Miranda

And this morning Oswald reminds us not to allow our habits to be little gods. Thank you @Geezy for posting this. I needed to read this again with fresh eyes

I have a hard time listening to Nick, I just don't care for his delivery. Can someone tell me the TLDR on this?

This made me smile 😁

That's me to a T. I have never carried butter, but I have whipped out my own salt. I have also pointed out that the whipped butter for the bread tasted oily and prolly wasn't real butter

I would love to do a weekly 24 or maybe a monthly 32. But I have to win over the critic. DH really feel like not eating dinner is disruptive, even if I come to the table and drink water. I explained to him that I have "dined" out with coworkers while sipping decaf and nobody cares. It doesn't disturb anyone. My son's least favorite meal is dinner, he is always most picky and most likely to just pass on everything. I have tried to explain that the kid is a lot closer to the way God created us than we are, perhaps we should take a hint and skip dinner. He is hung up on all the studies and popular advice about eating together as a family and I get what they are saying, but I know I feel best when I stop eating by 4pm. And sometimes the meat is too heavy that late in the day. Last night I woke up with heart burn. I had a small bowl of reheated pot roast and a decaf. I haven't had heartburn in a while, but fatty red meat in the evening does make my sleep horrible.

I don't think I ever posted one of these in the first place so here goes I am 51 and have been trying to be healthy most of my adult life. I have been overweight or obese that entire time 5'8" 200-215#. I have tried atkins in the early 2000's, food tracking, juice fasting, HIIT, whole thirty, and whole food plant based, and finally omad. The fasting helped me to break through to a new weight loss plateau. All of the previous methods lost and regained the same 15#. I was finally down to 185 ish. I watched a lot of carnivore content before trying it full time February of 24. I don't have any local support for fasting, but the attitude has softened a bit about the carnivore. My family wants to loose weight, but they won't give up carbs %100. I have gotten them to be low carb most days, but they still want pancakes on Sundays. This past fall, probably around Thanksgiving, I don't remember the particulars, I just threw in the towel. I know I weighed 178 the morning of my colonoscopy in late October. I guess I was feeling afraid of being orthorexic. I was also overwhelmed with being a short order cook trying to accommodate everyone's tastes So found my self stepping on the scale to the tune of 205# sometime around Easter. Two days later I decided to "Stop the insanity" as Susan powder used to scream from the boob tube in the 80s. Today I weigh 194# My why is that I want to grow old without being trapped in the malady maintenance system. I watched my grandma and my MIL linger in a confused state for over a decade. I don't want any part of that. I want to be useful and connected right to the end. Not sitting or laying in my own mess waiting to die. I also want to be optimized. I feel like the only way to get people to get on board is to fully succeed. I can't win anyone over if I am constantly jumping ship. So every moment I can get, I listen to testimonials. I learned about this forum, by watching @Geezy tell his story on YouTube. I don't have any major illnesses, I've never had boils, T2D or high blood pressure. I have never been diagnosed with IBS but Im sure I had it whenever I ate seed oils. I am feeling a bit frustrated in my body as I approach menopause, but I don't think there is anything my doctor can do about that. I don't accept this as the new normal, when I know there is work that I could be doing to correct course. I plan to hit an ideal weight not for vanity, but that I can be a poster child worthy of the title carnivore! Happy Mother's Day everyone!

I love this type. They are from Latvia I believe. I buy them at Walmart.

I have been catching up with old posts since my hiatus. I happen to watch this video yesterday and this thread seems like a perfect place for it. Bible based nutrition

I can remember sneaking some raw ground beef from the kitchen when I was staying with my grandma. She was horrified. Told me I was going to get worms. It was delicious.

I know I'm late to the party and this may not be relevant any longer, but Dr Sean O'Mara has a video explaining how to assess the visceral fat without an MRI. You lay on your back on the floor, if your belly stays in place it's visceral, but if it caved in and falls of to the side it's subcutaneous. There are benefits to having a healthy layer of subcutaneous. He speaks to that in other videos. Hope all is well. How about an update?

He is going to be 10 this summer. Praying for him to come around. He only likes bacon reliably. I have been feeding him taco bowls with refried beans and sour cream. He will only eat eggs on hash or if they are wrapped in a tortilla. I am going to try to make some cloud buns this week because he loves hamburgers. Won't eat plain ground beef though. He was a big chubby baby and hasn't grown out of it despite being a light eater. We don't have a lot of Ultra processed food other than the above mentioned bread and tortillas.

The long bike rides sound awesome! I know I love hiking on an empty tank. I have never done any extended backpacking hike but this fasting gives me courage that food doesn't have to be a huge part of it if we ever do that. I hope and pray DH will come around to the idea someday. That would truly be liberating as I am the primary cook.

I was part of a fasting community that promoted omad and alternate day fasting while eating anything you wanted during your eating window. They poopooed carnivore and extended fasting. I left there about a year ago. So I would fast all day and then get bingey at the end of the day. That wasn't really working for me. So since I have hopped back on the carnivore train I have decided to eat breakfast if I am hungry. Ideally, I'd like to eat in an early window of 9-3 but my husband is upset about me not eating dinner with the family. I would like to try a three day fast but DH has too many feelings about it and I'm not trying to cause trouble. I drive a large commercial vehicle and he thinks it not safe to drive while fasting that long.🙄

Large portions of beef give me nausea as well. It affects my sleep if I eat too late. I am having to let go of my "fasting brain". Some of the fasting people refer to old WOE as diet brain. Now I am embracing the diet that feeds my brain!

I like what @Scott F. Said.

Thanks for sharing. I have had a twitching under my eye lately. I have added acv to my shelter with salt and it tastes really good!

Your story is so inspiring. It helps to hear, I want to be able to say I have been doing this for years instead of months here and there. Nice work, keep it up!

I still have to buy all the things because my husband can't live without bread, mayonnaise, beer etc. The kid frustrates me, he has texture issues. Last night I made cheese sauce like Kerry Mann's daughter Emma did on her cooking channel it tasted like Mac n cheese sauce. He said it was good but got half way through his very small portion then rejected it due to texture. and my husband had to eat the rest 🤨 He does like stringy fatty globs of stuff. He is one of those burn the bacon types

There are just as many idiots on two wheels. I drive a commercial vehicle, I see a lot of stupid.

I'm not a huge fan of spam. It's to cram into the pie hole when in a jam. We bought a bunch during the academic, but I'm the only person in the house that will touch it. I eat a slice and throw the rest of the can out. Too salty. I prefer sardines or cod liver.

How do we get medicine, research, education etc to be non profit?

Science field seems to use humiliation tactics, they all just pile on and call the person a fraud and try to ruin there reputation. Like what they tried to do to Baker and Noakes or Galileo.

Advances in Modern malady maintenance is more like it.

I read in "dark calories" that eating a serving of fries in seed oil is as carcinogenic as smoking a pack of cigarettes. My husband always threatened to cancel the Internet when I mention some of the things I have learned about consumable food like products.