Bob

I believe Magnesium Malate is one of the ones you absorb well. I take this product here... https://www.amazon.com/Zentastic-Triple-Magnesium-Relaxation-Absorption/dp/B0BC84FL5C/ref=sr_1_1_sspa? I looked hard for one that did not contain the types of magnesium that isn't very absorbable and are thus notorious for diarrhea. Sounds fine on the surface. Hopefully you are still in your transition phase, but at 6 weeks you should be seeing the end of it soon. I've been doing this since May of last year, and there is a balance to be had. At one time I cut out cheese, skimped on the butter, cut off the fat and gave it to my dog, and I was zero carb, high protein, low fat, and I got diarrhea. But when I started eating the fat, being more generous with my butter, and reintroduced cheese, I got better (I've heard cheese is a natural "constipator"). But the conventional wisdom is to scale it back if you have diarrhea because too much fat will also go right through you if you don't have enough bile in your gall bladder to break it down. Most people are fine at a 1:1 ratio of fat to protein, gram for gram, which ends up being 70% calories from fat and 30% calories from protein. This is easy to achieve with just fatty cuts of beef alone.

During the summer - on the grille. But during the cold months, I will set the oven to Broil - High. I will also turn a stovetop burner on High and get it heating up with some butter, tallow, or ghee in the pan. I will salt and season both sides and place it in the pan in the hot melted fat and sear one side for 4 minutes. Then I will flip it over and place the whole pan on the top rack of the oven and let it Broil for another 6 minutes. This usually comes out medium, or slightly medium rare if the steak is a thick one. If you like it more done, add a minute to the Broiler step.

It could be that you simply love the taste, and after several weeks of just meat and salt you're taste buds are delighted to have something different, and zesty nonetheless. However, since the timing of these cravings is paired with the sudden onset of leg cramps, I would lean towards mineral and electrolyte deficiency. I struggle with leg cramps too because I have Chronic Kidney Disease - I spill magnesium like crazy and the diet is low in magnesium to begin with, unless you can hork down 3-4 pounds of red meat a day, which I cannot. Therefore, I have to supplement. If the craving is for mustard, then you might be low in Calcium, Thiamine, Manganese, Selenium, or Potassium. If the craving is for vinegar, the deficiency might be in Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, or Iron (not likely on carnivore). Most of these you can check with a blood test. Ironically, an at-home remedy for leg cramps is to drink pickle juice for fast relief - which points us towards vinegar also. How much LMNT per day? A single packet contains 200mg of potassium and 60mg of magnesium. That's not a lot in the way of supplementation if you are only drinking one a day. If you bumped that up to 5 packets a day, I would hope you would notice a difference, as that would give you 1000mg potassium and 300mg of magnesium a day. Do note that there is plenty of potassium in meat, especially chicken and pork (both sausage and bacon). Usually, magnesium is the issue and not potassium. By way of comparison, I take a magnesium supplement in pill form that is 80mg per pill. I was taking 5 a day (400mg), one with my first meal, one with my second meal, and three at bedtime. I recently tested my magnesium, and it was a bit too high (kidneys, remember) so I backed it down to 3 a day (240mg) - one with each meal and one a bedtime. After 3 weeks, I am starting to have little twitches and cramps again, so I think 4 pills (320mg) is going to be the sweet spot. Depends on how much fat you are taking in each day. Do you track your macros? Keto Chow Daily Minerals is a great product that would probably help you more than LMNT.... https://www.ketochow.xyz/products/daily-minerals Be warned the liquid form tastes terrible, and you should divide the serving up into 3 smaller servings and dilute it in another beverage a few times per day. If you try and take it like a shot of whiskey you will want a whiskey to get rid of the taste, lol. They also have a pill form they just came out with. At the same time, you can enjoy your mustard, your vinegar, and your pickles. These are all harmless. Hope this helps!

Excellent advice above. In general, coconut oil, MCT oil, olive oil, and avocado oil are all okay as they are not seed oils. However I olive oil and avocado oil can't handle high heat so I wouldn't use them for cooking - but rather as a dressing. Another potential problem with olive oil is that a lot of "olive oil" is cut with soybean oil, so you have to be careful. Coconut oil, from what I understand, has a very high smoke point and therefore is better to cook with... IF you like the taste of coconut, lol.

Hey Donna 🙂 I haven't heard about an impending beef shortage. Where did you get this information? Do you mean half a cow? I want to get a half cow also, but I will need to buy a chest freezer. My old one died years ago (and I lost a ton of food as a result). I can get "sides of beef" or quarters locally for a fantastic price.... https://www.dumameats.com/meat-market/sides-of-beef/

This was a few days ago but I didn't get around to posting yet. New York Strips (strip loins) are my favorite cut of steak...

That 2030 food pyramid is sad but true.

New York Strip and Ribeyes are some nice fatty cuts of meat. If you cook them in a pan instead of a grill you can collect the fat, pour it on top or use it for dipping sauce. People who love to grill their meat will often put a pad of butter on it to melt to make up for the lost fat. Also, ground beed that is 80/20 or better yet 70/30 is a great way to get in some fat. And don't forget bacon. But for leaner cuts, you will want to use butter, ghee, tallow, or find a recipe for a carnivore friendly sauce to use for dipping. You do hit 70% with that 1:1 ratio. At 4 calories per gram of protein and 9 calories per gram of fat, you get 30% calories from protein and 70% calories from fat. The way to get more fat is through butter, heavy cream, tallow, etc. If you don't overeat you should be fine. Some stall when they include dairy, such as cheese. I was stalled since mid-November, but I also was intentional about stopping my weight loss. This week, I've been trying to be mostly Lion Diet (beef only) and 2 meals a day, and I've dropped 2 pounds so far.

Welcome aboard @atlsrt44 🙂 Ignore the naysayers. You are getting results and that is what matters. And yes, it's mind-boggling how sugar and seed oils are snuck into anything and everything, even in products that you wouldn't think it would be in, and for the life of me can't understand why it's in there. In general, you don't need to supplement if you are eating a proper human diet (keto, ketovore, carnivore). But if you don't get a lot of sun, then some vitamin D might be in order (you will want to test this periodically). Magnesium is hard to get enough of unless you eat like 3 pounds or more of meat a day, so many carnivores will drink LMNT or some other electrolytes, or take a magnesium supplement. You'll know if you need some yourself if you start having muscle twitches and leg cramps (we used to get magnesium in our water, but it's filtered out these days). Your multivitamin might just cover all the bases. I would have to see a link to the nutrition facts.

I did season the ground beef a tiny bit before dividing it up into 2-2.5 oz portions.

Welcome Carlo! Yes. You can gain muscle (but you will lose fat) on a carnivore diet in conjunction with lifting heavy things and working out. You can look to the examples of Dr Shawn Baker and Dr Anthony Chaffee. They both are strict carnivores and are built like a tank. However each of them probably consume 3 lb of fatty red meat each day. Logic would dictate that the more you work out, the more hungry you will be, and the more food you will eat.

If you are looking up your ribeye nutritional facts online, you are going to get a ton of different results, many of them being for short ends, trimmed of all the fat, and very lean. But if you get a normal ribeye steak and eat all the fat with it you're going to be fine. Check out this link... https://www.nutritionix.com/i/usda-choice/ribeye-steak/63a2e860e3a14b00086f427e According to that, for a 4 oz piece of steak, which is pretty small, 300 out of the 370 calories come from fat. Don't forget to include the butter, ghee, or tallow that you cooked it in. You can also pour that butter, ghee, or tallow leftover in the pan from cooking into a small dish and use it as dipping sauce. You can also choose to melt a couple pads of butter over top of your steak. All of this will be pure fat. This is something I do regularly. If you make scrambled eggs in butter, the eggs absorb all that butter. If you eat ground beef, get either 70/30 or 80/20 and try to resist draining the fat after cooking (this can be difficult with the 70/30 because there's a lot of it). And then there are other carnivores who do quite well without overthinking the fat.

I can't do grains, so cookies are out for me. The 2 times I have tried just a bite of bread/sugar I was suddenly jonesing for more. It was like crack cocaine. I find this to be the case for me too. I can be at a stall for weeks. Then, I'll "cheat" with a large apple, lol, and that will get things moving again. Although I don't consider an apple to be truly cheating. I'm currently mostly carnivore, but I am not averse to certain select fruits and certain select vegetables.

Welcome Robert. I like the name 😄 This could be either a case of under-eating, or you might be experiencing the keto flu. Salmon is a good fatty fish and eggs are fantastic. But remember that fat is your new energy source in lieu of carbs so make sure you are getting enough fat. You can do this with plenty of butter, cheese, etc. You can also make homemade mayonnaise and sauces that are rich in fats too. Yes. Keep having it, even if in small portions. The human pallet can be trained. Many of us had to acquire a taste for certain foods, whether it was veggies when we were kids, beer when we became adults, etc. You can also acquire the taste for red meat. Don't be afraid of salt and seasonings either to make it more palatable.

It's a Dash Tasti-Crisp Air Fyer that we got from Bed Bath & Beyond years ago when they were going out of business. It's a primitive model with no temperature settings and a wind-up timer (I looked it up, it's 400 degrees). You can still get them at Kohl's or Amazon. It's a cheap, entry level air fryer but it gets the job done. I do want to get a larger one some day.

So this was actually fascinating! The history of how these drugs came to be throughout the decades, including the studies and the examples of drugs that had to be pulled from the market AFTER causing people harm was interesting to listen to.

I will occasionally have a salad, or an apple, or a side veggie. I try to make sure it is still food that nature provides, and not manufactured stuff that man makes. I still will avoid sugars and grains, and in general - seed oils, although if I have a salad at a restaurant I know the dressing is going to be seed oil based. I don't worry too much about it since I am avidly avoiding it at all other times. Remember a proper human diet is a spectrum, meat-based, and includes carnivore on one end of the spectrum, keto in the middle, and animal-based on the other. Being diabetic, I would definitely recommend sticking to the ketogenic and carnivore side of things to get that A1C down.

Nice. I like Paul Mason. I'll watch (er... listen) to this one on the way to work this morning.

Here's what I had the other night, step by step....

Good ideas on the breaded fish. I've tried some crushed pork rinds as breading for chicken in my keto past with mix results. But I could have been making a couple mistakes from the start, such as using chicken, lol, and also using an oil.

Good luck. This is still a major crutch for me. I still sweeten my tea and drink diet sodas too. They say in some people even the taste of these artificial sweeteners can cause an insulin release and stall weight loss, but I don't seem to have that problem. Check out www.ownyourlabs.com which is available in most states (a few states won't let you order your own bloodwork). It's usually even cheaper than my copays when the doc orders bloodwork.

I know a lot of guys that do OMAD and seem to like it. I'm a twice a day eater myself, with sometimes a beef stick for a snack to hold me over until the wife gets home. I've heard 1g of protein minimum per pound of goal body weight, which still works out to 150g based on your first post. That's 600 calories from protein. Then, you want to consume 1g of fat for every 1g of protein, so that's 150g minimum of fat. Fat should always be equal to or greater than protein, gram for gram. 150g of fat is 1350 calories. Together this is 1950 calories. Now I know we say don't count calories, but this is still a useful metric to determine if you are undereating or overeating. Take for example 1 pound of 80/20 ground beef without draining any of the fat. This would have 76g of protein, 92g of fat, and about 1132 calories. Of course, this doesn't take into account the nuts that you do eat. When I went from 225 to 175, I was 2MAD eating 4 eggs and 4 sausage patties for lunch at noon, and 1 pound of beef for dinner at 7pm, and then intermittently fasted until lunch again the next day, probably clocking in at around 1800-2200 calories per day.

Steroids are illegal for a reason. Some are toxic to the liver, others cause erectile disfunction. Some deplete your HDL levels, and others are so dangerous they don't even use them in livestock anymore. Be ye not deceived. Body building does not equate to good health.