Even though I mostly eat carnivore these days (mostly meat, some Greek yogurt with stevia and pumpkin pie spice, and then all that plus some low carb veggies on the weekend for more variety) I still like to follow Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett of Trim Healthy Mama fame. I have all their cookbooks still, even though the THM diet didn’t work for me to lose weight. You can read about that here. I was excited to find a THM cookbook used at a thrift store last fall for $2 to replace the same version I had at home that was falling apart after much use and water damage. It’s the one pictured below. It’s fun to hear in the video I posted down at the bottom of this post that Serene was actually in labor when they took the photo on the book cover below. I couldn’t even tell she was pregnant!

I don’t want to get rid of these books yet as I guess I figure that maybe someday I might cook their recipes again for myself and my family. For now I enjoy feeling so satisfied with meat and yogurt with one or two meals a day, and not having to eat the rest of the day to maintain my weight after using the carnivore and then the keto diet plus intermittent fasting to lose weight. I also like having the recipes available for my children to use. Right now we have four teen and young single adult children at home again (the number changes every season) so they fix their own breakfast and lunch, and are rotating dinner prep duty. I don’t expect them to eat carnivore and want them to have a variety of recipes to pick from. Mostly they use my Pioneer Woman cookbooks or recipes from the Internet. None of them have food issues so they don’t have to worry about eating carbs and having the carbs trigger cravings and overeating. I have found that the carnivore and keto diets are the best way to minimize cravings. The THM diet just stirred up my cravings. Even when I was strict and measured everything and restricted myself to the recommended numbers for two weeks I didn’t lose weight. It was refreshing to hear in one of their videos in the past few months that they acknowledge that some people don’t lose weight on their diet, including Serene’s husband, Sam. They found that he needed peptide hormone therapy to help. They have had experts on their podcast sharing information about that which I am still in the processing of understanding. They have also launched offerings to help people get this hormone therapy.

OK, I am digressing, so back to the topic of favorite THM recipes. Some of my favorite THM recipes are the Frappa drinks, the Lazy Lasagna, Stew of Love, the Cranberry Wassail, the Trimtastic Zucchini Chocolate Cake, and Skinny Chocolate. Serene says her favorite is the Yuck Yum Bitty drink. I think Pearl says that her chili recipe is her favorite.

It’s fun to watch and hear from Serene and Pearl in this latest video, as they share what recipes they still use and what ones they made only once and forgot about. I loved hearing that they are coming out with a new book, Trim Healthy Wisdom, maybe at the end of this year or beginning of next year. I’ll definitely be getting it to add to my collection. They said that it will include Serene’s perfected sourdough bread recipe so I’m looking forward to seeing that.