Yesterday marked an entire month of animal-based, carnivore-style eating! Whew! It flew right by. While I haven’t been ‘perfect’ the past four weeks, I have been fairly consistent and I’ve learned a lot. It’s also been much easier to eat this way than I initially expected, and the few times I’ve ‘splurged’ it wasn’t because I was craving it, so I think that’s a win.
I can count how many meals or snacks I’ve consumed outside of what’s ‘allowed’ so I’ll share it with you!
- Pizza Hut 😂 We ordered takeout after a long day of cleaning out Austin’s memaw’s house and it was delicious. I also ordered wings for extra protein, and a cookie cake dessert because, why not.
- Parry’s Pizzaria – it’s safe to say, we love pizza! Parry’s is one of my favorite places in Lubbock and we went all out with our favorite parm bites for an appetizer and our uncle sam pizza with bacon! So yum! And so worth it. We enjoyed it and moved on, and that’s how it should be when you eat. You don’t have to punish yourself or feel guilty.
- Uncle Julio’s – this was last night actually and I always get fajitas, which are great, and I rarely eat the setups because I’m just not a fan of rice and beans. I usually only eat the meat so that’s pretty normal for me, but I did enjoy some chips and salsa, AND two flour tortillas because those are my favorite in all of the tortillas available for eating.
- A few weeks ago I wanted to try out my new mixer I received for my birthday, so I made some homemade brown butter chocolate chip cookies that are to die for! We baked a few and then I rolled up the dough and froze it so we could come back to it later. I ended up using some of the dough as a mix-in for our ice cream in our creami, and it didn’t disappoint.
Overall, I’m down just over a pound in body weight – though, right now, my weight is up slightly because of the timing in my cycle and obviously because I ate tortillas last night. No biggie. It’s totally normal for your weight to swing from day to day so you can’t get real wrapped up in that, but that’s why it’s important to track your weight, take progress pictures, and take your measurements because your weight doesn’t always tell the full story. And also, for us gals, the cycle day we’re on will greatly impact our weight as well. I’m down some inches in my waist, hips, and thighs, and my top two abs have decided to make their appearance, so that’s exciting. I plan to update my measurements in a few more weeks. I don’t tend to take those as frequently because the change can be so minimal that I usually do those once a month or so.
I’ve averaged about 2,000 calories per day over these past few weeks, which is quite a bit more than I’m used to eating when I’m eating in a deficit. So I’ve gotten to eat MORE food, which is always good for me, and I’ve actually trended down on the scale. Funny how that works, huh?
I averaged 152 grams of Protein, 110.25 grams of Fat, and 115.25 grams of Carbs.
For me, I kind of like eating more fat. I have no logical reasoning other than I feel like for my body type, I do better with higher fat and lower carbs, but I love carbs and I do not think a low carb diet should be followed, necessarily, but I do think it’s important to know how your body responds to certain macronutrients and foods. There was a time when I tried to do low carb, and by low carb, I basically mean, no carbs, and let me tell you, unless you’re sedentary, that does not work and it is not sustainable. I remember almost passing out at CrossFit, and I thought because what I had been told that my body would use fat for energy, but when I added carbs back in, I immediately felt better, had more energy, and I haven’t had that experience again. My carb range goal right now is anywhere from 104 grams to 143 grams. For fat, I think it’s important to call out that I’m not eating a ridiculous amount of cheese for my fat. I think that’s the most ignorant thing I’ve seen people do with Keto, and it just doesn’t feel healthy to me, but to each their own. All of my fat has primarily come from the meat I’ve been consuming, like ground beef, burger patties, and steak, and my new favorite thing is to cook my eggs in butter because the flavor is amazing! So I also get some fat from the eggs and butter, obviously, and then the milk and yogurt I eat, but rarely cheese. I eat some cheese but it’s pretty minimal.
This is basically what I’ve been eating on repeat:
Breakfast: yogurt bowls with whole milk a2 yogurt and fruit with a drizzle of honey, a protein shake with colostrum, or eggs cooked in butter with some bacon or sausage.
Lunch: depends where I’m at but mostly beef patties, steak or brisket with a sweet potato or some type of squash.
Dinner: nearly the same as lunch – we’ve eating a lot of steak and a lot of chicken thighs. I alternate between butternut squash and yellow squash and zucchini right now.
My favorite fruits I’ve been eating are strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, bananas, apples, watermelon, pineapple, and avocados.
That’s all for now! The dryer keeps buzzing at me, so I think I’ll go fold some laundry now. Have a super week!
