Yay! So far at least, I have done what was planned for at this point in the process. Maybe even a little ahead. At least on the OMAD portion, still working towards carnivore.
At 3:PM I browned some steak tips and put them on to stew. Buy 4:30 they were pretty nicely done, so I added some pork broth, some homemade fermented salsa, and some various herbs I use for diabetes, like turmeric, cumin, minced garlic, etc. and let that start to cook down on a low heat.
At 5:00 I started making my salad and put one and a half strips of bacon in the tallow that rendered out of the beef earlier. Unfortunately I let that get a little over done, but it was nice anyway. I just prefer it less like glass and more like bacon. Then I scrambled two eggs in the combined beef and bacon fats and pan scrapings, and they don't look very nice, but they tasted great!
The salad is about half of what I usually make, and without the meat, eggs, or avocado. I figured I already had enough meat (which was true), and I had eggs, and I had forgotten to put out the avocado yesterday so it wasn't ripened. Dang.
Also, not shown here is my dressing. Usually that's made out of my home made mayo and the aforementioned fermented salsa. But I ran out yesterday. I was going to make more, using the avocado oil I got on sale Monday, but again, I forgot to put out the eggs to be room temperature, which is really important. So my dressing was just a little bit of that salsa, and the salad was kind of dry. Not bad though. 1/8 head lettuce, 1/4 cup spring greens, 1/4 cup kraut, 1/4 cup broccoli and radish sprouts, three garlic stuffed olives and exactly 28 grams (one ounce) of that good grass fed, fermented, and aged cheese.
I sat down at my separate table, and except to get my phone for the photo, managed to stay seated for the whole dinner. Forty five minutes. 5:30 - 6:15
OK, I'm a slow eater. And towards the end, I was stuffed, and it was even slower going. The last two pieces of the beef probably should have been put in the fridge. But I probably need to feel over-full and I still probably didn't meet my 2/3 of BMR that I try to get (That's a lot of "probably's").
Let me enter this in cronometer and see how it all worked out. Yeah, half of my BMR (shown here as "consumed vs Burned). I'm OK with that, but it shows how hard doing OMAD can be. That's a large meal. A pound of meat, plus salad and eggs. I'm not used to all that at once. But although I am still feeling physically full (at almost 8:PM), the smaller salad does seem to have made me feel less bloated.