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Under the Proper Human Diet bell curve i am out on the tail of very zero carb. 33 plus years of diabetes, but my metabolic health is better than it has been in a long time. So many 'health issues' so well resolved. I thank all of those in the carnivore community. From the kind, the helpful, and even the rude. I have learned from all. I see myself most likely forever ZERO Carb. I feel renewed with fresh strength and courage yo continue my health journey. I am trying a few different/ new things (no, I not adding a single Carb). It is a n=1, but i not discussing it until I can quantify the results. I have discussed some aspects of what I am doing with a few individuals. Their input was some positive, and so negative. No problem. I just dug deeper and gained more knowledge. However, my Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) is providing positive insights. So to all the people out there on the Proper Human Diet, be well, enjoy the Season, and prosper on your journey. In Latin, Salvaterra comes from SALVAtion and TERRA. Meaning Save the Land. In the Carnivore Lifestyle it means: sabe you metabolic health. Welcome to my story and be well.

Yep. Beef prices are high (and getting higher) and until someone actually carnivore shops it is hard for them to believe there is cost savings. I try to explain it like, 'imagine you go in the grocery store, skip straight to the meat counters, leave there and pick up some toilet paper/toothpaste and from there head to the eggs and then to the register". Anything that seems extra with the meat is easily absorbed in not buying vegetables, fruits, canned goods, flour, sugar, sauces, chips and cookies. It is still hard to convince others tho, LOL Scott

Beef is NoT expensive at all. Is not the price per pound. Many kinds of beef are about the cost of many cereals. Say 6 dollars a pound. STOP. Consider the nutrition in the beef. You can not buy enough cereal. To match it. 11 large eggs, about $ 2.75 = 1 pound of 85/15 ground beef pretty close in nutrition, it double the nutritional value of beef on a per dollar basis. You have to think about it properly,!

Congrats. Hopefully that represents the healing. Keep at it. Good luck. Scott

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Yes. Another zero carb day in the book. 7 day BGL is 113 mg/dL. Lantus insulin dose @ 46 units. No fast acting insulin used in llast 24 hours.

Quit? Who? Not me said Paul, Bob, tom ,dick, Harry tim, jum. Da l e, Roger, Mark, Peter, Tony, Steve, Preston. Robert Joe, Bill. Guy, dominick, Lewis, Matt, bret. Dave, z sorry finhrr is tired noe

How many of those who claim they quit carnivore list all the other diets they also quit? When it is approached like a "fad diet", that is how long it will last for many - just like any other fad they tried ... be that diet, clothing, jewelry, etc. The same could be claimed by those who tried vegetarian, vegan, high carb, low carb and/or any other diet they tried and then quit. Many only mention the latest one they tried when they post about quitting.

I think carnivore (going in) is just like any other diet, there is nothing really sustainable about it. (and allow me to finish) I think everyone who switches to carnivore starts off on a carnivore diet and like most all diets, people choose another route. it is the diets that are not sustainable. It takes time for carnivore to become a lifestyle and leave the 'temporary-ness' of just about all diets. For me personally I have been strict carnivore for about 19 months. I have not had a fruit nor vegetable nor bread nor pasta since May '24. With that said it was nearly a year later when I felt like being on the carnivore diet had morphed into me having a carnivore lifestyle/carnivore way of eating. And maybe my story is a little odd because I didn't start with any health concerns in mind as for me it was nothing more than a weight loss hack. I stumbled upon a ton of benefits early on, chalked them up to coincidence, and then once I was reading the writing on the wall I started to evolve from diet to lifestyle. People quit for all kinds of reasons. If I had not stumbled upon the benefits with my autoimmune disease, knowing it was going to be a weight loss hack, I probably would have quit after losing 40-50 pounds (and called it a successful endeavor). If I knew which carb/vegetable/fruit was my trigger I would probably venture back out into the carb world on occasion. But since I don't know it is not a gamble I feel comfortable with so that too helped me transition from carnivore diet to carnivore lifestyle. I think it could be any number of reasons, but I mostly think those reasons land on the individual person rather than the way of eating itself. Scott

Hadn't seen this post in a while. Funny it gets posted when I have been fasting since Tuesday. LOL Looks good. I will put it on things I need to try with the exception of the peppers. Looks/sounds good. Scott

Smoked T-bone steak, eggs, cheese and a few slices of jalapeno tacos with egglife wraps.

You are definitely on the right path Paul. Keep up the good work.

Because most of them change their diet overnight to one that is Carnivore. Therefore the microbiome has no time to adapt and then they suffer consequences. They then make videos on why I quid carnivore...

Wise words and yet unfortunately are true :(.

This was so funny I had to make a video lol: (Hopefully it's fine to put here but let me know otherwise I'll delete it.)

I continue, trying to maintain and improve my important metabolic markers. I continue a close to Zero carb carnivore diet. No one is going to influence me to consume any carbs. I now ignore those carb pushers as they say they feel better. I really do not care how many carbs they are eating or how often. Like who eats one fowe French fry? Often I see an influencers dedicated supporters defending them. Sorry, I understand different people have different carb tolerances. As a diabetic mine is as close to zero as I can make it. Enough said. My future is a ZERO carb carnivore life. Just is where I am.

All natural. Always zero carb !

Just natural Gluconeogenesis or something else?

Cool chart. It left off bovine though.

Veritas!

A large percentage of the American population is digging their own grave with a fork. Write that down. Scott

Being a total hypocrite, don't look at the scales in the very beginning ( I did just about daily, LOL). It is better and more self serving to take notice of more important things, like how you feel, and the one snug pair of pants is now loose fitting. That was the advice that was given to me early on, (and I ignored it) and now I am passing that tidbit forward (and odds are you will ignore it, most do, LOL). Congrats on the first week. My weight fell off really fast the first months and then I hit my first stall. Watching the scale drop just about a pound a day for 30 days was amazing but when it stalled it made the stall all the more disheartening. Everyone is different and metabolic health and weight moves their needles at different rates for different people. Until carnivore I never had a fasted blood sugar result over 100 and my highest has been 111. That shift/moving of the needle triggered me to buy a glucose monitor so I could track it. I had an initial rise and then it fell back into the 80's. I was intrigued by the number of the scale and the glucose meter so I bought a ketone meter as well. And then in time I hardly use any of it, maybe the scale once or so per week. Good luck and welcome. Scott

My friend from Bart Kay discord server made this highly illuminating graphic years ago.

Good morning, I am a week into my future. I am down 10 lbs but the last three days I haven't lost any weight but my insulin at this point is holding between 100-140 and any am taking half my dose of metformin and half dove of lantus. I am constantly monitoring my blood sugar using my Libre3 monitoring. Keep up the good work! Chip

Is cranking out Glucose, so my CGM tells me. Wish I had a dial to turn it down. I could let it go but so wand my Blood Glucose Level to stay in range. So maybe a few units of fast a acting insulin. Or, some exogenous ketones? I not like either. Going to try exercise, got to get my living quarters set up so I can exercise indoors. Just trying.