Happy Tuesday!
Today Kerry from HomesteadHow and his cameraman are coming to the house today to film us for the Healing Humanity Documentary! We are sharing the story of how Carnivore has reversed Chris's Type 2 Diabetes and then our weight loss and healing overall. We have some good meat to cook up for them as well during filming so that should be fun.
We are one week into the new year, and for some of you it's Day 2 (or day 1) and for some of you it's Day 7 (or more), how are you doing so far? I saw several mentions of "Meat Fatigue" yesterday, who here is experiencing that?
I personally like a variety of meats but several of you are doing beef only so that's not an option. My one suggestion is to mix textures of meat, eating burger patties over and over again can get old QUICK. How can you give yourself a different texture of beef today? Take some beef/fat scraps and crisp them up in a skillet or air fryer to eat something crispy. Can you find some beef bacon? Have a steak or go the opposite route of a slow cooked chuck roast. Or find some fatty beef ribs and get them nice and crispy in a roasting pan or broiler. Even if you're eating the same meat day after day, think about how you can mix up cuts of that meat and cooking styles to give yourself more variety. I don't know too many people (anyone really) who could just live on burger patties all the time. You don't want to make yourself so miserable you end up going back to carbs/sugar.
What are some of the things you do to help you get past meat fatigue?
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
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 Sunday! I made it to Madrid smoothly and with no delays thankfully! I lose 9 hours going to Madrid so I always end up getting a pretty short night's sleep to try and reset myself (plus I had a very early morning flight ) One of my biggest focuses in 2026 has been to improve my sleep, I really do think this has been one of the things that has helped my weight loss. This week however has been really bad in terms of getting enough sleep, early mornings with the dog and travel has left me with quite the sleep deficit. Unfortunately, it will probably take me a couple of more days of poor sleep before I get fully adjusted.
How has your sleep been lately?
What a weekend!! It was homecoming weekend which ment parade on Friday. Yesterday we went from cross country race (finished 4th) to cutting down trees blazing a new cross country course for his Eagle Scout project. We worked up one heck of a appetite. Burgers and eggs were for dinner. Today is a nice rest day then tomorrow my Mom gets her knee replaced.
Happy Saturday! I am leaving this morning to head to Madrid for work, I will be gone for a full week. Unfortunately bad timing because Chris and the kids were gone for a couple days to California for a concert. But they had a wonderful time, they even got to go to the beach for a few hours. We got to hang out Friday and play lots of games before I left this morning. This will be my last big work trip for the year hopefully. I'll definitely be missing my family but I do love visiting Spain. Long day of travel today, and then adjusting to the time zone and prep for work on Sunday (I lose 9 hours going East). I'll be posting some still and Chris will check in when I am not able.
What are your plans for the weekend?
