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You are definitely on the right track Scott. Red meat from ruminant animals is the optimal food we can eat. Monogastric animals are ok to eat on occasion but for optimal nutrition ruminants are where it’s at. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve never experienced that. I guess I was born a carnivore but it took me 66 years to finally embrace it. I’ve always loved the fat especially when it’s been grilled a crispy brown over an open fire. My dad was the same way. When I make tallow I save the pieces that have most of the fat rendered out and will eat them as a snack when I’m wanting something between meals and sometimes I’ll mix them in my scrambled eggs. One of the best things about buying a whole rib roast and cutting your own ribeyes is you get to keep all of the fat on the steak. Most rib eyes you get at a restaurant or the store have had a very large portion of the fat trimmed off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I will use tabasco on occasion as well as Louisiana Hot Sauce. Neither has sugar and the rest of the ingredients are fairly clean. But like I said. Only occasionally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The before and after pics. Six hours later… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have chronic constipation. I’m not one of the fortunate ones who have great BMs on carnivore. I don’t know if it’s because I had IBS for over 30 years or because I don’t have a gallbladder or maybe my liver just doesn’t function the way it should. Meat doesn’t stay in your intestinal track for months. That’s impossible. To test that out just take a laxative and you’ll see that there is not a months worth of waste in your bowels. The majority of all the meat you eat is absorbed into your body. That’s because it is so nutrient dense. According to Dr. Berry and Dr. Chaffee what we are expelling shed cells and bodily fluids. Actually, people who eat only meat tend to produce less waste, so they might find themselves pooping less or less frequently, but it isn't usually a sign of constipation. Constipation on the carnivore diet can occur for different reasons. When you switch to this diet, your body has to adapt to digesting more proteins and fats, which can be challenging and may lead to constipation. Also, there's often a significant loss of water as your body uses up stored glycogen, and this decrease in hydration can affect bowel movements. So, you need to drink enough water to prevent dehydration and constipation. The change in your diet also alters your gut bacteria. When you move from a high-carb to a low-carb diet, the types of bacteria in your gut change, which can slow down the movement of food through your intestines. Additionally, imbalances in essential minerals like magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium, vital for intestinal muscle function, can cause constipation. Consuming electrolyte drinks and taking supplements - after consulting a physician, of course - can help. Certain foods common in the Carnivore diet, particularly processed meats and dairy, can induce constipation, especially if you're intolerant or allergic to them. It is all because meat takes longer to digest than plant foods, so your bowel movements will probably be less frequent but regular and predictable. What I have learned to to do is eat a lot of fat. My morning beverage is bulletproof with butter and MCT oil. Then everything is cooked in tallow or bacon grease. Any meat that is lean will be slathered in butter and or the grease it was cooked in. Upping my fat intake has helped but hasn’t been a cure yet. So I was taking a magnesium citrate and that turned my stools into a peanut butter consistency. Better than constipation but far from ideal. So I’m now taking a magnesium complex supplement that has citrate in it. So far it it working ok for the most part. I’m hard but not constipated. On those occasions when I feel like I’m going to be constipated I’ll use a suppository to get things moving. It generally works within a couple of hours and doesn’t go overboard. If it was looking like it was going to be severe then I would take a tea called Smooth Move. It contains Senna. That will clean you out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve wondered for quite some time now who decided how many calories we should eat for the optimal requirements. Now I’m not a CICO kinda guy and that’s what got me to questioning this calorie thing. I heard some time ago that the RDA values that are pushed on us as what we should be getting every day for optimal health and the calorie numbers were just arbitrary numbers picked by surveys given to college students. I really started wondering when I hit my final weight and wondered if I needed to eat more to keep from losing anymore. So I did some tracking and found that my average calorie count is about 1500 per day, give or take. I feel fine but the everyone was saying that that is starvation mode. Well how can it be starvation when I feel great? I wish I could remember the podcast but I remember hearing that the average person back before the advent of processed foods generally ate a diet of about 1500 calories. As agricultural ramped up and food became more plentiful the calorie count went up and so did the expectations of how much to eat. I’m a firm believer that it’s not how many calories we consume but what food those measures of heat are made of. 2000 calories from donuts will have a remarkably different effect on your body than 2000 calories from ribeye. So anyways, I found this article that confirms what I suspected about how the numbers came to be the acceptable norm for caloric intake. https://stvincents.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleId=45556&publicid=745#:~:text=The%202%2C000%2Dcalorie%20diet%20was,benchmark%20number%20for%20daily%20calories Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For me my tendons from my toes up the front of my leg will cramp up. They pull up tighter than a banjo and feel like they’re going to snap. I’ve got to guzzle water and walk it off. Hurts like heck. I’ve noticed that it happens when I’m in bed asleep after a long day of working in the heat. So I’ve taken to using some KetoChow when I know I’m going to be in the heat all day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cloud bread and pancakes with bacon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s great. It’s one moment at a time then one day at a time which becomes one week at a time and before long you’ve put a year behind you. Keep up the good and steadfast work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Your seasoning could be flaking off depending on what you’ve seasoned it with. It won’t hurt you. Unless I’m taking one down to bare metal I never touch mine with any kind of metal abrasive. When I clean mine I do it immediately after I take the food out. I turn the heat up on the stove and get it really hot. In the meantime I’ve got the tap water heating up as hot as it will get. When the tap water is as hot as it will get and the pan is starting to smoke I dump the grease out and put it under the tab water and steam the food off. While it is steaming I use a wooden spatula to scrap and excess bits off. They clean up really easy. If I have some stubborn bits that I can’t scrape off with the spatula then I have a plastic scrubber I can use but I rarely need it. I then wipe the pan dry and put it back on the burner that I’ve turned off but it’s still hot and wipe it down with a thin coat of bacon grease or tallow if I know I’ll be using again in the next day or two but if I’m not going to be using that pan for awhile I’ll coat it with a little avocado oil. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh I get that but I’ve just never heard of have to pay out of pocket to be a part of a study. Seriously, that sounds like a scam. I’m not saying it is but if I had gotten an email from some outfit I hadn’t heard of trying to solicit me to be part of a study to study me but I had to pay them for being a part of the study I would be very skeptical. It’s sounds just like something those overseas scammers come up with all the time. Yours may be legitimate and it may make sense to you because of lack of funding but it doesn’t make sense for me to be a part of it if I have to pay. I’m already a part of a study showing how carnivore has cured my Crohn’s disease and they didn’t ask for any money from me, just my medical records from my Gastroenterologist. Like I said, I’m not accusing you of playing a scam but that’s exactly how scams sound. I hope you get what you need for a good study and I hope it makes a difference. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I looked up the ingredients list and I was surprised that they were much cleaner that regular cheap dogs. I wouldn’t eat them at home because at home I can control my diet and I’m pretty strict but if I was away from home and there was no other option I’d have no problem eating my fill of them. They do have corn in them and the “natural flavorings” could be a hidden sugar so for that reason they would only be one of those “less bad” meats that I would eat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s good to hear. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congratulations on the improvements. Many often come into this lifestyle with expectations set way too high. Becoming metabolically sick didn’t happen overnight and healing won’t happen overnight either. It takes time. Some things longer than another. It’s often recommended that we don’t even get a blood test until we’ve been doing carnivore for at least a year. I think you are on the right track in your thinking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nothing fancy today. Just pan fried some venison stew meat in tallow and a couple slices of carni bread with lots of butter. Felt kinda primal not being creative. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Probably not a coincidence. I’ve had dandruff ever since I first grew my hair out in 68. I had always gotten a butch haircut but I was going into junior high and thought it was time to grow my hair out. Anyways, after 56 years I no longer have dandruff and mine was bad. I had to use the most powerful commercial dandruff shampoo available and I had to use it every day. Well a few months back I went on a long motorcycle ride down to New Orleans with some buddies and didn’t take my shampoo. After four days I noticed that my scalp didn’t itch and there were no flakes. I haven’t used dandruff shampoo since. My dandruff is gone. It makes sense. Dandruff is a skin disease and skin diseases are an autoimmune disease that are brought on by inflammation and are cured by reducing that inflammation through carnivore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome aboard. You’ve been carnivore for almost as long I’ve been carnivore. I starting in may of 23. Last winter my wife wanted some of my venison my venison chili and I thought “what the heck, this is an elimination diet so let’s see if my chili is tolerable.” I had one small bowl. No onions, no cheese, no Fritos or corn bread. Even just plain it was delicious so I had another small bowl. Well I was miserable for the next three days. Well that is eliminated now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t see where there might be a correlation between the palpitations and the beer. This far into carnivore I also don’t see a correlation with the diet. Quite often when something out of the ordinary starts happening the first thing they look at is the diet and yes, early on I could very well be the diet but at six months in I doubt it. That’s generally the time frame when we start seeing some really good healing. From what you have described I would look at the electrolytes. I don’t know what your your taking or how much but you could be throwing you system out of balance. Like many of us when I first became a carnivore I stated taking electrolytes because everyone was saying that we needed to because on carnivore we would be flushing them out of our system. Well I’m my case a blood test, after a year on carnivore, showed that my sodium levels were too low, even though I salt my food fairly heavy and it was part of my daily supplement. Then on top of that the blood test showed my potassium levels were too high. High as in dangerously high especially for someone with a heart condition. So I stopped taking my electrolyte supplement and just upped my salt intake. Six weeks later my numbers were back to normal. I’m now a believer that if we are eating a proper carnivore diet then we shouldn’t need to supplement our electrolytes unless we are working on a specific issue. I took some electrolytes today because I knew I was going to be out in the hot Texas sun most of the day working on fence so I figured I could use the extra juice yo get me through the day and I believe it helped. And lastly I believe you should go see a doctor and get checked out. Get a blood panel done. An EKG and a general exam. You could be developing heart condition such as atrial fibrillation which is what I’ve got but carnivore has really helped mine. One final note. I’m usually a big proponent of being honest with our doctors and letting them know that we are carnivores but in your case I wouldn’t tell him or her just yet because I wouldn’t want to prejudice the exam. Good luck and let us know how things work out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I weigh daily just to see the fluctuations and look for trends. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

rpavich you are doing great. You are really starting to get into the groove. It only gets better from here. One cautionary note though, while yoghurt is good and I make my own it can also be addictive. The lactose in dairy is just another sugar and can sneak up on you. I love my homemade yoghurt but I had to stop eating it for a couple of months because I found myself craving it after every meal. I can eat it again but I now will only eat it once a week. If you don’t find that it’s affecting you that way then carry on. You’re doing great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sounds like you’re doing great. The problem I find with ground meat is that even if you have a high fat ratio and I like a 70/30, most of the fat cooks out of it so I pour the rendered fat over the burger or add lots of butter to it. Something you might try with the leaner is cut up some bacon into small pieces and mix it into the burger. It’s pretty tasty. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As Scott said it is very individualistic. Great post btw Scott. At two months in you could still be transitioning so hang in there. You may need to keep a daily journal and start experimenting. Try upping your fat to protein ratio. I don’t know what yours is presently but I would go to getting 80% of my calories from fat and only 20% from protein. Eat that way for at least 2 or three weeks and see how you feel. If that isn’t working the change up the ratio to a 70/30 or even a 60/40 and see what happens. Just make sure you keep track of what your eating in your journal for reference and make sure you give each stage enough time to show results. If your not seeing any change then do the same thing with your sodium and electrolytes. Keep track of your adjustments and give each one time to show results. At least a couple of weeks each time. Then start tracking the foods you eat. Cut one out for several weeks or even a month and see what happens. Some people don’t do well on pork or chicken. Some meats, even though the may be from ruminants may affect you adversely such as ground beef. It can have histamines that you may be sensitive to. Some people may not do as well on lamb or goat as others do. Then again you may just need to give it more time. So find what works for you and document each stage and definitely give each one enough time to show results before moving on to the next one. Oh, and only make one change at a time. Good d luck to you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I rarely track and then only to verify my fat to protein ratios The one I use is Carb Manager. It is free but I believe it also has a premium service but I’m not positive about that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I haven’t experienced this but I’ve heard it often and from the testimonies of our fellow members it’s pretty common. Pigs and chicken are monogastric animals so they don’t ferment their foods during digestion like ruminants do. So what ever they eat affects their meat in ways that can be intolerant to us. The old saying applies to them “you are what you eat”. Then there’s the omega 6 ratio being higher that the omega 3 ratio in them which makes the less healthy for us and definitely less satiating when eaten. That’s my only problem with pork or chicken is I just don’t get satiated when eating them so I have to add a lot of butter to them. Many people find that they do much better on ruminants. This being an elimination diet you just discovered something that you should probably eliminate. I just hope I never experience an aversion to pork. I’d hate to have to give up spare ribs and bacon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You are doing great and I’m so happy you are already seeing benefits. It only gets better. Keep up the good work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk