Days 6 & 7.
on plan + coffee.
having an RA flare and allergies are kicking me. Windy day in ragweed season. Very ouchy.
Stay-On-Plan September - ZC Carnivore 30 day challenge September 2024
beannoise
(Bean)
#41
FrankoBear
#43
Thanks Bean. The plan did not go as planned. The steak I ate last night was fab, though. The corporate/research event was really good - I did not eat any of the offerings there. Finally made it back to the homestead yesterday via the biltong shop. Ducked out to a film event with Mrs. Bear on arriving home - currently there are film and art festivals running locally. That’s my jam. If there was a hippy, environmental one as well, I’d be in heaven.
Made the dog her carnivore and bone broth-rich dinner last night. Intense nutrition as she recovers from knee surgery. She had an animal physio appointment last week and the physio is dumb-founded at how fast she heals. Hint: no processed pet food for Billie.
While I was making Billie dinner, I was visited by a few heartbeats of chaos. By the time I had my cattleman’s steak on the fire, I was in AF again. This time all night. I took my gut to the maximum tolerance on magnesium. Six diuretic toilet trips through-out the night. This morning I went and stood in a long, hot, shower. When I stepped out, my heart rate was back to regular and 60bpm. The shower is usually one of the last steps in the protocol before going to the hospital emergency department.
On the Friday night after the work event I grabbed some ‘fast food’ for dinner - a rotisserie chicken and a roast pork dinner. I ate half the chicken, removed the vegetables from the roast pork dinner, but it still had tenacious gravy, and ate the meat. I have not had roast pork for awhile, but have been eating bacon. I may have eaten a trigger?
Today I had 3 very large chook eggs cooked in butter to celebrate normal heart beats.
Tonight it’s the drive back to the city for work tomorrow.
kib1
(KM)
#44
I’m sorry for your AFib and glad you came through it at home, but also pretty sure “tenacious gravy” is the most interesting phrase I’ll hear all day. They should title an indy film with it, maybe an animated short. 
Shinita
#46
I really like this sentence.
It is definitely an idea! 
I went off a bit but I will be back tomorrow. And hopefully I will last waaaaaaay longer. I have every reason to believe I will, I had circumstances I won’t have from now on. The same for coffee that came back as usual…
We bought 2 small hens (the ones for soup are always small and tasty. they were bigger than usual but still just 1.1 and 1.5kg. just the cleaned animal without organs, head, necks or feet. well one had the heart… oh and the lungs are always in as they are not sold separately) and I cooked them today. I have a nice soup, I used some lean pork too. At least the pork was lean, the hen was extremely far from that. Huuuge blobs of fat, especially in one of the two. Now I have a ton of schmalz 
And I already had a lot of lard. What will I do with them?! I barely use any added fat per week! It’s good I plan making a nice chicken heart and liver stew soon but that doesn’t need very much either. Oh well, the lard is long-lasting and I froze a lot of schmalz. And I won’t buy fresh fatty meat for a long while. So no pork shoulder or chicken for the next months I suppose. Except the little in the freezer.
It was the last day of summer, forecast says. I really hope so. I had more than enough, I can’t handle it. My sleeping is horrible. Enough but not right, I sleep a bit, wake because it’s too hot, use the A/C, try to go to sleep, I am bad at it… Then I wake up too early as Alvaro comes downstairs where I sleep… I need my own not too hot room.
And we probably get A/C upstairs next year…
beannoise
(Bean)
#47
Day 8: pork belly, chicken, ground beef, tea.
Shoulder still a little flared. Allergies settled. Took a nice hike today with hubby. Dreading work tomorrow.
Shinita
#48
Tiny rain, COOL weather! Gloomy. I had an okay sleep except when mosquito bites woke me up, I feel rested but sleepy/moody. If not feeling much is moodiness. I definitely don’t feel I am up to anything. That’s bad as I have so many plans. We will see. The mornings are always the worst, I am super low energy there with very rare exceptions.
I blame this for my coffee with cream in the morning. Oh well, I can accept it for today.
I have thought long and hard and decided on pork loin roast and fresh sausages. The one to make bratwurst from. And I make sponge cakes and will eat it with cheese and the light pâté… It’s edible but I probably won’t buy it again. I won’t have my meat ready until lunchtime so I suppose I will eat up the leftover very lean pork (Alvaro planned to eat it he is fine with any normal protein for his veggie dish so I make cheesy fluff and tomorrow he can have some nice pork loin roast. It’s such a good food, lean but we both like it a lot). I need something to balance out my fatty items but I am quite fine with a few bites of very lean pork when hungry. I just can’t make a meal of it.
But I expect overeating as I have gribenes. But it’s not fatty (maybe I should add back schmalz) so maybe not. I won’t know as I can’t track gribenes. Or there is some vague data about it? I haven’t found it but it’s fine, it’s a rare thing in my life anyway and I don’t track every day.
I still have sore arm muscles but it’s not a big deal so I will make my full body workout if I manage to bring myself to it. I was so enthusiastic yesterday… I expect very good sleep from now on, in my own bed in cool air…
Shinita
#49
I have found an older pic. 5th of September:
Yesterday (I didn’t even try to make a proper pic there was too little time, we still don’t have a proper lens and my skills didn’t get any better):
I put the heart into the pan along with the fat and skin and forgot about it
Today I lasted until lunch just fine, yay! Things went back to normal. I still had milky and creamy coffees so it’s not perfect but I had a not so great sleep again and I felt sooo miserable. Anyway, I need to eat up this bag of cream so resisting coffee will be hard. I still try it from now on, again.
Today’s lunch wasn’t particularly enjoyable. The pork loin was too dry… To me, at least, Alvaro enjoyed it. He will eat a bunch of it and I will manage with some sauce or salami or whatever. But I can’t base a whole meal on this. So today was a little of this, a little of that, again. I had:
- soup with lean pork (I forgot about the hen meat this time, I will eat it later)
- pork loin roast (it needed more than 2 hours and it was disappointing though edible. the good pork loin roasts are so amazing though)
- 2 eggs, fried. it should have been more moist, it’s not my day cooking wise… I had Masdaam cheese pieces with it but it wasn’t nearly as good as a moist scrambled eggs with grated cheese.
- creamy coffee, of course
My dinner was tiny and my appetite was borderline negative… No lean meat for me now, please, that was my state. So I ate sponge cake with cheese and salami (way too fatty, how can Alvaro love that stuff? the same fat content as dry sausage but it oozes with fat and I never was into salami. this one has lots of paprika, that makes it a bit better but not my thing. Alvaro can keep it). And whipped cream Just a bit. I think lunch skipping will be quite tempting tomorrow (unless my appetite changes). I will manage my food joy needs with baking pancakes for Alvaro. I think I had enough cheese and quark for a while so I don’t even have tempting options for it. So I just make some for him, with starch. With 1/20th of the “normal” amount, even he never liked those super floury ones and his Mom makes those. And kids love that kind…? I loved Mom’s extra eggy ones but of course, the even more eggy ones are even better. It’s so great when food gets better when healthier. My pancake isn’t that milky but I don’t miss that. It needs some dairy but doesn’t need to be milk 
I take notes but still don’t track. Maybe later.
Karen18
(Karen)
#50
@beannoise so sad to hear about losing Nellie. My mum was an animal lover and always had waifs and strays but oh did she get beside herself when their time had come to an end.
oh dear …dreading work tomorrow …brings back memories… i always dreaded tomorrow when i was a Prison Officer…even worse was when it was a 13 hour shift!
Good to hear about your meds decrease! A sure sign your heading in the right direction.
@FrankoBear pray you are through those A Fibs and out the other side. What is is that makes us eat something we know will be a trigger food? I can do this at night by eating chicken too late or scoffing down too much cheese before bed then my brain goes into over load!
Beautiful photos again.
@robintemplin i am so like you, I can’t bear to think of how the meat got to the table and not sure how i would cope if I had to go out and hunt for it myself! I can’t bear to kill anything, even an insect. I may have to starve😖
Again, like you i don’t get bored eating the same thing over and over… do you suppose it is a sign that we are to be carnivore? It certainly makes life very easy. I can remember when i got married first time round and i used to have a diary put together by shwartzkoph spices … and at the beginning of each month i would sit down and write a different meal for each day, then write down a shopping list for every ingredient i would need…it kept the food bill down but how tedious was that?! Just to make sure my hubby didn’t get ‘bored’ with his meals… heavens i must have been in love! 
@Shinita thank you … yes Freddie is as cute as… and very heavy now. I promise to post a few more photos of him along the way. It is pleasing to know how much you enjoy seeing them x
@JJFiddle time will pass quickly and i expect you will be right… on Saturday mornings they sometimes run a childrens class at CrossFit. The children love it. The coach who started our Box has 2 little boys…5 and 3 and they both have their own barbell! They love doing a little workout alongside their Daddy…he-s very good with them. I can see Freddie getting a little Barbell too when he gets to their age as his Mum and Dad are also CrossFitters!
Well we survived last week in the Peak district…it was murky damp weather for the few days we were there. It was quite tiring with the little one… i suppose i am just not used to the constant noise level and by the thursday afternoon he was getting quite unsettled. He didn’t sleep well and poor Mum was getting very tired and so she went home that evening so both she and Freddie could try to get some sleep … which apparently they did! It wasn’ quite the holiday Ben really likes but he did remarkably well and when Freddie got a bit loud, which was really just the coos and giggles… not a lot of crying, Ben just took himself off to the other sitting room or upstairs to his bedroom. I may take him on my own next year so he gets what he wants as a holiday.
Food was pretty good, we found a really good friendly pub where the staff were patient and understanding with both baby’s and Bens needs and the food was good. I had a starter of korean Belly Pork, both nights as it was very tasty. They served 8t exactly how i asked with just the belly pork and i think they may have given me a bit more than if i had had the sides with it! Crispy and fatty yum! First night i followed it with a pork ribeye… never had one before and it started off nice but got a bit chewy and was hard to eat. The taste was good though. Forgot to photo the ribeye. Second night i followed it with hot wings… i though at forst ot was coated in just spice but as i was eating it i guessed they may be other ingredients too 
i couldn’t eat them all as they were quite big. It was actually a starter but they had two sizes, small and large to choose from and i chose large as a main. It tasted nice but in my head i couldn’t stop thinking about the coating and how i would react to it later. My gut did react to it during the night and it felt as though i had a blockage in my colon … just where you would feel a stitch in your side !
The omelette was gorgeous… just a midday lunch at a little obscure cafe in Buxton but oh my it was good. It was fresh salmon and cheese! … so so good.
The last night before Sian ledt she suggested a take away meal as Freddie was getting unsettled so we decided of a donner and shish kebab so i could just eat meat… oh dear it was awful…haven’t eaten one in years and my memories were of my days serving in Germany and i used to absolute love there kebabs and the meat was always tender and delish. This was quite the opposite! Dry and tasteless … never again lol that night i had another blockage in my colon… should have just cooked up some sausages n eggs and i am sure Ben would have preferred that too!
Dropped Ben off on the Friday back to his home and i have to admit it was good to be home and looking forward to proper home cooked basic food.
Saturday and CrossFit couldn’t come quick enough and it felt good to be moving again. Dawdling around doesn’t cut it for me now… speed walking to CrossFit and a puffy hard workout the speed walking home and off dancing all night in Cranwell… that’s what life is all about in my neck of the woods!
Crossfit again yesterday which was good …and tomorrow…and looking forward to a dancing weekend away in Dawlish, Devon this Friday with Raymond. Yay! Already contacted the hotel regarding my dietary needs 
The last foodie pic, the 2 big kebabs …well i actually ate 6! Were indian spiced beef and meant to be grilled but i don’t have a grill so fried them and they were lovely…surprising enough. I have another packet but will freeze them for another time. So first 3 pics were in Peak district … the rest are since being back home.
beannoise
(Bean)
#51
Day 10 was off plan.
I’ve had not great luck with my beef this week. Maybe I need to eat some lamb ribs.
I need to decide what to do with the dozen duck eggs that showed up at my house yesterday. And the road trip this weekend. I feel awful this morning from being off plan, but also when I’m meat only carnivore my allergies usually settle down, but they keep getting flared up. I’m tired of not feeling good.
I put out feelers for the duck eggs a couple months ago, so I don’t want to be discouraging to my supplier.
It’s review time at work. Ack. I got good feedback on my interviews from Friday. I hope I get an offer. I know they want to offer me, so the fact that they haven’t really concerns me.
I’m in front of engineering students today. They are usually fun, so I hope it’s a good day.
Geezy56
(Geoffrey)
#52
Grilled over a wood fire some venison burger with bacon mixed in. Bacon wrapped dove and a couple of t-bones.
While dove hunting a couple of days ago I was also able to take a wild hog. I ran out of hog meat a while back so it’s nice to have fresh meat again.
Shinita
#53
Are there people who need that? We need variety too but it doesn’t mean Alvaro can’t eat the same dessert 50 times a month (yeah, it’s his most monotone thing, I couldn’t do it) or we can’t eat the same food for 5 days - just one course from many though! (And for him, his dessert. And bread 20+ days per month.)
My most monotone point is my fried pork. It’s an every day thing - but I use at least 4 different cuts so there is variety. Eggs are varied by themselves… And cream is impossible to get bored of.
But now I really want to go for simple. I will try to really lower my dairy consumption, at least on the days when I am pleased and quite into my meat. But I can use different meats anyway… I probably need that. Except if I make a pork chuck day as that is perfect with only a little else.
I will run out of milk and cream soon and then I just won’t open another box for a long time, at least that is the plan. I already barely ever touch sour cream or butter. Cheese is something I eat but it’s just one thing to focus on. As long as I have a nice variety of meats, I can keep it low I suppose. We will see.
It’s noon and I am already hungry (I blame the cream I had). Oh well, maybe a little lean meat will help. At least I will be able to eat more of it today.
Did I say I did my full body workout (in 2 days but still), it was sooo long ago I did the whole thing last time and I can raise the weights for biceps and back! Yay! I was stuck at 2x9kg for biceps since… IDK, possibly way more than a year? Yes, I skipped times but I skipped other exercises more (if I do one exercise, that’s biceps) and I still got improvement… Finally.
I will focus on my workouts more now. Summer ended, finally, it should help. The mosquitoes in the house should die out and then I won’t have much sleep problems.
The soil is nice damp now, I sowed some seeds! Vegs, a herb and a decorative plant. I never used the autumn but now I will. We will see what will be successful. Alvaro’s Mom gave me the idea as she does the same thing, just with different plants.
Oh I need to plant the new tulip and crocus bulbs too! But that isn’t so time sensitive.
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I had some lean pork for pre-lunch and soup with chicken for lunch. And a bite of salami. And creamy/milky coffees. My day is simple this far and quite low-cal too.
By the way, I always get perfectly satiated at dinner now. My dinner isn’t even big but still, I feel zero temptation to eat later even if I actually open the fridge as I weigh this and that (I don’t track but take notes so I can do it later)… I simply can’t eat after dinner, zero urge of any kind. It shouldn’t be a big thing but I often had problems with this before so I appreciate what I have. But if it’s like this because I eat a ton, it’s no good. But I eat leaner now… I think… I really should track already, it shouldn’t take much time and I am curious.
Congrats! It’s kind of nice but too lean to my liking. I don’t know why. I love pork, I love game… But wild pigs are too lean. I still can eat them, they are not bad at all but well, I like it fattier.
WHY I am fine with lean deer I don’t know. Maybe because I am not used to fatty ruminants? 
Or leanness fits ruminant meat better… It fits rabbit meat too but I only had domesticated ones. And fish and fowl (though I do prefer them a bit fattier). Pigs are special, at least for me. Alvaro LOVES super lean meat. Chicken breast, the leanest pork, super lean fish? Yes please. I tolerate certain lean meats if they are moist and tender and don’t want to become my whole meal. But fatty meat wins, hands down. And added fat doesn’t help much.
Still, I wouldn’t say no to some wild hog!
beannoise
(Bean)
#55
That’s a legitimate reason to take off work, right? “I need to hop across the pond to deliver eggs to my friend Karen.” 
beannoise
(Bean)
#57
My friend Nix came to my library for students to pet her today. If you look carefully, she has a badge on her collar. Don’t tell the students, but I’m her favorite.
(I’m not sure if I am, but her handler thinks it’s funny that she always seeks me). I probably smell like steak. I also don’t wear or use anything with fragrance. I can’t image how strong those products are to a bloodhound.
Anyhow. I’m hitting the breaks on my 30 day until Monday. Between the ragweed, dogs, and a haircut today, I’ve got enough antihistamine in my system to put a bear to sleep. I’ll enjoy my eggs, road trip on Sunday, and figure out my plan for next week.
This is Big Z. Four weeks into the classes, the students don’t miss their parents, but they do miss their pets, so we bring a therapy dog group in for visits.
Shinita
#58
Lovely dogs I never was a cat person and not a dog person, I love them all And rats and spiders and snakes and most animals except parasites and bloodsuckers.
I wondered about how chill my eating is this week. Except the coffee drinking but I managed to stop, again. And I barely had to cook for Alvaro! He eats my food, he eats the carnivore cheesy fluff I only bake for him (but I made my own sponge cake buns at the same time)… And I only make something more when I fancy it. Sweet! Today and tomorrow I make meat/eggs in purgatory for lunch. The breasts from those 2 little hens last really long for him but he did help me out with the lean pork loin… And he can play with half a little rabbit for days too…
Pork chuck is defrosting. Finally some meat that is perfect all alone, just with salt. And I won’t need to put non-carnivore condiments or sauces on it… I have difficulties with my lean meat, you see but I only put some tiny thing on some bites. Good enough for me this week.
I eat my bratwurst super slowly, half a day My hunger is surprisingly little now. No way I ate much, I haven’t tracked though. But no cheese for yesterday, 2 eggs, some (mostly lean) meat, some cream and milk but it couldn’t be much, some quark… Good.
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Alvaro brought home the first (and probably last) melon in 2024… I better keep my remaining days of the week carnivore-ish. No regrets, of course, it was awesome. Unneeded, I made peace with not eating any this year, it wasn’t hard… And then he goes and does this. On a day when I can’t say no but I am not in denial, I have no chance in this situation anyway. Oh well, it’s over.
I managed to eat up all the lean pork I don’t need for tomorrow’s peasant’s breakfast (the first time I managed the write peasant instead of pheasant! I think I always catch it but still… :D). Dinner was tiny, a little leftover meat and salami and a bite of cheese. And half a pancake, that was leftover too, I mean the dough, I always freshly fry them. It was such a bright yellow thing, I needed that on this gloomy day.
At dinnertime (normally there is sunshine and it’s almost the hottest point of the day) we had 12 Celsius and rain. Wow. I actually am really cold outside, Alvaro said that the similar temperature was cold for him in his shorts and t-shirt before sunset… He ran so he needed that outfit. He runs like that until 7 Celsius (that’s about 45 Fahrenheit). Oh my… That’s cold!!! I woke up… 14C and no sunshine? I had no desire to go out at all! I am still used to hot weather, not this!
But it’s fine. It will get better and almost everything is better than summer temps.
Oh and I am below 79kg again. IDK if it’s water weight or true loss this time, we will see what happens in the future. I feel I got the hang of it. Food isn’t much on my mind, at least not eating. Just thinking about food or cooking is still nice. But I don’t overdo it.
Karen18
(Karen)
#59
Yesterdays food…
Todays food…
Cheesy scrambled 3 eggs…korean chicken, chucked the glaze in the bin and rollmop herrings.
Today CrossFit…
Good puffy workout after speed walking to the box and then speed walking home again. Packed suitcase for the weekend away… i have to pack so much when we go on a dancing weekend… far more than my few days in Peak District, i didn’t even take a hair dryer or make-up! I need everything for the weekend lol also need the BP monitor, my daily books plus meds plus coffee plus this plus that … all my hair stuff to keep it curly arrrgghh! All the home comforts … hate hotels! And they never have a good hair dryer with diffuser…! And i only have a little 2 seater Smart car! Only bonus is we are guaranteed a great weekend but it will be over in a flash!
Moan over up early in the morning and taking some cooked sliced chicken to eat on the way rather than looking for a cafe.
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#60
On the road since the 2nd, have been checking in but doing okay, making it work. We left VA yesterday and will get to Chicago in about an hour. Lots of renovation in VA and moved my daughter’s furniture to our house. She broke up with her bf and I said she should take my cabin on the cruise in Nov and I shouldn’t go. But she’s staying with him on the cruise and now I’m back on… Kids. Go figure. I do know he doesn’t want to let her go.
I love walking the dog in VA, something I haven’t been doing in TX, but I’m going to start back again. It feels good to have 3000 steps before coffee!
Foodwise I’m on plan - ZC - except in restaurants so probably 85-90% carnivore. Blood sugar is staying very low at night - 55 to 73 - and spiking to 125 after meals… Not diabetic. Which I would likely be on any carbs.
@FrankoBear did you end up taking the GLP-1? Just wondering about that.
@beannoise beautiful dogs!