LiLee's Journey to overall happiness
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God bless ya babe, cause I could never do carnivore - get it girl!
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Yeah it's definitely not a diet for everyone. But we all do what we're going to stick with
So far so good on carnivore though. I am craving some breakfast sausage. Going to stock up on some tomorrow when we go grocery shopping. Plus it's something easy I can make in bulk and save some for later if I feel snacky or just if I don't want to cook lol.
I'm still craving sweets, but it's not a strong craving thankfully.
And although I'm tired (don't think it's diet related, but it could be)... I'm already feeling SO much better. Still bloated some, but the aching and overall BLAH horrible feelings I was having while eating crap is almost gone. Still having some minor carpal tunnel pains but it's gotten better too.0 -
Glad you're trending upward darling!!! Breakfast sausage is one of my WEAKNESSES!!! I DON'T KNOW WHYYYYYY!!!!
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Happy New Year to you and your family too
Wow..I am impressed! I can't do the carnivore diet as I am not really a meat eater. I am a carbo eater though..lol Having said that, I love spam and sausages in my kimchi noodle...lol Glad to hear that you are feeling better now
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I do love me some breakfast sausage and just had some after the grocery trip this morning too nomnomnom!
OOOO spam in some ramen is delicious! I don't care what anyone says.. spam is delicious! Some fried spam w/ rice? Or eggs? Yes please!
Diet is still going well, but it might be the cause of my exhaustion right now. Well... might be one of the reasons for it. Slept ok last night but still feel like the walking dead right now and getting a headache. Hopefully the salt in the sausges I ate this morning will help w/ whatever kind of electrolyte issue that might be occuring.
Feeling ok though. I probably could've skipped dinner last night. Trying to listen to my body more and eat how much I think I need to instead of how much I want. So last night I had just a little bit of leftover ham and I was fine with that.
Will see how long this keeps up but hoping it helps.
Oh and did I mention that how much I weighed? Our digital scale is actually broken so using the other one we have (that is a pound off)... I weighed in at 192 at the start of all of this.
This morning I was at around 186. So the bloat is coming off slowly. Hopefully some of what is coming off is actual fat loss too.0 -
I do love me some breakfast sausage and just had some after the grocery trip this morning too nomnomnom!
OOOO spam in some ramen is delicious! I don't care what anyone says.. spam is delicious! Some fried spam w/ rice? Or eggs? Yes please!
Diet is still going well, but it might be the cause of my exhaustion right now. Well... might be one of the reasons for it. Slept ok last night but still feel like the walking dead right now and getting a headache. Hopefully the salt in the sausges I ate this morning will help w/ whatever kind of electrolyte issue that might be occuring.
Feeling ok though. I probably could've skipped dinner last night. Trying to listen to my body more and eat how much I think I need to instead of how much I want. So last night I had just a little bit of leftover ham and I was fine with that.
Will see how long this keeps up but hoping it helps.
Oh and did I mention that how much I weighed? Our digital scale is actually broken so using the other one we have (that is a pound off)... I weighed in at 192 at the start of all of this.
This morning I was at around 186. So the bloat is coming off slowly. Hopefully some of what is coming off is actual fat loss too.
Try adding in a handful of almonds at your next meal, and shrink the overall meal size. Within three days, you'll be feeling better.0 -
The reason you're feeling so crappy is your body detoxing. It happened to me when I did low carb, but since you're doing carnivore it might be worse. For me it lasted for at least 3 weeks. As much as I loved eating lots of meat and eggs and salad I just missed my carbs sooo much more
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Yeah I certainly did gorge myself on carbs/sugar during the holidays. I can totally see this as my body getting rid of all the junk.
My face broke out SO bad the first couple of days back on carnivore. I developed big cystic pimples along my hairline and where the arms of my glasses are. Thankfully those are mostly cleared up now. I'm just left feeling greasy atm lol.
My face has been SO incredibly oily. Not sure what that is about but BLEH! Go to rub my forehead and come away w/ enough oil to fry up some chicken. Good for the skin though right? Maybe??? lol
I think I'm going to have to give up my daily coffee. Not giving it up completely, but I think with my body getting back to carnivore... coffee has been giving me some bad diarrhea.
And not sure if beef fat is the only thing that gives me nausea and indigestion.
Fixed carnitas last night and ate a lot of the fatty bits. No reflux and no nausea after. BUT I think eating too much fat also causes some problems w/ my #2s too b/c I woke up in the middle of the night needing to go and it was LOUD and not exactly solid lol.
It's all trial and error at this point.
Woke up with a dull headache. Drank a monster and some pickle juice. Also ate some breakfast sausages w/ eggs. About to go drink more pickle juice and hope it helps. So far the headache has subsided, but I can still feel like. Like it's right on the edge of coming back.
Overall I feel ok though Just sucks that I have to wake up early again. Stupid school lol 1 -
Happy New Year!!!
I could never do the carnivore thing either but good luck to you. Hoping you get used to it and start feeling better soon!!!! You totally can kick some butt this year 1 -
So pork fat does trigger the nausea. I ate some leftover pork before picking daughter up. About 3 hours later, I got nauseated. It didn't last as long as with beef, but I think that's just b/c I hadn't eaten as much.
Also I did end up having to take tylenol yesterday. The headache didn't get worse, but it never fully went away either until I took some tylenol for it.
I swigged down pickle juice twice and I think it helped the headache from getting worse. Maybe... I dunno lol.
Tired of waking up in the middle of the night to poop. lol Such a PITA trying to get back to sleep and I couldn't get comfortable after and never got back in to a good sleep. Booo
Thank goodness for energy drinks though.
So far so good though. Still craving some sweets, but I think that's more of a habit thing right now. I am craving some variety. While the meat has been good... I want some veggies to go with it. It's not a super strong craving craving, just the want for variety.0 -
Would taking a vegetable supplement be "cheating" on the carnivore diet? Dr. Berg has a good cruciferous vegetable supplement.0
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Yeah. Meat is supposed to give you all you need. No veggies required. I'm not strict or anything, but still trying to stick with only meat for food.
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Yall. I'm so annoyed.
The digital scale we had was broken so we need to get a new one. The regular? non digital? one we have is off by a pound or so so you never know exactly which way to add or subtract.
So.. looked on amazon to get a new scale while I was thinking about it.
Frickin glass tops. Almost every single digital scale is a glass top!!
NO! Just NO.
I don't care that it's tempered and has a 400lb weight limit. The last thing my fat butt wants to do is step on GLASS barefoot. NM that I've seen that yes, there is the possibility of it shattering! NO THANK YOU.
What the hell happened to regular ole plastic??0 -
OMG what the heck??!!!! That is crazy and I would want no part of it either.....surely walmart or target has the regular kind surely?!1
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure Walmart still carries the same scale we had. Even though it did break, we had it for years so it's not like it was a piece of crap.
Will see what Target has first though just to see if there's something different we can try.
Just annoyed as crud that everything is glass top. Or something that covers the glass top just in case it breaks. Yeah... no.... no... no no no. Especially w/ my kids who like jumping around on the scales. That would be a disaster waiting to happen if it was glass.
So.. had hamburger patties w/ giant globs of spiced cream cheese last night. SO GOOD.
I just softened the cream cheese in the microwave. Then added garlic and onion powder to it. Nothing fancy. Brought a nice cheesy tang to my meal which was needed. I needed some variety. Something different than just savory on savory.
Have some leftover and will be using it on the steak tonight!
OO speaking of steak... we bought some Prime sirloin steaks discounted Saturday. Had them the same night. Best steaks I've had in a long time. Even better than ribeye. It wasn't super fatty which is fine, but holy moly... it was great. Just the right amount of tenderness and chew to it. SO good. I guess there really is a difference between Prime & Choice.
Anywho.. no reflux or nausea yesterday. Yay BUT still had a case of late night poops. SO damn annoyed by it b/c it happens at about 2-3am. Just late enough that I can't take another melatonin and if I don't take a melatonin and actually get back to sleep? It's only for another 30min before having to get up. The times where I do risk taking a melatonin, I wake up even more tired. It's just... UGH very annoying. This is when the monster drinks come in handy! YAY sweet addictive caffeine! lol
Just bought some ox bile to try out to help my digestion which needs as much help as it can get. Really hoping it helps w/ the late night pooping and the nausea and reflux issues when eating high fat.
DH hasn't been having any issues though. He doesn't have the gut problems I have thank goodness.
Oh and speaking of high fat. SO much conflicting information about this diet!
One person loses weight eating MORE fat while others have to eat less to lose weight. UGH! Why can't things be simple?? lol
Just got to see what works for me I guess.
I am still planning to eventually OMAD. I don't know when that will be though. I think if the ox bile helps and I can start eating more fat, it will definitely help me feel more satisfied and less hungry as often since my body will actually be absorbing and using everything I'm eating.
OMAD aint happening yet, but in time, it will
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Best of luck with the meat eating. There is just no way I could just eat meat, if anything I could be a vegetarian if anything (not a vegan I love me some cheese) but meat to me is okay I totally can survive on fruits/vegs and carbs of course!
Good luck with the digestion issue too ---that has to be horrid.....1 -
I do love veggies. SIGH....
It won't always be this way, but I will be trying to stick with it for as long as possible and having some 'cheats' here and there w/ veggies I love.
My appetite has been weird today. Hungry in the morning. Fine all day and then dinner rolls around and I get nauseated. I ate the steak. Not all the fat like I normally would though and feel fine now. Hunger nausea? /shrugs
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Do you know what the expected weight loss is on this type of diet? I can see how it would be beneficial I guess since cavemen had to eat this way. Wishing you lots of luck and sending you hugs ----hopefully your tummy will settle down soon!! 1
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volgirl1322 wrote: »Do you know what the expected weight loss is on this type of diet? I can see how it would be beneficial I guess since cavemen had to eat this way. Wishing you lots of luck and sending you hugs ----hopefully your tummy will settle down soon!!
Thanks!
I'm not sure about the weight loss tbh. It's not really a weight loss diet. More of a healing diet and weight loss can be one of the benefits.
There's this one woman that has been on a carnivore diet for 10+ years. When she first started, she was already at a healthy weight and gained about 20lbs in 6m doing it, but once her body had healed itself, the weight came back off. I really hope that WON'T be the case for myself since I'm not at a healthy weight currently lol, but we'll see.
Lady's name is Kelly Hogan. You have to look up "Kelly Hogan carnivore" or zero carb to find her. She also has a blog called my zero carb life. I haven't looked in to that. Just watched a couple of interviews she's done where she talks about her experience.
My goal is a bit more shallow right now and backwards. I'm hoping for the weight loss and improved health as the bonus Like.. 70% lose weight and 30% get healthy... rofl
Alrighty... so next week... going to greatly decrease the amount of diet soda I drink. Right now, along w/ the monster which is basically the same thing as diet soda, just w/ more caffeine.... it's all I'm drinking. I drink like a sip of water in the morning and at night when I take my meds and that's it lol. Yeesh. That's embarrassing to admit but it's the truth.
I need to get back to one a day if that much (along w/ the monster b/c I'm not ready to give up the caffeine just yet lol).
While I don't think diet soda is poison, I know it can't be that great that I'm drinking as much as I am. So yep... goal for next week!
At least the stuff I drink is caffeine free though so there won't be any sort of weird withdrawal to go through other than just my want.
Also no nausea or reflux last night! WOO! I took an enzyme w/ my dinner and I guess it helped. Maybe even helped w/ early morning poop too b/c I didn't. I woke up feeling a really slight need to go, but it wasn't urgent so I went back to sleep. I did have to go as soon as I got up this morning though, but hey... I still got to sleep instead of laying awake after pooping :P lol
And finally... went to walmart this morning. Fully intended on checking out their scales AND...... I completely forgot as soon as I stepped foot in to the store /facepalm
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The water is always a challenge. I do great at work, at least 120 oz per day but at home, I get off the water train---not sure why......so good luck with that! I am down to one diet dr pepper per day and usually I add a zero monster in on the weekends just for extra energy.......
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Sorry it took me forever to catch up, but it looks like you've really been GOIN THROUGH IT MAN!!! Your poor body doesn't know WHAT'S UP Glad the nausea is getting better though!!! I'm with @volgirl1322 Donna!!! Zero percent chance I could live without veggies. I couldn't be vegetarian either sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *shrug* LMAO
Tell me why I never think to just grill up some hamburger patties on my low carbier days? Literally NEVER think about it and every time I read that you made em I swear at myself in my head for forgetting again LMAO1 -
I really hope that you are feeling better now I have been doing really bad when it comes to water during my small vacation. But now that I am back at work, I hope I can get in my 2L per day minimum. Hope you will get a new scale soon. I know what you mean about the glass thingy as my digital scale has a glass top too Take care 1
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I went back into my notes and when I did low carb I had the keto flu for like 2 months off and on I hope yours is gone soon!!! 1
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I think I'm going to have to give up coffee. At least.... maybe have it once in a blue moon, but that's it.
My *kitten* isn't happy with coffee right now and I reeeeaaaalllly don't like what coffee is doing to my gut lol.
It goes right through me and not in a good flushing you out sort of way. Oh... it's still flushing me out but it's coming out the same way it went in.. multiple times and the b-hole isn't happy with that! rofl
I wasn't really craving it this morning. Just wanted to see what would happen since last night's dinner wasn't high fat. I thought MAYBE the high fat in combo with the coffee was causing the problem, but nope.... it's just the coffee.
That's another reason why people do this diet. An extreme elimination diet to help with gut health and figure out what food is causing the problem and well... it looks like coffee is one of my problems.
Boo... I say BOOO! Monster better not betray me like that! lol
Weight according to my crappy scale is still between 183-185.... somewhere in there. We should be going to Target or maybe somewhere else this weekend to get a new scale hopefully.
And yep. Meat eating is going well. I think I had too much processed meat yesterday though. Had hot dogs and then fixed some bacon. That bacon... just BLAH. WAY too salty and I ate too much of it b/c I didn't want it to go to waste. I dunno if it was b/c of that, but I woke up this morning to my fingers extremely swollen. Like so much so that I had to really wiggle my wedding ring to get it off. My fingers didn't even get that swollen when I was cheating for a month.
It's gone back down since though so not worried about it now. Just have to be careful of processed meats and how much I have in a day.
Dinner last night was air fryer chicken wings w/ a teeny amount of sauce. Have leftovers and will be enjoying those for lunch maybe! Or might save them for the kids for dinner. I dunno.
No headache yesterday and so far so good today too.
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Oh I almost forgot.... the not so great adventures of my life! lol
So... I bought beef liver tablets to take b/c... while I don't mind eating liver.. it's not my fav thing in the world and I have to be in a certain mood to eat it, so figured a liver tablet would work.
Remembered to take one this morning. BUT I took it with hot coffee... as in I could only take a tiny sip of the coffee which wasn't enough to get the tablet down my throat completely.
I could feel the pill in my throat, but figured it was just a residual feeling and not actually the pill (should say gel cap w/ like a liver dust in it).
I get distracted b/c I'm potty training my youngest.
About.. 5? 10? minutes later, I'm sitting in the bathroom with him while he's on the potty and I burp... welp... apparently the gel cap had dissolved completely? Partially? B/c my burp ended up pushing up liver dust up in to my mouth and sinuses. /gag
Want to know what that tastes like? B/c I sure as heck didn't and could've gone my whole life without knowing. Like liver flavor x10 but also with this almost rancid hint to it.
Cue me running to get a drink of something to get the nastiness down and blowing my nose to try to get it out of my sinuses.
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Lol I've had that happen to me once too but a different kind of pill, its sooo disgusting!!! 1
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LMAO girlllllllllll!!!! You're supposed to take pills with at LEAST 8 ounces of water!!! Those things can burn holes in your esophagus babe! It's REALLY not something you want to mess with!!!
SF energy drinks give me a better caffeine bump than coffee anyway!!! I just drink coffee for the yumminess of it 0 -
OMG girl ---so glad you are okay that sounds gross!!!!!0
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Oh dear❤️ Thank goodness you are OK❤️ Hope you can get a new scale by this week🤞0
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Ok Some TMI incoming.
So we all know that for a lot of folks, asparagus makes your pee smell weird.
Welp, apparently seafood does it to me as well, but as a woman... well.. I'm sure we've all heard the jokes about fishiness and ahem.... down there.
GROSS.
We had a lot of seafood last night and WOOO boy it is not pleasant today. About to hop in the shower. Just waiting for coffee to do whatever its going to do (craved some this morning).
I don't eat seafood that often... but I don't remember this happening years ago. Like when I was pregnant with my first, I craved crab (apparently baby had expensive taste! lol)... and I had it a few times while pregnant with her and I don't remember any weird odor coming from me. BUT I do remember that the last time I had crab recently.... same thing happened w/ the smell.
I know that's a lot of gross TMI, but well.. there it is. Suffer with me! rofl
Dinner was good though. We don't eat seafood often b/c it's so expensive and b/c it doesn't really satisfy our big appetites. I mean we get shrimp, but don't cook it every week.
I fixed salmon, haddock, & shrimp w/ lots of butter and seasoning. Yum yum.
I've taken 2 ox bile so far and haven't noticed anything different. But then again I haven't really eaten a fat heavy meal yet either. That will change tonight though. Bought some pork belly that I'll be baking. May go ahead and put some SF BBQ on them too. So will see if the ox bile helps keep me from getting nauseated and having reflux issues later.
Oh and we bought a new scale from Target. Yay Weight yesterday was 186. I dunno... I feel like I'm going down more than what the scale shows. Although the finger I keep my wedding band on (middle on left hand b/c ring finger is too small for it now) hasn't really slimmed down like it was, I think I can see it in my jawline area a bit... as in I can actually see my jawline a bit better lol. I dunno. Maybe just wishful thinking. I should've taken some measurements before I started. Will take some before hopping in the shower and take it weekly maybe.
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