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Today when I got home from work, I was hungry so I grabbed my usual snack out of the refrigerator and popped some olives in my mouth, usually this stops the gnawing in my tummy...but today it was like NO! An image of meat was hovering in my head. Since Friday when I had half a cup of mixed nuts and called it a day, Saturday I fasted till my eating window on Sunday, Sunday I did 1230 calorie salad with a skin on chicken breast, Monday ended up being a 2nd fasting day followed by another 1,000 calorie salad with a skin on chicken breast. Today my body wanted meat and that is all it wanted. No green stuff whatsoever! I had a Smoked Boston Butt Roast that I bought from a church fund raiser, I sliced of two medium slices, grabbed a hard-boiled egg out of the bag of 18 I cooked Sunday and chased that with a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter.....it stopped, I was full..done! Does anyone else get cravings for meat only? I had it happen a week or two ago and I ended up snarfing two Bubba Burger avocado lettuce wraps. I don't recall having protein cravings my first time around, I still average between 17% and 22% protein in my daily intake. The first time was when we were fencing the 1st pasture and I did quite a bit of fencing this weekend. Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm...
Diet Calendar Entries for 24 May 2016:
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900 kcal
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Fat: 71.82g | Prot: 41.58g | Carb: 24.42g.
Breakfast: Land O'Lakes Heavy Whipping Cream, Coffee, Skinnygirl Stevia Extract. Lunch: Great Value Green Olives with Pimento, Sargento Pepper Jack Snacks Cheese Sticks. Dinner: Avocados, Smucker's Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, Boiled Egg, Smoked or Cured Pork Roast. more...
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3004 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Resting - 7 hours, Standing - 4 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours, Sitting - 5 hours. more...
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I feel ya. Fruits and vegies are ridiculous! I usually try to get whats in season but sometimes I just have to buy some other things not in season too. Cha ching $ I actually have the opposite i don't wanna eat meat! I have to force it mostly. But lately I have been craving sweets especially at night! Ugh Keep on pushing you got this!
25 May 16 by member: cathytobias
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Every once in awhile I get a craving for steak, specifically. I figure there must be some need it fulfills.
25 May 16 by member: trackin64
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Well, this takes a bit of work...but it's inexpensive (the price of a shot-gun shell about .45 cents each) Venison is wonderful tasting, it's naturally low in fat...very lean meat. My favorite way to cook it is cut it into 1 inch cubes, wrap it in a slice of bacon stab it with a toothpick and toss it on the grill. When the bacon gets crispy...it's done. So delicious and I have not cooked it in a very long time. I'll do some this weekend. We get 12 deer per year on a 22 dollar resident hunting licence. Hubby shot two shells this past season and came home with 2 deer. The work involved is cleaning, cutting and packaging. I know some of you are staring at the screen with a horrified expression and saying...but I thought you LIKED animals. I do..love them in fact, but all of the meat we eat was once a living breathing animal and I think no more of going out in the woods and shooting something to eat than I do going to the grocery store and picking up a rack of ribs. It's meat...I eat..
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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I'm staring at the screen thinking "$22?!?" Then I asked hubby if he would consider deer hunting.
25 May 16 by member: LadyinDenim
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Those are regulated by the state in which you live, since deer are considered a nuisance here because we have such a huge population the hunting licence is fairly cheap...if you want to hunt birds it goes up 25.00. The deer cost millions in automobile accidents/injuries/deaths. They cost more millions to the farmers in damaged crops and orchards, we don't call it hunting anymore. Changed the nomenclature to "Harvesting". They let us "harvest" 10 does and 2 bucks per season.
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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He says no way. I might try Craigslist.
25 May 16 by member: LadyinDenim
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I admit, the hubs and I love seeing deer walk through our area but they are costly when they run across the road and hit your car. Seriously, they run out of the woods right into your car! He has been hit three times and I have been hit once. It's a wonder the insurance company still talks to us. I understand deer have no peripheral vision. They are lovely creatures. It's a shame but at the same time, they will over populate and cause more damage when they do ... to crops, households, traffic accidents, etc. They are easy picking out here where we live in the mountains, because they don't see many people and don't know to be afraid. It's a life out here and many families depend on venison to live on. There are bear hunters, too. Don't get me started on them. They use dogs to run bears up a tree and then they walk up and kill them and take pictures of 'their kill'. I know the bears can be a nuisance, too, but they don't bother us for some reason and I am not happy with the callous way they are hunted down.
25 May 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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LOLOLOL good luck with that!
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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Mom, I'm a Texan...they say Texans cut their teeth on guns, I was taught to handle one when I was 7. I was also taught respect for life at the same time. Never kill anything unless you intend to eat it, never point a gun at a person unless you intend to kill them, and you had better have a damn good reason to kill them. I don't believe in killing anything for any reason other than food. I know a few times in the last few years...if it wasn't for the venison, we would have gone hungry....hehe..and now I am doing it on purpose, life is funny that way. That is why hubby only took two last year. It was 140 pounds of meat when we got done processing it, that was enough for us.
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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And Mom you are right, the deer run into you more than you run into them. That's why I don't drive after dark, we had a big buck come flying out of the woods and t-boned the side of the truck, he bumped and rolled all the way down the side of the bed, then kicked out a taillight, hit the ground running and vanished into the trees....cost the insurance company about 4,000.00 in body work to fix the truck.
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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After watching Knuckles' video I'm astounded that beef causes a relatively big insulin release. That makes me wonder what else is behind the occasional steak craving.
25 May 16 by member: trackin64
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Trackin- I switched my primary protein source from beef to pork somewhere around September or October of last year, haven't regretted it, it's cheaper and just as good.
25 May 16 by member: 1point21gigawatts
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I wouldn't be at all surprised Trackin, considering what they feed them. This is a point I am trying to make with my hubby. Whatever you feed your cows is what you will be eating later. Right now cattle feed is made up of a variety of grain and molasses. You are what you eat, I want to take them off of feed and go entirely on grass, he's balking because he wants them to grow faster...keep telling him that is what is wrong with the beef we can buy at the store, rushing nature is just not natural and it will come back and bite you in the a$$ in a big way!
25 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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So true, too true! One year my dad went halfsies on a calf, which was kept on our "farm-let". The critter had 8+ acres of grass to chow down on, and ended up being the best-tasting beef I EVER ate!
25 May 16 by member: PokeyJack
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@phil and debra, I mostly eat pork, chicken and turkey and occasionally get grass-fed hamburger. I do wonder if that insulin response is due to the feed and if you tested grass-fed against traditionally fed beef you'd get a different result.
25 May 16 by member: trackin64
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Debra, I hope your hubby listens to you. I didn't know you were a Texan. Those are great rules to live by ... your rules of using a gun. Love that.
26 May 16 by member: Mom2Boxers
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He will listen, it's going to hit him right in the pocketbook, I am holding that ace back for now because we don't have the pasture fencing finished.......grass is free :) We grow really great grass without any effort on our part. I just called him and told him we were out of feed...again....over 150 pounds this week, he will see the light :)
26 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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LOL, what am I saying...he does not have a pocketbook....wallet, mens have wallets!
26 May 16 by member: debrafrederick
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:) See deer and elk everyday but sadly not in the freezer :/
26 May 16 by member: Becca P
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