SusanneUK

Welcome Jamie, hello from Bristol!

I gave pork rinds to my kids today for the first time, expecting they'd love them... well, it's a resounding no from them! I enjoyed them though. B- 4 yolks, 1 whole egg L- slow cooked brisket, butter D- more brisket & butter

That's brilliant, my kids find it really hard still - keeping in mind that up to 2021 they were vegan their entire life, it's still tough. Steak is an absolute no go still. But, I keep trying...

I've had similar issues, getting enough fat - protein being too high can still cause hunger, when the body metabolises protein as glucose. I'm sticking to fatty meats (pork belly is great!), if eating eggs I'll have the yolks only, and some butter.

Today - B- 4 yolks, 1 egg, 1 cup kefir (final one - I'm giving that up) L/D- 4 shrimp (we went out for lunch, this was all they had for me); two delicious pork belly slices when I got home!

It's Friday again, and I've gone meatless. Yesterday I input my food onto a tracker for the first time and I was shocked / surprised to find that my protein was at 40% - I'm aiming for high fat carnivore, and this wasn't it! So I put in my plan for today, and that's come out at 80% fat / 20% protein; that's what I'm aiming for, and it's the end of the day now and I find myself slightly nauseous from all the fat. So that's what that is supposed to feel like! B- 4 yolks, 1 whole egg, butter, 1 cup kefir L/D- 3 yolks, 1 whole egg, butter Also had a bit of browned butter as a treat, and a piece of cheese. I am struggling to find a way to get comfortable - I'm so used to eating three times a day, it provides structure for my day, but I also want to eat substantial meals. So I think I might go to 2 meals a day.

Went to my local butcher for the first time (it's a small shop where you have to talk to the owner and ask for what you want... scary!) and got some sirloin steaks, very nice. And now I've broken that barrier I'll be going to the butchers again, for sure! B- 3 yolks, 1 egg, 1 cup kefir L- some deli beef & butter D- 2 sirloin steaks, piece of cheese I have to say, this evening I truly ate to satiety. I thought I'd have to eat masses of food to achieve that, so I've never really tried - I'd always just eat what I thought was reasonable as an amount. But today, what I thought was reasonable filled me up so much... it feels AMAZING to feel truly satisfied.

Thank you for sharing, I've just subscribed too! What's your plan for the channel? Interviews, or mostly you chatting to camera? If it's just you talking to camera, my honest feedback would be to add visuals - in this video, before/after, childhood photos as you mentioned you were a fat kid... That's what most YouTubers are doing these days. And if you'll just talk, without extra visuals, that'll probably be more suited to a podcast rather than video... (and I'm way more into podcasts than videos because I can multitask!) Hope this is helpful, no offense meant!

Wow Geezy, that is powerful stuff. Thank you for writing and for all your contributions on here!

I'm still here, just was a bit busy after London. Back to normal. B- 4 egg yolks, 1 egg, 1 cup kefir L- 2 small minute steaks with butter D- some chicken with butter and parmesan I'm staying away from diet sodas, I know you guys are right about that...

Travel day back home from London, I had B- 2 hard boiled eggs, one burger patty, some cheddar cheese L - 3 McDonald's patties, more cheddar cheese No dinner, but did have a few bites of frozen browned butter. Wasn't hungry.

Still in London, so my food was - B: 2 hard boiled eggs, some deli chicken and butter L: 4 burger king patties Didn't need any food after that. Home time today, but not until after lunch!

Today, we're in London (for the weekend) staying in an Airbnb, so I'm not in my regular kitchen... So: B: deli chicken slices with butter and cheese L: 4 patties from Burger King D- don't think I'll need any, but if I do, I've got biltong

I thought about getting moulds initially but it's actually simpler to just pour the browned butter into a greaseproof paper lined baking tray - then, keeping it in the freezer, you can just snap off a piece. Or you could snap the whole thing into pieces and put into a container, if freezer space is tight... The reason I'm keeping it in the freezer is so it's solid, I'm not sure what it would be like in the fridge - probably not possible to snap it, and it would melt in the fingers while holding it...

Today, I made brown butter for the first time. Froze it, then tried some. It's sweet, but also overly salty - I'll probably do it again, but with unsalted butter. B: 3 egg yolk, 1 egg, 1cup kefir L: some brown butter, ground beef cooked with bacon & liver pate, butter will probably skip, but perhaps some chicken

That's a good question, I actually have no idea what part of the animal it's from - it's just called minute steak, probably because it's fairly thin cut so only takes a couple of minutes to cook... It's way cheaper than ribeye, that's why I bought it, as I'd normally struggle to justify the prices of other steaks

For me today - B: 3 egg yolks, 1 egg, 1 cup kefir L: pan fried ground beef with bacon bits and liver pate D- Minute Steak, 1 burger patty I have realised that I hate ground beef hot, but it's fine cold. So today it was my eat-in-the-car lunch before a job, and I enjoyed it. Minute steak, now THAT was a dinner I enjoyed. But it didn't quite fill me up so I had a burger patty as well.

Maybe I'll get there one day, but for me, the three meals a day is a kind of structure my days otherwise lack - they are like stepping stones through the day, something to look forward to. I find I need to create structure in my days, it's better for me as well as for my kids (I home educate them) so meals do make a nice scaffold for structure. That said - when we go out for the day it's nice not to need to pack my lunch or worry about where to buy it!

Yesterday - usual breakfast of 3 yolks & 1 egg, 1 cup kefir Lunch: 4 hard boiled eggs, some cheddar cheese Dinner: 2 pork belly strips

Same breakfast as always (3 egg yolks, one whole egg, cup of raw kefir) Lunch: instant pot roast beef Dinner: 2 burger patties Today I cooked the beef joint (not further specified - I had no idea what kind of joint this was, it just said, beef joint) in the pressure cooker after browning it on all sides. Instructions said to pressure cook for 5 minutes, which seemed super short... Turns out it was way too short, my instincts were right. I gave it another 10 minutes and then had to cut it in steaks and fry in the pan! It was yummy in the end though.

Thanks for the welcome, Bob! I'm the same, I quit smoking in 1999 with the help of a message board like this - it was the hardest thing I'd ever done, but that community pulled me through. So I know the power of these, and have never found this in social media! (This makes me sound very old... I'm not THAT old, I just quit smoking at 19 after a pack-a-day habit from age 13)

Oh goodness, same!! I actually did IF for five years, with a five hour eating window. Five years, and it NEVER got easier. I'm a breakfast person, I wake up hungry, so I ended up miserable all morning - around my kids. Not good. Plus, I can eat volume, so when I was finally able to eat I would have a healthy meal and then all bets were off - I couldn't stop, I couldn't control what I was eating, so I basically binged my way through five hours until I could physically eat no more, and I was GAINING weight towards the end. Starving AND fat. Misery! Like you, I'm so glad to be here and to feel so peaceful around food. My entire life I've never felt this way.

Welcome Bev, I'm just across from Wales, in Bristol! I'm new here too, and haven't lost any weight either (carnivore since 1 Feb '24) but feeling so at peace around food is worth it, even if I never lose any! That said, I do hope it happens for you (and me) soon

It's Friday and I try to avoid eating meat on Fridays (I'm Catholic) so - B - 3 egg yolks and 1 whole egg, scrambled & 1 cup of Kefir (home made with raw milk) L - can of salmon and can of tuna, mixed, butter added (that was a true penance - not eating that again!) D - fried salmon I hate fish. Might need to do egg days on Fridays. Victory of the day: my son (7) asked for eggs for breakfast instead of porridge, and after having them, he said he'd want eggs again tomorrow!

Hi everyone, I'm new here and wanted to introduce myself. Is this forum new? It's so awesome to find this - in my continued quest to minimise my Facebook use, and to find a message board that is actually easy to navigate by topic, this here is a Godsend! I was a member of ZIOH back in 2009, and did this for a short time. But I was hopelessly stuck in my food addiction and mental obsession, so did not stay. Before and after my short stint into ZIOH, I was vegan; 1999ish to 2020. What can I say about that time - I think my body coped better than many, at least I didn't develop any major conditions apart from polycystic ovaries; but I was fat, tired, and in very bad shape. Mentally, things were desperate. In 2004, I found a 12-Step programme for food addiction where I had to plan my meals for the next day in advance, commit them to my sponsor every day, and eat exactly what I had committed. That was three meals a day, weighed and measured precisely. This was a low-carb programme in that it elimiated sugars, grains and starches; but I was using soya as my protein, so it still wasn't all that healthy. It did get me out of the mental obsession, however. I left that programme in 2008/9, and that's when I went totally off the rails and then tried to pull myself out of that haze by going zero carb. But I did not stay. Today, looking back, I'm really unable to say why I didn't stick with it for the long term - maybe I hadn't suffered enough yet? I left, went vegan again, and things went out of control really fast. Bingeing and fasting, sugar fog, madness. So eventually I went back into that 12-Step programme, and stuck with that for four years. In late 2023 though, it began to chafe. I was less and less willing to go to these lengths, to prepare all my meals and weigh and measure them, to spend so much time on preparing and still not having mental freedom. I remembered ZC. On 1st February I took the plunge, and it took a lot of courage - would I lose all control again? I did not. The four years of recovery, away from sugars and grains and starches, had given me a basis to stand on. Now I'm able to think long-term, not worry about what the scale says this week. My weight has gone up since the switch (as the previous diet was rather restrictive) but I can trust that meat won't make me obese, and I'm here for my health and for the long haul. But also, for peace with food, which I finally and for the first time in my life truly feel. That right there is the greatest thing for me right now. Good to be here. I hope to meet some companions on this road, get involved, really find community here - which is so hard to do on FB. Please do say hi if you've read this. All the best!