Yes I absolutely understand this too what ya wrote about how you feel.
I found ‘me’ in zero carb. This plan has never failed me at all as long as I eat no plant carbs. Yup my scale can waiver a bit if too much sodium or dairy happens, but the whole zc plan never ever fails me on ‘true gaining’ lbs. this late in the stage for how long I have been on plan.
Yea stress is a killer for many of us and it sure can effect our bodies!
I never like an UP on the scale either but one thing that amazes me if I just hold plan, eat my zc food as much as I want, when I want, eventually that scale gives me a small drop that I am wanting.
I used to hate the scale on low carb eating…now on zc I actually like my scale. I never figured that would happen LOL I have to say I am so comfortable on this eating plan that I just don’t question it anymore, carnivore eating is my future I kinda like that certainty now for me…makes me very calm in my eating.
You are newer into zc so you just hang in there A big giant glass of water with ice will beat your lettuce that will bloat ya LOL It is hard to ‘drop the usual patterned’ eating from before as we transition into not eating those foods. I had the same. It would be summer and I would be thinking, omg a watermelon would be so good on this day, and then I would think, I rarely ate it before, NOW I want a darn watermelon and all it is will be a monster sugar fix that would then make me eat more junk HAHA One thing I always did was just remember what the food ‘did to you’ if it ‘did anything’ cause I rely on that ‘when I want something’ from my past. Not saying you can’t go back to ketovore if ya want kinda thing, but if you want to hold zc then what I did was truly ‘chat out to myself’ why I shouldn’t eat XYZ. This helped me thru alot of times I wanted to eat other things. Just rambling on a bit about how I changed over and held zc. But you sure have eating options if you wanna switch around a bit.
----------------good carnivore morning
food yesterday was
5 country style pork ribs (smaller cuts than my monster ones I buy)
10 oz. ribeye steak
1 burger patty
1 tin of sardines
I dropped pork kinda for a good while but now I am loving pork again. Just gonna eat it more til the day I decide I don’t want it as much
Holding my 2.2 lbs down for the month. Happy about that.
Noticed I am drinking a bit less water, I do that in winter time. Colder I drink less so I will be watchful to drink well. I always carry water with me everywhere, I am never without a water bottle but lately I am just not drinking as much so will make sure I do…I function best on alot of water per day.
Thanksgiving is rolling around and we 3 in the house settled on eating filet mignon, big pile of peel/eat shrimp, and making veg/tater skewers as side for them and few dinner rolls for them. My mom and his mom bowed out cause of the covid crap so we 3 are alone and just gonna eat well and call it a day.
other than that, all is fine in my zero carb eating world, can’t ask for more than that truly!