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Butter that came from m..m.. milk? Say it ain't so 😄

I got these beef sausage links (in bulk from Sam's) that is replacing my pork sausage for now while I work on getting my phosphorous levels down. Had that with 5 eggs this morning, and I have a 20oz thick cut NY Strip waiting on standby for dinner tonight 😄

How much are you eating? Are you eating until you are comfortably stuffed? Or are you portion controlling? Are you intermittent fasting or eating OMAD? Another point to consider is the fat content? Are you eating lean meats or fatty meat? Are you cooking in butter, ghee, or tallow? Are you saving the grease with your ground beef or are you draining/rinsing it?

Variety is the spice of life 😄

I would lean towards oxalate dumping as well. I just looked over your post history. You started carnivore around mid-September, about 6 weeks ago. So, if you were going to start experiencing oxylate dumping, the timing is about right. I would also stretch, do some walking or working out, etc. OR, if you have been doing this, maybe you feel sore as a result and just need to rest up for a day or two.

We're here to help. My first bit of advice is while I can appreciate wanted to put things to "a screeching halt", this can be easier said that done and you might slip and have a sip now and again, and IF you do, do not let that derail you. Don't beat yourself up, and don't give up and go off the rails for the rest of the day. It's not the occasional giving into temptation that sabotages your efforts. It is the "I'll start again tomorrow (or Monday, or next week, or January 1st, etc)" that gets you. If you give into temptation, you get right back up on your feet that very instant - and resolve to be "on plan" for your very next meal or decision.

I've dabbled in a little raw here and there. Not a whole meal, but a pinch of this or that while I'm preparing/seasoning things to get them ready to cook.

Thank you w1zxjr 🙂 I've reversed everything except for my CKD and hypertriglyceridemia, which is a consequence of the CKD. I've never checked my thyroid. I should just for the sake of it. I'm making a handful of changes and hope to see some improvement, even if it's just a return to the Cystatin C level I had previously.

I had a cold that started coming on Tuesday night. Friday and Saturday were the worst. Cough that burned my chest. I thought it was going to become bronchitis. Yesterday I started feeling better and I am mostly back to normal today with just some residual mucus to get out of me. But I am no longer contagious so I won't get anyone sick on the Zoom call tonight, lol 😄

You may be interested in this video....

Unfortunately, yes I do, but it's because of my kidney disease. But if my kidneys were in proper working order I imagine I could do just fine without them.

This is actually the accomplishment that I am most proud of. The one thing that was destroying my life that I did completely resolve. Cured the "incurable". And then the views are "meh", lol. My deteriorating health all goes back to coffee. Coffee -> Colitis -> Mesalamine (prescription drug) -> Mesalamine destroys kidneys -> Stage 4CKD -> High triglycerides -> Niacin (for trigs) -> Rhabdomyolisis (from Niacin)-> inching closer to stage 5 CKD. Kinda sucks.

Keep in mind the simple things too... 1) You may have cooked and ate something that had been sitting around for too long, i.e. meat that had gone bad but you either didn't notice or took the gamble. 2) You may have caught a stomach virus. It is the end of October, and 'tis the season. I'm sitting here with my first cold since this time last year, complete with stuffy nose and sneezing.

You answered this one yourself. The issue is succumbing to cravings. You're going to have to be stronger than this and not give in. Keep repeating what you did when you lost the first 34 pounds, and be patient. If you start to lack patience, then add in some intermittent or extended fasting, or increase your exercise routine. This is a tough one. Technically, you can lose weight on any diet, including an "animal-based" diet with fruit and honey. But by incorporating fruit and honey into your diet, you WILL find yourself hungry more, craving more, and wanting to eat more. Also remember, that while you are actively losing weight, your LDL will go up because some LDL is stored in the adipose tissue, and gets released into the bloodstream as you lose weight. It can take up to 6 months after achieving weight stability (no more weight loss) for your LDL to return to "normal" or "baseline". It's a tricky road to navigate. Nick Norwitz lowered his LDL with oreos. But carnivore doctor Shawn Baker tried to do the same with fruit but didn't have the same result. Lille Kane quit carnivore and her bloodwork actually got worse. Carnivore Ray added fruit and honey to his diet and just didn't feel as good, so now he is back to carnivore most the time and goes on a fruit bender once in a while. How often does your employer get your LDL tested? WHY is it a requirement?

My Cystatin C has gone up slightly from the last time, which unfortunately trends in the wrong direction than what I wanted to see. There's a huge disparity though with my creatine vs cystatin C. Part of this disparity is the protein in the diet, as explained in my video. The other part I think is my fault. When I had the high triglyceride scare, I started taking high dose Niacin and fenofibrate. Fenofibrate is known to increase creatinine levels. But, after several months I started to have major issues with cramps. This issue almost miraculously disappeared overnight when I ran out of Niacin, which I posted about HERE back in the beginning of August. While my initial research said that Niacin is good for lowering trigs and LDL while raising HDL, and being good for the kidneys, now my much deeper research revealed that high dose Niacin in people with late stage renal disease (me) can cause rhabdomyolysis (muscle wasting) and increase the chance of early all-cause mortality (like, holy crap!). I think I was giving myself rhabdomyolysis, as evidenced by the chronic cramping. This muscle wasting and protein breakdown in turn caused my creatinine to go through the roof. On paper, I'm already dead. But I still feel fantastic and symptom free - especially now that I dropped the Niacin. I only struggle with electrolye balance which a little magnesium helps me with.

New York strips these last several nights. Buy them in bulk, then the wife starts to balk at "eating steak again" and I gotta use them up before they go bad. I might have to go Lion Diet for a while anyway. My bloodwork came back and some numbers are not looking good (damn kidney disease be making things tricky for me).

She hasn't met me, lol. Mine shot up to 2887 at one point. Keep us posted on how this works out for you.

Generally speaking, you should be able to get everything your body requires on a carnivore diet from beef, and then all the moreso if you have some variety, such as seafood, eggs, and the occasional organ meat. I too supplement D3 because I'm in the north and indoors a lot so I don't get a lot of sun, plus my CKD makes me waste a lot of vitamin D as well. Get your vitamin D checked periodically if you are doing high doses. You generally don't want it going over 100 mg/dl or you can get vitamin D toxicity. I would agree with Geoff in that you are probably still experiencing the transition/adaptation phase at week 3, but you're almost out of the thick. 🙂

I'm carnivore most days, most meals. But now that I have reach my goals I don't mind if I find myself in a situation where I dip my toes into ketovore or animal-based on rare occasions. I'm past the point of where I would go on a bender for several weeks and struggle to get back on plan if I had an apple. And I'm glad. I hated being a slave to sugar.

I'm still waiting for my superhuman "carninvores don't get sunburn" powers, lol. My bald head gets it ever summer if I don't wear a hat. The rest of me just tans though.