Oxtober Fest! - ZC Carnivore 31 day challenge October 2024

(Judy Thompson) #63

How beautiful, @FrankoBear and @LizinLowell, seasonal beauty at its best. I haven’t seen the 6 season description, this is all new. Liz your colors! That giant maple on fire against the brilliant color of your house with the backdrop of the woods and sky. Amazing!

(Liz ) #64

Thanks! This is a really pretty neighborhood. You know, we moved in with my mom so I could be her full time caregiver. She lives in the house I grew up in. We live in my childhood bedroom. It was a normal neighborhood when I was growing up in the 70s & 80s but since then it got kinda fancy which is weird but obviously not terrible news lol. Just disorienting. My husband and I have a small condo in an old mill city 30 miles north that we visit on days I have caregiver coverage so we can remember our lives from before everything turned upside down 6 1/2 years ago. Someday we’ll renovate it and move back in there. Meanwhile we’re trying to get the most out of living in mom’s town while we’re trapped here, pretending to be fancy enough to afford this neighborhood lol. Taking lots of walks to look at the pretty old houses when we can.

#65

Beautiful trees and clear blue sky, Liz. Seems like some gardening planned with the straw bales at that blue house. I was telling Mrs Bear that I liked rainy days (we had a good one on Sunday) because our rain water supply tanks fill, we are not attached to the mainstream grid, and I like the drumming on the metal roof, and being warm and dry inside with a snoring Labrador. But I also like sunny, clear days, for the warmth and sunshine and being outdoors and watching life in every corner. She said, you just like every day. I guess I do.

Food and eating becomes a lesser importance in the sea of contentment that can be enjoyed when looking around and appreciating moments and beauty. I crave time more than I crave food these days.

Speaking of steak, I had a pork chop for a change last night with scrambled eggs and a fillet of a white fish known as a Barramundi. It was quite a change from ruminant red meat and eggs. I have been having 4-egg omelettes to break fast at about lunch time. Those are cooked in butter. And I have been wondering about doing a butter eating day (Is that a Dr. Bos thing?) because the local spring-time butter is so delicious just as a food. Interestingly I don’t need or think of bacon with the eggs when I have spring butter. I finished off the biltong (air dried beef strips) last night as an appetiser while I was cooking on the woodfire stove on a fresh, cool south wind, spring night. South is Antarctica across the ocean, here in topsy-turvy land.

(KM) #66

We seem to have had a rather startling drop off of the core carnivore cabal this month! No more social chit chat. :frowning: Have they all left for, well, redder pastures, or just gotten busy with the fall?

#67

I like to think they are wonderfully healthy and don’t need the forum support any longer. Once people are healthy, there lives get busier as unhealthy people give the healthy ones more work to do. It is a levelling effect. The trick is to always look a bit poorly, even if you are brimming with energy and vitality. That way you can quarantine some of the benefits for your own enjoyment and needs, before sharing it out too much with family and community.

#68

I’m thinking that we finish up the monthly carnivore challenges this month and resorb ourselves back into the general low carb chit-chat. We have been going for almost 5 years - started November 1st, 2019.

#69

I probably won’t even try carnivore then… It’s fine, maybe I should go for extreme low net carb from non-animal sources, I always suspected that’s what I should do anyway… But I will miss these threads. Well the old ones with activity, Fangs and whatnot… I probably will stay away from the forum most of the time, it’s positive…
I do lose maybe 80% of my social life but that’s my personal problem :smiley: I need to find some art community anyway, I am a social one when it comes to art.

Oh well. I will remember this community fondly. And most of the members will be around, right? Probably many have or will have their own thread to post the little personal things that can’t fit into other, more specific topics… But they may just not post them anywhere. And I should stop doing or seeing something and thinking “I will tell them to the carnivores!”… Maybe I need an imaginary friend or two. Once I tried to make an imaginary mentor (as I was positive I was good enough to give good advice to myself) but it didn’t work out.

(Megan) #70

I’m not much of a talker, and even less a chit chatter, but I value this forum and should post more. Most of my postings tend to be in response to newcomers, and I’m really missing @PaulL because he can provide the kind of info my brain just won’t hold onto.

The artificial sweeteners in the meal replacements, protein powder and protein bars I used pre-op and immediately post-op have made staying carni a real struggle some days and I haven’t always won the battle. I’m craving sweet tasting foods and meat has stopped tasting good and satisfying. I’m annoyed it’s a struggle and look forward to it not being a struggle to stay on plan.

Weight loss has been at a crawl the past 3-4 months but it’s still happening so that’s good. Another 5-10kg and I’m done. That won’t put me within the so-called healthy range on the BMI but being 6’3" I don’t look good that thin, especially now I’m older.

#71

6 lamb loin chops last night cooked on the fire in their own fat. Then I pan fried a 200g Camembert cheese. They bloat up as they melt inside. Then when you cut them over the red meat they flow out like lava, the white rind making a nice texture variation.

Chicken egg omelettes for breakfast fried in butter. We have had a bit of old vintage cheddar available this week, so that has been crumbled into the eggs. It’s a very satisfying breakfast. A coffee with cream to wash it down and some magnesium tablets.

I tried to make ice cream with heavy cream, a shot of coffee, salt and egg yolks. It did not go well. But I love the idea that a raw egg yolk suspended in the clear albumin is a sterile fat source and can be eaten raw (or, at least, frozen).

(KM) #72

Wow, I’m so asleep this morning! That sounded very exotic to me, I had to puzzle over this wacky carnivore concept for a second. What are those crazy kids using chicken eggs for now? :rofl:

(Bean) #73

Fall has been busy. I had an aunt pass away last week and I’m doing both my regular job and faculty pre-term requirements right now.

I should post a proper update.

(Bean) #74

I am happily eating my way through my quarter of beef these days. Hubby is pleased with the small flat top Blackstone griddle on the porch. No more smoke in the house and food comes out tasty. I cook and he does the kitchen clean up, so his job is easier, too.

I’ve never really cleared up my sinus infection because I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic. So every time I’m near dogs or mold, it flares back up. Since we are remodeling a house, and I seem to have a very dog-filled life, it happens fairly often. I tried to call my allergist but they are closed for an emergency?

We changed the carpet in our bedroom yesterday, so fingers crossed that removing twenty years of dog dander will help. I’m dog sitting for a doberman, though, so I’ll be visiting an outside dog for at least a week.

Weight. I’m finally, very slowly creeping down after a year long stall and then a five pound gain. I’ve got one pound before I’m no longer “overweight” and about five (2.25kg) before most of my clothes fit again. It was kind of a three-pronged approach.

  • No dairy or eggs for 30 days (I had a little dairy around day 40- but am headed for the end of November without either. That will make it more like 10 weeks.)
  • OMAD 6 days a week.
  • The last is a little more complicated and may or may not be a factor: ADHD management… which helps impulse control.

I’m back on half dose of Buporpion (also helps with season depression. Thank you dark mornings) added B6, B12, and am transitioning from coffee to supplemental caffeine. No one is going to write a script for me at this point for a stimulant, and there is a shortage anyhow. My doctors and teachers always said I was “hyperactive” as a kid. I’ve made it this far without micro dosing on meth, so I guess I’ll continue. I’ve considered meditation, but walking in the woods is kind currently my version of that.

#75

Best luck with that!!!

I can relate. It surely can work instead in some cases, I only consider meditation when I have some stubborn pain or something as walks don’t help with that and meditation might.

Beautiful day. Sunny, warm and everything! The trees are still quite beautiful in the garden (well the ones who still have leaves, the old apricot tree is done - poor thing is old and maybe never will have fruits anymore but we keep it until it’s alive! it is quite pretty in autumn and we are softies -, the pear trees aren’t far behind. but the sour cherry has the most beautiful bright reddish orange/yellow foliage! it never had much fruit despite being quite big but it is good for aesthetics in autumn! :D), we have various flowers (but the summer lilac is done. it is pretty for quite a few months but it’s over already), I collected some (pretty) leaves. I started it in time and I have more compost mounds anyway so there is no problem.

Smoked pork hock is just one of the tastiest things ever, I always realize this when we cook some. That is my main meat now. I would make some usual leaner pork but we spent our income for the month and if we can do no shopping (except eggs and maybe raw vegs for Alvaro, those are the items we regularly must buy), we won’t. The fridge has enough meat considering I have so many other protein sources so I consider it a challenge.
I need to go to the dentist but that cost is way too high so Alvaro doesn’t do the basic income vs cost thing for that to begin with. It’s like when the car needs some major thing, it’s impossible to fit, no matter what.
I have lots of quark to eat, I mistakenly opened the newer package so I have a few days to eat 1kg of quark, not like it’s hard. I will make quark quiche and a savory quark spread popular here, Alvaro will help me to eat the latter too.
I need to put my eating and drinking into order, I tend to eat too early when Alvaro is at home (I did get hungry yesterday, after our big walk. we have found so many lovely mushrooms, it’s a joy of autumn and it doesn’t matter I almost never want to eat any, they are still pretty and add variety… I don’t even like to cook boring food for Alvaro, it bores me and he is the one who eats them, without any problem! but I probably could have wait and my hunger would have gone away. but I just can’t wait when I am hungry, Alvaro has lunch and we have fresh good food. pork hocks cooked into tenderness, I had a decent amount with a lot of fat as that is all mine), I drink too much coffee and I don’t even enjoy it (now I try to measure everything to figure out a good combination. I usually just made things random, sometimes it worked, sometimes not)… And of course, I don’t do carnivore, I should go back or super near already though the meat and egg restrictions (we barely have any7 eggs again, not even 30) make it tricky. Maybe I should just stop eating, that surely would do lots of good… But how could I do that? Okay, skipping lunch then, it’s challenging enough. I tend to eat way too much. Even high protein (the magic number, 130g) isn’t enough if my first meal is too early.

Sorry for the mushroom/fruit tree topic, maybe? But they aren’t food here but beauty. For real, 3 kinds of the mushrooms were very, very pretty, some inspired me as an artist. I started to draw again. I don’t know why I ever stop, it’s so important for me so something is very broken in me, since long.

Oh! Alvaro got a new phone. With 4(?) lenses… Oh my, and it was the cheapest possible model for his purposes :smiley: Way too big (makes NO sense, a phone is too tiny to make it any) resolution, thankfully one doesn’t must use that! We don’t know how pretty is the result yet, I shouldn’t forget to check it, I made some shot yesterday… Maybe it will be okay for food photos, not like I would bother with them often but sometimes I do.

#76

Well all our challenges are almost done. 5 years of carnivore chat. I went into the toxic city yesterday and felt as though I could take it on.

Lamb loin chops in the frypan tonight.

(KM) #77

Well if you do, I hope you continue posting these wonderful updates on your life. It’s been one of the highlights of the forum for me.

(Bean) #78

I do understand the need to wrap this up. That effectively wraps up the whole forum for me, though. I’ll pop in occasionally, of course.

I’m setting some challenges for myself for November. Onward.

(Megan) #79

Why is there a need to wrap this up, just because we’re having a quiet period?

(Robin) #80

Up to you guys.
We go through quiet phases frequently then bounce back.
Megan, go ahead and start one and see how it goes.

Noburgerfest - ZC Carnivore Cruise November 2024
(Megan) #81

November thread up. Please close this one

(Robin) closed #82