Well, our neighbor made us banana nut muffins which I resisted for days. Had one small one last night. And I also had some flour mixed in with the gravy on the pulled pork. Both bloated me and gave me a terrible side ache.
But my new plan is to eat just ruminants. Theory is that folks with auto-immune issues particularly do better with them because all those stomachs remove things in plants that bother us. I DO know when I’m closer to carnivore, I mostly crave beef or lamb. Bacon is ok and an occasional chicken thigh. Seafood as a side, but my plan is to stick to beef, lamb, bison, venison, elk. And the others just for an occasional side. See how that works out. Next to no chicken which I don’t crave much anyway. An occasional thigh or wing is ok.
It’s Wednesday and things are still stressful on our end. Hoping for some good news pretty soon here.
Tomorrow is April 1 and I hope to start walking the dog in evenings with my husband, get better into exercise, am hoping our refinancing finally gets straightened out. The stress of that has really sapped my energy for reading/writing and even exercising.
I am h oping to post things that are more artsy/writing/diet oriented soon.
I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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2 thoughts on “Carnivore Dreams – Day 9 sort of – a cheat and ruminants”
Yeah, my wife is gluten intolerant and she has the same symptoms when she eats wrong. Me, I’m okay with the little enzyme, but I eat gluten free because it supports her and I am too cheap to buy too much food. We are about done with meat, but I still have to have a steak or a Whataburger once in a while. PS..I will never be a vegan.
I don’t think there is one diet for everyone, but I do think all people need to eat whole food and cook and nothing processed. When I did my 23 and Me I found out there were people with three types of muscles. I have an elite athlete, heavier muscle type, and am a sprinter. So it would stand to reason, I think, that a carnivore diet would make me feel best. People with longer muscles probably do better long distance and I can see them needing carbs (as long runners need). When you add in people who have auto-immune issues or food sensitivities, then you have something else. Carnivore is a good place to start for many because it’s essentially a major elimination diet. I’ve found out what I can add back in and at least get away with it. But I am never giving up a great steak! 🙂 So eat whole food. Don’t eat anything they mess with (fake meat), anything in a box or frozen with anything in it you don’t recognize. I think the additives are even worse than the salt. 🙂
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Yeah, my wife is gluten intolerant and she has the same symptoms when she eats wrong. Me, I’m okay with the little enzyme, but I eat gluten free because it supports her and I am too cheap to buy too much food. We are about done with meat, but I still have to have a steak or a Whataburger once in a while. PS..I will never be a vegan.
I don’t think there is one diet for everyone, but I do think all people need to eat whole food and cook and nothing processed. When I did my 23 and Me I found out there were people with three types of muscles. I have an elite athlete, heavier muscle type, and am a sprinter. So it would stand to reason, I think, that a carnivore diet would make me feel best. People with longer muscles probably do better long distance and I can see them needing carbs (as long runners need). When you add in people who have auto-immune issues or food sensitivities, then you have something else. Carnivore is a good place to start for many because it’s essentially a major elimination diet. I’ve found out what I can add back in and at least get away with it. But I am never giving up a great steak! 🙂 So eat whole food. Don’t eat anything they mess with (fake meat), anything in a box or frozen with anything in it you don’t recognize. I think the additives are even worse than the salt. 🙂