PilotGal I love your meat hunting. I sure do the same thing. I hit the major sales on ribeye and more and I am big friends with the meat counter guys
so they give me heads up on good deals or when they are marking something down so that helps a lot. All who ya know in the meat game HAHA
Yea I adopted zero carb for a long time now but life got me and I had carb creep......always was one WISHING SO HARD I could climb that darn Atkins carb ladder.
I realize truly and wholeheartedly I am not one able to do it.
What I wanted back wasn't a veggie, I wanted like slices of pizza back LOL so it never worked for me.
When I held zero carb a longer time I was 'so much leaner' and the lbs didn't drop fast but I literally dropped a size in clothes with no weight loss.
Carbs are fluffy to the body....you ditch them truly down to zero carb elimination and your true body takes shape. Absolutely I got great results.
I remember one summer sitting eating some sausage patties and thinking how damn wonderful I felt. Energy thru the roof. Down in clothes sizes which made me feel a lot better. No bloaty in the guts. Bathroom times were fab vs. the old way of eating...….and I realized it is where I do my best and feel my best......but I wasn't all there in that I still wanted carbs back. Still didn't want to know the truth of how bad they effected me. I still played games with 'diet plans' and 'add this and not that' and 'eat only when' and 'only these times' and 'eat this and that together' and yet nothing I did would help me.
Only at true Carnivore level do I do my best. I am there again and in full truth of it all. My mind is now strangely calm about it....not fighting it like before.
I think after these years I figured things out more for me LOL
But I have to be wary cause vacations and trips and more can get a hold on me while the family ohhhs and ahhhs over how good some darn food is I get friggin' jealous.
So I adopt the attitude of eat the best I can when I can and hold strong to Carnivore. That is one reason I like eating home. I don't get as jealous LOL hey it is hard to fight sometimes but now.....I got this calm of knowing where I need to be and what I think I am missing out on is truly only something that will make me bloat. Gain weight. Take my energy away. So I am flipped into true Carnivore and sticking to it like glue.
A bite here and there will happen but I will never have a meal....have a whole anything....just this one time. Nope. A bite is 1 bite. That is the line draw there when out on vacations and such. AND EVEN THEN I won't allow a lot of those ever. Passing it up is what is my life now and I am cool with it.
But the Carn. way of life offers tons of benefits. Some take a while to happen for a lot of us....correcting so many years of damage but to just feel so much better and get results are a good combo to keep me Carn.
I notice my roundish, flabby leaves pretty quick. I know what you mean. I tend to get that kinda flabby full feeling from sodium bloat. I am a salt lover to the max but when my vibe turns more seafood I don't salt it like I do meat and I flab down even more
Lucky you don't have real lbs to lose....well don't get me wrong, we all need to health out our bodies but sadly I need to lose about 30 to be happy now and Carn. puts me right on that track. Scale right now is dropping nicely so I am cool with that.
But yea....body changes absolutely happen without the scale moving and eating so well. Natural non-eating times come into play for me. I hate calling it fasting but it is but I do all my non eating times as my body requests. I can go very long without eating...but then when I gotta eat, boy do I gotta eat LOL
I love talking Carn. talk