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Salad with the meat loaf

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My wife’s insanely great meatloaf … ground beef, ground pork, ground lamb. A couple of eggs beaten in to help hold it together, and a bit of cheese on top.

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Fermented pickles. Really great brand. The pickle juice is short chain fatty acids.

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Tilapia fillets for dinner, coated with egg and olive oil and crushed fried pork rinds as “breadcrumbs.”

Fried in beef tallow.

Served with fermented pickles, salad of romaine lettuce and avocado.

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Frying chicken thighs in a giant cast iron fry pan. Using beef tallow as the frying fat.

The finished fried chicken thighs, below.

I’m gradually getting to the point of going 90-95% carnivore, along with my daughter. (More on those plans later.)

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Dinner Sunday, March 30, 2025. COD cooked in bacon fat, bacon, hard boiled egg, spring mix lettuce, avocado, Allulose and citric acid, olive oil, sour cream, apple cider vinegar.

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Over the course of these 7 days on vacation in and around Moab, Utah, I’ve eaten 7 ribeye steaks, one each night at dinner (along with a large Caesar salad), and 3 T-bone steaks (with 2 eggs over easy) for brunch . I ate the leftover steak on the trail during a couple of our hikes.

I took olive oil along to the restaurants, along with a little container of Allulose 0 carb/cal sugar mixed with citric acid and some salt.

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Dinner tonight in Moab, Utah. Caesar salad, skipping croutons and bread. Ribeye steak. It was great. Finding keto-carnivore food eating out on vacation can be challenging … but not if I can find ribeye steak with no sugar added to sauce.

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Fermented pickles. I’ve started ordering them from an online source. The pickles and the pickle juice are a great source of probiotics, plus the pickle juice is a short chain fatty acid, easily metabolized and not glucose. The problem is that the pickles sold in grocery stores are not usually fermented.

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My keto dinner tonight … meatloaf made with ground beef, ground pork, and ground lamb, no fillers. Salad of lettuce, bacon, cheese, Caesar dressing home made, olive oil, apple cider vinegar.

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Dinner tonight was a boneless pork loin cooked in the air fryer. I usually cook it with no oil or sauce and then add it later. This time, I smeared the pork loin with kind of paste consisting of chili powder, Allulose, citric acid, garlic powder, salt.

I dried off the pork loin, but the residual moisture sort of liquified the powders, and it caramelized in the air fryer. It was delicious, though probably a little heavy on the citric acid for most people’s tastes.

Salad of lettuce and avocado with olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

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Not great pics, but my wife has just taken from the oven a classic keto meatloaf - meaning no non-meat fillers - made from ground beef, ground pork, and ground lamb, with bacon on top with some cheddar cheese. We’ll have it tomorrow night (and then leftovers) with fermented pickles and a salad of lettuce, avocado, and a little Parmesan cheese and bacon. 🥓

Tonight is salmon and salad.

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At an academic conference on Jeckyll Island, Georgia. Spectacular weather - not humid, mid 60s, crystal clear blue skies.

Really a pity we will spend the next couple of days indoors, being all academic and intellectual and stuff lol.

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Reblogging this. It's hard to overstate how important this is.

If you are eating a carb-centric diet, hunger will always finally win out over self-control. And during the time it takes for hunger to win (and setting off, so often, a binge eating episode) you tend to be relentlessly focused on food. It gets hard to concentrate on anything else. (Been there, done that, many times, yep!)

But it's the effect of carbs leading to elevated blood insulin, and the cascade of biochemical reactions triggered, that sets off hunger signals. And you really are hungry, because typically the insulin has swept the glucose out of the blood, and now you really are "hungry" in the sense of wanting energy.

Your body should respond by releasing fat from your cells to be burned for energy - but the presence of elevated insulin means that the fat that should be released for energy remains locked up by the insulin signal in your cells.

The only way out of this is to reduce the insulin signal, and that means (drastically) reducing carb intake.

Dr. Ben Bikman explains in 1 ½ minutes why hunger beats out willpower in losing weight if the food you’re eating is carb-centric.

It’s not your lack of self discipline. The hunger is real and physiological … and it will always win, eventually, until you address the root biochemical and hormonal cause, by eating mostly fats and proteins and fiber, and reduce carbohydrate intake.

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So … keto dinner tonight (Saturday, 22 February 2025):

Salad of lettuce and avocado, with bacon and bacon fat, hard boiled eggs, and shrimp broiled in the bacon fat. Olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Also drank half a cup of fermented pickle juice. Very, very yummy.

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“Get thee behind me, Satan!”

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Dinner:

Boneless pork loin, cooked in the air fryer - and for once I didn’t overcook it. Salad of lettuce, homemade. Caesar dressing, 4 hard boiled eggs, olive oil and apple cider vinegar, sour cream.