Scott F.

I guess I sort of plan mine. I have two stints on night shift each month and usually one of them end up being a fast.
I stretched the last one out to 7 days, or at least a few hours short of 7.
As always, much easier than I would have ever imagined.
Scott

I use quite a bit of butter. I use the Land-o-Lakes brand and just bought my first block of Kerrygold. It was OK but I didn't see enough difference to buy the more expensive brand.
If I'm eating hamburger or ribeye, or a fatty cut of meat I don't eat as much butter. If I eat a leaner cut, like some pork chops, I will use butter as a fat supplement of sorts.
Me personally, I don't see the issue with the butter you are using.
Scott

I will check it out.
I bought a ketones meter to check ketones and it gave a reading coupled with a glucose reading to give a GKI number. I was not getting into ketosis as soon as I thought based on reading the charts and not as deep as I thought, but ketosis the same.
During fasting once I read about the taste or the bad breath during ketosis and I hadn't experienced that, or had not realized it. Then one day it tasted like I had a mouthful of pennies and when I tested I was deeper than I had been previously. I guess there is some correlation there.
I will check out the app.
Scott

Nothing better.
Scott

New fast tracker? Interested in this? Could you elaborate?
I ate last Tuesday. I'm at work now and plan to break it tomorrow.
I have fasted for weight loss and from there the metabolic benefits of autophagy, HGH, stem cels and the re-booting of the immune system. As of late I have been reading about fasting and the mind, its benefits and even into some of the religious aspects.
I think this one was more to get my mind right. LOL (which will take a lot of work)
Scott

The fat thing could be a part of it but I think I still could lose some visceral fat. I fee like I am eating enough fat but I have pushed the proteins as of late and could have the proteins to fat a tad off. Maybe?
The energy could be from any of the things I listed and maybe a combination of any of those same things.
I use to have, let's say, some really offensive gas. After a couple three months on carnivore it went away for the most part and when I did it was not near as "offensive". I must have had something laying around in my stomach because when it started, it started. It had been a while since I could clear a room.
I am sure there are worse issues to deal with other than venting off here and there.
Scott

It is just my wife and I, and it is savings for us.
If we have steaks, she eats a steak with whatever else she cooks. If she wants hamburgers then we eat from the same pack. There are times when she eats something that does not really flip my boat and we eat different things.
That particular meal probably goes up and tad but end of the month we are still saving money with me being a carnivore.
Plus, factor in there are three-four-five days a months I don't eat at all. LOL
Scott

The fat thing could be a part of it but I think I still could lose some visceral fat. I fee like I am eating enough fat but I have pushed the proteins as of late and could have the proteins to fat a tad off. Maybe?
The energy could be from any of the things I listed and maybe a combination of any of those same things.
I use to have, let's say, some really offensive gas. After a couple three months on carnivore it went away for the most part and when I did it was not near as "offensive". I must have had something laying around in my stomach because when it started, it started. It had been a while since I could clear a room.
I am sure there are worse issues to deal with other than venting off here and there.
Scott

It is just my wife and I, and it is savings for us.
If we have steaks, she eats a steak with whatever else she cooks. If she wants hamburgers then we eat from the same pack. There are times when she eats something that does not really flip my boat and we eat different things.
That particular meal probably goes up and tad but end of the month we are still saving money with me being a carnivore.
Plus, factor in there are three-four-five days a months I don't eat at all. LOL
Scott

I think carnivore (going in) is just like any other diet, there is nothing really sustainable about it. (and allow me to finish)
I think everyone who switches to carnivore starts off on a carnivore diet and like most all diets, people choose another route. it is the diets that are not sustainable.
It takes time for carnivore to become a lifestyle and leave the 'temporary-ness' of just about all diets.
For me personally I have been strict carnivore for about 19 months. I have not had a fruit nor vegetable nor bread nor pasta since May '24. With that said it was nearly a year later when I felt like being on the carnivore diet had morphed into me having a carnivore lifestyle/carnivore way of eating. And maybe my story is a little odd because I didn't start with any health concerns in mind as for me it was nothing more than a weight loss hack. I stumbled upon a ton of benefits early on, chalked them up to coincidence, and then once I was reading the writing on the wall I started to evolve from diet to lifestyle.
People quit for all kinds of reasons. If I had not stumbled upon the benefits with my autoimmune disease, knowing it was going to be a weight loss hack, I probably would have quit after losing 40-50 pounds (and called it a successful endeavor). If I knew which carb/vegetable/fruit was my trigger I would probably venture back out into the carb world on occasion. But since I don't know it is not a gamble I feel comfortable with so that too helped me transition from carnivore diet to carnivore lifestyle.
I think it could be any number of reasons, but I mostly think those reasons land on the individual person rather than the way of eating itself.
Scott

Being a total hypocrite, don't look at the scales in the very beginning ( I did just about daily, LOL). It is better and more self serving to take notice of more important things, like how you feel, and the one snug pair of pants is now loose fitting.
That was the advice that was given to me early on, (and I ignored it) and now I am passing that tidbit forward (and odds are you will ignore it, most do, LOL).
Congrats on the first week. My weight fell off really fast the first months and then I hit my first stall. Watching the scale drop just about a pound a day for 30 days was amazing but when it stalled it made the stall all the more disheartening. Everyone is different and metabolic health and weight moves their needles at different rates for different people.
Until carnivore I never had a fasted blood sugar result over 100 and my highest has been 111. That shift/moving of the needle triggered me to buy a glucose monitor so I could track it. I had an initial rise and then it fell back into the 80's. I was intrigued by the number of the scale and the glucose meter so I bought a ketone meter as well.
And then in time I hardly use any of it, maybe the scale once or so per week.
Good luck and welcome.
Scott

Great job.
The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Scott

I have never been one to set goals or even make plans. "Me and life" find a way to trash out even the best made plans.
I go with a different approach. I start off with 'this is what I am going to do' and then go from there.
I have lost as much as 95lbs, bouncing around 85-90 lost today and I'm going to attack visceral fat around the gut and change my body composition some more. I am not sure what that new number will be as I will be trying to add muscle as some of the fat goes away. If the composition changes the number will be no more than a number.
From there I will continue with the carnivore approach and focus a bit more on red meat and adding more fish.
Scott

Yep.
I think it was as much the eating disorder as what she was actually eating. She could have picked all vegetables or all roots or all just about anything and found troubles.
I would venture a guess to say it was the fact it was an eating disorder because she never recognized she was orchestrating her own demise.
Thoughts and prayers for her, her friends and her family.
Hopefully there is a lesson learned.
Scott

WOW!
So my question is that this didn't happen overnight and I would have to think someone said something? At some point a person has to look in the mirror and see the results of their choices.
I have lost as much as 95lbs, to the point I did look sickly. I had been really sick a few years prior and I had a bunch of people both ask and think I was sick all over again.
I wonder how many people tried to intervene as her decisions to a long time to get her to the end.
Scott

I have never been one to set goals or even make plans. "Me and life" find a way to trash out even the best made plans.
I go with a different approach. I start off with 'this is what I am going to do' and then go from there.
I have lost as much as 95lbs, bouncing around 85-90 lost today and I'm going to attack visceral fat around the gut and change my body composition some more. I am not sure what that new number will be as I will be trying to add muscle as some of the fat goes away. If the composition changes the number will be no more than a number.
From there I will continue with the carnivore approach and focus a bit more on red meat and adding more fish.
Scott

Agreed. I made the tallow a couple days before and thought we were on the same page. I get home and see peanut oil jugs. I am pretty sure a couple three times over 19 months is not going to do me in, or be the straw that broke the camels back, but once you learn something one can't un-ring that bell.
I thought the tallow fried turkey tasted better. Could have been a mind thing for me but I am pretty sure I felt a little better about it. LOL
Scott

So how, exactly, do you feel about seed oils? LOL
Agreed. I haven't had but a tad of seed oils in the last 19 months. We have eaten out two or three times over that period, one they were nice enough to scrape the grill and cook in butter, the second time they said they did but they didn't and the third time I didn't bother asking.
We don't eat out hardly ever, even before carnivore. We have a cabin next to the house and it has turned out to be everyone's favorite place to go.
We always ask, "wanna go out to eat tonight?", "maybe, but I will be good with a steak on the grill out at the cabin" and then., "the cabin it is".
My son deep fried a turkey for Thanksgiving and it was pretty good cooked in peanut oil. I fried one the following Saturday in tallow I had made and I "think' mine tasted better but several could not tell the difference.
But I agree, seed oils are no good.
Scott

Agreed. I made the tallow a couple days before and thought we were on the same page. I get home and see peanut oil jugs. I am pretty sure a couple three times over 19 months is not going to do me in, or be the straw that broke the camels back, but once you learn something one can't un-ring that bell.
I thought the tallow fried turkey tasted better. Could have been a mind thing for me but I am pretty sure I felt a little better about it. LOL
Scott

Keep going. In the first month you are still adjusting. Increasing the proteins in your diet and removing the carbs probably moved you into ketosis.
Mine made a jump in the early months but fell back to normal. Then recently it pushed just outside the normal limit but I have been eating a lot of protein as of late.
I don't do organ meats and I make sure I hydrate throughout the day. When I eat normal amounts of protein and hydrate my number drops back.
Not sure if this helps but I have seen my uric number inch up and down over the last 18-19 months.
Scott

Keep going. In the first month you are still adjusting. Increasing the proteins in your diet and removing the carbs probably moved you into ketosis.
Mine made a jump in the early months but fell back to normal. Then recently it pushed just outside the normal limit but I have been eating a lot of protein as of late.
I don't do organ meats and I make sure I hydrate throughout the day. When I eat normal amounts of protein and hydrate my number drops back.
Not sure if this helps but I have seen my uric number inch up and down over the last 18-19 months.
Scott

I held on to my flip phone with nothing but text and calls, and didn't so texting for the longest.
Once I get past email and youtube my tech skills fade fast.
Good luck.
Scott

I read some passages a few weeks ago.
I enjoy his videos. Straight to the point.
Scott

Hopefully I can be off on a Monday night soon and stop by. Been over a month now. Hope all is well. I will more than likely rewatch Tuesday morning.
Scott

Let's start off with saying in August of 2018 I was simply fat, dumb and happy. I was in the 320's, never really had blood sugar nor blood pressure issues but the cholesterol had been ever increasing thru my upper forties. Around the time I turned 49 the doctor convinced me to give the statins a try, I forget which one, but I picked up the prescription. About the third day I started to feel funny, and by the fourth to the fifth day I had every side effect listed. When I googled the medicine it listed the five more common side effects and I had all five by day five. I stopped taking them that day but the symptoms continued, and some even worsened.
I fought the symptoms for a month or more. The doctor offered another version of the statin, maybe another name brand, but I declined. By mid-September I had cramps behind my eyes and pains in my neck and spine that would drive me to my knees.
On Monday morning, Labor Day 2018, I woke up as blind as a bat. Zero sight. Everything was as the same color as a computer screen when turned off. I freaked out. The pain in my neck/spine was crippling. On the way to the emergency room some of sight returned in my left eye almost like a curtain was being peeled back. By noon I could see again but the pain was even more intense.
Over the next three months it was CAT scan after CAT scan, blood draw after blood draw, multiple MRI's, a couple EMG's, a lumbar puncture (spinal tap), some visual evoke type tests, some cognizance exams, probably in stroke protocol 10-15 times when the left side showed weakness or no mobility.
In late December I was diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. During the explanations of the disease the neurologist said something triggered the autoimmune response and your body reacted. By then I was well onto my Google Medical degree and was near graduating from the Youtube College of Medicine and based on my newfound medical expertise (LOL) my trigger was the statins. I have no medical background to say that was the case and it could have been a complete coincidence; I simply could not prove it one way or the other. But in my brain (and in my heart) it was the statins.
From that point til now, I doubt statins will ever be an option.
Scott