Bob

We're back online after a few hiccups. We should be good to go moving forward.

We're back online after a few hiccups. We should be good to go moving forward.

No, I'm not using a VPN. I don't have a computer, only a phone.

I do. I think I have the best shift as far as people as well as workers.
I cook for the shift on occasion as well as do pizza for the shift once every other months or so.
They make me look good pretty much everyday.
Scott

I should have taken a picture.
I ate fried catfish tonight. The first fried food I have had since May '24. It was battered in corn meal and fried in lard. I thought I would give it a try. It was pretty good.
I don't think I completely fell off the wagon, but I guess my feet did drag the ground a tad. LOL
Scott

Thank you, Scott! I know that area. My dad's widow lives in Gig Harbor. Yes, lots of rain here.

Welcome back.
I lived in Silverdale and Bremerton way back when. I enjoyed my time there and never thought 'hiking' would be a thing for me. I spent most every weekend stomping thru the northwest. A tad bit rainy at times but really enjoyed my time there.
Again, welcome back.
Scott

I'm just rejoining the forum, after being gone for a while. I've been under a lot of stress these past few months, with trying to figure out if I was going to move or not, due to an abusive neighbor. Things have calmed down considerably, so I've decided to stay where I am. I spent a lot of time and energy packing and unpacking several times, which took it's toll on my health. I was recently diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation, probably caused by the stress. I'm still on Carnivore, and have mostly eaten beef, and plain Greek yogurt since early June 2025. Prior to that, I had been Keto/Carnivore since 2018. I don't know why my account is registering in Badger, Alaska, since I live in Bellingham, Washington. I lived in Alaska for 32 years before I moved here, and have never heard of Badger. Will have to look it up. Glad to see everyone is still going strong. I have listened to a few Carnivore Talk Monday lives, which are always good.

Don't take this seriously, but wouldn't an aquarium heater do the same thing? 😀

What sous u got?

I like this method. It's easy to get a controlled medium/rare roast or steak. This time I let the meat cool down in snow after bath, so it did not get any more done when I seared it on a very hot cast iron pan.
Eight hours / 133 F.

Funny how things work out.
A month or so ago, maybe more I started my weekend fast while pulling night shifts. On Sunday night the shift decided to cook and have a 'work supper' together. I told them I was fasting and they all know about carnivore. Just as they were sitting down they called me to the breakroom. They threw in a got me a tomahawk steak that looked huge and very appealing. It was such a nice thing they did I broke my fast with a tomahawk.
This weekend I started my fast on Friday and on Sunday the shift cooked again for the Super Bowl. They made me some really nice burger patties.
Plotted my trips to the gym for this week. On Saturday morning I was planning on going to the gym after nightshift. I ended up having to work over.
Planned again for Sunday morning but it was 8F so I had to come home and get the animals straight after a night in the single digits. Moved it to Monday and had to work over again.
I told myself nothing would keep me from going this morning until I had an emergency phone call from home. This guy we paid to cut tress down ten+ years ago broke down near here and walked up on my daughter-in-laws porch at 6AM. He was drunk and banging on the door for some tools to change a tire. It scared her half to death as she was home with her three month old. Unfortunately, when I got the call it was 'some guy' and I dropped my tools in the floor and left a pump in mid-repair. I was on pace to make the 40 minute drive in 25 minutes and my wife sent me a pic from the security camera. He is harmless, and a super nice guy, but drunk he didn't realize how it came across.
Crisis averted at home and I missed out on the gym again today.
Maybe tomorrow. LOL
Scott

I just found this:
Sally K. Norton
Painful Gout, Joint Pain, and Oxalates - Sally K. Norton
A high-oxalate diet contributes to inflammatory joint pain, including painful gout. Get relief from bursitis, arthritis, rheumatism and other pain syndromes.

So true.
Scott

Exactly!
I’m a carnivore and have cancer. The cancer was developing long before I became a carnivore but if someone hear I was diagnosed with cancer after I became a carnivore they would blame the diet and not what I did before the diet.

I don't disagree or nor could I debate the article.
People who eat meat have cancer is a true statement. People who eat beef fat have heart failure. People who eat salt have high blood pressure. People who eat a heavy protein diet have kidney failure-renal disease. And now people who eat peanut butter could end up with colon cancer.
All these are true statements. The details and the other life choices played a factor too, and from my perspective, even a bigger factor than beef or fat or salt or 'peanut butter' as a stand-along cause.
Scott

While I’m not saying any of this is wrong or misleading and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it was all very accurate but I compare these with the same type of articles that bemoan red meat as being the cause of all ailments known to man. Lots of “maybes”, “mights” and “could haves”.
I agree that peanut butter is not a food we should be eating but for different reasons.

For my sake, the mounds of grape jelly neutralized the risks with peanut butter.
I have eaten more than my fair share.
Scott

For some reason, I am unable to edit the main page anymore, which is why the livestream advert in the upper right is still displaying an ad for a Monday back in January.
At the same time, I am unable to run the upgrade process from within the software to fetch and install the next update.
So, sometime in the next week or so, I will be creating a backup of the database and completely erasing the site and uploading a fresh copy. We will likely be offline for about 30 minutes when that happens.
I will post an announcement before we go offline to perform the upgrade manually.

The beef tongue is intriguing for sure. When I was in Florida a couple summers ago, I had "lengua" tacos, which was beef tongue. It was good.

And I don't think anyone really has to. Sure, many choose to, but there's nothing wrong with those who treat carnivore as an elimination diet and then later reintroduce other foods.
Part of the reason for using carnivore as an elimination diet is to heal and gain mastery over those tendencies to rely on sugar or alcohol or other substances. The hard part, and for some this is really really hard, is abstaining long enough to reap the benefits. I still drank alcohol on occasion even on carnivore - precisely once a month when we went out for Open Mic Night or Karaoke. But over time, I lost my desire for it, and haven't drank in months (plus with my kidney disease even a little alcohol gives me major side effects).
But during my first year, if I deviated, it became clear I was an addict. After 6 months on carnivore my wife wanted me to taste some pumpkin bread because it was my mother's recipe. That one bite had me jonesing for more, and I am talking shaking hands and insatiable cravings and feelings of hunger, even though I had just had dinner. It was a weird, surreal experience that I never felt before.
However, now that I am almost 3 years in, a single bite of pumpkin bread doesn't phase me. It's like I am immune now.
The only reason I tell this story is because I believe that the same thing would happen for you with sugar and alcohol..... in time, that is.

Experiment in a forward moving path. Figure out what works for you.
I quit drinking 20+ years ago. Either I was really getting good at it or I was totally regressing.
I got blistered drunk. A deer ran out in front my wife's new car and I couldn't get out to check on the things. Basically, I said, "Let it roll" and I didn't hear anything, so we drove home. When we got home her door would not open and she had to crawl over me to get out. Later that night my son got really sick and had to go to the hospital with a fever. I was still drunk in the car.
I have never felt lower. I stopped cold turkey that next morning. Never wanted another drop.
When I switched to carnivore, I went cold turkey and didn't have any of the sugar cravings others have experienced (just lucky, I guess). Since I have not drank in a lot of years I have had none of those cravings. I can't really speak to those with experience.
My only advice would be try to plug something healthier into those cravings. If you can skip one, and then in time skip two, they should get further and further apart, until you no longer have that load to carry.
Best of luck. Not much help.
Scott

that's very interesting. it doesn't look like i can do carnivore indefinitely. i just keep reaching for sugar and alcohol. although i did recently procure some magic mushrooms. if i can successfully microdose that, then i might not need to reach for sugar and booze in the evenings. my goal is just to feel good. not great but good enough that i don't need beer to forget about all of my problems. we will see i guess.

There is a guy at our gym who is what he calls part-time carnivore-part-time keto and sometimes whatever he wants.
He uses carnivore like a tool much the same as a hammer or a wrench. He will go three or four months on a strict carnivore diet and reap those benefits and from there he eases into a keto-type diet by reintroducing certain things to his diet. From there he morphs into some bad eating habits.
When the bad eating habits come back around and he adds a few pounds he switches back to a strict carnivore diet. He has done this for the last few years.
I can see where it would work for a lot of people.
We laughed because we both agreed that we can dig a hole with a hammer but there are better tools out there.
He is the first person I met that purposely starts and stops carnivore with a reason in mind.
Scott

Busy day cooking today.
First up was bacon wrapped smoked venison backstrap.

Next up was beef tongue. First time cooking it. Boiled it until tender and then sliced it and pan fried it in tallow. Wow, this was tender and delicious.

Last was some beef cheek meat. Slow cooked in the crockpot with a little beef broth. Extremely tender and fatty. 😋