Sometimes our body just wants what it wants, without any rhyme or reason. Part of me has given up trying to figure it all out. 
My goal for March is to stay off the God-forsaken scale (starting tomorrow😬). That stupid thing has dictated my mood for too long. I need to be free of it! Wish me luck-I’m going to need it!
Hi Everyone, I can’t believe it is March already! It will be one year on the 10th since the social distancing started in Virginia. OMG!
My vow for March was to not use carnivore snack type foods: no beef sticks, no pork rinds. I have to admit, it was challenging not to give in today. I don’t have quite enough non processed foods to eat if I need a snack. I will have to work on that.
Usually I eat breakfast around 10 or 10:30 am, have a late afternoon snack, and then dinner. Today I learned that I really shouldn’t snack. If I’m hungry I should just eat a meal. I had breakfast a little early this morning, so I was hungry around 3 pm. Dinner wasn’t going to be ready until 6, so I ate a couple of carnivore waffles (bacon and eggs) and about two ounces of steak. I was just feeling crummy with low energy. As soon as I ate dinner, 1/2 pound of hamburger and 4 baby back ribs, my energy returned. So, I’m adding to my goals for March: no snacks, just whole meals.
I’m glad that everyone else is doing well. I enjoy our little group. I would love to meet each and every one of you in person.
@Karen18, you are an inspiration with your dedication to getting those stair climbs in. I do body weight strength training and jogging, but not a fan of high intensity. More power to you!
@Redrobins, good luck with staying off the scale. I’m one who likes to weigh every morning. It’s funny, but I’ve actually gotten to the point where I can look at myself and tell what I am going to weigh within about a pound. I’m short, so 5 pounds makes a difference between looking lean or doughy. 
I find that keeping busy and not at home makes me less likely to want to eat between meals. I know the pandemic isn’t helping, particularly since I’m home so much now. I hope you can figure out something that works for you.
@Fangs, did you notice any differences with cutting back on salt?
I made these yesterday. I make chaffles for the family, but I can’t eat dairy. Now I have a carnivore waffle I can eat. It is actually pretty tasty!
I will do this in a few days I think (I can’t squeeze such a thing into my tomorrow, I have nice plans), I happen to have some bacon now. I use them as they are, in tiny cubes first.
No idea about the weight of bacon strips (well they aren’t the same for sure) but I get the 1:1 ratio if I use 5g bacon for every egg.
I don’t have a properly working waffle maker, just a sylicon waffle mold but we will see. In the worst case (and in the first one I am sure) I will have an interestingly shaped bacon omelette, it’s something 
Thank you, @Shinita. You’re right – the honeymoon phase is over. I am still motivated though. I do have some tasty herbal teas and such.
Thanks @VirginiaEdie. I will figure it out. The recipe looks interesting!
These two are just having a rest. Baked for about 40 minutes in a 150’C oven. I’m doing morning cooking. It’s a sunny morning.
Summer is still here. But the local aboriginal people gift us a different calendar with six seasons. It’s more accurate than a translocated 4 season European calendar. We get two ‘summers’! Yay! We are in second summer. It’s the season of white flowers when coastal tea trees and some eucalyptus trees bloom. This season is called Bunuru. We also have cyclone season in the tropics to the north. And sometimes those storms come spinning down the coast from thousands of kilometres away to bring some rain.
We live off-grid in the woods. I watch the weather and the charts. There is a tropical low inching its way south toward us. It’s hot and humid here. The humidity signals the approach of the unstable tropical air. Like the atmosphere in a room changes when an ex-spouse walks in. And I’m cooking rib-eye steaks with part of the rib bone cut off to make them into “cattleman” steaks, and easier to bake (or I need to get a bigger oven pan). It’s because that low pressure system will bring cloudy days. We need to be frugal with our electricity use. So, while it’s sunny, I can cook, and wash clothes, and build stuff, and have a hot shower. But on cloudy days that will be dense clouds and rain for a few days it’s candlelit nights of conversation and dinners of pre-prepared whole foods. That’s so we don’t wastefully drain our battery storage. With power comes responsibility. So, the fridge, freezer and water pump have enough power.
In winter we have a wood stove to offset the cloudy days. In summer the bushfire risk is too high to light a fire for cooking and kettle boiling.
I liked the start of February. It felt good. Ingredients for March will be mackerel, salmon, eggs, some butter, and beef steak in different delicious cuts. Coffee will be dairy free. Cheese reduction will be a goal. I’ll drop in daily salty beef bone broth as a psychological wedge.
During this March I’m aiming for more waist loss and alert consciousness. Waist loss not weight loss, as weight loss is a waste.
I dropped a 2 inch pants size early in February when I tightened up the carnivore britches. Then had some dietary roller coaster riding. But that waist loss has stayed for the start of March.
Today’s eating is on plan.
This makes all kinds of sense to me.
Portland, OR, has 6 seasons as well: Mud, Flowers, Dust, Wildfire Smoke, Apples, and Mud. We have more than one kind of mud, you should see our carpets.
Do you drink your coffee cold in summer? Not that that’s a bad thing…
Yes, often. Iced long black. Or, a cold double espresso from the fridge extended out with cold rain water to fill a stainless steel milkshake cup.
Hot coffee for cold mornings, cold coffee for hot summer days (usually mid-November until the end of March).
Sometimes, like now, I wonder what a “Carnivoor Affogato” would be like? Named after @Carnivoor Vic and his carnivore ice cream (from February). Pour a hot double shot stove top El Salvador (nutty) brew over a Carnivoor ice cream boule.
Hi guys I’m going to jump in here this month if that’s ok and see how it goes… End of this month will be 11 months of ketovore for me the last 5 days I’ve pushed bacon in an attempt to try get satiation back that I wasn’t getting from steak,and mushrooms…so far its really been helping the hunger has dropped and tonight I added in some pork belly to the mix…The side affect being bathroom issues but I been there before… so for now I’ll just put up with that.
My plan for now is try and cut snacking on pork rinds even though Ive bought them back to only eating at the end of a meal…and try and stick to two meals a day…I see Dr Cywes next week again so I’ll talk to him also.
My cholesterol results are in again and although my total cholesterol dropped my triglycerides are climbing good cholesterol is dropping not good …
I’m prob only 9lbs from my goal although dr cywes thinks I could end up 130 which is 13 -15 lbs…we will see…
Hi Linda,
Dont worry to much about the cholesterol, the levels are exactly what your body needs it to be that day. Today it could be something different, like totals higher and trigs lower etc. It was just a moment in time.
Hope you get to your goal
Welcome, Linda! The more the merrier!
Yeah, we need to tweak our woe sometimes… I still don’t know what the best fat/protein ratio for me but my body will decide. Now I go for fattier cuts and dropped my added fat intake to zero.
Another sunny day here. We have our least common, elusive season here: SPRING! It’s pretty normal for it just not being here or just for 1-2 weeks between a loooooooong winter and a long, coming early summer. I dislike that as I prefer spring and autumn (a long, warm one with an October perfect to take loooong walks in Nature). Winter is too boring, summer is too hot so exercise is hard.
But now it’s perfect. We don’t need heating during the day and little at night 
But it’s unusually warm for early March, there surely will be colder times.
I am too curious about the bacon womelette so I will do that today. My mind wasn’t proper last night and I didn’t read the recipe, obviously it must be mixed well together… Okay. I will try that. And then there will be various egg+meat things as I don’t clean my grounder just for this bacon thingie, I need to make others. I have meat for that purpose anyway.
I looked at my leftover pork. Enough for 2 meaty days but it looks tiny. I don’t know how I can sort this out in my mind, I am bad with being moderate with my main dish but it’s really dense and should be enough. Maybe I should add 1-2 chicken thighs as well (and stick to one meal if possible. I am ready for decent sized meals again)… Not today, I make chicken soup so there will be a little meat. Not much as it’s the boniest parts of a single chicken.
it is wonderful your thoughts on handling your goals is lasting longer now that is a key factor, longer on zc plan, the control of handling issues becomes very doable, so you hang in there and get’er done!
your cheese is my salt 
We got this! No stupid cheese or salt can beat us right? We got the superior brain power right? or do we? HAHA I am like you on my freezer, sometimes we have to just eat it down before stuffing new meat in it!
If that is what you desire then you have at it Newer to carnivore people flip around on needing and cutting back their fat intake, just listen to your body and just eat as it asks. And oh boy, delish fatty chunks on pork roasts and more, yum!
Oh I know you got this one! Sending good luck vibes 
I wish everyone would not stake all their efforts on a number. A scale number. It became the ruling factor of ‘dieting’ ya know, hey I was caught up in it like everyone but now on zc the scale faded into the past for me, well kinda, I still want to get on it every now and then and see a lower number LOL not having it rule our lives is so nice truly.
sending you a big high 5! I also gave up snacking and thought just like you, a meal is key. Just eat a meal and forget the ‘little eating’ which can put us out of balance. If you want food then eat a meal just like you said, when we do this we find a whole new pattern to our appetites and more so it is cool you are changing it up like this, you will be very well!!
Salt I cut back, but still a salter and some days I let loose and salted up alot LOL but this month is more control. Like others it is time to get a handle on something I do have control over…time to not be a wussy anymore and put in effort and see results and changes All of us together, we can do it!
That is just wonderful FB! Your FFFF treated you well and you are going into March full speed and on plan, with a delish pic of those fab steaks! I can’t wait to see how March treats you and what great updates that come your way on carnivore! Longer you hold carnivore tight the better the good benefits that come to you!
You always have such interesting posts to read, I sure enjoy them!
Could you just add a few batteries to your whole battery pack to get extended power use. One thing I know is many off grid solar people have a generator back up available, especially those in big winter situations with snow weather issues. You do have genny back up right?
HI and sure jump in and be carnivore with us! It is great you are close to goal and doing well. Nice thing about zero carb eating is your body finds its own end number, there is no real lose whatever to goal, many people do go lower and settle on their bodies set point ya know. Just need all in time and commitment to carnivore and things happen Happy you are on the thread!
I think I got caught up with everyone.
WOW it was fab to read all these posts. What a bunch of great carnivores! Everyone attacking their own little goals they want to handle and we will…we are predators and we will change the few little things we wanna change We aren’t wishy washy individuals at all, we are go getters and will make changes as we need. I like that!!
-----------food yesterday was
pork ribs, really delish for first meal
steak and chicken paired for dinner
I did cut back the salt shaker. Making it a focus and forefront now.
My winter boredom eating is getting controlled better now. I eat alot when bored, big meat but with a few days of warmth and sun I see spring/summer coming now and my mind is flipping to eat less, move more. Out of hibernation time for me! Putting new batteries in my metal detectors, getting my kayak gear in order, working on the rv and getting ready for trips and more…all my outdoor focus is coming back to me and I love that! Mood way improved knowing we are mostly out of any snow/big ice times with early early spring jumping in and to me it is imperative since I am a hot weather person 
This is going to be a spectacular march thru this month for ALL OF US!
That’s significant. Congratulations!
If you don’t mind saying, where in Australia do you live?
I always listen to my body (well, acknowledge it and possibly ignore it but life is hard. I typically listen to it and my decisions and goals are based on it, I always know ignoring it is kind of wrong), I just find this very surprising. I liked my meat with the same fattiness and didn’t allow wriggle room, I immediately had to balance things out if I had a little leaner or fattier meat… (Sausage is special but I ate that in moderation. Until now.) And now it shifted suddenly and drastically, making my life a bit harder. It’s good I happen to have fattier meat right now but even that may be not enough.
We will see. Today I eat some bacon too, that’s fatty enough for sure…
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I had to use sausage to raise the fat content and I couldn’t get satiated with this plate so I added a bit more of everything:
It was a fine meal. 100g protein, 3g carbs (it’s still so exotic in my life :D)… I weightlifted and got hungry early so I finished it all when 3pm arrived.
I still drink coffee but black.
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50 minutes later I got hungry and ate some soup with meat as well. I hope I get back my proper, well-behaving hunger and satiation. And that’s why we should stick to our woe. But I usually don’t want to unstick at all, it just happens surreptiously and gradually. Dairy (sugar, not satiating and easily bringing the idea of desserts. definitely not my ally. sometimes helps but it’s easier to ignore it for now), a little condiment, a taste of this, a hint of that, a meal/drink just isn’t good without something not ideal but mostly harmless… And when my still mostly harmless relaxed times meet some weakness and a temporal “I don’t care (much)” attitude… Then chaos ensues. Not a huge one with much carbs but my behaviour and quality of life still changes for the worse.
I fear I got more sensitive. Something had to balance out my improving strength, I eat better than before and temptation out of the blue has little chance now. So my enemies do it subtly. Effective, I must say even if it takes days to tear my defences down most of the time.
But I can up my game. And it’s easier after some days, I am so curious what it takes to stay. Will I get bored and will I get ideas? For me loving my food is key (knowing it’s dangerous outside helps but it’s secondary) and I think I can avoid boredom, I have options.
Oh and today I realized it’s spring. The best season for carnivore. Winter has December (maybe I will handle it way better next year), summer and autumn are fruit seasons but spring is just perfect. Walks (I have those all year but it’s special in spring), flowers, renewal, making things better.
it isn’t surprising if you know the carnivore path thru others saying and experiencing just what you are dealing with. WE CHANGE ALOT if we hold plan and each of us will be a bit diff. in our needs but real change in how we want to eat will come and push all of our ‘I AM this type of eater’ to the background So you just hold carnivore and eat very well while doing it and you will find yourself changing alot with ‘less surprises’ since you know we change point blank and what we thought about ourselves doesn’t hold water on carnivore cause it makes our body truly rule the roost ya know
Go with the flow and bob and weave and eat as you need to eat. Doing this with carnivore will never be a wrong step!
so this is first meal…about 12:15 lunch time now and my first meal is starting to scream my name LOL…just boiled up my shrimp and now I am deciding, do I make pork chops or steak…oh yea me gravitating toward steak and give the hubby the pork chops cause I have had a ton of pork ribs lately and now that steak is calling my name.
AND THIS IS HOW US CARNIVORES EAT! well this one does
I GIVE UP
THIS SITE will not let me post my steak or pork chop pic with my shrimp I just cooked so off I go to ‘eat steak’ and shrimp and thumb my nose at the forum now…I hungry LOL
I have to “reduce the size” of my photos in order to post them here. (Size meaning kilobytes or megabytes, not dimensions.) I had to download an app for that. Extra steps that mega annoy me. But that’s me.
@VirginiaEdie good luck with staying off the snacks. When i was eating them I just found they were becoming a bit addictive. I would eat them just fot the sake of it!
I do strength training too but more so at Crossfit and looking forward to getting back in the box when it opens in April. I don’t really have heavy enough weights at home. My dbs and kbs o ly go up to 7.5kg so I will know about it when back using the olympic bar !
