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 ...
It sounds like such a terrible problem to have if you're still losing, but maintenance can be a tough place to hang on to. For me, a couple times a year, like around vacations or holidays, I start to see the scale creep up a little. That's when I'll go beast mode to get right back to baseline. For the past week I e been trying to slightly moderate meal size, and completely eliminate eating outside of my meal. So far success. Since my calories are low, I won't keep it up long; I'll then cycle back into large emails again. So far so good. Below is lunch today. A small steak and a couple burger patties.
If you're in maintenance, do you find this pattern? What's your strategy to get right?
Happy Tuesday!! Most of you know how much we love Fogo de Chao, the all you can eat Brazilian steakhouse. We went for the first time when I was pregnant with Penelope, we loved it long before Carnivore (we used to eat all the carbs before though). Once we went carnivore it was just such a great deal that it quickly became one of our favorite places for a special meal out. The kids were free for a lot of years and we definitely got our money's worth as a family! Even better that they do special military discounts and coupons etc. We got to know the staff at our Scottsdale location and the kids would bring our favorite servers flowers and Christmas gifts.
The only downside is that the closest one to us was always 45 minutes away. Fortunately (or unfortunately 😂), next week they're opening one 10 minutes from our house. 🎉🎉 We are so excited, however, prices have gone up a lot there in the last 12 years so we certainly aren't going to be going there as often as we would like....
I am feeling the best I've felt in a long time. I am trying to go back to work. I have been eating Carnivore with some jalapeños at times. I add very little butter to my food. Maybe a tablespoon here or there. I make sure I get my protein and aim for 107 grams of fat a day. I get my fat mostly from meat. I have lost 32 lbs.
