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 Monday!!! We are officially back and settled in! Thankfully we had a very smooth trip (minus the orthodontist issues), but I couldn't have asked for a better vacation. Chris and I both weighed when we got home, and after 12 days of travel we both weigh the exact same thing as when we left. 😅 We probably ate more than we normally do, but we also were really active as well (except on the travel days). I don't feel "bad" but I know that after so much travel I'll feel a lot better in a couple days after eating at home and sleeping in my own bed for a few days.
Now today is back to work today, and back to reality, and back to a Livestream this evening!! Share below what your non-negotiable is for this week and then come hang out on the Livestream and we can catch up!!
I forgot to post my accountability last night. Yesterday I enjoyed steak, cottage cheese, and a little peanut butter. Now that's out of the house. This week I am doing alternate day fasting so no food for me today. But I am having coffee. I didn't walk yesterday but today I did a arm weight exercise video and got a nice walk in while my tire got fixed. There is a lot of sitting planned for later as my son has a double header to finish his little league baseball career.
We started talking vacation meals and have created a plan that funny enough My husband came up with for our driving days. He loves meatcalzones and has requested those packed. We took them to a family cookout this last weekend and he enjoyed them cold. Go figure.
Happy Father's Day to Chris and all the other Dad's in this group. Chris is the true MVP of this trip because he's driven the entire time! 😂 We are grateful for Chris, and it's no secret how much he does for our family every single day! He's not getting spoiled very much today since we have our final 8 hours of our drive home, but I hope he knows just how much he means to our family and how much we love him!
How are you spending your Father's Day?
