Twelve Days of Carnivore!

#201

I burned the bridges back to keto especially now that I stopped tracking my off days :slight_smile: But I still keep my average carb intake low and that is what matters to me, I am very sure of it after the last decade. And itā€™s usually completely effortless now, finally.

I am waiting for the time to pass as I need to get medicine and food and well, I canā€™t until 11am as only elderly people can shop between 9 and 11am on weekdays. I am all ready to go but I realized it may be too early and indeed, itā€™s 11 today, 10 is for weekends.
Alvaro says it was until 12 in the first wave of Covid (it was especially bad at the weekends, many shops close at 11-12. oh the times when I had to wake up early to get my pork but I did a lot for my pork even if it was smoked)ā€¦ I totally forgot about that.

I will avoid meat and cheese today (except some liver and maybe a slice of sausage, thatā€™s fine) and especially lard. Eggy day :smiley: It was so long. I ate 6 eggs in 6 days or something. I still donā€™t miss eggs but I donā€™t want the other groups so I will focus on it today. I still donā€™t feel exactly right but getting hungry and eating not too fatty things in late-afternoon surely will help.

We have sunshine again!

(Vic) #202

Lucky you. :smile: we have rain. :pleading_face:

#203

food yesterday was

some taylor ham slices
naked double cheeseburger from fast food joint on the road
2 sausage patties
6 chicken wings
scrapings off 1 slice pepperoni pizza

free wifi here is wonderful in this campground.

omg crap eating day. got to campground and still my steaks were frozen like rocks and my first early meal todayā€¦a 1 lb NY strip steak.
OMG I NEED IT so much and that is my focus, get that steak down me before heading off to sightsee.

OMG SO COLD here. SO COLD it is stupid cold LOL Wind is just horrible and cut ya in half it is a sharp cold burn.

Campsite is nice. On little raging river but hardly enjoyable outside to enjoy the outsideā€¦for me anyway. One guy was out walking around in shorts! WTH? ahh, yes he was younger and could get away with it but me, I am just shriveling down to nothing but thankfully heat in RV is wonderful.

I know my steak is on my list today, after that with going into town who knows what I will find for food but I also know I have another steak waiting for me when we get back in the fridge. So happy I brought alot of meat with me and I am now defrosting that meat for being ready for me to chow down.

Hold strong everyone!! Dec. is ticking away to a new year of great carnivore eating and new great health changes to all :slight_smile:

(Keith) #204

Looks like a proper mealā€¦
Yes, I have to agree, (most) doctors and health professionals in the UK are still preaching the ā€œlow fatā€ high carb moderate protein mantra and demonising the very low carbohydrates approach!
Here in the UK we actually have a traffic light system on foods, red bad, greenā€¦ well you get the idea! What makes me so mad is that oily fish like smoked mackerel and sardines are classified as BAD because of the high fat!! What?? And all fruit like bananas in the green area together with rice and bread wraps! No wonder the west is so obese and the problem is getting worse than ever before.
I p, like you eat quite a lot of meat probably a 50/50 protein and fat and Iā€™m loosing weight like never before.

#205

Fantastic carnivore weather.

#206

Oh, there too? Iā€™ve read on this forum just recently that France has that nonsense. It really makes no sense, itā€™s just an ingredient, it says nothing about the individualā€™s diet who eats itā€¦

I get reminded again and again that many people got told high-fat is bad. Itā€™s so strange to me, I either didnā€™t get the memo or ignore it, I am never sure. My first decades were blissfully very high-fat without anyone batting an eye, I know that much. I imagine people trying to persuade people loving traditional Hungarian food to go low-fat :smiley: Sure, some people use low-fat products, many, even, it seems (mostly because they want to be/stay slim, poor ones)ā€¦ But very high-fat products are popular as ever too. Some supermarket has pork chuck wrapped in white baconā€¦ Thatā€™s too fatty ever for me!

I am between lunch and dinner now. My eggs werenā€™t a huge success, I ate them for variety, they were okay but I donā€™t want to bring back my very eggy days, not even temporarily. I go back to my usual balance, eating ā€œeverythingā€. I canā€™t escape that for long but I like that anyway. I am not very flexible, I surely canā€™t depend too much and too long on meat. But it works for a while and if I get a meat aversion (meat variety helps with that), itā€™s super short. When I tried to continue carnivore with zero meat in the beginning when I run out of meat, a single day made me disliking eggs for a week! Itā€™s 1-2 days with meat (and just like in the case of eggs, I can keep eating them just carefully, only a little at a time).

I got quark for variety.

I was outside in the sunshine, I needed that! 7 Celsius (45F), totally nice for a long walk (2.5 hours with shopping). I needed my hat sometimes though so there was some wind, I guess.
But it lasted for a few hours, itā€™s gloomy again and it will stay for days and rain will come. I never will collect the leaves in my garden and I wanted make photos of mushrooms and other thingsā€¦ We both need our walks and I prefer doing them in nice weather. I am spoiled, Hungarian winters tend to have sunshine quite often. Not necessarily for long and itā€™s more often cloudy but we still have sunny days almost every week. I start to feel impatient when 3 days passed without sunshine. It happens but sunshine comes soon after. Except in a November when there was fog for 3 weeks straight and I barely survived that. I am partially solar powered and itā€™s a carnivore miracle that I donā€™t end up with super low-energy and even worse mood without sunshine for days. It still affects me but not nearly as much. I feel alive even if the weather isnā€™t nice to me and itā€™s a huge improvement.

#207

LOL! In the springtime up here- as soon as the sun is out and the temps near the 40F markā€¦people start wearing shorts.

#208

While in China people climbed hills in coats when there was 20 Celsiusā€¦ And that is warm. Itā€™s a tad too warm for climbing hills to me wearing my lightest clothes but I can do it.

(Vic) #209

20201209_123115
20201209_123115.jpg1223Ɨ1631 563 KB

Not real hungry.
Light lunch.
Had some cheese for dessert.

#210

says you!
I am SO over a cold life it is so apparent to me this ainā€™t happening again in my actual lifetime :wink: know thyself in food for life and know thyself of needs in lifeā€¦hot weather is my requirement :partying_face:

#211

nice pic and I see another in the pan, ya eat that one too>?

(Edith) #212

I started making my own homemade bacon. My husband loves it! I started curing 8 pounds of pork belly on Monday and will smoke it on Thursday. I had three pounds of pork belly left over so I roasted that yesterday.

I discovered pork belly a couple of years ago and overdosed on it, so I hadnā€™t eaten it for a while except as bacon. I had some with my fried eggs this morning. I donā€™t think there is anything more filling that pork belly. The plan is to wait until dinner for my next meal.

Today is the 9th already. Time is just going by in a blur!

#213

WOW and super cool on this. I love how you find you in all this, what you need, the carnivore way and getting hubby on board!

yes when healthy and wise on eating and our bodies are ā€˜in tuneā€™ in full truth with life I find my days go by ā€˜greatā€™ but fast like you are saying cause many say life is short and those are the healthy ones if ya ask me as to those who have ā€˜conditions and med more troublesā€™ find life as a burden ya know and I get that real med issues are horrifying but thru nutrition can we elevate so much of tons of that ya know, my thinking on it thru the whole pic of it all.
great posts VE, so enjoying your journey with you!!

#214

NSV:

My feet used to hurt. I had to rub them every day, very hard, Chinese Foot Massage style. The tendons on the tops of my foot needed a lot of working over. The undersides and arches were full of ā€œcrunchiesā€ that I had to break up.

Life is full of other stuff, but today I realized I hadnā€™t been needing to rest my feet on my heated Shiatsu machine for days. I canā€™t remember the last time my feet hurt? But it has been about the same time I began ZC.

My spine has been more flexible as well. (My knees a little creaky still.)

I donā€™t know the science behind why - but of most note is that my consumption of red meat has gone WAY up. Way up past what ā€œexperts recommendā€.

(Edith) #215

What ā€œexpertsā€?

#216

Right?

#217

OMG SO HAPPY for you and hold strong cause even better will come your way!!

yea it ainā€™t ā€˜recommended levelsā€™ of beef ya know, it is eat at LEAST in that 1.5 lb to 2 lb area and if you need more, then eat just that!!! ZC people tend to undereat cause we come from a restrictive type plan thinking and this bad baggage, but when I ate like 3-4 lbs of meat/seafood per day I was thriving and all things good so you just keep doing you on zc. Eat all ya want when you need it and you will never go wrong.

SO glad you are doing better! Thing is those ā€˜little PIAsā€™ are just that and we hate them, but we feel them and know them so personal in that when they start to recede, we are wild happy on it and you are there! :sunny: You keep going and rocking it!! Great post!

#218

Thank you!! :hugs::cut_of_meat::butterfly:

#219

Any and all improvements you receive and feel are so great in my eyes for all of us!!! You are rocking better health, and geez, we all need that coming from what we were :slight_smile: Over the top glad for you and all who get changes that help them ya know, cause I got them and always loved those changes for me personally :sunny:

#220

Recommended levelsā€¦ Once I saw numbers for red meat and maybe for other things. I donā€™t remember the exact numbers but they were so tiny I wouldnā€™t even start to eat such a little biteā€¦ Even when I ate almost no meat, when I ate some, I wanted a proper amount, not a tease!

I donā€™t even know what is supposed to be wrong with red meat. Meat is normal food. Oh well, I follow my body anyway, more reliable.

Grats, Ella! :slight_smile: Itā€™s nice to do what works. Stay stubborn and do your own things that suit you!