Hmm? Up a bit late.

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Well, after tending coffee, feed Sassy, changing her water, and dressing at least for around the house, then looking over some things this morning, it's 5:09 as I write.  By my watch, 5:11 by the computer.  :p  Bleh.

It was 78 upstairs, near me, when I got up, 72 in the main area of my home, and now anyway is 74 up front.  Outside was 51/52.  though it may cool a goodly bit with the front door open a crack now.  I close that as I go to bed these days.  So this front room gets just a bit warmer.  That... with it being in the low 90s, perhaps mid 90s, yesterday.  Not bad.  I may finally have figured a few things out.  Though, how long I will be able to keep it cooler is difficult to know.  And, this front room does get up to the low 80s by mid to later afternoon.  But, for now, that is easily tolerable.  I would never have believed I could handle that so well.

More?  I can have a hot steak, and hot fatted coffee, when it is eighty in here, and not be bothered even a bit.  Though I am beginning plans to use the used cream containers to put fatted coffees in, then refrigerating.  For a... better cool treat.  It just... isn't needed, merely enjoyed.

The trick?  With the basement?  Using the fan on my furnace, with the furnace off, to bring air up from down there.  And, using the ceiling fan, making sure it is blowing air in the correct direction.  Between just those two things, when it is 90 out, and warmer yet, I haven't needed air conditioning yet this year.  Though... carnivore too.  That has added... twenty degrees to my tolerances.  Between those things, and the low humidity?  I'm becoming a well and true highland dweller.  Making this my home.  I never would have thought, even with a fan on me, that 74 could be cold.  Even wearing my compression hose, heavy pj's, unders, and a muscle undershirt.  I used to have to, sort of, run around nearly commando just to not die, and that starting, usually, at 71 and up.  Crazy differences.

I am overeating just a bit.  As I start back on carnivore.  I am... trying to maintain, contain.  But I'm, also, letting it go a bit?  I am beginning to muscle up.  So weight... may stay steady, or even increase.  I can see my arms are getting larger in small increments.  Veins are forming, or showing?  Increasing in size and numbers, or visibility?  Muscle is more important than almost anything else, as to losing weight.  They will eat calories just by existing.

Though, too, they will have to be fed.  They take protein to produce, and fat to feed.  But, they will consume from the body.  Still, they need extra protein to be produced, and to be maintained even after.  Funny, but all Americans, and probably most people in the world, are protein starved.  Slowly atrophying.  And fat starved, which is why when consuming carbs they hold onto those in fat.  When your body is in starvation mode, and has been for years?  You will look fat.

When they say the poor are fat?  It's... not as it seems.  That is a form of starvation.  Even some doctors you see, who look bigger, may actually be in a form of starvation.  They believe what they were told, begin to cut calories, eat too many carbs, it's a whole stumbling thing, right down a vortex of bad health.  I just started struggling against it.  With the time, and access, and will to suffer, ability to tolerate pain, I am finding my way out.  Most won't, can't.  It hurts far too much.  A lot of people are far too comfortable to endure almost any pain.

Hmm.  Forty pounds more to go?  Unless I build twenty pounds of muscle in there?  Then, still, twenty?  But, it'll be a sliding scale.  Can't completely depend on weight, but should keep tracking it.  Should measure arms and wherever else I see muscle growing or fat being removed.  Better measures of losses or gains, and positive or negative.  The last twenty to forty is a bear.  Though I have heard, on carnivore, it is easier.  We'll see.

But cravings?  Yes.  Not for sweets, strangely.  For bread, rolls, buns, with meat.  I... just... want bread so badly.  I have found whole grain that is... better, per carb to fiber ratio.  But haven't found a more solid form of whole grain.  I have been looking in stores, and online.  I'll keep looking.  Trying to find a ratio, that when dividing carbs by fiber gives about a 6:1 to 4:1 ratio, and with little or no sugar added.  Say, two or three grams absolute max, and the higher end only with a better ratio of carbs to fiber, so like the 4:1 ratio.  Bleh.  Not even sure that will work, but if I find it, I will try it.  use some, freeze most, have a treat of a few slices with steak or eggs every other week?  The plan.  Ugh.

Blood sugar is a bit higher, at 189 fasting?  It was down to 138 last night.  I'll... just... let that bounce back into place, as it does.  The trend is negative.  If I could just keep out of the fast food joints.  Bah!  Still... we'll get there.  It's not always the destination, important as that may be.  It's... sometimes... often... probably in truth always... the travel that is the thing.  Good morning, day, and later.