Scott F.
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Welcome. I agree it has been an awesome 8-9 months for me. Scott
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Excellent reply by Bob. I would suggest fat content, electrolytes, and hydration. The carnivore diet can be ever changing as your body adjusts/heals (maybe the most accurate term is 'detox' but it carries a lot of negative connotations to say someone is in 'detox') Some changes are faster for others, slower for some. If you are having really loose stools there is a good chance you are dehydrated, and dehydration will lessen your electrolytes. Hopefully it works for you, but it takes time and sometimes the time is based on whether you eased into Carnivore or went cold turkey. It is as individual as anything out there. I basically read other people's experiences and see where they may apply to me. Some do and some don't. I switched cold turkey to the diet as far as meals are concerned but I sort of eased into it because I had just bought a 12 pack of Mountain Dew and a tub of ice cream. I simply couldn't see tossing that out. LOL Plus, I had/have an occasional glass of milk. So, although my actual meals are straight carnivore (meats, salt and water) the occasional glass of milk can cause a stall and at times it may trigger some loose stools (but I have not sure enough tied the two together, but it sort of feels/trends that way). Again, hoping you can get your plan figured out. This is a good place to ask, talk and even vent. Scott
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This is very true because the math is not "mathing" at all. I'm eating like a horse. Week before I gained between 4 and 5 pounds. My total lost changed from 86 to 81. I'm eating a lifting so the weight is just a number. I feel pretty good where I am at each day. Then, while still eating a boat load of food (at least it feels that way) and everything else as normal, I dropped those five pounds in three or four days. I had a really good workout on Friday after a 12 hour night shift. I ate four chicken thighs Friday night. Saturday morning I had dropped 2 more pounds. On Saturday I ate 4 eggs and three chicken thighs for breakfast and then a ribeye that was a little over 18oz on Saturday night. I woke up Sunday morning another pound light. I ate around 2 pounds of food, didn't take a dump and woke up a pound lighter. Sometimes the math does not 'math'. Scott
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Almost the end of January. I'm eating like a horse. I thought I just felt that way but I am eating a lot. This morning I ate 4 eggs and three pretty big chicken thighs. I just finished a ribeye that was a hair over 18oz. It was mongo. I have been eating like this for several weeks now and the weight lost has bounced around 85lb. Week before last I gained 4lbs. I hadn't weighed in a few days. My pants were 44-46 back in May. I didn't buy any clothes for the longest. A few weeks ago, I got some Carhart pants. The 40's fit pretty good. This morning, they felt loose so I stepped up on the scale. This carnivore stuff is just crazy. I lost 5lbs in the last four days or so. I'm at 86 lost. Just as I thought I was figuring some things out this way of eating throws me a curve. Scott
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This happens a lot in dogs as the bag food diet is better than it ever was, but nothing compared to what they were designed to eat (a lot like us). I have two dogs in the back that are fed any table scraps we have left (not many) but the staple of their diet is chicken backs. I buy a 40lb case every other week. I step out the back door and toss a couple-three backs to each dog. This week our temperatures are atypical, and we have been below freezing since Monday night. I boil a few of the backs and feed them the fatty broth. One is 13 and the other is 12 and both move and act like they are three. The 12-year-old had six littermates. Our female died just a few months ago at 12 and he is still kicking at 13. The other five were fed bag dog food by their owners and none lived past 8. I'm not expert enough to say there is correlation between their diet and lifespan, as my wife goes all out on their care, but I think the diet played a huge role in their longevity, healthy and active longevity at that. As an example, my wife inherited a pet pig from my son. We are in the grocery store a few years back and she grabs a bag of green apples. I speak up and say I'm not a big fan of the green apples and I actually like the smaller, harder red apples. My wife quickly replied, the green apples are for the pig, if you want your own apples, 'get you some red apples'. And since I am night shift, I will babble some more on her thought process. We had a yard beagle and a house Fila Brasileiro. The Fila weighed about 170lbs. The big dog was let out to do his business and he followed the little dog to the pond. The pond was frozen over. The little dog took a stroll out across the ice and the big dog followed and he broke thru. He was basically in a hole and could not climb out. My wife is screaming, and my son is balling. I take a large rock and break out a chunk of ice. They hand me big rocks and I waded out in the path I was creating. The last rock broke some ice and gave the dog a path to the bank. At 170 he knocked me over as he came by, and I went almost completely under. As I struggled to the bank nearly freezing, feeling the water freezing in my beard, my wife was wrapping the dog in a blanket and rushing him back to the house. I'm not sure she ever looked back. I was pretty much 'on my own'. The animals at our house live like kings/queens. Scott
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Gerat cold weather meal. Scott
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This is a "I dare you to turn your back look". Great pic. We have had a bunch of dogs over the years. I had several Fila Brazileiros way back when, a Rottweiler, hunted with beagles, coon hunted with English Red Ticks, the last two were an English bulldog that lived to be 16 and her pup (mixed breed/long story) who lived to be 13. We have two in the back that are 14 and 13. First time we have not had an inside dog in 25+ years. I'm not sure if people know this but without a dog in the house if you drop food you have to actually bend over and pick it up yourself. Who knew? Scott
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I may have posted this in a another thread. Go to mushing.com and read an article called "Rendering the sense of fats". How the dogs were once fed, then advancement in nutrition and thought process, and then back to being a high fat-high protein carnivore for success/performance. Their diet and our diet along with both of our diet history are remarkably similar. Almost parallel paths. Scott
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Agreed. I don't hit the target everyday. Some days it is simply a matter of I don't feel like eating again. It is not like the lifting and the protein is going to make me the next 55 year old Mr. Olympia but I am trying to stack some odds in my favor. I'm off medicine now, lost a bunch of weight and both are incredible things. I'm still absolutely amazed at the amount of food it takes now. Before I ate a lot and I enjoyed eating a lot. I can't imagine filling a plate today the way I did just 8 months ago. Scott
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0.7 to 1.0 my goal weigh would be 210 or so. This morning I ate about 8oz of tri-tip steak (left over from the night before) and four eggs. That got me about halfway to the protein target. At work tonight I brought hamburger patties. It was all I could do to eat two of them. I hit my target today but it takes effort to eat that much. Just crazy how satiating meats can be. Just a handful of months ago I could eat a 16oz ribeye, a loaded bake potato, half my wife's steak and no telling how many glasses of sweet tea and get the dessert to boot. If I ate just when I am hungry that one meal (if eating the potatoes and sweet tea-just talking sheer volume in food) would not feed me for three to four days. Crazy. Scott
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Yep. Turns out it is easier said than done. All I have to do is eat a steak and a few eggs and then maybe a chicken breast later in the day. If I eat that steak and eggs in the morning, on most days I feel like I am choking down the second meal to get to that protein target. It is crazy how little food I really need/want in comparison to the amounts I once ate. Crazy. Scott
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Getting toward the end of the Carnivore month. This last week I gained 4 pounds. I have been eating like a horse (or I feel that way) to get my daily protein up to the .7-1.0 grams per pound of bodyweight. There was a thread some months back on the use of protein shakes to boost protein intake. Not that I am all that smart. but at the time I commented I could see where hitting that protein mark would be hard for me. I was eating OMAD, not the least bit hungry, and since my wife was at the beach that week, I actually waited to eat on the next day. The weight was still falling off. Fast forward and I am in the same boat. I could easily eat once a day and be perfectly content. I'm lifting more now trying to add some muscle, off-set natural muscle loss form age, and at the same time trying to off-set the issues of my auto-immune disease. Even with the extra effort in the gym I am still not all that hungry. This week I gained four pounds. I feel some bulk in my chest but nothing massive. I'm hoping some of the weight is muscle. Time will tell. Hoping to plain off and be around this weight at the end of the month. Scott
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I get the side about calories being a measurement and not actual mass. The science is straight forward. After all this time it is now more of a play on words. I had a 'right out of school Engineer who brought his brand-new Engineering degree to our plant. He made it a point to "factually" correct anything we said, mostly to pull himself ahead of the 'crowd'. He got me on a few occasions. I used the word 'factor' in a training session, and he made it a point to let everyone know that I meant to 'stoic calculation'. I smiled and moved on. Weeks later, he gave a presentation, and he was explaining how they were going to build up and plane down a sealing surface of a plastic housing. He said we are going to use Bondo to make the repair. I seized the opportunity and said, "What he meant to say was body-filler, as Bondo is a name of a brand, not an actual filler material. In both cases everyone knew exactly what the two of us said, but we made a point with a play on words. Most refer to calories with an 'understood definition'. I'm eating way less than I ever ate and I have dropped 86lbs in 8 months. The difference now is the lesser amount is more filling than the trash diet I was on before. The lesser amounts have allowed my body to use the fat I stored for energy. Thus, the weight dropped, and the composition changed. If I used the term calories and counted them, my "calorie" intake is far less than it was before. If I plugged in different terms, such as mass or proteins, or eggs or steaks, the amounts are less than they were before. As of late I have tried to stall the weight loss, and I have done that thru adding an extra meal(s) each day. When I eat more than I want, mostly eating when not hungry, I have triggered a stall of sorts and gained 4lbs this week. Scott
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I'd have to eat the zinc by the five gallon bucket. That ship has sailed. Scott
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I test every few weeks at my Mom's. I have always been low. In the mornings I am usually in the high 80's to low 90's. Forever the Mountain Dew and the Little Debbie cake fixed the early morning jitters. Until I started carnivore I had never had a reading over 100. After a couple-three months I touched 100, then a 104 and then a 108. I was not counting protein or fat during that time as I was learning to adjust fat content for stool purposes. I read about gluconeogenesis but not sure if that is where I landed. My last test (around 8 months) I was at 100. I am now on meats, salt and water. The exercise part of the equation has increased and that may have helped me drop down or maybe even re-regulate. (if that is an actual word) I don't think the monitors are all that expensive. If my mom didn't have one, I would probably buy one for myself. Scott
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I taught my wife's dog this trick and she was as mad as anything I have ever done. I think it was the command tho. "Hit by a dump truck pose". She would flop over in this very position, on her back/legs up. Not my best move. Good looking dog. Have you figured out how to bottle up the heeler/shephard energy and have it for sale? If so, I'm buying. Scott
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I think if we truly analyzed the ingredients in our packaged foods we would be amazed and then pissed and maybe even disgusted at what is used as fillers and binders. When I worked some construction with my Pops way back when he used to say all the time when we hit mom & pop grills in the area, "there's nothing wrong with the hotdog as long as you don't look in the back". If we know/if we knew I feel like it would have helped me move into better eating. Ignorance is bliss. Scott
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Yes, it is quite the project. Tw things that I hate to say out loud..... One, this is not the worst project I have ever taken on and two, this is about the third project that was going to be my absolute last. In the words of the great philo=so=phizer Forrest Gump. "I am not a smart man'. Scott
