike over time. I never really ‘made a goal’ to ditch them, my body told me to ditch them actually so it wasn’t a forced goal on me to handle. Which I liked actually.
But again, we are all different. You could just cut cream back. Instead of a bigger splash, use a smaller one Drink less cups of coffee. Say 1 per day and that is your coffee and done.
I found the less I ever got in my own way on this plan as I adapted the better I did. But others tackled things fast, like dumped coffee fast, dumped salt fast and other things they handled all while changing into this plan. I had to take a slower approach.
I hope some of that chat helped you a bit I think it boils down to you and how you handle things, you either go in for the fast attack and ‘get’er done’ or ya need some time to let some changes just come naturally from your body and eating plan, plus with the holidays coming, I always use a strategy of ‘stay on plan simply’, eat very well, and just ‘get the hell’ thru the darn holidays packed with food at every turn and I allow this time for me to do just that. It is what works for me personally.
I think of Nov and Dec as ‘be careful on changes I want’ months cause they are the holiday times kicking around and I never want to be stressed or off my eating game in any way to blow my mindset in any way. I have 10 months out of the year to experiment on me without the darn holidays looming on top of me. So 2 months I stay very tight, eat big, just cruise as easy as I can to make it to Jan. and all clear LOL
Just how I get thru all of it