Twelve Days of Carnivore!

(Vic) #241

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Pheasant for lunch.

Had some bone broth and cheese for dessert.

#242

It is about 9 am here.

I ate 1.25 pounds of ribeye, cooked on a cast iron pan. No extra fat, with some sea salt. “To taste” as they say.

I’m not going to geek to hard about my salt consumption. Tbh.

I am holding steady at two cups of coffee per day. For now. I think I will start subbing out green tea - gradually.
No judgment on anyone’s coffee use. Mine, like my former wine and cigarettes habits are best left behind.

I cut back the melatonin, and my sleep is normalizing. Get to sleep at 9 and wake up around 4:30.

I started reading “The Hacking of The American Mind”.
Spoiler alert: The villains are Sugars and Social Media.

I have seen sugar destroy the bodies and brains of my elders. “Everything in moderation” “A little won’t hurt you”
“It’s my genetics that made me sick. My diet is fine.”

Keeping my opinions to myself is a challenge, y’all.

I need to remember to just be the best example I can be. And maybe if I am lucky I can inspire. But even if not, I have my eyes on the horizon. :partly_sunny:

(Edith) #243

Omg! I had numerous problems from my youth that my parents said, “Oh, we used to get _____. That’s just the way it is.” Then, as I stopped gluten, dairy, etc. over the years, I found out that no, it doesn’t have to be that way.

(Vic) #244

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Dinner.

Uncured bacon topped with chicken. Drenched in a ridicules amount of butter.
I was hungry so had an omlet to go with that.

No dessert.

#245

absolute wonderful post on YOU…and yea, salt is very very personal and you will easily, very easily understand you on salt ?!!

fab post and update!! rock on!

#246

caught 8 monster trout on vacay here.
nice sunny hot day

restaurants has MONSTER cut size prime rib I will ord4er tonight along with an ‘expensive’ jumbo cocktail shrimp LOL

darn prices at restaurants LOL

#247

Aw thank you Fangs! :butterfly::cut_of_meat:

The book has a premise. That pleasure and happiness are not the same.

We are being sold goods and services and apps that give us “pleasure” (or dopamine rush) but what will give us “happiness” is not a snack or a drink or a drug or a “follow”.
(THAT is provided by serotonin)

It is a pretty good metric to make decisions by, even dietary. Will this give me “pleasure” or will this ensure, “happiness”?

(Daisy) #248

Awesome reports from everyone and loving @FrankoBear ‘s posts!
@Carnivoor beautiful foods, as always. I really want to try pheasant!
@Fangs congratulations on the successful fishing trip!

Today’s eats: lunch was a ribeye, bone broth, liver pâté, eggs, hollandaise, halloumi and butter
Dinner was ground bison and butter with the last little bit of my jerky.

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(Keith) #249

Congratulations on making your bacon! There’s nothing better :clap:

#250

restaurant prime rib was delish and my grilled shrimp on the side yummy

I did eat one crab stuffed mushroom. it was good but this is the type of thing I can easily live without! Won’t effect me at all. Family was saying how darn good they were and yea I tried one and yes they were good but 1 is more than enough. No draw to it.

Heading home today. Short drive luckily. This camping trip was kinda truly too cold for me. Hats, coats, gloves. too many clothes to deal with LOL next trips, hotter weather for sure!

home and steak…oh yea. back to normal eating and oh boy I want my normal zc routine again! I can manuever thru life with zc out and about but at home, I thrive on my zc foods :sunny:

(Karen) #251

I gave away my pork scratchings too then went Nd bought some more when I had the snacky craving and ended up giving them away too.! My son un law is probably hoping I may get another craving for them hahaha. Cheese is a downfall as I love the stuff but and it is a BIG but, I am not enjoying it as much at the moment and so slowly cutting down on it. It is my go to when I can’t sleep and pop down to watch mind numbing TV for 20 minutes , I have about an ounce and that with the TV seems to do the trick and I get off to sleep!

Didn’t need anything last night after a really long day on my feet at work . I sat for about half an hour and then up to bed and straight out like a light!

(Karen) #252

@Ella when you wake at 430 do you manage to get back to sleep? I use 4head its a eucalyptus push up stick ( a bit like pretty stick but not sticky lol) it is bought off the shelf and is like a headache resolver. I keep one in my bedside cabinet just for when my head is a bit busy and I can’t sleep. Swipe it over my forehand and a little under my nose to clear the airways if I am feeling stuffy and Bob’s your uncle i usually drop off. I tend to use it when I wake throughout the night and it seems to work 99% of the time. I swear by it and take it with me if I am stopping away from home overnight as I can never sleep in strange beds! I don’t tend to get headaches so it is for the sole use of sleeping.

I steer clear of medications best I can.

#253

I think it is something to do with the “processed” aspect of the snack foods.

(Like a rat, I would always go for cheese first. And keep hitting the cheese bell.)

I would never eat past satiation on anything I cooked myself. All the snacks I had to count out into a bowl, and even then…would exceed that count by a bit. I don’t need high maintenance relationships with food. So I have kicked those monkeys off my back.

Coffee though! I am battling that dragon today. Stepped down to one morning cup.

I read somewhere yesterday, that coffee interferes with collagen in skin, causing aging. So I will think of that when I feel the addiction call.

#254

When I am up - that’s it. No going back to sleep.

My husband has IBS (is not Carnivore. He is on a low FODMAP diet.) He wakes up a lot at night, and stays up later than I watching the British Baking Show. I am not blaming him, but his discomfort might be entering my sleep in some way.

I am not averse to the Eucalyptus stick. I will check it out.

In the short term, no coffee and more exercise could help.

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An inspiring art work
On the 11th day.

The exciting thing about the “Twelve Days of Carnivore” is that we get to do it twice before Christmas Eve.

I need to reset and have another go at it.

Great planning @Fangs

My wife is a yogini. She’s up before the sun and with the birds’ dawn chorus. I wake and chat for a few minutes. Then I go back to sleep for another 3 hours or more. That second sleep feels so deep. When I wake I’m ready to get going.

Our tiny farm smells of eucalyptus. It’s on the summer breeze. It’s a volatile oil from the trees that are around us. There is a lemon-scented eucalyptus tree at the top of the driveway in. I crush and rub the leaves in my hands. Sometimes I’ll add a rosemary sprig. There is something to exercising one’s sense of smell that fits into beneficial things to do to feel well.

Fungi,we meet again, the ultimate carnivore ‘cheat’, or a carnivore’s conundrum.

Crab stuffed mushroom totally acceptable carnivore food in my book.

(Vic) #256

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Half Pork half Beef sausages and meatballs.
Some dutch cheese melted on top as dressing

(Vic) #257

I’m going Ketovore for a few weeks. Sorry :pensive:

(Karen) #258

I stopped drinking gallons of coffee about2.5 years ago. I would drink it thick and black so that you could stand a spoon in it lol loved the jittery buzz I got from it so thought I hot to give it up. Can’t have been doing me any good atall . It is only just recently I smelt some coffee a chap at work was brewing and I could have slipped back quite easily so I quickly got myself a spicy chai and removed the temptation. I drink everything black as I don’t like the taste of milk so at least I didn’t have the problem of giving milk up as well! Good luck with ditching it altogether. I now have a large drawer full of loose teas, black, earl grey, spicy chai, vanilla chai and some night time chillax teas that also seem to aid getting off to sleep. I just have to remember to have one :laughing:

#259

Thank you for the support! IRL and on IG - people well meaningly want to sell me on the concept of coffee being absolute vital. :joy:

(Karen) #260

Sorry to hear about your hubby having IBS that isn’t very nice atall however watching Bake Off isn’t maybe the answer lol. I fortunately live on my own and haven’t the added problems of someone else waking me. Mind you I sometime share hotel rooms with my dancing partner when the hotels want to charge single supplement on their single rooms! He fortunately sleeps pretty quietly but I still struggle cos I can hear a pin drop. Its the only time I will maybe take a prescription zopliclone. Takes me almost a year to get through 1 packet as I only take them at those times cos I do all the driving and need to sleep at some point during the time away! Otherwise on the very odd occasion when I can’t sleep before a work day. Doesn’t help being partially retired and not working every day cos you can bet the only night I can’t sleep is that one lol. But as I said earlier the eucalyptus usually does the trick.