Day 25 of our Beast Mode Carnivore Challenge 🦁💪🏼
Happy Thursday! I hope you are having a great week! We officially have one week left in July! 😮 A great time to kick things into high gear and go all out for the next 7 days!! What is a goal you can set for yourself (outside of your non-negotiable) for the next 7 days?
Reminder I am going live on YouTube with Chris at 5pm pst and 8pm est. He and I haven't done a live on YouTube together since before his surgery so we figured it would be fun to donate chat. Hope you can make it! If you can't post some questions below and I will make sure we get to them during the stream.
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
Thinking about the year ahead can be overwhelming when it comes to goal setting. For some people, like me, short term goals can be much more motivating. Right now it's beast mode through the Meetup this Saturday. That said, I do still have long term goals for the year. Staying carnivore is just a given now as it's my life already so I have to dive a little deeper for me. I'd like to stay in the same weight range but lower my body fat a bit. Gain some muscle mass in short. Gym at least 4 times a week and beast mode at the same time is my recipe.
Steak video for interest. 🤪
Do you do better with short or long term goals?
So sorry guys, my 2 1/2 hour drive home from the cabin is turning into a 5+ hour drive home so I am not going to make it in time to Livestream tonight. I'll post the link for the Dr Berry Livestream for tomorrow when I know it. I'll catch up on posts here when I get home if you have any questions.
While Laura has been a beast every day, walking mile after mile, I have been having to basically reduce to my movement to close to zero. On Monday during jiu jitsu class, my training partner accidentally whacked his knee right on mine. It's been swollen and sore ever since. Definitely a bone bruise and nothing structural thankfully. No walks and no class for the rest of the week at least. Problem is my appetite doesn't go away, and with the reduction in my mental health time (walking), I want to eat constantly. With my normal activity levels, I can eat liberally and maintain or lose. This week is a struggle and I will stall or likely gain. Once a food addict, always a food addict. After 7 years this is still a challenge.
Do you feel you have food addiction? What's your go to strategy to mitigate it?
Managed a 17 hour fast today. I was very careful to eat until satisfied and then stopped. I still got sleepy afterwards but got up and walked around the parking lot at work. I received my cgm yesterday and am obsessed with it ! It sends my readings every minute right to the app so I can monitor what is happening as it happens. Last night my sugar dropped to 68 and the alarm went off. It was weird because I didn’t have any symptoms. It was up to 120 when I got up this morning and gradually decreased throughout the day. I am so glad my dr ordered this for me ! I also got a walk in today after slacking for a few weeks.
Well it finally happened. My mother-in-law is in her final days and I cracked and broke. I ate a lot of sugar the past few days. I know it was a stress trigger. Today was all I can eat meat. I think that is how I will get thru this. Just eat all the meaty goodness I can bare. We can do hard things! Here is a sign I made up last night while sitting in my hallway. Thank you for listening.
