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?
I don't typically love cooking with cast iron, despite the excellent results they can bring. It's messy and smells up the house. Add to that, the one we have is super old and not very good. We were recently gifted a really good one from Lancaster Cast Iron so today I decided to give it a try. We have a side burner on our Weber so I could do it outside. I sous vide a steak, then seared it in tallow on the new pan. Man it was incredible. What a difference it made from our old one. Super easy clean up too. Below is the pan, of course I forgot to take a picture of the steak haha.
Do you love using cast iron? What are some favorites you make in them?
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?
Chris and I will be joining the Healing Humanity 24-hour carnivore livestream! The lineup is incredible: Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Philip Ovadia, Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Rancher Maggie, and many more, all counting down to the Healing Humanity streaming premiere.
The stream starts Thursday, October 22 at 5 PM Central and runs for 24 hours. I’ll be joining right as they kick off, and Chris is speaking on Friday at 1pm CST. Come join us!
Watch the livestream:
Learn more or preorder the film: https://healinghumanity.movie/
The livestream wraps up Friday, October 23 at 5 PM Central, immediately followed by the film’s streaming release.
Ground beef. I'm not the biggest fan because it usually makes me want all the vessels you would typically deliver it with; a bun, a tortilla, etc. Yesterday it was an all ground beef day for me and the kids. Burger patties for lunch and taco meat bowls for dinner. I quite enjoyed it. It's cheap too.
I need ideas. What's your favorite way to do ground beef?
Happy Wednesday! One topic that came up on the Livestream Monday was talking about weight loss stalls. When people ask me how to break a stall my first question is "how long is your stall?" While it's frustrating to not lose weight for a week or 2 (or 3), that's not actually a stall. Our body is not designed to be consistently losing weight every single week, there are going to be ebbs and fluctuations based on hormones etc. I would consider a stall anything more than 6+ weeks. Even at that point I always discourage people from doing crazy tactics or protocols to try and get weight loss moving again.
After a month or so of no weight loss I just encourage you to make small tweaks to what you are currently doing to try and help boost weight loss. We talked about adjustments you can make in more detail on the Livestream, but it's things like cutting dairy, adding exercise, simplifying your meals, analyzing calories etc. Most importantly you need to be patient and just stay consistent....
