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I still have an aversion to chewy fat. I have to cut it so that I am eating it along with the meat. If the blob is too big, I cut it and push it to the side. Now I can tolerate it if it is fried to a crisp. So a lot of times I will trim the fat around my steak AND then add it to the pan. As the steak cooks, the fat trimming get crispy, and then I can enjoy both.

Nice article. I always figured "2000 calories a day" was just a number that made the math simple, in order to establish a standard.

That's awesome. These are nice little milestones in your recovery. Remember every improvement, both big and small, as these will keep you motivated to stay the course.

Are those studies online and could you link to them. I have a friend who is suffering from a bad form of MS. He doesn't work now and he's always snacking on carbs and putting on some weight. I've talked about carnivore - but it might pack a better punch armed with some studies and evidences.

As far as what they do - nothing. In fact, I use the Soda Stream CO2 cartridges in my DrinkMate. The DrinkMate though has this patented lid. The fizz infuser is built into the lid. After carbonating, there's a little button on the lid that you can gently press to let the pressure out slowly. This is why I can carbonate anything. The Soda Streams don't have that. The fizz infuser simply dips into the liquid in the container, but it's not sealed at the top of the bottle. Therefore if you fizz something besides water, it will bubble over and make a mess.

I like your taste in food, lol 😄 Welcome aboard! Yesterday was my typical staples, except for dinner. There's a place around the corner that sells pulled pork. So we got some of that without any sauce to take home and enjoy.

So what I hear is your numbers are improved, even if only slightly, and you're feeling great. I would say, keep doing what you are doing 😉

I purposely bought a DrinkMate instead of a SodaStream. A DrinkMate can carbonate literally anything. I can even revive flat soda and beer, lol.

The stools are going to seem wonky for the first month or so. I would either drop pure liquid with the force of a fire hydrant, or I would go up to 8 days with no desire to sit down, only to drop a little rock when I did. It eventually evened out and returned to my new normal. I don't think the Salmon itself is the culprit. But Salmon, while considered a "fatty fish" is still kinda lean. You may have needed to add more fat. The rule of thumb is to add more fat, in the form of butter, ghee, or tallow. Cheese may work, but many people report cheese being a natural constipator. Me included.

Slept perfect all weekend as well. I also added a 6th potential reason. I had around the same time ran out of my favorite seasoning, so for the last couple weeks I've only been using salt and nothing else. This is still not likely. But, I just picked some up, so I will add back in seasoning this week. And then some K2 next week. Again, my guess is that these are benign. I will then check my labs before adding Niacin back in. I want to formerly guage if the Niacin is really of any benefit. It's higher on my list as a possibility because it does have side effects (flushing). After doing some research, while Niacin is often used by body builders to help build muscle by delivering more oxygen to the muscles, it can also cause muscle breakdown in people with chronic kidney disease. That would be me, lol.

So on Friday we went out to eat at a restaurant that had something they called "burnt cheese rollovers" that were "Atkin's friendly". So on Saturday I thought I would try to make a carnivore-friendly version of them at home, and it was suprisingly easy. I had this one pictured below with pepperoni and sausage. And Sunday morning I made one with scrambled eggs and sausage. They are crazy addictive...

I quit coffee in 2019, lol. I could try fizzing my tea and getting back to you. I have a DrinkMate. The bottle says not to put hot liquids in it. So I would have to let the beverage cool, then fizz it, and then warm it back up again.

I've been experiencing a period of peace and rest for the last 2 weeks, lol. And I don't know what has caused this to happen. But, I was DYING with leg and foot cramps that would wake me up from sleep. Or, make it impossible to swim in the pool. To combat them, I would salt generously and take magnesium. When that failed me, I would take an electrolye mix that had some potassium - which I usually avoid due to my kidneys. About 2 weekends ago i went a few days forgetting to take my prescriptions. That's when I noticed it. So, I started to wonder if it was the fenofibrate I take for my triglycerides. In hindsight, the cramps started around the same time I started taking that. But, keeping my trigs down is important so I resumed taking the prescription and have nonstop for the last 2 weeks. The cramps haven't returned, so I can probably rule that out. In the same time period though, I have reduced my salt and magnesium intake, and ran out of niacin (which I also took for trigs) and vitamin k2. I am also getting some damn good sleep at night now, lol. So I am still waiting for the cramps to return, not that I want them to. So it may come down to a few possibilities... 1) Reduced salt. 2) Reduced magnesium. 3) Eliminated k2 (not likely) 4) Eliminated Nicotinic acid/Niacin 5) Kidneys are healing (also not likely) I've got some research and experimentation to do.

I was just wondering if you looked into OwnYourLabs.com and compared their pricing with the particular labs you would like to run. That website offers extremely cheap pricing on blood work for most tests (although, Cystatin C was expensive so I went with UltaLabs for that one). OwnYourLabs.com works with LabCorp, so everyone can get their results online. These results could then be forwarded to you for compilation and analysis.

Getting my Saturday started at noon with these 6 eggs, cheese, and sausage links...

I had ulcerative colitis, and was told to eat a lot of fiber. I suffered for years. Then I tried carnivore, and went months and months without even a gram of fiber, and my disease has either been cured or went into remission. Yeah, forget fiber, lol.

When I started I would either barely go at all for days, and imagined I was "constipated", or it would be like turning on the tub faucet with so much force I almost elevated off the seat, lol. It took about 6 weeks for mine to return to my new normal. I get diarrhea from time to time, but it's rare now so when I do it may not even be diet related at all. Welcome aboard, btw! 😄

Welcome aboard @The Hamburgler 😄 I've only heard of priming in passing. Never looked into in depth or listened to a video that talked about it. I started with dirty keto, then moved on to clean keto, then ketovore, then carnivore, then lion diet, and now I am carnivore most of the time, save for once or twice a month. Intermittent fasting came easy with strict carnivore, especially when I was laid up with my broken ankle. But when I returned to work it got harder, because I work hard, and a hard working man needs to eat, lol.

I must say I am envious of those who have broke their soda habits, lol. I love my bubbles so much. I even purchased a DrinkMate (comparable to Soda Stream) to make my own fizzy drinks, but I usually make some sort of diet soda. I can drink a San Pelligrino just fine, but carbonating my tap water is not very palatable. Regarding artificial sweeteners for taste - for some people it's a trigger and they will go off plan and binge. For others, it causes a cephalic phase insulin response and raises their insulin, hampering weight loss. I'm lucky in that I don't seem to struggle with either issue.

This makes me think of how the dog somehow knows that either my wife or I is going to pull in the driveway any moment now, even though they can't tell time and have no idea it's 5pm. Internal body clock. Likewise, we may have an internal body clock programmed to eat at certain times, not out of hunger or need, but out of mere routine. We just need to break the cycle.

10 km = 6.2 miles. 23 km = 14.29 miles. Wow! That is impressive! Welcome aboard, btw 🙂 You basically listed all my favs 😄

Thank you @SallyB for providing additional information about yourself, your practice, and your prospective study. Welcome aboard! What about testing the food itself? There is a lot of information (and granted, we consume most of it through YouTube videos) about how meat and organs are rich in vitamins and other nutrients, and even how these are more bioavailable that their counterparts found in plants. The most infamous examples being how the body has to struggle to convert beta-carotene into the usable form of Vitamin A, retinol, whereas it's already in that form in meat products. Or, how the Omega-3's from animal sources are in the forms we need, EPA and DHA, whereas Omega-3's in plants are in the form of ALA and we don't do an efficient job at converting them to a usable form? Logic would follow that if meat and organs contain abundantly more nutrients vs plants, AND they are already in a form that the human body can easily use without any difficult conversion processes, then a meat-heavy or carnivore-centric diet is going to be very good for you. In the meantime, you might find this video interesting. They has so many tests ordered I'm surprised they even had any blood left, lol...

I let this one through because I was unable to determine if this is legit or not, but I have some reservations. Be aware that DocSallyND.com is a parked domain. There is no website there. There is also no online presence or Google Map location for any business called "Mountain Apple Medicine". There is a "Dr Sally Daughtrey ND" on this page... https://hawaiind.org/nd/mountain-apple-medicine/ ... but our member named has the username SallyB. And some final thoughts.... What is being tested, and what lab is being used? Several key labs are actually very cheap at the lab services we typically recommend. There is a plethora of information on the internet, from nutritionists, doctors, MD's and DO's, etc who have already done this research. My apologies for my skepticism in advance if this is legit, but I have a responsibility to protect the community.

I was out of town for 3 days attending a convention, and had to pack my lunch. This was my lunch on Saturday...