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?
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. 🎹🤍🖤
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Happy Thursday!! I had a conversation with a co-worker/friend yesterday, she's been really tracking her macros and eating very strict currently to try to lean out. She's somebody who's very active and works out everyday and goes for runs on top of that, but she's focusing really hard right now on weight loss and reducing inflammation. She made a joke about how she hasn't eaten dessert in weeks and it's been so sad. I asked her how she was handling that? 😂😂
She said, " Yes, it's been so disappointing, but I heard a quote recently that said you can either be disappointed now that you're not having a treat, or you could be disappointed later that you gave in or didn't hit your goals.".
Expecting to not feel any disappointment or grief in giving up some of those desserts or processed foods that we used to have is unrealistic, but we have to realize that having those foods is not a win either. We likely are going to feel disappointed that we gave in to them or we're going to ...
I have started back 2 weeks ago and have lost 10# and feel 60% better.
I had gastric bypass surgery in 2001 so I have a problem with eating steak but last night at had a ribeye and only ate 1/2 of it and had the rest of it cold for breakfast and it is easier for me to eat when it is cold.l(left over)
Happy Wednesday!! We are having a great week with my Mom, she has been able to go for walks outside now since it's so warm here. It's been so cold for her in Indiana but it's already been in the 90's here in Arizona. It will still go up and down a bit for the next month until the heat settles in for the summer, but this is still considered great weather here. Thankfully Nathaniel's baseball season is over though because those mid day games were getting HOT! 🥵
How is the weather near you?? I feel like the country is totally opposite where some people are still getting tons of snow and others like us are almost getting spring/summer. Does the weather changes affect how you want to eat? Does it affect your ability to get exercise?
