Scott F.

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

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

This is the last project that was going to be my last project. 1972 K5 Chevrolet Blazer. Factory 350/4speed 4WD. Scott

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

1950 Chevrolet 3600 truck. 1978 Chevrolet Camaro front subframe. 1978 Chevrolet 350 block bored and stroked to 383ci. A 1980 Chevrolet TH350. A 1984 Chevrolet C10 rear axle with gears from a 1981 Chevrolet Camaro dirt car with disc brakes from a 2000 Chevrolet S10. With another box of welding rods, two rolls of duct tape and a big spool of baling wire I will set sail on her maiden voyage.

First off great thread. I am hoping the original poster got to a better place. We have all been programmed for carbs/sugar and the dangers of fat in our diet. As I described the diet to our HR Manager (worldly and highly educated) she looked at me like I was in a cult and ready/willing to drink the Kool-Aid. It has to be re-programming or de-programming or re-wiring or something. My Mom is the perfect candidate as she has some fatty liver issues as well as diabetes/glucose. But she has been told the evils of fats since the 70's. It is a hard sell. For the poster who had cholesterol fears and issues with high numbers. Bob is spot on with the adipose tissue contributing to LDL numbers. My numbers were high/sort of high at 187. My family doctor wanted me to start a non-statin. I was expecting more after six months in and 187 was sort of disappointing considering the weight loss. I decided to go to six months and see where I was with carnivore. I am still losing weight, but not at the rate of the first six months, but losing some weight on the scale and there is some body re-composition happening as well. But for the most part I have been around 85lbs lost for well over a month now. On my next blood test at 6 months my LDL dropped 35 points to 152. No medicine. Just meats, salt and water. I try to lift and/or walk three to four times per week. Nothing all that spectacular about my approach. I have Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (just about the same as MS). I was on gabapentin/Neurontin and Prednisone since 2018. I started the carnivore diet on May 8th (and basically kept a trash diet the first week). By late May/early June I no longer found the need to use the medicine. I have been medicine-free since then. I stumbled upon the benefits of carnivore by going in completely blind. That was lottery-like. With a little de-programming and maybe what little mind I have is sort of open, I made the decision to not use medicine for cholesterol. Sort of won on that one as well. I still don't think I know enough or have enough experience to advise others. I still feel brand new at 8 months but I truly believe it is worth a try. I'm not the expert by any means, but I can't see where a couple three weeks or a month would do any harm, or push another medical issue to a darker place. At least that is how I see it. Again, great thread. Scott

Nice. Scott

We do the same. I'm not sure they get any happier than dismantling a rib cage. Scott

I was thinking the same. Funny how you forget things. For ever since I was a little boy we have cooked a Brunswick stew around February. I'm going to say it is pushing if not exceeding 50 years. I had not even thought about it until the calls started this week making plans. Mid-Feb might be my first "official" planned cheat. I'm wondering how it will taste. Brain sort of babbling as no one has eaten more fries than I have and as a kid tallow and pork fat is all my parents and grandparents used. Great fries. And now, I saw the headline and it was barely enticing. This eating thing might turn out to actually be a habit. LOL Scott

Welcome. And congrats on the first two weeks. The majority of the diet will fall every individualistic. For me, I didn't have any issues in the beginning. Once I started adjusting the fat content up then I started getting loose. I have been on the diet just over 8 months. If I feel a little loose I will cut some fat. If I feel like I'm a little constipated I up the fat, usually with butter. It is almost like a constant adjustment. Scott

Welcome. I like the name as well. I was always taught 90% of what is wrong with a carburetor is timing. I have never been into the bikes as a rider or owner, but they are really cool to look at. Scott

Honesty, no doubts. I just didn't know how to start off the conversation. LOL Scott

I'm sort of in the same boat. My family doctor has been genuinely supportive of the diet. I think if I had told him about my plans from Day 1 he would not have been as supportive. I let him in on the diet after I had dropped a bunch of weight and told him I had been off my medicine for several months. He gave me a non-statin sample as he was concerned with my LDL number in the 180's. He gave me the 'separate your eggs' instruction and eat meats that are leaner/less fatty. I chose to not use the medicine and continue with meats, salt and water. Maybe one of the funnies, is afterwards I shifted into eating to gain muscle so the egg content per day went way up. 3 months later my LDL dropped from the 180's to the 150's, about 35 points. I will admit, I had become accepting of the fact my eating habits might drive my numbers up some, and mostly I was worried they would skyrocket with the additional fatty meats and eggs. When the LDL dropped, I was pleasantly surprised, but equal to that was my confusion. My lifting has increased and are higher in intensity, weight and over-all volume compared to just five or six months ago. I just started doing actual splits based on muscle groups. I couple that with eating a boat load of food trying to hit my 'needed protein' for muscle growth, especially eggs, averaging 8 or so a day. I have an appointment in a few weeks. I'm debating on my approach. Do I lead off with I didn't use the medicine and through diet and more intense exercise my LDL improved? and see where he lands on my approach. Or, do I go thru the motions allowing him to think the prescription is improving some of my numbers? Decisions. Decisions. I will have another series of blood tests in a couple months. I'm hoping to see continued improvements in my immunoglobulins numbers as well. I'm a 'knock on wood' type when things are going well, so I am knocking on wood and don't want to jinx the progress, but I do feel like for now I am winning. Pretty good feeling. Scott

Looks good. Sort of an off-topic question. Did you go without the seasonings as you went Carnivore or have you used them all along? The reason I ask is because I went straight meat, salt and water (other than finishing off some Mountain Dew and Ice Cream the very first week) for the last 8 months. Recently I tried a couple different sauces and now they are not what they use to be and even one that I liked forever, simply didn't taste good at all. Still learning. Just wondering. Scott

I was thinking the same but just wondering as it was my first colonoscopy and in turn, the carnivore adds a different spin. I woke up this afternoon and for the first time in 7 days I felt like I might need to go. And I did. Note to self: Load up on the fat and water next time as I 'fill back up". Things would have worked out a bit easier. Thanks. Scott

I had a colonoscopy last Monday. I did the clean out on Sunday. I have not had a bowel movement since. Some gas and a lot of breaking wind that day and some the day after. I do not feel bloated or constipated and my meals have not changed. Meats, salt and water. Unchartered waters for me. Any experiences will be appreciated. Scott

I don't pay much attention to the weather. I sort of open the front door and start planning from there. I never complain about the weather here in NC as we can have all four seasons in a span of two days. This week the guys at work tell me it will be 19-20 at night and 57-58 during the day. Some call it pneumonia weather. We get down into the teens and on occasion single digits but the majority of the time well above freezing by lunch. I think we all just figure things out. Scott

Yep. The jist of the story was the dogs from hundreds of years ago were posting times faster (and another story indicated the dogs lived a longer working life-still pulling in what is now considered their later years) and recovered quicker than dogs on today's carb loaded commercial dog foods. (foods that were specifically designed for performance (and convenience) by humans. Hundreds of years ago the pulling/sledding dog's diets were primarily whale fat and whatever leftover meats. Fast forward a couple hundred years and turns out the sledders back then didn't know as much but fed better. Add in some really smart people and the dogs took a step backwards in appearance, performance and working life. Now look at the food pyramid that we were all taught for ever how many years. Now compare that to the carnivore approach when we were originally designed to walk for distance, throw a spear/chunk a rock, run down an animal and eat it til we were fat, dumb and happy. Then repeat when no longer fat, dumb and happy. Then infuse some really smart people. They skipped right over the walk-throw-run-eat meat part and got us all over to fat, dumb and happy. But these two fat, dumb and happies are nowhere close to the same. Scott

Not totally from left field....but close. rendering the sense of fats - Mushing

Agreed. I can go even one step further. I can eat said 2000 "calories" of chicken or pork and then 2000 "said calories of red meat" and see/feel a difference. I think what throws people off is that all calories are the same as calorie is just a term for a chemical energy conversion. For the masses, and probably us too for the majority of our lives, measured all foods 'equally' in calories. Thus, cutting calories has been the fallacy for a really long time. I could change the numbers in your example and feel the difference/see the difference in 2000 steak 'calories' vs. 500 'calories' of doughnuts. My 'caloric intake' would be dropped but one vs. the other is polar opposites. Scott

It is crazy as I was thinking the same thing. One of my all-time favorite movies. Scott

Yep, the almighty bottom line. Spot on response. Scott

If I'm home, I hope it snows knee-deep to a giraffe's hind end. When I am working/commuting, not so much. The guys came in for dayshift yesterday morning told me about the highway in front of the plant (my 40 miles route) was clear as a bell. They were half right. The south bound lane coming to town was riding on dry asphalt. However, I needed the north bound lane, and my best guess is the state workers had made the first half of their circle. The truck wanted to follow every ice rut on the road. In our part of NC we are not equipped like other parts of the country. A few inches along US1/I85 is like a foot or more in other parts of the country. (even other parts of NC out toward the mountains) Scott

I have found that it only takes a little bit, especially something cooked in seed oils. There is a Mexican restaurant here that my wife knows the owner (her and my son/daughter-in-law eat out more than me). On one trip I asked for the grill to be scraped, and my meats cooked in butter. He put in the order, and everything worked out just fine. On another trip he was not there, and I asked both the hostess and the waiter. They agreed and that is how my order was made. Either the cook didn't get the message or simply chose not to go that route. I am not sure. I didn't get the taste of butter on the first bite, and like Geezy mentioned, it was only a little bit/just that one tie while out. If going along the interstate you can pull off the road as far as you can and then give the truck a slight turn back toward the highway. Open both doors on the passenger side and you have created private facilities. For me, seed oils have become a gut grenade. It is odd how I ate them by the tons before and now the slightest bit sends me running. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- January 6th 221 January 7th 222 January 8th 224 January 9th 222 January 10th 223 I'm bouncing around the 84-85lbs mark for several weeks. At one point i would call it a stall or maybe even a semi-stall. This time I am eating more than I should and lifting with a little more intensity/volume. I feel good so I am going to hold this pattern for a stretch to see where it lands. Go from there. Scott

I have some variety amongst the meats. Mostly because my wife has not been on Carnivore. I eat a pretty good mix of chicken, pork and fish. With that sad, I have found I do and feel much better on red meat. If I manage to eat red meat for four-five-six days in a row I can tell the different in satiety when I eat another meat. I think my energy level is a bit off, but it is minor, and it could be another variable as well such as life, work, sleep. I'm sort of boring when it comes to food anyway. I could the same thing for days on end without any complaints. I think that sort of helped me get going with Carnivore in the beginning. It seems everyone on Carnivore is 'of age'. I have wondered how well it would work for a child, especially since they would not have 15-20-25+ years of eating a 'trash' diet. I would have no input but would be interested in another's experience. Scott