Bob

Hello everyone, The family and I are on vacation, this week, so there will be no live stream tonight. I'll still be checking in here everyday though, as I don't sleep in like the wife and the boy do, lol. - Bob

I'm currently on vacation. Went to see a relative who provided lunch. Couldn't compromise and wasn't going to be a jerk so I had a sandwich and some fruit. The fruit I don't mind but that was the first wheat product I have had in I can't even remember. But when we arrived at our AirBnB there was a Piggly Wiggly across the street and the steak were cheaper than back in Ohio. I'm set with beef and eggs, although we probably will eat out twice during the week.

I need to add a "shocked" or "wow" reaction to the software for this. I mean, I get it. Food is one of life's pleasures. But I still resonate more with sayings like these... "Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels" "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" I can understand when the taste of food is the highlight of your day though. My parents, who are in there 70's, are always talking about this restaurant they tried or this other restaurant they just visited. They gush over the food like it was some out of body experience, lol.

This is hilarious! I also liked his Matrix one. I noticed that he's made a lot of parody videos "but it's about the carnivore diet" lol. Most of those movies I haven't seen though so I kinda wanna watch them first.

We went to Brown Derby Steakhouse last night and I had scallops. I love me some scallops. My wife got a dish that had filet mignon on it. Fortunately for me, I got to eat half of that too because she filled up on bread rolls, salad, and some of the rice and mashed potatoes, lol.

Well it is the solution to everything, lol :) And even that's funny that it has to come from another woman, because us men obviously have no idea what we are talking about, lol :P

Welcome aboard Sheila! I think looking into some light electrolyte supplementation would be a good start. Many people who start low carbohydrate diets, and not just carnivore but keto and ketovore as well, lose some water and electrolytes in the beginning. Muscle twitches are a sign, and so is the charley horse that wakes you up at night - not very fun, mind you, lol. LMNT and Keto Chow Daily Minerals are popular products, but there are hundreds of brands to choose from. You can even choose pills over drink mixes, which is what I do. If you have good functioning kidneys and don't over do it you should be fine.

Awesome. Keep doing what you are doing and continue in the things you have learned, and keep learning. I'm super glad to hear that you have had such positive results.

Well sugar will indeed do that, since insulin will help shuttle glucose into the cells almost immediately. This is why one might get a "sugar rush", why others like to load up on carbs before working out, etc. On the flip side, you could lose your fat adaptation if you go overboard regularly. Possible, especially if you ate to little and maybe lost muscle as well. This is very rare though, especially on any form of carnivore diet. What people DO experience is their gym performance takes a hit. This is because the body is still having that preference for glucose. I've heard that for some, it could take up to a year to become fully fat adapted and get back to what you were lifting/performing prior to switching to a ketogenic diet. Steady for how long? I don't trust a lipid panel until about 6 months of being weight stable. And at 5'11" you are pretty lean at 160-ish pounds. You said your wife and others recognize this too. It could very well be that you are on your way to being one of those with the LMHR phenotype. Look up Dave Feldman and Nick Norwitz for a thorough discussion on LMHR's and the Energy Model. You could get some other tests, like a CAC score, a carotid artery ultrasound, CT Angiogram, etc. If those tests show that you are looking good, you would have a valid basis for dropping the statin for sure. Most of us in the carnivore community could care less about our LDL.

It's okay to eat cheaper cuts of meat. You mentioned hamburger patties, and those are great provided they are 100% real beef. Don't rule out pork, chicken thighs, etc. In reality, if all you can afford is hot dogs, vienna sausages, canned seafood, and bologna, don't be shy about enjoying these options as well. Yes, many of these may contain fillers, but just look for the cleanest ingredients possible. You have to be your own N=1 experiment. As a general rule, ONLY eat when you are hungry, and when you do eat, eat until you are comfortably full (not painfully stuffed). I personally don't count calories, but yes, you CAN overeat on a carnivore diet and gain weight. I am about the same height and same weight as you are. If I eat 3 meals a day and snack in-between, my weight remains stable. This is because every time you eat you bump up your insulin levels, which retards fat loss. However, if I practice intermittent fasting by eating 2 times a day or once a day, then I lose weight. I will make these 2 meals or one meal count though. I don't eat any less, but I basically take the food from that would-have-been 3rd meal and add it to the other meal(s). The more time you give your body to rest in-between meals the more it is able to utilize the fuel you gave it as well as to tap into your body fat reserves. A little hunger won't kill you. For example, I eat at NOON and at 7/8pm. Am I hungry in the morning before my first meal? Yup. Might I also start to get hungry around 5 or 6pm? Yes. I just put up with it until it's meal time. And if I really can't stand it or start to feel nauseous, I'll just have a little butter to hold me over.

I have a bizarre biphasic sleep pattern. I will fall asleep between 10pm and midnight, and wake up around 3am. Like wide awake. I let the dog out, take my BP meds, and then doom scroll on my phone till about 4am and then go back to sleep and get another 3-4 hours in. Wake up just fine, feeling no need for any hot caffeinated beverages - although I still enjoy one cup of tea, I don't "need" it. Sometimes I come home from work and nap for a bit in my recliner before doing anything else.

Hello @Jeff Mac - I just saw this post. Sorry it took so long to respond. I've been busy offline. Whether you should start back is a personal decision. There are some trusted doctors I watch, such as Dr. Ford Brewer, who himself takes a low dose Rosuvastatin every other day moreso for it's anti-inflammatory benefits and not so much for cholesterol. Tell us a little about yourself. When someone experiences high cholesterol on a carnivore diet, it's usually down to these 2 common scenarios... 1) You were overweight/obese and have lost weight rapidly. LDL is stored in adipose tissues and gets released into the bloodstream as the fat is mobilized from your body to be used as energy. This LDL will come down on it's own after 3-6 months of being weight stable. As a general rule, don't put too much stock into a lipid panel while losing weight. 2) You are lean, or now have become very lean, and you are a LMHR, "Lean Mass Hyper Responder". These individuals often have high HDL, low triglycerides, and super-high LDL. Many of the online doctors like Dr. Berry and others don't think the statin is worth it. Although I have heard Dr. Berry say that he might prescribe one for a person who had a previous heart attack since the studies do show that it can benefit those individuals, but he things a proper human diet is going to be far more beneficial.

I don't remember which stage of chronic kidney disease you are in, but remember that when you increase your protein consumption, you will like see an increase in your creatinine and BUN. Both of these are waste products from the breakdown of proteins, and when they run high your doctor is going to be upset. Your creatinine is used to calculate an eGFR, and the higher the creatinine goes, the lower the eGFR will go. This will make the doctor think that your kidneys are getting worse. This is where eating carnivore or lion diet with CKD can be tricky. It will look like things are getting worse when reading those standard tests, but they might not be getting worse at all. The extra protein is skewing the results. One other metric that is good for comparison is getting a Cystatin C. Cystatin C is another waste product but this one is NOT skewed by diet or exercise. They can calculate an eGFR with Cystatin C as well. For example, my last eGFR with creatinine was 12, but my eGFR with Cystatin C was 24. And then you can monitor urine test results and more. You may want to test every 3 months to see how things change over time.

Yeah, that's why I keep those off limits. Too easy to become addicted to them again. Even if I do have some fruitage, I keep it to a bare minimum and only sporadically/occasionally. I don't want to flip the switch and lose my fat adaptation and have my body start preferring carbs by any mean.