Erik

Went to McD's and got a bacon cheeseburger, sans bun, with water to drink. I cheated and got small fries too.
For supper, two lamb loin chops and some sauerkraut.
My goals are to get my A1C under pre-diabetes, and to help my diverticulitis problems.

Went to McD's and got a bacon cheeseburger, sans bun, with water to drink. I cheated and got small fries too.
For supper, two lamb loin chops and some sauerkraut.
My goals are to get my A1C under pre-diabetes, and to help my diverticulitis problems.

All of this is completely normal. Healthy blood glucose when fasting is between 70 and 99, and as long as it's above 50 it is considered acceptable. Likewise, a spike up to 140 in after eating is also normal. 
 I can only guess here, and I would assume they are very high fat and moderate to lower protein on their macros.
And so your body was converting some of that protein into glucose, which is then detected in your blood.
So you're still in the normal range. You burn off or store the carbs by the time morning has rolled around and that's why you still measure the same. 
The reason many on keto or carnivore will aim for moderate protein and really high fat macros is to become fat adapted. Until you are fat adapted, your body will convert some protein you consume into glucose. You say you were eating a large amount of protein and working out and being very active. Much of this excess protein was likely being converted to glucose. 
Welcome aboard "J". Sorry it took so long to approve these posts. I was installing a tile backsplash for my brother today and was away from the internet.

Good clip!
Maybe most here already know this, but the root of the cholesterol scam goes back to the late '50s(?) with Professor Ancel Keyes and his bogus, cherry-picked chart and how the whole story got into the US Senate. I first learned about this in 2004 with the book "The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease," by Dr. Uffe Ravnskov.
It was quite the eye-opener. Twenty years later, and not much has changed in the medical establishment. Well actually, there have been changes: It's gotten much worse.

Good clip!
Maybe most here already know this, but the root of the cholesterol scam goes back to the late '50s(?) with Professor Ancel Keyes and his bogus, cherry-picked chart and how the whole story got into the US Senate. I first learned about this in 2004 with the book "The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease," by Dr. Uffe Ravnskov.
It was quite the eye-opener. Twenty years later, and not much has changed in the medical establishment. Well actually, there have been changes: It's gotten much worse.

So I had my checkup with my cardiologist today.
Shortly after becoming carnivore my blood pressure began dropping due to the diet and one of my heart meds was bringing it down further and causing me to almost pass out so my doctor took me off of that medication.
So today I have my six month checkup and my cardiologist was so impressed with my results that he cut my other heart med in half.
If everything goes well then next visit it may get reduced even lower.
My BP was 112/62. That’s all due to nutrition in the carnivore diet.
 
 
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I saw that the other day myself. It’s always about profit, power and control. It’s because even more evident in the last three years and even more so since becoming carnivore.


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It is so logical that it blows my mind that the medical community is so blind to this. But then again they aren’t allowed to be free thinkers and must follow the protocols of their handlers.


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The Very Meaty History of Treating Diabetes Before Insulin
A surprisingly effective method for its time
BY TOBIAS CARROLL  January 26, 2024 1:15 pm  
Before insulin, some diabetes treatments doubled down on meat. Getty Images It’s been just over a century since insulin was first used to treat diabetes. Given that doctors and scientists have known about diabetes for thousands of years — and have been searching for the best way to improve the lives of people with the condition since then — that means a lot of different treatments were tried out over the years all over the world. And, as it turns out, some of them involved plenty of meat.

In an excerpt from his book Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments, Gary Taubes recounts the story of the 18th century doctor John Rollo, who “may have been the first physician to successfully bring a case of diabetes under control.” What did Rollo prescribe his patients? Meat. So, so much meat.

Taubes refers to this as “the animal diet,” which is exactly what it sounds like. (Thankfully, Rollo’s refinement of this meant that he moved away from telling patients to eat “rancid old meat and fat.”) The thinking behind this was to reduce carbohydrates in diabetes patients, and it seems to have worked to prolong the lives of several of the people he treated, provided they stuck to the regimen.

If you’re reading this description and getting flashbacks to, say, the heyday of the Atkins Diet, you’re not alone. And while it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as insulin, Rollo’s overall line of thinking has aged relatively well. In 2018, Anahad O’Connor wrote in the New York Times about a study that showed diabetes patients successfully regulating their blood sugar levels via a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.
There’s another lesson in Tabes’s retelling of Rollo’s story, and it stems from the experience Rollo and his colleagues had in treating diabetes with the “animal diet.” Not surprisingly, Rollo and his fellow doctors learned that patients fared far worse when they cheated on their diet, snacking on bread or something similar before it was safe to do so. It doesn’t matter if it’s the 18th century or the 21st — sticking to what a doctor prescribes can make a big difference in treating whatever ails you.
ARTICLE SOURCE: https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/diabetes-treatments-before-insulin-meat
Tobias Carroll lives and writes in New York City, and has been covering a wide variety of subjects — including (but not limited to) books, soccer and drinks — for many years. His writing has been...Read More  

Have you seen the price of anything lately? Even bread and cereals are up. And comparatively speaking, ground beef and eggs still give you more bang for your buck. Not only are they cheaper per pound, but they are filling, so you will eat less instead of compulsively snacking all day long. Carnivore has not just been the best thing for my waistline, but it has also been the best thing for my wallet too.

From what I see, people simply don't know because their doctors don't know.

I could write my 25 year-old story of how I got here, if anyone is interested, of how I was afraid to eat fat back then -- even though I had seen the results of a friend who went on the Atkins diet, and I'd read "The Cholesterol Myths," by Uffe Ravnskov, shortly after it was translated to English. He was obviously right, beyond "a shadow of a doubt," but it took a couple more similar books and at least a year to overcome the decades-long idea that fat, butter, etc. was bad for me and the substitutes were good for me.
I ran into a guy in town yesterday (I live in a rural area, there is a one-traffic light town five miles away) that I know quite well, but haven't seen him in several years. He is almost 79 and he told me he is diabetic and has to inject insulin (he had a heart attack 6-8 years ago). I told him get rid of the carbs if you want to really fight the disease. I explained to him what I meant by "carbs," and that he could eat all the meat he wants, along with very low-carb veggies.
"Have you seen the price of meat lately?" was his response. Then he went on about how well his wife is taking care of him, making sure he gets all his meds on time, etc. Okay, that is certainly great and I'm glad for him; that's a valuable resource that I don't have. But they're apparently following the "Standard of Care" for diabetics, so we know he is never going to get better or ever get off the drugs.
What I thought of later, that I didn't think of at the time, to his comment about the price of meat, was "What price would you pay for not going blind? Or not having your feet chopped off?"
He's very adept at the internet, so hopefully I put a bug in his ear and maybe he'll do some research. "You can lead a horse to water . . . "
 

My guts are not all the way back, but are getting there -- still have about 5 more days of taking anti-bios.
I had over-easy eggs and sausage for lunch at a diner with friends, and two strips of thick bacon and sauerkraut for supper. I don't dare pig out on anything yet.

We are also conditioned to not take accountability for our diet choices. We've been thought it just is. That we get old and fat and sick, with pain. It's part of getting old. Isn't it? No, we become old because of our life choices, and our most important one is obviously, diet. I was at an event, and I met a lot of people I've know since I was young. I looked in the room, and 80% of them were overweight. They were my age, and they looked older, softer than me. And I am not putting myself above those people, don't get me wrong, but you see people your age looking 10 years older than you, people that have followed the program to a T, and the result you see right there. The American diet is meant to slowly strangle you, make no mistake about it. Meanwhile, the parasitic food, health, and medicine industries are all getting that slice of the pie, just another tax you pay, but the cost is with your health.

Can you imagine all the other conditioning we face each day, socioeconomic, cultural, geopolitics, our views and mindsets are under siege, each and every day. Things are not what they seem. That's what the -waking up- is all about. Look inward, be accountable, be aware, and be critical of yourself most importantly, because that is what slowly taken away from you. Take that power back.  

Recently, I had an epiphany regarding healthcare. I feel like the system is perpetrating Munchausen by proxy from the top down. Have you all seen Calley Means' interview with Tucker Carlson? We get crap advice like eat more fiber and avoid fat, so inevitably we will go grovelling for a fix for the bad place that they put us in. I know the truth is out there, plain as day, but so many people believe what the "news" is telling them. Also like others have mentioned people don't have a lot going on outside of the simple pleasures of eating. I am glad carnivore has helped me to expand my interests and do more than just plan my next oral dose of dopamine.

My guts are not all the way back, but are getting there -- still have about 5 more days of taking anti-bios.
I had over-easy eggs and sausage for lunch at a diner with friends, and two strips of thick bacon and sauerkraut for supper. I don't dare pig out on anything yet.

Thanks. After three days of anti-bios, I could finally walk mostly normal yesterday, very little pain left this morning.
My last "meal," if you want to call it that, was a small bowl of chili Monday for lunch. Since then I've just had a half an egg at a time with the anti-bio, and throughout the day a few pork rinds, or a slice of liverwurst, and maybe some yogurt. And from past experience, I know I won't want a full meal for a few days yet.
I'm planning to go to my fav small-town diner for lunch today finally -- probably just have some scrambled eggs. At least I can catch up on local gossip.

My guts are not all the way back, but are getting there -- still have about 5 more days of taking anti-bios.
I had over-easy eggs and sausage for lunch at a diner with friends, and two strips of thick bacon and sauerkraut for supper. I don't dare pig out on anything yet.

I could write my 25 year-old story of how I got here, if anyone is interested, of how I was afraid to eat fat back then -- even though I had seen the results of a friend who went on the Atkins diet, and I'd read "The Cholesterol Myths," by Uffe Ravnskov, shortly after it was translated to English. He was obviously right, beyond "a shadow of a doubt," but it took a couple more similar books and at least a year to overcome the decades-long idea that fat, butter, etc. was bad for me and the substitutes were good for me.
I ran into a guy in town yesterday (I live in a rural area, there is a one-traffic light town five miles away) that I know quite well, but haven't seen him in several years. He is almost 79 and he told me he is diabetic and has to inject insulin (he had a heart attack 6-8 years ago). I told him get rid of the carbs if you want to really fight the disease. I explained to him what I meant by "carbs," and that he could eat all the meat he wants, along with very low-carb veggies.
"Have you seen the price of meat lately?" was his response. Then he went on about how well his wife is taking care of him, making sure he gets all his meds on time, etc. Okay, that is certainly great and I'm glad for him; that's a valuable resource that I don't have. But they're apparently following the "Standard of Care" for diabetics, so we know he is never going to get better or ever get off the drugs.
What I thought of later, that I didn't think of at the time, to his comment about the price of meat, was "What price would you pay for not going blind? Or not having your feet chopped off?"
He's very adept at the internet, so hopefully I put a bug in his ear and maybe he'll do some research. "You can lead a horse to water . . . "
 

There is much truth in that. They would rather trust the doctors than their own eyes.


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What did I have to eat today? Not much. I had a pretty bad episode of diverticulitis and had to go to the ER around 6 this morning. I had a bowl of chili for lunch Monday, nothing at all after that til today when I got home from the hospital.
I had a poached egg and also made some Jello -- not the best thing to eat, but I have to give my guts a rest for a few days and only eat stuff that is easily digestible. I also need to eat something three times a day when I take the anti-bios they gave me.
Oh well, this has been a problem since 2015, although I haven't had an episode this bad in a long time.
I told the sweet young nurse (probably 25) "Don't get old, it's no fun."

I could write my 25 year-old story of how I got here, if anyone is interested, of how I was afraid to eat fat back then -- even though I had seen the results of a friend who went on the Atkins diet, and I'd read "The Cholesterol Myths," by Uffe Ravnskov, shortly after it was translated to English. He was obviously right, beyond "a shadow of a doubt," but it took a couple more similar books and at least a year to overcome the decades-long idea that fat, butter, etc. was bad for me and the substitutes were good for me.
I ran into a guy in town yesterday (I live in a rural area, there is a one-traffic light town five miles away) that I know quite well, but haven't seen him in several years. He is almost 79 and he told me he is diabetic and has to inject insulin (he had a heart attack 6-8 years ago). I told him get rid of the carbs if you want to really fight the disease. I explained to him what I meant by "carbs," and that he could eat all the meat he wants, along with very low-carb veggies.
"Have you seen the price of meat lately?" was his response. Then he went on about how well his wife is taking care of him, making sure he gets all his meds on time, etc. Okay, that is certainly great and I'm glad for him; that's a valuable resource that I don't have. But they're apparently following the "Standard of Care" for diabetics, so we know he is never going to get better or ever get off the drugs.
What I thought of later, that I didn't think of at the time, to his comment about the price of meat, was "What price would you pay for not going blind? Or not having your feet chopped off?"
He's very adept at the internet, so hopefully I put a bug in his ear and maybe he'll do some research. "You can lead a horse to water . . . "
 

Some are comfortable in their ignorance because it’s easier to let someone else do the thinking for them. I have an elderly neighbor that we take care of that is terribly unhealthy and is just miserable but she would rather eat for her pleasure than for her health. All of the pills and doctors she has is just ridiculous but she is free to self eliminate how she chooses to.


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I could write my 25 year-old story of how I got here, if anyone is interested, of how I was afraid to eat fat back then -- even though I had seen the results of a friend who went on the Atkins diet, and I'd read "The Cholesterol Myths," by Uffe Ravnskov, shortly after it was translated to English. He was obviously right, beyond "a shadow of a doubt," but it took a couple more similar books and at least a year to overcome the decades-long idea that fat, butter, etc. was bad for me and the substitutes were good for me.
I ran into a guy in town yesterday (I live in a rural area, there is a one-traffic light town five miles away) that I know quite well, but haven't seen him in several years. He is almost 79 and he told me he is diabetic and has to inject insulin (he had a heart attack 6-8 years ago). I told him get rid of the carbs if you want to really fight the disease. I explained to him what I meant by "carbs," and that he could eat all the meat he wants, along with very low-carb veggies.
"Have you seen the price of meat lately?" was his response. Then he went on about how well his wife is taking care of him, making sure he gets all his meds on time, etc. Okay, that is certainly great and I'm glad for him; that's a valuable resource that I don't have. But they're apparently following the "Standard of Care" for diabetics, so we know he is never going to get better or ever get off the drugs.
What I thought of later, that I didn't think of at the time, to his comment about the price of meat, was "What price would you pay for not going blind? Or not having your feet chopped off?"
He's very adept at the internet, so hopefully I put a bug in his ear and maybe he'll do some research. "You can lead a horse to water . . . "
 

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that as you progress towards carnivore that these episodes will decrease in frequency. I've heard many stories of people whose gut issues completely resolved with a proper ketovore/carnivore diet due to low/no fiber in their diet.
Those are fine. Especially if the Jello was sugar free. 
Hope you feel better soon Erik