https://joshsnyman.com/podcast/nicole-kat
Check out this link which will take you to a podcast episode Josh Synman, a fellow Carnivore from South Africa who is incredibly smart!
We discuss my journey to carnivore. Issues solved by meat based eating and some other topics in between!
Deviled eggs for lunch today! Whipped some ingredients I had together and they turned out delicious!! š¤¤š„ loose recipe below!
Enjoy!!
CARNIVORE DAY 387: I remember counting calories when I was younger. Thinking okay I can eat this tiny salad for dinner and I will stay under my calorie count for the day. Okay I have to do 90 minutes of cardio to burn off what I ate. Constantly obsessing over calories and how much I ate and burned off. Is this how we should treat ourselves and our bodies? NO! F*CK THAT!
I donāt track anything and thatās because I donāt need to. I eat till I am full and I am always feeling nourished and satisfied. If only I knew what I know now. You can eat all the meat, eggs, and animal based products to achieve the same physical results and not have to restrict yourself. But now, I donāt care how I LOOK. I care how I FEEL. My goal isnāt to be āthinā, it is to wake up everyday and feel my best so I can kick that dayās ass. I care about my mental health, feeling nourished, having physical and mental issues healed and having the fuel to workout when I want š„©š„©š„©
Itās never too lateā¦ start gluten freeā¦ go low carbā¦ go ketoā¦ go animal basedā¦ go carnivore. You have one body! Make sure you treat it kindly and give it all the food and nutrients you need. Later on you will be happy you did. Stop counting calories and start living š„©šš¼š¤
Are you looking for a way to cook a delicious breakfast for a bigger group of people? Look no further! This delicious meat and egg breakfast casserole is the perfect dish!
Loose recipe/directions:
4 Minute Ribeye – watch the video on my YouTube channel and cook with me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcH-XT319ZE
Ingredients:
2 10 oz ribeye steaks (from Certified Piedmontese)
Salt and Pepper, Garlic, 2-4 tbsp butter
Directions:
1. Before you cook the ribeyeās, salt both sides on the steak, place steaks in a plastic bag and keep them in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour and/or up to 24 hours.
2. Place a skillet on the stove. Put the stove to high heat. Once you can see the heat coming off of the skillet add 1-2 tbs on butter to the pan.
3. Carefully add the steaks to the skillet with tongs. Keep each steak on one side for 1 minute and continuously flip the steak until you have reached the end of four mins. OR keep the steak on each side for two minutes each. During minute three and during minute four add 1-2 tbsp of butter on top of the steaks. You may scoop the extra butter on sides of pan onto the steaks (just like basting).
4. Use your meat thermometer to do a temp check and if it is at or close to reaching the final internal temp desired remove from stove. I like my ribeye around 140-150 degrees, so I will take it off once it reaches 135-140 degrees internal temp.
5. Let it sit on your plate for a few minutes and then enjoy!
Letās talk about anxiety. The amount of young adults feeling some form of anxiety is at an all time high today. I have experienced a direct relationship between the foods I consume and my anxiety that I believe is important to share. I have dealt with some crippling anxiety in my life. The anxiety I would experience at times would completely shut me down. I would crawl into the fetal position while my muscles spasm, my heart racing, and my stomach aching, thinking I was going to be sick. It made me feel like I was going to die. Sounds dramatic, I know! If you have ever dealt with this type of anxiety then you know what Iām talking about. I always thought, if there was SOMETHING that could help with this (other than medication) I would try it in a heart beat.
Fast forward to when I started carnivore officially in April 2020. One month into it I realized and said to Taylor āwait, where did my anxiety go?ā He laughed, I laughed and really we didnāt think anything of my new relationship with food. We both thought, well you must be way more accepting of covid and these āunprecedented timesā. Oh okay… interesting how my crippling anxiety was relieved during one of the MOST stressful times in history, only ONE MONTH into changing my diet by cutting out sugar and carbs. I was elated! As far as I was concerned I would keep doing carnivore for the rest of my life since it had cured my anxiety and stomach issues within a month.
So I thought wow, my anxiety is gone. It really never came back until the cheating… We decided to go to Utah and Idaho to visit friends in October and November. Iām not going to lie to you, sometimes I cheat, however I will say, I am very strategic about it. I donāt like to go completely nuts or else I get pretty sick (on the toilet for hours) but I do like to have some things I wouldnāt normally eat. While in Idaho for three nights in November the cheating wasnāt too awful, I maybe had 1-2 drinks per night and limited my sugar intake but definitely had some carbs here and there. In Idaho, my stomach was killing me, it seemed like all my stomach issues were back since I wasnāt sticking to carnivore so I understood that. However, out of nowhere my anxiety (whilst on a relaxing vacation without any worries) came back TENFOLD.
For the last two nights in Idaho, as my head would hit the pillow to go to bed, my body would start shaking uncontrollably. It would start as a shiver and then just get to the point of making it extremely difficult to walk. I thought to myself āhm, so this is how Iām going to die?ā I knew in my head I wasnāt having a seizure since this had happened before but let me tell you, shaking to this point is one of the scariest experiences I have encountered. There wasnāt much I could do, tried to breathe and decided to take an anti anxiety pill I sometimes use for flying. I was staying at a friends house and Taylor and I decided not to tell them just because we didnāt want them to worry and this had happened before. However, this time, the trend had become more obvious as to what was triggering it.
The shaking fits werenāt unique to Idaho, they had happened in Utah in October and then again 2-3 times at home prior to that. The only thing these incidences had in common was it only happened when I wasnāt sticking to carnivore/keto and ate sugar, carbs, and gluten. In Utah and Idaho, I cheated here and there, ate sugar, gluten, etc. The times it happened at home were also times we had friends over to celebrate a holiday or birthday where what do you know… yup, eating sugar, carbs, gluten. The theme was consistent… food was causing this. It proved to me how poisonous and toxic some of our foods can be and what havoc they can reek on oneās body.
I had a visit with my doctor after our Idaho trip. She was legitimately concerned I hadnāt tried to set up something sooner since this had happened a couple times before. We went over the shaking, my diet, any other symptoms that might be going on, work, etc. She asked a MILLION QUESTIONS and dug deep. I actually got a little scared. At the end of our visit she recommended two things: 1. Stick to carnivore since that seems to work well for my body and 2. If the shaking were to happen again she recommended taking one of the anti anxiety pills that I sometimes use for flying and if that doesnāt help to go to the hospital. I told her I wonāt likely go to the hospital but we agreed to avoid the common denominator, bad food.
Iām hoping that sharing my experience with anxiety and my experience with anxiety being relieved and cured by the carnivore diet can help someone. I canāt imagine living my life with the anxiety I used to have and I am so thankful to have discovered a way to relieve it. Food isnāt just food, it can have an awful effect on your body. I strongly believe that sugar and processed junk is the real enemy here. To live a happier life with less issues (including mental and physical ailments) we should limit our intake of sugar and processed foods.
Salmon roe has been part of my life since I was 4 years old! I remember trying it for the first time at a sushi restaurant where they call it āIkuraā. It was salty heaven and I didnāt mind that is was fish eggs and would continue to ask for it š
It wasnāt until years later than I realized salmon roe was an absolute superfood. I remember Dr Rhonda Patrick talking about how good it is for pregnant women to eat salmon roe because of how nutrient dense it is. Specifically, the DHA folic acid found in salmon roe is extremely important for a fetusā brain development. You canāt find that level of DHA in anything else with the same level of absorption.
My relationship has continued with salmon roe. I now try to eat 4-6 oz per week to get the nutrients it contains which include Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Omega 3s, DHA folic acid, thiamine and selenium. Since it is a superfood for brain development, it has been recommended for women to eat salmon roe while they are pregnant and to try to introduce to your kids at a young age!
Anyone else love salmon roe? š¤
When following an animal based or carnivore diet, eggs can be a cost effective meal for each day and a great source of 11 different nutrients including Vitamin D, Iron, and B12 (to name a few, look it up! Itās a long list!)
Egg yolks, are one of my favorite things to add on top of my meat and are the most nutritious part of the egg. Some days for whatever reason, the whites of the eggs gross me out so bad, Iām repulsed by them. I thought I just might not be into eggs but turns out it was the whites not the yolks. Am I the only one? What is your thoughts on eggs? šš¼š³š„
Month 9: Weāve been doing carnivore since April 2020, and wow has it changed my life for the better in so many ways. One of the ways I think that people donāt talk about is just how SIMPLE it makes eating and cooking meals. Eating simple creates a positive relationship with my food not only in the sense that it loves me back (relieves my health issues) but for example, I donāt track anything, I donāt have to look at my macros to make sure Iām hitting certain numbers. When I did keto I was just obsessing over how much fat I was getting and what I had to eat next or if I was counting net carbs correctly, etc. itās pretty simple when you eat an animal based diet. I eat till I am full. THATāS IT!
I think a lot of people also wonder about if we ācheatā and yes we sometimes do, and EVERY single time I regret it. I get very sick, itās like being on an elimination diet and every time you try to reintroduce sugar or gluten (& some vegetables) you realize how shitty those things are for you. But yes, so we do have cheat meals, we try to have cheat meals instead of cheat days so it still follows some discipline and you donāt go off the rails in a way thatās too hard to recover from. I will admit every time I do cheat here is what happens: bloating, stomach pain, feeling like you have IBS, sometimes throwing up, acne that pops up, irritability, headaches, bad sleep, bad mood, brain fog, you name it. So yeah, NOT WORTH IT.
I am very thankful to have found carnivore and I wouldāve never realized how bad my body was reacting to sugar, gluten, soy, vegetable oils, some vegetables, etc unless I went down this path.
Made butter-poached lobster claw and knuckle meat last night and it was delicious š¤¤ āLooseā directions below!
You can use my butcher box code to get $15 off your first box and add this lobster meat to your box. We have been using Butcher Box since March 2020 and we absolutely love it! It is where majority of the meat we eat comes from.
Link: http://fbuy.me/pRRfM
Loose Directions:
In a pan add about 2 inches of water. Turn the stove to high and add 2-4 tablespoons of butter. Bring both to a boil.
Once the butter is melted in the boiling water, turn to medium-low heat and add the lobster knuckle and claw meat.
Make sure to flip the meat on there every once and a while. Cook until internal temp reaches 145 degrees (yes use your meat thermometer!) once it hits that internal temp you are good to go. Lobster meat will start looking flakey and fluffy once it is cooked to this internal temp but definitely use a thermometer.
Serve with butter.
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