Well I forgot until later in the day but yesterday was my 6 year anniversary on this journey. I don't say my "Carnivore Anniversary" because I didn't start Carnivore that day (I didn't know anything about carnivore then). I started Keto March 18th, 2018 and a few months later that turned into carnivore. I had tried A LOT of other diets before and I don't remember any of those anniversaries, but this one was different because for the first time in my life I didn't quit!! This was the time it FINALLY worked. And not because I found the perfect diet (although that helps a lot), this time it worked because I not only changed my diet but I began to fix the root of my relationship with food. I started to learn about why I was eating and why I turned to food for emotional reasons. I have learned better coping tools and how to avoid triggers.
Carnivore has brought me proper nutrition and satiety which keeps me healthy and makes it so I am not hungry. Those things do amazing things for weight loss and cravings, but diet alone wouldn't have healed me until I began to look deeper at the root cause.
That doesn't mean everyday in the last 6 years has been perfect, it just means that for the first time I decided that NO MATTER WHAT, I couldn't go back to how I was living before. I know I need to do the work to maintain a healthy life long term and the only way to do that is to keep moving forward one day at a time.
It gets REALLY hard sometimes to wake up each day and choose to live a healthy life, trust me I know!! My question is, what other choice do you have?
**I will be doing a 6 Year Anniversary YouTube Livestream on Thursday at 8pm est (5pm pst).
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Happy Monday!! How was your weekend? Are you starting today feeling proud of yourself for staying on track this weekend? Or are you feeling frustrated by a setback? Either way, it's a new day and a new week. Reflect on what went right so you can repeat it, and what went wrong so you can avoid it next time.
My personal goal is to make sure I walk at least one hour everyday this week. Now that my foot is back to 100% I am looking forward to getting back to walking daily.
What is your non-negotiable for this week?
**Livestream Tuesday (tomorrow) evening at 7pm EST.
Good afternoon. I got some of my bloodwork back. Looks good.
Cholestrol 222. Trig. 40 HDL 76 LDL 123 Non HDL Cholesterol. 146 Chol/HDL ratio 3
The bun was the only one out of normal at 26.
Will get all the other tests either today or tomorrow. Will post them also.
Happy Monday!
Just thought I share some of my meals. I made a soup with bone broth with Hamburger, turkey and like a cauliflower rice medley. That is the only veggie I eat sometimes. I tried lauras eggs, bacon bits and cheese this weekend. Pretty good. I do a lot of meatloaf bars. Just because I like it a lot. Then there is hamburger topped with mustard, ketchup and dill relish. Kind of reminds me of a burger from mcdonalds. I did hotdogs with cheese. Then the patties are just tuna, eggs and cheese fried in butter. The rest you can tell in the pictures but last picture is just hamburger and eggs. It is when I get lazy and not wanting to do a lot.
Hope you all have a great week!
