NoVegNovemberCarniStyle

[Fangs]

@Karen18
could be med changes in ya and other crap with stress from knowing your issues and more so you just keep on! Keep on til the new you emerges and it will with better health actually Time is super important for all our changes ALL of us gotta deal!!!

No driving, yikes I forgot that issue with your med stuff…has to be hard on that one! Stress right there HA

--------------------SO I am doing 3 regular pork chops later and having some burgers with cheese as second meal. Done.

Keeping it as simple as I can and weirdo thing is I hit beef again for a blip and NOW ALL I want is that darn pork again. I thank every day my chicken wing obsession is SO over

Keeping it easy and plain and eat exactly as I want every day. AND I eat every day vs. the poor souls who think that 5 days no eating on some fast etc. is the way to ‘lose a lb’ at all costs…omg I can’t even GO back to that archaic thinking ever, once here learning truths on nutrition one can eat every darn day and get results to the ultimate! I love my ZC plan to the max also and will sing it thru each day I am on this Earth It is me and what I require!

[Karen18]

@Fangs tbh I am uber cool with not being able to use the car, I quite enjoy the fact that it makes me walk the shorter journeys where I would normally take the car.
The battery is flat anyway and I will have to buy a new one before getting it back on the road… it was on its way out a while back but a few longer trips cranked it up a tad bit.

Well today went very nicely. My daughter got me to the DIY store and helped me choose the colour fir the walls, how many variations of one colour can you get ??? My head was starting to grog up just glad Sian was there to help! So I am hoping for nice weather tomorrow to get the new wall done first.

Sian made me a couple of lamb chops when we got back to her house followed by some cheese and I have just finished off one of the cooked chickens I had in fridge with cheese and butter plus a cup of chicken stock.

[Azi]

This morning first meal was steak …I really love that picanha steak. I been buying it up every couple od days…had to cook lunch for hubby made him chicken thighs today cooked extra for me for my 2nd meal I cooked 3 but it was only able to eat two.

[robintemplin]

You have a great attitude.

[Ketodaisy]

picanha steak.

I adore picanha! Sadly can only get it when I go to the Brazilian steakhouse. No one here sells it and my butcher is an uncultured swine .

This morning I had a couple sausage links my daughter had left. Made some fried eggs but they stuck in the pan and became scrambled eggs . Ate these things and the bone broth jello while the ground pork was cooking. I had pulled it out of the freezer because it’s one of oldest things in the freezer. I am not tolerating pork very well these days, but you also know my no waste policy . I ate half of it and fed the other half to the chickens. Then for dinner I had everything on the board. The raw beef liver and the raw round steak with raw bone marrow. I’m babysitting my 3 year old niece today and she took a bite of the liver and the raw steak!

[FrankoBear]

@robintemplin you are lovely. I enjoy your energy.

NoFUN = No Food Until Noon. It’s an eating, or specifically a not-eating acronym. Like WOE is Way Of Eating because diet, in human nutrition vernacular, is a dirty word. Don’t ever let Fangsy catch you typing that word.

This morning there is a warm but lively wind. The sky is cerulean indicating we are on the cusp between the aboriginal seasons of Kambarang and Birak. The peppermint trees are animated in a graceful dance.They are covered in tenacious white blossom. The wind is from the summer a few weeks away. I got the watering done early. I’m up and out of bed early. Showing that things are getting better here.

In these longer days it feels wonderful to eat at or before sunset with a couple of hours before bed. It is so stomach comfortable. Last night’s meal was 4 cold, fatty lamb ribs, 4 pieces pan-fried halloumi (sheep’s) cheese, fresh carbonated rain water. Food cooked on the woodfire stove as there is still an evening chill. If I haven’t mentioned yesterday’s afternoon breakfast that was 3 pasture fed eggs omelette, pink salt, 45g Jarlsberg cheese, 2 rashers of bacon. That gets cooked on the electric stove top in the middle of the day powered by our off-grid system. That food rhythm and menu has served me well this past week. If I look back, last weekend I was disabled unwell. This week I feel I am getting better.

But as Fangsy will tell you, nothing stays the same, and that variation, while on plan is a good thing (just look at @Naghite Michael’s amazing mix of carnivore foods, and @Carnivoor Vic always dishes up a surprise). I think the carnivore Zero Carbohydrate plan is interesting in that it is easy to start due to its surprising simplicity and satiety, but then can become deliciously diverse in discovering the variety from the community. I’m hankering for some seafood; ‘surf and hoof’ (used to be turf). — Surf’n’Hoof September 2022?

[Naghite]

I have decided to explore some seafood options and made both oysters and mussels today, ate some of each and optioned off some for the next two days. First time both making and eating them. Followed up with a beef ribeye.

Got a bit of a surprise deal today so I had sheep cheeks for first time as well as previous side of thymus, and cheddar cheese with Salmon.

Three first timers for me just today. I have another new item planned for tomorrow with other offals, so should be very diverse and unique day.

[robintemplin]

@FrankoBear How kind! I always look forward to your posts. You are a joy to read. A wordsmith with a keen sense of humor. Nice.

[Carnivoor]

[Fangs]

@Karen18
so glad you can walk to some stores etc. You must be in a more populated area? I am very rural. For me to walk to anything type of store would take forever LOL Someone would find me dead along the side of the road like roadkill in the end. Happy you are adapting well thru that!!

@FrankoBear
What? Are we talking the word ‘diet’ here? Yea I do not like that word, every time one says diet everyone thinks you are on some controlled nasty vicious ‘diet’ and diet just means what ya eat in your daily life but darn it never comes across like that anymore. Diet is a bad 4 letter word now HA

I am super duper happy you are on the improve!! It is great to say you are feeling more yourself and maybe it is just time and good living with that wonderful homestead you have and nice life that will bring you around soon. Just rest, eat well, see where it all goes.

Surf n Hoof!! I am sure we can find a good place in a month for that title

----------------ate up 3 pork chops yesterday. very delish.
couple of nice cheeseburger patties

today I got a hankering for some breakfast link sausage
pair up with some taylor ham

got a nice pack of pork country ribs to cook today
probably will be that big pack in 2 meals, if I flip it up a bit it will be pork and more beef burgers.

Keeping it simple and easy. Not wanting to think much on my food. I am finding the more I think about food the more I am wanting to eat crap. I got an evil carb monster inside that is trying to find excuses to be reborn. I won’t ever let that happen…so simple, easy, eat very good and move forward. No backward motion

Carnivore on strong guys!!

[Septimius]

Slay that monster, @Fangs - you’re doing great.

[Fangs]

heading into year 5 and I am so much more controlled and a ‘normal carnivore’ now but darn, every now and then ya know.

I am not totally safe tho ever. Carb monsters are real for those like me who are so carb sensitive, you give me an inch and I take 50 miles before I can even pretend to try to control myself I have learned the hard way that I can’t even give myself that inch!

But I have standard things to say to myself tho to get thru the weirdo times I hit every now and then. Like go eat a lb. of bacon What can ever be wrong with that?

[Shinita]

Just a short one (considering it’s me and much time passed, at least), I really try not to come to the forum but I actually wish to reduce my few hours per day in the kitchen too… I just can’t seem to spend little time there.

I quickly run out of the little pork I had and I didn’t even want more. I ate this and that, not carnivore but I can’t go very far as I need my usual items. We never ate this many eggs in a week I think I had liver, turkey soup and processed meat just no proper, satiating meat.

But we went to the city so it’s good again. it was amazing, I found very unusually good sales.
$1.42/pound for some pork shoulders, I didn’t know one can buy pork this cheap… I bought a single piece as my freezer hasn’t so much space now, about 11 pounds, cute slab, I had to cut it into multiple ones before I froze it
The almost expired beef was maybe $2.2? Never saw it that cheap and the meat always worked even bought that late so… And I bought some veal, I never ever ate veal I think… The price was the same as for the cheapest beef cut, well that definitely went up in the last months… So I have a little ruminant meat now again, it was so long ago I ate some…

I barely buy dairy nowadays but I couldn’t resist a huge sale on low-fat quark… I find normal quark too low-fat already (but it’s nothing some extra fat can’t help) but I was curious, I only tried low-fat quark once in my life before. This is 0.2% fat. Oh my god. It’s surprisingly edible just insanely sour. I love sour dairy but it needs other things to eat along with it I wondered if I could try a PSMF meal (a PSMF day as one meal) and see how many minutes I last afterwards, maybe I could do 1 hour before I grabbed my fattiest items in the fridge. Me and low-fat starvation just doesn’t mix. But I like experiments and if I survived egg fast for 9 hours and HCLF (fatphobic version as I wanted only one day in my life to be HCLF so went for the extreme abomination version) for a day, I will survive a super low-fat tiny meal too. People talk too much about PSMF on this forum and I have to try despite me being super incompatible with it and quite against it. It’s just a meal, not a whole day!

Alvaro made turkey curry, not my thing when I have pork so he can have most of it.
His mom made chicken when we visited… One chicken leg each, it was okay but I got so hungry afterwards…
If I want proper food, I must make it. And it’s so easy… I don’t want a big roast yet (after my 2 days with pork) so Monday will be “this and that” as my normal lower-meat days (I got out some fried chicken liver from the fridge and I may eat some fish spread with sponge cakes).

So nothing interesting just great prices and VEAL… Maybe I will eat the veal first, I am curious and it’s not much at all. The biggest pork shoulders piece (for the roast) is so big that my actual appetite for roast isn’t enough. So that comes later.

[FrankoBear]

The surf is calm today. So, it was a nice morning for a swim at the beach.

There are more full-feeling things than eating.

[robintemplin]

Wish this had sound, although I can imagine it. Lucky dog. Lucky man.

[Fangs]

There are more full-feeling things than eating.

I love it. This is the picture I wanna be yet your Billie is living better than me right now

Take advantage FB of your life and situation all you can, best ya can! I am in the exact process of doing just that and let me tell ya, it is friggin’ great!!

[Karen18]

@robintemplin thank you, my line manager said same thing to me on Friday when he gave me a welfare phone call, he said he likes chatting to me because I am always cheerful and upbeat … I’m not really but I am trying to be . Decided that however awful it sounds I might not be here tomorrow so I am going to enjoy today … my new moto which I will remind myself of when I am feeling not so cheerful!

@FrankoBear do you write poetry? You have a super lovely way with words, you are definitely more poetic when at your homestead. I think your ailments must be very stress related because you are home now, out of the city, and surrounded by beauty and what looks like calm and tranquility. Love to see Billie in the sea, I love the sea but live quite a distance from it. I was brought up at the seaside as a child, I lived in a house on the promenade and so we had Seaviews from all the frobt and side windows and were quite literally a stones throw from the water. We could cross the road, jump down from the promenade onto the beach and step 10 metres into the sea! There was a fish hut there within reach too and so had fresh fish on a regular basis. I loved the smell of that hut and always wanted to work in a fresh fish shop!

@Fangs yes I do live in a fairly high populated area. I live roughly 7 miles from Nottingham City to one side and about 10 miles to Derby City the otherwise. I have 2 local towns in opposite directions, 1 is about 2 miles the other is 3miles. Raymond lives 4 miles roughly as the crow flies and I can walk that way too. Also on a good bus route both ways, every 5 minutes and a tramline approx 1.5 mile. Of course the downside is that I live on a main road and it gets pretty busy and therefore I can hear the road noise from my garden. That doesn’t bother me much, used to hear the motorbikes and stock cars racing every Sunday but the stadium was knocked down and developed also the stables a couple of doors down used to have gymkhanas every Sunday throughout the summer and they would play music quite loudly on a tinny sounding record player and use a megaphone … that was worse than the bikes lol the stables are still there and so I get to see the horses roaming the fields at the back of my house. I can’t grumble, good town links and good cheap shops to get my meat from! I am not sure I could live anywhere that was isolated no matter how tranquil. Love yo drive through remote villages around Britain as they are very quaint and beautiful and I like to admire the houses and gardens but there is no way I would move to one … well at least not for the foreseeable future… never say never lol.

Well last night I had the attack of the bloats again!!! I ended up having to get up and come downstairs to sit for a while and watched a programme on TV before heading back and eventually dropping off again. Then again I woke up flippin early and that was me … done with bed. Did 60 flights of stair runs, then popped out the back and used my new pull up bar that the lovely landscapers erected over my back gate for me managed 6 kipping pull ups. Then got set up to paint the colour on the wall. Got that done but I think it needs another coat. Popped out the back gate to where all the garden stuff was stored and picked up all the remaining slate off the ground where it had been left and filled a couple of bags full, I will use them to put in the top of the pots when I have some plants in them. Waste not want not. Wanted to spray paint my charity shop lanterns and started trying to cover the glass with tape to stop them getting paint on, what a faff, then I noticed that the glass just pops out quite easily doh!
Left them for a job tomorrow morning.

Sat down eventually about 2pm and had a brew and did a crossword to relax. Had a chicken leg and didn’t fancy anything after that till about 4pm when I had a small amount of goats soft cheese.

Probably eat a bit more chicken later. Thinking the bloats may have been from too much fat … ie from the cheapo sausages 2 days ago and then from the melted cheese and butter when I did the chicken for last nights meal. Any thoughts?

Sorry for long post… you can tell I haven’t had ny company today lol x

[robintemplin]

Thanks @Karen18
And I second your thoughts on @FrankoBear ‘s writing. Books and oxygen are my life force. I especially love good prose… richly descriptive and transportive. I keep several beloved poets within reach for my daily dose of goodwill, optimism and gratitude. I am guessing @FrankoBear has a love affair with the written word, as well.

[OldDoug]

GREAT picture.

[Azi]

Well as kind of expected chicken just doesn’t hold me for too long so i had two more thighs and cooked up a couple of roasted lamb shanks and ate half of one of those…the other put a side for lunch for my husband…

I went back to buy more lamb shanks but there was none so I bought clothes instead haha …Then I went to another store and they had a huge piece of top sirloin for 5.99 a lb so I grabbed a huge piece was 65 dollars but will break down into quite a few meals of steak…

So with no lamb shanks today will be steak day…