Scott F.

When the Orweller book of 'sayings' and 'analogies' comes out, can you drop me a line? Scott

I lifted the last two days before work. Yesterday I was fine all day. No issues completing the shift. Today, I'm feeling it a little bit and I'm almost dragging thru the last three hours. I read somewhere it would be worth it. LOL Scott

I alternate days with the weighted vest. Mine is too heavy but the weighted bags are incredibly hard to move in and out of the pouches. I wish I had bought a different brand. Without the weight of a vest a small back pack can do the same thing. However, "Ruck-sacking" may bring back memories. Scott

Eating for fuel is something I grew up with since childhood. My Pops would always say things like, "Eat you breakfast we have pour concrete/frame a house/lay shingles/fix a truck". You name it. We would eat our big family Sunday dinner after church and he would always say things like, "Eat up, we got a long 40 hours this week". I think that is why I grew up to be such a boring eater. I never needed the variety, and I don't remember ever being excited about a new restaurant or trying something new. I think being a boring eater really helped me shift to Carnivore. It was perceived as fuel for a bunch of years and now I see it as fuel. Scott

It would not be ideal but if you need that to get yourself to a better place, by all means that can be your path. Not exactly the same but along the same lines. I thought I went cold turkey on sugar when I started but I had never been much on drinking just water. I used drink mixers the first couple three months. There were some hidden sugars in the packets and over time I worked myself off the mixers and now it is plain water. I didn't realize I was doing it at the time, but I was weaning myself off of sugar thinking I went cold turkey. That process worked for me. Now I am a zero sugar-zero carb eater but a mistake I made early on allowed me to get to this point. I am sure the Carnivore Police will frown upon the onions and garlic but if you use it as a tool to get to a better place, well, you getting to a better place is the object of the game. Scott

Probably the most underrated exercise. Scott

LMNT is a good choice. I didn't like the taste but I know several that do. There is some stuff out there about some extra sugars but I think the amounts are small, but they were sort of misleading. I basically went to youtube and watched a video for making my own electrolyte drink at home. A really good drink can be made for pennies a days vs. dollars on the pre-made packets/drink mixers. After time I am mostly using the electrolyte mix I made as my 'table salt' and then drink plain water. Congrats on starting the carnivore diet and welcome to the forum. For some it can be a tough go when getting started but it is well worth the efforts. Scott

For me, my fastest losses/most consistent losing was OMAD with a tad bit of meat snacks here and there plus walking for distance. It peeled off. My stalls were around drinking milk on occasion and fat content dropping. Scott

off topic............. Do you have any idea how much a person can save by quitting drinking? The wife was good for 5-7 bottles of $20 wine a week and I would polish off a $45 fifth, twice a week. Yeah, we were blowing as much as $800 a month on alcohol.... i have a welder buddy at work who just went 1 year sober. Like almost lost his job from not being sober in the mornings. He said he was spending as much as $1000-$1200 a month on drinking, which was what he drank, the bars, the partying and some months even more. He said if he factored in the DUI's from the previous year, he saved $35,000 in 2024. He said part of him getting sober was to every time he thought about a bottle or drinking; he would transfer that much money from checking to savings. He said he was amazed at how fast it added up. I have heard crazier things I guess. Scott

Sort of the same boat. I am more than likely adapted to not having the plant matter. My best reasoning is that I no longer take gabapentin/neurontin and prednisone for pain and inflammation from my NMO/SD. I had no idea of this as a possibility when I started as this was solely a means to lose weight. I am sure I could go back to plants here and there and maybe find out which one or ones trigger the inflammation. I'm not sure which one or ones, but I really do not think I need to know nor even want to know. I am not sure if it is just being cautious or being afraid, but my worry would be I find out which one and Carnivore can't fix it the next time. (most auto-immune diseases progress with time) I don't see me switching back to non-carnivore, and not even in lesser amounts or 'keto'. If the question was personal preference, or I like eating vegetables, or I need some variety, or whatever, that would be one thing, but for me personally, it is a different kind of gamble. I can't see rolling those dice. Scott

Carnivore has given me some self-enlightenment that other than allowing me to reflect, serves no purpose. LOL Ten months I could eat twice as much as I can't eat now. I'm not sure if I was never really that hungry and the cravings and addictions to sugar just made my brail tell me I was still hungry and thus, I kept eating. Or, maybe now after only eating things that truly satiate and leave me full with much lesser amounts, my stomach has shrunk, and I have given myself a natural 'lap band' without the surgery. I don't know. Maybe a combination of the two. On the days I counted and truly hit 200 grams of protein (1 gram per pound) it included a protein shake. Thinking back, I feel like I could have knocked out 200 grams and really wanted to know what was for dessert. (In my mind I would be moving the knife from a normal slice of pie over to a mongo slice). Easy peazy. Scott

As normal, I'm the dumbest guy in the room. I started off not counting anything. I just ate til I was full and then ate when I was hungry which morphed into OMAD. The weight peeled off at a rapid rate. I dropped down 92lbs in just shy of 9 months. The last month or so, maybe longer, I have switched my approach and have "semi-counted' grams of protein trying to hit a target for muscle growth. I shoot for 1 gram per pound of lean body weight which puts me around the 200-gram mark, give or take. I would say I eat like a horse to get to that mark, but it feels more like two horses. Most days I am around the .7 to .8 per pound mark as it hard for me to eat that much in one day. On Thursday I ate 4 eggs and a maybe 6-7 ounces of a leftover ribeye for breakfast (maybe 60-65 grams of protein). I ate another 4 eggs at lunch time (20-25 grams) and at supper I did all I could do to eat a 1/2 chicken. I simply could not do it. Like I said, two horses. I still have love handles and visceral fat that 'could be lost'. I no longer have tons of fat to be burned so there may be some efficiency issues as well. I eat a lot of fat and maybe even at a higher percentage per ounce of meat than most. (I like it so I eat it, maybe even to excess). I'm on a zero-carb/zero-sugar approach with the exception of a glass a milk once a week maybe, once every two weeks. I drink only water. The last month I have gained 8-9 pounds. The daily number fluctuates a pound or two each way, but it has been a solid 9-pound gain. I'm lifting harder and I am stronger now at 55 than 25. (always really weak for my size). On an occasional glimpse I see some muscle and some growth but definitely not 9 pounds in a month. Although I feel like I am eating the right things I know I am eating the 'wrong' amounts and in turn my weight has increased. For the first time in ten months, I had to move my belt in the other direction. The weight, the eating and that entailed was not near the punch in the gut as letting the work belt out. That sucked. I believe wholeheartedly that what I eat is more important that how much I eat, but the "how much" factors too. If I had the time or the inclination, I could convert the grams of proteins and fats to their respective calorie amounts and then use that number to define the deficit, maintenance and surplus lines that help sell 'CICO'. I can almost see maintenance and I can see surplus, but I don't think any of us ever really get into a deficit because a deficit is called starvation, and that takes time. Most everyone carries enough bodyfat to not go into deficit regardless of how much they eat. I agree with Orweller, "calories" is one of the biggest and most profitable businesses in the world. I don't see much of that changing. Scott

I haven't up until recently. I am trying to hit a protein target each day so I do count grams of protein. Other than that I don't keep up with calories or amounts of fat. I too use an occasional protein shake as some days I simply don't feel like I can eat that much protein. Scott

Covid and taste/smell issues is weird all by itself. I didn't lose taste or smell as I posted but it did make anything with sugar, even trace amounts of sugar taste like garbage. Looking back, I drank Mountain Dew and Pepsi by the five-gallon bucket. I ate snack cakes religiously. Frozen grocery store Keylime pie by the boxes. Then, all of a sudden, they all tasted horrible, almost like rusty metal (not sure how I know how that tastes but.....). Just bad. Meats and vegetables were fine. No issues. A carnivore lesson I learned long before carnivore was how much sugar goes into sauces. Sauces tasted bad as well. It took me a few days/weeks to figure out and nail it down to sugar. It lasted for awhile and just like any addict I kept going back. Yep, taste like crap, kept it moving. At some point months later, it faded, and the sugars tasted good again and I was back on the sugar train again. It was weird how sugar became a target. It was an excellent means of weight loss but I would recommend it as a good way to go. Scott

I'm more of a content guy so the platform or display seldom resonates with me. That is no discredit to the time and effort you put into the upgrade or the change. I had this very conversation with our code/programming guys as we automate our 'older' production plant. "This is what I need it to do but what color or font or graphics you use does not mean that much to me". However, I did learn and have a new understanding for what a 'busy and too busy' screen looks like. Whatever you need to do is way above my head but as long as I get the benefit of having access to the knowledge and experience floating around in here, I'm good. Thanks for providing that. Scott

Looks good. I'm going to give it a go this weekend. Thanks for the tips. Scott

I have not done a dry fast, just water fasts. I hit the gym this morning about 4AM and lifted pretty hard. I came home and did my walk which was just shy of 4 miles today. I managed to get 90 pushups along the walk and maybe ran a 1/4 mile of it. I came home and ate 5 eggs, with a 1/4 pound of sausage and maybe a 1/2 stick of butter. I'm going to get the meter later in the morning. I'm sort of excited about seeing some numbers. Scott

How long do you typically fast? Funny just seeing your numbers move make want to run out this morning and get the meter. Interested in your results. Thanks for sharing. Scott

That is what I am thinking as well. I think 'thriving' would be an understatement starting with a younger and much healthier person. The more it works for me the more I wish I had started earlier, much earlier. When I look around and see the way most young people eat part of me wants to say, "Hey, you should look into this". Then the next topic is how most think we fell off the bed and bumped our head at some point. Scott

I worked last night and then lifted this morning. My plan was to go light and just get in some work. This would get me at least three days in the gym this week. I bumped into one of my dad's friends from way back. He is in his late 70's and when I was kid he was a lifting monster, benching around 500lbs. He is still at it dropping knowledge on the younger lifters. As we talked and caught up as we moved thru the workouts before I knew it I had put in a super hard session. I did the 3 mile walk when I got home from the gym managed to run maybe a 1/4 to half mile of that. I only had enough gas to get in about 40 pushups today. I crashed around lunch time and just got up. I'm already sore and tight from the 'light session' I had in mind. I guess motivation can come from almost anything. Scott

Great read. I have always wondered about carnivore and kids. Most of us do many years of damage prior to the diet and have all sort of healing to be done. How well would kids do with their blank canvas? Again, great read. Scott

Interested in your results around how you feel at certain levels. "Like i feel normal and my readings are XX but when my ketones/ketosis XXXX my energy levels are _____________". I'm off the next couple days and I think I will buy the meter whenever I go into town. Scott

I am not sure about all strips but the ones I bought just show excess ketones in the urine. There is a correlating number with the color chart. For me, the strips just showed I had excess ketones in my urine. I could have had an over abundance and not using all of them or a smaller amount and using slightly less than a smaller amount. I am planning to buy a meter for my next fast. From what I read the glucose meter and the ketone meter are far better data points than the bathroom scale. Interesting thread. I am interesting to see if I am deep in ketosis or lingering around the edges. I'm mostly interested in the week after the fast. I had boat loads of energy coming off the fast that lasted for a week or more. I'm only on meats, salts and water. I do eat a lot of fat. I wish I had bought the meter for the last fast because whatever the energy source, I felt like I was wired with focus. Scott

I'm sort of in the same boat. I eat a lot of fat. In fact, fat is my favorite thing to eat. I purposely pick the fattiest cut of meats even when it may push the recommended ratio off kilter. Pork belly and fatty cuts of pork have been my go to's as of late. The other day I bought a couple packs of chuck steaks and there were 'more white than red'. I just like the fat a lot. I am not sure if it is an actual craving or not. Maybe, maybe not. I have lost about 90lbs so far and have eaten higher fat content from the start. There have been times it dropped but those were usually when I was eating what my wife was eating and it may not have been all that fatty. I'm not sure about how much is too much, or if there is a too much. Scott

I consider in its own food group and it lands up high on the pedestal of things to eat. Maybe even at the top. Scott