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Same thing I cook every week, fatty beef cut into stew meat, lightly sauteed in a cast iron skillet with some beef tallow and lots of salt. A couple times per week I add 4 oz of beef liver. I raise my own beef, 100% grass fed and finished. I cut everything except the good steaks into stew meat. The wife doesn't do carnivore so I save the steaks out for her. But everything else I cut into 1" chunks for my daily meal. We just processed a 2 year old heifer who was going into the cow herd but she miscarried, and she was bat-#hit crazy, so she went to anger management. She's cooled down a lot since the class. All the fat rendered down to just under 5 gallons of beautiful light yellow tallow, all the bones made 5 gallons of very thick bone broth. I do miss cooking other stuff. Grew up in a restaurant family and I have always done all the cooking, including making all our bread for the last 20 years. Not so much any more! Pan, new to this forum.

Greetings. I'm 72 yo man, been eating carnivore for past two years, kinda dirty keto for a couple years before that. Have been on one meal a day for over 6 months now, basically fatty beef, tallow, salt. I raise my own beef, 100% grass fed and grass finished. They never see corn or other grains. I render nice golden yellow tallow from the fat. No metabolic issues, no prescriptions. Have lost 5" off waist and 35# over past two years and now within 10# of what I think is a good weight. I'm 5-7 and 162#. Blood pressure was creeping up (140/85) and HbA1c was approaching the Type 2 diabetes point 2 years ago. BP is now 110/70, HbA1c was 5.4 last year, will be getting new blood work in January. So, that's the background. Bought a Keto-Mojo a few months ago and have been checking each morning and lately before eating. I did six weekly 90+ hour sardine fasts and my morning ketones were smoking (3.0-4.5) throughout the fasting period with morning glucose 65-85, but immediately that I went back to one meal a day, my morning ketone/glucose dropped back to 95-105/0.5-1.0. Meals are meat and tallow only with only snack some pork rinds an hour or three later. This has been going on for a while and it's getting frustrating. I am only measuring significant ketones if I skip a daily meal. I don't really want to eat every other day, but is that the only way for me to see a decent level of ketones in the mornings? I tried multiple daily ketone measurements and didn't eat until my ketones went up, but that took a "mini-fast" of about 30 hours, which really screws up my one meal a day schedule. Looking for thoughts, ideas, insights? PS-I realize in ancient times it would have been normal to not eat every single day, and that does seem to work. But damn! I like my meals, as simple as they are! I've given up all carbs, all deserts, ice cream, whiskey, the good stuff. Don't even miss any of it any more, but I do enjoy my daily fatty beef, tallow, and once or twice a week a few ounces of beef liver. Any advice appreciated. Pan