Saturday, September 26
125.6
FBG: 78mg/dL (still too early to know for sure, but my FBG has been glorious for the past 2 weeks)
Ketones: 2.0
Eating
B: coffee w/collagen proteins and MCT oil, bacon & eggs
L: salmon burger, salad w/olive oil and vinegar
D: ground beef w/organ meats and sauerkraut
update - I got 110g of protein today and I have never felt better...... where has this been all my life?
I am so excited about my new ground beef! As part of my 30-day reset, I ordered 10 pounds of this ground beef that has beef heart, kidney, liver, and spleen mixed in. It's small enough quantities that it's not supposed to taste too terribly gamey. I'm eager to increase my nutrition with these! It's like taking a power vitamin.
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The company I ordered from is called Nose to Tail, and they use what's called "regenerative" agriculture, in which grass-fed ruminant actually help sequester carbon in the soil, the way things would have worked for eons before factory farming. These regenerative farms are actually CARBON NEGATIVE!! So cool. I love supporting them and at the same time, improving my own health. If you'd like to know more about regenerative agriculture, there is a book called Sacred Cow out; and a movie of the same title coming soon. I recently saw a Tshirt that said, "It's not the cow. It's the how". That sounds like a perfect shirt for me.
You know, I haven't had a cold since 2017. I've had a couple times where I've had that "feel like I'm getting sick" but then it just goes away before any cold symptoms appear. For my childhood and adult years, I've typically had 3 colds a year (I know this because I live my life in "quarters" as a teacher and I seemed to always get a cold mid-quarter!). My sister has teased me about my "weak" immune system. Well, I'm here to say that I think 3 years of no cold is long enough to now pronounce that I believe something about my dietary changes is what has made the difference. Most likely limiting my grains, but I suppose it could be something else, too, like keeping my blood sugar more steady. It could also be increasing my protein, and specifically, animal protein like yogurt and red meat. I think adding these nutritious animal foods to my diet has shored up my vitamin status and overall immune system responses.
I feel great this morning. The flooring and baseboards are essentially complete, but tomorrow the handyman is returning to change the trim around the front door and on the windowsills so everything matches. I think I might also switch out the entry way bifold doors to white. Everything looks so lovely already, though! I think this is what my hubby and I needed to do to feel more content hunkering down in our modest home for awhile and not being so antsy to move. Looking for houses has been really useful for us to see how grateful we are for the community we live in, our fenced in yard (despite it being small, we now realize that we have more privacy in our backyard than many neighborhoods in town), and of course we love our neighborhood sidewalks and access to short woody trails. Gratitude is a really wonderful thing for mental health. (Soprano, I think this was your gut-feeling advice for us all along....). Actually, we are still getting prequalified for a loan just on the off chance a great deal comes along. At this point, we have really really really narrowed down what we'd actually be willing to move for. And our list is picky, so there likely won't be much, but if it shows up, then we might go for it.
So I'm heading out to Lowe's in a moment to buy a bunch more stuff for our handyman to use tomorrow. He has fixed some niggling things (wiggly paper towel holder, anyone?!) LOL. It's like Christmas and his rates are SO reasonable.
I lifted heavy weights 3X this week, and I intend to keep this up throughout my sabbatical (which means until March). I'll reassess at that point according to my schedule.
OK, off to Lowe's!