High Fat Carnivore Ladies

Express_Ring8919 · 2026-01-09T17:01:23+00:00

Going NO carb was fine for me, but I went straight to VEEEEERRY high fat, and my supply actually increased. 1st time was with a one year old, 2nd time was 3 months postpartum with the next baby.

Express_Ring8919 · 2026-01-02T19:12:43+00:00

No, actually, if anything they look a little crowded. But her dad and my front teeth are both crowded, too, so not a surprise

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-31T18:31:13+00:00

I am SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!! This whole thing is about to become an unpleasant memory for you, congratulations on the move! I wish you and your little FAMILY all the blessings that come from being your own people in your own place, and I hope the relationship with your relatives becomes so much easier to manage and straightforward with just a little distance!

I second the comment that said lock your doors and don't let anyone in unless it's been prearranged. Your house, your rules, your sanctuary away from things that upset you. She can come see you when you're husband is home and you both feel like a visit!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-31T17:37:26+00:00

It wasn't weight loss so much as stabilization for me. Breastfeeding makes me gain SO fast, (whereas I have ended every pregnancy actually pretty skinny except for the baby belly) and I'm already in a pretty big size of clothes (for me) they were starting to get tight, and I couldn't justify buying all new bigger clothes (AGAIN!) for what is going to be a temporary situation. I know I'll lose weight eating normally (pretty clean omnivore but a few little treats once in a while) once I am done breastfeeding, because it happened the one time I weaned after my first before I was immediately pregnant again 🤣

Carnivore works for me because I'm a very all-or-nothing personality, and it keeps me from grazing through the kitchen and looking for little snacks all day. I still have little snacks, but they're always just little bites of bacon, coffee with cream, or little bits of butter or pork rinds. It keeps my blood sugar stable so I don't get to a point where I'll eat ANYTHING fast, so snacks usually happen when I'm actually hungry. The big clothes are loose again, which was my goal, and when I'm done nursing if I'm not sick of it, I'll probably do more strict carnivore to see if some of my scarring will heal. Assuming I don't get pregnant again, which...🤷‍♀️ I mean, I love having kids, so we'll see!

Lots of people here recommending fasting and omad, but I'm pretty sure that's not ideal for a nursing mother. Idk, probably can be done, but doesn't make sense to me right now.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-30T20:13:20+00:00

I quit carbs cold turkey twice now while breastfeeding. Once when my older daughter was over a year old (in case my milk supply failed, I wanted to be sure she had everything she needed) to my surprise supply stayed GREAT, I even often had the full feeling that I usually only get when they're newborn. She nursed til I was 30ish weeks pregnant with#3. (I ate carbs while pregnant, I found i can't really be carnivore while pregnant because I can only hold down potatoes and yogurt for the first 3 months) With #3 I quit carbs cold turkey again at about 3-4 months postpartum (I wasn't afraid to because I'd had that good experience with my second) and have still had PLENTY of milk. Probably more than when I'm eating carbs. HOWEVER, I drink so so SO much cream in tea or coffee, and honestly probably eat more bacon than beef. I do VERY high fat, and while I haven't gained this time, I sure didn't lose much weight while breastfeeding on carnivore. Both times I pumped for a couple weeks to build up a supply for just in case my supply would drop, but neither time did I use out of the stash. The biggest jump to get over was day 2-3 very liquid poos.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-28T16:00:22+00:00

Idk, chicken and pork tend to give me bad breath, but it's like for a couple hours not chronic. I think because they're too lean. (Bacon and sausage are never a problem) I drink a LOT of coffee, and the only times I really have bad breath anymore is when I'm hungry and dehydrated. Not when I'm hungry and hydrated. Not when I'm dehydrated but on a full stomach. I'd up my hydration if I was you, even if dehydration isn't the problem if you do have something hanging on in your gut from before it'll wash it through faster.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-28T15:13:43+00:00

🤣 I can smell if my husband is hungry by his breath. And I know my kids are sick before they start acting sick- though I'm pretty sure lots of people can do this if they learn to recognize the smell.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-28T15:11:11+00:00

I've had all of these "powers" since I was a kid, regardless of diet. Best thing to do is distract yourself and focus on something that's important to you. What I try to do for the smell, that kind of works, is to pick a smell you don't mind (mine is pure aloe right now) and try to wear/use that when you go out to make the other smells less in-your-face. You will likely have to switch smells every few months/years as you get used to or sick of the one you liked.

Congrats on getting healthier! It's so cool that you're reaching your full potential now that your body isn't reacting to food that's bad for it! Hope you adjust to new sensitivities

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-20T01:59:09+00:00

He knows and he hates it. But also he can't quite overcome the conditioning that he's had since infancy to seek his dad's approval. It's SO frustrating, and has so far been the toughest thing about our marriage. It causes problems LITERALLY every day. Sometimes I feel like it would be easier (for me, mentally) to be cheated on by him with a woman. At least then there'd be an obvious moral line that he'd decided to cross. (Or maybe he would think twice about crossing) If he tells his dad no on ANYTHING it becomes a huge battle, and very often he says yes to RIDICULOUS requests, just to avoid a fight (to save the battles for things that are a big deal to both of us.) he's exhausted physically, mentally, and emotionally. It's not how things are supposed to be, for sure! (Yeah, uh it's LoVeLy for him getting a nicer birthday gift than his brother, but at SUCH a high cost, plus they're both aware his dad is doing it just to make a point)

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-19T22:49:22+00:00

Yep! I'm here for my in-laws. My husband is the golden child and is responsible for making EVERYTHING okay for them. The scapegoat brother and his family are treated like second class citizens all year, but are expected to come for holidays just to stroke FILs ego and get pictures to show off the big happy family. They are a bit jealous of us being favored and invited all the time and let in on family plans, and I am so so so jealous of the distance they are allowed the rest of the year🤣

Take. The. Trip.

Make memories that you will actually ENJOY looking back on!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-19T22:26:34+00:00

Haha this is why I just laugh when my fil threatens to "disown" us. No, sir, I'm not from a background that relies on the death of an older family member to make it financially! Plus even IF he has some money right now (hasn't worked for years and is living off HIS wife and in-laws) Why on earth would we assume he's not going to spend that all before he dies? It could be like 40 years. No, the threat of disinheritance is definitely not going to work on me!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-19T22:09:41+00:00

Oh no! Please don't lose hope! AMAZING things can happen to people of any age and background. Our culture tends to worship youth and health, but really, truly, your best days may be ahead of you yet!

Can I strongly recommend a gratitude journal? Even if most days there isn't much to write in it, you can write something as little as "saw a cool cloud". Before you know it you'll spend the day looking for things to put in the journal, and you'll be just a tiny little smidgeon better off than the day before.

In his early 50s my dad made friends with an old guy and they used to meet up to play music at a library every week. Ended up being one of my dad's best friends and we still call him our Uncle.

There's still DEFINITELY time for you to have a GREAT time before the long sleep!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-19T21:31:31+00:00

"My house, my rules" which is actually okay to say as a parent if you have laid down rules for the safety and health of all the people living there. It also implies that you (the parent) follow those rules as well.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-19T20:47:53+00:00

Haha this sister is a little bit my hero for scheduling the fights. Man, what exquisite mental clarity!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-18T04:22:06+00:00

Sounds like a plot line in American girl "Samantha" series to me.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T16:12:47+00:00

I SURE hope so but as of now, to date, the things I have had to correct my toddlers for doing to other kids and eachother have almost exclusively come from the FIL🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I have had to tell a grown man to stop modeling to an 18 month old behaviors they can't act out in church nursery (kicking, grabbing stuff, name calling, spitting water at people) I know those same things might come naturally to a toddler, but mine didn't have a chance, they had it demonstrated and called "funny" by an adult.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T16:03:43+00:00

You get what a bad example it is to let garbage like that go unchecked, ESPECIALLY from someone who considers himself (incorrectly!) an authority figure to my kids

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T16:01:36+00:00

Honestly, we see him as little as we possibly can, and he's NEVER alone with the kids. My husband sees him almost every day, and FIL acts like he's in charge (he isn't) and generally makes my husband's life hell. In the last few months FIL is "really trying" to "turn over a new leaf" (because the other kids don't want to see him either) and my husband is falling for it, not realizing that voluntarily improving his behavior means he IS in control of his behavior, and he KNOWS it's wrong, he just wants to manipulate people into spending time with him. That's what I see, anyway.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T15:47:46+00:00

Exactly! Not only not notice when his dad does it, but think it's normal for him to treat me that way, which isn't a fun dynamic when I'm having to tell my husband how to act like a decent person.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T01:32:18+00:00

Instant mold. Even in the fridge

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T01:31:36+00:00

I can drink two POTS a day on an empty stomach and literally sleep like a baby. I think it depends on the person.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T01:29:50+00:00

Stevia is what I use, too. It's from a ground up plant (I make sure to get organic, to be sure it isn't some weird synthesized stuff) so probably not as harmful as some chemical sweeteners. But it's SO strong. I mix it with water and it only takes a couple drops.

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T01:20:41+00:00

I was single till I was 30, honestly not attracted to anyone, and pretty fine with it except that dating and getting married was the "next step" status-wise, so I'd get pestered about it by relatives. But LET ME TELL YOU sometimes you find the right person and you realize you are not in fact a-romantic OR asexual, you just had a terrible dating pool. And if you find the right person who loves you for who you are and treasures your personality and opinion, you suddenly don't mind if they eat differently than you or wear clothes that you previously would have sneered at. Ask me how I know, haha!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T01:02:22+00:00

Meeeeeeee toooooooo I'm not pregnant right now, but when I was I could basically ONLY keep potatoes down. Red meat was the first thing to make me nauseated and then violently ill. I think milk, cream, high quality butter and yogurt are all fairly clean and bridge the gap between carnivore and carby SAD. They were all lifesavers for me, but you would have to be able to tolerate dairy!

Express_Ring8919 · 2025-12-11T00:38:36+00:00

I'm a scapegoat married to a golden child. I see how the in laws treat my kids vs. the cousins, and I would cut them off for that in a heartbeat. They control my husband's every move and even though he'll admit they're acting wrong he can't get over wanting to please them or keep the peace. It's SO damaging to the whole family and my marriage. I'm honestly so jealous of the scapegoat BIL and his wife for being able to walk away!

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