Bob

30 days BBBE, we can do it together, with a separate thread and we can check in daily or something.

As long as you want. Beef and eggs are some of the most nutrient dense foods you can put in your body. You can live on meat alone, OR eat a carnivore-centric/meat-based diet that incorporates some more variety from the plant kingdom if you choose, whether that's ketovore, keto, or animal-based. Exercise and weight lifting, which you say you have been doing. Maybe intermittent fasting, which can be done without being hungry by increasing the size of the meals you do eat. Fat and protein can satiate you for hours and hours on end. Learn the difference between feeling hungry and feeling empty. You can try 2 meals a day, or one meal a day, making those meals count. The longer you can fast, the more time your body has to metabolize what you did consume AND burn some of your own body fat. Don't eat before sleep. Don't snack between meals. Maybe. You CAN overeat meat and eggs and you CAN gain fat by doing so. It's difficult, because your satiety hormones SHOULD start functioning properly, sending signals to your brain to stop eating. But if someone put a gun to your head and made you eat and eat and eat even beef, bacon, and eggs, then yes it would be possible to gain weight. Calories can definitely be a factor when you get down to those last few pounds. We tell someone who is 400 pounds that calories don't matter, because for them it won't. They just need to learn to eat right, and let their satiety hormones reset, and the weight will start melting off of them. But you on the other hand, have considerably less fat storage AND you work out, so you are bound to feel hungrier more often than such a morbidly obese person. This is your personal choice. If something isn't working, it's time to shake things up. But only you can figure out what it is you need to do. Do you need to intermittent fast? Do you need to get more sleep? Do you need to workout more? Do you need to up for fat macros? Do you need to eat less? Do you need to carb cycle? Define "effective". If you are already healthy, the carnivore diet will keep you healthy. Eating meat doesn't make you unhealthy. Can you miraculously change your body composition using a carnivore diet? Define "miraculous"? If you're 400 pounds and you lose 220 and reverse disease, then you just might feel it's "miraculous". If you're 180 with a little spare tire around the abdomen like myself and want to be 165 with 6 pack abs, that's going to take some work and dedication. No miracles are gonna happen. I would stay all-natural, eating like a human would back in the beginning. If you can hunt it, milk it, pluck it from a branch or vine, then it's probably going to be fine. For me, this rules out grain and sugar, but would allow for fruits and vegetables that are in fact, fruitages themselves. If you are looking for more variety, you should look into Dr. Berry's Proper Human Diet, particularly, the keto/low-carb side of the spectrum, or Dr. Paul Saladino's Animal-Based Diet, or some combination of the two.

We should plan a group challenge for September. I will have just returned from vacation then. So I have never had that problem. I've had it stick to me from time to time, but not the bowl. When I started, it would oscillate back and forth between the runs and nearly impossible to get out. But now it is normal most of the time, but can vary depending on what I eat.

Mine would flip flop between constipation and diarrhea for the first couple months before things returned to my new normal - which is basically normal stools dropping about twice a week. I still experience both of those from time to time. I can loosen things up using more tallow and butter, and I can thicken things up by consuming more cheese. I don't know why it works that way for me but it does.

I was thinking gelatin. But then @Geezy stepped in with Chris Cooking Nashville's video, and I remembered I really need to try and make some of his outstanding looking recipes

A couple things could be going on here. For starters, when do you measure your blood glucose to get those readings? 1) Is it in the morning? You might be experiencing what's called the "dawn phenomenon", when a person's body will ramp up glucose levels to help you start your day. You might get a more accurate reading by fasting for a few more hours after waking up before taking your reading. 2) It is after a meal? Regardless of what you eat, when you eat a meal, your blood glucose will go up. 3) Are you eating processed or marinated meats? Look out for "carb creep". Which brings us to... 4) High protein consumption. If you are eating a high protein, moderate to low fat diet, your body will convert that protein to glucose for fuel. Your basically not in ketosis or burning ketones. You will want to increase your fat macros and maybe lower your protein macros. And finally... This can vary per individual and is very common if you are diabetic. Certain individuals will have a much higher sensitivity to protein and will have a greater glucagon release in response to high protein consumption. Fortunately, this is not thought of to really be an issue.

Pic for attention, lol. This was a few weeks ago. I took my parents out to A Plus Crab in Cuyahoga Falls, which is a seafood boil restaurant. These were the raw oysters I got as an appetizer. My dad got me into these. Totally delicious and chock full of Omega-3's, vitamins, and minerals. On Saturday I attended a graduation party. I had a chicken breast and Italian sausages. And then Sunday, a family reunion on my wife's side, where I was able to have hot dogs and hamburger patties. I was able to make it work, but had to put up the palm when people would say "Aren't you gonna have any cAkE??"

Keep up the fine fight, even when the struggle is real. The clearly visible benefits demonstrate that you are on the right path. I would maybe, at the present time, look at seasonings and garnishes that help make the meat more palatable. Since you have no real health issues, you probably don't have to be super strict. You can be "carnivore-centric" and still reap the benefits if you're not particularly sensitive to certain things.

Not usually. It's common for cholesterol to go up on a carnivore diet, especially if you have been losing weight. Cholesterol trapped in your adipose tissue gets released into the blood stream and you use up your own body fat, causing levels to rise. You HDL and trigs are beautiful, and these numbers are more important.

Yeah, weight loss isn't linear. Even now, I had bottomed out at 174 in November and then purposely stopped my weight loss over a health scare, and now I am averaging 179.

Do you give the cow a funny name, like "This is Sir Loin" lol

Remember that your cells are using fat for energy instead of glucose. Fat needs to be transported in the blood inside lipoproteins (because fat can't mix with water/blood). So it is only natural that your cholesterols would increase when you are fat adapted.

That sounds brilliant. I might just make some homemade electrolytes and do the same.

Welcome aboard @Jughead. We're glad you are here. And we're happy to help set things straight for you.

I'm getting more interested in this. The lady I met down the street does this. She's even offered for me to come down and use her equipment. I agree. When I make my NY Strips inside, I will trim a strip of the fat and fry it so that it's crispy. Absolutely delicious!

I made one this morning with some butter. I think I liked it a little better when I also slipped in a little coconut oil. Yesterday I had Outback Steakhouse with my daughter and then we went to see a movie. I must say, I make a much better steak at home, lol.

LOL! Yeah, the tray pressing against me reveals I have yet to lose that last 10-15 pounds I would like to drop, lol.

Could you imagine a world where we were thrown in prison for our dietary choices? lol

Oh for certain, especially at the Mexican restaurant. Or even the Hibachi ones where they grill it in front of you, you can literally watch them squirt the oil on it. I eat out so very little that I don't even ask if they cook in seed oils or butter. I'm personally not that sensitive at the current time, and it's the chronic consumption of these that lead to improper Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratios. Well I hope not, because I did eat the green peppers and onions, lol. But I'm usually strict carnivore. The next potential dates for having to compromise is potentially eating out after an even August 2-4, and then again on my Florida vacation at the end of August. -- Last night was hamburgers. And, my wife is slowly coming around. She has been trying hard to do mostly keto the last few days.

I got to meet a fellow carnivore the other day. This is Jan. She is also a member in Dr. Berry's community. We are both members at the "Vital Supporters" level. Turns out, she lives within walking distance of me. She contacted me and invited me down to meet in person and made my wife and I some smoked patties consisting of meat she ground herself and mixed with brisket, bacon, and cheddar cheese. We took this picture of our first meeting, and plan on getting together again for some more outdoor cookin'

Things that Layne missed... Seed oils are are not part of a natural human diet, as these heavily ultra-processed oils were not in existence before the 1900's (ish). They are easily oxidized. They are high in Omega-6 and low in Omega-3. They are in everything, which is why our Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio is so out of balance that it leads to an inflammatory state. They are even worse when heated. A little bit in your ranch dressing here and there probably won't hurt you, but when you cook every meal with it, and every baked good sitting on the store shelves has been cooked with it, and every restaurant is deep frying with it, the cumulation of all this leads to inflammation and poor health. It's way deeper than just one's fat mass they are carrying around.

Congratulations on your progress!

I will say that mixing meats sometimes does wonders. Mix together beef, bacon, sausage, eggs, chicken, etc, or any combination thereof together and it does make for a tasty dish that breaks the monotony of just eating one thing all the time.

Yesterday I was with my family and some of my wife's extended family and ended up having to eat at a Mexican restaurant that I hadn't been to before. I was able to make things work (ketovore) with a dish that was ribeye, chicken, shrimp, scallops, and chorizo on a sizzling skillet with some peppers and onions. I had that and passed the rice and beans off to another relative. This was at like 3 in the afternoon, and I ended up not being hungry the rest of the day.