Orweller

Welcome to the club!

A man without medicine is a rich man.

I am in your camp. I had food poisoning back in 2018 and stopped frequenting fast food chains and try to avoid dining out all together. I've also seen what happens behind the curtains, and once you know, eating out comes with a price. I only eat out when the occasion really calls for it. Any other situation, I invite folks over for dinner, the old fashioned way, no lines, no loud kids running around, and a good time all together. No underpaid teenager who doesn't wash their hands, or use the same gloves, or doesn't clean the meat cutter, etc that touches my food. I worked in a butcher shop and know how rigid food regulations MUST be to have food safety. And those regulations are nothing but suggestions in some kitchens. I've seen horrifying things. Be wary especially around Subways and Arby's, where meat doesn't get cooked at all... and a Taco Bell, we had a location here, and everybody was called to get checked for hepatitis who had dinner there a certain week. Add to it, the mush they call meat...well, they're not allowed to call it meat legally.... think of it. No thank you.

And with so many idiots on the road, and these idiots have phones.... it's a much more dangerous venture now, this riding a bike. Almost a poor decision. The roads have changed.

I have actually drastically lowered my intake of dairy, with good results. Skin feels better, and even better stool.

I've likely located a place not too far from my place. At those you buy half a cow, or somehting like that, so I will need a dedicated freezer. I am looking for solutions. We have a local supermarket, and their meat is a very good quality, but as a local shop, they are expensive. I still try to support them over the Dollar General, in fact, I refuse to go to a Dollar General. It is those places that push the locals out.

I believe this to be true. The bullying tactics are even applied to the patients. It's a protection racket. A Sopranos episode.

Kept you around to take more drugs, to fill the coffers of the drug dealers. And you were grateful to do so. You were poisoned, then saved, and you were thankful. They gave you poison to treat the first poison. What they never did was educate about the first poison, offer a cure, they stood by and took your money. They probably had a good laugh to the bank. We've been had, fool us once.... we've been had my friend.

I totally get it. You're not just eating out for the food, but for quality time with family and friends. For some this outweighs the cons, and for some they may not. It also depends on what the consequences are to us individually. It's not so much a fuss, but a clear line drawn. To each of us that line is going to be elsewhere. We need to be happy too, while eating good. So I get it.

It's like stepping out of the matrix.

The advances were mostly in how to monetize pain management. They are still demonizing saturated fat, still demonizing meat, etc. What advances? Science has been bought, and that prevents advances such as we hope for. And if we have advances, better open up a bank account. It's behind a imprenatable paywall. A way of eating is the only tool we have to somehow take a different path, and try on our own to get better.

This sounds like an 80s Heavy Metal band. I think this should be a T-Shirt.

I've a condition where my bones would fuse together, each and every bone in my body. Also a lot of inflammation in ligaments, tendons, and possibly all organs in my body. For over 30 years I have noticed -almost immediatly- the pain that comes to eating certain foods. I just had to put the puzzle together. Doctors just wanted to hide my pain, without offering any solution of the kind. They said there is no cure, they said I was born this way. I was too stubborn to listen to that advice, it just didn't make sense to me. I've never been overweight because the food would punish me the next day, not after years and a considerable bulk of fat to go with it. SO it kept me from over eating. I've found that, it is what you eat, not how much of it, first and foremost. Only then it matters how much you eat. The prognosis was a wheel chair at one point, or at least walking with a cane, dealing with pain on a daily basis. Carnivore changed all that. I am not harcore lion (beef, lamb, and water), I do have a bit of dark chocolate, and coffee. An occasional avocado or maybe even a handful of pecans. Some blueberries may find their way down my neck. But overal I have found myself in the best, strongest, leanest, and pain free shape I've ever been in at 50. Lifting weights (keep your muscles healthy over anything!) and this diet has put me in a spot where my condition (AS) is but an after thought. A condition that used to rule my life, a warden looking over me. I'm hapy you could join us, we learn together here.

I do miss smoked mackerel from the market. Fresh sea food is something I've taken for granted while still living in Europe. Another reason I take Iodine here in the midwest.

Seed oils are one of those items I have absolutely banned from my life. While I am less rigid on other things, that is one food item I will not budge over.

Also use the same. Also improved teeth health and gums since on carnivore. No more carbs attacking that enamel all the time. Two factors may play a role, I do take Iodine since carnivore, and probably consume more collagen. Add to that, that I no longer use fluoride (Blocking intake of iodine), it makes sense that teeth and gums become more healthy.

Went out to buy one, but came home with a truck. With my condition it just takes one fall.

Loose skin is your former prison, a reminder. I consider myself fortunate not to have grown up with an American diet. Props to the guy fighting for his goals, his health, and his life. Much respect.

After tracking for about 6 months in the beginning, I have enough data to know when to do what when it comes to fat consumption. I am not worried about hitting numbers. I am fortunate to be at ideal weight and at 11% bodyfat. Having thus not a lot of extra body fat, I do sometimes eat that third meal, which would be mainly focised on fat. Protein is going to be optimal regardless, when on carnivore.

I wish I could find something local.

And we forget, even if we eat an occasional fruit, that doesn't make us omnivores. Once you got the mindset right, an occasional digression will do little to harm the overal pattern. In fact, it may help the longevity of that pattern; feeling less "caged" in by a certain way of eating. A way of eating is not temporary, it's a long marathon, instead of a sprint.

Come to the light!

Yes, definitely quit the instant coffee. Instant coffee has more oxolates than regular coffee, also contains more caffeine. Stick with regular coffee if you must. Myself, I do half caf. Seems to hit the spot just right. Still trying to get to decaf, but that for now is a dirty word in my house.