Bob
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Since this is only day 8, this could still be your body adjusting. If you continue to have persistent headaches day after day then we might want to check your blood pressure and revisit this issue. It was a string of headaches that led me to the doctor that diagnosed me with high blood pressure, but this was all before carnivore. That's where your 2 kidneys actually fused together as one. Do you have that? -
I refused a kidney biopsy when I heard about the risks. Diet and nutrition is where you have to not only start, but also end. A lot of what the mainstream teaches is simply not true and is making us sick. And I am not saying there is any conspiracy, per se, it's just that the wrong information has been repeated so much that it is just assumed it must be right. But hey, the earth was flat once, and doctors used to use leaches to suck out your bad blood for just about everything. We've come a long way, but still have a ways to go. You want to eat a carnivore-centric diet, that is, one that is meat heavy - and we're talking fatty meat. Fat is your friend. Avoid grains, refined sugar, and seed oils like your life depends on it. Some people can make allowances for fruits and vegetables, but I would recommend that you eventually make it a goal to do at least 30 days, preferably 90 days, as a strict carnivore - no plants - as an elimination diet to maximize your results. Afterwards, if you want to add certain select low carb veggies or fruits back in slowly and one at a time to see how they affect you, well that's your prerogative. But many of us choose to stay this way, or mostly this way, forever, because the health improvements we enjoy are tremendous!
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I do need to publish and update to this video. In the video, I talked about how I was prescribed fenobibrate and it helped reduce my triglycerides. But I found out, the hard way, that it also causes kidney damage - which I cannot afford because I am stage 4 already. While fenobribrate might be useful for certain individuals, if you have high triglycerides due to some degree of renal failure, I would warn you to be very cautious in using fenofibrate. If you experience spasms, cramps, esecially at night, stop taking it. And even if not, check your blood MONTHLY.
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I had to look it up. I haven't heard of it before, but I can see it's a seasoning blend. We have comparable seasoning blends over here I am sure. Me too. Good stuff 🙂 This is an area that once you start investigating and learning, you might change your mind on salt. Or maybe not. Perhaps you need to keep your salt low. When I was eating the standard American junk diet, I did have to watch my salt intake. But that is because all our food is laden with mass quantities of sodium. Since going carnivore and ceasing to eat fast food and prepared packaged foods, my sodium intake dropped considerably. Now I salt my eggs and my beef generously. In fact, if I skip salt for a meal, I will sufffer from muscle spasms and nighttime leg cramps. But I have a kidney condition that makes it difficult to retain and regulate electrolytes.
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I'm sure that's delicious. But for the sake of having success on your health journey you're going to want to nix the bread. 😉 This part we can let slide, but for maximum benefit you may want to work towards removing the plants. The lectins in the tomato or the oxylate in the avocado could be triggering symptoms behind any realized or developing chronic illnesses. At the same time they could be completely harmless for you. But the only way to know for sure is elimination (at least 30, preferably 90 days), documenting how you feel, and then reintroducing it one at a time, also documenting how you feel.
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I was just looking over my blood labs history, and my total cholesterol and LDL went way up during my weight loss, but now that I have been weight stable for over a year, both my total cholesterol and LDL have dropped down significantly. All this lends to what I read before, that cholesterol, including LDL, is stored in adipose tissue and gets released into the bloodstream as you dissolve fat.
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We're live on Zoom... https://carnivoretalk.com/topic/1033-zoom-meeting-for-8pm-930pm-est-january-6th/ Attendance will count as an entry 😉
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Welcome Gabe. For those reading, I've known Gabe online for probably 10-15 years now. The carnivore diet can help you reverse your diabetes and a number of other chronic issues. It's an all meat diet (with some allowance for cheese and butter). You may want to transition into it gradually, as any sudden shift in dietary habits will throw your body for a loop. You can do it cold turkey if you like, but be prepared for 1-3 weeks of the "keto flu" as they call it. For starters, eliminate all grain (wheat, bread, crackers, corn, oats, rice, etc), refined sugar (white, brown, powdered, syrups and sugar alcohols, etc), and vegetable seed oils (safflower, canola, sunflower, corn, rice, peanut, etc). You can have fruits and vegetables in the beginning. You can use butter, ghee, tallow, lard, olive oil, coconut oil, and avocado oil, with a focus on the animal fats. You want at least half your plate filled with fatty red meat, fatty, fish, or eggs, and the other half can be low carb veggies - for now. Eventually you will decrease the veg portion until they are all gone for good. Have you had your A1C checked lately? Or how about a Renal Panel? Tell us about your insulin and other meds. Some medications you need to wean off slowly and not just stop taking abruptly, so we want to know what they are and why they were prescribed before suggesting you to stop taking any of them.
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I'm currently listening to "The Great Cholesterol Myth" in Audible. It's a fantastic publication, and would address your concerns. Here is a recent study on "The Lipid Energy Model", which demonstrates that LDL goes up on a low-carb diet, especially if you are lean. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9147253/
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Hey @Scott F. - How's everybody doing?
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Awesome! Welcome aboard! I look forward to hearing about your results. I would think you should see improvements in both. Inflammation should go down. And for me and many others, our brain fog lifted and we can continue to think pretty clearly unless we deviate from the diet. Welcome to the new normal. Seriously, don't get to concerned about this. On carnivore, you will poop less. Almost every part of the animal products you consume are digested and used by the body. The vitamins, minerals, fat, and the protein. There is very little waste. I go on average of 2 or 3 times a week now. During the transition phase, it's definitely alarming because you are probably used to going at least once, maybe even more, each day. For my first 3-4 weeks, my bowels were unpredictable. It would either be solid gravel, or liquid explosion. But I even went 9 full days without having to go. I would even have these phantom urges to go sit down and then nothing would happen. This is common, especially if you didn't slowly wean yourself into the diet but switched rather abruptly. Everything will still work, and things will return to your "new normal" before long.
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By posting in this topic. That post counts as an entry. Each subsequent reply in this particular topic will also count as an entry. Joining on on Monday night's video call will also count as an entry 😉 But the overall goal here is to make friends, lose weight, and/or feel great. In that respect we can all be a winner
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This is just a silly video I put together when I was at the Canfield fair in Canfield, Ohio. I had been on the carnivore diet for the last 6 months and was admittedly thinking about the animals in a new light now, lol. TikTok Version: https://www.tiktok.com/@carnivoretalk/video/7275502637708086570
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Yes. Chicken is still nutritious and those burger patties/ground beef is still red ruminant meat. There really is no "calculation". Obese individuals are admonished to eat until they are comfortably full, with no snacking. Oftentimes it is easier for them to eat one meal a day, because they are (1) less active while overweight, and (2) using their own fat stores for fuel. Their big bellies are like reservoirs of tallow that they can tap into at any time. But the closer you get to an ideal weight or the more active you are, the more frequent hunger you may feel. Once you start "calculating" then your entering into CICO territory. Whenever you want to go down this route. While it's true that calories don't matter, it still provides a useful metric for how much you are eating, just like measuring and weighing your food would. A prolonged calorie deficit will eventually slow your metabolism. The body is smart, and will adapt. That is entirely up to you. A clean keto diet that is mostly meat with some low carb veggies on the side is still a proper human diet. The calculations would be the same. Keep the carbs as low as possible. Eat only when you are actually hungry. Don't snack.
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So here's my daily progress so far.... Jan 1 - 174.1 lbs Jan 2 - 174.4 lbs Jan 3 - 173.2 lbs Jan 4 - 172.6 lbs Typical eggs and breakfast meats for meal #1 each day. On January 1, I tried Beef Bacon for the first time. It was good, but not as good as traditional pork bacon. I had a chicken and cream cheese dish on January 1, and overate plus it was late, thus the bump up in weight the next day. January 2 was filet mignon plus some pork rinds and chip dip that needed finished. January 3 was just seasoned ground beef. Plus I have these awesome beef jerky's from Duma's Meats that I occasionally nibble on.
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Okay, I got a response. And so the prize is going to be a $75 Gift Card for CARNIVORE CRISPS. Carnivore Crisps ships to the USA and Canada only. If you do not live in the USA or Canada, we will substitute an AMAZON Gift Card in the that is the nearest equivalent of $75 U.S. Dollars in your currency. Alternate Amazon currencies include those accepted on Amazon.ca, Amazon.cn, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.in, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.es, or Amazon.com.au. If those Amazon properties do not ship to your address, you are not eligible to win. All Gift Cards will be sent via email. Drawing will be held in early February. Each REPLY made in this WORLD CARNIVORE MONTH topic constitutes an entry. There is no limit to the number of entries. However, all back-to-back Replies will be merged and counted as a single reply to prevent abusing/spamming the system. You can also gain an additional entry for attending the Monday Night Zoom Meeting as a viewer. Participants may be rewarded with bonus entries. Let's forge friendships by encouraging and supporting one another to eat right, lose weight, and feel great!
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Welcome aboard @Joanna! You're absolutely right. I was like that in my first year, even with something as benign as a blueberry. I don't get the addictive/craving reaction anymore, but at the same time I refuse to eat grains and refined sugar (processed sweets of any kind). I'm still afraid that some candy or some pizza would do me in, lol
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Join us in our January Carnivore Challenge in recognition of World Carnivore Month. Participate in the designated January topic by giving support and encouragement to your fellow carnivores! Each reply will be counted as an entry to win a prize at the end of the month.
